You cannot deny it.
If I should catch you by the throat, thus,"-- his hand was about my throat and my breath was shut off,--"and began to press the life out of you thus, and thus, your instinct of immortality will go glimmering, and your instinct of life, which is longing for life, will flutter up, and you will struggle to save yourself.

Eh?
I see the fear of death in your eyes.

You beat the air with your arms.

You exert all your puny strength to struggle to live.

Your hand is clutching my arm, lightly it feels as a butterfly resting there.