Vulgar words in The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete (Page 1)
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The effect was secretive, extraordinarily confidential; enabling him to sell sprinklers, it ought to have helped him to make love, so distinctly personal was it, implying as it did that the individual addressed was alone of all the world worthy of consideration.
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I couldn't bear to see the mill going to scrap, and I told him a thing or two,--I had the facts and the figures.
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Prominent among the qualities contributing to his success was open-mindedness, "a willingness to be shown," to scrap machinery when his competitors still clung to older methods.
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From the women to whom he had hitherto made love he had never got anything but flattery.
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It'll be fifty in a couple of years, and then we'll have to scrap our machinery and turn over the trade to the South and donate our mills to the state for insane asylums."
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She took down his sentences automatically, scarcely knowing what she was writing; he was making love to her as intensely as though his words had been the absolute expression of his desire instead of the commonplace mediums of commercial intercourse.
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"Damn the letters!
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"Damn it, why didn't they let me know yesterday?" he exclaimed.
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Breath-taking audacity to certain spectators who had followed the delegation hither, some of whom could not refrain from speculating whether it heralded the final scrapping of the machinery of the state; amusing to cynical metropolitan reporters, who grinned at one another as they prepared to take down the proceedings; evoking a fierce approval in the breasts of all rebels among whom was Janet.
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He too was making love to her; like Ditmar, he wanted her to use and fling away when he should grow weary.