Vulgar words in Nicholas Nickleby (Page 1)
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Although any man who had proved his unfitness for any other occupation in life, was free, without examination or qualification, to open a school anywhere; although preparation for the functions he undertook, was required in the surgeon who assisted to bring a boy into the world, or might one day assist, perhaps, to send him out of it; in the chemist, the attorney, the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker; the whole round of crafts and trades, the schoolmaster excepted; and although schoolmasters, as a race, were the blockheads and impostors who might naturally be expected to spring from such a state of things, and to flourish in it; these Yorkshire schoolmasters were the lowest and most rotten round in the whole ladder.
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Noggs gave vent to his usual grunt, as much as to say 'I thought so!' and, the ring being repeated, went to the door, whence he presently returned, ushering in, by the name of Mr Bonney, a pale gentleman in a violent hurry, who, with his hair standing up in great disorder all over his head, and a very narrow white cravat tied loosely round his throat, looked as if he had been knocked up in the night and had not dressed himself since.
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'Is my employer, or master, or whatever the proper name may be,' replied Nicholas quickly; 'and I was an ass to take his coarseness ill.
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'Damn that boy, he's always at something of that sort.'
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'Damn you, what do you mean by that?' retorted Squeers in great perturbation.
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'I am in no mood for more noise and riot,' thought Nicholas, 'and yet, do what I will, I shall have an altercation with this honest blockhead, and perhaps a blow or two from yonder staff.'
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'My dear young man, you mustn't give way to-this sort of thing will never do, you know-as to getting on in the world, if you take everybody's part that's ill-treated-Damn it, I am proud to hear of it; and would have done it myself!'
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Never let her speak to me again; never let anybody who is a friend of mine speak to her; a slut, a hussy, an impudent artful hussy!'
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'No, damn it, Verisopht,' said Sir Mulberry, 'fair play's a jewel, and Miss Nickleby and I settled the matter with our eyes ten minutes ago.'
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'Here is Miss Nickleby,' observed Sir Mulberry, 'wondering why the deuce somebody doesn't make love to her.'
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Damn me,' said Mr Crummles, angrily, 'if I haven't often said that I wouldn't have a man or woman in my company that wasn't master of the language, so that they might learn it from the original, and play it in English, and save all this trouble and expense.'
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Why, what a dull blockhead this fellow must be!
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'Damn him!' cried Newman, dashing his cherished hat on the floor; 'like a false hound.'
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'Damn your obstinacy, Tim Linkinwater,' said brother Charles, looking at him without the faintest spark of anger, and with a countenance radiant with attachment to the old clerk.
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'Damn your obstinacy, Tim Linkinwater, what do you mean, sir?'
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'Damn you, Tim Linkinwater, how dare you talk about dying?' roared the twins by one impulse, and blowing their old noses violently.
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'Villain, ass, traitor!'
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'Damn!' muttered the sick man between his teeth, and writhing impatiently in his bed.
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'You know that, you blockhead.'
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'Damn the expense.
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'You shall stay here,' said Newman; 'you're tired-fagged.
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'Has he been making love to either of you?'
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Nothing will prevent his making love.'
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Here was Nicholas Nickleby, who would have scorned the thought of counting how the chances stood of his rising in favour or fortune with the brothers Cheeryble, now that their nephew had returned, already deep in calculations whether that same nephew was likely to rival him in the affections of the fair unknown-discussing the matter with himself too, as gravely as if, with that one exception, it were all settled; and recurring to the subject again and again, and feeling quite indignant and ill-used at the notion of anybody else making love to one with whom he had never exchanged a word in all his life.
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Others, again, knocked up against their neighbours, or leant for support against the wall-somewhat ostentatiously, as if to call all men to witness that they were not worth the taking.
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"Brute, ass!" and snap at me like a dragon.'
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How many proud painted dames would have fawned and smiled, and how many spendthrift blockheads done me lip-service to my face and cursed me in their hearts, while I turned that ten thousand pounds into twenty!
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But I am thinking like a lover, or like an ass: which I suppose is pretty nearly the same.'
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How dared you, Frank, go and make love to Mr Nickleby's sister without telling us first what you meant to do, and letting us speak for you?'