Victory in war and Beauty ashore part 3/3
For description see part 1
A/N I have invented the ladies taking tea but everyone else -and the background events and setting is historical.
( Part 3 )
A/N I have invented the ladies taking tea but everyone else -and the background events and setting is historical.
( Part 3 )
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There is so much to love here. I like to think of Susan flying down the stairs like a young girl, excited for an afternoon with her friend. And her loyal desire to clobber anyone who made Hannah feel bad. (Ned would approve, i am sure.)
And, and-- and her understanding of her own encounter with her husbands rigid patriotism, and her blush that her daughter understood it too.
And Fleet's salute!
This was worth the wait. (Since last night, but also the longer interval.)
And kindness, and jokes, and Jane Austen, and everyone keeping an eye out in case Archie turns up. (Happily, we know he will.)
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but it reflects the difference and the affection to which differecne was no barrier.
George, here a little toddler bewidlered by yet another absence, wrote in 1866 of his father's friend:
"Admiral Bergeret died recently (in 1857) ..he was always kind to the Pellews for instance when two of us went to Paris in 1815..
he was always a violent republican .."
I still find the enduring love and respect between the convinced respublican and the monarchist old style tory a very particular and special thing.
EP wrote to Bergeret in prison sayning that only death would end their friendship - and actually it did not even do that as future generations retained the friendship. Full non -fictional story of that another day!
Lovely of you to read it do fast and thank you !
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Oh but Jacques offering to help search for Archie, that's just too sad.... :'(
You know I cannot imagine - for sailors - to have no wind and no light.
Now that is very curious, because today I read the following...This is Mrs Oliver Elton describing how sailors could thole any degree of physical hardship, lack of food, lack of clothing etc but "The sorrows of captivity and the loss of sea air were a very different matter." Was Mrs Elton another of Susan's circle?! We need to know!
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Glad that you like Susan and Hannah too - because we have had many conversationa about them And that helped :)
and Archie and Jacques - that snuck in from left field because I think I had half an idea that there mihgt be a story in it but the pronblem ius that by the time Jacques is out of prison himself Archie is found I think .Howver hhte boys mihgt get a surprise visitor in Ferrol :)I feel that hte handsome and charming Jacques would rather appreciate another such ....:)o
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They're fabulous! Indomitable and indefatigable both of them!
Re Archie and Bergeret, I think Archie would actually have been back on the Indy by the time they take on the Virginie. I've always assumed that the Papillion incident takes place right at the start of the Revolutionary War, so early 1793, if Archie had been a POW for two years before Horatio found him that takes us up to 1795. Of course we don't know how long they remained in prison after returning to honour Horatio's parole, but I would think it would be a matter of months at most. So I suspect they may just have returned to the Indy by April 1796. Not that I've spent ages thinking about this or anything... ;)
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thank you for reading to the end .
There will be an Austen story eventually - I reconnoitered the setting for it with mylodon earlier this year
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Fantastic repartee and wonderfully drawn characters.
Thanks for the pleasure once again.
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I think I have become rather fond of " uncle jacques' and Susan and Hannah somehow
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