Word: horror
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...went up to bed and fell asleep almost immediately, and dreamed about Bertha, as you might imagine. I cannot even now recall that dream without a feeling of horror...
Thus he was engaged, doing the agreeable, and was flattering himself that he was becoming a genuine "Little-Tin-God," when, to his unspeakable horror, what did he see but his own true-love, with her friend and an upper classman, whom he recognized as a relative of the latter, entering the field and taking a seat on a neighboring bench. Shipkins could have met annihilation with calm satisfaction, but to meet her, - her whom he had invited and then failed to meet, and for her to see him with another, - it was too much...