...that summer glow...

[anteros_lmc]

It's a while since we've had a random quote around here. This is Anthony Trollope on Frederick Marryat, but it makes me think of someone else too :)

"...he warmed the social atmosphere wherever he appeared with that summer glow which seemed to attend him."

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[anteros_lmc]

Who could not love Marryat?! :)

[nodbear]

This has me chasing round for a random quote to return - and alas the one I want is eluding me - and the ones I can find do not do justice

volgivagant has just joined in - and I have found it with that inspiration - not about Archie - though the above could be - but something very lovely I read today on the way home from Cambridge ..
Since heaven made gentlemen there is no record of a better one ...Of brighter deeds we may read peformed by others, but where of a nobler , kinder, more beautiful life of duty, of a gentler truer heart

it could have been a grown up Archie - it is in fact Thackeray on the immortal Cuddy
In The Four Georges 1860

[anteros_lmc]

How perfectly lovely and perfectly appropriate for Cuddy. And I imagine that is one compliment he would not have shied from. Thank you for tracking this down and sharing it :)

[sarlania]

Awwww Marryat. ♥

but it makes me think of someone else too :)
*rises eyebrows* ;) Should I add that to my list?

[anteros_lmc]

ROFL!! Your list is going to go something like this isn't it?

You know you're obsessed with Hornblower when....
1. You are anteros_lmc.

;P

[shezzawatto]

Handsome cove, aint 'e?

[anteros_lmc]

He certainly is isn't he?! Though not as cute as some ... ;)