16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
ing with its old predatory gleam.
'As I was leaving Peru because of the unjustified
suspicions of a military man who misunderstood
my examination of his wife – a
deeply stupid but very powerful and bloodyminded
military man–' This was an explanation
for some of Stephen's more bizarre movements
that both of them understood perfectly:
it was calculated, and very well calculated, to
satisfy the minds of the seamen, who for a
great while had looked upon the Doctor's licentious
capers ashore with an indulgent
comprehension. '–a confidential friend came
to see me by night, and knowing that I belonged
to a British privateer he gave me an
account of three American China ships sailing
in company from Boston. This document he
gave me as a parting present, together with
details of their insurance, their ports of call
and their estimated progress, in the hope that