beau-heart

Updated: May 18, 2025

But "very well," she declared at length, "the next time she saw that little Miner girl she would tell her that he had said she was his beau-heart. NOW would he hold still while she brushed his hair?" At a few minutes before eleven Travis and her father went to church.

Frank Norris - Blix

Oh, I would give it all gladly, gladly, to be that little black-haired girl again, back in Squire Dearborn's water lot; with my hands stained with the whortle-berries and the nettles in my fingers and my little lover, who called me his beau-heart and bought me a blue hair ribbon, and kissed me behind the pump house." "Ah," said Corthell, quickly and earnestly, "that is the secret.

Frank Norris - The Pit