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Moby Dick or The Whale
‘This is the priest, he brings you the Evangelists,’ said Don Sebastian, gravely, returning
with a tall and solemn figure.
“‘Let me remove my hat. Now, venerable priest, further into the light, and hold the
Holy Book before me that I may touch it.
“‘So help me Heaven, and on my honour the story I have told ye, gentlemen, is in substance
and its great items, true. I know it to be true; it happened on this ball; I trod the
ship; I knew the crew; I have seen and talked with Steelkilt since the death of Radney.’“
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