#aw jack

[aubreyad-indexed]

'For myself, I am as comfortable as my best friend could wish.'

His best friend gazed at him doubtfully: Stephen did not look comfortable in his mind, and he seemed ill at ease in his body too, weary, sad, constrained.

'What do you say to a ride?' he said. 'I am half engaged to meet some men at Craddock's: they promised me my revenge.'

'With all my heart,' said Stephen, but with so melancholy an attempt at heartiness that Jack could not refrain from saying, 'Stephen, if anything is amiss, and if I can be of any kind of use, you know...'

–Desolation Island, Patrick O’Brian

[king-layney]

i miss trapped☹️

[luminescent-jaspar]

[aubreyad-indexed]

It was impossible to dislike Martin, a deeply respectable man, though his playing of the viola would never have recommended him anywhere; yet Jack could not love him either.

Martin was of course a more suitable companion for Stephen in certain respects, but it seemed to Jack that he took up altogether too much of his time, prating away about primates in the mizen-top or endlessly turning over his collections of beetles and mummified toads in the gunroom. Jack passed quickly on - he did not choose to dwell on the subject.

-Clarissa Oakes, Patrick O'Brian

[aubreyad-indexed]

Stephen went out to fetch Jack from the stables, and they met half way, among the steaming heaps of lime.

"Stephen! How very glad I am to see you," cried Jack, clapping both hands on Stephen's shoulders and looking down into his face with great affection.

-Desolation Island, Patrick O’Brian

[aubreyad-indexed]

Jack was a powerful swimmer and he had saved a surprising number of sailors: those few who had had time to realize how disagreeable it was to drown and how much the world they were leaving still had to offer were sometimes touchingly grateful: but most were so taken up with gasping and calling out and suffocating, sinking and rising, that they had no leisure for reflection; and those who, like Captain Hartley, were snatched directly from the sea would often maintain that they could have managed perfectly well by themselves - meaning, it is to be presumed, that they would suddenly have learnt how to swim or to walk upon the water.

Yet however grudging their reactions might be, Jack nearly always retained a private fondness for those he had rescued, even the most bitterly ungrateful.

–Treason’s Harbour, Patrick O'Brian

[lettucemakar]

not on his graduation day :(

[sarcasticshysociopath]

How are you, this fine day? -Prince Charming 💚💚

Mm I am doing quite well now that I’m talking with you my dearest prince. How do you fair? ❤️❤️