Vulgar words in The Passionate Friends (Page 1)

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blockhead x 1
damn x 2
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I never made love to her in the commoner sense of the word, a sense in which the woman is conceived of as shy, unawakened, younger, more plastic, and the man as tempting, creating responses, persuading and compelling.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 671   ~   ~   ~

We made love to each other as youth should, we were friends lit by a passion....

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,314   ~   ~   ~

He will make love to you, Mary."

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,316   ~   ~   ~

"He will make love to you, Mary.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,894   ~   ~   ~

If it comes to that, damn the flag!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 1,965   ~   ~   ~

She struck me in that brief crowded instant of recognition as being exactly [Pg 134] the person she had been when we had made love in Burnmore Park; there were her eyes, at once frank and sidelong, the old familiar sweep of her hair, the old familiar tilt of the chin, the faint humor of her lip, and at the same time she seemed to be something altogether different from the memories I had cherished, she was something graver, something inherently more splendid than they had recorded.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,088   ~   ~   ~

I talked a great deal with Rachel, and still I did not make love to her.

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It was always in my mind that I would make love to her, the heavens and earth and all her family were propitious, glowing golden with consent and approval, I thought she was the most wonderful and beautiful thing in life, and her eyes, the intonation of her voice, her hurrying color and a hundred little involuntary signs told me how she quickened at my coming.

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I had never before thought that to make love is a coarse thing.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 2,487   ~   ~   ~

"And I came here to be made love to, Stephen!

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But within the club that blockhead, thinking of nothing but the appearances of our fight and his own credit, was varying his assertion that he had thrashed me, with denunciations of me as a "blackguard," and giving half a [Pg 183] dozen men a highly colored, improvised, and altogether improbable account of my relentless pursuit and persecution of Lady Mary Justin, and how she had left London to avoid me.

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Damn it, Tarvrille!"

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"One doesn't want to be a flatulent ass of course," said Tarvrille, "still--" He resumed with an air of plunging.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,840   ~   ~   ~

"I made love," I said, "to Lady Mary Justin, and we were found out.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,146   ~   ~   ~

It kept me at work, and if I strayed into indolence brought me back to work with a mind galled and bleeding.... ยง 12 And I suppose it is mixed up with all this that I could not make love easily and naturally to Rachel.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,975   ~   ~   ~

I suppose, poor silly little things, that if you stayed we should certainly begin making love to each other.

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As if already we hadn't made love....

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