not-unintelligent

Updated: August 29, 2026

He came and we read it together, fluttering as I had seen it flutter in his fingers as he read it for'ard to the engineer and to the deck-hand. George, meanwhile, was lying oblivious to the rhetoric with which it was plentifully garnished, not to speak of the Latin quotations, taking that cure of bleeding, which was the fashionable cure of a not-unintelligent century. It began:

Richard Le Gallienne - Pieces of Eight : Being the Authentic Narrative of a Treasure Discovered in the Bahama Islands in the Year 1903