The Wind and Sea Betoken Storms

Ahab, gazing over into the water, said: 'The verest trifles capriciously carry meanings swim away from me' The tone con d more of deep helpless sadness than the insane old man had ever before evinced. But turning to the steersman, who thus far had been holding the ship in the wind, to diminish her headway, he cried out in his old lying voice. Up helm, keep her off. There is much in that sound to inspire proud fee ins; but where, too, does all that circumnavigation conduct only through numberless perils?