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THE FULL EFFECT OP A SPANISH PETTICOAT. Notwithstanding the rampant Calvinism of the duchy, the Lords of Holstein—for the province has a nobility of its own, and a most important, bulbous-looking no…
MY FIRST GUARD. In my dreams she danced again before me, and her voice was lingering in my ear. I could still see that fairy figure, with the star beaming on her brow, the robe of muslin, the glanci…
WHO PRUDENTIA'S SPOUSE PROVED TO BE. The moon shone palely through a thin white haze that floated over the Elbe; the level shore lay all sunk in dark shadow, and its reflection in the water was…
TWO KISSES FOR TEN DOUBLOONS. Next morning, the moment my guard was relieved by M'Coll of that Ilk and a new party, I hurried to my quarters, and found that both Ian and M'Alpine were at e…
I PREVAIL ON PRUDENTIA TO ACCEPT OF A RING. I wandered long among the fields and green hedges by the margin of the river, musing on the sudden success of my love affair, marvelling how or where it w…
MY GODDESS DECEIVES ME—I QUARREL WITH THE HAUSMEISTER, AND RUN HIM THROUGH THE BODY. After breakfasting on toast and tankard, like the English, and being rallied by Ian on my abstraction and silence…
THE SCOTTISH STANDARD. The pale dawn was glimmering on the misty waters of the Elbe, and the storks were flapping their dewy wings on the steep gables and fantastic chimney-tops, when our pipers in …
THE SCONCE OF BOITZENBURG. On the day immediately after the review, Sir Donald, with seven companies of the regiment, was ordered to cross the Elbe, leave two companies at Stade, and march towards t…
HOW OUR OLD SCOTTISH BLADES POMMELED THE IMPERIALISTS. As we had secured, sunk, or destroyed, all the boats and other craft on the Elbe, the Imperialists had no other means of crossing but passing, …
THE CROWN OF FIRE. For us, a mere "handful," opposed to a column so powerful, there could be no rest; thus, while one half of our slender force remained under arms, the others worked hard …
