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Unexpected Events

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

“There she blows!” Had the trump of judgment blown, they could not have quivered more; yet still they felt no terror; rather pleasure. For though it was a most unwonted hour, yet so impressive was the cry, and so deliriously exciting, that almost every soul on board instinctively desired a lowering.

Chapter 51, The Spirit-Spout · verse 5

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