16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
damage to the brain that an even earlier,
more skilful intervention would have made no
difference.'
'I am certain of it,' said Martin.
'I wish I were,' thought Stephen. 'Yet then
again, what is gratifying to self-love is not
necessarily untrue.'
The arduous fitting of the double cap went
on and on: they watched in stupid, heavyheaded
incomprehension.
'Such news, sir,'cried Reade, flitting by. 'The
Captain is going to send up a lateen on her
mizen. What a sight that will be! It will not be
long now.'
The sun was nearly touching the horizon, and
both over the water and in the Surprise the
people could be seen coiling down and clearing
away; the carpenters were collecting their
tools; Stephen, sunk in melancholy thought,