16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
was much accentuated by the mahogany tan
of his face on the one hand and on the other
by the cold displeasure with which he reflected
upon his assistant, now sitting by him in dogged
silence.
He was gazing straight before him in one of
these reveries when Dutourd, pouring himself
yet another glass of port, caught his eye and
taking the glare as a personal reflexion he
said, 'But I am afraid, Doctor, that you do not
share our opinion of Jean-Jacques?'
'Rousseau?' said Stephen, returning to the
immediate present and composing his features
to a more sociable amenity or at last adopting
a less grim and even sinister expression. 'Rousseau?
faith, little do I know of him, apart from
the Devin du Village, which I enjoyed; but his
theories have been floating about me for ever,
and once an admirer made me swear to read