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Rejoining the Fleet

Horatio Hornblower · January 9, 1953 · 19 min · 2,469 words

The transcript of “Rejoining the Fleet”, an episode of Horatio Hornblower first broadcast January 9, 1953. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Horatio Hornblower plays Horatio Hornblower free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Beat the quarters. Mr. Garth, can't buy this town a battery. One broad side into it, you please, Captain Bush. Point of the market. Then stop, Freddy. I'll take a red grave, as see as far as to his indomitable man of the sea, a ratio of horn blower.

It may seem absurd now that I should have get it to return to England, but in spite of my present years and honors,

I'm under no illusions as to the pickle nature of the public. And that was her den. Whatever it occurred since, there was no gain saying the fact that I had lost my ship, the Sub The deck of the Witch of Endor, and the coast of France, fell away over the horizon.

At the sound of the English voice, words failed me for a moment. At least there was no need now to hide in the mist. On the other hand it brought nearer all the future, which I was dreading.

I had fly my colours to the last. If my career was to end, I'd end with a joke. In pretending, I was on the front of the arm, cut her with the endor. I think we're mad, sir.

The Witch of Endor has been a French prize for a year, and you've been dead for six months? So must Bush, either in under the stern of that two-decker, and bring her to the wind under the leaf.

As the boat bore me to the triumphs side, and I stirred at the familiar beauty of the ship of war again, the two yellow streaks along her sides, checker than gunports, the penance of the mane, the hands on her deck, the red coats of the marines.

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