The Passionate Brood
“The ships which had looked so fine off Dover and Messina were tossed about like cockleshells on an angry Mediterranean for weeks. Only the riding light of Richard’s red-sailed flagship by night and the coercion of his cheerful voice by day kept them together in any semblance of a fleet. Battered by the storm and beaten out of their course, some of them finally found shelter under the lee of Cyprus.
If Richard had profited by what his elder brother had said about bringing women, his great ga...lley Trenchemer and several of his troopships could probably have made Beirut. But news came that Isaac Comnenos, the thick-lipped, plausible little emperor of the island, was plundering the Bishop’s ship as she lay helpless off Limassol and trying to persuade him to bring the European women ashore. Berengaria and Yvette were by that time far too sea-sick to care what happened to them; but Richard could remember laughing over Picot’s bawdy stories about Isaac’s overcrowded harem, and his voice became full of profanity instead of cheer.MoreLess
If Richard had profited by what his elder brother had said about bringing women, his great ga...lley Trenchemer and several of his troopships could probably have made Beirut. But news came that Isaac Comnenos, the thick-lipped, plausible little emperor of the island, was plundering the Bishop’s ship as she lay helpless off Limassol and trying to persuade him to bring the European women ashore. Berengaria and Yvette were by that time far too sea-sick to care what happened to them; but Richard could remember laughing over Picot’s bawdy stories about Isaac’s overcrowded harem, and his voice became full of profanity instead of cheer.MoreLess
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