Vulgar words in Moon and Sixpence (Page 1)

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ass x 1
buffoon x 3
damn x 10
god damn x 1
hussy x 1
            
make love x 2
            

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Personally I think it was rash of Mr. Strickland, in refuting the account which had gained belief of a certain "unpleasantness" between his father and mother, to state that Charles Strickland in a letter written from Paris had described her as "an excellent woman," since Dr. Weitbrecht-Rotholz was able to print the letter in facsimile, and it appears that the passage referred to ran in fact as follows: <i God damn my wife.

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"Damn it all, there are your children to think of.

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It doesn't matter a twopenny damn to me one way or the other."

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"Not a damn."

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Nature had made him a buffoon.

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Sometimes they lounged at the steps of a church, and sometimes dallied among cypresses against a cloudless sky; sometimes they made love by a Renaissance well-head, and sometimes they wandered through the Campagna by the side of an ox-waggon.

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"I don't really care a twopenny damn if you starve or not."

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"Damn it all, it's your studio.

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"You're an hysterical ass," I said a little impatiently.

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I'm a buffoon.

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"Damn it all, you haven't got to bear it," I cried impatiently.

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But Stroeve, the unconquerable buffoon, had a love and an understanding of beauty which were as honest and sincere as was his own sincere and honest soul.

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"Damn it all," I said, more violently because I had an inkling my motive was none too creditable, "I don't want to know you."

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"Damn it all, I wanted her."

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"Do you really care a twopenny damn if Blanche Stroeve is alive or dead?"

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"Your only quarrel with me really is that I don't care a twopenny damn what you think about me."

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She knew what I was talking about, the hussy, and I saw her out of the corner of my eyes listening with all her ears, while she pretended to iron a blouse that she had been washing for me.

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I made love with the officers of every ship that touched the island, and George Rainey never saw anything.

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