1 I now caught my first fair glimpse of the woman.
2 It was wanton slaughter, and all for woman's sake.
3 But then, I had not seen a woman for a very long time.
4 He was asleep on his back and breathing as placidly as a woman.
5 I found myself strangely afraid of this woman I was escorting aft.
6 The boat contained four men, and its fifth occupant was certainly a woman.
7 His body, thanks to his Scandinavian stock, was fair as the fairest woman's.
8 And when all was done, I gave up like a woman and rolled upon the deck in the agony of exhaustion.
9 I shot a glance at the woman, but she was leaning back in the arm-chair, her eyes closed, unutterably tired.
10 In years and years not one of them has been in contact with a good woman, or within the influence, or redemption, which irresistibly radiates from such a creature.
11 Indeed, she was a slender, delicate woman as women go, but to me she was so ethereally slender and delicate that I was quite prepared for her arm to crumble in my grasp.
12 As she filled away and heeled, the arm-chair began to slide across the cabin floor, and I sprang for it just in time to prevent the rescued woman from being spilled out.
13 "She must be a pretty old woman now," he said, staring meditatively into the binnacle and then jerking a sharp glance at Harrison, who was steering a point off the course.
14 My muscles were small and soft, like a woman's, or so the doctors had said time and again in the course of their attempts to persuade me to go in for physical-culture fads.
15 It seemed to me that I was realizing for the first time what a delicate, fragile creature a woman is; and as I caught her arm to help her down the companion stairs, I was startled by its smallness and softness.
16 For when one of the sailors lifted her into Wolf Larsen's downstretched arms, she looked up into our curious faces and smiled amusedly and sweetly, as only a woman can smile, and as I had seen no one smile for so long that I had forgotten such smiles existed.
17 And yet here you are, at the top of your life, where diminishing and dying begin, living an obscure and sordid existence, hunting sea animals for the satisfaction of woman's vanity and love of decoration, revelling in a piggishness, to use your own words, which is anything and everything except splendid.
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