16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
the most a certain veiled disapproval. Riding
on to join those who remained he saw Eduardo's
face, impassive and firmly in command,
though his eyes sometimes wandered towards
Stephen with some hint of anxious questioning.
Stephen still said nothing, yet he did observe
that now their company was made up of
the abler looking (and indeed more amiable)
men leading the stronger beasts, and they with
larger packs. On, and within half an hour
their quiet rhythm had returned.
At noon they were on a broad stony platform,
bare flat rock at the convergence of three
mountain spurs, hot in the sun; and here their
track could no longer be seen at all. Yet neither
Eduardo nor his men seemed in any way
concerned; they marched steadily across and
turned right-handed where the westernmost
spur ran down to the little plain, travelling
steadily on through a sheltered and relatively