Crossword-Solution: VARINA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Swift was captivated by Miss Waring, called her Varina, and would have become engaged to marry her if she had not flinched from engagement with a young clergyman whose income was but a hundred a year.

Let us go into the garden and watch the minister's bees.” CHAPTER X IN WHICH MASTER PORY GAINS TIME TO SOME PURPOSE ROLFE coming down by boat from Varina, had reached the town in the dusk of that day which had seen the arrival of the Santa Teresa, and I had gone to him before I slept that night.

Nantauquas had been much with his sister during those her happy days at Varina, before she went with Rolfe that ill-fated voyage to England, and Rolfe loved him for her sake and for his own.

Swift’s reply to the lady whom he had “singled out at first from the rest of women” could only have been written with the intention of breaking off the connection, and accordingly we hear no more of poor Varina.

Not very much is known of this episode, but there is evidence that Swift fell in love with the girl, whom he rather romantically called "Varina." This cannot be called a serious love-affair.