Vulgar words in St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (Page 1)
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In the darkness of night, in the streets by day, still you are to have my voice and face, whispering, making love for me, encroaching on your shy heart.
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The house appeared asleep; yet if I attempted to wake any one, I had no guarantee it might not prove either the aunt with the gold eyeglasses (whom I could only remember with trembling), or some ass of a servant-maid who should burst out screaming at sight of me.
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'I willna care a damn to gie the daashed scoon'rel a fair clout wi' it,' he said.
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'What!' they would have said, 'that young ass to be concealing anything!
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I could have flung my plate at him to be such an ass, and to have so little a gift of languages where that was the essential.
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damn your French words!' cried I.
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He stood before me, brilliantly illuminated on the background of impenetrable night and falling snow, stricken to stone between his double burden like an ass between two panniers, and gaping at me like a blunderbuss.
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Damn me, if I 'ave such a thing on the premises.
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'Well, well, damn all these Frenchmen, say I!'
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I have seen two divisions beating their brains out for a fortnight against a worthless and quite impregnable castle in a pass: I knew we were only doing it for discipline, because the General had said so at first, and had not yet found any way out of his own words; and I highly admired his force of character, and throughout these operations thought my life exposed in a very good cause.
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She was certainly not more than seventeen, pretty as an angel, just plump enough to damn a saint, and dressed in various shades of blue, from her stockings to her saucy cap, in a kind of taking gamut, the top note of which she flung me in a beam from her too appreciative eye.
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'That's what I've been telling her: that, damn her!
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The sentiments expressed were popular; some ass, whom the devil moved to be my enemy, proposed three cheers, and they were given with a will.
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I care not a Tinker's Damn for his ascension.
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We make love, and thereby ourselves fall the deeper in it.
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'Damn him, I wonder where he is!' said Ronald; and he moved the lantern up and down, and turned the night into a shifting puzzle- work of gleam and shadow.
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'Jackass!' said I, and I think the greatest stickler for manners will admit the epithet to have been justified.