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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

................................................ 153 CHAPTER II I COME TO THE END OF MY CAPTIVITY , BUT NOT OF MY TROUBLE. ................................. ................................................. 269 BOOK III CONTAINING THE END OF MR. ESMOND’S ADVENTURES IN ENGLAND. ...293 CHAPTER I I COME TO AN EN... ...r the sacrifices made in his Majesty’s cause by the Esmond family, lies in Westmoreland county, between the rivers Potomac and Rappahannock, and was o... ...her a letter or a wash-hand basin. Why shall History go on kneeling to the end of time? I am for having her rise up off her knees, and take a natural ... ...the elm. The London road stretched away towards the rising sun, and to the west were swelling hills and peaks, behind which many a time Harry Esmond s... ...etching from that to the main gate, and with the hall (which looked to the west) into the court now dismantled. This court had been the most magnifice... ... the “News Letter” or the “Grand Cyrus.” My lady used to have boxes of new plays from Lon- don, and Harry was forbidden, under the pain of a whipping,... ...ly influenced many lives, as trifles will in the world, where a gnat often plays a greater part than an elephant, and a mole-hill, as we know in King ... ... almost as her venerable relative. After seeing the town, and going to the plays, my Lord Castlewood and Esmond rode together to Cambridge, spend- ing...

......153 CHAPTER I I AM IN PRISON, AND VISITED, BUT NOT CONSOLED THERE. .................................................. 153 CHAPTER II I COME TO THE END OF MY CAPTIVITY, BUT NOT OF MY TROUBLE..................................... 162 CHAPTER III I TAKE THE QUEEN?S PAY IN QUIN?S REGIMENT. ...................................................................... 171...

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