Word: imp
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...polite conversation. The little Britannicus is said to have been sitting at one of those tables when he took the poison. His fate was, to be sure, a severe and an undeserved one; but it was hardly more cruel than the doom I desired would fall on the imp who haunted me last evening...
Cupid, that imp, has pierced my heart...