16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
'So I gather from Martin,' said Jack, 'and I
thought it a most uncommon stroke of effrontery.
A fellow with wild, bloody, regicide revolutionary
ideas, like Tom Paine and Charles
Fox and all those wicked fellows at Brooks's
and that adulterous cove – I forget his name,
but you know who I mean – '
'I do not believe I am acquainted with any
adulterers, Jack.'
'Well, never mind. A fellow who roams about
the sea attacking our merchantmen with no
commission or letter of marque from anyone,
next door to a pirate if not actually bound for
Execution Dock – be damned if I should invite
him if he were a second Tartini, which he ain't
– and in any case I disliked him from the start
– disliked everything I heard of him. Enthusiasm,
democracy, universal benevolence – a
pretty state of affairs.'