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He reached home to find that his mother, who believed in keeping young men employed, had procured him a cornetcy in Lord Lomond's Troop of Horse. He was now in possession of an ample fortune. He would certainly succeed to the baronetcy, and to the Vyell acres, which were mostly entailed. But the grave itself could not give lessons in greed to a true Whig family of that period.
But, indeed, we had very imperfect glimpses of the hills along the latter part of the course, because the wind had grown so very cold that we took shelter below, and merely peeped at Loch Lomond's sublimities from the cabin-windows. The whole voyage up Loch Lomond is, I think, about thirty-two miles; but we landed at a place called Tarbet, much short of the ultimate point.
But, indeed, we had very imperfect glimpses of the hills along the latter part of the course, because the wind had grown so very cold that we took shelter below, and merely peeped at Loch Lomond's sublimities from the cabin-windows. The whole voyage up Loch Lomond is, I think, about thirty-two miles; but we landed at a place called Tarbet, much short of the ultimate point.
They had had an "awful doing," and no one knew how the battle at Ypres had gone, but these were men yet walking upright when they could, always civil, undismayed, intelligent, and about as like giving in as a piece of granite. Only the young Scottish boys the children of seventeen who had sworn in as nineteen were longing for Loch Lomond's side and the falls of Inversnaid.
Here were men talking of the very sound of bayonets on human flesh; here were men not only asphyxiated by gas, but blinded by the pepper that the Germans mix with it; and here were men determined to give no quarter yet they were babbling of Loch Lomond's side and their mothers, and fighting as to who should give up their beds to each other.
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