Vulgar words in The Girl on the Boat (Page 1)

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ass x 4
chump x 2
dick x 1
make love x 1
            

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(Those who are chumps enough to miss it deserve no consideration.)

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Sam might have remained mystified, but at this juncture there proceeded from a bundle of rugs in the neighbourhood of the girl's lower ribs, a sharp yapping sound, of such a calibre as to be plainly audible over the confused noise of Mamies who were telling Sadies to be sure and write, of Bills who were instructing Dicks to look up old Joe in Paris and give him their best, and of all the fruit-boys, candy-boys, magazine-boys, American-flag-boys, and telegraph boys who were honking their wares on every side.

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"In Rome, you ass!

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And there were men, no doubt, who would be chumps enough to do it, he thought, as he prepared to shift back to a position of greater safety.

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I don't want to discourage you, but, long ago as it is, you can't have forgotten what an ass you made of yourself at that house-supper at school.

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But it seems that the silly ass took it into his head to propose to Billie just before dinner--apparently he's loved her for years in a silent, self-effacing way--and of course she told him that she was engaged to me, and the thing upset him to such an extent that he says the idea of sitting down at a piano and helping me give an imitation of Frank Tinney revolts him.

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I take it that after my departure you made the most colossal ass of yourself, but why let that worry you?

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"At any rate," said Mr. Peters, disappointed but hopeful, "he made love to you before witnesses?"

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