1 "You must be well up in mathematics," I said.
2 What I needed was rest, if it were ever to get well.
3 By midday, though we were well up in the northerly latitudes, the heat was sickening.
4 I was not sniffling, though my face might well have been drawn and twitching from the pain.
5 I felt a wilting sensation, a sinking at the heart, and, I might just as well say, a giddiness.
6 As well as I could make out, the kneecap seemed turned up on edge in the midst of the swelling.
7 And well he might be, eighty feet above the deck, to trust himself on those thin and jerking ropes.
8 For three days I did my own work and Thomas Mugridge's too; and I flatter myself that I did his work well.
9 This morning, however, on entering his state-room to make the bed and put things in order, I found him well and hard at work.
10 He knew well the psychology of the little thing, and it was the little things by which he kept the crew worked up to the verge of madness.
11 I had cherished a hope that his victims would find an opportunity to escape while filling our water-barrels, but Wolf Larsen had selected his spot well.
12 He it was that came up on the poop without orders and dragged Johnson forward, where he set about dressing his wounds as well as he could and making him comfortable.
13 Of course there was no hope for him, not the slightest, and he knew it as well as I, but by the manhood that was in him he could not cease from fighting for that manhood.
14 Wolf Larsen treasured against them the attempt on his life and the drubbing he had received in the forecastle; and morning, noon, and night, and all night as well, he devoted himself to making life unlivable for them.
15 Three days of rest, three blessed days of rest, are what I had with Wolf Larsen, eating at the cabin table and doing nothing but discuss life, literature, and the universe, the while Thomas Mugridge fumed and raged and did my work as well as his own.
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 The face, with large features and strong lines, of the square order, yet well filled out, was apparently massive at first sight; but again, as with the body, the massiveness seemed to vanish, and a conviction to grow of a tremendous and excessive mental or spiritual strength that lay behind, sleeping in the deeps of his being.
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