A bird of passage

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BY B. M. CROKER, AUTHOR OF PROPER PRIDE, PRETTY MISS NEVILLE, SOME ONE ELSE.
Such wind as scatters young men thro' the world
To seek their fortunes further than at home,
Where small experience grows.
The Tempest.
WARD AND DOWNEY, 12, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, W.C. 1887.
PRINTED BY KELLY AND CO., GATE STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, W.C.; AND MIDDLE MILL, KINGSTON-ON-THAMES.
━━━━━━━ CHAPTER I. PORT BLAIR.
Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower; hangs the heavy-fruited tree:
Summer isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea.
Locksley Hall.