Portada

WIDE COURSES IBD

1ST WORLD PUBLISHING
10 / 2008
9781421894485
Inglés

Sinopsis

Sometimes the notion comes to me while I?m talkin? to people that maybe I don?t make myself clear, and it?s been so for some time now-the things I see in my mind fadin? away from me at times, like ships in a fog. And that?s strange enough, too, if what people tell me so often is true-that it used to be so one time that the office clerks would correct their account-books by what I told ?em out of my head. But sometimes-not often-things come back to me, like to-day-maybe because ?tis a winter day and a gale o? wind drivin? the sea afore it in the bay below there. Things come to me then-like pictures-wind and sea and fog and the wrecks on a lee shore. In my business-but of course you know-runnin? after wrecks, from Newfoundland to Cuba, I had to be days and maybe weeks away from home-which was no harm when I had no more home than a room in a sailor?s boardin?-house, and no harm later with Sarah. Even if anything happened to me, I used to feel that Sarah-that?s my first wife-Sarah?d still have the two lads to hearten her and keep her busy, but ?twas different with-but there, my mind?s off again....

PVP
27,79