Vulgar words in Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil (Page 1)
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The gentleman on your right hand, Mr. Mullins, who is chiefly remarkable for looking ['like a fool,' put in Coleman, _sotto voce_], before he leaps, so long, that in general he postpones leaping altogether, and is in the habit of making ['an ass of himself,' suggested Coleman]--really, Freddy, I am surprised at you--of making two bites at a cherry--you will be better able to appreciate when you know more of him.
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A pause ensued, during which the whole affair in its true bearings became for the first time clear to my mind's eye; the result of my cogitations may be gathered from the following remark, which escaped me as it were involuntarily--"What a confounded ass I have made of myself, _to be sure_!"
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~32~~"Smithey was in great force to-night," observed Lawless, as the door closed behind him--"nicely they are bleeding that young ass Robarts among them--he has got into good hands to help him to get rid of his money, at all events.
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"I'm afraid," continued Oaklands, "the old gentleman will be quite knocked up.
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what an ass you are, to be sure!-- 'Fair clime, whose every season smiles Benignant o'er those blessed isles'-- blessed isles, indeed; what stuff!-- ''Tis Greece, but living Greece no more;' that would do for a motto for the barbers to stick on their pots of bear's grease!-- 'Clime of the unforgotten brave;' _unforgotten_!
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By the way, what an interesting virtue patience is; it is a curious fact in Natural History that some of the lower animals share it with us; for instance, there's nothing so patient as a jack-ass----" "Except a pig," put in Mullins; "they're uncommon--" "Obstinate," suggested Coleman.
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those are not the things that tire me, somehow; but in general I am very easily knocked up--I am indeed--most things are so much trouble, and I hate trouble; I suppose it is that I am not strong."
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I shall be glad enough to tumble into bed, for I'm as tired as a dog: it really is astonishing how easily I am knocked up."
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What an ass I was to come here!
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O that he were here to write me down an ass!
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but, masters, remember that I am an ass: though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass."
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To descend to particulars.--Hostilities were commenced by that old ass, Mayor Dullmug, who took out a summons against me for creating a riot and disturbance in the town, and the first day the bench sat I was marched off by two policemen, and locked up in a little dirty room, to keep cool till their worships were ready to discuss me.
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A fear of completely knocking up, however, induced me to preserve some little method in my madness.
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there's nothing in life like making Love, Save making hay in fine weather!
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Chance throws in your way a young lady, possessing great beauty, who is prospective heiress to a very valuable property, and it naturally enough occurs to you, that making love is likely to be more agreeable, and in the present instance more profitable also, than reading law; accordingly, you commence operations, and for some time all goes on swimmingly, Miss Saville, like any other girl in her situation, having no objection to vary the monotony of a long engagement by a little innocent flirtation; affairs of this kind, however, seldom run smoothly long together, and at some moment, when you were rather more pressing than usual, the young lady thinks it advisable to inform you, that in accordance with her father's dying wish, and of her own free will, she has engaged herself to the nephew of her guardian, who strangely enough happens to be an old schoolfellow of yours, against whom you have always nourished a strong and unaccountable feeling of dislike.
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"I wrote a few days since to Lawless, asking him to come down for a week's hunting before the season should be over; and this morning I received the following characteristic answer: 'Dear Oaklands, a man who refuses a good offer is an ass (unless he happens to have had a better one).
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Now, yours being the best offer down in my book ~312~~ at present, I say, "done, along with you, old fellow," thereby clearly proving that I am no ass.
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"I found Mr. Oaklands lying on the sofa in the library; he says he feels a little knocked up by his walk this morning, and desired me to apologise for his absence, and wish everybody good-night for him.
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you're just as bad as he is, making love in corners, (aside, Wonder whether she does really,) instead of attending to the customers; nice set of servants I have, to be sure.
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that wretch John, he was the Inconstancy," observed the eldest Miss Simper, "marrying for money!--the creature!--such baseness 1 but how delightfully that dear, clever Mr. Lawless acted; he made love with such _naïve_ simplicity, too; he is quite irresistible."
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"I have, under a most precious one," continued Lawless--"regularly put my foot in it--made a complete ass of myself--eh!
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Nobody but such a thickheaded ass as I am would have gone on all this time without seeing how the game stood.
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"I only wish as I could think so, for all our sakes, Mr. Fairlegh; but facts is like jackasses, precious stubborn things.