16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
side the palace could do so. May I look
through them for some particular point?'
'I should be interested in any recent mention
of Father O'Higgins the Vicar-General, of Father
Gómez and of Father Panda.'
'Now that the Archbishop is failing, the Vicar-
General is the most important man in the diocese.
He is an abolitionist and he would be
entirely on our side but for the fact that he deplores
violence and that the English are for the
most part heretics. Father Panda, a tall African,
is his confidential assistant; he does not
seem to mind violence nearly so much. Although
he is so young they say he is very well
seen in Rome, and is likely to be a prelate
soon: the Vicar-General thinks the world of
him. He too is an abolitionist of course. Of
Father Gómez I only know that he is descended
from Pachacutic Inca, that he is much
reverenced by the Indians, and that he is very