Moby Dick

[Old Thunder]

"Another runs to read the bill that's stuck against the spile upon the wharf to which the ship is moored, offering five hundred gold coins for the apprehension of a parricide, and containing a description of his person.

 

[Old Thunder]

"He reads, and looks from Jonah to the bill; while all his sympathetic shipmates now crowd round Jonah, prepared to lay their hands upon him.

 

[Old Thunder]

"Frighted Jonah trembles, and summoning all his boldness to his face, only looks so much the more a coward.

 

[Old Thunder]

"He will not confess himself suspected; but that itself is strong suspicion.

 

[Old Thunder]

"So he makes the best of it; and when the sailors find him not to be the man that is advertised, they let him pass, and he descends into the cabin.

 

[Old Thunder]

"'Who's there?' cries the Captain at his busy desk, hurriedly making out his papers for the Customs -- 'Who's there?'

 

[Old Thunder]

"Oh! how that harmless question mangles Jonah!

 

[Old Thunder]

"For the instant he almost turns to flee again.

 

[Old Thunder]

"But he rallies.

 

[Old Thunder]

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