“He recognised its voice. It was the young hound which even a year ago had had no judgment and which, by the lights of the other hounds anyway, still had none. Maybe that’s what courage is, he thought.”

— William Faulkner , book Go Down, Moses

The Bear section 3 (p. 229)
Go Down, Moses (1942)

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