![]() ![]() In stark contrast to her groom, who thought the marriage was a mistake and berated himself for cowardice for not calling it off, Maria was 'melting with happiness'. Horatio Hornblower in the Church of Thomas á Becket. He proposed marriage out of a sense of obligation and out of tenderness, as he was rather surprised anyone would care for him.Ī week after Hornblower's proposal of marriage, Maria Ellen Mason became Mrs. ![]() Later, when Hornblower returned to the lodging, pleased to be a commander again with a ship, Maria was distressed and broke into tears fearing she would never see him again. Maria rescued him from bankruptcy by secreting a half crown in his coat pocket on the pretext of brushing it for him. Thus, Hornblower's sole income came from what he earned as an in-house whist player in the Long Rooms gaming house. ![]() He must repay the three months of commander's pay which he received before his commission to that rank was confirmed, which meant five months before he could begin to draw half-pay. Maria was aware of Lieutenant Hornblower's distressed financial circumstances when Hornblower was reduced to half pay, due to a cessation of hostilities between Britain and France. In addition to aiding her mother with the boarding house, she was also a school teacher. In her first appearance in Lieutenant Hornblower, Maria was described as 'a woman not quite young'. ![]() Mason, 'a hard-faced woman' who had rooms to let in her boarding house on Highbury Street. Maria Ellen ( neé Mason) Hornblower was the daughter of Horatio's landlady, the supposed widow Mrs. ![]()
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