The Sea-Wolf

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London, Jack

"The Sea-Wolf"

This necessitated my climbing the shears, which I did twice before I finished guying it fore and aft and to each side. Twilight had set in by the time this was accomplished. Wolf Larsen, who had sat about and listened all afternoon and never opened his mouth, had taken himself off to the galley and started his supper. I felt quite stiff across the small of the back, so much so that I straightened up with an effort and with pain. I looked proudly at my work. It was beginning to show. I was wild with desire, like a child with a new toy, to hoist something with my shears.

? ? ? ? 'I wish it weren't so late,' I said. 'I'd like to see how it works.'

? ? ? ? 'Don't be a glutton, Humphrey,' Maud chided me. 'Remember, tomorrow is coming, and you're so tired now that you can hardly stand.'

? ? ? ? 'And you?' I said, with sudden solicitude. 'You must be very tired. You have worked hard and nobly. I am proud of you, Maud.'

? ? ? ? 'Not half so proud as I am of you, nor with half the reason,' she answered, looking me straight in the eyes for a moment with an expression in her own and a dancing, tremulous light which I had not seen before and which gave me a pang of quick delight.

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