Master and Commander Quotes @TheAubreyiad

Quotations from Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin Master and Commander novels. A bot helmed by @charliebush. Surprise, at sea. Joined June 2020

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Master and Commander Quotes @TheAubreyiad

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‘For my own part,’ said Captain Aubrey, ‘I have no notion of disliking a man for his beliefs, above all if he was born with them. I find I can get along very well with Jews or even…’ The P of Papists was already formed, and the word was obliged to come out as Pindoos.

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Babbington, unable to think of anything to put, had filled his pages with asking after everybody at home and in the village, human beings, dogs, horses, cats, birds, and even the great hall clock, to such an extent that he was now filled with an overwhelming nostalgia.

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'We'll lose the mizen first, Doctor,' - picking Stephen tenderly out of the wreckage - 'and so we'll be a brig; then we'll lose the foremast, so we'll be a right little old sloop; then we'll lose the main, and we'll be a raft, which is what we ought to have begun as.'

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He wanted no women aboard. They only caused trouble, and with this fresh influx they would cause even more. On the other hand, there was a certain lack of zeal aboard, a lack of real spring, and he did not mean to turn it into sullenness, particularly that afternoon.

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‘There is a quality in dogs, I must confess, rarely to be seen elsewhere and that is affection: I do not mean the violent possessive protective love for their owner but rather that mild, steady attachment to their friends that we see quite often in the best sort of dog.'

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‘I cannot tell what possessed me to speak so rancorously,’ he said. ‘I do not think I have ever done so before. Have not expressed myself well – clumsy, inaccurate, not what I meant nor what I meant to say. We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth.’

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‘This way, sir,’ said Mr Forshaw in his clear treble pipe, ‘I know just where the sea-elephants are stowed. Mind the step, sir, and clap on with both hands.’ Mr Forshaw often protected Dr Maturin, whom he regarded as a worthy man, but quite unfit to be let out alone.

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Now they and all their mates saw him do it again: they saw Joe Plaice's scalp taken off, his skull bared, a disc of bone audibly sawn out, the handle turning solemnly; a three-shilling piece, hammered into a flattened dome, screwed on over the hole; and the scalp replaced.

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‘Yes, I did follow your advice; or some of it. But the fact of the matter, Stephen – the fact of the matter is, that in the hurry of leaving, and of seeing to the horses, I signed some papers he brought me after dinner without quite attending as much as I should have done.'

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It was some years since Stephen had heard Jack reprove one of his officers, and he was much struck by the remarkable advance in efficacity, by the impersonal, God-like, severe authority that could not possibly be feigned or assumed by any man who did not naturally possess it.

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It was a curious sight, the massive Jack Aubrey, a powerful fellow in the prime of life, long accustomed to authority, sitting there with an anxious, deferential expression, poised on the edge of his chair before a small, sick, bloated, old man he could have crushed with a hand.

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Little passes unnoticed in a man-of-war and although only the Marine sentry and one or two members of the watch had seen Jack and come aboard after the Governor's dinner, the whole ship’s company knew that the skipper ‘had taken a glass’, that he had been ‘as pissed as old Noah’.

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‘Stephen, you would not light a cigar, would you, and give me a waft when we are quite out of range of the house?’

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‘Sir, sir,’ piped Babbington into Jack’s ear. ‘Hush, sweetheart,’ murmured his captain, whose dreaming mind was occupied with quite another sex. ‘Mr Dillon says, top lights in the offing, sir.’ ‘Ha,’ said Jack, instantly awake, and ran up on to the grey deck in his nightshirt.

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‘The pay is contemptible for a learned man – five pounds a month – and I am ashamed to mention it; but there is the chance of prize-money, and I believe there are certain perquisites, such as Queen Anne’s Gift, and something for every man with the pox, stopped out of their pay.’

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‘I do assure you he is a great man. I have read his book until it is dog-eared – a most luminous exposition, full of pregnant reflections, a mine of nervous expressions. When the Physician of the Fleet came to inspect us, he asked me whether I had read it.’

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‘You have no notion of what a hypochondriac your seaman is: they love to be physicked, and a ship’s company without someone to look after them, even the rawest half-grown surgeon’s mate, is not a happy ship’s company.’

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‘May no new thing arise,’ said Stephen. ‘New things being of their nature bad.’

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‘The men will go through Hell and high-water to save the barky,’ he observed. ‘But if you touch their grog, I should not like to answer for even the best of them.’

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a month ago

‘Now, sir, if you please,’ said Killick’s querulous, hard-used voice just behind him, ‘your patty is ready, and the toasted cheese will go to ruin if not ate up hot.’