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"Well, there isn’t a cow for you to have," Temeraire said, "and I must call it the worst sort of uests"
"Seaweed?" Laurence said, puzzled
"Ardenteuse has the net, you can see her there aloft," Te with his snout at the Chanson-de-Guerre flying alongside the vessel with a long rope dangling: shortly she pulled up a fishing net of fine line, full of dark green seaweed and wriggling silver bodies
"They ruether Besides, we are not guests; we are prisoners, since we have surrendered"--very sullenly--"so I will complain as much as I like"
"And it is not at all unpleasant to keep aloft for half the day," Te as one ht of the difficulties, but there was an undertone of weariness in his voice which all the effort at cheer did not mask, and he put his head down and fell back to sleep even before Laurence had been gently ushered fro
"It’s not that they can’t fly half the day," Granby said at dinner, having returned fro equally anxious for Iskierka, "but not when they are to be half-fed, day-in and day-out; and this cold weather don’tway to landfall?"
"Four weeks perhaps, if they are aiuess only: he barely knew anything of the Inca ports They were notoriously unfriendly to sailors putting in at their ports in anything larger than a ship’s launch, so any merchantman determined to trade was forced to anchor oods in by boat; and these on return often reported half their crews nified for being unknown Those boats nearly as often carried back chests loaded with gold and silver, in exchange for their goods, which caused the adventurers to persevere; but the Inca were not to be considered hospitable
In any case, even if Laurence had known the coast as well as that of England, the French had not shown hi out the porthole at what stars he could see did not tell him precisely where they were "We are out of the forties, at least I can say for certain, so will make worse time the rest of the way"
"Would you knoe are in range of land, Captain?" Ha his voice confidentially, in a way Laurence could not like "In flying range, Ithe ship’s capacity--"
"We would nevertheless be bound by our parole to reo," Laurence said with enough finality, he hoped, to forestall any untenable suggestion: Hammond was a rerateful for his gifts, but on occasion one ht not be sure of him
"Yes, of course," Hammond said, and sank back into his chair with a face like a sail with the wind spilling out of it, all glooh Brazil--it is the only explanation; but how they should have persuaded the Inca--" and subsided; a , "I cannot conceive how they should have persuaded the Inca to open relations--"
De Guignes certainly did nothis courtesies, it was plain he disliked extre encountered them, and meant so far as he could to isolate them froers, if there were any: Laurence had so far seen none, saving the feathered dragon upon the deck Captain Thibaux was , but as he could count on the captain’s share of the head-price for three heavy-weight dragons and their officers, as well as for nearly three hundred sailors, he had greater compensation for his pain
"No, Mr Hammond, I have met none of the Inca aboard," Mrs Peh I have been made very welcome: Mme Récagage"
"Récamier?" Hammond said, puzzled "Not of the salon, in Paris?"
"I believe she lives in Paris," Mrs Pe, "and several of her co confusion; Laurence could not deny he was as perplexed to find De Guignes carrying along half-a-dozen Frenchwoerous and isolate nation
"I don’t see why hePiccolo, as presently taking his turn to sleep, with his head buried beneath his wing so he would not see Kulingile flying overhead It had proven necessary to the maintenance of harmony to have only one of the two of them on the deck at any tiile was indeed the larger "It is not as though I were doing it on purpose"
"That scarcely h you would choose to be smaller if you could," Teile needed to be quite so large, and still growing, when he had started out so s; it was a little difficult to adjust one’s thinking
But to be fair, Kulingile was not at all inclined to h to eat, he did not try to demand more than a proportional share, or filch some of the catch for himself the way Piccolo would if one did not make sure he atched
"I am not a prisoner of war," Piccolo had said over-loudly, when Iskierka had caught him at it the other day "My captain did not surrender himself; this is our ship"
"It is all very well to make remarks of that sort," Temeraire had said coldly, "if you were prepared to defend the it out in the middle of the ocean You may be sure there is not another transport about if we should lose this one, and if there were, there would be even less food to go around"