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100 1 _aGrant, James,
_d1822-1887
245 1 4 _aThe Ross-shire Buffs
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-31
505 0 _aThe Ross-shire Buffs -- A forgotten Prince of Wales -- The strange story of the Duchess of Kingston -- Story of a Hussar of the Regency -- A weird story of Bruges -- Agnes Sorel, "the Lady of Beauty" -- The veiled portrait -- A legend of the old 55th; or, the regiment of Flanders -- The fatal voyage of the "Laura;" or, the story of Jack Milman.
508 _aAl Haines
520 _a"The Ross-shire Buffs" by James Grant is a novel written in the late 19th century. Set between Edinburgh society and forthcoming imperial campaigns, it weaves a military romance with domestic intrigue as young Highlander Gillian Lamond and his cousin Dove Gainswood fall in love under the shadow of her pious, avaricious father and the looming call of the regiment. At the start of the story, Gillian and Dove secretly pledge themselves in Edinburgh’s Botanical Gardens, while her father and his guardian, the outwardly devout lawyer Gideon Gainswood, remains blind—then hostile—to their attachment. Gainswood grudgingly permits an engagement but insists it be kept secret until Gillian’s father, Colonel Lachlan Lamond, replies from India; the Colonel’s warm letter approves the match, though he must first lead a brief frontier expedition before returning to bless the wedding. Meanwhile Gainswood cultivates the newly arrived Prince’s Hussars, especially Lord Campsie, whose smooth attentions to Dove grow bolder after a glittering dinner at the Gainswood home. Gillian’s visit to the Hussar mess chills him: amid snobbish talk of Edinburgh society, he overhears a damning tale of Gainswood’s sharp practice that ruined an officer. Spurred by pique and money needs, Campsie decides to propose, and the scheming lawyer eagerly consents. The opening closes with shattering news from the papers: Colonel Lamond has been killed fighting hill tribes, a blow that devastates Gillian and ominously tightens Gainswood’s grip over the young couple’s future. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: George Routledge and Sons, 1878
653 _aInheritance and succession -- Fiction
653 _aLove stories
653 _aSoldiers -- Fiction
653 _aScotland -- Fiction
653 _aFamilies -- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/03953437.2083.emory.edu/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77588
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