Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Boy's Own Paper, Vol. 10: April 7, 1888
His wife - a comely, pleasant lady of Somewhat over forty - folded her letter and tripped lightly to the window to see the little ?ake. She leant her clasped hands on her husband's broad right shoulder, and stood there looking up into his face, rather than outwards at the prospect.
If site was comely, he was handsome. There is not a doubt about that. He was tall, well-set, and squarely made, with out an inch of spare flesh anywhere about him. The half-dress uniform he wore well became him; he wore his hair in one long powdered cue, while his gentle blue eyes and clean-shaven face gave him an expression that was almost womanly in its mildness.
Yet had Colonel Trelawney faced fearful odds in many a well-fought field, and those eyes could be stern enough when lit up with the excite ment an enemy. In view brought to them.
Trelawney was, and had been all through his career, a brave and a true soldier. From the day he first donned his uniform as a humble ensign, until now that honours decorated his breast, he had done his duty faithfully and well to his king and country. His fault, if fault it could be called, was want of caution in the field. But have not some of the greatest heroes of the world been men of fiery elan, of force and vim; men who could not quite restrain their impetuosity, who would be in the thick of the action, men to whose ears the charging shout, the thunder of guns and rattle of ri?es were stirring music? Witness Colin Campbell (lord Clyde) and General Gordon.
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