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It
is
noon
;
and
Dough-Boy
,
the
steward
,
thrusting
his
pale
loaf-of-bread
face
from
the
cabin-scuttle
,
announces
dinner
to
his
lord
and
master
who
,
sitting
in
the
lee
quarter-boat
,
has
just
been
taking
an
observation
of
the
sun
;
and
is
now
mutely
reckoning
the
latitude
on
the
smooth
,
medallion-shaped
tablet
,
reserved
for
that
daily
purpose
on
the
upper
part
of
his
ivory
leg
.
From
his
complete
inattention
to
the
tidings
,
you
would
think
that
moody
Ahab
had
not
heard
his
menial
.
But
presently
,
catching
hold
of
the
mizen
shrouds
,
he
swings
himself
to
the
deck
,
and
in
an
even
,
unexhilarated
voice
,
saying
,
"
Dinner
,
Mr.
Starbuck
,
"
disappears
into
the
cabin
.
When
the
last
echo
of
his
sultan
's
step
has
died
away
,
and
Starbuck
,
the
first
Emir
,
has
every
reason
to
suppose
that
he
is
seated
,
then
Starbuck
rouses
from
his
quietude
,
takes
a
few
turns
along
the
planks
,
and
,
after
a
grave
peep
into
the
binnacle
,
says
,
with
some
touch
of
pleasantness
,
"
Dinner
,
Mr.
Stubb
,
"
and
descends
the
scuttle
.
The
second
Emir
lounges
about
the
rigging
awhile
,
and
then
slightly
shaking
the
main
brace
,
to
see
whether
it
will
be
all
right
with
that
important
rope
,
he
likewise
takes
up
the
old
burden
,
and
with
a
rapid
"
Dinner
,
Mr.
Flask
,
"
follows
after
his
predecessors
.
But
the
third
Emir
,
now
seeing
himself
all
alone
on
the
quarter-deck
,
seems
to
feel
relieved
from
some
curious
restraint
;
for
,
tipping
all
sorts
of
knowing
winks
in
all
sorts
of
directions
,
and
kicking
off
his
shoes
,
he
strikes
into
a
sharp
but
noiseless
squall
of
a
hornpipe
right
over
the
Grand
Turk
's
head
;
and
then
,
by
a
dexterous
sleight
,
pitching
his
cap
up
into
the
mizentop
for
a
shelf
,
he
goes
down
rollicking
so
far
at
least
as
he
remains
visible
from
the
deck
,
reversing
all
other
processions
,
by
bringing
up
the
rear
with
music
.
But
ere
stepping
into
the
cabin
doorway
below
,
he
pauses
,
ships
a
new
face
altogether
,
and
,
then
,
independent
,
hilarious
little
Flask
enters
King
Ahab
's
presence
,
in
the
character
of
Abjectus
,
or
the
Slave
.
It
is
not
the
least
among
the
strange
things
bred
by
the
intense
artificialness
of
sea-usages
,
that
while
in
the
open
air
of
the
deck
some
officers
will
,
upon
provocation
,
bear
themselves
boldly
and
defyingly
enough
towards
their
commander
;
yet
,
ten
to
one
,
let
those
very
officers
the
next
moment
go
down
to
their
customary
dinner
in
that
same
commander
's
cabin
,
and
straightway
their
inoffensive
,
not
to
say
deprecatory
and
humble
air
towards
him
,
as
he
sits
at
the
head
of
the
table
;
this
is
marvellous
,
sometimes
most
comical
.
Wherefore
this
difference
?
A
problem
?
Perhaps
not
.
To
have
been
Belshazzar
,
King
of
Babylon
;
and
to
have
been
Belshazzar
,
not
haughtily
but
courteously
,
therein
certainly
must
have
been
some
touch
of
mundane
grandeur
.
But
he
who
in
the
rightly
regal
and
intelligent
spirit
presides
over
his
own
private
dinner-table
of
invited
guests
,
that
man
's
unchallenged
power
and
dominion
of
individual
influence
for
the
time
;
that
man
's
royalty
of
state
transcends
Belshazzar
's
,
for
Belshazzar
was
not
the
greatest
.
Who
has
but
once
dined
his
friends
,
has
tasted
what
it
is
to
be
Caesar
.
It
is
a
witchery
of
social
czarship
which
there
is
no
withstanding
.
Now
,
if
to
this
consideration
you
super-add
the
official
supremacy
of
a
ship-master
,
then
,
by
inference
,
you
will
derive
the
cause
of
that
peculiarity
of
sea-life
just
mentioned
.
Over
his
ivory-inlaid
table
,
Ahab
presided
like
a
mute
,
maned
sea-lion
on
the
white
coral
beach
,
surrounded
by
his
war-like
but
still
deferential
cubs
.
In
his
own
proper
turn
,
each
officer
waited
to
be
served
.
They
were
as
little
children
before
Ahab
;
and
yet
,
in
Ahab
,
there
seemed
not
to
lurk
the
smallest
social
arrogance
.
