The Trumpet-Major

Preface

I: What Was Seen from the Window Overlooking the Down

II: Somebody Knocks and Comes In

III: The Mill Becomes an Important Centre of Operations

IV: Who Were Present at the Miller’s Little Entertainment

V: The Song and the Stranger

VI: Old Mr. Derriman of Oxwell Hall

VII: How They Talked in the Pastures

VIII: Anne Makes a Circuit of the Camp

IX: Anne Is Kindly Fetched by the Trumpet-Major

X: The Match-Making Virtues of a Double Garden

XI: Our People Are Affected by the Presence of Royalty

XII: How Everybody Great and Small Climbed to the Top of the Downs

XIII: The Conversation in the Crowd

XIV: Later in the Evening of the Same Day

XV: ‘Captain’ Bob Loveday of the Merchant Service

XVI: They Make Ready for the Illustrious Stranger

XVII: Two Fainting Fits and a Bewilderment

XVIII: The Night After the Arrival

XIX: Miss Johnson’s Behaviour Causes No Little Surprise

XX: How They Lessened the Effect of the Calamity

XXI: ‘Upon the Hill He Turned’

XXII: The Two Households United

XXIII: Military Preparations on an Extended Scale

XXIV: A Letter, a Visitor, and a Tin Box

XXV: Festus Shows His Love

XXVI: The Alarm

XXVII: Danger to Anne

XXVIII: Anne Does Wonders

XXIX: A Dissembler

XXX: At the Theatre Royal

XXXI: Midnight Visitors

XXXII: Deliverance

XXXIII: A Discovery Turns the Scale

XXXIV: A Speck on the Sea

XXXV: A Sailor Enters

XXXVI: Derriman Sees Chances

XXXVII: Reaction

XXXVIII: A Delicate Situation

XXXIX: Bob Loveday Struts Up and Down

XL: A Call on Business

XLI: John Marches into the Night