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Nighttime Uncertainty

1 passage in the novel carry this mark, in the order they appear.

I began to twitch all over. Besides, it was getting late, and my decent harpooneer ought to be home and going bedwards. Suppose now, he should tumble in upon me at midnight—how could I tell from what vile hole he had been coming?

Chapter 3, The Spouter-Inn · verse 26

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