I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

“Hornblower worked as hard to conceal his human weaknesses as some men worked to…”

“Clairvoyant, Hornblower could foresee that in a year's time, the world would ha…”

“The cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped.”

“The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streame…”