With
one
mind
,
their
intent
eyes
all
fastened
upon
the
old
man
's
knife
,
as
he
carved
the
chief
dish
before
him
.
I
do
not
suppose
that
for
the
world
they
would
have
profaned
that
moment
with
the
slightest
observation
,
even
upon
so
neutral
a
topic
as
the
weather
.
No
!
And
when
reaching
out
his
knife
and
fork
,
between
which
the
slice
of
beef
was
locked
,
Ahab
thereby
motioned
Starbuck
's
plate
towards
him
,
the
mate
received
his
meat
as
though
receiving
alms
;
and
cut
it
tenderly
;
and
a
little
started
if
,
perchance
,
the
knife
grazed
against
the
plate
;
and
chewed
it
noiselessly
;
and
swallowed
it
,
not
without
circumspection
.
For
,
like
the
Coronation
banquet
at
Frankfort
,
where
the
German
Emperor
profoundly
dines
with
the
seven
imperial
electors
,
so
these
cabin
meals
were
somehow
solemn
meals
,
eaten
in
awful
silence
;
and
yet
at
table
old
Ahab
forbade
not
conversation
;
only
he
himself
was
dumb
.
What
a
relief
it
was
to
choking
Stubb
,
when
a
rat
made
a
sudden
racket
in
the
hold
below
.
And
poor
little
Flask
,
he
was
the
youngest
son
,
and
little
boy
of
this
weary
family
party
.
His
were
the
shin-bones
of
the
saline
beef
;
his
would
have
been
the
drumsticks
.
For
Flask
to
have
presumed
to
help
himself
,
this
must
have
seemed
to
him
tantamount
to
larceny
in
the
first
degree
.
Had
he
helped
himself
at
the
table
,
doubtless
,
never
more
would
he
have
been
able
to
hold
his
head
up
in
this
honest
world
;
nevertheless
,
strange
to
say
,
Ahab
never
forbade
him
.
And
had
Flask
helped
himself
,
the
chances
were
Ahab
had
never
so
much
as
noticed
it
.
Least
of
all
,
did
Flask
presume
to
help
himself
to
butter
.
Whether
he
thought
the
owners
of
the
ship
denied
it
to
him
,
on
account
of
its
clotting
his
clear
,
sunny
complexion
;
or
whether
he
deemed
that
,
on
so
long
a
voyage
in
such
marketless
waters
,
butter
was
at
a
premium
,
and
therefore
was
not
for
him
,
a
subaltern
;
however
it
was
,
Flask
,
alas
!
was
a
butterless
man
!
Another
thing
.
Flask
was
the
last
person
down
at
the
dinner
,
and
Flask
is
the
first
man
up
.
Consider
!
For
hereby
Flask
's
dinner
was
badly
jammed
in
point
of
time
.
Starbuck
and
Stubb
both
had
the
start
of
him
;
and
yet
they
also
have
the
privilege
of
lounging
in
the
rear
.
If
Stubb
even
,
who
is
but
a
peg
higher
than
Flask
,
happens
to
have
but
a
small
appetite
,
and
soon
shows
symptoms
of
concluding
his
repast
,
then
Flask
must
bestir
himself
,
he
will
not
get
more
than
three
mouthfuls
that
day
;
for
it
is
against
holy
usage
for
Stubb
to
precede
Flask
to
the
deck
.
Therefore
it
was
that
Flask
once
admitted
in
private
,
that
ever
since
he
had
arisen
to
the
dignity
of
an
officer
,
from
that
moment
he
had
never
known
what
it
was
to
be
otherwise
than
hungry
,
more
or
less
.
For
what
he
ate
did
not
so
much
relieve
his
hunger
,
as
keep
it
immortal
in
him
.
Peace
and
satisfaction
,
thought
Flask
,
have
for
ever
departed
from
my
stomach
.
I
am
an
officer
;
but
,
how
I
wish
I
could
fish
a
bit
of
old-fashioned
beef
in
the
fore-castle
,
as
I
used
to
when
I
was
before
the
mast
.
There
's
the
fruit
of
promotion
now
;
there
's
the
vanity
of
glory
:
there
's
the
insanity
of
life
!
Besides
,
if
it
were
so
that
any
mere
sailor
of
the
Pequod
had
a
grudge
against
Flask
in
Flask
's
official
capacity
,
all
that
sailor
had
to
do
,
in
order
to
obtain
ample
vengeance
,
was
to
go
aft
at
dinnertime
,
and
get
a
peep
at
Flask
through
the
cabin
sky-light
,
sitting
silly
and
dumfoundered
before
awful
Ahab
.
Now
,
Ahab
and
his
three
mates
formed
what
may
be
called
the
first
table
in
the
Pequod
's
cabin
.
After
their
departure
,
taking
place
in
inverted
order
to
their
arrival
,
the
canvas
cloth
was
cleared
,
or
rather
was
restored
to
some
hurried
order
by
the
pallid
steward
.
And
then
the
three
harpooneers
were
bidden
to
the
feast
,
they
being
its
residuary
legatees
.
