Lord Alfred Vargrave, about to marry his cousin Matilda, travels to a spa in the Pyrenees to return old letters to Lucile de Nevers, the woman he once loved. A misunderstanding with a jealous French duke sets the three on courses that cross again years later in the Crimean War, all told in rolling anapaestic couplets.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton’s 1860 poem, a favourite gift book of the nineteenth century, for readers of Victorian romance in verse. Download the free EPUB.