"At first he was like a wild beast that has glutted itself; he was in a dull stupor of satisfaction. He had done up the scoundrel pretty well—not as well as he would have if they had given him a minute more, but still pretty well; the ends of his fingers were still tingling from their contact with the fellow's throat."
Description:Chapter Sixteen in Upton Sinclair's original serial for Appeal to Reason, the unexpurgated version of what became "The Jungle."
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