HMS Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

by Patrick O'Brian

words and feathers are carried off by the wind; as is the wedding, so is the cake; do not speak Arabic in the house of the Moor; pleasures pass but sorrows stay; love,

grief and money cannot be concealed

his precious Lord Nelson said, every man was a bachelor once he was beyond Gibraltar; and India was a great way beyond Gibraltar,

‘Sea-water and distance wash love away’;