Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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FOUND, a purse (supposed to belong to some member of the Annex), October 28, on Oxford Street, containing a certain sum of money, a ticket to Waltham, and a note addressed to Miss D. M. Contents of said note as follows: "He is dark, very dark, and the handsomest fellow you ever saw. You can't mistake him. He had on a straw hat with a black ribbon around it, and had the sweetest little mustache! a greenish coat (to suit the character, I reckon), and trousers a little lighter. He left at Somerville. Come...
...where yon dark and lowering precipice...
...Dark clouds blew up from eastward, and the loud land...
...waysare dark; and on the darkening shore...
...assistance; will he be too late? Her head swims, her brain reels. Why did she trust him? Alas! why did she trust him? Faster and faster turns the log; faster and faster twinkle the maiden's feet. A slide, a splash, a faintly gurgled "Diggles!" and the dark waters close over her bosom forever...