Vulgar words in The Emancipated (Page 1)
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Does he take me for an ass?
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--where teams of horse, ox, and ass, the three abreast, drag piles of country produce, jingling their fantastic harness, and primitive carts laden with red-soaked wine-casks rattle recklessly along; where bare-footed, girdled, and tonsured monks plod on their no-business, and every third man one passes is a rotund ecclesiastic, who never in his life walked at more than a mile an hour; where, at evening, carriages returning from the Villa Nazionale cram the thoroughfare from side to side, and make one aware, if one did not previously know it, that parts of the street have no pedestrians' pavement;--from the Strada di Chiaia (now doomed, alas!
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"And you, very much like the braying jackass in the field there."
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That makes love impossible.