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Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
abuse your friends' confidence, far less your
own. You must know that I am not only bitterly
opposed to slavery but also to the dependence
of one country upon another – you may
smile, Sam, brought up as you were by Irish
missionaries, God be with them – yet I mean
the dependence of any country at all upon
another; therefore I may be suspected of political,
even subversive motives by those in authority.
Do not run yourself or your friends into
danger; for where those who are called intelligence-agents
or their allies are concerned the
Inquisition is mildness itself in comparison with
those who maintain the established order.' He
saw the half-suppressed, not wholly unexpected
smile on Sam's face, heard him say,
'Doctor dear, you are beyond measure more
candid than the Frenchmen here, the serpents,'
and went on, 'But tell me now, Sam,
where is the calle de los Mercaderes? If it