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CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER.

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THE

CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER.

BY

COUNT ALEXANDER L. M. PUSCHKIN.

Translated from the Russian

BY

J. F. HANSTEIN.

LONDON:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR

BY F. HOLLINGER, 3, LITCHFIELD STREET, SOHO.

1859.

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THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER.

INTRODUCTION.

A CHRISTMAS EVE.

In that part of Southern Russia, on which nature seems to have bestowed more than average fruitfulness where a luxuriant vegetation and an abundance of cattle have made the lot of the tiller of the soil, a far happier one than that of his less favoured countrymen in the north, there stands on the shores of the Don, the village of L*** a place of considerable dimensions, which belongs to the prosperous family of Grinew. The manor house is a stately mansion, built some sixty years ago, with adjacent gardens and pleasure grounds extending over a large tract of land. It was in the year 1774 on a Christmas eve that a traveller Count P*** whose carriage broke down on the road, was obliged to stop at the Inn of this village. The inhabitants of the manor house having heard of his mis

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