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Nelson met with two fine shaddock-trees which he had planted in 1777: they were full of fruit but not ripe. Wednesday 29. In the morning I returned Tinah's visit for I found he expected it. He was in a small shed about a quarter of a mile to the eastward of Matavai point with his wife and three children, not their own but who they said were relations.
At Cawsand we obtained the newspaper, and after a few pots of beer, we again made sail for the mouth of the Channel. It hardly need be observed, that the account of this winding-up, as it proved, of our naval triumphs, with the death of Nelson, was the subject of conversation for more than one day.
She did not fire another great gun during the action. But her tops, like those of her consorts, were filled with riflemen, whose balls swept the decks of the assailing ships. One of these, fired from the mizzen-top of the Redoubtable, not fifteen yards from where Nelson stood, struck him on the left shoulder, piercing the epaulette. It was about quarter after one, in the heat of the action.
She saw a group of girls and boys standing about where the Hall boundary was; but she did not recognize any of them until she was rolling past. Then she heard Grace Montgomery's shrill voice: "Oh, she's only showing off. Her name's Nelson. Cora knows all about her." "No, I don't," snapped Cora Rathmore's voice. "But she's chummed on me." Nancy heard no more. She didn't want to.
He grasped in silence the hand of the dying admiral. "Well, Hardy, how goes the day with us?" asked Nelson, eagerly. "Very well," was the answer. "Ten ships have struck; but five of the van have tacked, and show an intention to bear down upon the Victory. I have called two or three of our fresh ships around, and have no doubt of giving them a drubbing."
Nelson at the moment was walking the quarter-deck of the "Elephant," which was anchored on the bow of the Danish flagship "Dannebroge," engaging her and some floating batteries ahead of her.
And you owe it all to me, Helen, you do, really; if it hadn't been for my insisting you'd have gotten all your education at Hilltown, and you'd have played the piano and sung like Mary Nelson across the way." Helen shuddered, and felt that that was cause indeed for gratitude. "It is true," said her aunt; "I've taken as much interest in you as in any one of my own children, and you must know it.
'Did you ever see anything like that? he asked. 'Old Nelson! the hardest, savagest, toughest old sinner in the camp, on his knees before a lot of men! 'Before God, I could not help saying, for the thing seemed very real to me. The old man evidently felt himself talking to some one. 'Yes, I suppose you're right, said Graeme doubtfully; 'but there's a lot of stuff I can't swallow.
The pithy but characteristic expression said to have been used by Earl St. Vincent, when asked for instructions about the Copenhagen expedition, "D n it, Nelson, send them to the devil your own way," sums up accurately enough the confidence shown him by his superiors.
In a further communication he explains to them the "Nelson touch," and all agree that it must succeed, and that he is surrounded with friends. Then he adds: "Some may be Judas's, but the majority are certainly pleased at the prospect of my commanding them." These are joyous days for him, which are marked by the absence of any recorded misgivings.
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