![]() ![]() ![]() The letter is successful: a Lord Hawkesbury pardons Thornhill and instead sends him to the penal colony of New South Wales for the remainder of his natural life. Sal insists that Thornhill pay someone to write a letter. Thornhill is jailed, and Sal thinks up a brilliant story to prove his innocence, but at his trial, he forgets his story and the judge sentences him to hang. He makes a plan to steal the wood with the help of his brother, Rob. Lucas will be transporting valuable Brazil wood. He loses his boat and all his money, so he begins stealing. ![]() Middleton falls on the ice, and both she and her husband die within a week of each other. Two years after that, the Thames freezes and Mrs. Thornhill marries Sal the day he gets his freedom from his apprenticeship, and they have their first son, Willie, a year later. For the first time, Thornhill is warm and well-fed, but he loathes working for the gentry because they don't treat him like a person. Middleton takes him on as an apprentice waterman. Thornhill's parents die when he is 13, and the following year Mr. In his childhood, Thornhill spends time with a girl named Sal and her family. ![]() The novel then jumps back in time to Thornhill's birth in 1777 to a very poor family. They yell at each other, and Thornhill goes back to bed scared. He wakes up and steps outside his hut, where an Aborigine man confronts him. The novel begins on a man named Thornhill's first night in New South Wales. ![]()
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