Moby Dick

[Old Thunder]

"For heaven's sake, Queequeg, get up and shake yourself; get up and have some supper. You'll starve; you'll kill yourself, Queequeg."

 

[Old Thunder]

But not a word did he reply.

 

[Old Thunder]

Despairing of him, therefore, I determined to go to bed and to sleep; and no doubt, before a great while, he would follow me.

 

[Old Thunder]

But previous to turning in, I took my heavy bearskin jacket, and threw it over him, as it promised to be a very cold night; and he had nothing but his ordinary round jacket on.

 

[Old Thunder]

For some time, do all I would, I could not get into the faintest doze.

 

[Old Thunder]

I had blown out the candle; and the mere thought of Queequeg -- not four feet off -- sitting there in that uneasy position, stark alone in the cold and dark; this made me feel really wretched.

 

[Old Thunder]

Think of it; sleeping all night in the same room with a wide-awake pagan on his hams in this dreary, unaccountable Ramadan!

 

[Old Thunder]

But somehow I dropped off at last, and knew nothing more till break of day; when, looking over the bedside, there squatted Queequeg, as if he had been screwed down to the floor.

 

[Old Thunder]

But as soon as the first glimpse of sun entered the window, up he got, with stiff and grating joints, but with a cheerful look; limped towards me where I lay; pressed his forehead again against mine; and said his Ramadan was over.

 

[Old Thunder]

Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also.