1 But life and death were in that glance.
2 And yet, I could not imagine him lying prone in death.
3 To me, death had always been invested with solemnity and dignity.
4 The death which Wolf Larsen and even Thomas Mugridge had made me fear, I no longer feared.
5 All hands were on deck now, and all eyes were aloft, where a human life was at grapples with death.
6 As he stepped toward me I shrank back instinctively, for I saw that in his eyes which spelled death.
7 But death in its more sordid and terrible aspects was a thing with which I had been unacquainted till now.
8 I felt no fear, though I was sure of death in that boiling surge amongst the rocks which was rapidly growing nearer.
9 My first thought was that a man who had come through a collision and rubbed shoulders with death merited more attention than I received.
10 As I say, I was not afraid to meet my own death, there, a few hundred yards to leeward; but I was appalled at the thought that Maud must die.
11 I talk of the instinct of life, which is to live, and which, when death looms near and large, masters the instinct, so called, of immortality.
12 "'Tis the fear iv death at the hearts iv them," Louis muttered in my ear, as I passed forward to see to taking in the flying jib and staysail.
13 It is the darkness of death, the ceasing to be, the ceasing to feel, the ceasing to move, that is gathering about you, descending upon you, rising around you.
14 The Preacher found life and the works of life all a vanity and vexation, an evil thing; but death, the ceasing to be able to be vain and vexed, he found an eviler thing.
15 And the more I thought about it the more it appeared that my duty to myself lay in doing what he had advised, lay in joining forces with Johnson and Leach and working for his death.
16 But with nothing eternal before me but death, given for a brief spell this yeasty crawling and squirming which is called life, why, it would be immoral for me to perform any act that was a sacrifice.
17 I remember the scene impelled me to sudden laughter, and in the next instant I realized I was becoming hysterical myself; for these were women of my own kind, like my mother and sisters, with the fear of death upon them and unwilling to die.
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