Vulgar words in The Wings of the Dove, Volume II (Page 1)
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It was properly an inside thing, not an outside, a thing to make love greater, not to make happiness less.
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She was bright and handsome, not fagged and worn, with the general clearness; for it certainly stuck out enough that if the American ladies themselves weren't to be squared, which was absurd, they fairly imposed the necessity of trying Aunt Maud again.
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Gracefully, respectfully, consummately enough--always with hands in position and the look, in his thick neat white hair, smooth fat face and black professional, almost theatrical eyes, as of some famous tenor grown too old to make love, but with an art still to make money--did he on occasion convey to her that she was, of all the clients of his glorious career, the one in whom his interest was most personal and paternal.
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"How great an ass he had made of himself?"
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"That's exactly the inevitable ass."