HMS Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)
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for although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation
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‘Stuff, stuff,’ said Stephen peevishly. ‘I do wish you would get that weak notion out of your mind. Medicine can do very little; surgery less. I can purge you, bleed you, worm you at a pinch, set your leg or take it off, and that is very nearly all.
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Once he had established that Jack and Hervey were connected with families he knew, he treated them as human beings; all the others as dogs – but as good, quite intelligent dogs in a dog-loving community.