Identifier: argosythe47wood (find matches)
Title: The Argosy
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Wood, Henry, Mrs., 1814-1887 Wood, Charles W. (Charles William), b. 1850?
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Publisher: London (etc.) R. Bentley (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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At the Villa Borghese. Ecco Roma.! THE ARGOSY. JUNE, 1889. THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH. -•I- CHAPTER XVI. CAPTAIN RALEIGH DINES OUT. LOVE, we are often told, is only an episode in the life of a man,although it is a womans whole existence, and, no doubt, thereis some truth in the saying. While the episode lasts, however, itgenerally fills up quite as much of the mans thoughts, especially ifhe be an idle man, as it does of a womans, and the image of Verafilled up so much of Captain Raleighs mind as to leave very littlemargin for any other thoughts. He took a languid interest inpolitics and the news of the day, and a civil interest in the conversa-tion of his mother and the few people he came in contact with inhis own home, but the one absorbing interest of his life was Vera.He thought of her by day, and he dreamt of her by night; and themonths of his holiday, instead of passing all too quickly, draggedwearily on; each month achieving one good purpose, since it broughtVeras twenty-first bir

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