Vulgar words in The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) (Page 1)
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Afterwards, when his cousin had come back and they had gone down to dinner together, where he sat facing her at a little table decorated in the middle with flowers, a position from which he had another view, through a window where the curtain remained undrawn by her direction (she called his attention to this--it was for his benefit), of the dusky, empty river, spotted with points of light--at this period, I say, it was very easy for him to remark to himself that nothing would induce him to make love to such a type as that.
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It had prevented Basil Ransom, at any rate, from putting the dots on his _i_'s, as the French say, in this gradual discovery that Mrs. Luna was making love to him.