16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
which I can almost promise you some most
uncommon ducks and geese: gulls too and
rails. Forgive me.' He spurred along the track,
and as Stephen slowly followed he heard him
giving orders that sent three quarters of the
train back along the road, such as it was.
Stephen was intimately convinced that the
quipus had brought news of some hostile
cousins waiting for Eduardo in the context of
that movement for liberation he had touched
upon the day before as well as word of
Gayongos' ship, which might more sensibly
have put in a little farther south, in the realm
of Chile. For Arica, as both he and Eduardo
knew, was still in the government of Peru: yet
pointing out the obvious could only cause distress,
fruitless argument, bad blood.
The greater part of the returning band flowed
round him as he sat there on his mule, passing
silently, with apparent indifference or at