Under Two Flags (Romance Classic). Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé)
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Ouida (Maria Louise Ramé)
Under Two Flags
(Romance Classic)
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2019 OK Publishing
EAN 4064066052935
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. “Beauty of the Brigades.”
Chapter 2. The Loose Box, and the Tabagie.
Chapter 3. The Soldiers’ Blue Ribbon.
Chapter 5. Under the Keeper’s Tree.
Chapter 6. The End of a Ringing Run.
Chapter 7. After a Richmond Dinner.
Chapter 8. A Stag Hunt Au Clair De La Lune.
Chapter 11. For a Woman’s Sake.
Chapter 12. The King’s Last Service.
Chapter 13. In the Cafe of the Chasseurs.
Chapter 14. “De Profundis” Before “Plunging.”
Chapter 15. “L’amie Du Drapeau.”
Chapter 16. Cigarette En Bacchante.
Chapter 17. Under the Houses of Hair.
Chapter 18. Cigarette En Bienfaitrice.
Chapter 19. The Ivory Squadrons.
Chapter 20. Cigarette En Conseil Et Cachette.
Chapter 21. Cigarette En Condottiera.
Chapter 22. The Mistress of the White King.
Chapter 23. The Little Leopard of France.
Chapter 24. “Milady Aux Beaux Yeux Bleus.”
Chapter 27. The Love of the Amazon.
Chapter 28. The Leathern Zackrist.
Chapter 29. By the Bivouac Fire.
Chapter 31. “Je Vous Achete Votre Vie.”
Chapter 33. The Gift of the Cross.
Chapter 34. The Desert Hawk and the Paradise-Bird.
Chapter 36. The Vengeance of the Little One.
Chapter 37. In the Midst of Her Army.
Avis au Lecteur.
This Story was originally written for a military periodical. It has been fortunate enough to receive much commendation from military men, and for them it is now specially issued in its present form. For the general public it may be as well to add that, where translations are appended to the French phrases, those translations usually follow the idiomatic and particular meaning attached to these expressions in the argot of the Army of Algeria, and not the correct or literal one given to such words or sentences in ordinary grammatical parlance.
Ouida.
Chapter 1.
“Beauty of the Brigades.”
“I don’t say but what he’s difficult to please with his Tops,” said Mr. Rake, factotum to the Hon. Bertie Cecil, of the 1st Life Guards, with that article of hunting toggery suspended in his right hand as he paused, before going upstairs, to deliver his opinions with characteristic weight and vivacity to the stud-groom, “he is uncommon particular about ’em; and if his leathers aint as white as snow he’ll never touch