Word: loved
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...written love to bridge the chasm...
...hard thing - a very torture - for a young girl to surrender herself to a master; only perfect love, or abundant C. O. D., can lessen the pain...
...pentup passion in a resistless torrent. The maiden's breath was quite taken away, at the first plunge in this deluge of sentiment. She listened with ever-increasing alarm, until she found a chance to implore, "No more! oh, no more!" But Ching was fairly beside himself; his love told, he prayed her to assure him of its return. He had held her hand; he threw his arm round her waist, drew her to his breast, and bent his lips to hers...
...what is so pitiable as a loving heart, spurned, despised, by the object of its love! What so cruel as the youth, favored by fate, who will crush beneath his feet this precious gift of love! Will not the despised one's tears rouse against him an avenging spirit...
...that had restored me so quickly. A strong feeling of regard for the child had grown up within me; perhaps it was because I had never known what it was to have a younger sister. We were firm friends; indeed, I think she lavished upon me that sort of love which a boy may sometimes feel for a woman many years his senior. I knew I should miss her greatly. . . . But when I saw her in the doorway smiling at me, her pale face struck me with something like terror...