Vulgar words in Framley Parsonage (Page 1)
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Lord Lufton had not absolutely made love to her, but he had latterly spoken to her in a manner which she knew was not compatible with that ordinary comfortable masculine friendship with the idea of which she had once satisfied herself.
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Some years ago I made an ass of myself through that man's fault.
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Not that it must be supposed that Lord Lufton had come there with any intention of making love to Griselda, or that he ever had any fixed thought that he was doing so.
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Lord Dumbello, in the meantime, stood by, observant, thinking to himself that Lord Lufton was a glib-tongued, empty-headed ass, and reflecting that if his rival were to break the tendons of his leg in one of those rapid evolutions, or suddenly come by any other dreadful misfortune, such as the loss of all his property, absolute blindness, or chronic lumbago, it would only serve him right.
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I have come to make love to you."
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"Now, my dear Miss Dunstable-" "Of course I am not such an ass as to expect that any gentleman should love me; and I feel that I ought to be obliged to your brother for sparing me the string of complimentary declarations which are usual on such occasions.
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"Fanny, you have no idea what an absolute fool I am, what an unutterable ass.
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The world was laughing at Lord Dumbello for what it chose to call a foolish match, and Lord Lufton's friends talked to him about it as though they had never suspected that he could have made an ass of himself in the same direction; but, nevertheless, he was not altogether contented.
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"What an ass I am," he said to himself as he went: "as if it were of any use now to be particular!"
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What an ass I have been to be so cozened by a sharper!"
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"I will say making love to her, if you like it better; and gentlemen under these circumstances will sometimes become infatuated."
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"You would not have a man marry a girl without making love to her.
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How could he be such an ass at his time of life as to allow the even course of his way to be disturbed by any such idea?