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Quotation from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James
“Something or other lay in wait for him, amid the twists and the turns of the months and the years, like a crouching Beast in the Jungle”
The Beast in the Jungle, Chapter II (1915 Martin Secker edition (Project Gutenberg #1093))
The narrator gives Marcher's own image for his fate, which explains why he will not ask a woman to accompany him on a 'tiger-hunt'.
Citation: "Something or other lay in wait for him, amid the twists and the turns of the months and the years, like a crouching Beast in the Jungle" — Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle, Chapter II (1915 Martin Secker edition (Project Gutenberg #1093)). (id henry-james-the-beast-in-the-jungle-q3)
