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London, Jack

"The Sea-Wolf"

I had mastered my love long and well, but now it was mastering me. Willfully had it disobeyed and won my eyes to speech, and now it was winning my tongue- aye, and my lips, for they were mad this moment to kiss the two small hands which had toiled so faithfully and hard. And I, too, was mad. There was a cry in my being like bugles calling me to her. And there was a wind blowing upon me which I could not resist, swaying the very body of me till I leaned toward her, all unconscious that I leaned. And she knew it. She could not but know it as she swiftly drew away her hands, and yet could not forbear one quick searching look before she turned away her eyes.


? ? ? ? By means of deck-tackles I had arranged to carry the halyards forward to the windlass; and now I hoisted the mainsail, peak and throat, at the same time. It was a clumsy way, but it did not take long, and soon the foresail as well was up and fluttering.


? ? ? ? 'We can never get that anchor up in this narrow place, once it has left the bottom,' I said. 'We should be on the rocks first.


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Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) (page 67) The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island (page 336) The Universal Copyright Convention (1988) (page 24)