← That was theirs too, but they were frightened to go inside. After a moment, however, Snowball and Napoleon butted the door open with their shoulders and the animals entered in single file, walking with the utmost care for fear of disturbing anything. 🔊
← "Where is Mollie?" exclaimed somebody. Mollie in fact was missing. For a moment there was great alarm; it was feared that the men might have harmed her in some way, or even carried her off with them. 🔊
← The animals distrusted Pilkington, as a human being, but greatly preferred him to Frederick, whom they both feared and hated. 🔊
← The fear and despair they had felt a moment earlier were drowned in their rage against this vile, contemptible act. 🔊