• In as calm, but rapid a manner as possible, I gave her to understand the whole case
  • Unconsciously clapping the vinegar-cruet to one side of her nose, she ruminated for an instant; then exclaimed—"No! I haven't seen it since I put it there
  • " Running to a little closet under the landing of the stairs, she glanced in, and returning, told me that Queequeg's harpoon was missing
  • "He's killed himself," she cried
  • "It's unfort'nate Stiggs done over again there goes another counterpane—God pity his poor mother!—it will be the ruin of my house
  • Has the poor lad a sister? Where's that girl?—there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign, with—"no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;"—might as well kill both birds at once
  • Kill? The Lord be merciful to his ghost! What's that noise there? You, young man, avast there!" And running up after me, she caught me as I was again trying to force open the door
  • "I don't allow it; I won't have my premises spoiled
  • Go for the locksmith, there's one about a mile from here