Vulgar words in It, and Other Stories (Page 1)
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As I'm telling you, I curled up good and tight, head and knees on the grub sack, Colt and dynamite handy, hair standing perfectly straight up, rope round me on the ground in a circle--I had a damn-fool notion that It mightn't be allowed to cross knotted ropes, and I shook with chills and nightmares and cramps.
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A man is not a creature who loafs when he ought to be at work, who loses money that he hasn't got, who drinks liquor that he cannot carry, and who upon such a noble groundwork feels justified in making love to a decent, self-respecting girl.
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"But I will give you my word of honor neither to drink, neither to gamble, neither to loaf, nor to make love until I have paid you back interest and principal."
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"Not to me, I think," said Miss Tennant, "but he kept mumbling to himself so I could hear: 'Slit her damn throat if she makes a move; slit it right into the backbone.'
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"Mine is David Larkin," said David, and he smiled cheerfully, "and I've promised not to make love."
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"But I was thinking that I am disappointed in my appetite for stories, and that just now you made a most enticing beginning as--'I, Roger Slyweather of Slyweather Hall, Blankshire, England, having at the age of twenty-two or thereabouts made solemn promise neither to smoke nor to drink, nor to make love, did set forth upon a blustering day in April....'" "Oh," said David, "if it's my story you want, I don't mind a bit.
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"Then," said David, "I shall smoke and I shall make love."
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But seeing that you're under bond not to make love until you've made good, I can see no objection to introducing you to my granddaughter."
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"Is it," thought he, "because he gave his word not to make love until he had made good--or is it because he really doesn't give a damn about poor little Vi?
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"But you'll be making love right and left," said Mr. Grey cheerfully, but with a shrewd eye upon the young man's expression of face.
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"At least I shall be free to make love if I want to."
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"People don't make love because they want to.
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I took him in hand, loaned him money, and took his solemn word that he would not even make love until he had paid me back.
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And his letters, one every week, confirm that; though he's very careful, because of his promise, not to make love in them.... You see, he's been working his head off--there's no way out of it, Billy--for me....
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He will pay me back the money, and the interest; and then I shall give him back the promises that he gave, and then he will make love to me...." She sighed, and said that the thought of the pickle she had got herself into made her temples ache.
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"Damn!" said McAllen.
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"Damn!" said Miss Tennant.
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"Then I may make love?" he asked very gently.
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"I lighted a cigarette, I registered a bet of two cents upon the weather, and I made love."
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"It is now lawful for me to make love," said David; "but I should do so with a better grace if I had your permission and approval."
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"You want to make love to my granddaughter!"
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"Splash--dash--damn, look out for that one."
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"This is a sight for gods--not jackasses.
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But for the desperation of our last charge the battle must have been lost----" Damn the memory of E. Hewett 78 + 10 = 88 Couldn't Put Here Lies G. Norris 78 + 10 = 88 A Fool and His Money Are Soon Parted The little tombstones came thick and fast now.