CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
CHAP.
I. [A LAST REJECTION]
II. [THE MESS]
III. [THE PUNISHMENT PARADE]
IV. [THE OLD REGIMENT OF EDINBURGH]
V. [THE ADVANCED PICQUET]
VI. [COSMO JOINS]
VII. [THE DEPARTURE]
VIII. [ON THE SEA]
IX. [PORTALEGRE]
X. [COSMO'S CRAFT]
XI. [QUENTIN DEPARTS]
XII. [ANXIOUS FRIENDS]
XIII. [THE PARAGRAPH]
XIV. [THE WAYSIDE CROSS AND WELL]
XV. [THE MULETEERS]
XVI. [GIL LLANO]
XVII. [DANGER IN THE PATH]
XVIII. [THE CHASSEUR Ã CHEVAL]
XIX. [EUGÃNE DE RIBEAUPIERRE]
XX. [THE GALIOTE OF ST. CLOUD]
XXI. [THE GUERILLA HEAD-QUARTERS]
XXII. [A REPRISAL]
XXIII. [DON BALTASAR DE SALDOS]
XXIV. [DONNA ISIDORA]
XXV. [THE JOURNEY]
XXVI. [A SURPRISE]
XXVII. [THE VILLA DE MACIERA]
XXVIII. [OUR LADY DEL PILAR]
THE KING'S OWN BORDERERS.
CHAPTER I.
A LAST REJECTION.
"Ae fond kiss and then we sever!
Ae farewell, alas for ever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee;
Who shall say that Fortune grieves him
While the star of hope she leaves him?"
BURNS.
Ignoring the source or cause of the excitement among the household, Cosmo lounged into the breakfast-parlour, where the silver urns were hissing amid a very chaste equipage, and where the September sun was shining in through clusters of sweet briar and monthly roses, and as he seated himself he handed to his father a long official-like document, at the sight of which his mother changed colour, and even Flora, who looked charming in her smiling radiance, lace frills, and morning dress of spotted white muslin, lifted her dark eyelashes with interest.
"What's the matter, Cosmo?—your leave cancelled?" asked Rohallion.
"Oh no, my lord—nothing so bad as that."