16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
last element of a problem, code or puzzle
falls into place the solution is sometimes
so obvious that one claps one's
hand to one's forehead crying, 'Fool,
not to have seen that before.' For some
considerable time now, as you would
know very well if we had some power of
instant communication, I have been
concerned about the change in my relations
with Nathaniel Martin, by the
change in him, and by his unhappiness.
Many and sound reasons did I adduce
when last I wrote, naming an undue
concern with money and a conviction
that its possession should in common
justice win him more consideration and
happiness than he possesses, as well as
many other causes such as jealousy, the
boredom of uncongenial companions
from whom there is no escape, a long-