[The Sea-Wolf by Jack London]@TWC D-Link bookThe Sea-Wolf CHAPTER XIII 3/11
A savage expression flitted across it. "Oh, 'ow I 'ate 'im! 'Ow I 'ate 'im!" he gritted out. "Whom ?" I asked; but the poor wretch was weeping again over his misfortunes.
Less difficult it was to guess whom he hated than whom he did not hate.
For I had come to see a malignant devil in him which impelled him to hate all the world.
I sometimes thought that he hated even himself, so grotesquely had life dealt with him, and so monstrously. At such moments a great sympathy welled up within me, and I felt shame that I had ever joyed in his discomfiture or pain.
Life had been unfair to him.
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