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ISBN-13: 9781421893488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 276 str.

James Brendan Connolly

Opis

Sometimes the notion comes to me while Im talkin to people that maybe I dont make myself clear, and its been so for some time now-the things I see in my mind fadin away from me at times, like ships in a fog. And thats strange enough, too, if what people tell me so often is true-that it used to be so one time that the office clerks would correct their account-books by what I told em out of my head. But sometimes-not often-things come back to me, like to-day-maybe because tis a winter day and a gale o wind drivin the sea afore it in the bay below there. Things come to me then-like pictures-wind and sea and fog and the wrecks on a lee shore. In my business-but of course you know-runnin after wrecks, from Newfoundland to Cuba, I had to be days and maybe weeks away from home-which was no harm when I had no more home than a room in a sailors boardin-house, and no harm later with Sarah. Even if anything happened to me, I used to feel that Sarah-thats my first wife-Sarahd still have the two lads to hearten her and keep her busy; but twas different with-but there, my minds off again....