Pride of Jennico Being a Memoir of Captain Basil Jennico

1899. From the notable literary couple of Egerton Castle and his wife, Agnes (Sweetman) Castle, who was a sister of the novelist Francis Blundell comes the first of their popular, stylish historical romances, The Pride of Jennico. The novel relays the story of an English aristocrat who inherits a princedom in Moravia. The story begins: As the wind rattles the casements with impotent clutch, howls down the stair-turret with the voice of a despairing soul, creeps in long irregular waves between the tapestries and the granite walls of my chamber and wantons with the flames of logs and candles; knowing, as I do, that outside the snow is driven relentlessly by the gale, and that I can hope for no relief from the company of my wretched self,-for they who have learnt the temper of these wild mountain winds tell me the storm must last at least three days more in its fury,-I have bethought to me, to keep from going melancholy crazed altogether, to set me some regular task to do. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.Castle, Agnes is the author of 'Pride of Jennico Being a Memoir of Captain Basil Jennico' with ISBN 9781417910168 and ISBN 141791016X.