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Under the Red Dragon: A Novel

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The narrative alternates between country-house society and a wartime campaign, opening amid invitations, flirtations and rivalries at a rural estate where sisters Winifred and Dora figure in secret engagements, jealousies and social complications. A manipulative outsider furthers misunderstandings, prompting revelations and turning points. The focus then shifts to military service: marches, camp life, trenches, sieges and hazardous duties around a great coastal fortress, with close combat and daring rescues. The tale resolves through returns, reconciliations and marriages, leaving characters to reckon with loyalty, bravery and the emotional costs of love tested by conflict.





FOOTNOTES:


Footnote 1: Without God, without everything.

Footnote 2: The artillery of the Prussian Guard have also had constantly a goat, its neck encircled by a beautiful collar, and one, named by the soldiers "Herr Schneider," accompanied them in every battle, from the war which broke out in 1866 till the peace in 1870. He always marched with the men of the first gun. At Köninghof, Herr Schneider was left in the rear, tied to a powder caisson; but he broke loose, came to the front at full gallop, and was recaptured under fire; the soldiers afterwards attached to his collar a copper medal, made from a pan found among the captured cooking utensils of General Coronini. His death was formally announced by the artillery of the Guard in the Berlin Vossische Zeitung.

Footnote 3: Fusileer regiments did not then wear epaulettes.

Footnote 4: May God preserve us!

Footnote 5: Good Lord deliver us.




THE END.




BILLING, PRINTER. GUILDFORD, SURREY