Jack's flowered silk dressing gown

[sid]

The bell struck; and at the pipe of the bosun's call the hammocks came flying up, close on two hundred of them, to be stowed with lightning rapidity into the nettings, with their numbers all turned the same way; and in the rushing current of seamen Jack stood tall and magnificent in a flowered silk dressing-gown, looking sharply up and down the deck.

Chapter Five
HMS Surprise

Comments

Dressing Gown

[esteven]

Thank you for bringing this over. I sincerely hope Jack's gown is not something flimsy and clingy. The excerpt is also evocative (for want of a better description) *g*

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[sid]

Whatever the gown looks like, Jack himself looks magnificent. :-)

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[esteven]

He certainly stands tall and magnificent as I am sure Stephen will be able to testify.

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[feroxargentea]

A manly man in the full bloom of his manhood! No damned flowers could make Jack look anything else *g*

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[sid]

The flowers themselves become all stamen and no pistil in his manly presence. :-)

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[feroxargentea]

OMG Jack cures the plant kingdom of hermaphroditism! O.O

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[sid]

Stephen will be all ahoo! *flaily arms*

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[feroxargentea]

It's a botanical sensation! He'll be addressing the Institut with Jack as his beautiful assistant/specimen.

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[sid]

He'd be better off if Jack read out his speech, in a nice loud sea-going voice. *g*

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[feroxargentea]

Imagine the effect on the audience, though. Not sure the philosophers could handle such a wave of naval testosterone!

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[sid]

I'm sure a few of them could think of interesting ways of handling it. ;-)

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[heather_mist]

*Applies to join the Royal Society*

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[sid]

*giggles*

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[feroxargentea]

Very sorry, my dear, but I don't think they took lady members at the time. Male members only. Lots and lots of 'em *g*

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[sid]

*snickers*

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[heather_mist]

You aren't helping!!

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[sid]

Did you honestly expect me to?? :-D

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[heather_mist]

*mutters and grumbles*
;-)

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[heather_mist]

Male members only
Damn those male members! I don't suppose I'd get away with it if I bound up the old boobs and stuck a sausage down the front of my breeches, would I? Although that does rather defeat the object of the exercise... and there is still the question of the giveaway 'child-bearing hips'
*scratches chin thoughtfully*.
Maybe I'll just loiter outside looking all come hitherish... a member might just come hither? Maybe?

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[feroxargentea]

It may not be genteel to mention it but *whispers* there is a shiny patch on your breeches where your sausage has oozed grease...

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[heather_mist]

*g*
I hate it when it does that....