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Updated: May 21, 2025

He had told the story a score of times during the last three days, and had assured himself by every evidence that he could tell it effectively. He was something of an egoist, too, and the climax he had in mind was that of his own emotions in recrossing the fatal couloir ropeless, with shaking knees, haunted by the Englishman's last cry. "Such a strange cry," he persisted.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales