Vulgar words in The Lady of the Ice - A Novel (Page 1)

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ass x 15
blockhead x 1
cuss x 1
damn x 5
            

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I'm such an ass that, if she were even to hint at that, I'd resent it furiously.

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Did you _ever_ hear of such an ass?

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"Well, you know she couldn't get over it for ever so long, but laughed no end, while I sat utterly amazed at the extent to which I had made an ass of myself.

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I roared--"this is all very fine, and very loyal, but, damn it!

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Such were my thoughts; but then I suddenly decided that by such thoughts I was only making an ass of myself, and concluded that it was nothing more than her way.

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Was he now gnashing his splendid set of teeth in drear confinement; or was he making a fool of himself, and an ass, by persisting in indulging in sentiment with Louie?

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"I mumbled something or other about 'old friendship'--'stranger in a strange land'--horrid rot--what an ass she must have thought me!--but that's the way it was.

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"Damn it, man!

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You're not altogether an ass, are you?

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Why did that confounded old blockhead forget to introduce her to you?

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And here am I--in for it --yes--damn it, man!--I say again--in for it--to any extent--rheumatism, neuralgia, gout, inflammation, and fifty other things!

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Amer., _a merry cuss_.]

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"The widow--damn her!" and he struck his clinched fist against the head of the sofa.

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Damn it, man!

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"Why didn't I?" said he, at length; "simply because I happen to be an unmitigated, uncontrollable, incorrigible, illimitable, and inconceivable ASS!

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His determination to be an ass was so vehement, that remonstrance was out of the question.

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I'm always an ass, and so I felt tickled, no end, at her unfailing kindness to me, and took it all as so much incense, and all that--I was her deity, you know--snuffing up incense--receiving her devotion--feeling half sorry that I couldn't quite reciprocate, and making an infernal fool of myself generally.

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"Now you know I'm such a confounded ass that her very reticence about my other affairs, and her quiet way of taking them, rather piqued me; and several times I threw out hints about them, to see what she would say.

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"Only under the circumstances, being thus challenged, you know, by a very pretty widow, and being an ass, and being conceited, and being dazzled by the surroundings, what did I do but begin to swear that I loved her better than ever?

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She pretended not to believe me--she hinted at my indifference, she spoke about my joy at getting away from her so as to go elsewhere, and said a thousand other things, all of which had the effect of making me more of an ass than ever, and so I rushed headlong to destruction."

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I'm such a perfect and finished ass, that I really believe I meant what I said, and at that time I really wanted her to marry me.

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The widow was affected by my vehemence, as a matter of course--she stammered--she hesitated, and of course, being an ass, I was only made more vehement by all that sort of thing, you know.

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