#Archie saluted, smiled at Jack and left to fulfil his orders.# Oh he's using that charming!grin, isn't he? No one can resist him ...
#"Can't keep me away, Horatio. I love this time and any chance I get to come back and renew acquaintance with old friends…only be assured in the case of Mr Kennedy it really is just meeting up with old friends."# Oh i'll bet horatio's fuming. And i don't blame him. I am a bit protective of poor mister h b/c he can't help it he can't compete with jack and yeah ... so poor fellow.
#He'd been worked up as he always was in anticipation of going into action, but the arrival of old teeth and britches had caused him a great deal of added stress, related – as usual – to the concern that the man would be trying to get inside Archie's cot.# LOL to 'old teeth and britches'. Brilliant. And yeah, I can imagine the stress level rising exponentially in poor horatio. he wouldn't hide it well. And yes, naughty mister harkness should keep his paws off archie!
#And you can be at my side for the boarding party if you can promise me that you won't use any of those outlandish weapons you normally carry.# Oh now that is horatio being grown up and mature. i salute him
#Or have my ear off with a sword."# well, indeed. And poor horatio has such a fear of mutilation. But jack wouldn't do that (intentionally) would he?
#"I solemnly swear not to touch a hair on your body, Horatio."# lol. And yes there is a hidden meaning and innuendo in that. It just took horatio a moment to realise ...
#Hornblower spent the next two minutes wondering whether there had been a hidden meaning in the phrase employed,# Exactly. LOL. you have them so well, so very well! I've yet to find another author who captures their characters so perfectly. And no i'm not just saying that. ;D
Sixteenth Time - III
Oh he's using that charming!grin, isn't he? No one can resist him ...
#"Can't keep me away, Horatio. I love this time and any chance I get to come back and renew acquaintance with old friends…only be assured in the case of Mr Kennedy it really is just meeting up with old friends."#
Oh i'll bet horatio's fuming. And i don't blame him. I am a bit protective of poor mister h b/c he can't help it he can't compete with jack and yeah ... so poor fellow.
#He'd been worked up as he always was in anticipation of going into action, but the arrival of old teeth and britches had caused him a great deal of added stress, related – as usual – to the concern that the man would be trying to get inside Archie's cot.#
LOL to 'old teeth and britches'. Brilliant. And yeah, I can imagine the stress level rising exponentially in poor horatio. he wouldn't hide it well. And yes, naughty mister harkness should keep his paws off archie!
#And you can be at my side for the boarding party if you can promise me that you won't use any of those outlandish weapons you normally carry.#
Oh now that is horatio being grown up and mature. i salute him
#Or have my ear off with a sword."#
well, indeed. And poor horatio has such a fear of mutilation. But jack wouldn't do that (intentionally) would he?
#"I solemnly swear not to touch a hair on your body, Horatio."#
lol. And yes there is a hidden meaning and innuendo in that. It just took horatio a moment to realise ...
#Hornblower spent the next two minutes wondering whether there had been a hidden meaning in the phrase employed,#
Exactly. LOL. you have them so well, so very well! I've yet to find another author who captures their characters so perfectly. And no i'm not just saying that. ;D