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YA - Chapter Seven - shipmates and others

Nov 11, 2011 15:31

'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 ( Read more... )

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Pratt esteven November 12 2011, 08:06:17 UTC

'Why, by means of your good Pratt the thief-taker - the excellent intelligent Pratt who did so much for us when poor Aubrey was taken up for rigging the Stock Exchange, the best of allies. He quite certainly knows these "private inquirers" and their even less presentable associates - he was born and bred in Newgate, you recall - and once he is clear on the moral side and his own immunity he will arrange matters according to local custom and local rates, which he knows to the last half-crown. This may cost an elegant penny.'
'It could not possibly cost too much,' said Blame, and laying his hand on Stephen's knee, 'Of course you are perfectly right about Pratt. Why did I not think of him before?'

Such a valuable man, and despite the dirty work he often seems to do, he comes across as a man of principles and a certain integrity.

Re: Pratt sidlj November 12 2011, 17:44:25 UTC

Is he also a man with a shrill, squeaking voice? Was it Pratt in the bear-skin?

Re: Pratt alltoseek November 12 2011, 17:50:51 UTC

Don't hang around Stephen too long, or you will end up in a bear suit. That's all I can say ;-)

Re: Pratt heather_mist November 12 2011, 18:05:09 UTC

LOL!

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Re: Pratt heather_mist November 12 2011, 20:57:32 UTC

Twas not a dream! It was by the stream where Jack washed and washed just before they went to Stephen's castle. Jack was all for burning it but Stephen was all: "Noooo, let's hang on to it, might come in handy again." before rolling it up and shoving it under a hedge - that thing must have stunk to the high heavens!

Re: Pratt alltoseek November 12 2011, 22:03:45 UTC

By then Jack was in such a state the whole time seems dream-like to me (not to mention the absurdity of fooling people into thinking a man in a bear suit is actually a bear *rolls eyes*) and they don't even talk about how they got from Stephen's castle to Gib and then to home - it all just happened.

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Re: Pratt alltoseek November 13 2011, 05:24:25 UTC

No, no, that wasn't until HMS Surprise.

Do you remember how excited and proud Stephen was when he told Jack he could swim the length of the ship? And Jack calculated he swam like 6 inches a stroke, or something? It'd be a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong swim to England ;-)

But then it's been a long time since Stephen's gone swimming with Jack, at all.

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Re: Pratt heather_mist November 13 2011, 11:50:13 UTC

But get lifts from passing rafts can be dodgy - as we know *nods*

Re: Pratt esteven November 12 2011, 17:57:17 UTC

I do not know, because we have not been given a lot of details about him. :D

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