“Strychnine is a grand tonic, Kemp, to take the flabbiness out of a man.”

“Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.”

“An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.”

“I felt all the wretcheder for the lack of a breakfast. Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.”

“For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive.”

“Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far myexperience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense ofdetachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it allfrom the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time,out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feelingwas very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to mydream.”

“I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.”