YA - Chapter Seven - shipmates and others

[ylla]

'My impression is that of a very expensive young or youngish man, much given to high play, uncommon high play, at Crockford's and Brooks's, eager to make political acquaintance and to ask indiscreet questions, apt to suggest deep knowledge and private sources of information. He is remarkably well-introduced and although you might think he was

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Mannering

[esteven]

...a boy or two who really liked navigation, sea-mathematics, and who began, with unconcealed delight, to seize the underlying principles: Mannering was the most recent, with the same zeal, earnestness and growing enthusiasm. He was a comfort to Jack

So glad there is at least one intelligent middie after Geogeghan's demise. Maybe Mannering also understood the nature or sines and tangents? That too would make Jack happy.

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[sidlj]

He may just now be catching on, thanks to Jack and his Blackboard of Mathematical DOOM.

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[esteven]

Mannering might become a second Jack...a late bloomer in maths? Unless he does not die first...as middies are wont to do.

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[sidlj]

Maybe he can mathematically calculate when to duck? *crosses fingers*

Re: Mannering

[esteven]

So that he will not get a ducking?

Ain't I a rattle?

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[sidlj]

You are! :-D

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[esteven]

*bounces*

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[esteven]

Irresistable. *g*
*loves your icon.

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[esteven]

They are, and one can find one for almost any occasion. :D

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[esteven]

That is so very much a favourite of mine! I wonder why?
;D

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[esteven]

Because I am not yet antedeluvian and do not fit into cupboards and the like?

I hardly ever because there are only five...and I feel no need for more. Sometimes I use the penguins, sometimes Jack and the bees and sometimes ...s.icon...