16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
the same time Killick, whose never very amiable
character had been soured still further by
having to look after both Captain and Doctor
for years and years, burst in at the forward
door with Stephen's good coat over his arm. In
a shrill, complaining voice he cried, 'What,
ain't you even shaved yet? God love us, what
a disgrace it will bring to the ship.'
'Now Tom,' said Jack Aubrey, 'I will tell you
very briefly how things are in the Franklin.
Grainger and Bulkeley and the others have
done most uncommonly well and we can send
up topmasts tomorrow. I have been considering
the prize-crew, and although we cannot
spare many, I think we shall manage. She has
twenty-one hands left fit to serve, and together
with what the Doctor can patch up and three
of the English ransomers and a carpenter they
took out of a Hull whaler to replace their own
she should be adequately manned without