16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
down to Callao, ascertained that she was
what she purports to be, a privateer, and had
her officially inspected and passed the next
day. Before he left Peru he destroyed a great
many files. If any of the more bulky routine
commonplace innocuous registers were kept
you would appear only under your name of
Domanova: but I very much doubt it. And I do
not believe the privateer's captain was ever
named at all.'
'That is comforting, to be sure,' said Stephen,
cocking his ear to the window. All over Lima
church and chapel bells began ringing the
Angelus with no more than a few seconds between
them, a remarkable medley of tones:
both men crossed themselves and remained
silent for a while. Looking up again Stephen
said 'Except in certain forms the Church is not
a well-organized body – scarcely an organized
body at all – yet sometimes flashes of sharp,