16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
do you think? Have you considered it?'
'I considered it most of the time your Nebuchadnezzar's
feast was going on, and I cannot
remember ever having seen or read of anything
like it; nor can I tell what it means. When
you have glanced over my draft, perhaps we
might go on deck again and see whether we
can make it out.'
Jack always sat uneasy while his official letters
were read: he always broke the current of
the reader's thoughts by saying 'The piece
about the carronade-slides ain't very elegantly
put, I am afraid... this is just a draft, you understand,
not polished at all... Anything that
ain't grammar or that you don't quite like, pray
dash it out... I never was much of a hand with
a pen,' but after all these years Stephen took
no more notice of it than the thin drifting Irish
rain.