Thicker Than Water - Horatio Hornblower - G

bluebirdtweets:

Revisiting an older fic that I’ve revamped.  This is Lord Horatio Hornblower in the twilight of his life, his children grown, and his son, Richard, brings home a fiancee, who, in essence, is already part of the family.

… Thicker Than Water

 

There were days when Richard Hornblower thanked the good heaven above that, at least in temperament, he was more like his mother than his father — which, in itself was strange. He knew full well that Lady Barbara Hornblower was not his birth mother. There was a scientist somewhere or a philosopher he had read, perhaps, who talked of “nature or nurture” in the description of how a personality was formed. In Richard’s case, he had thought it most definitely nurture. 

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And A Following Sea - Horatio Hornblower (William Bush) - G

bluebirdtweets:

And another one; newer.  Actually, one of my favorites.  Very proud of it.  Bush during the Peace of Amiens.  Chichester, England.

And A Following Sea

There was a time when war was war and peace was peace. Life was either tranquility or torment — never the twain had met. In those simpler times, men of peace found it difficult to live during wars. Men of war found life intolerable during times of peace. Truly, the man of war requires conflict, needs to feel fear. Without it, the man of war suffers a sort of starvation. His nerves atrophy without the life-confirming din of artillery, without the sting of gunpowder, without the sickly-sweet smell of death. 

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