Word: woman
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hard and hollow as a woman's heart...
...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 as readily as silk from satin. For the weary cash-boy she reserves her surplus of good-nature, but to the flippant fop she is frigidly civil. She seems never to tire, and lets to-morrow...
...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...
Could fashion a woman's heart...
Lies the form of a woman...