Vulgar words in Jane Eyre (Page 1)

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bastard x 2
blockhead x 2
damn x 1
fag x 2
            

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"Cease that chatter, blockhead!

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As we re-entered the carriage, and I sat back feverish and fagged, I remembered what, in the hurry of events, dark and bright, I had wholly forgotten-the letter of my uncle, John Eyre, to Mrs. Reed: his intention to adopt me and make me his legatee.

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Some have whispered to you that she is my bastard half-sister: some, my cast-off mistress.

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I told you I would send Adèle to school; and what do I want with a child for a companion, and not my own child,-a French dancer's bastard?

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I was not sure of the existence of one virtue in her nature: I had marked neither modesty, nor benevolence, nor candour, nor refinement in her mind or manners-and, I married her:-gross, grovelling, mole-eyed blockhead that I was!

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While Mary drew, Diana pursued a course of encyclopædic reading she had (to my awe and amazement) undertaken, and I fagged away at German, he pondered a mystic lore of his own: that of some Eastern tongue, the acquisition of which he thought necessary to his plans.

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"Damn him!

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