Vulgar words in Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches (Page 1)
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"Shakespeare understood love," said Lady Herman, in a loud voice; "he knew how a man makes love to a woman.
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had made love to me as Shakespeare describes him doing it, I'm not sure that I could have resisted him.
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There, it appeared, she had met a "Signore," who had given her jewels, made love to her, promised her marriage, and held clandestine meetings with her.
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The professor who spoke to me in this language told me that the French possessed no poetical literature, and he said the reason of this was that the French language was a bastard language; that it was, in fact, a kind of pidgin Latin.