16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
Captain Pullings has done – to avoid any
vexatious measures, such as detention for
some alleged debt or the like. For example a
woman is prepared to swear that Joseph
Plaice, a member of your crew, has got her
with child. Then again our confidential friends,
men of business, all assert that you should sell
your prizes directly, or if the offer do not suit,
send them down to Arica or even Coquimbo.
Or even Coquimbo,' repeated Sam in the allpervading
silence. 'But I will tell it you all
again, so I will, at half eight tomorrow,' he
whispered. 'God bless, now.'
Sam was an even larger man than his father,
but he could move even more quietly. Rising
now he moved back towards the door,
opened it without a sound, stood there for a
moment listening to Jack's long, even breathing,
and vanished into the shadowy half-deck.
After a week or ten days of steady up and