Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pleasures in her petty victories, with the counter as her Rubicon, which has no daring Caesar to cross it; she has smiles for all, and most always a kind word for all, yet her smiles and kind word bring profit only to her employer, and now and then a tear to her own eye. Of course she has her little coterie of friends, and betimes her truelove; but she is loved but little by the first, and soon forgotten by the second. This little woman is a keen judge of character though, and can detect a gentilhomme from an artiste...
...tear or two, ask no questions; she has a woman's heart, and it may be almost breaking, yet a kind word would ruin her. She does her best, and has her faults; but we are like her in the latter, and often behind her in the former. She is one of a queer element in the city's vast population, and her life passes as a tedious dream; but after the dream she sleeps and wakes...
Bids the throbbing tear to start...
...tear yourselves away...
...Tear the crown from the royal chamber...