The Royal Regiment, and Other NovelettesGrant, James
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The Royal Regiment, and Other Novelettes
Grant, James
Scotland -- Fiction; Scotland -- History, Military -- Fiction
Another hour found him by the side of Aurelia, and to attempt to
record all the explanations and loving incoherences, astonishment and
joy of _that_ particular interview would be a difficult task indeed;
but even while speaking to her, and while her voice was in his ear,
Roland seemed to see before him the cabinet of Scindia, with the now
baffled secret it contained.
If Roland had now, in a modified sense, to blush at, and feel shame,
for his father's duplicity in the matter of the will--a duplicity
born of the various emotions we have already described, dislike
between brothers, temptation offered on one hand, the dread of losing
the ambitious girl he loved on the other--and then the total
disappearance of Philip, he had to blush before one who had accepted
him as a husband when their positions were very different, when all
the odds of wealth and landed property were, as once again, in her
favour, and he was still the penniless soldier with his sword alone.
And Roland, as he looked on Aurelia again, recalled the youthful
portrait of his lost uncle Philip at Ardgowrie, and saw, or thought
he saw, how closely she resembled it.
We have little more to add.
The Darnel estates, we have said, were ruined; but Ardgowrie was yet
in all its baronial glory; to Ardgowrie they would go, and sell the
former, so it was all settled ere the Canadian summer came swiftly
on; thus the reader may be assured that they were married long before
the month of August, so old Elspat Gorm's "fatal day" of the Ruthvens
was fully evaded. Nor need we add, though we do so, that jolly
Hector Logan was groomsman, and old General Colborne gave the bride
away.
In winning Aurelia, Poland regained his inheritance, but he never
left the old Royal Regiment, or returned finally to Ardgowrie, till
he had, like his father before him, been long a popular colonel of
the corps.
THE SECRET MARRIAGE.
In famous old Cornwall, known as "the Land of Tin," in the days of
Solomon--the land of Druid Cromlechs and Celtic circles, of those
mysterious sarcophagi named Kistvaens, wherein lie the bones of a
race unknown--the land of many wondrous relics of a vanished past,
lies the scene of the following events.
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