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CONTENTS

Chapter

  1. [Castello Branco]
  2. [The Major's Story]
  3. [Another Night at Merida]
  4. [The Out-picquet]
  5. [The Flag of Truce]
  6. [Almarez]
  7. [D'Estouville]
  8. [Catalina]
  9. [The Matador]
  10. [El Convento de Santa Cruz]
  11. [A Single Combat]
  12. [The Curate's Story]
  13. [An Arrest]
  14. [De Mesmai]
  15. [The Heights of Albuera. The Cross of Santiago]
  16. [The March to Toledo]

THE ROMANCE OF WAR.

CHAPTER I.

CASTELLO BRANCO.

"Yet since thou wilt an idle tale of mine,

Take one which scarcely is of worth enough

To give or to withhold. Our time creeps on;

Fancy grows colder, as the silvery hair

Tells the advancing winter of our life:

But if it be of worth enough to please,

That worth it owes to her who set the task;

If otherwise, the fault rests with the author."

Macduff's Cross.—Prelude.

"Well, Ronald, my bon camarado, and so you are really here, and in safety?" said Macdonald as he came up at the head of his sub-division. "Quite well now, I perceive. You received my letter from your servant, of course?"

"Yes. I have a thousand strange adventures to tell you of; but I will reserve them for the halt, which I suppose will be at the castle of Zagala. But meanwhile, let me hear the regimental news."