open-a-hearted

Updated: June 20, 2025

When I was a boy, I used to be the playfellow in a manner with Charley Burnet: a gay lad, sir, as ever you'd wish to see in a summer's day, and the devil among the girls always, and that's been the ruin of him; and as open-a-hearted fellow as ever lived. D me! I'd walk to the land's end to save him, if it were only for his mother's sake, to say nothing of himself.

Earl of Beaconsfield Benjamin Disraeli - The Young Duke