travel-years

Updated: May 22, 2025

Then the quick thought-process, as it flowed on, told him that there are two things that protect men of his stamp from their own lack of moral stamina: perpetual change of scene, that turns the world into a spectacle and love. He thought with hunger of his travel-years; holding away from him, as it were, for a moment the thought of his marriage. But only for a moment.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Sir George Tressady — Volume I