Vulgar words in Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 01 (Page 1)
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"Well, just before I went to school I remember hearing you say that you had a quarrel with Lord Hautfort, and that he was an ass, and you would write and tell him so.
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When you wrote did you say, 'You are an ass'?
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But you cannot learn too early this fact, that irony is to the high-bred what Billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank: he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.
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He was an ass to raise the question; for, if he had not, I should not have exercised the right.
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That flaunting hussy Jane, the under-housemaid--" "Jane!