Sharpe's Prey - 05 by Bernard Cornwell

Author:Bernard Cornwell
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2010-01-29T21:07:24+00:00

"World's cruel," Sharpe said.

"Then we must try to be kind," Astrid said firmly.

He walked her home. Bang scowled when they came through the door and Ole Skovgaard, seeing his daughter's happiness, gave Sharpe a suspicious look. "We must find Danes to protect us," Skovgaard told his daughter that evening, but men were needed in the militia, and the militia was busy throwing up the new outworks in the suburbs and so, reluctantly, and mostly at his daughter's urging, Skovgaard allowed Sharpe to stay on in Ulfedt's Plads. On Sunday the rifleman went with the household to church where the hymns droned, the sermon was interminable and Sharpe fell asleep until Aksel Bang dug an indignant elbow in his ribs. Next morning Sharpe escorted Skovgaard to a bank and in the afternoon he accompanied Astrid back to the orphanage, and then to a sugar warehouse on Amager, the small island on which the eastern half of Copenhagen was built. They crossed a lifting bridge which spanned the narrowest part of the harbor and walked past the vast boom which protected the inner haven in which the endangered Danish fleet was stored. Sharpe counted eighteen ships of the line and as many frigates, brigs and gunboats. Two great ships were under construction in the yard, their great hulls rearing on the slipways like half-clothed skeletons of wood. These ships were Napoleon's last hope of invading Britain, which was why the British were in Denmark and the French were poised across the Holstein frontier. Sailors were busy taking the great guns from the ships of the line and ferrying them ashore where they would be added to the artillery already on the city's walls.

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