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  • "'Well, pass them over,' he said. 'Pollack, lay them on the sacks by the mast-thwart.'

    "'But that will wake them,' said Martin. 'Let me walk gently in by the gang-plank.'"

    --Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 247

    March 9, 2008