I bet that hundred pounds of prize money that he blew during RN Officers Gone Wild! Kingston Edition would have come in handy for that purpose.
And because I've been thinking about this all night: we don't hear about the sisters throughout the books, do we? I know we get the dab in LtH, and we get another bit somewhere, and Hornblower mutters about how Bush ought to have been able to retire to his doting sisters in Chichester, but it might be possible that Hornblower's info is out of date by the time of LH. Some of them might have gotten hitched.
Also: what if Bush had more than the four or whatever? That's an awful lot of siblings, but maybe some of them did get married off, and he just doesn't talk about them?
And finally: any chance that age issues could have come into play? We don't know where Bush stands, age-wise, in relation to the Mlles. Bush.
There's also the fact that he's never bloody home. Aside from the time that he's on halfpay on shore, he's not going to feel the press for money too badly -- it's not like he's grinding it out with them every day. He lives in a little bubble of tops'ls and heads'ls and salt beef and keeping crazy captain boyfriends happy while in the middle of the Atlantic. We don't get hide or hair or mention of them during all the time we spend in his head in LtH while we're at sea. We only hear about them when he's back on shore.
The notion, by the way, of Bush being home and trying to talking one of his sisters into getting hitched is HILARIOUS to me.
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Date: 2006-02-13 04:30 pm (UTC)And because I've been thinking about this all night: we don't hear about the sisters throughout the books, do we? I know we get the dab in LtH, and we get another bit somewhere, and Hornblower mutters about how Bush ought to have been able to retire to his doting sisters in Chichester, but it might be possible that Hornblower's info is out of date by the time of LH. Some of them might have gotten hitched.
Also: what if Bush had more than the four or whatever? That's an awful lot of siblings, but maybe some of them did get married off, and he just doesn't talk about them?
And finally: any chance that age issues could have come into play? We don't know where Bush stands, age-wise, in relation to the Mlles. Bush.
There's also the fact that he's never bloody home. Aside from the time that he's on halfpay on shore, he's not going to feel the press for money too badly -- it's not like he's grinding it out with them every day. He lives in a little bubble of tops'ls and heads'ls and salt beef and keeping crazy captain boyfriends happy while in the middle of the Atlantic. We don't get hide or hair or mention of them during all the time we spend in his head in LtH while we're at sea. We only hear about them when he's back on shore.
The notion, by the way, of Bush being home and trying to talking one of his sisters into getting hitched is HILARIOUS to me.