Excerpt from A Free Lance in a Far Land: Being and Account of the Singular Fortunes of Selwyn Fyveways, of Fyveways Hall, in the County of Gloucester, Esquire IT has been said it is a wise child that knows its own father. I can claim knowledge of mine, and yet the wisdom profited me nothing, but, on the con trary, brought me much tribulation. And if I now bear his name, and possess the estate that belonged to hiin, i owe these things to my own singular good fortune and the atonement of a wicked man, and not to any right of birth or inheritance. 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.