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Quotation from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

“It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.”

Herman Melville (spoken by Ishmael)

Moby-Dick, Epilogue (Project Gutenberg #2701)

Portrait of Herman Melville

The final sentence of the Epilogue.

Citation: "It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan." — Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Epilogue (Project Gutenberg #2701). (id moby-dick-q14)

Portrait: Moby-Dick FE title page, The original uploader was Chick Bowen at English Wikipedia., Public domain.

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