16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
dent immediate prettiness, but a slim, agreeable
figure and a very fine carriage. She was
not as beautiful as Diana with her black hair
and blue eyes, but they both had the same
straight back, the same thoroughbred grace of
movement and the same small head held
high; though in Clarissa's case it was fair.
Something of the same kind of courage, too:
he hoped they would be friends. It was true
that Diana's house contained Brigit, the
daughter whom Stephen had not yet seen,
and upon the whole Clarissa disliked children;
yet Clarissa was a well-bred woman, affectionate
in her own way, and unless the baby
or rather little girl by now were quite exceptionally
disagreeable, which he could not believe,
she would probably make an exception.
Bells, bells, bells, and long wandering
thoughts between them: Martin quiescent.
Eight bells, and the starbowlines, after a try-