Vulgar words in The Golden Bowl — Complete (Page 1)

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The Prince's notion of a recompense to women-similar in this to his notion of an appeal-was more or less to make love to them.

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Now he hadn't, as he believed, made love the least little bit to Mrs. Assingham-nor did he think she had for a moment supposed it.

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He liked in these days, to mark them off, the women to whom he hadn't made love: it represented- and that was what pleased him in it-a different stage of existence from the time at which he liked to mark off the women to whom he had.

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They had silences, at last, that were almost crudities of mutual resistance-silences that persisted through his felt effort to treat her recurrence to the part he had lately played, to interpret all the sweetness of her so talking to him, as a manner of making love to him.

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Ah, it was no such manner, heaven knew, for Maggie; she could make love, if this had been in question, better than that!

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She might warn him, she might rebuke him, she might reassure him, she might-if it were impossible not to-absolutely make love to him; even this was open to her, as a matter simply between them, if it would help her to answer for the impeccability he had guaranteed.

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