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CHAPTER VIII Treachery and its Consequences
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There are few pleasures in life comparable with the contemplation of the successful results of a tremendous struggle with overwhelming odds1 in company with your fellows, whether you be leader or follower2. And I know of no circumstance where this is more fully3 exemplified than in the precious rest-time enjoyed by a boat’s crew immediately after the death of a whale. No matter how bad the treatment of the men on board the ship may have been, how utterly4 weary of the life everybody may feel, or how brutal6 officer and harponeer, the sense of having successfully finished the combat draws them all together for a time, and the smoke which is then permitted is essentially7 in the nature of a pipe of peace.
In the present case everybody was full of satisfaction. For in the first place the new harponeer had acquitted8 himself in the best and most approved fashion, the highest expectations of him had been fully justified9. Next, the whole operation had proceeded on the most orthodox lines, both on the part of the whale and his destroyers. And lastly, the weather had been fine, the time not too long, and crowning joy of all, the prize was of the largest and therefore the most payable10 size. Even Mr. Merritt’s curious yellow face wore a less ghastly[Pg 106] expression than usual, which in his case meant immense satisfaction.
Their rest was of very brief duration, for when the whale died the ship was barely three miles away to windward, and she had immediately filled away for them. When she reached within a quarter of a mile she was brought smartly up into the wind with her mainyard aback and laid still. Immediately Mr. Merritt gave the order to slack away the line and pull for the ship, which they reached in five minutes, noting as they did so that all the other boats were in their place, at the davits, and that the faces of the crew wore a preternatural air of gloom. The bight of the line was passed on board and all hands tailed on to it, walking the whale up to the ship in rapid fashion. And as the great mass came alongside the skipper’s face lightened, for he mentally assessed its stupendous proportions as able to yield about fourteen tons, or a hundred and forty barrels of oil. In splendid
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odds
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discordant
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bounty
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岛( isle的名词复数 ) | |
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toiling
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长时间或辛苦地工作( toil的现在分词 ); 艰难缓慢地移动,跋涉 | |
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contentedly
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可耻地; 丢脸地; 不体面地; 羞耻地 | |
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