@quipxotic replied to your post: Happy birthday to me! Want to play a birthday game?...
Have a very happy birthday! - Sunset and/or Doctor
Thank you very much! I have both for you:
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The sun's disc had disappeared below the horizon, but still its light lingered, highlighting the wave tops in gold lace. Here it was only navy accented with gold, but farther off, where the currents changed, a wide expanse of gold braid stretched from horizon to horizon, glittering in the falling light.
"Beautiful sunset," said Hornblower close by, and Bush started. He dragged his eyes inboard, checking the Hotspur's course, her trim, and the occupation of her crew. All was as it should be.
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I stayed a week in that hotel, pacing the docks and sleeping out my exhaustion from the previous days. Much of my lethargy, I admit, was a simple lack of will to stir myself for more salutary lodgings: I could not abide the thought of the generous fellowship of my club and the warmth and goodwill to be found there. There seemed little for me anywhere in England, for that matter, and I entertained many strange fantasies as I orbited between the docks and my rented bed: of deporting myself to Australia, to Java, to Buenos Aries. Only the promises I had made to Holmes -- that I would come if he needed me, that I could be found if he looked for me -- kept me from discovering if there was a village in Japan that had need of a doctor's care.
