Vulgar words in The Island Pharisees (Page 1)
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'The family' does not like damaged goods; it will have nothing to say to sons whose hands have dipped into the till or daughters no longer to be married.
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"Why, the old ass with the platitudes!"
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You'll have that old ass--what's his name?--lunching off cutlets and champagne to fortify himself--for a lecture to the wife.
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Mr. Paramor did not smile, and again Shelton had the sense of having knocked up against something poised but firm.
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Shelton himself had given up the effort with his neighbours, and made love to his dinner, which, surviving the incoherence of the atmosphere, emerged as a work of art.
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Beyond the dip, again, a square-towered church kept within grey walls the record of the village flock, births, deaths, and marriages--even the births of bastards, even the deaths of suicides--and seemed to stretch a hand invisible above the heads of common folk to grasp the forgers of the manor-house.
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You've been diving down below the line of 'practical politics,' that's about the size of it, my boy"; and, stooping suddenly, he picked up the last ball.
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"The moment I get fagged with office papers and that sort of thing I take up my wood-carving; good as a game of hockey."