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The Town Hall and the Exchange buildings make up the four sides of an enclosed quadrangle paved with broad flagstones. Here, around the attractive Nelson monument in the centre, the merchants meet and transact their business. The chief public building is St.
The day before Merritt, Hiram Nelson, Paul Perkins and the three "tender feet" Martin Green, Walter Lonsdale and Joe Digby had been told off by Rob as on "pioneer service"; that is to say, that they had gone down to the island in the Flying Fish.
It was more than a week, however, before we contrived to obtain any definite information as to the whereabouts of the British fleet, and even then I was four days longer in finding it; but when at length this was achieved, I had the satisfaction of learning that my information was the very latest of an authentic character that had been furnished to Nelson; and it had the effect of causing him instantly to determine to retrace his steps to Europe.
Cæsar was a spare man; Buonaparte was thin as long as he climbed the ladder; Nelson was a shadow. The Duke of Wellington has not sufficient fat in his composition to grease his own Wellington-boots. In short, I think my hypothesis to be fairly borne out, that fat and ambition are incompatible.
To one possessing the sympathetic qualities of Nelson, who so readily shared the emotions and gained the affections of his associates, it was easy to bind into a living whole the units animated by this common sentiment. His stepson, Josiah Nisbet, at this time about thirteen years old, now entered the service as a midshipman, and accompanied him on board the "Agamemnon."
When there remains a huge mass of correspondence, by one as frank in utterance and copious in self-revelation as was Nelson, the opportunity to get on terms of such intimacy is unique, one-sided though the communication is.
The apportionment of blame, or prolonged discussion of the matter, is out of place in a biography of Nelson.
Exempt yourselves from the lash, you take Bible oaths to it that it is indispensable for others; you swear that, without the lash, no armed ship can be kept in suitable discipline. Be it proved to you, officers, and stamped upon your foreheads, that herein you are utterly wrong. "Send them to Collingwood," said Lord Nelson, "and he will bring them to order."
Bless my soul!" Her uncle's surprised voice broke in. "You don't mean to tell me that all those volumes I had boxed for Australia and which I thought lost on the Lord Nelson came ashore on your little coral isle?" Came ashore on his coral isle; the girl caught at the words.
"Nor I, nor I," chimed in two or three other voices. But Eva Nelson was silent. "You are the most ridiculous girl for getting fancies into your head, Eva; and you never get things right, never!" "I think you are very unkind." "Well, you can think so. I think "
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