Cupid in Africa

Cupid in Africa

Nor, when the Great War broke out, and gave him something fresh to do and to think about, were there many sadder and unhappier men. His had been a luckless and unfortunate life, what with his two wives and his one son; his excellent intentions and deplorable achievements; his kindly heart and harsh exterior; his narrow escapes of decoration, recognition and promotion. At cards he was not luckyand in love he . . . wellhis first wife, whom he adored, died after a year of him; and his second ran away after three months of his society. She ran away with Mr. Charles Stayne-Brooker (elsewhere the Herr Doktor Karl Stein-Brcker), the man of all men, whom he particularly and peculiarly loathed. And his son, his only son and heir! The boy was a bitter disappointment to him, turning out badlya poet, an artist, a musician, a wretched student and intellectual, a fellow who won prizes and scholarships and suchlike by the hatful, and never carried off, or even tried for, a pot, in his life. Took after his mother, poor boy, and was the first of the family, since God-knows-when, to grow up a dam civilian. Father fought and bled in Egypt, South Africa, Burma, China, India; grandfather in the Crimea and Mutiny, great-grandfather in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, ancestors with Marlborough, the Stuarts, Drakescores of them: and this chap, his son, their descendant, a wretched creature of whom you could no more make a soldier than you could make a service saddle of a sows ear! ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 37544
Author: Wren, Percival Christopher
Release Date: Sep 26, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English