He draws a deep breath. "I'd still be most at ease in a ship's cabin of some sort—but I need somewhere that might actually admit a guest or two. I thought of the great cabin of Erebus, but—"
He never felt it was really his.
"—the associations are ... difficult. So I should like instead the captain's cabin of HMS Clio, my first command. There'll be room for a table and chairs alongside the berth and clothes-press and so forth."
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He draws a deep breath. "I'd still be most at ease in a ship's cabin of some sort—but I need somewhere that might actually admit a guest or two. I thought of the great cabin of Erebus, but—"
He never felt it was really his.
"—the associations are ... difficult. So I should like instead the captain's cabin of HMS Clio, my first command. There'll be room for a table and chairs alongside the berth and clothes-press and so forth."