The Escape Of The Notorious Sir William Heans

Author : William Hay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330754481
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (544 download)

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Download or read book The Escape of the Notorious Sir William Heans written by William Hay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Escape of the Notorious Sir William Heans: And the Mystery of Mr. Daunt; A Romance of Tasmania When Sir William Heans first reached Hobarton, Tasmania, he was placed in the Government Architects office on the strength of having erected additions to the family home in Ireland. Thus he spent a good deal of time designing penitentiaries, riding, reporting himself at the prison, punting, and visiting among a few friends to whom he had brought letters. Indeed, when he first reached the island, on the strength of his family connections, he walked for a fine and chequered summer in quite exalted society. And it is of this prolific year - prolific of so much terror and good - that we have first to tell. A great deal had occurred before he met his friend Mr. Jarvis Carnt, also a prisoner. Not that he would have looked down on Mr. Carnt, if he had met him then; he always had a fine eye for a male acquaintance; but he was living a somewhat protected life for a gentleman prisoner (or "long-coater") at that time, and being careful not to compromise his friends by frequenting the lower clubs, he had not come across Mr. Carnt. It is strange how the world will give a man a second chance - especially if he be a good-looking one. This perennial instance of man's patience is no more evident in our male clubs and criminal courts than in the cabinets of the women. Sir William Heans' crime - his sin - which we shall touch on most briefly hereafter, and the committing of which had pushed him from the places that he loved into exile and boredom in a wild island at the bottom of the world - his sin seemed like to have been forgiven him by certain of his new acquaintances, one of whom, in particular, was a woman. This had not arisen from a rumour which had arrived with him - it is said, his own opinion somewhat too freely expressed - that he had been as much the sinned upon as the sinner, nor yet altogether from the far more potent argument of his good health and handsome face. Captain Hyde-Shaxton and his wife, Matilda, had received him from the first with kindness, and even with warmth. 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.