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Updated: July 20, 2025

If I should not visit you till I come to liberate you on the evening of the second day, or the morning of the third you must not be at all surprised, my good fellow. There is plenty of food-and water to last you. But mind, on no account descend the stone-stairs till I come for you." With that, bidding his guest adieu, he left him. Israel stood glancing pensively around for a time.

Herman Melville - Israel Potter : His Fifty Years of Exile