Word: girls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some years it has been one of my favorite castles in the air to imagine myself suddenly thrown into the society of some beautiful, unsophisticated country girl, such as one reads about in the back of the speller, - a girl wholly untrammelled by the conventional shackles of society, the communion with whose fresh, ardent soul would nerve me to new struggles with this hard old world...
...sighs (pity the pun). I dropped my book and looked. Heavens! What a vision! Beautiful light brown hair, very dark brown eyes, perfect features, and a figure that would have thrown all the Venuses of Milo in the shade. My ideal was realized, for that she was a country girl, the basket which she carried, containing an apple and a sandwich, bore direct testimony. I noted all these points in a twinkling of an eye, for two years in a class like '82 develops one's eye for female beauty amazingly. My heart throbbed as she gazed...
Alas! It was the self-same girl...
That surely's not the girl...
...could admit the canker insect of anxiety to rend my heart unalloyed if it were not for other ploughing inflictions which asset my mind about this Venie. Isaac tells me her neck and bust have been jollified by thousands; think of it, Mr. Brimstone, inflect how improper of that girl to be seen in such an informal, decolleti way! How lacking in maidenly preserve she must be! What a brass face the girl must have! The carmine glow profuses my hectic cheeks as I think of it; and then for Isaac not to be ashamed of such coyness! Really...