16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
'The hospital, with a hundred people at the
least, lying on beds raised a good span from
the ground. And there I see a vile heretic coming
out of it, with his countryman.'
'Which? The little small fat yellow-haired gentleman,
who staggers so?'
'No, no, no. He is an old and mellow Christian
– your honour too is an old and mellow
Christian, no doubt?'
'None older; few more mellow.'
'A Christian though English. He is the great
lawyer come to lecture the university of Lima
on the British constitution. His name is Raleigh,
don Curtius Raleigh: you have heard of
him. He is drunk. I must run and fetch his
coach.'
'He has fallen.'
'Clearly. It is the tall black-haired villain who
is picking him up, the surgeon of the Liverpool