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    340 OUR ADYENTUBE IN THE HIGHLANDS.

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    And Our The Regiment Season Was Was Stat...

    ornament to our regiment and were very proud of him , yet no man made a friend of himand no man knew anything of hi &

    , relatives or antecedents . His manner was particularly suave and gentlemanlikebut his politeness always seemed to have in

    it a degree of condescension , , and even in his most genial moments a je ne sais quoi about him repelled . His temper

    was like touchwood , but when angry he never blustered ; indeed he rarely spoke a word , but he ground those tiger-like teeth of

    flas his , h and such from as woul his d deep make -set a falcon manif grey left eyes in a room there shot alone a with blue

    , , first him , -rate look officer round nevertheless for the door , and . He it will was be a sp easil lendid y imag man ined and that a

    in the eyes of the world the Giaour-like Adonis was a very formidable rival to Charlie Heathcotethe

    blue-eyedlaughingfaced , boyish-looking , kind-hearted , young lieutenant , ; more especially when it is considered that Ashton , although only

    twenty-seven , was our senior captain and rich , while Charlie was onl" daddy sub " and poor . It was impossiblehoweverto

    discover y which was the favoured one ; forif the tr , uth must , be toldthe fair Annie was a great flirt ; , but the affair was

    anxiousl , y watched by us , and many bets were made as to the result .

    Great was our delight when , in the midst of our state of boredominvitations to a ball at -Laurel Grove reached us .

    On the _£ , 4 th September Annie Hose would come of age , arid the elite of Perth and its neighbourhood were to assemble

    then at her father's house , to celebrate the event . u The 24 th ! " read Harry Beeching from the little pink

    billet in his hand . " Why , our fellows will be home by that time , and we may be able to start on our tour a day or two

    after the ball . c It never rains but it pours . ' Hurrah ! " And Harry executed an eccentric pas . seulexpressive of hilarity .

    The intervening time dragged on , , and at last the wished-for 24 th came . Being very solicitous as to our appearance that

    evening , we spent two hours Adonis-ising , and then -Charlie ,. Harry The , hom and e I repaired of Annie together Hose could to Laurel not have Grove been . more

    appro n _j _^ ever riatel saw y named . 1 am , for not a p well lace enoug more h comp up in letely architectural buried in terms laurels to I *

    give a name to the style in which the house was built ; but though I have never been in ItalyI can imagine all the villas

    there to be just like it . It was a , one-storied cottage , but very large and covering a great extent of ground ; it had an elegant

    portico with Ionic columns , and the walls were completely botany concealed I cannot by a mass name of them , creep all i n g p lants I at least ; not recognized being a dab roses at

    jasmineand honeysuckle among , them . So thickly was the , ,

    340 Our Adyentube In The Highlands.

    340 OUR ADYENTUBE IN THE HIGHLANDS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1864, page 340, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071864/page/52/