Vulgar words in His Masterpiece (Page 1)

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bastard x 1
blockhead x 1
hussy x 15
knocked up x 1
            

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Assuredly no mere hussy.

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Yes, you are knocked up, and have had nothing to eat, and you'll only spoil your work, as you did the other day.'

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The girl was almost a child, one of those young Parisian hussies who are as lank as ever at eighteen.

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they say I am clever: well, I'd give ten years of my life to have painted that big hussy of yours.'

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But the contractor had already drawn himself up on his short, squat legs, and was staring at the picture, and asking aloud in his thick hoarse voice: 'I say, who's the blockhead that painted this?'

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He still had the same good-looking, disturbing hussy-like face, but the fashion in which he wore his hair and the cut of his beard lent him an appearance of gravity.

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It absolutely amazes me to see men, who furiously deny talent to everybody else, lose all critical acumen, all common-sense, when it becomes a question of their own bastard creations.

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He tapped Claude on the shoulders, for he had divined his old master's secret contempt, and wished to win him back by his old-time caresses--all the wheedling practices of a hussy.

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One charming young woman was accompanied by a coquettishly bedecked child; a sour-looking, skinny matron of middle-class birth was flanked by two ugly urchins in black; a fat mother had foundered on a bench amid quite a tribe of dirty brats; and a lady of mature charms, still very good-looking, stood beside her grown-up daughter, quietly watching a hussy pass--this hussy being the father's mistress.

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All those who in any way create a stir in Paris were assembled together--the celebrities, the wealthy, the adored, talent, money and grace, the masters of romance, of the drama and of journalism, clubmen, racing men and speculators, women of every category, hussies, actresses and society belles.

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It was he who had settled the young artist in the Avenue de Villiers, compelling him to have a little mansion of his own, furnishing it as he would have furnished a place for a hussy, running him into debt with supplies of carpets and nick-nacks, so that he might afterwards hold him at his mercy; and now he began to accuse him of lacking orderliness and seriousness, of compromising himself like a feather-brain.

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The women of society looked like so many hussies, and they all of them took stock of one another with that slow glance which estimates the value of silk and the length of lace, and which ferrets everywhere, from the tips of boots to the feathers upon bonnets.

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With her hair freshly gilded, she had put on her best looks--all the tricky sheen of a tawny hussy, who seemed to have just stepped out of some old Renaissance frame; and she wore a train of light blue brocaded silk, with a satin skirt covered with Alencon lace, of such richness that quite an escort of gentlemen followed her in admiration.

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Well, Naudet, who had compelled Fagerolles to build a house, and who furnished it for him as he would have furnished a place for a hussy, wanted to get hold of his nick-nacks and hangings again.

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Well, after all, the other was only a hussy, one of the many found in the artistic fraternity, fellows who accost the public at street corners, leave their comrades in the lurch, and victimise them so as to get the bourgeois into their studios.

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the cursed wretch, the hussy!'

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oh, Claude!' she gasped at last, 'she has taken you back--the hussy has killed you, killed you, killed you!'

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