Rafael
Sabatini
(1875
–
1950)
Born
in
Jesi,
Italy.
In
1905
he
settled
in
England,
wrote
in
English
The
Tavern
Knight
(1904),
The
Sea
Hawk
(1915),
Scaramouche
(1921),
Captain
Blood
(1922),
others.
PETER BLOOD, bachelor of medicine and several other things besides, smoked a pipe and tended the geraniums boxed on the sill of his window above Water Lane in the town of Bridgewater. Sternly disapproving eyes considered him from a window opposite, but went disregarded. Mr. Blood's attention was divided between his task and the stream of humanity in the narrow street below; a stream which poured for the second time that day towards Castle Field, where earlier in the afternoon Ferguson, the Duke's chaplain, had preached a sermon containing more treason than divinity.
