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Nelson then turned to Blackwood, and directed him and Captain Prowse of the "Sirius" to return to their ships, but in so doing to pass along the column and tell the captains he depended upon their exertions to get into action as quickly as possible. He then bade them again to go away.
They got on together far better after that, and began to feel like relations, before Herbert was sent off with Mr. Prowse to Colbeam. Indeed, throughout the transactions that followed, Bertha showed herself far less devoted to her own interests than to what might be called the honour of the family.
During the night an unpleasant surprise was prepared for the Spaniards. Half a dozen of the oldest vessels in the English fleet filled with pitch, resin, tarry ropes, and anything else that would burn well, were taken by two gallant Devonshire sailors, Young and Prowse, into the very heart of the Armada and set on fire.
"Well," said Gerald, "first of all, what's your name, and if you're not a Princess, who are you?" "I'm I'm," said a voice broken with sobs, "I'm the housekeeper's niece at the castle and my name's Mabel Prowse." "That's exactly what I thought," said Jimmy, without a shadow of truth, because how could he? The others were silent. It was a moment full of agitation and confused ideas.
As Jeffery Prowse sang: I dwelt in a city enchanted, And lonely, indeed, was my lot; Two guineas a week, all I wanted, Was certainly all that I got.
Seeing that the Spanish ships lay very close together, Lord Howard planned a new method for their destruction. Eight of the least valuable vessels being fitted out as fire-ships, and having their guns loaded, were conducted towards the Spaniards by Captains Young and Prowse, who, in the most undaunted manner, firing the trains as they got close to the Spaniards, retired.
For a second it wavered and flickered and then in a moment more a red glare lighted up the heavens and cast a lurid glow upon the two fleets, the cliffs of England and the sea and showing plainly two boats with Young and Prowse, the two men of Devon in one; Francis and Edward in the other.
There is little doubt that if the war had gone on for fifty years, its last month would have found the men as strenuously employed in improving and strengthening the defences as in those early days. A great gap in the trench line just east of Prowse Point called for attention on our arrival. The work might, of course, have been highly dangerous, for it was carried on within 200 yards of the enemy.
Having come to which conclusion, Captain Prowse left his cabin and joined the officer of the watch on the bridge. "By Jove! What glorious weather we are having," he remarked genially, as the officer came to his side. "I cannot remember such a spell of it as we have had ever since leaving Queenstown. What's she doing, Mr Dacre?"
"I sent a letter to my love, I carried water in my glove, An' on the way I dropped it dropped it dropped it " He dropped the kerchief over Modesty Prowse. "Zeb!" Young Zeb whipped the kerchief off Modesty's neck, and spun round as it shot. The dancers looked; the few sober men by the fire turned and looked also.
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