16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
and feeling deep within his bosom he pressed
the repeating knob. Five said the watch again,
and then the shriller half: at the same moment
he realized that the wind had stopped; that the
llama's head and neck were cold, the creature
already stiff; that Eduardo was breathing
deep; that his own leg, no longer covered by
the poncho these many hours, had no sensibility
whatsoever; and that the mouth of the
cleft, now almost entirely closed by a great
deal of fresh snow, had a line of light at the
top.
'Eduardo,' he called, when he had digested
all these things and arranged them in order,
'Eduardo, God and Mary be with you: it is
dawn, and the cold is less.'
Eduardo woke at once and with a clearer
mind by far. He blessed God, gathered himself,
writhed round the dead llama, pushed the
loose-packed snow away and called back,