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Updated: May 10, 2025
So there was nothing for them to do but to wait with what patience they could for the dawn. The dawn did come at last, and I never watched its coming with more anxiety. Often and often in those days when I believed myself to be fathom-deep in love I used to lie awake on my bed and watch the dawn filling the sky, and find in its sadness a kind of solace for mine own.
"Were you out that terrible night?" he returned. "The lightning was enough to frighten even an older horse than the gypsy's. I wonder how my friend is getting on! He must think me very ungrateful! But I daresay he imagines me lying fathom-deep in the bog. You will do something for him, won't you, Ed?"
Altogether, by projecting our minds outward, we had imparted a show of novelty to existence, and contemplated it as hopefully as if the soil beneath our feet had not been fathom-deep with the dust of deluded generations, on every one of which, as on ourselves, the world had imposed itself as a hitherto unwedded bride. Hollingsworth and myself had often discussed these prospects.
Suddenly the earth opened under my feet, and I fell deep, fathom-deep; deep, as if to that central pit, which our heathen sires called Niffelheim the Home of Vapour the hell of the dead who die without glory. Stunned by the fall, I lay long, locked as in a dream in the midst of a dream.
The start of such an actor makes Dorothea jump. "Perdition!" he shouts, "ye have reminded me of what were well buried fathom-deep obliterated forgotten. Tr'you, lady, 'tis ee-ven so! I have a compact with my followers the ransom "
The rose of the sky had been caught by the water and interwoven with its own lustrous browns and cool blues; while fathom-deep beneath the shining web of colour gleamed the reflected snows and the forest slopes sliding downwards to infinity.
What knows he of the President's Message? He has just overtaken some remarkable catch of mackerel in the year thirty-eight. His hands lie buried fathom-deep in his pockets, as if part of his brain lay there to be rummaged; and he sucks at his old pipe as if his head, like other venerable hulks, must be smoked out at intervals.
Suddenly the earth opened under my feet, and I fell deep, fathom-deep; deep, as if to that central pit, which our heathen sires called Niffelheim the Home of Vapour the hell of the dead who die without glory. Stunned by the fall, I lay long, locked as in a dream in the midst of a dream.
His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab.
When the vast body had at last been stripped of its fathom-deep enfoldings, and the bones become dust dry in the sun, then the skeleton was carefully transported up the Pupella glen, where a grand temple of lordly palms now sheltered it.
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