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Placidity

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It is the same he died with, only some of the longer wrinkles in the forehead seem now faded away. I think his broad brow to be full of a prairie-like placidity, born of a speculative indifference as to death. But mark the other head’s expression.

Chapter 75, The Right Whale’s Head—Contrasted View · verse 14

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