Georgette Heyer - An Infamous Army by Georgette Heyer

Author:Georgette Heyer
Language: eng
Format: epub

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‘Oh yes! But that one so near to me should have caused this unhappiness—’ He checked himself.

‘If it had not been Lady Barbara it would have been another, I daresay.’

He was silent, and she did not like to pursue the topic.Worth presently came in, followed by the butler with the tea tray, and Judith was glad to see the Colonel rouse himself from a mood of abstraction, and join with all his usual cheerfulness in the ordinary commonplace talk of every day.

He did not go out again that evening, nor, next morning, was his horse saddled for an early ride. The sky was overcast, and a thin rain was falling. It stopped later, and by noon the sun was shining, but a press of work at Headquarters kept the Colonel busy all the morning.

In the afternoon there was a review in the Allée Verte of the English, Scottish, and Hanoverian troops quartered in and about Brussels. These constituted the reserve of the Army, and included the 5th Division, destined for the command of Sir Thomas Picton. They were crack troops, and the crowd of onlookers, watching them march past, felt that with such men as these to defend them there could be no need for even the most timorous to fly for safety to the coast.

‘Some of our best regiments,’ said the Duke, as they went past him.

There was good Sir James Kempt’s brigade, four proud regiments: the Slashers, the 32nd, the Cameron Highlanders, and the 1st battalion of the 95th Riflemen, in their dark green uniforms and their jaunty caps.

There was fiery Sir Denis Pack, with his choleric eye, and his heavily arched brows, at the head of the Highland brigade.The Belgians began to cheer, for the kilt never lost its fascination for them, and in this 9th brigade was only one English regiment.

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