Морской волк

Chapter 5

           Brushingtheashesfromhisclothes,hehadresumedhisconversationwithHenderson.Johansen,whohadseentheaffairfromthebreakofthepoop,sentacoupleofsailorsafttocleanupthemess.

           LaterinthemorningIreceivedasurpriseofatotallydifferentsort.Followingthecook’sinstructions,IhadgoneintoWolfLarsen’sstate-roomtoputittorightsandmakethebed.Againstthewall,neartheheadofthebunk,wasarackfilledwithbooks.Iglancedoverthem,notingwithastonishmentsuchnamesasShakespeare,Tennyson,Poe,andDeQuincey.Therewerescientificworks,too,amongwhichwererepresentedmensuchasTyndall,Proctor,andDarwin.Astronomyandphysicswererepresented,andIremarkedBulfinch’sAgeofFable,Shaw’sHistoryofEnglishandAmericanLiterature,andJohnson’sNaturalHistoryintwolargevolumes.Thentherewereanumberofgrammars,suchasMetcalf’s,andReedandKellogg’s;andIsmiledasIsawacopyofTheDean’sEnglish.

           IcouldnotreconcilethesebookswiththemanfromwhatIhadseenofhim,andIwonderedifhecouldpossiblyreadthem.ButwhenIcametomakethebedIfound,betweentheblankets,droppedapparentlyashehadsunkofftosleep,acompleteBrowning,theCambridgeEdition.Itwasopenat"InaBalcony,"andInoticed,hereandthere,passagesunderlinedinpencil.Further,lettingdropthevolumeduringalurchoftheship,asheetofpaperfellout.Itwasscrawledoverwithgeometricaldiagramsandcalculationsofsomesort.

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