Sense and Sensibility

I'm such an Elinor fan I couldn't fail to come up as Sense and Sensibility in the Jane Austen novel quiz.

( Elinor's my hero! )

I love Austen. I would say...Northanger Abbey is probably the only one I haven't read a half dozen times. Yet.

After the gun exercise (Hornblower drabble)

by: Apple Cameron, Sept 10 2003
regarding: Hornblower ("Mutiny")
starring: the four leftenants of HMS Renown

After the gun exercise:


The three leftenants gathered at the rail, grinning as one.

For just a moment, stress and strain were forgotten.

Buckland was happy because the crew was starting to come together.

Bush was happy to be doing the work God put him on earth to do, amongst men who felt the same.

Kennedy was happy because his spirit was always with others: if they were happy, he was happy.

The focus of their attention, one Horatio Hornblower, danced naked in the water and laughed.