Any Approaching Enemy: a Novel of the Napoleonic Wars
“CHARLES SAID as he climbed through the entryway onto Pylades’s deck. “Anything interesting while I was away?”
“Ah, the esteemed Captain Edgemont,” Daniel Bevan answered. A large smile showed on his face as he extended his hand. “We worried about you in the blow. Didn’t think you were used to seas much rougher than what you generally get in a bathtub. Not that you’ve ever found much use for a bathtub.”
“Nonsense,” Charles said as he shook the offered hand. “It was like a walk in the garden.”
“Co...me below, Charlie, and we’ll discuss it,” Bevan said with a gesture toward the hatchway that led below to his cabin. “Mind, we’re not as well supplied as the palatial Louisa.” He made a pointed show of studying the relation of the sun to the nearest yardarm and added, “Would you prefer port or sherry?”
Charles took a moment to look around him. From his gig, he’d noted a freshly replaced foretopmast section and a hastily jury-rigged fore-bowsprit. From his vantage on deck, he saw that Pylades’s longboat was missing from its normal stowage place between the masts and that there was a splint scabbed onto the spanker’s sprung lower yard.MoreLess
“Ah, the esteemed Captain Edgemont,” Daniel Bevan answered. A large smile showed on his face as he extended his hand. “We worried about you in the blow. Didn’t think you were used to seas much rougher than what you generally get in a bathtub. Not that you’ve ever found much use for a bathtub.”
“Nonsense,” Charles said as he shook the offered hand. “It was like a walk in the garden.”
“Co...me below, Charlie, and we’ll discuss it,” Bevan said with a gesture toward the hatchway that led below to his cabin. “Mind, we’re not as well supplied as the palatial Louisa.” He made a pointed show of studying the relation of the sun to the nearest yardarm and added, “Would you prefer port or sherry?”
Charles took a moment to look around him. From his gig, he’d noted a freshly replaced foretopmast section and a hastily jury-rigged fore-bowsprit. From his vantage on deck, he saw that Pylades’s longboat was missing from its normal stowage place between the masts and that there was a splint scabbed onto the spanker’s sprung lower yard.MoreLess
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