? ? ? ? 'It seems to me that your fighting instinct is aroused,' I laughed.
? ? ? ? She flushed quickly and prettily. 'I'll admit I don't like defeat any more than you do, nor any more than I like the idea of killing such pretty, inoffensive creatures.'
? ? ? ? 'Pretty!' I sniffed. 'I failed to mark anything preeminently pretty about those foamy-mouthed beasts that raced me.'
? ? ? ? 'Your point of view,' she laughed. 'You lacked perspective. Now if you did not have to get so close to the subject-'
? ? ? ? 'The very thing!' I cried. 'What I need is a longer club. And there's that broken oar ready to hand.'
? ? ? ? 'It just comes to me,' she said, 'that Captain Larsen was telling me how the men raided the rookeries.
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