Vulgar words in House of Mirth (Page 1)
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It's stupid of you to make love to me, and it isn't like you to be stupid."
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All day he was "down town"; and in winter it was long after nightfall when she heard his fagged step on the stairs and his hand on the school-room door.
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Did Judy really think you could bring yourself to marry that portentous little ass?
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And perhaps you won't think poor old Gus such an awful ass as some people do."
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That silly ass Silverton brings them to the house--he writes poetry, you know, and Bertha and he are getting tremendously thick.
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Lord knows I've been patient enough--I've hung round and looked like an ass.
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I didn't begin this business--kept out of the way, and left the track clear for the other chaps, till you rummaged me out and set to work to make an ass of me--and an easy job you had of it, too.
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Don't stare at me like that--I know I'm not talking the way a man is supposed to talk to a girl--but, hang it, if you don't like it you can stop me quick enough--you know I'm mad about you--damn the money, there's plenty more of it--if THAT bothers you...
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I say, Lawrence, chuck your engagement and take pity on me--it gives me the blue devils to dine alone, and there's nobody but that canting ass Wetherall in the club."
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I'm confoundedly gone on you--that's about the size of it--and I'm just giving you a plain business statement of the consequences.
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But her confession would have to be postponed; and the chill of the delay settled heavily on her fagged spirit.
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"Making love to me without asking me to marry you?"
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"Well, that's about the size of it, I suppose.
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I can't help making love to you--I don't see how any man could; but I don't mean to ask you to marry me as long as I can keep out of it."
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She leaned back for a moment, closing her eyes, and as she sat there, her pale lips slightly parted, and the lids dropped above her fagged brilliant gaze, Gerty had a startled perception of the change in her face--of the way in which an ashen daylight seemed suddenly to extinguish its artificial brightness.
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There were twenty of them in the work-room, their fagged profiles, under exaggerated hair, bowed in the harsh north light above the utensils of their art; for it was something more than an industry, surely, this creation of ever-varied settings for the face of fortunate womanhood.
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"But, mercy, I didn't mean to go on like this about myself, with you sitting there looking so fagged out.