Vulgar words in Under Two Flags (Page 1)
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Why the hottest day in the batteries, or the sharpest rush into Ghoorkhas or Bhoteahs, would be light work, compared!" murmured Cecil with the most plaintive pity for the hardships of life in the Household, while Rake, with the rapid proficiency of long habit, braced, and buckled and buttoned, knotted the sash with the knack of professional genius, girt on the brightest of all glittering polished silver steel "Cut-and-Thrusts," with its rich gild mountings, and contemplated with flattering self-complacency leathers white as snow, jacks brilliant as black varnish could make them, and silver spurs of glittering radiance, until his master stood full harnessed, at length, as gallant a Life Guardsman as ever did duty at the Palace by making love to the handsomest lady-in-waiting.
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He made love to the married women, to be sure; but he was quite certain not to run away with the marriageable daughters.
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Now, it's force as well as pace that tells over a bit of plow; a critter that would win the Derby on the flat would knock up over the first spin over the clods; and that King's legs are too light for my fancy, 'andsome as 'tis ondeniable he looks--for a little 'un, as one may say."
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Certainly I am not good for much, unless it's riding and making love."
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"Never swear, Seraph; not ever so mildly," yawned Cecil, "it's gone out, you know; only the cads and the clergy can damn one nowadays; it's such bad style to be so impulsive.
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"That is the superior wisdom and beautiful simplicity of making love to your neighbor's wife--she can't marry you!"
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Cuss them swells!
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One ought to see him wince and--cuss 'em all!--that's just what they'll never do.
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Cecil leaned a while silently against one of the great gnarled trunks, and Rake affected to busy himself with the mare; in his heart was a tumult of rage, a volcano of curiosity, a pent-up storm of anxious amaze, but he would have let Mother o' Pearl brain him with a kick of her iron plates rather than press a single look that should seem like doubt, or seem like insult in adversity to his fallen master.
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Send me to the devil, Mr. Cecil, for you, and I'll go at the first bidding, but leave you just when things are on the cross for you, damn me if I will!--beggin' your pardon, sir!"
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"Damn me if I will, Mr. Cecil!
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first, he never says God-damn; second, he don't eat his meat raw; third, he speaks very soft; fourth, he waltzes so light, so light!
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Which view of Anglo-rabies she had derived from a profound study of various vaudevilles, in which the traditional God-damn was pre-eminent in his usual hues; and having delivered it, she sprang down from her wall, strapped on her little barrel, nodded to her gros bebees, where they lounged full-length in the shadow of the stone wall, and left them to resume their game at Boc, while she started on her way, as swift and as light as a chamois, singing, with gay, ringing emphasis that echoed all down the hot and silent air.
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Coeur d'Acier was a wonderful woman!--and the chief wonder of her was, that she was as ugly as sin."
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But, damn me!
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Let him stand here in what grade he would, with the badge of a Corporal of the Army of Africa on his arm, this inheritance that had come to him was his; he bore the name and the title of his house as surely as any had ever borne it since the first of the Norman owners of Royallieu had followed the Bastard's banner.
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If it wasn't for that ere Black Hawk--damn him!--I can't help it, sir; I will damn him, if he shoot me for it--you'd been a Chef d'Escadron by now.
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Damn me if I will!"