Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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That eats like poison thro' the heart...
...Compendium by the light of a philosophical Argand burner. There is a gentle knock at the door, and the "lady-like" janitoress leaves a freshly washed bundle of linen and departs. Before long Guy's friends leave him and he is alone with the Compendium. With a light heart he prepares to retire, humming softly to himself as he forms plans for the morrow. Ah, better for him had that morrow never dawned! After wrapping up his soiled linen in a neat bundle for the janitor, he was about to get into bed when he stepped quite unexpectedly...
...draw the curtain on this heart-rending scene, and as we glide down the long, lonely hallway, let us softly apply our ear to the door of a neighboring room. Hark! Do you not hear it, - the convulsive sobbing of a woman in distress? Patter, patter, patter, the tears go as they fall - upon what? Surely it can be nothing else, - upon a stiffly starched shirt-bosom, while the poor girl cries as if her heart would break. Ah, yes, dear reader, do not pretend to conceal your tears, it is no other than the unhappy "co-ed," with whom...
Firmly fixed in your heart lies there an image fair...
...heart! there was one, lovely as light...