Max Pirkis: Blakeney, Midshipman
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Quotes
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Dr. Stephen Maturin : Mr Blakeney, it would appear that you have the makings of a naturalist.
Blakeney : Well, sir, perhaps I could combine them to be a sort of... fighting naturalist, like you, sir.
Dr. Stephen Maturin : They don't combine too well, I find. Right...
[about to get up even though he's still recovering from injury]
Blakeney : Should you really be getting up, sir?
Dr. Stephen Maturin : Mr Blakeney, are you also a doctor?
Blakeney : No, sir.
Dr. Stephen Maturin : No, you're not.
[gets up]
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Blakeney : Tie your neck bands on your right upper arm to tell friend from foe.
Blakeney : [pointing] Davies, this arm. Starboard arm.
Awkward Davies, Able Seaman : Is that the one you got or the one you don't got?
Blakeney : All right, that's enough cheek, Davies.
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Blakeney : Sir, I think we should be getting back.
Dr. Stephen Maturin : Naval discipline doesn't operate out here, Mr. Blakeney. I must find a cormorant. And should it indeed prove flightless, you can join me at the Royal Society dinner as codiscoverer.
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Capt. Jack Aubrey : I'm sorry you had to leave the majority of your collection behind, Stephen.
Dr. Stephen Maturin : In actual fact, Mr. Blakeney and I did make one very interesting find.
[Hands Jack a small stick of wood]
Capt. Jack Aubrey : Is that right?
[looks at it]
Capt. Jack Aubrey : Let me guess: a stick?
[Stephen chuckles and hands him a magnifying glass. Jack looks at the stick through the glass, then squints in wonder]
Dr. Stephen Maturin : Tell him about it, Mr. Blakeney.
Blakeney : It's a rare phasmid, sir.
Capt. Jack Aubrey : A phasmid?
Blakeney : It's an insect that disguises itself as a stick, to confuse its predators.
