Doris Friends And PiratesChapter 7
The Brigadier had never been much of a sailor. And he had been living on this wretched boat for months! He still hated it every time the vessel rose and fell with the waves! If he were not a loving father and a silly old man who had become besotted with a girl less than half his age, he would have gone back to shore weeks ago! He recalled those lines from The Tempest. "Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, anything." He...