Vulgar words in Les Misérables (Page 1)
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He was mounted on an ass.
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These beings belonged to that bastard class composed of coarse people who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended in the scale, which is between the class called "middle" and the class denominated as "inferior," and which combines some of the defects of the second with nearly all the vices of the first, without possessing the generous impulse of the workingman nor the honest order of the bourgeois.
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In the meanwhile, Thenardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by what obscure means, that the child was probably a bastard, and that the mother could not acknowledge it, exacted fifteen francs a month, saying that "the creature" was growing and "eating," and threatening to send her away.
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The second-hand dealer, who had taken back nearly all his furniture, said to her incessantly, "When will you pay me, you hussy?"
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'Only, don't do it again, you hussy!'
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What an ass that doctor is!
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Will you hold your tongue, you hussy?
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{EDITOR'S COMMENTARY: Another edition of this book has the word "Merde!" in lieu of the --- above.}
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The hussy has been amusing herself!"
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And whom did that bold hussy think she could persuade to believe that?
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M. le Duc d'Angoulême, the bastard of his Majesty Charles IX., married a silly jade of fifteen when he was eighty-five; M. Virginal, Marquis d'Alluye, brother to the Cardinal de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux, had, at the age of eighty-three, by the maid of Madame la Présidente Jacquin, a son, a real child of love, who became a Chevalier of Malta and a counsellor of state; one of the great men of this century, the Abbé Tabaraud, is the son of a man of eighty-seven.
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She had a chapel friend, an ancient virgin like herself, named Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom Mademoiselle Gillenormand had the pleasure of being an eagle.
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But what is that blockhead of a benevolent gentleman doing?
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By the way, how was the letter to that old blockhead signed?"
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the hussies!
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I said to myself: 'Blockhead!
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The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the spider on the fly.
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"The blockhead!" muttered Montparnasse.
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The sugar-manufacturer who says: "Loaf, clarified, lumps, bastard, common, burnt,"-this honest manufacturer talks slang.
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I'll go hunt up that old blockhead, that absurd numskull!
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All at once, he heard a shout behind him; it was the portress Patagon who had followed him, and who was shaking her fist at him in the distance and crying:- "You're nothing but a bastard."
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But he was a brave blockhead.
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"The head of a blockhead and the heart of a Brutus," replied Enjolras.
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Whoever becomes effeminate makes himself a bastard.
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And to think that there is not a hussy in Paris who would not have been delighted to make this wretch happy!
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And populaces, like tyrants, require buffoons.
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And, according to all appearances, if he were to come and make to the Baron Pontmercy this revelation-and without proof: "Your wife is a bastard," the only result would be to attract the boot of the husband towards the loins of the revealer.