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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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once I told ! Fair and quiet, and brightly tender. The low light gilded the wood and lea,For day was dying in royal splendour As we two stood by that western sea ;The soft wind scattered bright, tiny pieces From beds of cloud where the sun reposed,And sent them saiHng like golden fleeces In amber skies ere the twilight closed. The lovely day was so long a-dying. But came at last the enchanting hourWhen gentle Zephyr, with long-drawn sighing, Shook the scent from the woodbine flower.Then oer the dusk of the oaks and beeches The young moon mounted her throne afar,And lit with silver the grey sea-reaches Lying beyond the harbour bar. Ah, Loves sweet words will again be spoken. Like those we breathed on the fragrant air,And Loves sweet vows will be lightly broken. As those have been that we uttered there;And still the boats will be, wing-like, flitting About the islands that gem the bay—Oh ! human hearts are so long forgetting The bliss and pain of a bygone day ! Helen Marion Burnside.
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M. ELLHX STAPLES. K. TAVLOR She waved him aside in her wilful manner. THE ARGOSY. MAY, 1887. LADY GRACE. BY MRS. HENRY WOOD, AUTHOR OF EAST LYNNE. .J, CHAPTER VIII. AFTER THE DINNER-PARTY. ONCE more in the drawing-room at Berkeley Square sat the Deanand Lady Grace. They had entered the room at almost thesame moment, dressed to receive guests. The Dean gave a dinner-party that evening, and Lady Grace, as she sat at the window,observed the first carriage, as she thought, driving up to the door. Four or five weeks have elapsed since the Deans interview with SirWilliam Chant, and the sweet month of June is close at hand. TheDean has been feeling well of late; that is, he has not had any returnof his malady; but he is overwhelmed with worry. Lady Grace hasbeen extravagant this season, and her husband knows not how to deferany longer the embarrassments which creditors are pressing uponhim. He has been staying at Great Whitton, and has only nowbeen in town a day or two. An idea has lately be

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