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The Strange Story of My Life (The Colonel's Daughter) (1897)
The Strange Story of My Life - The Colonel's Daughter - 1897 Author:John Strange Winter 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 V. SORROW CLOUDS. Everybody said that ours was the prettiest wedding that had taken place in Simla for years, and although I was so disappointed an... more »d so upset to think that my dear father was not able to be present at the ceremony, I was conscious during the whole time that in every other respect the affair was exceedingly well managed, and extremely gay and pleasant. There were several of Captain Hamlyn's brother officers staying in Simla at the time, and one of these, a Mr. Alaric St. Leger, acted as his best man. "Of course, in an ordinary way, I should have had my cousin," he told me, when the question of his best man was first mooted. "Old Bill and I have always been the greatest possible chums, and if it had been within the bounds of possibility to get him, I should as soon have thought of jumping over that railing," pointing to the rail protecting the edge of the chud, "as of asking any other fellow to perform that good office for me. But poor old Bill happened an accident just before we left England, and had to stay at home on sick leave, so that he has never been out with the regiment at all." "And is he the Honorable Edward Hamlyn, whb is in the 23rd?" I remarked, for I had noticed when glancing at an Army List one day that my sweetheart was not the only man of his name in the 23rd. "Yes, he is the other one, but he has always been called Bill ever since I can remember anything. No, I don't mean that his own people call him Bill, but he was always called Bill at Harrow, and he was always called Bill at Sandhurst." "And were you at Harrow and Sandhurst together?" "No, we were not," he replied, "we were just of an age to miss being together. I was at Harrow, and I was at Sandhurst, but not at the same time as my cousin; in fact, he is five ye...« less