1 The primitive deeps of my nature stirred.
2 It's not the nature of life to be otherwise.
3 Man is a natural gambler, and life is the biggest stake he can lay.
4 As I lay there thinking, I naturally dwelt upon myself and my situation.
5 I forgot to inquire," he went on suavely, "as to the nature of your occupation.
6 One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering.
7 This use of our given names had come about quite as a matter of course, and was as unpremeditated as it was natural.
8 He was a magnificent atavism, a man so purely primitive that he was of the type that came into the world before the development of the moral nature.
9 Idealist and romanticist that I was and always had been in spite of my analytical nature, yet I had failed till now in grasping much of the physical characteristics of love.
10 Smooth-shaven, every line was distinct, and it was cut as clear and sharp as a cameo; while sea and sun had tanned the naturally fair skin to a dark bronze which bespoke struggle and battle and added both to his savagery and his beauty.
11 It was also serious, for I learned that he was capable of using it, that under all his cowardice there was a courage of cowardice, like mine, that would impel him to do the very thing his whole nature protested against doing and was afraid of doing.