By Patrick O'Brian
The muse for the main new movie starring Russell Crowe.The warfare of 1812 maintains, and Jack Aubrey units path for Cape Horn on a undertaking after his personal center: intercepting a robust American frigate outward sure to play havoc with the British whaling exchange. Stephen Maturin has fish of his personal to fry on the planet of mystery intelligence. catastrophe in quite a few guises awaits them within the nice South Sea and within the some distance reaches of the Pacific: typhoons, castaways, shipwrecks, homicide, and felony madness.
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Between her husband's arrival yesterday evening and the hour of dinner, Laura Fielding had found means of convincing him of her perfect fidelity and unvarying attachment, and he came forward with an open smiling expression on his face to shake Jack's hand and to thank him again for his kindness to Laura. Yet even so Captain Sutton's presence was by no means unwelcome. Both Jack and Stephen, who were very fond of Mrs Fielding, felt uneasy in her husband's presence; neither could understand what she saw in him - a heavy, dark man with a thick forehead and small deep-set eyes - and they both resented her obvious fondness.
Stephen said, 'You have seen Captain Aubrey's official account of the Zambra affair, of course? ' 'Ah, there I am on much safer ground,' said Pocock. ' 'No doubt parricide is more readily brought about when a man has many wives, many concubines, and a numerous progeny,' observed Stephen. 'Just so. It is a usual factor in Eastern politics. Yet in the West there is still a certain prejudice against its employment, and perhaps you would be so kind as not to mention it specifically when speaking to the Admiral.
Pretty savage,' said Sutton. ' 'Well, some boats from the squadron boarded a Gibraltar privateer, found her papers all in order, and left her in peace. Some time later a midshipman belonging to the Cambridge, a big hairy sixteen-year-old who loved to be popular with the hands, went back and made them give him and his boat's crew porter, and then,having lost his wits entirely I suppose, he put on the master's blue jacket with a silver watch in its pocket and walked off laughing. The master complained and it was found in his hammock.