LADY WEDDERBURN'S WISH.
Reading edition
A Tale of the Crimean War.
BY JAMES GRANT,
AUTHOR OF "THE ROMANCE OF WAR," "FIRST LOVE AND LAST LOVE," "THE GIRL HE MARRIED," ETC.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON: TINSLEY BROTHERS, 18, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND. 1870.
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LONDON: SAVILL, EDWARDS AND CO., PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
TO
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL EGBERT LAW, K.H.
COLONEL OF THE 71ST HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY,
THIS TALE OF THE CRIMEAN WAR
Is Inscribed,
AS A MEMORIAL OF REGARD, AND OF THE YEARS SPENT TOGETHER IN AMERICA LONG AGO.
PREFACE.
Some episodes which are facts have been woven up with the following story of the War in the Crimea.
I may mention that the sorrowful adventure of Major Singleton is no fiction, save so far as the names are concerned, as it happened to a Scottish medical officer during one of our late wars in India.
The famous duel fought by De l'Lisle and De la Fosse occurred, as narrated, in the days of the French Monarchy; and, by a letter which I had the pleasure to receive from General Lord de Ros (who has referred to it in a recent military work), he informs me that it was first recorded in a volume entitled, "The Military Mentor," supposed to be by General Burgoyne—of unfortunate memory—the same officer whose army had to capitulate at Saratoga.
A gambling quarrel nearly similar to that of Major Chesters in the troop-ship once occupied the attention of a court martial, and suggested the idea of his exposure by the French Colonel as described in the text.
Of the rest of the narrative the Author leaves his readers to judge for themselves, as those parts which belong to history are sufficiently apparent.
September, 1870.
CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
CHAP.
I. THE DESPATCH BOX II. THE WILLOWDEAN III. LADY WEDDERBURN'S HOPE IV. LONEWOODLEE V. MARY LENNOX VI. TWO LOVERS VII. SUSPENSE AND DREAD VIII. MARY'S MISTAKE IX. A SNARE X. CHESTERHAUGH XI. CHESTERS' "MILD PLAY" XII. THE LAST OF THE BAY HUNTER XIII. GRIEF XIV. AN UNWELCOME VISITOR XV. THE SPRING EVENING XVI. A HAPPY WALK HOME XVII. COUSIN GWENNY XVIII. FIRST IMPRESSIONS XIX. SCHEMES XX. MY LADY EXPOSTULATES XXI. THE TRYST XXII. WHAT THE MORROW BROUGHT FORTH XXIII. THE DAWN OF LOVE XXIV. PARTED IN SORROW XXV. THE TELEGRAM XXVI. MARY'S NEW TERROR
LADY WEDDERBURN'S WISH.