Ramage And The Freebooters (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
The orchestra – strong on brass and percussion but excruciatingly weak on strings – were now resting for a few moments, the brass restoring themselves with large mugs of beer. And Ramage, his uniform hot and sticky, feet swollen from so much walking and his shoes seeming too small, felt none the better for a gargantuan supper where the Governor pressed his guests to just one more slice of cold turkey than they wanted and two glasses more champagne than was wise. Ramage had anticipated becoming bored with the ball within fifteen minutes of arriving; but despite his earlier overbearing manner, the Governor was now treating him as a guest of honour. As soon as he had arrived – half an hour later than politeness dictated, because Southwick kept him busy with various problems on board the Triton – the Governor had seized him by the arm and insisted he made a grand tour of the enormous drawing-room which, divested of most of its furniture, this evening served as a ballroom. And he had introduced Ramage to every guest with the phrase ‘I want you to meet my young friend Lord Ramage – son of the Earl of Blazey, you know.’ Ramage was not sure which annoyed him most, the untruthfulness of the ‘young friend’ or the ‘you know’ which carried the implication that, although Sir Jason did, the person being introduced would not.
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