id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt melville-moby-743 Herman Melville Moby Dick; Or The Whale .epub application/epub+zip 217186 10971 79 For loath to depart, yet; very loath to leave, for good, a ship bound on so long and perilous a voyagebeyond both stormy Capes; a ship in which some thousands of his hardearned dollars were invested; a ship, in which an old shipmate sailed as captain; a man almost as old as he, once more starting to encounter all the terrors of the pitiless jaw; loath to say good-bye to a thing so every way brimful of every interest to him,poor old Bildad lingered long; paced the deck with anxious strides; ran down into the cabin to speak another farewell word there; again came on deck, and looked to windward; looked towards the wide and endless waters, only bound by the far-off unseen Eastern Continents; looked towards the land; looked aloft; looked right and left; looked everywhere and nowhere; and at last, mechanically coiling a rope upon its pin, convulsively grasped stout Peleg by the hand, and holding up a lantern, for a moment stood gazing heroically in his face, as much as to say, "Nevertheless, friend Peleg, I can stand it; yes, I can." ./cache/melville-moby-743.epub ./txt/melville-moby-743.txt