"but i don’t think thou wilt be able to at present. i don’t know exactly what’s the matter with him; but he keeps close inside the house; a sort of sick, and yet he don’t look so. in fact, he ain’t sick; but no, he isn’t well either. any how, young man, he won’t always see me, so i don’t suppose he will thee. he’s a queer man, captain ahab—so some think—but a good one. oh, thou’lt like him well enough; no fear, no fear. he’s a grand, ungodly, god-like man, captain ahab; doesn’t speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen.