60/ So saying he procured the plane; and with his old #silk handkerchief first dusting the bench, vigorously set to planing away at my #bed, the while #grinning like an ape. The shavings flew right and left; till at last the plane-iron came bump against an #indestructible knot.
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73/ …to say, landlord, that this harpooneer is actually engaged this
#blessed Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, in peddling his head around this town?” “That’s precisely it,” said the landlord, “and I told him he couldn’t sell it here, the market’s#overstocked.”Prikaži ovu nit -
78/ I come to your house and want a bed; you tell me you can only give me half a one; that the other half belongs to a certain
#harpooneer. And about this harpooneer, whom I have not yet seen, you persist in telling me the most#mystifying and exasperating stories tending to…Prikaži ovu nit -
79/ …beget in me an uncomfortable feeling towards the man whom you design for my bedfellow—a sort of connexion, landlord, which is an
#intimate and#confidential one in the highest degree.Prikaži ovu nit -
81/ …good evidence that this harpooneer is stark
#mad, and I’ve no idea of sleeping with a#madman; and you, sir, you I mean, landlord, you, sir, by trying to induce me to do so knowingly, would thereby render yourself liable to a criminal#prosecution.”Prikaži ovu nit -
82/ “Wall,” said the landlord, fetching a long breath, “that’s a purty long sarmon for a chap that
#rips a little now and then. But be easy, be#easy, this here#harpooneer I have been tellin’ you of has just arrived from the south seas, where he bought up a lot of ’balmed…Prikaži ovu nit -
84/ He wanted to, last Sunday, but I stopped him just as he was goin’ out of the door with four heads strung on a
#string, for all the airth like a string of inions.” This account cleared up the otherwise unaccountable mystery, and showed that the landlord, after all, had…Prikaži ovu nit -
86/ “Depend upon it,
#landlord, that harpooneer is a#dangerous man.”Prikaži ovu nit -
90/ Come along here, I’ll give ye a
#glim in a jiffy;” and so saying he lighted a#candle and held it towards me, offering to lead the way. But I stood#irresolute; when looking at a clock in the corner, he exclaimed “I vum it’s#Sunday—you won’t see that harpooneer to-night;…Prikaži ovu nit -
91/ …he’s come to anchor somewhere—come along then; do come; won’t ye come?” I considered the matter a moment, and then up stairs we went, and I was ushered into a small room, cold as a clam, and furnished, sure enough, with a
#prodigious bed, almost big enough indeed for…Prikaži ovu nit
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