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"

No

;

only

heard

of

him

;

but

do

n't

believe

in

him

at

all

,

"

said

the

other

good-humoredly

.

"

Come

aboard

!

"

"

Thou

art

too

damned

jolly

.

Sail

on

.

Hast

lost

any

men

?

"

"

Not

enough

to

speak

of

--

two

islanders

,

that

's

all

;

--

but

come

aboard

,

old

hearty

,

come

along

.

I

'll

soon

take

that

black

from

your

brow

.

Come

along

,

will

ye

(

merry

's

the

play

)

;

a

full

ship

and

homeward-bound

.

"

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"

How

wondrous

familiar

is

a

fool

!

"

muttered

Ahab

;

then

aloud

,

"

Thou

art

a

full

ship

and

homeward

bound

,

thou

sayst

;

well

,

then

,

call

me

an

empty

ship

,

and

outward-bound

.

So

go

thy

ways

,

and

I

will

mine

Forward

there

!

Set

all

sail

,

and

keep

her

to

the

wind

!

"

And

thus

,

while

the

one

ship

went

cheerily

before

the

breeze

,

the

other

stubbornly

fought

against

it

;

and

so

the

two

vessels

parted

;

the

crew

of

the

Pequod

looking

with

grave

,

lingering

glances

towards

the

receding

Bachelor

;

but

the

Bachelor

's

men

never

heeding

their

gaze

for

the

lively

revelry

they

were

in

.

And

as

Ahab

,

leaning

over

the

taffrail

,

eyed

the

homewardbound

craft

,

he

took

from

his

pocket

a

small

vial

of

sand

,

and

then

looking

from

the

ship

to

the

vial

,

seemed

thereby

bringing

two

remote

associations

together

,

for

that

vial

was

filled

with

Nantucket

soundings

.

Not

seldom

in

this

life

,

when

,

on

the

right

side

,

fortune

's

favorites

sail

close

by

us

,

we

,

though

all

adroop

before

,

catch

somewhat

of

the

rushing

breeze

,

and

joyfully

feel

our

bagging

sails

fill

out

.

So

seemed

it

with

the

Pequod

.

For

next

day

after

encountering

the

gay

Bachelor

,

whales

were

seen

and

four

were

slain

;

and

one

of

them

by

Ahab

.

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It

was

far

down

the

afternoon

;

and

when

all

the

spearings

of

the

crimson

fight

were

done

;

and

floating

in

the

lovely

sunset

sea

and

sky

,

sun

and

whale

both

stilly

died

together

;

then

,

such

a

sweetness

and

such

plaintiveness

,

such

inwreathing

orisons

curled

up

in

that

rosy

air

,

that

it

almost

seemed

as

if

far

over

from

the

deep

green

convent

valleys

of

the

Manilla

isles

,

the

Spanish

land-breeze

,

wantonly

turned

sailor

,

had

gone

to

sea

,

freighted

with

these

vesper

hymns

.

Soothed

again

,

but

only

soothed

to

deeper

gloom

,

Ahab

,

who

had

sterned

off

from

the

whale

,

sat

intently

watching

his

final

wanings

from

the

now

tranquil

boat

.

For

that

strange

spectacle

observable

in

all

sperm

whales

dying

--

the

turning

sunwards

of

the

head

,

and

so

expiring

--

that

strange

spectacle

,

beheld

of

such

a

placid

evening

,

somehow

to

Ahab

conveyed

a

wondrousness

unknown

before

.

"

He

turns

and

turns

him

to

it

--

how

slowly

,

but

how

steadfastly

,

his

homage-rendering

and

invoking

brow

,

with

his

last

dying

motions

.

He

too

worships

fire

;

most

faithful

,

broad

,

baronial

vassal

of

the

sun

!

--

Oh

that

these

too-favoring

eyes

should

see

these

too-favoring

sights

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