ferriss

Updated: May 25, 2025

"Will you please can I, can I say more than that; will you please let me go?" "No." With a great effort Lloyd tried to regain her self-control. She paused a moment, then: "Listen!" she said. "You say that you love me; that I am more to you than even Mr. Ferriss, your truest friend.

Frank Norris - A Man's Woman

The dogs were in good condition, his men cheerful, trusting in him as in a god, and surely no leader could wish for a better lieutenant and comrade than Richard Ferriss but this hummocky ice these pressure-ridges which the expedition had met the day before.

Frank Norris - A Man's Woman

Ferriss found time, even in such an hour, to wonder at the sudden and unexpected break in the uniform hardness of Bennett's character. Ferriss knew him well by now. Bennett was not a man to ask concessions, to catch at small favours. What he wanted he took with an iron hand, without ruth and without scruple.

Frank Norris - A Man's Woman

But now she settled herself upon the divan and, picking up one of the weeklies, turned its leaves listlessly. All at once she came upon two pictures admirably reproduced from photographs, and serving as illustrations to the weekly's main article "The Two Leaders of the Freja Expedition." One was a picture of Bennett, the other of Ferriss.

Frank Norris - A Man's Woman

It was Ferriss whose example had stimulated the expedition to its best efforts in the darkest hours; it was, practically, Ferriss who had saved the party after the destruction of the ship; whose determination, unbroken courage, endurance, and intelligence had pervaded all minds and hearts during the retreat to Kolyuchin Bay.

Frank Norris - A Man's Woman

Unconsciously they were both working out their salvation along the same lines. Then had come Bennett's resolve to give Ferriss the conspicuous and prominent place in his book, the account of the expedition. The more Bennett dwelt upon Ferriss's heroism, intelligence, and ability the more his task became a labour of love, and the more the idea of self dropped away from his thought and imagination.

Frank Norris - A Man's Woman

But Lloyd, sitting near the foot-board of the bed, turned her head from him. It was not expedient that Ferriss should recognise her now. Lloyd could not but commend the wisdom of bringing Ferriss to Dr. Pitts's own house in so quiet a place as Medford. The doctor risked nothing. He was without a family, the only other occupants of the house being the housekeeper and cook.

Frank Norris - A Man's Woman

I don't know how it happened.... Well, God for us all. Here he is that's the point for us." He glanced toward the bed, and for the third time Lloyd looked at the patient. Ferriss was in a quiet delirium, and, at intervals, from behind his lips, dry and brown and fissured, there came the sounds of low and indistinct muttering.

Frank Norris - A Man's Woman

Or at times it was only the absence of Ferriss that seemed to torture him.

Frank Norris - A Man's Woman

But the men scrambled to their places again, the medicine chest was replaced, and Muck Tu, the Esquimau dog-master, whipped forward his dogs. Ferriss, too, laid hold. The next hummock was surmounted, the dogs panting, and the men, even in that icy air, reeking with perspiration.

Frank Norris - A Man's Woman