It was delicious, and Katherine freely complimented the man, who blushed profusely. “It weren’t nothin’ much, your ladyship…just bits and pieces of whatever I could catch,” the man replied as he came back to retrieve the bowls. As soon as the man had gone out to wash the bowls, she smiled at Jack. “He seems to be able to create miracles, whether on a ship or on dry land. Has he always been a cook?” “No. He was a farmer when I met him. But he took to sailing right off and has been with me ever since.” Katherine could imagine living on the sea nearly all the time, and she doubted many people could do it. Certainly the people she knew would not be as adaptable. Her stepfather would go stir-crazy in such a small space as a ship, and being stuck on a deserted island, without his friends and his law books, would be worse than death for him. Just then an image of scrawny, pale Viscount Richelieu sprang into her head, and she giggled. “What?” Jack asked, giving her a confused look.
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