Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


Three times, while they looked on, ready to whirl their own steeds
away if he got out of hand, The Fop attempted to burst into rampage,
and three times, solidly, with careful, delicate hand on the bitter
bit, Paula Forrest dealt him double spurs in the ribs, till he stood,
sweating, frothing, fretting, beaten, and in hand.


"It's the way the white man has always done," Dick moralized, while
Graham suffered a fluttery, shivery sensation of admiration of the
beast-conquering Little Lady. "He's out-savaged the savage the world
around," Dick went on. "He's out-endured him, out-filthed him, out-
scalped him, out-tortured him, out-eaten him--yes, out-eaten him. It's
a fair wager that the white man, in extremis, has eaten more of the
genus homo, than the savage, in extremis, has eaten."

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