Vulgar words in In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters (Page 1)

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With shameful _aplomb_ I sang these senseless words: Nelly Bly wipes her eye, On her little frock, Nelly Bly, Nelly Bly, Dick a dick a dock.

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A lord of the manor (Vicomte Vaufreland, basso) makes love to a humble village maiden (myself, soprano); the lady of the manor (Madame Conneau, contralto) becomes jealous and makes a scene with her husband; the friend and adviser (Count d'Espeuilles, tenor) steps in and takes his friend's part and kindly says that it was he who had loved the village maiden.

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He answered, "I am looking out," at which a rude hand seized him by the coat-collar and jerked him inside, saying, "Damn it, look in then!"

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