The Fortunes of Richard Mahony"He had never got within measurable distance of what he called life, at all deep down in him, he knew, was an enormous residue of vitality It was like a buried treasure, jealously kept for the event of his one day catching up with life: not the bare scramble for a living that here went by that name, but Life with a capital L." Richard Mahony is a restless man. Ballarat, England, Melbourne, Europe, the bush: elsewhere is always better. Searching for a