Chapter I: Preface

In the following volumes I have endeavoured to delineate the career of a soldier--and of a character that has not as yet, I think, figured in the pages of our military novelists--a Gentleman Volunteer, serving with a line regiment in time of war, according to a custom which survived even the memorable battles of the Peninsula.

As the scene of his adventures (some of which are not quite fictitious), I have chosen the expedition under the gallant and ill-fated Sir John Moore, as it has scarcely, if ever, been made the theme of a military romance.

No history of the 25th Foot is in existence; hence, as the brief outline of its early career in the first volume is substantially correct, it may prove of interest to some readers.

I may add that the 94th regiment mentioned occasionally, is the old 94th or "Scots Brigade," which came from the service of the States General, and was disbanded after Waterloo.

The corps at present bearing the same number in the Army List was also, however, raised in Scotland, but in December, 1823; and on that occasion the green standard of the old brigade of gallant memory was borne through the streets, from the castle of Edinburgh, by a soldier of the Black Watch.

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CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.

CHAP.

I. LADY WINIFRED
II. THE PARTAN CRAIG
III. THE CASTLE OF ROHALLION
IV. THE CHILD OF THE SEA
V. THE PAST
VI. LORD ROHALLION
VII. OUR STORY PROGRESSES
VIII. QUENTIN'S CHILDHOOD
IX. THE QUARTERMASTER'S SNUGGERY
X. FLORA WARRENDER
XI. LOVE, AND MATTERS PERTAINING THERETO
XII. A LAST KISS
XIII. COSMO THE MASTER
XIV. AN ABRUPT PROPOSAL
XV. THE BLOW
XVI. EXPOSTULATION
XVII. FORTH INTO THE WORLD
XVIII. UNAVAILING REGRET
XIX. AN OLD SOLDIER'S STORY
XX. THE WAYFARER
XXI. THE VAULT OF KILHENZIE
XXII. THE QUEEN ANNE'S HEAD
XXIII. NEW FRIENDS
XXIV. THE YOUNG VOLUNTEER
XXV. THE PRUSSIAN GRENADIER
XXVI. COLCHESTER BARRACKS
XXVII. THE LOST LETTER

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