Quotation from: The People of the Abyss

Written by: Jack London


The Carpenter had been born in the army, where his father had served
twenty-two years. Likewise, his two brothers had gone into the army;
one, troop sergeant-major of the Seventh Hussars, dying in India after
the Mutiny; the other, after nine years under Roberts in the East, had
been lost in Egypt. The Carpenter had not gone into the army, so here he
was, still on the planet.


"But 'ere, give me your 'and," he said, ripping open his ragged shirt.
"I'm fit for the anatomist, that's all. I'm wastin' away, sir, actually
wastin' away for want of food. Feel my ribs an' you'll see."

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