[Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert]@TWC D-Link bookSalammbo CHAPTER XI 24/34
They could hear the shrieks of those who were in the huts; the elephants, oxen, and horses plunged in the midst of the crowd crushing it together with the stores and baggage that were being rescued from the fire.
Trumpets sounded.
There were calls of "Matho! Matho!" Some people at the door tried to get in. "Come along! Hamilcar is burning the camp of Autaritus!" He made a spring.
She found herself quite alone. Then she examined the zaimph; and when she had viewed it well she was surprised that she had not the happiness which she had once imagined to herself.
She stood with melancholy before her accomplished dream. But the lower part of the tent was raised, and a monstrous form appeared.
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