Vulgar words in Le morne au diable. English (Page 1)
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We would say here, in order to explain the success of Croustillac, that at sea the hours seem very long; the slightest distractions are precious, and one is very glad to have always at one's beck and call a species of buffoon endowed with imperturbable good humor.
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"But this man is a blockhead," said Croustillac, contemptuously.
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if, in spite of my absurd situation, I experience a cruel mortification; how can I play the buffoon?"
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After this I would have thrown myself into the fire for you, and that for the sole pleasure of throwing myself into it, for I had nothing more to hope for from you; the time of my folly is past; I see too clearly into my heart not to recognize that I was a kind of mendicant buffoon; I can never have anything in common with a woman as beautiful and as young as you.