HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF THE ENGLISH HUMOURISTS OF AND BY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE DU MAURIER F. BARNARD, AND FRANK DICKSEE, R.A. MAKYAW D COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE 14 THE BIOGRAPHICAL EDITION OF Edited by Mrs. Anne THACKERAY Ritchie The volumes are issued as far as possible in order of original publication 7. HENRY ESMOND, ETC. 8. THE NEWCOMES 10. THE VIRGINIANS II. PHILIP, ETC. 12. DENIS DUVAL, ETC. 13. MISCELLANIES $1 75 per volume HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK AND LONDON Copyright, 1898, by HARPER & BROTHERS All rights reserved CHAP 14 AT CASTLEWOOD 19 I. AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLE- II. RELATES HOW FRANCIS, FOURTH VISCOUNT, ARRIVES III. WHITHER IN THE TIME OF THOMAS, THIRD VISCOUNT, I HAD PRECEDED HIM AS PAGE TO ISABELLA . IV. I AM PLACED UNDER A POPISH PRIEST AND BRED TO THAT RELIGION-VISCOUNTESS CASTLEWOOD y. MY SUPERIORS ARE ENGAGED IN PLOTS FOR THE RESTORATION OF KING JAMES THE SECOND . VI. THE ISSUE OF THE PLOTS--THE DEATH OF THOMAS, THIRD VISCOUNT OF CASTLEWOOD; AND THE IMPRISONMENT OF HIS VISCOUNTESS VII. I AM LEFT AT CASTLEWOOD AN ORPHAN, AND FIND XI. I COME HOME FOR A HOLIDAY TO CASTLEWOOD, AND FIND A SKELETON IN THE HOUSE . . . 104 XII. MY LORD MOHUN COMES AMONG US FOR NO GOOD. 115 I. I AM IN PRISON, AND VISITED, BUT NOT CONSOLED II. I COME TO THE END OF MY CAPTIVITY, BUT NOT III. I TAKE THE QUEEN'S PAY IN QUIN'S REGIMENT : VII. I AM MADE WELCOME AT WALCOTE ix. I MAKE THE CAMPAIGN OF 1704 . . X. AN OLD STORY ABOUT A FOOL AND A WOMAN |