Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London


Now it so happens that not since I was a boy have I struck a person
with my naked fist, and I candidly admit that I enjoyed the trouncing
I administered to poor Tom Spink. Yes, and in the rapid play about
the deck I caught a glimpse of Margaret. She had stepped out of the
shelter of the mast and was looking on from the corner of the chart-
house. Yes, and more; she was looking on with a cool, measuring eye.


Oh, it was all very grotesque, to be sure. But then, mutiny on the
high seas in the year nineteen-thirteen is also grotesque. No lists
here between mailed knights for a lady's favour, but merely the
trouncing of a chuckle-head for spitting on the deck of a coal-
carrier. Nevertheless, the fact that my lady looked on added zest to
my enterprise, and, doubtlessly, speed and weight to my blows, and at
least half a dozen additional clouts to the unlucky sailor.

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