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alltoseek ([personal profile] alltoseek) wrote in [community profile] where_away2012-02-05 09:11 pm

Ears

'To be sure, he lost the rest of his ear in the Indiaman - but that was nothing.'

'His ear!' cried Sophia, turning white and coming to a dead halt in the middle of the Parade.

'You are standing in a puddle, my dear. Let me lead you to dry land. Yes, his ear, his right ear, or what was left of it. But it was nothing. I sewed it back on again; and as I say, if you had seen him last night, you would be easy in your mind.'

'What a good friend you are to him, Dr Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.'

'I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.'


Stephen, speaking to Sophie, Post Captain, chapter 6
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[personal profile] esteven 2012-02-06 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
'I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.'
Stephen has such a comfortable way of reassuring her. If Jack were my financé, I'd be deeply disturbed by this, imagining all kinds of desaster.
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[personal profile] heather_mist 2012-02-14 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
'You are standing in a puddle, my dear. Let me lead you to dry land.

Perfection! I love how this shows Stephen always looking after Sophie; Her being so absorbed in Jack and his welfare that she does not even notice she has walked in to puddle in the first place, never mind stopped there. And the finesse of POB's/Stephen's wit.

Wonderful!