... THE SEA WOLF
JACK LONDON
CHAPTER 7
At last, after three days of variable winds, we have caught the north-east ... drunkard pays. And I shall know that I must die, at sea
most likely, cease crawling of myself to be all a-crawl with the corruption of the
sea; to be fed upon, to be carrion, to yield up all ... pause which words
and setting demanded.
I looked into his face....
... about it.
My mistake was in ever opening the books."
THE SEA WOLF
JACK LONDON
CHAPTER 10
My intimacy with Wolf Larsen increases - if by intimacy may be denoted those
relations ... English merchant service. Cabin-boy at twelve, ship's boy at fourteen,
ordinary seamen at sixteen, able seaman at seventeen, and cock of the fo'c'sle,
infinite ambition...
...
do the thing I had begged her to do and which she had notably disliked.
THE SEA WOLF
JACK LONDON
CHAPTER 22
I knew what it was as she came toward me. For ten minutes I had watched ... am to lie," she said in steady, rebellious tones, "by speech and action to lie."
Wolf Larsen had separated from Latimer and was coming toward us. I was
desperate.
"...
...
splendid incarnation of it, and Wolf Larsen's cold explanation of life and its
meaning was truly ridiculous and laughable.
THE SEA WOLF
JACK LONDON
CHAPTER 24
Among the most vivid ... position of the ship, nevertheless knew that we were close to the boundaries
of the forbidden sea, while Wolf Larsen's record as a poacher was notorious. All
eyes centred upon hi...
... the shoulder instead of the head.
"Watch out!" I heard Maud scream.
THE SEA WOLF
JACK LONDON
CHAPTER 30
No wonder we called it Endeavour Island. For two weeks we toiled at building ...
"There are the seals," she suggested.
So next day the hunting began. I did not know how to shoot, but I proceeded to
learn. And when I had expended some thirty shells for t...
... don't," I concluded defiantly, beginning again my knocking and
hammering.
THE SEA WOLF
JACK LONDON
CHAPTER 34
"It's too bad the Ghost has lost her masts. Why we could sail ... "Suppose I clap the hatch on, now? You won't
fool me as you did in the lazarette."
" ;Wolf Larsen," I said sternly, for the first time addressing him by...
... THE SEA WOLF
JACK LONDON
CHAPTER 1
I scarcely know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the ... arm of the sea. It was good that men
should be specialists, I mused. The peculiar knowledge of the pilot and captain
sufficed for many thousands of people who knew no more of the sea and
navigation ... sunk him, the
little rip! They're the cause of more tr...
... THE SEA WOLF
JACK LONDON
CHAPTER 3
Wolf Larsen ceased swearing as suddenly as he had begun. He relighted his
cigar ... cook quailed under it.
"Yes, sir," was the meek reply, as the offending head disappeared into the
galley.
so the group of hunters gave mouth to a laughter that sounded to me like a wolf- ... climbing aloft; Wolf
Larsen was studying the cloudi...
... as Hump, as though Hump were I
and had always been I.
THE SEA WOLF
JACK LONDON
CHAPTER 4
What happened to me next on the sealing-schooner Ghost, as I strove to fit into
my new environment, ... through the
storm, would surely have made me sea- sick had I been a victim to that malady.
As it was, it made me quite squeamish, though this nausea might have been due
to the pa...
... piggishness!"
THE SEA WOLF
JACK LONDON
CHAPTER 5
But my first night in the hunters' steerage was also my last. Next day
Johansen, the new mate, was routed from the cabin by Wolf Larsen, ... after breakfast. I learned, also, that Wolf Larsen was
anxious to make the most of the storm, which was driving him to the
south-west into that portion of the sea where h...