ace-of-hearts

Updated: June 1, 2025

But, my lad with the yellow mane, you very strangely draw out my secrets. And yet you don't talk. Your honesty is a magnet which attracts my sincerity. But I rely on your fidelity." "I shall be a vice to your plans, Captain Paul. I will receive, but I won't let go, unless you alone loose the screw." "Well said. To bed now; you ought to. I go on deck. Good night, ace-of-hearts."

Herman Melville - Israel Potter : His Fifty Years of Exile