The Admirable Lady Biddy Fane

It is an adventure book. As 'tis the present mode to embellish a history with a portrait of the writer, it will not be amiss that Benet Pengilly is about to tell you many marvelous things. What kind of man I am you may better judge when you come to the last page of this history; my business now is to present my image as I was; to which end I would have you may picture a man close upon thirty years of age, clad in a jerkin and breeches of leather, six foot and some odd inches in height, gaun...