1 I think yer square, Mr. Van Weyden.
2 Mr. Van Weyden has discovered that.
3 I was no longer Humphrey Van Weyden.
4 "I want to ask a favour, Mr. Van Weyden," he said.
5 Mr. Van Weyden, stand by to pass the head-sails over.
6 Hump," he said, "I beg pardon, Mr. Van Weyden, I congratulate you.
7 "Mr. Van Weyden speaks with the voice of authority," Wolf Larsen laughed.
8 Mr. Van Weyden is what you may call an authority on such things as rights.
9 "Better get in those topsails, Mr. Van Weyden," Wolf Larsen said, as I came on the poop.
10 "Thank Gawd she's not comin all of a bunch, Mr. Van Weyden," was the Cockney's fervent ejaculation.
11 "That is a question you must settle with Mr. Van Weyden there," he replied, nodding to me with a mischievous twinkle.
12 Not for nothing had I been called "Sissy" Van Weyden, I thought, as I tossed restlessly on my bunk between one nightmare and another.
13 It developed what little executive ability I possessed, and I was aware of a toughening or hardening which I was undergoing and which could not be anything but wholesome for "Sissy" Van Weyden.
14 It was unparalleled, undreamed-of, that I, Humphrey Van Weyden, a scholar and a dilettante, if you please, in things artistic and literary, should be lying here on a Bering Sea seal-hunting schooner.
15 I had not been called "Sissy" Van Weyden all my days without reason, and that "Sissy" Van Weyden should be capable of doing this thing was a revelation to Humphrey Van Weyden, who knew not whether to be exultant or ashamed.
16 It sounded like the gurgling of a brook over mossy stones in some quiet dell, and the crooning song of it lured me away and out of myself till I was no longer Hump the cabin-boy, nor Van Weyden, the man who had dreamed away thirty-five years among books.
17 It is no pleasant picture I can conjure up of myself, Humphrey Van Weyden, in that noisome ship's galley, crouched in a corner over my task, my face raised to the face of the creature about to strike me, my lips lifted and snarling like a dog's, my eyes gleaming with fear and helplessness and the courage that comes of fear and helplessness.
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