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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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a face in which you saw the mark of Heaven. Those whom the Gods love die young, quoted Mauleverer, smilingand looking outwards with eyes that shone suspiciously. She camefrom heaven; the angels could not do without her, and so she wentquickly back to them. There was a long silence. The night was dark and silent. Theriver flowed beneath us. The stars flashed and scintillated. Maul-everer was looking at them with a dreamy, far-ofl gaze, perhapswondering if one of them was the habitation of the fair little spiritthat had left the earth twenty years ago. Better so, I said at length, breaking the somewhat painfulsilence. Better to die in all that beauty and innocence, than liveto learn that the world is less fair than it seems; that sin reigns, andfate is cruel, and life is nothing but a phantom chase, a long seriesof disillusions. So we each have a tomb in a foreign land; each a 136 In Sunny Climes. little guardian angel to watch over us and perhaps save us fromsome of lifes temptations.
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r f What must they think of us if they can look down and see intaour hearts! cried Mauleverer. Would not their celestial good- In Siriny Climes. ^37 ness and purity shrink back affrighted, and wander off in search ofbetter worlds and higher beings ? * On the contrary. They would remember that we are only mortal,

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