16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
farther – 'You will not repeat it, but there appears
to be some question of a high-placed
very furious husband – legal proceedings –
every kind of unpleasantness, you understand
me.'
The quietness lasted throughout the scientific
observations and during the time the hands
ate their dinner and drank their grog, a time
during which Reade laid out the coils of deepsea
line at given intervals from the forecastle
to the mizen chains so that the men could let
them go in succession. He had not retired to
the midshipmen's berth, because he had been
invited to dine in the cabin – invited to eat a
much better dinner than he could hope to find
in the berth, but to eat it more than two hours
later than his usual time; and now, by way of
distracting his ravenous, ever-increasing hunger,
he indulged in capers unworthy of his
rank or age, such as thumping the deep-sea