For the Term of His Natural Life. Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
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Название: For the Term of His Natural Life
Автор: Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
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CHAPTER XI. A RELIC OF MACQUARIE HARBOUR.
CHAPTER XIII. THE COMMANDANT'S BUTLER.
CHAPTER XIV. Mr. NORTH'S DISPOSITION.
CHAPTER XV. ONE HUNDRED LASHES.
CHAPTER XVI. KICKING AGAINST THE PRICKS.
CHAPTER XVII. CAPTAIN AND MRS. FRERE.
CHAPTER XVIII. IN THE HOSPITAL.
CHAPTER XIX. THE CONSOLATIONS OF RELIGION.
CHAPTER XX. “A NATURAL PENITENTIARY.”
CHAPTER XXI. A VISIT OF INSPECTION.
CHAPTER XXII. GATHERING IN THE THREADS.
CHAPTER XXIII. RUNNING THE GAUNTLET.
CHAPTER XXVI. THE WORK OF THE SEA.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH.
BOOK IV.—NORFOLK ISLAND. 1846.
CHAPTER I. EXTRACTED FROM THE DIARY OF THE REV. JAMES NORTH.
CHAPTER III. EXTRACTED FROM THE DIARY OF THE REV. JAMES NORTH.
CHAPTER IV. EXTRACTED FROM THE DIARY OF THE REV. JAMES NORTH.
CHAPTER V. MR. RICHARD DEVINE SURPRISED.
CHAPTER VI. IN WHICH THE CHAPLAIN IS TAKEN ILL.
CHAPTER VII. BREAKING A MAN'S SPIRIT.
CHAPTER VIII. EXTRACTED FROM THE DIARY OF THE REV. JAMES NORTH.
CHAPTER IX. THE LONGEST STRAW.
CHAPTER XI. EXTRACTED FROM THE DIARY OF THE REV. JAMES NORTH.
CHAPTER XII. THE STRANGE BEHAVIOUR OF Mr. NORTH.
CHAPTER XIII. MR. NORTH SPEAKS.
CHAPTER XIV. GETTING READY FOR SEA.
HIS NATURAL LIFE.
PROLOGUE.
On the evening of May 3, 1827, the garden of a large red-brick bow-windowed mansion called North End House, which, enclosed in spacious grounds, stands on the eastern height of Hampstead Heath, between Finchley Road and the Chestnut Avenue, was the scene of a domestic tragedy.
Three persons were the actors in it. One was an old man, whose white hair and wrinkled face gave token that he was at least sixty years of age. He stood erect with his back to the wall, which separates the garden from the Heath, in the attitude of one surprised into sudden passion, and held uplifted the heavy ebony cane upon which he was ordinarily accustomed to lean. He was confronted by a man of two-and-twenty, unusually tall and athletic of figure, dresses in rough seafaring clothes, and who held in his arms, protecting her, a lady of middle age. The face of the young man wore an expression of horror-stricken astonishment, and the slight frame of the grey-haired woman was convulsed with sobs.
These three people were Sir Richard СКАЧАТЬ