182 Tarzan of the Apes
‘There was nothing heavenly about his voice,’ said Jane
Porter, with a little shudder at recollection of the awful roar
which had followed the killing of the lioness.
‘Nor did it precisely comport with my preconceived ideas
of the dignity of divine messengers,’ remarked Professor
Porter, ‘when the—ah—gentleman tied two highly respect-
able and erudite scholars neck to neck and dragged them
through the jungle as though they had been cows.’