The Animal Surging Up
Then I look about me at my fellow-men; and I go in fear. I see faces, keen and bright; others dull or dangerous; others, unsteady, insincere,—none that have the calm authority of a reasonable soul. I feel as though the animal was surging up through them; that presently the degradation of the Islanders will be played over again on a larger scale.
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Context: Prendick describes the fear that still comes over him among ordinary people.
Not in a duel yet
Source: Chapter XXII, “The Man Alone”