Vulgar words in The Man Who Laughs (Page 1)
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He would have felt repugnance to having his hut drawn by an ass; he thought too highly of the ass for that.
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The Court buffoon was nothing but an attempt to lead back man to the monkey.
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The vivisection of former days was not limited to the manufacture of phenomena for the market-place, of buffoons for the palace (a species of augmentative of the courtier), and eunuchs for sultans and popes.
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But the merchant and contraband hookers were very feeble specimens.
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These Biscay hookers, even to the poorest, were gilt and painted.
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An ass with his chart is better off than a wizard with his oracle."
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Hookers carry but one.
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This bastard of Lord Clancharlie had grown up as page at the court of Charles II.
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She had been but a short time the mistress of Charles II., sufficiently long however to have made his Majesty-who was delighted to have won so pretty a woman from the republic-bestow on the little Lord David, the son of his conquest, the office of keeper of the stick, which made that bastard officer, boarded at the king's expense, by a natural revulsion of feeling, an ardent adherent of the Stuarts.
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's bastards was called Carlos, Earl of Plymouth.
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Besides, Josiana, while she knew herself to be a bastard, felt herself a princess, and carried her authority over him with a high tone in all their arrangements.
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Mary Stuart, less concerned with the church and more with the woman part of the question, had little respect for her sister Elizabeth, and wrote to her as queen to queen and coquette to prude: "Your disinclination to marriage arises from your not wishing to lose the liberty of being made love to."
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This method of making love, one step in advance and two back, is expressed in the dances of the period, the minuet and the gavotte.
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To make Love prosaically decent, how gross!
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It begins in an ass; it ends in a lion.
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Queen Anne, on her part, kept herself secretly informed of the actions and conduct of the Duchess Josiana, her bastard sister, and of Lord David, her future brother-in-law by the left hand, by a creature of hers, on whom she counted fully, and whose name was Barkilphedro.
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He was a powerful buffoon.
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this woman, this extravagant thing, this libidinous dreamer, a virgin until the opportunity occurred, this bit of flesh as yet unfreed, this bold creature under a princess's coronet; this Diana by pride, as yet untaken by the first comer, just because chance had so willed it; this bastard of a low-lived king who had not the intellect to keep his place; this duchess by a lucky hit, who, being a fine lady, played the goddess, and who, had she been poor, would have been a prostitute; this lady, more or less, this robber of a proscribed man's goods, this overbearing strumpet, because one day he, Barkilphedro, had not money enough to buy his dinner, and to get a lodging-she had had the impudence to seat him in her house at the corner of a table, and to put him up in some hole in her intolerable palace.
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And all the while she was putting pearls round her neck, and making amorous poses to her fool, Lord David Dirry-Moir; the hussy!
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The queen was silent; then she exclaimed,- "Those bastards!"
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It is the only trouble he has given himself; but, just heavens, what a one!-to obtain from destiny, the blind blockhead, to mark him in his cradle a master of men.
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The carriage entrance, opening from the court on the field, was the legitimate door of the Tadcaster Inn, which had, beside it, a small bastard door, by which people entered.
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To call it bastard is to mean preferred.
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The buffoon mothers and dancers on the tight-rope, with pretty children, looked at them in anger, and pointing out Gwynplaine, would say, "What a pity you have not a face like that!"
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"You are a stupid ass."
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It is easy to wipe you out; the more so as you have a brother, the natural son of your father and of a woman who afterwards, during the exile of your father, became mistress to King Charles II., which accounts for your brother's high position at court; for it is to this brother, bastard though he be, that your peerage would revert.
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I care as much for them as for the rough hide of an ass.
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Pretty foundlings, indeed; he as ugly as sin, and she blind of both eyes!
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The beggars grow up, forsooth, and make love to each other.
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Ursus cut short his speech, interrupting it in a deep bass voice by the shout,- "Triple ass!"
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In general one is obliged to choose between two things-to be learned and grow thin, or to browse and be an ass.
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You imitate successfully the cries of beasts; but what would you say if, when you were making love to a lady, I passed my time in barking at you?
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Fibi and Vinos, being automatons of which Ursus pulled the strings, rattled their instruments, composed of copper and ass's skin-the usual sign of the performance being over and of the departure of the people.
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They can never say that I am not a king's bastard.
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Before this, in the thirteenth century, they had gained the battle of Lewes, and had driven from the kingdom the four brothers of the king, bastards of Queen Isabella by the Count de la Marche; all four usurers, who extorted money from Christians by means of the Jews; half princes, half sharpers-a thing common enough in more recent times, but not held in good odour in those days.
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; the jussu regis; the bottle opened at the Admiralty; the father, Lord Linnæus; the legitimate son, Lord Fermain; the bastard son, Lord David; the probable lawsuits; the Duchess Josiana; the Lord Chancellor; the Queen;-all these subjects of conversation ran from bench to bench.
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"Listen to Balaam's ass," added Lord Yarmouth.
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"-"Talk away, you buffoon!"
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He was an agony petrified in hilarity, carrying the weight of a universe of calamity, and walled up for ever with the gaiety, the ridicule, and the amusement of others; of all the oppressed, of whom he was the incarnation, he partook the hateful fate, to be a desolation not believed in; they jeered at his distress; to them he was but an extraordinary buffoon lifted out of some frightful condensation of misery, escaped from his prison, changed to a deity, risen from the dregs of the people to the foot of the throne, mingling with the stars, and who, having once amused the damned, now amused the elect.