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The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson

CHAPTER VIII
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I expect that all animals will increase where you are, for I never expect that you will suffer any to be killed.
No person can take amiss our not visiting.

The answer from me will always be very civil thanks, but that I wish to live retired.

We shall have our sea-friends; and I know Sir William thinks they are the best." This place he had never seen till he was now welcomed there by the friends to whom he had so passionately devoted himself, and who were not less sincerely attached to him.

The place, and everything which Lady Hamilton had done to it, delighted him; and he declared that the longest liver should possess it all.

Here he amused himself with angling in the Wandle, having been a good fly-fisher in former days, and learning now to practise with his left hand what he could no longer pursue as a solitary diversion.


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