The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer by Charles James Lever, Fiction, Literary 12+

📗 It was on a splendid morning in the autumn of the year 181---- that the Howard transport, with four hundred of his Majesty's 4----th Regt., dropped anchor in the beautiful harbor of Cove. It was with a mingled sense of pain and pleasure that we gazed upon that peaceful little village. The moody silence our thoughts had shed over us was soon broken: the preparations for disembarking had begun, shaking off the load that oppressed my heart, I descended the gangway. . . .