Vulgar words in Scenes from a Courtesan's Life (Page 1)

This book at a glance

bastard x 2
blockhead x 1
country bumpkin x 1
damn x 1
hussy x 12
            
make love x 2
slut x 8
            

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Repent, blockhead!" said Blondet.

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She ought to have embraced her whole century, and she makes love with a little young man!

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"A foul hussy called La Torpille----" "Well?"

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But have I not always behaved as though I were sincerely attached to the hussy--I, who, through Asie, hold her life in my hands?

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This ecclesiastic, the bastard son of a grandee, long since deserted by his father, and not knowing to what woman he owed his birth, was intrusted by King Ferdinand VII., to whom a bishop had recommended him, with a political mission to France.

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Bake a plaster cast four times in a furnace, and you get a sort of bastard imitation of Florentine bronze.

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Poor dear M. Lenoir was right when he wrote to me in the matter of the Queen's necklace, 'You will never do any good,' when he heard that I did not stay under that slut Oliva's bed."

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After midnight, Pere Canquoelle could hatch plots, receive spies or ministers, wives or hussies, without any one on earth knowing anything about it.

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The hussy was well brought up--the daughter of a clergyman.

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Give the slut ten thousand francs; she will hide you in her mistress' bedroom.

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And take off these diamond buttons; they are worth a hundred thousand francs apiece--that slut will ask you for them, and you will not be able to refuse her; and if a baggage is to have them, I may as well wear them as earrings."

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"To dat hussy, your maid----" The Englishwoman called Europe, who was not far off.

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"There, now, you see, madame, Eugenie never told you all that, the sly thing!" said Asie.--"Still, madame is used to the hussy," she added to the Baron.

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And I said to madame, I told her she would be the lowest of the low, a perfect hussy, if she did not love you, for you have picked her out of hell.--When once she has nothing on her mind, you will see.

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"The hussy is right!" said she.

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But the woman cares for money, and for money only.--As madame came out of monsieur's room, she said with a laugh: 'If this goes on, that slut will make a widow of me!'"

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"Well, you have made others dance, daddy, and the little slut has got you, and is making a fool of you.--Heaven is just!"

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"She is a milliner, you damn' idiot, and not a cake-shop!" cried the Baron, who rushed off to Madame Prevot's in the Palais-Royal, where he had a bouquet made up for the price of ten louis, while his man went to the great modiste.

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"This hussy," said Corentin, "has had intimacies; she must have some women friends.

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"You are really an ungrateful slut!" cried the Baron, in despair at hearing a tune, which, however, amorous old men not unfrequently hear at the opera.

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You don't make love over the budget, and on my honor!--go ahead, I have thought it over, and you are right.

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For the first and last time in my life I have had the opportunity of comparing my old trade as a street hussy with the life of true love, of placing the tenderness which unfolds in the infinite above the horrors of a duty which longs to destroy itself and leave no room even for a kiss.

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Camusot looked at his wife as a country bumpkin looks at a conjurer.

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"But you were not there!" said the Corsican; "I was all alone----" "And do you love the slut?" asked Jacques Collin, feeling that the reproach was a just one.

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Why, the hussy stole it!" cried Bibi-Lupin, stamping with rage on the flags of the gateway.

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Ah, my dear boy, this is what such sluts bring us to when we are such fools as to love them."

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"Prudence and Paccard will do the job at la Gonore's; you and Ginetta --who seems to be a smart hussy--must manage the job at Godet's sister's place.

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