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The Sea-Wolf

CHAPTER V
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What else was I to do?
Force, nothing but force, obtained on this brute-ship.

Moral suasion was a thing unknown.

Picture it to yourself: a man of ordinary stature, slender of build, and with weak, undeveloped muscles, who has lived a peaceful, placid life, and is unused to violence of any sort--what could such a man possibly do?
There was no more reason that I should stand and face these human beasts than that I should stand and face an infuriated bull.
So I thought it out at the time, feeling the need for vindication and desiring to be at peace with my conscience.

But this vindication did not satisfy.

Nor, to this day can I permit my manhood to look back upon those events and feel entirely exonerated.


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