16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
versation. Reflect upon it, my dear: me
perched up on this high horse, and he is seventeen
hands if he is an inch, calling down to
you, and yourself looking up all the while like
Toby listening to the Archangel Raphael – edifying,
sure, but it would never do.'
Sam left not only his horse but his black clerical
hat, disagreeably hot through the beaver
with the sun reaching its height, and they
walked along with an agreeable ease. 'There
is another thing that the Captain wished to
speak to you about,' said Stephen. 'Among
other prizes we took a pirate, the Alastor: she
is in the port at this moment. Most of her crew
were killed in the desperate fighting – it was in
this battle that the Captain was hurt – and
Captain Pullings has delivered up those who
were not to the authorities here; but she also
had a few seamen prisoners whom we have
set free to go ashore or stay, as they please,