Playing with Fire: A Story of the Soudan War — James Grant

Description

James Grant's rousing Victorian adventure novel set against the British campaigns in the Sudan. A tale of daring, desert warfare, and youthful courage amid the Mahdist uprising, written in the grand tradition of the boys'-own adventure story that captivated readers of the era.

Excerpt

"'Pon my word, cousin, I think I should actually fall in love with you, but that—that—"
"What?" asked the girl, with a curious smile.
"One so seldom falls in love with one they have known for a life long."
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The speakers were Roland Lindsay, a young captain of the line, home on leave from Egypt, and his cousin, Hester Maule, a handsome girl in her eighteenth year; and the scene in which they figured was a shady, green and well-wooded grassy bank that sloped down to the Esk...