Vulgar words in Night and Morning, Complete (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 2
bastard x 4
blockhead x 3
damn x 2
make love x 1
            

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Heaven knows how often I have made love; and this is the only woman I have ever really loved.

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"Arthur," said he, in a hollow whisper, "those children are our disgrace and your supplanters; they are bastards!

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bastards!

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Yet, believe me, Philip," continued Robert, with solemn earnestness, "the world--" "Damn the world!

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(he had caught his father's expletive) "that blockhead has put the tent on the wrong side of the lake, after all.

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"And why did you not cut the boughs, blockhead?"

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No one heeded him at that hour--no one heeded the fatherless BASTARD.

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This man who seduced my affianced bride, and then left her whole soul, once fair and blooming--I swear it--with its leaves fresh from the dews of heaven, one rank leprosy, this man who, rolling in riches, learned to cheat and pilfer as a boy learns to dance and play the fiddle, and (to damn me, whose happiness he had blasted) accused me to the world of his own crime!--here is this man who has not left off one vice, but added to those of his youth the bloodless craft of the veteran knave;--here is this man, flattered, courted, great, marching through lanes of bowing parasites to an illustrious epitaph and a marble tomb, and I, a rogue too, if you will, but rogue for my bread, dating from him my errors and my ruin!

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You never, perhaps, heard of a certain Philip, king of Macedon; but I will tell you what he once said, as well as I can remember it: 'Lead an ass with a pannier of gold; send the ass through the gates of a city, and all the sentinels will run away.'

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The elder of these bastards turned out a sad fellow, and the younger,--I don't know exactly where he is, but no doubt with one of his mother's relations.

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I thought that you told me never to speak of--" "Blockhead!

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Then, when he had emptied his glass, he drew himself nearer to the fire, warmed his hands, mused a moment, and turned round to his confidant:-- "Dykeman," said he, "though you're an ass and a coward, and you don't deserve that I should be so condescending, I will relieve your fears at once.

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