oops, my prose may have been slightly misleading. hornblower had nothing to do with wellard drowning, it was an accident. bush used the incident (as they read it in the chronicles) as an excuse to ask hornblower again about the sawyer incident (something like "do you think he had anything to do with it?) and hornblower remains indifferent to wellard's death and does the stone-cold mask of indifference thing again.
and, according to the "letter" not written by forester but by the "biographer," hornblower didn't do the deed, he came up with it because he was convinced that all the lts would hang when they reached port, so he decided that sawyer had to be gotten rid of. he got wellard to do it, who (according to the "letter") didn't need much convincing after all the uncalled for beatings.
i'll believe that hornblower aided sawyer's falling down the hold, only because forester is so adament about relating his lack of facial expressions, but his death? i've never bought it, it's very out of character, and it's even more out of character than hornblower "writing" a confessional. and since forester is dead, we'll never really know will we?
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Re: My 0.2RMB
Date: 2006-03-16 04:53 am (UTC)and, according to the "letter" not written by forester but by the "biographer," hornblower didn't do the deed, he came up with it because he was convinced that all the lts would hang when they reached port, so he decided that sawyer had to be gotten rid of. he got wellard to do it, who (according to the "letter") didn't need much convincing after all the uncalled for beatings.
i'll believe that hornblower aided sawyer's falling down the hold, only because forester is so adament about relating his lack of facial expressions, but his death? i've never bought it, it's very out of character, and it's even more out of character than hornblower "writing" a confessional. and since forester is dead, we'll never really know will we?