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THE TRUMPET-MAJOR.

CHAPTER I

what was seen from the window overlooking the down.


IN the days of high-waisted and muslin-gowned women, when the vast amount of soldiering going on in the country was a cause of much trembling to the sex, there lived in a village near the Wessex coast two ladies of good report, though unfortunately of limited means. The elder was Mrs. Martha Garland, a landscape-painter's widow, and the other was her only daughter Anne.

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