The title story turns on Earlscourt’s proud fiancée and the shadow that falls between them. In the tales that follow, officers of fashionable regiments, Canadian visitors, slanderers and countesses gamble, waltz, quarrel and fall in love, in stories such as Holly Wreaths and Rose Chains, Silver Chimes and Golden Fetters, Sir Galahad’s Raid and Our Wager.
Early, extravagant Ouida, all guardsmen and glamour, for readers who enjoy Victorian society romance at full sail. Download the free EPUB.