The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics by Gideon Defoe

Author:Gideon Defoe
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2012-07-15T21:00:00+00:00

‘Pretty Romantic stuff, Percy,’ said Byron, downing his coffee and then banging the mug on the table.

‘Thank you, Byron, I like to think so,’ agreed Percy with a theatrical sigh.

Jennifer frowned. ‘Mister Shelley. Am I understanding this right? Did you essentially walk into your old college and give them a cash donation in exchange for an address?’

Shelley snapped a hand away from his brow.

‘Did you not listen, madam? Orpheus! A three-headed dog! Oh, but you’ve proven my point – one can reduce the most incredible tale to rational facts and make it sound dull and workaday.’

‘What’s a “rubicund”?’ asked the albino pirate.

‘Do “visage”, “countenance” and “face” all mean the same thing? Why not just say “face”?’ said the pirate with gout.

‘How can a mote hold dust? I thought they were full of water,’ said the pirate in green.

‘Lads! Lads!’ said the Pirate Captain, holding up an admonishing hand. ‘Leave the man be! You’re forgetting that not everyone can be a dashing swashbuckler who eats danger for breakfast. It’s tremendously brave for a lubber to go and ask a man for an address.’

‘And what an address!’ said Byron. ‘The sort of address that speaks of dark legends! Moonlit passes! Unnatural goings-on! We haven’t a moment to lose!’

Everybody cheered and, for the last time in this adventure, they were all smiling, even the pirate with a prosthetic wooden bottom-half-of-his-head.

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