Vulgar words in The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck - A Comedy of Limitations (Page 1)
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"At worst," he was reflecting, "I can make love to her.
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This imbecile, without a syllable to say for himself, without a solitary adroit word within tongue's reach, wherewith to annihilate the hussy, was a Musgrave of Matocton!
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She would look pensive just to make an ass of you!
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What she really cared for was a young fool who could dance with her in this silly new-fangled gliding style, and send her flowers and sweet-meats, and make love to her glibly--and a petticoated fool who would envy her fine feathers,--and, at last, a knavish fool who would barter his title for her money.
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"I think you are a jackass-fool," Miss Stapylton said, crisply, "and a fortune-hunter, and a sot, and a travesty, and a whole heap of other things I haven't, as yet had time to look up in the dictionary.
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What do you mean by sneakin' in here and tappin' on a fellow's shoulder--like a damn' woodpecker, by Jove!
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on account of a boy-and-girl affair five years ago, this half-strainer, this poor-white trash, has actually had the presumption, sir,--but I don't doubt that Pat has told you all about it?"
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It had just occurred to him, as mildly remarkable, that Patricia had never at any time alluded to any one of those countless men who must have inevitably made love to her.
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"Her mother made a runaway match, you may remember--Damn' poor cigar, this.
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"And afterwards the jackass-fool made matters worse by calling me 'his darling.'
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Lichfield felt that only showed what came of treating poor-white trash as your equals, and gloried in the salutary moral.
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And I'll help you in this if you'll only promise not to die in spite of what these damn' doctors say, because you're _mine_, Pat, and so you realize a bargain is a bargain."
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oh, hell to damn!
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may the noses of all respectable people be turned upside down and jackasses dance eternally upon their grandmothers' graves!"
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And before the coming of Clarice had Pauline Romeyne, whom time has converted into Polly Ashmeade, reigned in the land--" "Don't be an ass!" the colonel pleaded; and then observed, inconsequently: "I can't somehow quite realize Aline is dead.
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And for all that he so often plays the jackass-fool about women, like Grandma Pendomer, he is a man, Jack--a well-meaning, clean and dunderheaded man!
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He comprehended now that, chafing under his indebtedness in the affair of Mrs. Pendomer, Charteris would most naturally retaliate by making love to his benefactor's wife, because the colonel also knew John Charteris.
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But that night I thought you were trying to make love to me, and I was disappointed in you, and--yes, rather pleased.
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"You were a dear boy, Rudolph, when I first knew you--and what I liked was that you never made love to me.
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"Ah, dear boy that was, it is unfair, isn't it, for an old woman to seize upon you in this fashion, and insist on your making love to her?
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I want you to stop making love to my wife."
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"Oh, Rudolph is just a jackass-fool, anyway."
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But I never suspected until to-night that I had the honor to be your half-brother, Rudolph--one of 'Wild Will's' innumerable bastards."