Mummy, quoting Melville:
"'It was Moby Dick that dismasted me; Moby Dick that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now. Aye, aye,' he shouted with a terrific, loud, animal sob, like that of a heart-stricken moose; 'Aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!"
To which Jake responds:
"How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosure between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couple often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg--a cosy, loving pair."
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