Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE PRIDE OF JENNICO

THE PRIDE OF JENNICO

Being a Memoir of Captain Basil Jennico

by

AGNES AND EGERTON CASTLE

New York The Macmillan Company London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 1899

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1897, 1898, By The Macmillan Company.

Set up and electrotyped February, 1898. Reprinted February, April, June three times, July, September, October, December, twice, 1898.

Norwood Press J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Norwood, Mass. U.S.A.

CONTENTS

PART I

Page

CHAPTER I. MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN BASIL JENNICO (BEGUN,
APPARENTLY IN GREAT TROUBLE AND STRESS OF
MIND, AT THE CASTLE OF TOLLENDHAL, IN MORAVIA,
ON THE THIRD DAY OF THE GREAT STORM, LATE IN
THE YEAR 1771) 1

CHAPTER II. BASIL JENNICO’S MEMOIR CONTINUED 23

CHAPTER III. 45

CHAPTER IV. 59

CHAPTER V. 72

CHAPTER VI. 90

CHAPTER VII. 101

CHAPTER VIII. 113

CHAPTER IX. 124

PART II

CHAPTER I. MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN BASIL JENNICO (A PORTION,
WRITTEN EARLY IN THE YEAR 1772, IN HIS ROOMS
AT GRIFFIN’S, CUR ZON STREET) 143

CHAPTER II. CAPTAIN BASIL JENNICO’S MEMOIR CONTINUED 173

CHAPTER III. CAPTAIN BASIL JENNICO’S MEMOIR, RESUMED THREE
MONTHS LATER, AT FARRINGDON DANE 183

CHAPTER IV. NARRATIVE OF AN EPISODE AT WHITE’S CLUB, IN
WHICH CAPTAIN JENNICO WAS CONCERNED, SET FORTH
FROM CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS 201

CHAPTER V. NARRATIVE OF AN EPISODE AT WHITE’S CONTINUED 218

PART III

CHAPTER I. MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN BASIL JENNICO
(RESUMED IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR 1773) 230

CHAPTER II. 252

CHAPTER III. 266

CHAPTER IV. 287

CHAPTER V. 306

CHAPTER VI. 319

CHAPTER VII. 332

THE PRIDE OF JENNICO