Vulgar words in The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 (Page 1)
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"Ass!" said the fourth.
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Interruptions are annoying and should undoubtedly be abolished-don't you think so?-no reply, I beg you,-one person is enough to be speaking at a time.-I shall be done by and by, and then you may begin.-How the devil sir, did you get into this place?-not a word I beseech you-been here some time myself-terrible accident!-heard of it, I suppose?-awful calamity!-walking under your windows-some short while ago-about the time you were stage-struck-horrible occurrence!-heard of "catching one's breath," eh?-hold your tongue I tell you!-I caught somebody elses!-had always too much of my own-met Blab at the corner of the street-wouldn't give me a chance for a word-couldn't get in a syllable edgeways-attacked, consequently, with epilepsis-Blab made his escape-damn all fools!-they took me up for dead, and put me in this place-pretty doings all of them!-heard all you said about me-every word a lie-horrible!-wonderful-outrageous!-hideous!-incomprehensible!-et cetera-et cetera-et cetera-et cetera-" It is impossible to conceive my astonishment at so unexpected a discourse, or the joy with which I became gradually convinced that the breath so fortunately caught by the gentleman (whom I soon recognized as my neighbor Windenough) was, in fact, the identical expiration mislaid by myself in the conversation with my wife.
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If you ever perceive a man setting up as a merchant or a manufacturer, or going into the cotton or tobacco trade, or any of those eccentric pursuits; or getting to be a drygoods dealer, or soap-boiler, or something of that kind; or pretending to be a lawyer, or a blacksmith, or a physician-any thing out of the usual way-you may set him down at once as a genius, and then, according to the rule-of-three, he's an ass.