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Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
be sure that slavery is totally evil. The early
generous revolution in the France of my youth
abolished it: Buonaparte brought it back; and
he is an evil man – his system is an evil system.
Tell me, does the Archbishop feel as you
do?'
'His Grace is a very ancient gentleman. But
the Vicar-General, Father O'Higgins, does.'
'Many of my friends in Ireland and England
are abolitionists,' observed Stephen, deciding
to go no farther at this point. 'I believe I can
make out the Alastor among the shipping to
the left of the Dominican church. She is
painted black, and she has four masts. That is
where we live while the Surprise is being repaired:
her knees cause some anxiety, I understand.
I look forward to presenting my little
girls to you, Sarah and Emily, who are good –
well, fairly good – Catholics, though they have
barely seen the inside of a church, to showing