Vulgar words in Cousin Betty (Page 1)

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bastard x 1
damn x 1
hussy x 13
make love x 2
slut x 9
            

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But I repeat it, and you may believe me, I have a right to--to make love to you, for---- But no; I love you well enough to hold my tongue."

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"We became intimate, the Baron and I, through the two hussies.

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Two reprobate hussies had been the priestesses of this union planned at some orgy amid the degrading familiarities of two tipsy old sinners.

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"But he sees her every day; will he try to find her a husband among his good-for-nothing sluts?"

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He prefers the squalid sluts he picks up at the street corners, and leaves me free.

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"Well, then, do you suppose that I will ever forgive Monsieur Hulot for the crime of having robbed me of Josepha--especially when he turned a decent girl, whom I should have married in my old age, into a good-for-nothing slut, a mountebank, an opera singer!--No, no.

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What a character the hussy is!

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Again and again he had to contend with a sort of coldness, which the cunning slut made him believe he had overcome by seeming to surrender to the man's crazy passion; and then, as if ashamed, she entrenched herself once more in her pride of respectability and airs of virtue, just like an Englishwoman, neither more nor less; and she always crushed her Crevel under the weight of her dignity--for Crevel had, in the first instance, swallowed her pretensions to virtue.

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The Baron went upstairs again with a beaming countenance, convinced that he was the only man in the world to that shameless slut, as treacherous, but as lovely and as engaging as a siren.

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"She is a good-for-nothing slut," said Crevel, "a hussy that deserves whipping on the Place du Chatelet.

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"I tell you what, Hulot, do you go back to your wife; your money matters are not looking well; I have heard talk of certain notes of hand given to a low usurer whose special line of business is lending to these sluts, a man named Vauvinet.

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And, after all, at our time of life what do we want of these swindling hussies, who, to be honest, cannot help playing us false?

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Excited by just a glass too much, he stretched himself on a settee after dinner, sunk in physical and mental ecstasy, which Madame Marneffe wrought to the highest pitch by coming to sit down by him--airy, scented, pretty enough to damn an angel.

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When a hussy has ruined her man, she adores him.

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And you ought to settle on my son a sum equal to what he will lose through this bastard.

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But your husband, my beauty, found himself a mistress--a jewel of a woman, a pearl, a cunning hussy then aged three-and-twenty, for she is six-and-twenty now.

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if any one had come to my mother and said, 'Your daughter will be a hussy, and unfaithful to her husband; one day a police-officer will find her in a disreputable house; she will sell herself to a Crevel to cheat a Hulot --two horrible old men--' Poof!

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You have compromised the honor of our official administration, which hitherto has been the purest in Europe!--And all for two hundred thousand francs and a hussy!" said the Marshal, in a terrible voice.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 5,818   ~   ~   ~

And he has deceived her, he has soaked her in sorrows, he has neglected her for prostitutes, for street-hussies, for ballet-girls, actresses--Cadine, Josepha, Marneffe!

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"Those precious sluts know how to pluck a goose even better than we do!--Why, you are like a corpse that the crows have done with --I can see daylight through!"

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I may be a hussy, but I have a soul!

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"One of the sluts at the Chaumiere," said Josepha.

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I want her to study matrimony; Bixiou shall make love to her, and --and enlighten her darkness."

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There is a precious hussy for you!"

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Cydalise put her handkerchief to her eyes with an appearance of emotion--"She is furious," Carabine went on, "though she looks as if butter would not melt in her mouth, furious to see the man she adores duped by a villainous hussy; she would kill Valerie--" "Oh, as for that," said the Brazilian, "that is my business!"

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