Excerpt from Viola, or Adventures in the Far South-West

From my youth up, I had longed for novelty - to travel to go abroad and see the world for myself - and now the great desire of my life was being gratified. And so it would have been years before, could I have had my own way but I was under age, and my father inexorable.

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