For his participation in a duel against Lord Mohun that protagonist is jailed and only partly vindicated by Mohun's death in a duel with the Duke of Hamilton, who was engaged to Beatrix.
In this novel the protagonist's eventual wife loses her beauty to smallpox scars. For his participation in a duel against Lord Mohun that protagonist is jailed and only partly vindicated by Mohun's death in a duel with the Duke of Hamilton, who was engaged to Beatrix. Throughout this novel, the hero is caught up in Jacobite plotting and in renouncing his rightful claim to the seat of Castlewood. However, by the end he has rejected the Stuart cause and realized his love for Rachel, his one-time guardian. FTP, name this 1852 novel about the titular English colonel, a work by William Thackeray.
In this novel the protagonist's eventual wife loses her beauty to smallpox scars.
The History of {Henry Esmond}