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Excerpt from The Feet of the Furtive
Comparative quiet. On the crests of the tremendous rollers there was still wind enough to whip Off the foam, and to lash him disconcertingly; but in the vast, rocking valleys all was delicious peace. He manoeuvred cleverly to keep himself in this peace, while he rested and recovered himself from that strangling struggle in the vortex where the hulk had gone down. From time to time he drove himself head and shoulders above water, glancing about eagerly under the starlight to see if there were any others of the ship's company left alive. But thinking how hardly he himself, with all his strength and watercraft, and his forethought in stripping naked for the final or'deal, had won back to the air out Of that appalling vortex, he was not surprised to find himself alone.
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