Vulgar words in The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 - Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty - Volumes (Page 1)
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She needn't imagine that she could get a husband so easily; the poorest servant would think twice before he'd take a poor girl, and twice again before he'd take a bastard--that was the greatest disgrace there was.
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[Illustration: THE BATH BENJAMIN VAUTIER] Although Freneli felt such speeches deeply she would give no sign of it, would neither weep nor scold, but say at most, "Elsie, that you're not a bastard too isn't your fault; and that you haven't one by now isn't your fault either."
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Then when Uli would say that he didn't know how to do any better, that he too didn't exactly know whether Elsie really wanted him, and if she was in earnest about it she should speak with her parents, or they would go to the pastor and announce their engagement and then see what would come of it, Elsie would say that there was no hurry about it; they could get married any time; the chief thing was that he should love her, and then a year would be soon enough, or if he went at it right (that depended on him, she would see about it), six months; but with that Freneli he must have nothing more to do or she would scratch both their eyes out and the hussy would have to leave the house.
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Now it's over I can see that I shouldn't have had a happy hour with her, and that with such an ugly, lazy hussy no amount of money would make a man happy.
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If you only got the farm you'd marry a hussy from the gutter, or a fence-post, wouldn't you?
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"Charles Hawermann, Charles Hawermann," said Bräsig, wiping his eyes, and blowing his imposing nose, "you're--you're an ass!
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Yes," he continued, shoving his handkerchief into his pocket with an emphatic poke, and holding his nose even more in the air than usual, "you're every bit as great an ass as you used to be!"
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"You're right enough there, Charles, he is an old Nuss, and Nüssler (slow-coach) is his name; but _he_ never bullies your sister, and although he is such an ass that he can manage nothing himself, he has sense enough to see that your sister is quite able to keep everything straight."
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But if thine ass falls into a pit, and so on--yes, ask her if she will come and help me to stuff a couple of little mattresses.
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I was just about to utter the three _whistles_ we had agreed upon, when that stupid old _ass_ Bräsig came up to me, and talked to me for a _whole hour by the clock_ about the farm.
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Little by little, however, it has grown to be rather risky to assert this fact, for every musical ass now argues that _because_ his works please nobody, therefore he must be a Beethoven.
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If Rousseau, as soon as the spirit of coarseness came over him, hurls the most spirited abuse at everybody, if the peasant poet, Robert Burns, "a giant original man," as Thomas Carlyle calls him, suddenly appearing among the puppets and buffoons of the eighteenth century, is gaped at like a curiosity in the salons of Edinburgh on account of his rough simple nature, then we too can find delight in the natural strength which is hidden in the Pigtail under the form of the Rococo.