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Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
and your hair will go white for an inch or two
on either side; but I do not think you need fear
any complications.'
'It still makes me stupid and fretful at times,'
said Jack, and then with the slightly false air of
one who is deliberately changing the subject,
'Stephen, should Sam come aboard – of
course it is very unlikely – why should he indeed,
or even still be in Peru? But should he
come aboard, pray give him my love, tell him
that I hope to bring the Franklin in, and that
we should be very happy if he would dine with
us. And for the moment, I mean if he should
come, which I doubt, please ask him what we
can do with the blacks we took in Alastor.
They are not seamen in any sense of the term
and they are really no use to us at all. But they
were slaves, and Peru is a slave country; so I
do not like to put them ashore, where they
may be seized and sold. I particularly dislike it