Ensign Knightley and Other Stories (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781421897028)

It was eleven o'clock at night when Surgeon Wyley of His Majesty's ship Bonetta washed his hands, drew on his coat, and walked from the hospital up the narrow cobbled street of Tangier to the Main-Guard by the Catherine Port. In the upper room of the Main-Guard he found Major Shackleton of the Tangier Foot taking a hand at bassette with Lieutenant Scrope of Trelawney's Regiment and young Captain Tessin of the King's Battalion. There were three other officers in the room, and to them Surgeon Wyley began to talk in a prosy, medical strain. Two of his audience listened in an uninterested stolidity for just so long as the remnant of manners, which still survived in Tangier, commanded, and then strolling through the open window on to the balcony, lit their pipes.

Author: A. E. W. Mason
ISBN-10: 1421897024
ISBN-13: 9781421897028
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Language: English
Published: 12/30/2007
Pages: 316
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.88d