Posted by Peter H on August 21, 2007 at 16:43:59 from 86.130.120.176 user Peter_H.
In Reply to: Re: CaptainFLINT AS posted by Jon on August 21, 2007 at 13:46:42:
note also that she said, straight out to the D's, that she owed her nieces an apology.
No, she didn't - she said 'I fear I have done my nieces an injustice' - re-read 'Picts & Martyrs' p. 282. That is not an apology, and when the G.A. actually met Nancy and Peggy on the lawn she didn't apologise to them or mention any 'injustice'.
Capn Flint faced up to John: 'I was altogether in the wrong . . . I'm very sorry. Will you shake hands?'
Bit of a difference. As to CF being 'no better, no worse' than the G.A. - no, sorry, never in a million years.
What interests me much more is the fact that the G.A. refers to N and P as 'my nieces' when she is aboard Scarab. She meant 'great nieces' and she uses the term 'great nieces' in her letter to Mrs B. Did she abbreviate the term while she was talking to the Ds? If so, that seems very unlike the G.A., whose speech is normally pedantically correct. Perhaps Ed can throw some light on this? :-)