Vulgar words in A Siren (Page 1)
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"I see no reason against telling all the town, for my part," rejoined Ludovico; "afterwards though--you understand; and not beforehand, or our little escapade would be spoilt by some blockhead or other insisting on joining us.
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To a certain limited degree, it had been forced upon his perception, that he had been making an ass of himself; and the appreciation of that fact by the other young men among whom he lived had been indicated with that coarse brutality, as the poet said to himself, which was the outcome of minds not "softened by the study of the ingenuous arts," as his own was.
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An old ass!
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There was a kind of austerity about his bearing;--a something difficult to define, which would have prevented any girl from fancying that he was at all likely to want to make love to her; a something which made it as impossible that the refined courtesy of his address should have called a pleased blush to any girl's cheek, or made her pulse move one beat the faster, as that she should have been so affected by the imposition of the hands of the bishop who confirmed her!
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Here was a little utterly unpretending artist, dependent on no one but herself, owing no duty to any one, to whom he had been making love for the last eight months, as he had never in his life made love before, who assured him that she loved him; how was it that she had not been his mistress months and months ago?
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As if I did not know what you go there for, and what you have been going there for these eight months past, since first I was blockhead enough to throw that pretty girl in your way.
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She must think Ravenna is a city of blockheads!
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That he was very sorely tempted--as he had never before in his life been, tempted--to make love to this actress,--as it is called,--to make love to her after the fashion, not so much of those poetical descriptions which have been referred to, as after the fashion of those prosaic settings-forth of the passion, which were familiar enough to his ears, was clearly recognizable by him.
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He did not come to me with the set purpose of making love to me, as all those young fellows have done, and do, just because they have nothing else to amuse them; because it's the fashion; because it's a feather in their caps; because it's the thing to have a prima donna for their mistress!
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"You don't want to make us believe that you have been seeing her frequently all this time,--passing hours with her a quattro occhi, and have never made love to her, Ludovico?" said Farini.
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If you will put making love to her out of your head, I never knew a woman who was pleasanter company," said Ludovico.
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"And you really mean that you have never tried to make love to her in any way?" reiterated Manutoli.
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Perhaps it is a novelty to her to have a man about her who doesn't try to make love to her."
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"The Marchese Lamberto looks knocked up with this carnival.
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What to him were all these dull and empty blockheads for whom be had hitherto lived, and who were now--the foul fiend seize them!--sharing with him the delight of seeing and hearing her for the last time.
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All the prime donne in Europe might sing at him, or make eyes at him, or make love to him, in any manner they liked from morning till night without making any more impression on him than a hundred years, more or less, on the tomb of the Emperor Theodoric out there.
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But you are looking fagged, harassed, troubled, mio bene: have you had anything to vex you?
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He is too absurd for anything; an egregious vain ass," returned Ludovico; with very little precaution to prevent the object of his animadversions from hearing them.
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to the people there; to those blockheads at the gate, I said so, of course I did; but the medical folks will soon find out all about that."
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"Ludovico, because his uncle was going to marry the woman, which would have cut him out of his inheritance; the Venetian girl, because she loved Ludovico, and saw him making love to the poor Diva; and Leandro, because she snubbed him, and laughed at him, and would have nothing to say to either him or his verses."
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The Marchese Ludovico has made love to this girl--has made her in love with him--taking the matter au grand serieux, in the way girls will--specially, I am told, it is the way, with those Venetian women.
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"If that murder was not committed by Paolina Foscarelli, I will give you or anybody else leave to call me a blockhead."
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And that painted hussy a-going on they way she did; making such eyes at him, and smiling and a-pressing her hand to her bosom, that was just as naked as my face; and looking for all the world if she could have jumped right into the box, and eaten him up.