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The villain that allowed Peggy Murtagh an' her child to starve to death! Aren't we to pay him a visit?" Dalton coughed several times, to clear his throat; a settled hoarseness having given a frightful hollowness to his voice. "Ay," said he "ha, ha, ha by the broken-heart she died of well well eh, Rody, what are we to do to him?"
A prey incessantly to such corrosions, might not, moreover, as the worst aggravation to them, the iron constitution even of a Teufelsdrockh threaten to fail? We conjecture that he has known sickness; and, in spite of his locomotive habits, perhaps sickness of the chronic sort. Hear this, for example: "How beautiful to die of broken-heart, on Paper!
A timid or unwilling young dog is often coupled with the old dog two or three times, but this method has its dangers too, as it may be too much for the young dog's strength, and give him that "broken-heart" from which he will never recover; he will never be a good sheep-dog. To return to Tory.
It is quite possible that the older instances of what was known as "broken-heart," which is still a by-word, were really cases in which violent emotion had produced rupture of a degenerated cardiac wall. Wright gives a case of spontaneous rupture of the heart in which death did not occur for forty-eight hours.
"Well, sir," she replied, "I see there is no use in denying especially to you, who seem to know everything the truth of the facts you have stated. There was one gentleman in particular whom I rejected that is, conditionally rather harshly; and do you know, he took the scarlet-fever soon afterwards and died of a broken-heart."
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