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The Voyage of the Aurora, by Harry Collingwood
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Title: The Voyage of the Aurora
Author: Harry Collingwood
Release Date: January 27, 2009 [EBook #27906]
Language: English
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The Voyage of the Aurora, by Harry Collingwood.
CHAPTER ONE.
INTRODUCES LUCY WALFORD.
Those who have ever had occasion to reside for any length of time in Gosport are sure to be more or less acquainted with the little village of Alverstoke; because it lies near at hand, and the road leading thereto forms one of the most pleasant walks in the neighbourhood.
But it may be that there are those, into whose hands this book will fall, who have never so much as heard the name of the place. For their benefit, then, it may be worth while to state that Alverstoke is pleasantly situated at a distance of about one mile from the above-mentioned town of Gosport, and within half a mile of the waters of the Solent.
It is a very unimportant little place at the present day: it was even more so in the year 17--, the year in which this veracious history opens. It was unimportant, that is to say, in a ge