Vulgar words in Cleek, the Master Detective (Page 1)

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ass x 10
fag x 1
hussy x 3
make love x 2
            

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"Got you, you ass!" snapped he, with a short, crisp, self-satisfied laugh.

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She might have tipped me off before I made such an ass of myself.

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Oh, you seventy-seven kinds of a double-barrelled ass!

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"I had him--I had the Vanishing Cracksman in my blessed paws and then went and let that French hussy---- But look here; I say, now, how do you know it was him?

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Superintendent sent me out after him, hot foot; and after a bit I picked him up in the Strand, toddling along with that French hussy as cool as you please.

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"What an ass!" he said to himself in the soundless words of thought.

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"What an ass never to have suspected it when it is all so clear!"

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I'm a bit fagged out, and Dollops, I know, is all but starving.

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A fellow with a name like 'Rupert St. Aubyn' is bound to be a silly ass."

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For, a "silly ass"--albeit an unusually handsome one with his fair, curling hair and his big blonde moustache--he certainly was: a lisping, "ha-ha-ing" "don't-cher-know-ing" silly ass, whom the presence of ladies seemed to cover with confusion and drive into a very panic of shy embarrassment.

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Her absence seemed to make but little impression upon him, however, for, following up a well-defined plan of action, he devoted himself wholly to the Spanish woman, and both amazed her and gratified her vanity by allowing her to learn that a man may be the silliest ass imaginable and yet quite understand how to flirt and to make love to a woman.

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And that good-for-nothing Spanish piece racing and shrieking round the tennis court like a she tom-cat, the heartless hussy.

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More than that; after he had finished his second cup of tea, and immediately following the sound of some one just beyond the veranda rail whistling the lively, lilting measures of "There's a Girl Wanted There," "the silly ass" seemed to become a thousand times sillier than ever.

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And as for his stepmother, why, she threw the little worm over as soon as he began making love to her, and tried to make her take up with him by telling her how much he'd be worth when his father died."

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