Excerpt from Stories of Torres Vedras, Vol. 2 of 3 In the year - I was sent to join my regiment in Egypt, but was detained in Portsmouth by adverse winds; - that brilliant campaign had ended ere I embarked for Malta. I have already stated that I was a tolerable linguist, and was therefore requested, as a particular favour, to take charge of a Russian lady who was going out to join her husband at Malta, where he held a high civil situation. 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.