Vulgar words in The Eagle's Shadow (Page 1)
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_You_ may call that sort of thing cleverness, if you like; I call it damn' foolishness."
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That's damn' nonsense!
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Ouida ain't cultured, Wilkins, but she's damn' good reading.
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"I acted like an ass," said Mr. Woods, tragically.
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But if you'll forgive me for having been an ass I'll forgive you for throwing me over for Teddy Anstruther, and at the wedding I'll dance through any number of pairs of patent-leathers you choose to mention."
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She--oh, she'd only think you a precious cheeky ass, she would, and she'd be quite right.
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You _are_ an ass, Billy Woods!
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"No, we aren't an ass," he addressed his reflection in the mirror, as he carefully knotted his tie.
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In consequence, he very cordially detested the people who could--especially that grimacing ass, Kennaston.
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--and so," Mr. Woods was stating, "I've been an even greater ass than usual, and I hope you'll be very, very happy."
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Then, "By Jove!" said he, grimly, "I've been so busy making an ass of myself I'd forgotten all about more--more important things."
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Oh, of course, he'll make love to the first woman he meets who has any money.
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I--I fancy we're both feeling a bit fagged.
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"I've been an ass," said he, rather tragically.
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"Oh, not an unusual ass, Kathleen--just the sort men are always making of themselves.
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And I quarreled with her--I, conceited young ass that I was, actually presumed to dictate to the dearest, sweetest, most lovable woman on earth, and tell her what she must do and what she mustn't.
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Oh, I _was_ an ass!
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"And I thought I was an ass last night!
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But since somebody had to have it, I'd much rather it was you, my boy, than a set of infernal, hypocritical, philanthropic sharks, and I'm damn' glad Frederick has done the square thing by you--yes, begad!"
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And in the name of Heaven, what does she see to admire in that putty-faced, grimacing ass, any way!
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"Of course, it was the money--and in some degree the moon--that induced me to make love to you.
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"Yet," she marvelled, "you made love to me very tropically."
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"You see," he added, whimsically, "I was sufficiently a conceited ass to fancy you cared a little for me.
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"That," said he, affably, "is poppycock.
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"Damn you!
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_Damn_ you!" she screamed, her voice high, flat, quite unhuman; "ah, God in Heaven damn you!"
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But it was the hatless Colonel on his favourite Black Bess ("Damn your motor-cars!" the Colonel was wont to say; "I consider my appearance sufficiently unprepossessing already, sir, without my arriving in Heaven in fragments and stinking of gasoline!")
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And as for Dr. Jeal, he would hold him responsible--"personally, sir"--for the consequences of his dawdling in this fashion--"Damme, sir, like a damn' snail with a wooden leg!"
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Damn Jukesbury!
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Damn all doctors, too, sir!
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I put my trust in my God, sir, and not in a box of damn' sugar-pills, sir.
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And if we are quite candid we must concede that we very unfeignedly envy and admire the rich; we must grant that money confers a certain distinction on a man, be he the veriest ass that ever heehawed a platitude, and that we cannot but treat him accordingly, you and I.
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But Colonel Hugonin enjoyed them thoroughly; for, as he feelingly and frequently observed, it is an immense consolation to any man to reflect that his home no longer contains "more damn' foolishness to the square inch than any other house in the United States."
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I ain't a Fenian nor yet a Guy Fawkes, daughter, and in consequence I'm free to confess I don't care for all this damn mystery and shilly-shallying.
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"It ain't," said the Colonel, flatly--"it's some more damn foolishness."
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"Peggy," he babbled--"ah, forgive me if I'm a presumptuous ass--but was it because you knew I couldn't ask you to marry me so long as you had the money?"