nevertheless, ere long, the warm, warbling persuasiveness of the pleasant, holiday weather we came to, seemed gradually to charm him from his mood. for, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, april and may, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air. more than once did he put forth the faint blossom of a look, which, in any other man, would have soon flowered out in a smile.