Vulgar words in The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill (Page 1)

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bastard x 2
damn x 4
hussy x 2
make love x 2
            

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"What will you do, you brazen hussy?" said Sister Angela, but I could see that her lip was trembling.

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If I'm a hussy I'm not a hypocrite, and as for corrupting the school, and being a disgrace to it, I'll leave the Reverend Mother to say who is doing that."

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"Damn--" He stopped, as if, caught in guilt, and began to apologise again.

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He talked for a long time, about his captain and crew; the scientific experts who had volunteered to accompany him, his aeronautic outfit, his sledges and his skis; but whatever he talked about--if it was only his dogs and the food he had found for them--it was always in that soft, caressing voice which made me feel as if (though he never said one word of love) he were making love to me, and saying the sweetest things a man could say to a woman.

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I had some delicious moments of femininity too (such as no woman can resist), until it struck me suddenly that in all this make-believe we were making love to each other again.

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"Damn it, have you lost all sense of a woman's duty to her husband?

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bastard?"

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At length a letter came, and Maggie Jones trembled so much that she dared not open it, but at last she tripped up to her room to be "all of herself," and then... then there was a "wild screech," and when Emmerjane ran upstairs Maggie was stretched out on the floor in a dead faint, clutching in her tight hand the photograph which Owen Owens had returned with the words, written in his heavy scrawl across the face--_Maggie Jones's bastard_.

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_Giovanni's dead, and I don't care a damn!_" I remember that she said something else--it was about Sister Mildred, but my mind did not take it in--and at the next moment she left me, and I heard her laughter once more as she swept round the corner.

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"Damn it, sir!

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