Although the young man was brave, as we know, he was terrified at that wild countenance, those terribly dilated pupils, those pale cheeks, and those bleeding lips. He recoiled to the other side of the room as he would have done from a serpent which was crawling toward him, and his sword coming in contact with his nervous hand, he drew it almost unconsciously from the scabbard.
A fiatalember, mint tudjuk, bátor volt, mégis megrémítették a dúlt vonások, az iszonyúan kitágult pupillák, a sápadt arc és a vérvörös száj; falhoz hátrált az ágyban, mintha kígyó csúszna feléje; izzadt tenyere közben a kardjára tapintott: kihúzta hüvelyéből.