Vulgar words in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. - A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne (Page 1)
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you d--- little yelling Popish bastard," he said, and stooped to pick up another; the crowd had gathered quite between the horses and the inn door by this time, and the coach was brought to a dead stand-still.
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One of them jeered him for his black eye, which was swelled by the potato, and another called him a bastard, on which he and Harry fell to fisticuffs.
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He asked me much about young H. E., 'that bastard,' as he called him; doubting my lord's intentions respecting him.
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"You little bastard beggar!" he said, "I'll murder you for this!"
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"Bastard or not," said the other, grinding his teeth, "I have a couple of swords, and if you like to meet me, as a man, on the terrace to-night--" And here the Doctor coming up, the colloquy of the young champions ended.
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"D--- it!" said he, with one of his usual oaths, "the little slut sees everything.
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What matters whether or no I make my way in life, or whether a poor bastard dies as unknown as he is now?
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So oaths mutually sworn, and invocations of heaven, and priestly ceremonies, and fond belief, and love, so fond and faithful that it never doubted but that it should live for ever, are all of no avail towards making love eternal: it dies, in spite of the banns and the priest; and I have often thought there should be a visitation of the sick for it, and a funeral service, and an extreme unction, and an abi in pace.
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The widow Francis (she was but Mrs. Francis Esmond) was a scheming, artful, heartless hussy.
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"What do you suppose that a sentimental widow, who will live down in that dingy dungeon of a Castlewood, where she spoils her boy, kills the poor with her drugs, has prayers twice a day and sees nobody but the chaplain--what do you suppose she can do, mon Cousin, but let the horrid parson, with his great square toes and hideous little green eyes, make love to her?
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Damn it, sir, what are they, to turn up their noses at us?
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She must be my Lady Marchioness, and I remain a nameless bastard.
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The Duchess, in reply to my aunt's eager clamor, said haughtily, that she had done her best for the legitimate branch of the Esmonds, and could not be expected to provide for the bastard brats of the family.
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"Bastards!" says the Viscountess, in a fury.
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"There are bastards among the Churchills, as your Grace knows, and the Duke of Berwick is provided for well enough."
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I like to think that Jack Haythorn, who sneered at me for being a bastard and a parasite of Webb's, as he chose to call me, and with whom I had had words, shook hands with me the day before the battle began.
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And our Grandmother used to tell us children, that on his first presentation to my Lord duke, the Duke turned his back upon my Grandfather; and said to the Duchess, who told my lady dowager at Chelsey, who afterwards told Colonel Esmond --"Tom Esmond's bastard has been to my levee: he has the hang-dog look of his rogue of a father"--an expression which my Grandfather never forgave.
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Thank you, Mr. Bastard.')
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There was one comrade of Esmond's, an honest little Irish lieutenant of Handyside's, who owed so much money to a camp sutler, that he began to make love to the man's daughter, intending to pay his debt that way; and at the battle of Malplaquet, flying away from the debt and lady too, he rushed so desperately on the French lines, that he got his company; and came a captain out of the action, and had to marry the sutler's daughter after all, who brought him his cancelled debt to her father as poor Roger's fortune.
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"Damn him, look here!" says Castlewood, holding out a paper.
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The swords were no sooner met, than Castlewood knocked up Esmond's with the blade of his own, which he had broke off short at the shell; and the Colonel falling back a step dropped his point with another very low bow, and declared himself perfectly satisfied.