It merely immediately ceased its gambols and for a while lay quivering on the surface of the ocean.

The mother was beside it the moment after it was struck, and to those on board, looking almost directly down upon her, her dismay and alarm were very patent.

She would nudge the calf with her huge shoulder, circle around and around it, then range up alongside and repeat her nudgings and shoulderings.
All on the _Mary Turner_, fore and aft, lined the rail and stared down apprehensively at the leviathan that was as long as the schooner.
"If she should do to us, sir, what that other one did to the _Essex_," Dag Daughtry observed to the Ancient Mariner.
"It would be no more than we deserve," was the response.

"It was uncalled-for--a wanton, cruel act." Michael, aware of the excitement overside but unable to see because of the rail, leaped on top of the cabin and at sight of the monster barked defiantly.

Every eye turned on him in startlement and fear, and Steward hushed him with a whispered command.
"This is the last time," Grimshaw muttered in a low voice, tense with anger, to Nishikanta.