Beadle's Dime Novels No. 298: The Hussar Captain — page 20: what you’re looking at

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D4 THE HUSSAR VCAPTAIN, charmed with the beauty and wit of Salome, and always (de- lighted in a visit or dinner at the hospitable mansion, for Mrs. Tarleton was not so impvlitic as to bring down English vengeance upon her, but in fact was anxious to have around her the great men in the British service, hoping theréby to gain from them many an item of important news that might benefit the army of Washington. Another there was who daily heard with a beating heart of the courage of Glen ‘Farleton, and that was the litile erg | haired belle, Lucille Vancourt. The father of Lucille, Colonel Mercer Vancourt, was an American of wealth and position, who had s.ded with the colonies at the breaking out of the Revolution, and risen to be a prominent officer, and became one of General Washing- ton’s most valued and trusted aids, Colonel Vancourt bad married, while on a visit to Breland, the daughter of an earl,and though she had willingly cone to America with her tush ated and adopted it as her home, Mrs. Vancourt stiil was loyal in feeling to her native Jand, atid it pained her deeply to see the man she had promised to “ honor und obey ” league himself with traitors, as she called the Americans, from Washington down to the Cowboys. Thus, while Colonel Vancourt was serving the American army, Mrs. Vancourt remained loyal to England, filled her parlors nightly with British . officers, and discarded boldly all sympathy with her husvand and his compatriots. But Lucille, the only child of this ill-matched pair, was an American heart and soul, and by her bold speeches soon won the title of the “ Little Rebel,” given lier by the British ofj- cers; but then, Luciile was beautiful, witty, an heiress, and an irrepressible coquette, and her daring rejoicings at the de- feats of the English aud triumphs of the Americans was for- given, if not forgotten, by her foes, many of whom woald have been most anxious to capture the pretty patriot and make her a Joyal wife. Yet Lucille Vancourt was true to one, ahd that one Glen Tarleton, for, from the time the maiden was twelve years of age, the two had loved each other, and since her gixteenth year had been engaged. The handsome residence of Mrs, Vancourt and the lordly conmicloooks.comn) —_—_ SS eS OE rel CC CU mh