quote
“Rat,” he found breath to whisper,...
“Rat,” he found breath to whisper, shaking. “Are you afraid?” “Afraid?” murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love. “Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet—and yet—O, Mole, I am afraid!”
The Wind in the Willows, chapter 7, “The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.”