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Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
my mind this evening. But the point is this:
Dutourd has contrived to get ashore. I am very
much afraid he may do the Doctor harm, and
I mean to do everything I can to get the fellow
back on board. I beg you will help me, Sam.'
'Sir,' said Sam. 'I am yours to command. The
Doctor and I understand one another very well
where his present activities are concerned. He
has consulted me to some extent. I too am
very much opposed to slavery and to French
domination; so are many men I know; and as
you say there are other aspects. As for the
miserable Dutourd, I am afraid he is beyond
our reach, having been taken up by the Holy
Office last Saturday. He is now in the Casa de
la Inquisicion, and I fear things will go very
badly for him, once the questioning has finished;
he was a most publicly violent blasphemous
atheistical wretch. But he has already
done all the harm he could do. The