Vulgar words in Through the Fray - A Tale of the Luddite Riots (Page 1)

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ass x 1
cuss x 1
fag x 2
            

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CHAPTER VI: THE THIEF DETECTED Mr. Porson was in his place next morning, having returned only half an hour before school began; he looked fagged, and he was scarcely so attentive as usual to the lessons, his thoughts seeming to be elsewhere.

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"I see, sir," he said, "now that I have thought it all over, that you are quite right, and that I have been behaving like an ass, so I shall set to work again and try and make up the lost time.

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He ha' larning, you see, can read and wroite foine, and ha' got a smooth tongue, and knows how to talk to gals, so some thought she would take him; oi knew well enough she wouldn't do nowt of the koind, for oi ha' heard her say he were a mischievous chap, and a cuss to Varley.

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Bill made the assertions stoutly, but there was a tremulous eagerness in the question which followed it; He was fagged and exhausted.

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