BEAUCHAMP'S CAREER


BOOK 1.

I. THE CHAMPION OF HIS COUNTRY
II. UNCLE, NEPHEW, AND ANOTHER
III. CONTAINS BARONIAL VIEWS OF THE PRESENT
IV. A GLIMPSE OF NEVIL IN ACTION
V. RENEE
VI. LOVE IN VENICE
VII. AN AWAKENING FOR BOTH
VIII. A NIGHT ON THE ADRIATIC
IX. MORNING AT SEA UNDER THE ALPS
X. A SINGULAR COUNCIL



CHAPTER I

THE CHAMPION OF HIS COUNTRY

When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman's jacket for
a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful
military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations
of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Afric's fires and savagery.
The case occurred in old days now and again, sometimes, upon imagined