1 Never in my life had food been so welcome.
2 I had been resting all my life and did not know it.
3 The coming of Maud Brewster into my life seemed to have transformed me.
4 For he steals my bread and meat and bed, and in so doing imperils my life.
5 "I've never been sick in my life, Hump," he said, as I guided him to his room.
6 And now, for the first time in my life, I found myself responsible for some one else.
7 I had never heard anything like it in my life, nor could I have conceived it possible.
8 As I say, I debated with myself, and then I did what I consider the bravest act of my life.
9 It was the biceps that had nearly crushed out my life once, that I had seen strike so many killing blows.
10 He refused to take into consideration what I was, or, rather, what my life and the things I was accustomed to had been.
11 I had gone camping but once in my life, and then I left the party almost at its start and returned to the comforts and conveniences of a roof.
12 But there were coastwise skippers I would have returned and killed when a man's strength came to me, only the lines of my life were cast at the time in other places.
13 This was part of the attitude he chose to adopt toward me; and I confess, ere the day was done, that I hated him with more lively feelings than I had ever hated any one in my life before.
14 "I'm afraid some one else has fed me most of my life," she laughed, trying bravely to enter into the spirit of his quizzing, though I could see a terror dawning and growing in her eyes as she watched Wolf Larsen.
15 I, who had lived my life in quiet places, only to enter at the age of thirty-five upon a course of the most irrational adventure I could have imagined, never had more incident and excitement crammed into any forty hours of my experience.
16 My function is to amuse, and so long as I amuse all goes well; but let him become bored, or let him have one of his black moods come upon him, and at once I am relegated from cabin table to galley, while, at the same time, I am fortunate to escape with my life and a whole body.
17 At one time in my life," he continued, after another pause, "I dreamed that I might some day talk with men who used such language, that I might lift myself out of the place in life in which I had been born, and hold conversation and mingle with men who talked about just such things as ethics.
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