16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
I propose therefore to do myself the
honour of waiting on you at noon tomorrow,
to assure you that I remain,
dear Sir, your most humble, obliged,
and obedient servant,
Sam Panda
Neither Jack nor Sam acknowledged the relationship
in so many words but it was clearly
understood by both, as it was by all those
members of the crew who had first seen the
younger man come aboard the Surprise in the
West Indies: it was indeed obvious to anyone
who saw them together, for Sam, borne by a
Bantu girl after Jack had left the Cape station,
was an ebony-black version of his father:
somewhat larger, if anything. Yet there were
differences. Jack Aubrey neither looked nor
sounded sharply intelligent unless he were
handling a ship, fighting a battle, or speaking