Vulgar words in The Landlord at Lion's Head — Volume 1 (Page 1)
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"It's that Canuck chopping in Whitwell's clearing.
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He was that Canuck I had helpin' me clear that piece over on Lion's Head for the pulp-mill; pulp-mill went all to thunder, and I never got a cent.
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Jackson came in presently with the little Canuck, whom Whitwell presented to Westover: "Know Jombateeste?"
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Jackson put his planchette on the table, and sat down before it with a sigh; the Canuck remained standing, and on foot he was scarcely a head higher than the seated Yankees.
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Jackson sat with closed eyes and his head fallen back; Whitwell stared at the painter, with open mouth; the little Canuck began to walk up and down impatiently; Westover felt a reproach, almost an abhorrence, in all of them.
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The Canuck felt perhaps the simpler joy that the average man has in any strange notion that he is able to grasp.
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"Well, I guess you're right there, Jombateeste," said Whitwell, with pleasure in the Canuck's point.
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The little Canuck, as if he had now no further concern in the matter, sat down in a corner and smoked silently.
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Jackson's wasted face gave no token of interest; Whitwell laid half his gaunt length across the table in the endeavor to make out some meaning in them; the Canuck, with his hands crossed on his stomach, smoked on, with the same gleam in his pipe and eye.
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"What's the matter with plantchette?" said Jeff, before he said to his brother, "Hello, Jackson!" and to the Canuck, "Hello, Jombateeste!"
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Whitwell shouted to the Canuck.