I must not lose one crawl or squirm if I am to get the most out of the ferment.

Nor will the eternal movelessness that is coming to me be made easier or harder by the sacrifices or selfishnesses of the time when I was yeasty and acrawl." "Then you are an individualist, a materialist, and, logically, a hedonist." "Big words," he smiled.

"But what is a hedonist ?" He nodded agreement when I had given the definition.

"And you are also," I continued, "a man one could not trust in the least thing where it was possible for a selfish interest to intervene ?" "Now you're beginning to understand," he said, brightening.
"You are a man utterly without what the world calls morals ?" "That's it." "A man of whom to be always afraid--" "That's the way to put it." "As one is afraid of a snake, or a tiger, or a shark ?" "Now you know me," he said.

"And you know me as I am generally known.
Other men call me 'Wolf.'" "You are a sort of monster," I added audaciously, "a Caliban who has pondered Setebos, and who acts as you act, in idle moments, by whim and fancy." His brow clouded at the allusion.