16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
mourless and stern, changed to a look of simple
pleasure, much of which remained when
he turned to Stephen, now dismounted, and
asked him whether he had had a pleasant
ride, whether it had not seemed too long, with
this untimely wind?
'Not at all, Father,' said Stephen. 'If I had not
been so fresh from the sea, with my legs unused
to the unyielding ground, it would not
have seemed a great way at all, far from it indeed,
particularly with so grand and highstepping
a mule as Joselito, God bless him.'
'God bless him,' said Father O'Higgins, patting
the mule's withers.
'Yet the wind makes me anxious for those at
sea: we can take shelter, where they can not.'
'Very true, very true,' said the priest, and the
wind howled over the convent wall. 'Poor
souls: God be with them.'