Vulgar words in The Party (Page 1)

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blockhead x 1
damn x 3
hussy x 1
make love x 2
            

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Yes, y-es, my canary birds, some hussies will bewitch an old man and rule over him, my doves, rule over him and turn his head; and when they've saved up money and lottery tickets enough, they will bewitch him to his death."

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"If Siberia, then let it be Siberia, damn it all!"

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"I don't care to go alone, damn it all!

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With a sugary smile, chewing his lips, he kissed her hand, and asking her permission to come again, took his leave, while she remained standing in the middle of the drawing-room, amazed, enchanted, unable to believe that this change in her life, this marvellous change, had taken place so quickly; and at that moment Modest Alexeitch walked in ... and he, too, stood before her now with the same ingratiating, sugary, cringingly respectful expression which she was accustomed to see on his face in the presence of the great and powerful; and with rapture, with indignation, with contempt, convinced that no harm would come to her from it, she said, articulating distinctly each word: "Be off, you blockhead!"

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Damn it all!"

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You follow me about like a shadow, you are continually looking at me not in a nice way, making love to me, writing me strange letters, and... and I don't know where it's all going to end!

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like some depraved schoolboy, I am making love to another man's wife, writing idiotic letters, degrading myself...

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