The Trumpet-Major

By Hardy, Thomas

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Title:	The Trumpet-Major
Author:	Hardy, Thomas
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature & thought, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
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Excerpt
Down to the middle of this century, and later, there were not wanting, in the neighborhood of the places more or less clearly indicated herein, casual relics of the circumstances amid which the action moves?our preparations for defense against the threatened invasion of England by Buonaparte. An outhouse door riddled with bullet-holes, which had been extemporized by a solitary man as a target for firelock practice when the landing was hourly expected, a heap of bricks and clods on a beacon-hill, which had formed the chimney and walls of the hut occupied by the beacon-keeper, worm-eaten shafts and iron heads of pikes for the use of those who had no better weapons, ridges on the down thrown up during the encampment, fragments of volunteer uniform, and other such lingering remains, brought to my imagination in early childhood the state of affairs at the date of the war more vividly than volumes of history could have done.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS I. WHAT WAS SEEN FROM THE WINDOW OVERLOOKING THE DOWN II. SOMEBODY KNOCKS AND COMES IN III. THE MILL BECOMES AN IMPORTANT CENTRE OF OPERATIONS IV. WHO WERE PRESENT AT THE MILLER'S LITTLE ENTERTAINMENT V. THE SONG AND THE STRANGER VI. OLD MR. DERRIMAN OF OXWELL HALL VII. HOW THEY TALKED IN THE PASTURES VIII. ANNE MAKES A CIRCUIT OF THE CAMP IX. ANNE IS KINDLY FETCHED BY THE TRUMPET MAJOR X. THE MATCH-MAKING VIRTUES OF A DOUBLE GARDEN XI. OUR PEOPLE ARE AFFECTED BY THE PRESENCE OF ROYALTY XII. HOW EVERYBODY, GREAT AND SMALL, CLIMBED TO THE TOP OF THE DOWNS XIII. THE CONVERSATION IN THE CROWD XIV. LATER IN THE EVENING OF THE SAME DAY XV. 'CAPTAIN' BOB LOVEDAY, OF THE MERCHANT SERVICE XVI. THEY MAKE READY FOR THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER XVII. TWO FAINTING FITS AND A BEWILDERMENT XVIII. THE NIGHT AFTER THE ARRIVAL XIX. MISS JOHNSON'S BEHAVIOUR CAUSES NO LITTLE SURPRISE XX. HOW THEY LESSENED THE EFFECT OF THE CALAMITY XXI. 'UPON THE HILL HE TURNED' XXII. THE TWO HOUSEHOLDS UNITED