A shot through the mainmast knocked a few splinters about us.

He observed to me, with a smile, 'It is warm work, and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment;' and then, stopping short at the gangway, he used an expression never to be erased from my memory, and said with emotion, 'but mark you, I would not be elsewhere for thousands.' "When the signal, No.

39, was made, the Signal Lieutenant reported it to him.

He continued his walk, and did not appear to take notice of it.

The lieutenant meeting his Lordship at the next turn asked, 'whether he should repeat it ?' Lord Nelson answered, 'No, acknowledge it.'[33] On the officer returning to the poop, his Lordship called after him, 'Is No.