Vulgar words in A Mummer's Wife (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 1
damn x 2
hussy x 1
make love x 4
            

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You said your thoughts went more frequently to _A Mummer's Wife_ than to _Esther Waters_; and I am almost sure something was said about the earlier book being a more spontaneous issue of the imagination, and that the wandering life of the mummers gives an old-world, adventurous air to the book, reminding you of _The Golden Ass_--a book I read last year, and found in it so many remembrances of myself that I fell to thinking it was a book I might have written had I lived two thousand years ago.

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Lodgers often make love to their landladies; what would she do if Mr. Lennox made love to her?

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'Of course we've been very wicked,' she continued as if she had not heard him, 'and you can't respect me very much; but then you made love to me so, and the music made me forget everything.

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Damn it, man, make haste!'

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'Don't damn me.

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Because your husband hates you--because he wants to make love to another woman.

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'I know you, a damned lot of hussies!

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