16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
doing so he thought of the little girls, their
apology the next day (Sarah: 'Sir, we are come
to ask pardon for our wicked drunken folly.'
Emily: 'For our wanton drunken folly.') and
their words to Mr Wilkins, their voices piping
alternately, clearly audible from below when
Stephen had been chivvied right forward by
Pullings and Mr Adams, who were bargaining
with some merchants who wished to buy the
Alastor: 'Yes, sir, and after Mass' – 'There was
an organ: do you know what an organ is, sir?'
– 'We went aboard a grand carriage drawn by
mules with purple harness together with the
Doctor and Father Panda'. 'There was a
square with a lady on a column in the middle'
– 'The column was forty foot high' – 'And the
lady was made of bronze' – 'She had a trumpet
and water came out of it' – 'And it came
out of eight lions' heads too' – 'Out of twelve
lions' heads, booby' – 'It was surrounded by six