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"

Oh

!

spite

of

million

villains

,

this

makes

me

a

bigot

in

the

fadeless

fidelity

of

man

!

--

and

a

black

!

and

crazy

!

--

but

methinks

like-cures-like

applies

to

him

too

;

he

grows

so

sane

again

.

"

"

They

tell

me

,

sir

,

that

Stubb

did

once

desert

poor

little

Pip

,

whose

drowned

bones

now

show

white

,

for

all

the

blackness

of

his

living

skin

.

But

I

will

never

desert

ye

,

sir

,

as

Stubb

did

him

.

Sir

,

I

must

go

with

ye

.

"

"

If

thou

speakest

thus

to

me

much

more

,

Ahab

's

purpose

keels

up

in

him

.

I

tell

thee

no

;

it

can

not

be

.

"

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"

Oh

good

master

,

master

,

master

!

"

Weep

so

,

and

I

will

murder

thee

!

have

a

care

,

for

Ahab

too

is

mad

.

Listen

,

and

thou

wilt

often

hear

my

ivory

foot

upon

the

deck

,

and

still

know

that

I

am

there

.

And

now

I

quit

thee

.

Thy

hand

!

--

Met

!

True

art

thou

,

lad

,

as

the

circumference

to

its

centre

So

:

God

for

ever

bless

thee

;

and

if

it

come

to

that

--

God

for

ever

save

thee

,

let

what

will

befall

.

"

(

Ahab

goes

;

Pip

steps

one

step

forward

.

)

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"

Here

he

this

instant

stood

,

I

stand

in

his

air

--

but

I

'm

alone

.

Now

were

even

poor

Pip

here

I

could

endure

it

,

but

he

's

missing

.

Pip

!

Pip

!

Ding

,

dong

,

ding

!

Who

's

seen

Pip

?

He

must

be

up

here

;

let

's

try

the

door

.

What

?

neither

lock

,

nor

bolt

,

nor

bar

;

and

yet

there

's

no

opening

it

.

It

must

be

the

spell

;

he

told

me

to

stay

here

:

Aye

,

and

told

me

this

screwed

chair

was

mine

.

Here

,

then

,

I

'll

seat

me

,

against

the

transom

,

in

the

ship

's

full

middle

,

all

her

keel

and

her

three

masts

before

me

.

Here

,

our

old

sailors

say

,

in

their

black

seventy-fours

great

admirals

sometimes

sit

at

table

,

and

lord

it

over

rows

of

captains

and

lieutenants

.

Ha

!

what

's

this

?

epaulets

!

epaulets

!

the

epaulets

all

come

crowding

.

Pass

round

the

decanters

;

glad

to

see

ye

;

fill

up

,

monsieurs

!

What

an

odd

feeling

,

now

,

when

a

black

boy

's

host

to

white

men

with

gold

lace

upon

their

coats

!

--

Monsieurs

,

have

ye

seen

one

Pip

?

--

a

little

negro

lad

,

five

feet

high

,

hang-dog

look

,

and

cowardly

!

Jumped

from

a

whale-boat

once

;

--

seen

him

?

No

!

Well

then

,

fill

up

again

,

captains

,

and

let

's

drink

shame

upon

all

cowards

!

I

name

no

names

.

Shame

upon

them

!

Put

one

foot

upon

the

table

.

Shame

upon

all

cowards

.

--

Hist

!

above

there

,

I

hear

ivory

--

Oh

,

master

!

master

!

I

am

indeed

down-hearted

when

you

walk

over

me

.

But

there

I

'll

stay

,

though

this

stern

strikes

rocks

;

and

they

bulge

through

;

and

oysters

come

to

join

me

.

"

And

now

that

at

the

proper

time

and

place

,

after

so

long

and

wide

a

preliminary

cruise

,

Ahab

--

all

other

whaling

waters

swept

--

seemed

to

have

chased

his

foe

into

an

oceanfold

,

to

slay

him

the

more

securely

there

;

now

,

that

he

found

himself

hard

by

the

very

latitude

and

longitude

where

his

tormenting

wound

had

been

inflicted

;

now

that

a

vessel

had

been

spoken

which

on

the

very

day

preceding

had

actually

encountered

Moby

Dick

;

--

and

now

that

all

his

successive

meetings

with

various

ships

contrastingly

concurred

to

show

the

demoniac

indifference

with

which

the

white

whale

tore

his

hunters

,

whether

sinning

or

sinned

against

;

now

it

was

that

there

lurked

a

something

in

the

old

man

's

eyes

,

which

it

was

hardly

sufferable

for

feeble

souls

to

see

.

As

the

unsetting

polar

star

,

which

through

the

livelong

,

arctic

,

six

months

'

night

sustains

its

piercing

,

steady

,

central

gaze

;

so

Ahab

's

purpose

now

fixedly

gleamed

down

upon

the

constant

midnight

of

the

gloomy

crew

.

It

domineered

above

them

so

,

that

all

their

bodings

,

doubts

,

misgivings

,

fears

,

were

fain

to

hide

beneath

their

souls

,

and

not

sprout

forth

a

single

spear

or

leaf

.

In

this

foreshadowing

interval

,

too

,

all

humor

,

forced

or

natural

,

vanished

.

Stubb

no

more

strove

to

raise

a

smile

;

Starbuck

no

more

strove

to

check

one

.

Alike

,

joy

and

sorrow

,

hope

and

fear

,

seemed

ground

to

finest

dust

,

and

powdered

,

for

the

time

,

in

the

clamped

mortar

of

Ahab

's

iron

soul

.

Like

machines

,

they

dumbly

moved

about

the

deck

,

ever

conscious

that

the

old

man

's

despot

eye

was

on

them

.

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