Moby Dick

[Old Thunder]

"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.

 

[Old Thunder]

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

 

[Old Thunder]

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

 

[Old Thunder]

"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.

 

[Old Thunder]

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

 

[Old Thunder]

"He rings every coin to find a counterfeit.

 

[Old Thunder]

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

 

[Old Thunder]

"'Point out my state-room, sir,' says Jonah now, 'I'm travel-weary; I need sleep.'

 

[Old Thunder]

"'Thou look'st like it,' says the Captain, 'there's thy room.'

 

[Old Thunder]

"Jonah enters, and would lock the door, but the lock contains no key.