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Updated: May 6, 2025
You have my unqualified approval of the military scheme drawn up by you and my other friends. There is one thing a gunboat lies in the harbor. Is she the Andorinha?" The newly-promoted general smote his huge stomach with both hands "beating the drum," he called it and the rat-tat signified instant readiness for action. "The guns will soon scare that bird," he exclaimed.
When the former had nearly blistered his own, he rushed to the newly-promoted, and grasped his hands with a pressure which made the recipient of his warm greeting squirm with pain. "I congratulate you with all my heart and mind, Commander Passford," he added, with exceeding warmth.
And in spite of his terrible bereavement the newly-promoted officer left his master's presence with a swelling heart. With him travelled home Matthew Blackett, whose release George, to his delight, had managed, though with difficulty. The gallant Sergeant Oborne had also been exchanged for an English prisoner in French hands.
I remember once, on the beach of Madras, witnessing an amusing scene between Sir Samuel Hood, then commander-in-chief in India, and the newly-promoted boatswain of a sloop-of-war belonging to the squadron. The Admiral, who was one of the bravest, and kindest, and truest-hearted seamen that ever trod a ship's decks, was a sworn foe to all trickery in dress.
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