Vulgar words in The Trial (Page 1)
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In a few seconds the Doctor came down in his dressing-gown, and let himself be put into his easy-chair; his two daughters waiting on him with fond assiduity, their eyes questioning his fagged weary face, but reading there fatigue and concern that made them--rather awe-struck--bide their time till it should suit him to speak.
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These little things have twice the sense of overgrown dogs as big and as stupid as jackasses.'
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Worn, fagged, and aged as Flora looked, she had still so much beauty, and far more of refinement and elegance, as to be a painful foil and contrast to the child that clung to her, waywardly refusing all response to her uncle's advances.
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As the sage said, who was to be beheaded if he could not in a year teach the king's ass to speak--what might not happen in a year; the king might die, the ass might die, or he might die--any way there was so much gained: and Averil, for the time, felt as light-hearted as if Mrs. Pugh had vanished into empty air.
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He, the sensible man of the family, not only to be such an egregious ass, but to have made such a fool of himself!
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Did he think he was making love all the time he was boring me with his gas in the dormitories?
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However it might be for the future, during the ensuing week Dr. May never came in for a meal with the rest of the family; was too much fagged for anything but sleep when he came home at night; and on the Sunday morning, when they all had reckoned on going to Cocksmoor together, he was obliged to give it up, and only come into the Minster at the end of the prayers.
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I was mad that day, and I want to satisfy my mind whether I think the same now I am sane, and if I do, I shall have enough to do to make her forget the winter when I made myself such an ass.