| Thomas Dixon (Jr.) - 1905 - Страниц: 414
..."We have no money — the deed has not been delivered," she pleaded, a sudden glimmer of hope Sashing in her blue eyes. Gus stepped closer, with an ugly...can we do, my darling?" the mother asked at last. "Diel— thank God, we have the strength left!" "Yes, my love," was the faint answer. / " No one must... | |
| Thomas Dixon - 1905 - Страниц: 442
...white, her delicate lips trembling with the chill of a fear colder than death. "We have no money—the deed has not been delivered," she pleaded, a sudden...into the soft white throat and she was still. CHAPTER XH AT THE DAWN OF DAT IT was three o'clock before Marion regained consciousness, crawled to her mother,... | |
| Thomas Dixon - 1907 - Страниц: 398
...of my sweet girl romance with the Hero of Piedmont, and they shall laugh and cry with me over it " v "What's that?" whispered the mother, leaping to her...throat and she was still. CHAPTER XII AT THE DAWN OF DAT IT was three o'clock before Marion regained consciousness, crawled to her mother, and crouched... | |
| Thomas Dixon - 1905 - Страниц: 396
...cords, half rising to her feet, while with mortal anguish she gasped: "For God's sake, spare my babyl Do as you will with me, and kill me — do not touch...throat and she was still. CHAPTER XII AT THE DAWN OF DAT IT was three o'clock before Marion regained consciousness, crawled to her mother, and crouched... | |
| David Mark Chalmers - 1987 - Страниц: 516
...alter money!" The girl uttered a cry, long, tremulous, heart-rending, piteous. A single tiger spring, and the black claws of the beast sank into the soft white throat and she was still. With Lincoln, the Great Protector, dead, was there no one to deliver the South? No one but the South... | |
| James Newton Poling - 1996 - Страниц: 246
...virgin. As Dixon described this event, before discreetly lowering the curtain: "A single tiger spring, and the black claws of the beast sank into the soft white throat." The act results in the suicide of the victim and her mother, following by a solemn, portentous lynching... | |
| Susan Gubar - 2000 - Страниц: 356
...novel, Gus actually rapes the girl, and the act is described in bestial imagery evocative of Dracula: "A single tiger-spring, and the black claws of the...sank into the soft white throat and she was still" (304). 5. According to Michael Rogin, the original version of the movie probably followed The Clansman... | |
| Ralph E. Luker - 1998 - Страниц: 468
...sinister beadeyes wide apart gleaming ape-like," Gus assaulted the delicate, white heroine, Marion Lenoir. "A single tiger-spring, and the black claws of the beast sank into the soft white throat and she was still."ss But Dixon usually reserved the feline analogy for mulattoes. Lydia Brown, the mulatto mistress... | |
| Peter C. Rollins - 1983 - Страниц: 308
...the blonde "little sister." The book had made the rape actual: "A single tiger-spring," it narrated, "and the black claws of the beast sank into the soft white throat." 24 The picture shows us the little sister as she jumps off a cliff to escape dishonor; but a scene... | |
| Cathy Boeckmann - 2000 - Страниц: 260
...Cameron's youthful neighbor, Marion Lenior. As Dixon describes it, Gus is an animal at that moment: "A single tiger-spring, and the black claws of the...sank into the soft white throat and she was still" (304). In another scene, Dixon suggests that Phil Stoneman, as a visitor from the North, is actually... | |
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