Doctor On Toast (2013)
“‘Yes?’ ‘Er – Dr Grimsdyke, sir. They just sent in a letter about me.’ ‘Sit.’ Captain George Spratt, wearing a plain blue serge suit in an office filled with rather pleasant models of ships, took a silver box from his pocket and whisked a pile of black snuff into each nostril.
‘So you want a voyage, eh?’ ‘That was the general idea, sir.’ He sat glaring at me for half a minute. I’d always felt that Sir Lancelot himself wouldn’t have looked out of place pacing the poop of the Bounty, but his broth...er George resembled Blackbeard the Pirate after a heavy night on the rum trying to decide whether to flay the captives alive or have them boiled slowly in oil.
‘Very convenient for you medical gentlemen, isn’t it?’ he began, as though hailing something through fog. ‘Walking about with a built-in steamship ticket? Eh? Though my brother seems to write very highly of you.’ The Captain paused. ‘I don’t suppose he mentions me much, does he?’ As a matter of fact, Sir Lancelot did keep pretty quiet about his brother George, but I tried to indicate in a few words that he was always being held up as embodying the best nautical qualities of Sir Francis Drake and Grace Darling.MoreLess
‘So you want a voyage, eh?’ ‘That was the general idea, sir.’ He sat glaring at me for half a minute. I’d always felt that Sir Lancelot himself wouldn’t have looked out of place pacing the poop of the Bounty, but his broth...er George resembled Blackbeard the Pirate after a heavy night on the rum trying to decide whether to flay the captives alive or have them boiled slowly in oil.
‘Very convenient for you medical gentlemen, isn’t it?’ he began, as though hailing something through fog. ‘Walking about with a built-in steamship ticket? Eh? Though my brother seems to write very highly of you.’ The Captain paused. ‘I don’t suppose he mentions me much, does he?’ As a matter of fact, Sir Lancelot did keep pretty quiet about his brother George, but I tried to indicate in a few words that he was always being held up as embodying the best nautical qualities of Sir Francis Drake and Grace Darling.MoreLess
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