"like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; as one who in that miserable plight still turns and turns in giddy anguish, praying god for annihilation until the fit be passed; and at last amid the whirl of woe he feels, a deep stupor steals over him, as over the man who bleeds to death, for conscience is the wound, and there’s naught to staunch it; so, after sore wrestlings in his berth, jonah’s prodigy of ponderous misery drags him drowning down to sleep.