Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges
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Chapter 1 An Account Of The Family Of Esmond Of Castlewood Hall
Chapter 2 Relates How Francis, Fourth Viscount, Arrives At Castlewood
Chapter 3 Whither In The Time Of Thomas, Third Viscount, I Had Preceded Him As Page To Isabella
Chapter 4 I Am Placed Under A Popish Priest And Bred To That Religion.-Viscountess Castlewood
Chapter 5 My Superiors Are Engaged In Plots For The Restoration Of King James II
Chapter 6 The Issue Of The Plots.-The Death Of Thomas, Third Viscount Of Castlewood; And The Imprisonment Of His Viscountess
Chapter 7 I Am Left At Castlewood An Orphan, And Find Most Kind Protectors There
Chapter 8 After Good Fortune Comes Evil
Chapter 9 I Have The Small-Pox, And Prepare To Leave Castlewood
Chapter 10 I Go To Cambridge, And Do But Little Good There
Chapter 11 I Come Home For A Holiday To Castlewood, And Find A Skeleton In The House
Chapter 12 My Lord Mohun Comes Among Us For No Good
Chapter 13 My Lord Leaves Us And His Evil Behind Him
Chapter 14 I Am In Prison, And Visited, But Not Consoled There
Chapter 15 I Come To The End Of My Captivity, But Not Of My Trouble
Chapter 16 I Take The Queen's Pay In Quin's Regiment
Chapter 17 Recapitulations
Chapter 18 I Go On The Vigo Bay Expedition, Taste Salt Water And Smell Powder
Chapter 19 The 29th December
Chapter 20 I Am Made Welcome At Walcote
Chapter 21 Family Talk
Chapter 22 I Make The Campaign Of 1704
Chapter 23 An Old Story About A Fool And A Woman
Chapter 24 The Famous Mr. Joseph Addison
Chapter 25 I Get A Company In The Campaign Of 1706
Chapter 26 I Meet An Old Acquaintance In Flanders, And Find My Mother's Grave And My Own Cradle There
Chapter 27 The Campaign Of 1707, 1708
Chapter 28 I Come To An End Of My Battles And Bruises
Chapter 29 I Go Home, And Harp On The Old String
Chapter 30 A Paper Out Of The "Spectator"
Chapter 31 Beatrix's New Suitor
Chapter 32 Mohun Appears For The Last Time In This History
Chapter 33 Poor Beatrix
Chapter 34 I Visit Castlewood Once More
Chapter 35 I Travel To France And Bring Home A Portrait Of Rigaud
Chapter 36 The Original Of The Portrait Comes To England
Chapter 37 We Entertain A Very Distinguished Guest At Kensington
Chapter 38 Our Guest Quits Us As Not Being Hospitable Enough
Chapter 39 A Great Scheme, And Who Balked It
Chapter 40 August 1st, 1714
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Chapter 18 I Go On The Vigo Bay Expedition, Taste Salt Water And Smell Powder

The first expedition in which Mr. Esmond had the honour to be engaged, rather resembled one of the invasions projected by the redoubted Captain Avory or Captain Kid, than a war between crowned heads, carried on by generals of rank and honour. On the 1st day of July, 1702, a great fleet, of a hundred and fifty sail, set sail from Spithead, under the

             
            

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