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The Spanish Leave Napoleon

Horatio Hornblower · March 27, 1953 · 20 min · 1,719 words

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Call all hands, speak to quarters. By this time of day, One broad side into it, please Captain Bush. Pointers on target! Prince Tofrelli, High eyes on! Michael Redgrave, I see as far as to his indomitable man of the sea, Horatio Hornblower.

Beethoven, Miss Meen, and my small son Richard was also well.

I find it difficult to keep my mind on the pressing problems that faced us there at Riga. Captain Bush, my senior officer, paced up and down my cabin aboard the Nunsuch, his face, sat in anxiety, teardore, fab, yet my thoughts were still in England.

It was not his words, it was that confounded pacing, it is that finally brought me back to our immediate concerns. If this, they get ice, I am afraid of. We are not here, we will be first and then, but we'll go, confine it, of course, confinity, kiddzol, I was thinking of home.

It was high ratio. You got drop anchor in the sheerness. That's about 30 miles from Smallbridge. Barbara would be there waiting, and my little boy Richard. Or it might be even better to appear suddenly and surprising.

My first duty is to my squadron. Locked in, we're at the mercy of the enemy.

Marshall may don't may bring his foot soldiers across the ice and captured everyone of us. I know, I know, I know. It was done 20 years ago at Amsterdam. History has a way of repeating itself, Horatio. It's dangerous to risk freezing in extreme identity. That's true enough, and yet the admiralty has ordered us to stay. I think of the news with

spread through all Europe. Build apart second army captures of British squadron. The admiralty has had my head there, wouldn't it? Disgrace, dismissal. Yes, well done about it. I say up, enter and get out before it's too late.

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