[(Post Captain)] [ by (Author) Patrick O'Brian ] [October, 1996] by O'Brian Patrick

Author:O'Brian, Patrick [O'Brian, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical, Adventure, War, Classics
Amazon: B00QAR6L1O
Goodreads: 123746348
Publisher: Harper
Published: 1972-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

‘What news from Mapes, shipmate?’ asked Jack.

‘What? I cannot hear a word with all this screeching and bawling overhead.’

‘You are as bad as Parker,’ said Jack, and poking his head out of the cabin he called, “Vast heaving the after carronades. Mr Pullings, let these hands reef tops’ls. I said “What news from Mapes?”’

‘A miscellaneous bag. I saw Sophie alone: she and Diana have parted brass-rags. Diana is looking after her cousin in Dover. I called on her. She asked us both to dinner on Friday, to eat a dish of Dover soles. I accepted for myself, but said I could not answer for you: you might not find it possible to go ashore.’

‘She asked me?’ cried Jack. ‘Are you sure? What is it, Babbington?’

‘I beg your pardon, sir, but the flagship is signalling all captains.’

‘Very well. Let me know the moment Melpomčne’s barge touches the water. Stephen, chuck me my breeches, will you?’ He was in working clothes - canvas trousers, a guernsey frock and a frieze jacket - and as he stripped the criss-cross of wounds showed plain: bullets, splinters, cutlasses, a boarding-axe; and the last, a raking thrust from a pike, still showed red about the edges. ‘Half an inch to the left - if that pike had gone in half an inch to the left, you would have been a dead man,’ observed Stephen.

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