16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
a fine array of yards and canvas, and the kind
of tail that had so often followed the Surprise,
that predatory ship, into various ports.
'I beg pardon, sir,' said Sarah, just behind
him, 'but Padeen says will you be long at all?'
After a moment she tugged his coat and
speaking rather louder said, 'I beg pardon, sir;
Padeen wonders will you ever be a great while
surely not for the love of God.'
'I am with you, child,' said Stephen, gathering
his wits. 'I thought I heard a sea-lion bark.' He
plunged down to the sick-berth, tolerably fetid
still in spite of double windsails, although it
was not so crowded as it had been in the first
few days after the battle, when he could hardly
step between his patients, and they laid here
and there about the orlop. Padeen, his loblolly-boy,
was as kind and gentle a creature as
ever came from Munster, and long use had