White Fang was glad to acknowledge his lordship, but it was lordship based upon superior intelligence and brute strength… There were deeps in his nature which had never been sounded. A kind word, a caressing touch of the hand, on the part of Gray Beaver, might have sounded these deeps; but Gray Beaver did not caress nor speak kind words. It was not his way.

Based, Glad, Intelligence, Sounded,