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  1. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "Not a forger, any way, he mutters; and Jonah is put down for his passage.
  2. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "He rings every coin to find a counterfeit.
  3. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "Yet when Jonah fairly takes out his purse, prudent suspicions still molest the Captain.
  4. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "Then the Captain knows that Jonah is a fugitive; but at the same time resolves to help a flight that paves its rear with gold.
  5. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "He charges him thrice the usual sum; and it's assented to.
  6. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "So Jonah's Captain prepares to test the length of Jonah's purse, ere he judge him openly.
  7. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
  8. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "Now Jonah's Captain, shipmates, was one whose discriminent detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless.
  9. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "And taken with the context, this is full of meaning.
  10. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "For it is particularly written, shipmates, as if it were a thing not to be overlooked in this history, 'that he paid the fare thereof' ere the craft did sail.
  11. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "'I'll sail with ye,' -- he says, -- 'the passage money, how much is that? -- I'll pay now.'
  12. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "But he swiftly calls away the Captain from that scent.
  13. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "Jonah! that's another stab.
  14. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "Ha!
  15. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "'No sooner, sir?' -- 'Soon enough for any honest man that goes a passenger.'
  16. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "'We sail with the next coming tide,' at last he slowly answered, still intently eyeing him.
  17. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "Thus far the busy Captain had not looked up to Jonah, though the man now stands before him; but no sooner does he hear that hollow voice, than he darts a scrutinising glance.
  18. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "'I seek a passage in the ship to Tarshish; how soon sail ye, sir?'
  19. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "But he rallies.
  20. Old Thunder

    Moby Dick

    "For the instant he almost turns to flee again.
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