your Englishman is rather reserved, and your Yankee, he does not fancy that sort of thing in anybody but himself

May 18, 2014

CHAPTER 53 The Gam

Though, to be sure, from the small number of English whalers, such meetings do not very often occur, and when they do occur there is too apt to be a sort of shyness between them; for your Englishman is rather reserved, and your Yankee, he does not fancy that sort of thing in anybody but himself. Besides, the English whalers sometimes affect a kind of metropolitan superiority over the American whalers; regarding the long, lean Nantucketer, with his nondescript provincialisms, as a sort of sea-peasant.

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Melville, Herman. "Moby-Dick." Harlequin, 2009. iBooks.
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