16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
ion leads to downright hatred.'
'That may be because they tend to leave their
particular observances on shore,' said Martin.
'The Thraskites are a Judaizing body and they
would recoil from a ham at Shelmerston, but
here they eat up their salt pork, aye, and fresh
too when they can get it. And then when we
rig church on Sundays they and all the others
sing the Anglican psalms and hymns with
great good will.'
'For my own part,' said Captain Aubrey, 'I
have no notion of disliking a man for his beliefs,
above all if he was born with them. I find
I can get along very well with Jews or even...'
The P of Papists was already formed, and the
word was obliged to come out as Pindoos.
Yet it had hardly fallen upon Stephen's ear
before a shriek and the crash of glass expelled
embarrassment: young Arthur Wedell, a ran-