Vulgar words in Innocent : her fancy and his fact (Page 1)
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The human world is always wicked-tongued; and it is common knowledge that any man or woman introducing an "adopted" child into a family is at once accused, whether he or she be conscious of the accusation or not, of passing off his own bastard under the "adoption" pretext.
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Poor little hussy!
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"Cousin be hanged!" snarled Landon--"She's no more your cousin than I am--she's only a nameless bastard!
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An' if 'e's done that it don't alter the muddle, 'cept in the eyes o' the law which can twist ye any way--for she was born bastard, an' there's never been a bastard Jocelyn on Briar Farm all the hundreds o' years it's been standin'!"
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We went to Devon and Cornwall, and he painted pictures and made love to me--and it was all very nice and pretty.
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And, if she told the truth, would she not, despite the renown she had won, be lightly, even scornfully esteemed by conventional society as a "bastard" and interloper, though the manner of her birth was no fault of her own, and she was unjustly punishable for the sins of her parents, such being the wicked law!
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"Are you going to make love to her?" she asked.
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"You make love to every woman--but most women understand your sort of love-making--" "Do they?" and his blue eyes flashed amusement.
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He found a new and stimulating charm in making love to a tender- hearted, credulous little creature who seemed truly "of such stuff as dreams are made of"--and to a man of his particular type and temperament there was an irresistible provocation to his vanity in the possibility of being able to lure her gradually and insidiously down from the high ground of intellectual ambition and power to the low level of that pitiful sex-submission which is responsible for so much more misery than happiness in this world.
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Gifted in his art, but wholly undisciplined in his nature, he had lived a life of selfish aims to selfish ends, and in the course of it had made love to many women,--one especially, on whose devoted affections he had preyed like an insect that ungratefully poisons the flower from which it has sucked the honey.
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You are such a pleasant creature when you are cheerful and self-possessed,--so bright and clever and companionable--and there is no reason why we shouldn't make love to each other again as often as we like,--but change and novelty are good for both of us.