The Vice Admiral of the Blue: A Biographical Romance; Supposedly the Chronicle Left by Lord Nelson's Friend, Thomas Masterman (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Vice Admiral of the Blue: A Biographical Romance; Supposedly the Chronicle Left by Lord Nelson's Friend, Thomas Masterman

Tears and forebodings alike were banished as there came to her distant shouts from the street and the sound of rapidly approaching horses. A car riage, bearing on its panels the arms of the English Ambassador to the Court of Naples, from which official I had that moment parted, halted at the en trance and, almost before it came to a stop, Sir William Hamilton sprang to the curb and entered the house. You need not ask how I came to learn of what now took place. The whole world has been minutely informed of every disgraceful incident of these people's lives. Is it strange that I should know some innocent details Believe me, then, that from the sheer weakness of anxiety his wife sank to her knees, and with tremblingly clasped hands awaited Sir William's coming.

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