Vulgar words in Short Stories for English Courses (Page 1)
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And if he wanted the front of the house turned from all possible view, as though abashed at any chance of public scrutiny, why, that was his affair and not the public's; and, with like perverseness, if he chose to thrust his kitchen under the public's very nose, what should the generally fagged-out, half-famished representative of that dignified public do but reel in his dead minnow, shoulder his fishing-rod, clamber over the back fence of the old farmhouse and inquire within, or jog back to the city, inwardly anathematizing that very particular locality or the whole rural district in general.
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He heard them talking to each other, and recognized with joy the bastard Pushto that he had picked up from one of his father's grooms lately dismissed.
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"Well, I don't know," said he, a little nettled, "I draw tolerably--SHOULD do it at least--have had good masters, and flatter myself that I am not quite a blockhead."
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Then came an error of judgment--a midnight decision demanded of a fagged mind--and his 0.K.
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"Don't be an ass, Scott," said Mr. Dwyer, who was too excited to be polite or politic.
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"Just you go out there and cuss, and see."
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M. Jules St.-Ange stood long, gazing at the receding vessel as it now disappeared, now reappeared beyond the tops of the high undergrowth; but, when an arm of the forest hid it finally from sight, he turned townward, followed by that fagged-out spaniel, his servant, saying, as he turned, "Baptiste."