Цитаты из книги автора Jack London Martin Eden

He was responsive to beauty, and here was cause to respond

He noticed one with narrow-slitted eyes and a loose-lipped mouth. That fellow was vicious, he decided.

He couldn’t talk their talk just yet, though in time he would.

he broke his stride

What you need is the grammar. I’ll get one and show you how to begin.

I’ve got to study by myself, I guess, an’ what I want to know is where to begin."
"I should say the first thing of all would be to get a grammar. Your grammar is-" She had intended saying "awful," but she amended it to "is not particularly good."

lured him away

She has been so singularly backward where men are concerned that I have been worried greatly.”

at his finger-ends

My, ain’t cheh a mind-reader!