Vulgar words in Sir Tom (Page 1)

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ass x 4
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He exasperated his kind aunt, he made all his friends indignant, and what was more, he exposed the young heiress hourly to many attempts on the part of the inferior class, from which as a matter of fact she herself sprang; and it was not until she was driven nearly desperate by those attempts that Sir Tom suddenly appeared upon the scene, and moved, it was thought, more by a half-fatherly kindness and sympathy for her, than either by love or desire of wealth, took her to himself, and made her his wife, to the great and grateful satisfaction of the girl herself, whose strange upbringing and brief introduction into a higher sphere had spoiled her for that homely country-town existence in which every woman flattered and every man made love to her.

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I always look at it when I pass, and think what a little ass I used to be.

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Still that is not everything; and I would much rather have led the life I have led, and enjoyed myself and seen so much, than to have been the little governess of the English family--the little girl who is always so quiet, who walks out with the children, and will not accept the eldest son even when he makes love to her.

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Laugh at what a duffer like that, an ass, a fellow that has not two ideas, says."

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You scold me; and you say another, a friend, is an ass----" "He was never any friend of mine," said Jock, with a hot flush of anger.

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He thought he ought to have been consulted, even as an old friend, much more as---- And the young ass was offensive.

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