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WILLIAM
THACKERAY
THE HISTORY OF
HENRY ESMOND
PART II
Москва
T8RUGRAM
2018
УДК 82
ББК 84(0)
William Thackeray
The History of Henry Esmond II / W. Thackeray. – М. :
T8 Издательские технологии / RUGRAM, 2018. – 226 с. –
(Original).
ISBN 978-5-521-07826-4
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) was a British author and novelist mostly known for his satir-ical works such as
“Vanity Fair” that showed an ironic representation of the British
society of those times. “The History of Henry Esmond” is a historical novel that tells the story of Henry Esmond, a colonel in the
service of Queen Anne of England. Most of the major events of the
book happen between the late seventeenth and early eighteenth
century, specifi cally English Restoration, the Glorious Revolution, the War of the Spanish Succession, the Hamilton–Mohun
Duel and the Hanoverian Succession.
© T8RUGRAM, оформление, 2018
© T8 Издательские технологии, 2018
ISBN 978-5-521-07826-4 © Original, 2018
УДК 82
ББК 84(0)
BIC FC
BISAC FIC000000
CONTENTS
BOOK III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
CHAPTER I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
CHAPTER II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
CHAPTER III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
CHAPTER IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
CHAPTER V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
CHAPTER VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
CHAPTER VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117
CHAPTER VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
CHAPTER IX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
CHAPTER X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
CHAPTER XI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
CHAPTER XII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
CHAPTER XIII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207
PART II
BOOK III
CONTAINING THE END
OF MR. ESMOND’S
ADVENTURES IN ENGLAND
CHAPTER I
I COME TO AN END OF
MY BATTLES AND BRUISES
That feverish desire to gain a little reputation which Esmond had had, left him now perhaps that he had attained
some portion of his wish, and the great motive of his ambition was over. His desire for military honor was that it might
raise him in Beatrix’s eyes. ’Twas next to nobility and wealth,
the only kind of rank she valued. It was the stake quickest won
or lost too; for law is a very long game that requires a life to
practise; and to be distinguished in letters or the Church
would not have forwarded the poor gentleman’s plans in
the least. So he had no suit to play but the red one, and he
played it; and this, in truth, was the reason of his speedy promotion; for he exposed himself more than most gentlemen do,
and risked more to win more. Is he the only man that hath set
his life against a stake which may be not worth the winning?
Another risks his life (and his honor, too, sometimes,) against
a bundle of bank-notes, or a yard of blue ribbon, or a seat in
Parliament; and some for the mere pleasure and excitement of
the sport; as a fi eld of a hundred huntsmen will do, each outbawling and out-galloping the other at the tail of a dirty fox,
that is to be the prize of the foremost happy conqueror.
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When he heard this news of Beatrix’s engagement in
marriage, Colonel Esmond knocked under to his fate, and
resolved to surrender his sword, that could win him nothing
now he cared for; and in this dismal frame of mind he determined to retire from the regiment, to the great delight of
the captain next in rank to him, who happened to be a young
gentleman of good fortune, who eagerly paid Mr. Esmond
a thousand guineas for his majority in Webb’s regiment, and
was knocked on the head the next campaign. Perhaps Esmond would not have been sorry to share his fate. He was
more the Knight of the Woful Countenance than ever he
had been. His moodiness must have made him perfectly odious to his friends under the tents, who like a jolly fellow,
and laugh at a melancholy warrior always sighing after Dulcinea at home.
Both the ladies of Castlewood approved of Mr. Esmond
quitting the army, and his kind General coincided in his
wish of retirement and helped in the transfer of his commission, which brought a pretty sum into his pocket. But when
the Commander-inChief came home, and was forced, in
spite of himself, to appoint Lieutenant-General Webb to
the command of a division of the army in Flanders, the Lieutenant-General prayed Colonel Esmond so urgently to be his
aide-de-camp and military secretary, that Esmond could not
resist his kind patron’s entreaties, and again took the fi eld, not
attached to any regiment, but under Webb’s orders. What must
have been the continued agonies of fears and apprehensions
which racked the gentle breasts of wives and matrons in those
dreadful days, when every Gazette brought accounts of deaths
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