Vulgar words in The Lady of Blossholme (Page 1)

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bastard x 4
half-wit x 2
jackass x 2
make love x 1
slut x 1
            

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Also, as such a gallant should do, he appeared to be making love with much vigour and directness, for his face was upturned pleading with the girl, who leaned back in her chair answering him nothing.

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Against the law of God and man our blessed Queen, Catherine of Spain, is thrust away in favour of the slut who fills her place.

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Pity, though," he added, with a sneer on his dark face, "since many a year has gone by since these walls have seen a bastard, and, as things are, that may pull them down about your ears."

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But who talks of bastards in the case of Dame Cicely Harflete, widow of Sir Christopher Harflete, slain by the Abbot of Blossholme?"

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And you--they have tamed you and made you their servant, their cattle-herd, the strong fellow to fetch and carry, the half-wit, as they call you, who can still be trusted to run an errand and hold his tongue, the Abbey mule that does not dare to kick, the grieve of your own stolen lands--you, whose father was almost a gentleman.

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Moreover, it was said and sworn to by the shepherds that the devil himself, with horns and hoofs, and mounted on a jackass, had been seen driving the same lambs.

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the poor babe, if ever it should be born, will be but a bastard, marked from its birth with the brand of shame."

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"Nothing, except that he is a red-headed jackass that can bray but daren't kick," answered Emlyn viciously.

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"Sir," went on Cicely, "we have worked no sorcery, and my crime is that I will not name my child a bastard and sign away my lands and goods to yonder Abbot, the murderer of my father and perhaps of my husband.

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"It was a near thing, a very near thing, but I'm not the half-wit I've feigned to be for years.

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