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"Gad, sir," the latter assured him, "you're heartily welcome to the damn little hole, as far as I'm concerned, if you have the bad taste to fancy it.
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Tom Verity shook himself, took off his hat, smoothed his hair, settled his tie, hitched up the waist of his trousers, stamping to get them into place, laughed a little, calling himself every sort of silly ass, and then swung away down the side of the long ridge in pursuit of Damaris.
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"Damn bad taste, I call it, in a newcomer like Cripps," the sailor had remarked later to the soldier.
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Did not Dr. Stewart-Walker, moreover, hold out hopes that, by following his advice, the General's strength might be renewed, if not precisely like that of the eagle, yet in the more modest likeness of some good, biddable, burden-bearing animal--the patient ass, if one might so put it without too obvious irony?
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"Adulterous father, bastard son--publican sheltering youthful offenders from healthy punishment in the interests of personal gain."
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For I wanted something stronger than mother-love--precious though that is--to brace me up and put some spunk into me just then.--Sir Charles was campaigning in Afghanistan, and this Calcutta paper sang his praises to a rousing tune.
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You are properly fagged out.
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No subsequent love passage could rival, in wonder or beauty, that first one; since, compared with Charles Verity, the men who subsequently aspired to her favours--whether in wedlock or out--were, to her taste, at best dull, loutish fellows, at worst no more than human jackasses or human swine.