Vulgar words in The Widow Lerouge (Page 1)
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To betray me more securely, to despoil me, to rob me, to give to her bastard all that lawfully appertained to me; my name, a noble name, my fortune, a princely inheritance!"
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I was a bastard, dear M. Tabaret, very much a bastard; Noel, son of the girl Gerdy and an unknown father!"
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"All the letters which follow," said he, "carry traces of the preoccupation of my father's mind on the subject of his bastard son.
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Of what importance to the count would be a doubt of his paternity, had he not sacrificed his legitimate son to his bastard?
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Prudhomme would have said that this precocious little hussy was totally destitute of morality.
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The father who has sacrificed his legitimate son for the sake of his bastard is Count Rheteau de Commarin, and the assassin of Widow Lerouge is the bastard, Viscount Albert de Commarin!"
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The marchioness is sufficiently infected with aristocratic ideas to prefer a nobleman's bastard to the son of some honest tradesman; but should she refuse, we would await her death, though without desiring it."
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He burst like a cannon-shot into the magistrate's office, knocking up against the methodical clerk in the rudest of ways, without even asking his pardon.
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This thought made me hate the bastard who called himself Commarin.
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I felt so annoyed that, if I had been master, my wife should have come away without the little bastard.
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I was ass enough to be delighted, because it gave me a chance to see the country at my leisure.
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"She said to me, shaking her pocket full of money, 'See here, my man, we shall always have as much of this as ever we may want, and this is why: The count, who also had a legitimate child at the same time as this bastard, wishes that this one shall bear his name instead of the other; and this can be accomplished, thanks to me.
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I resolved not to lose sight of the little bastard, swearing that they shouldn't change it; so I kept him all the evening on my knees, and to be all the more sure, I tied my handkerchief about his waist.
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My wife undressed and got into bed with our son and the little bastard.
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Not knowing what I was doing, I drew from my pocket a long Spanish knife, which I always carried, and seizing the cursed bastard, I thrust the blade through his arm, crying, 'This way, at least, he can't be changed without my knowing it; he is marked for life!'"
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Without losing a minute, I went and saw a lawyer, and asked him how an honest sailor who had had the misfortune to marry a hussy ought to act.
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It was torture thus to be kept from the key to a terrible enigma by the caprice of a worthless hussy!
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The hussy, seeing her lover in danger, will deny what she has just told me; she will assert that Noel left her long after ten o'clock.