16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
bring – that he pines for the shore –
and its compensation for the disappointments
he has suffered at sea. I
have disappointed him, I am afraid,
and...
Stephen held his pen in the air, reflecting
upon Clarissa Oakes, a young woman to
whom he was much attached, a convict transported
for murder, who, escaping, had sailed
in the frigate from Sydney Cove to Moahu. He
reflected upon her, smiling, and then upon
Martin's ambiguous relations with her, which
might also have had a deep influence on the
people's attitude. If a parson sinned (and
Stephen was by no means convinced of it), his
sin was multiplied by every sermon he
preached.