16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
...so have other people, including no
doubt himself. Yet like so many poor
men he almost certainly mistakes the effect
of wealth upon happiness in anything
but the first fine flush of possession:
he speaks of money very much
more often than he did, more often than
is quite agreeable; and the other day,
referring to his marriage, which is as
nearly ideal as can be, he was so
thoughtless as to say that it would be
even happier with his share of our current
prize.
Stephen paused again, and in the silence of
the ship he heard Martin playing his viola in
his cabin opening off the gunroom: an ascending
scale, true enough, then coming
down, slower, more hesitant and ending in a
prolonged, slightly false, B flat, infinitely sad.