Excerpt from The Pride of Jennico: Being a Memoir of Captain Basil Jennico But since I can no more keep my thoughts from wandering to her and wondering upon her than I can keep my hot blood from running running with such swiftness that here, alone in the wide vau'lted room, with blasts from the four corners of the earth playing a very demon's dance around me, I am yet all of a fever heat - I will try whether, by laying bare to myself all I know of her and of myself, all I surmise and guess of the parts we acted towards each other in this business, I may not at least come to some under standing, some decision, concerning the manner in which, as a man, I Should comport myself in my most singular position. Having reached thus far in his writing, the scribe after Shaking the golden dust of the pounce box over his page paused, musing for a moment, loosening with unconscious fingers the collar of his coat from his neck and gazing with wide grey eyes at the dancing flames of the logs, and the little clouds of ash that ever and anon burst from the hearth with a Spirt when particles of driven snow found their way down the chimney. Pres ently the pen resumed its travels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.