Major Vigoureux
For a dozen years Major Narcisse Vigoureux had been, for an unmarried man, an exceedingly happy one. If you ask me how an officer bearing such a name happened in command of a British garrison, I answer that he was not a Frenchman, but a Channel Islander of good Jersey descent; and this again helped him to understand the folk over whom he ruled. The wrong-doers feared him; but they were few. By the rest of the population, including his soldiers, he was beloved, respected, not a little envied. For a bachelor he mingled with zest in the small social amusements of Garland Town, the capital of the Islands. He shone at picnics and water-parties. He…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4344-0040-6
- EAN: 9781434400406
- Produktnummer: 2892927
- Verlag: Wildside Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 220 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.7 cm 512 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 512
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