16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
fore destruction?' he asked. 'Pride goeth before
destruction, that is what. I was so proud
of knowing those spars in English, let alone in
French, that I could not contain, but must be
blabbing like a fool. Hair-shirt, indeed: the
Dear knows I deserve one.'
In time Jack put down his pen and said, 'As
for rain, there is no hope of it, according to
the glass. But I have been casting the prize
accounts, as far as I can without figures for
the Franklin's specie: a roundish figure, which
is some sort of consolation.'
'Very good. To predatory creatures like myself
there is something wonderfully fetching about
a prize. The very word evokes a smile of concupiscent
greed. Speaking of the Franklin reminds
me that Dutourd wishes you to know
that he would be glad of an invitation to play
music with us.'