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Colonel Quaritch, V.C.
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Title: Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life
Author: H. Rider Haggard
Release Date: April 3, 2004 [EBook #11882]
Language: English
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COLONEL QUARITCH, V.C. By H. Rider Haggard
First Published 1888.
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COLONEL QUARITCH, V.C.
A TALE OF COUNTRY LIFE
BY
H. RIDER HAGGARD
I Dedicate
This Tale of Country Life
To
My Friend and Fellow-Sportsman,
CHARLES J. LONGMAN
PREPARER'S NOTE
This text was prepared from an 1889 edition published by Longmans, Green and Co., printed by Kelly and Co., Gate Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.; and Middle Mill, Kingston-on-Thames.
COLONEL QUARITCH, V.C.
A TALE OF COUNTRY LIFE
CHAPTER I
HAROLD QUARITCH MEDITATES
There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed. To take the instance of a face--we may never see it again, or it may become the companion of our life, but there the picture is just as we /first/ knew it, the same smile or fro