Vulgar words in The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Page 1)
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The word "ass," as applied to a human being, is not current in good literature, unless low comedy be entitled to that position, and coming from Hawthorne, of all writers, it seems like an oath from the mouth of a woman.