16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
with powdered snow. Eduardo kicked it into
the mainstream, where it vanished instantly,
thrust Stephen right into the sharp apex, followed
him, dragging the llama into the opening
where it lay on the remaining snow, and
squatted between the two. The llama tried to
heave itself farther in, but this could not be:
after a struggle Eduardo managed to shackle
one bent knee and the poor beast gave up,
lowering its long neck across them, with its
head on Stephen's knee.
Gradually, as they recovered from the immense
exertion of the last hundred yards or
so, and as their ears grew more accustomed
to the wind's countless voices, all different, all
enormously loud and oppressive in this shrieking
pass, they exchanged a few words. Eduardo
begged pardon for leading don Esteban
into this – he should have known – there were
signs – Tepee had told him it was a haunted,