1 There was nothing else for him to do.
2 "Then you must promise something else," I ventured.
3 When he laughs it is from a humour that is nothing else than ferocious.
4 And now, for the first time in my life, I found myself responsible for some one else.
5 Eternity is eternity, and though you die here and now you will go on living somewhere else and hereafter.
6 Unlike any one else in the ship's company, I now found myself with no quarrels on my hands and in the good graces of all.
7 Or else he probes them with the cruel hand of a vivisectionist, groping about in their mental processes and examining their souls as though to see of what soul-stuff is made.
8 "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.
9 The stern of the vessel shot by, dropping, as it did so, into a hollow between the waves; and I caught a glimpse of a man standing at the wheel, and of another man who seemed to be doing little else than smoke a cigar.
10 And in this was portrayed the victory of the spirit over the flesh, the indomitability and moral grandeur of the soul that knows no restriction and rises above time and space and matter with a surety and invincibleness born of nothing else than eternity and immortality.