“Let us say ten minutes to run from the cove to the tower, and-“
“Allow twenty, if you please,” said Stephen. “You portly men of a sanguine complexion often die suddenly, from unconsidered exertion of the heart. Apoplexy, congestion.”
“I wish, I wish you would not say things like that, Doctor,” said Jack in a low tone: they all looked at Stephen with some reproach and Jack added, “Besides, I am not portly.”
Stephen
Stephen what in god’s name are you wearing
it kind of undermines a lot of the indignant pouting you do at Jack
why can’t you just wear a coat and hat like the many splendid ones that appeared in the film
everyone had a hat but Jack in the beginning and I wondered aloud at Geoff if captain’s privilege was not having to wear a silly hat
and then he pulled out his hat and it was the most magnificent hat of all
and I had respect for it, as anyone must
THERE IS A PART IN THE BOOK
WHERE STEPHEN BRINGS HIS HOMEMADE SWEATER…. CREATION ON BOARD
AND IT IS THE WORST ARTICLE OF CLOTHING ANYONE HAS EVER SEEN
AND IT MAKES JACK INCREDIBLY FROWNY FACE
STEPHEN MATURIN CANNOT DRESS HIMSELF END OF STORY.
“I was sorry to see you help yourself to him a fourth time: duck is a melancholy meat. In any case, the rich sauce in which it bathed was not at all the thing for a subject of your corpulence. Apoplexy lurks in dishes of that kind. I signaled to you, but you did not attend.”
“Is that why you were looking so mumchance?
- H.M.S Surprise, by Patrick O’Brien
omfg can you just picture Stephen during that dinner.
JACK. JACK. PUT DOWN THE FORK YOU FAT DUGONG LOAD YOU ARE LITERALLY GOING TO KILL YOURSELF. PUT DOWN THE FORK JACK. SO FUCKING HELP ME JACK I WILL OPEN YOU UP WITH THAT FORK I WILL OPEN YOU UP AND SEW YOU SHUT.
“It is of no consequence,” said Stephen, darting them out of sight. “They were injured- caught in a machine. It is of no consequence; it will soon pass.
