The touch probably associated, as is usual, with some of the apprehensions excited by his dream; for the old man started up, his grey hair standing almost erect upon his head, and huddling some part of his garments about him, while he held the detached pieces with the tenacious grasp of a falcon, he fixed upon the Palmer his keen black eyes, expressive of wild surprise and of bodily apprehension.
Gyorsan magára kapott néhány ruhadarabot, a többit pedig görcsös kézzel szorongatta, mint a sólyom a zsákmányát karmaival. Közben a zarándokra szegezte lobogó fekete szemét, amelyben vad csodálkozás és rémület tükröződött.