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The King's Own Borderers: A Military Romance, Volume 1 (of 3)
Set against the backdrop of the late 18th-century Napoleonic Wars, the story opens with an impending disaster at sea and introduces the noble Lady Winifred and the seasoned Quartermaster John Girvan, who watch a ship struggle against a storm off the Scottish coast.
"The King's Own Borderers: A Military Romance, Volume 1 (of 3)" by James Grant is a historical romance novel. Set against the backdrop of the late 18th-century Napoleonic Wars, the story opens with an impending disaster at sea and introduces the noble Lady Winifred and the seasoned Quartermaster John Girvan, who watch a ship struggle against a storm off the Scottish coast.
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"Thick, thick—no sight remains the while, From the farthest Orkney isle, No sight to seahorse or to seer, But of a little pallid sail, That seems as if 'twould struggle near, And then as if its pinion pale Gave up the battle to the gale." LEIGH HUNT.
On the afternoon of a lowering day in the November of 1798, a square-rigged vessel—a brig of some three hundred and fifty tons—was seen in the offing, about twelve miles distant from the bluff, rocky headland of Rohallion, on the western coast of Carrick, beating hard against a head-wind and sea, that were set dead in shore; and, as a long and treacherous reef, locally known as the Partan Craig (Anglicè, Crab-rock), lies off the headland, many fears were loudly expressed by on-lookers, that if she failed to gain even better sea room, ere night-fall, the gale, the waves, and the current might prove too much for her in the end, and the half-sunken reef would finish the catastrophe.
Over the craig the angry breakers of the Firth of Clyde were seen to boil and whiten, and the ridgy reef seemed to rise, at times, like a hungry row of shark's teeth, black, sharp, and shining.
With royal yards on deck, with topsails lowered upon the caps, her fore and maincourses close-hauled, with a double reef in each, the stranger was seen to lie alternately on the port and starboard tack, braced so close to the wind's eye as a square-rigged craft dared be; but still she made but little way to seaward.
Contents
- 01Chapter I. Lady Winifred.
- 02Chapter II. The Partan Craig.
- 03Chapter III. The Castle of Rohallion.
- 04Chapter IV. The Child of the Sea.
- 05Chapter V. The Past.
- 06Chapter VI. Lord Rohallion.
- 07Chapter VII. Our Story Progresses.
- 08Chapter VIII. Quentin's Childhood.
- 09Chapter IX. The Quartermaster's Snuggery.
- 10Chapter X. Flora Warrender.
- 11Chapter XI. Love, and Matters Pertaining Thereto.
- 12Chapter XII. A Last Kiss.
- 13Chapter XIII. Cosmo the Master.
- 14Chapter XIV. An Abrupt Proposal.
- 15Chapter XV. The Blow.
- 16Chapter XVI. Expostulation.
- 17Chapter XVII. Forth Into the World.
- 18Chapter XVIII. Unavailing Regret.
- 19Chapter XIX. An Old Soldier's Story.
- 20Chapter XX. The Wayfarer.
- 21Chapter XXI. The Vault of Kilhenzie.
- 22Chapter XXII. The Queen Anne's Head.
- 23Chapter XXIII. New Friends.
- 24Chapter XXIV. The Young Volunteer.
- 25Chapter XXV. The Prussian Grenadier.
- 26Chapter XXVI. Colchester Barracks.
- 27Chapter XXVII. The Lost Letter.
About this edition
- Author
- James Grant
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 246 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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