Vulgar words in The Broad Highway (Page 1)
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"I've made love to duchesses, run off with heiresses, and fought dooels--ah!
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Occasionally he has the good taste to break his neck in the hunting field, or get himself gloriously shot in a duel, but the generality live on to a good old age, turn their attention to matters political and, following the dictates of their class, damn reform with a whole-hearted fervor equalled only by their rancor."
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"Devilish weather--devilish, on my life and soul!" exclaimed the short, red-faced man, in a loud, peevish tone, tugging viciously at the bell-rope, "hot one day, cold the next, now sun, now rain-- Oh, damn it!
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Now in France--ah, what a climate--heavenly --positively divine; say what you will of a Frenchman, damn him by all means, but the climate, the country, and the women--who would not worship 'em?"
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what a prodigious unbuckling and buckling of straps, while the jovial-faced coachman fanned himself with his hat; and swore jovially at the ostlers, and the ostlers swore back at the coachman, and the guard, and the coach, and the horses, individually and collectively; in the midst of which confusion, down came the window with a bang, and out of the window came a flask, and a hand, and an arm, and, last of all, a great, fat face, round, and mottled, and roaring as it came: "Oho--I say damn it!
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damn everybody's eyes and bones--brandy!
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"Damn your liver!" he cried to the horse, and then, to me: "If you'll jest call Joe to 'old this 'ere black varmin for me, I'll --fill yer--eye up."
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"Can't say as I have," he answered, stroking his chin thoughtfully, "though there was a Dick Snagget in the 'Thirty-Ninth,' I remember."
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"And that I am a most preposterous ass!--and that last, look you, is more valuable than all the others.
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"Sir," said he, chuckling, "hark to that lovely rascal in the cart, yonder--hark to him; Galen was an ass and Hippocrates a dunce beside this fellow--hark to him."
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"So--he has hurt you?" she cried; "you are all blood--it is running down your face--the Country Bumpkin has hurt you!
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"I might have run away," she went on mockingly, "but you see--I was prepared for you," and she held up the knife, "prepared for you--and now--you are pale, and hurt, and faint--yes, you are faint--the Country Bumpkin has done his work well.
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Our Peter fellow is like to become a preposterous ass.
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"Any man in such a condition would be a pitiful ass!" said I. Charmian only laughed at me again, and went back to her scribbling.
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An' then I've noticed as you don't swear, nor yet curse--not even a damn."
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'Jacob!' says 'e, 'damn your infernally ugly mug!' says 'e; 'you bet me as that cursed brute would do for me.'
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"Ass!" said I.
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"But I never quote you Greek or Latin; that is surely something, and, as for thinking, would you have me a thoughtless fool or an impulsive ass?"
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An' when they keepers tried to tak' 'im, 'e rose up, 'e did, an' throwed some on 'em this way an' some on 'em that way--'twere like Samson an' the Philistines; if only 'e'd 'appened to find the jaw-bone of a ass lyin' 'andy, 'e'd ha' killed 'em all an' got away, sure as sure.
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"Damn you!--show your face!"
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Oh, I have heard over much of you, cousin, from dear, kind, well-meaning relatives and friends--damn 'em!
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Little dreamed those dear, kind, well-meaning relatives and friends--damn 'em!
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"Yes, I think so--you see, I mistook you for merely an interfering country bumpkin--" "Yes," I nodded, "while I, on the other hand, took you for a fine gentleman nobly intent on the ruin of an unfortunate, friendless girl, whose poverty would seem to make her an easy victim--" "In which it appears you were as much mistaken as I, Cousin Peter."