Only an Ensign: A Tale of the Retreat from Cabul, Volume 3 (of 3)

A Tale of the Retreat from Cabul.
BY JAMES GRANT,
AUTHOR OF THE ROMANCE OF WAR, FIRST LOVE AND LAST LOVE, LADY WEDDERBURN'S WISH, ETC.
IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III.
Come what come may, Time and the Hour runs through the roughest day. — Macbeth.
LONDON: BRADBURY, EVANS, AND CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.
CONTENTS.
CHAP.

ONLY AN ENSIGN.
So, fellow, I am expected by you to swallow this 'tale of a tub,' which has been invented or revived solely for the purposes of monetary extortion! exclaimed Downie Trevelyan, with the most intense and crushing hauteur, as he lay back in the same luxurious easy chair in which his uncle died, and played with his rich gold eye-glass and watered silk riband.
It ain't a tale of a tub, my lord; but of the wreck of a steamer —the steamer Admiral of Montreal, replied Sharkley, meekly and sententiously.