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It is true that a landscape of pine and snow, habits oflust and slaughter, did
not entice him.
Then, somehow, though she answered readily enough,
anawkwardness would come between them. Then he would blaze out in such wrath
that she did not know howto quiet him. Now Orlando gave himself up to a life of
extreme solitude. English was too frank, too candid, toohoneyed a speech for
Sasha.
Sothey parted, she to her tent, he to his.
Hastily, he made count ofthem
all; the French; the Spanish; the Austrian; the Turk. Images,metaphors of the
most extreme and extravagant twined and twisted in hismind.
Hastily, he made
count ofthem all; the French; the Spanish; the Austrian; the Turk. The darkness
then became even deeper thanbefore.
Now a sight of the most extraordinary
nature met his eyes. Light as herfootfall was, it would hardly be heard, even
in this silence. Hastily, he made count ofthem all; the French; the Spanish;
the Austrian; the Turk.
The old suspicions subterraneously at work in him
rushed forth fromconcealment openly. Then he would blaze out in such wrath that
she did not know howto quiet him. And if so, of what nature is death and ofwhat
nature life? And then she praised him; for his love of beasts;for his
gallantry; for his legs. In the thick of it, great guns seemed to
boom.
Sometimes, in the darkness, he seemed to see her wrapped aboutwith rain
strokes. Now Orlando gave himself up to a life of extreme solitude.
Hastily, he
made count ofthem all; the French; the Spanish; the Austrian; the Turk.
Love
hadmeant to him nothing but sawdust and cinders. The passionate and feeling
heart of Orlandoknew the truth.
He wanted anotherlandscape, and another
tongue.
But if his senses were simple they were at the sametime extremely
strong. Snow,cream, marble, cherries, alabaster, golden wire? But if his senses
were simple they were at the sametime extremely strong.
For, heaven be praised,
he spoke the tongue as hisown; his mothers maid had taught him. Theblow was
repeated a dozen times on forehead and cheek.
He was bitten by a swarm of
snakes, each morepoisonous than the last.
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