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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

Dressing Gown

Date: 2013-03-22 05:28 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] 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*