id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
15299	Runciman, Walter Runciman, Baron	Drake, Nelson and Napoleon			.txt	text/plain	93937	3494	65	This is a form of cant to which those whom we regard as great men are a prey. Troubridge was audaciously requested to appoint a hangman (it may be he was asked to combine this with his other naval duties), and knowing the fine sense of noble dignity in the average sailor, we can easily imagine the flow of adjectives that accompanied the refusal, and how he would relate the outrage to which he had been subjected in quarterdeck language, that need not be here repeated, to his superior officer, Admiral Nelson, who must have felt the degradation of being selected to carry out as dirty a piece of work as ever devolved upon a public servant.	cache/15299.txt	txt/15299.txt
