16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
and in spite of some tolerably emphatic
checks he will drift towards philosophic
considerations bordering upon politics
and religion, the politics being of the
Utopian pantisocratic kind and the religion
a sort of misty Deism, both of which
distress Martin. The poor fellow regrets
Dutourd's absence and dreads his presence.
I hope that our meals (and it is
wonderful how long one spends at table,
cooped up with the other members
of the mess: it seems longer when some
members belch, fart and scratch themselves)
will become more tolerable
when Tom returns, for I imagine the
prize will be sold on the coast, and
when Jack regularly dines with us.
Yet even in that case I do not think
Martin's is likely to be an enviable lot. In
this ship there was always a prejudice