The Soldier of Fortune
- ISBN-10
- 1458936341
- ISBN-13
- 9781458936349
- Pages
- 132
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-02
- Publisher
- General Books
- Author
- Henry Curling
Description
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Hitherto, this appears to be one of the most extraordinary families that ever man of quality marched into. Sir Tunbelly, I shall now quit thy den; but while I retain the use of my senses, I shall ever remember thou art?a dem'd horrid savage. TRIP TO SCARBOROUGH. Under the circumstances I have mentioned in the preceding chapter, was I first made acquainted with Captain M'Kilt, and his no less eccentric subaltern; and such was my first night in the castle of Braemar. Luckily the waters, shortly after the reveille and turn out of the garrison, began to subside, though it was many days before we were able to set foot on the green sward upon which the building stood; and long will it be before that flood is forgotten in the North. I spent some i weekswith my generous and kind-hearted friends, and then prepared to take leave of them. Al- tamont, now that the country was getting more passable, proposed to himself a short leave of absence, and invited me to accompany him on a visit he intended to make to the residence of a Scotch laird to whom he had letters of introduction. I endeavoured to excuse myself, as I felt diffident at making new acquaintances in my present situation. He, however, overruled my objections, and we agre'ed to undertake the expedition together. As Rakehelly Hall was not above thirty miles from Braemar, after taking leave of the excellent M'Kilt, we set forth with knapsacks on our backs, containing a change of clothing, early one morning, to reach it on foot. The roads, in the direction we traversed, were in many places so completely destroyed by the recent floods, that they looked like deep trenches, scooped out by an invading army; whilst, on every side, was to be observed devastation and ruin amidst the slimy deposit of the ...
