Vulgar words in The Deluge (Page 1)

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Wealth hasn't made me a solemn ass, fenced in and unapproachable.

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If you did, you're a damn fool.

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If you didn't, you're a damn scoundrel.

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Really I feel sorry for you--to have such a clever scheme messed by such an ass."

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"To hear you talk," put in Sam, with a grin, "one would think you didn't shove off millions of dollars of suspicious stuff on the public through those damn clever letters of yours."

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I'm not one of those damn fools that ask for criticism when they want only flattery, as you ought to know by this time.

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"If the part that may be glamour should by chance rub clean away, there ought to be something to make one feel he wasn't wholly an ass."

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It's a damn sight more important what you think of them; as it won't be many years before you'll hold everything they value, everything that makes them of consequence, in the hollow of your hand."

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I had been making an ass of myself, and that evening I got the first instalment of my sound and just punishment.

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"Proper--so it is--too damn proper," was his answer.

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Repeat ad infinitum, for the law is for the laughter of the strong, and the public is an eager ass.

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I--" "Damn your best!"

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"I don't know, and I don't care a damn," replied I coolly.

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It was part and parcel of a lot of damn foolishness I've been indulging in for the last few months.

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I assure you, when I see him again, I'll be as friendly as ever--only a bit less of a trusting ass, I fancy.

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"I don't care a damn, since I'm to lose you," said I.

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"What an ass I've been making of myself!" said I to myself.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,797   ~   ~   ~

And I could see myself as I really had been during those months of social struggling--an ass, braying and gamboling in a lion's skin--to impress the ladies!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,895   ~   ~   ~

You kept me straight--showed me what a damn fool a man was to load himself down with a petty larceny record.

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The words were indistinct until Joe's heavy voice sent down to us an angry "No damn nonsense, I tell you.

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Children have a way of bringing themselves up, in spite of damn fool parents."

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I set out for "home" half a dozen times at least, that afternoon, before I pulled myself together, called myself an ass, and, with a pause at Delmonico's for a drink, which I ordered and then rejected, finally pushed myself in at the door.

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Those damn newspapers!

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