| On a soft October evening in 1802, on thelawn before Government House, eighteen-year-old Susannah King stands watching aFrench corvette under topsails as it movesslowly into that noblest of harbors, SydneyCove. In this enchanted and forever-remembered hour, the governor s daughterawaits the returning Post-Captain NicholasBaudin. He is her first lover and she is to behis last, but the echoes of their encounterwill ring with deepening tones through thelives of many others, and through the firstturbulent decades of the Australian nation-to-be. |
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