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Updated: May 6, 2025
He was still serving at Chatsmouth, his young and beautiful wife the life of the gay garrison, when the war-clouds gathered dark upon the horizon, and, thanks again to the Essendine interest, he found himself transferred, still on the staff, to the expeditionary army under orders for the East. They were stirring times, those early days of '54.
"You have given yourself away, as they say in America; you have put yourself in my hands, Cyprienne. I insist now upon your doing what I wish." "You shall not browbeat me!" She rose from her seat, with indignation in her face. "Leave me, or I will call the servants." "I shall go straight to Lord Essendine, then, and tell him all I know. How would you like that?
Lord Essendine has never recognised us." "Why? Is there any reason?" "The Honourable Anastasius made a poor match, married against his father's wish, and was cut off with a shilling. His brother, the next earl, was disposed to make it up, but my grandfather died, and my grandmother married again an honest sea-captain and the noble peer cut her dead." "And so you joined the Royal Picts.
That was a point on which he meant to please himself, and did. When, after a short honeymoon at Granada, the young married couple returned to Gibraltar and travelled leisurely homewards, Lord Essendine was one of the first to welcome him on arrival, and to congratulate him on the beauty of his bride.
She had heard, she said it was not necessary to say how that they meant to send him on some secret expedition, full of danger, she understood, and she thought it such a pity so wrong, so unfair! "He ought really to return to England and take up his proper position," she went on. "Lord Essendine wishes it, and so, I am sure, must you."
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