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esmerelda_t in following_sea

Missing Muster Challenge

Apr 07, 2013 20:42

character: archie kennedy, challenge: missing muster, pairing: hornblower/kennedy, author: esmerelda_t, character: bartholomew, character: horatio hornblower

Comments 10

eglantine_br April 7 2013, 20:04:02 UTC

I really do think this is how it happened. I love that Archie is so loud and certain when it comes to his defense of Bartholomew. Batry is a good boy, I bet Archie' coffee tasted nasty!

esmerelda_t April 8 2013, 21:02:49 UTC

Barty is the best boy in the world!

anteros_lmc April 8 2013, 08:51:49 UTC

Poor Lord H! He doesn't stand a chance against the combined forces of Mr K and Bartholomew. I almost feel sorry for him, almost, but not quite ;)

esmerelda_t April 8 2013, 21:04:16 UTC

Lord H loves it, they keep him on his toes!

mylodon April 8 2013, 11:34:03 UTC

Well, yes, now it's as clear as day. What other explanation could there be?

esmerelda_t April 8 2013, 21:05:01 UTC

No other explanation possible at all!

Unless you're right about that thieving Austen girl of course...

charliecochrane April 9 2013, 07:44:47 UTC

I have more evidence to support my assertion. Apparently Mary Russell Mitford wrote to Sir William Etford (whoever those two are)), "Mama says that she was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers. So I guess she was in that inn looking for men. Alas, she only found our lads. :)

nodbear April 12 2013, 07:45:43 UTC

Not to mention that even Admirals are not allowed to have ships musters on their desks which are Admiralty property -

so Bart has rescued Lord H from the FIrst Lord's wrath too - clever good boy :)
and i shall smile about BArt and Lord H and Archie next Tuesday when I have to stain my fingers again with the crumbling spine of the 1796 paybook instead of the better bound musters - though I promise I shall ot keep Archies secret when I annotate the wiki- type entry on the 1797 muster :)

also the image of Lord H conjured up in the juxtapposition of sentences 1 and 2 is marvellous- if on the true -but-cruel side !

esmerelda_t April 13 2013, 23:08:46 UTC

I'm not sure Barty Bop was aware of that regulations, he'd quite like to see Lord H hauled off to the brig for a night or two, more room to spread out on the bed then!

nodbear April 12 2013, 07:50:44 UTC

Lord Exmouth writes :

Shocking that Horatio had been abstracting admiralty property ! Anyone would think he had been set a bad example !

Nodbear : You mean something like those two cannon from the Queen Charlotte which are still on the terrace at TEignmouth and how its a mystery they got there ?

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