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Napoleon Returns

Horatio Hornblower · December 5, 1952 · 21 min · 2,655 words

The transcript of “Napoleon Returns”, an episode of Horatio Hornblower first broadcast December 5, 1952. 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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Call all hands, speak to quarters. Time of the day. One broad side into it, please, Captain Bush. Points us on target. Pinstalk ready. High side. Michael Redgrave, I see as far as to his indominable man of the sea.

Or a race of all horn blowers. In this distance of time, it's easy to see that my refusal to go to Vienna was one of the most faithful decisions I ever made. Yet if I could have my time over again, I'd still refuse.

Even at the cost of hurting Barbara again, as I hurt her that night in Paris, as we drove to another of the endless receptions. It's probably the greatest thing that has ever happened to me, dear.

Am I expected to be there then? Ooh, but of course, you're a person of great importance in our memory. Oh, drawing them all salons, the ballet, the opera. Oh, you better go, it's your duty, but you don't need me.

I'd be the skeleton of the feast, no? Now, I'll go to Small Bridge. I'll go to Small Bridge once I went. Well, I found that intolerable too. And then, getting the letter from the Count of Grassem.

Now that peace is with us, will you not come again? And allow us the pleasure of offering you the open hospitality which we were unable to extend when you and yet not bush and your servant Brown were fugitives from Bonapa.

Oh! Brown, jump to it, Deme. Here's my lord. Pack clothes for both of us. Pack for an indefinite stay. All of the shades, but we're going to them there. November, my lord. You mean to the shadow of grace, Jim and Lord?

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