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"

And

who

art

thou

,

boy

?

I

see

not

my

reflection

in

the

vacant

pupils

of

thy

eyes

.

Oh

God

!

that

man

should

be

a

thing

for

immortal

souls

to

sieve

through

!

Who

art

thou

,

boy

?

"

"

Bell-boy

,

sir

;

ship

's

-

crier

;

ding

,

dong

,

ding

!

Pip

!

Pip

!

One

hundred

pounds

of

clay

reward

for

Pip

;

five

feet

high

--

looks

cowardly

--

quickest

known

by

that

!

Ding

,

dong

,

ding

!

Who

's

seen

Pip

the

coward

?

"

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"

There

can

be

no

hearts

above

the

snow-line

.

Oh

,

ye

frozen

heavens

!

look

down

here

.

Ye

did

beget

this

luckless

child

,

and

have

abandoned

him

,

ye

creative

libertines

.

Here

,

boy

;

Ahab

's

cabin

shall

be

Pip

's

home

henceforth

,

while

Ahab

lives

.

Thou

touchest

my

inmost

centre

,

boy

;

thou

art

tied

to

me

by

cords

woven

by

my

heart-strings

.

Come

,

let

's

down

.

"

"

What

's

this

?

here

's

velvet

shark-skin

,

"

intently

gazing

at

Ahab

's

hand

,

and

feeling

it

.

"

Ah

,

now

,

had

poor

Pip

but

felt

so

kind

a

thing

as

this

,

perhaps

he

had

ne'er

been

lost

!

This

seems

to

me

,

sir

,

as

a

man-rope

;

something

that

weak

souls

may

hold

by

.

Oh

,

sir

,

let

old

Perth

now

come

and

rivet

these

two

hands

together

;

the

black

one

with

the

white

,

for

I

will

not

let

this

go

.

"

"

Oh

,

boy

,

nor

will

I

thee

,

unless

I

should

thereby

drag

thee

to

worse

horrors

than

are

here

.

Come

,

then

,

to

my

cabin

.

Lo

!

ye

believers

in

gods

all

goodness

,

and

in

man

all

ill

,

lo

you

!

see

the

omniscient

gods

oblivious

of

suffering

man

;

and

man

,

though

idiotic

,

and

knowing

not

what

he

does

,

yet

full

of

the

sweet

things

of

love

and

gratitude

.

Come

!

I

feel

prouder

leading

thee

by

thy

black

hand

,

than

though

I

grasped

an

Emperor

's

!

"

"

There

go

two

daft

ones

now

,

"

muttered

the

old

Manxman

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"

One

daft

with

strength

,

the

other

daft

with

weakness

.

But

here

's

the

end

of

the

rotten

line

--

all

dripping

,

too

.

Mend

it

,

eh

?

I

think

we

had

best

have

a

new

line

altogether

.

I

'll

see

Mr.

Stubb

about

it

.

"

Steering

now

south-eastward

by

Ahab

's

levelled

steel

,

and

her

progress

solely

determined

by

Ahab

's

level

log

and

line

;

the

Pequod

held

on

her

path

towards

the

Equator

.

Making

so

long

a

passage

through

such

unfrequented

waters

,

descrying

no

ships

,

and

ere

long

,

sideways

impelled

by

unvarying

trade

winds

,

over

waves

monotonously

mild

;

all

these

seemed

the

strange

calm

things

preluding

some

riotous

and

desperate

scene

.

At

last

,

when

the

ship

drew

near

to

the

outskirts

,

as

it

were

,

of

the

Equatorial

fishing-ground

,

and

in

the

deep

darkness

that

goes

before

the

dawn

,

was

sailing

by

a

cluster

of

rocky

islets

;

the

watch

--

then

headed

by

Flask

--

was

startled

by

a

cry

so

plaintively

wild

and

unearthly

--

like

half-articulated

wailings

of

the

ghosts

of

all

Herod

's

murdered

Innocents

--

that

one

and

all

,

they

started

from

their

reveries

,

and

for

the

space

of

some

moments

stood

,

or

sat

,

or

leaned

all

transfixed

by

listening

,

like

the

carved

Roman

slave

,

while

that

wild

cry

remained

within

hearing

.

The

Christian

or

civilized

part

of

the

crew

said

it

was

mermaids

,

and

shuddered

;

but

the

pagan

harpooneers

remained

unappalled

.

Yet

the

grey

Manxman

--

the

oldest

mariner

of

all

--

declared

that

the

wild

thrilling

sounds

that

were

heard

,

were

the

voices

of

newly

drowned

men

in

the

sea

.

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