16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
steep or far, that the llama-farm was only just
over the top – really a little low for llamas –
and this path would get them there much
quicker.
So it did, but only, as far as Stephen was
concerned, at the cost of much gasping and
great concentration as he led his horse up the
cruel shaley track, keeping up with Eduardo's
elastic step as well as he could but necessarily
losing his explanation of several small birds
and plants and a lizard. Beetles crossed the
path unexamined, uncollected. As they
climbed they were under the lee of the eastern
wall: they could hear the wind high overhead
but they felt no more than the occasional
eddy; and in the still thin clear air the sun beat
down. Whenever Eduardo found that he had
drawn more than a few yards ahead he
paused to cough or blow his nose; and this
was the first time Stephen had ever known