Vulgar words in Joanna Godden (Page 1)
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"A damn fine woman," he said to himself, "she'll marry before long."
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Damn it, I'm always alone here!
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His mistress, too, had a fagged, sorrowful air, and soon it became known all over the Three Marshes that Ansdore's lambing that year had been a gigantic failure.
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"Better leave it," thought Joanna to herself, "after all, I'm not sure--and she's a slut.
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I'm sorry I told you--maybe I shud ought to have spuck to the gal fust ..." "Don't be a fool ... the dirty slut!--I'll learn her ... under my very roof--" "Oh, no, ma'am,'twasn't under your roof--we shouldn't have allowed it.
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I reckon no one ud like me better for behaving rude to Mr. Pratt ..." "Oh, damn Mr. Pratt!" cried Martin, completely losing his head--"I tell you I don't care tuppence what you or anyone says or does to him."
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"But the mistresses don't allow it," said Ellen, in hasty fear of being taken away, "you get a bad mark if you say 'damn.'"
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I'll stand by you--I'll face the racket--I'd sooner you did anything than--" "Oh, don't be an ass, Jo.
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Joanna suddenly felt her imagination gloat and kindle at the thought of Brodnyx and Pedlinge compelled to holiness--all those wicked old men who wouldn't go to church, but expected their Christmas puddings just the same, those hobbledehoys who loafed against gate-posts the whole of Sunday, those vain hussies who giggled behind their handkerchiefs all the service through--it would be fine to see them hustled about and taught their manners ... it would be valiant sport to see them made to behave, as Mr. Pratt had never been able to make them.
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She was made to feel just as uncomfortable as any wicked old man or giggling hussy.... She was all the more aggrieved because, though Mr. Palmer had displeased her, she could not get rid of him as she would have got rid of her looker in the same circumstances.
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He must be making love to her, or they wouldn't go off alone together like that ...
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They had come out into the darkness to make love to each other--their voices sounded different from in the day, more dragging, more tender.... She began to think of the times, which now seemed so far off, when she herself had sought a man's kisses.
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Perhaps she was a wealthy milliner on a holiday ... but, her accent--you could lean up against it ... well, anyhow she was a damn fine woman.
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There was a curious, delightful freshness about her ... and she was a damn fine woman, too.
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But, damn it all!
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He should have his drive--she would take him over to New Romney, even though it was written "Neither thou nor thine ox nor thine ass nor the stranger that is within thy gates."
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That was her mistake--letting the thing start when it could have no seemly ending ... a boy like that, nearly young enough to be her son ... and yet she had been unable to deny him, she had let him kiss her and court her--make love to her....
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Worse than that, she had made love to him, thrown herself at him, pursued him with her love, refused to let him go ... and all the other things she had done--changing for his sake from her decent ways ... breaking the Sabbath, taking off her neck-band.
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Damn it all!
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"Damn!
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"I wouldn't look decent--I'd look like a hussy.
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Hang it all, I love you--and I think you're a damn fine woman--I reelly do--and I don't care if you are a bit older--I don't like girls."
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"My dear Joanna, are you quite an ass?