Vulgar words in Keith of the Border (Page 1)
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I'd most got dar w'en a bunch ob low white trash jumped me.
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I wan't goin' ter let no low down white trash git all dat money."
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"I sho' don't want nobody to think I go trapsin' 'round wid any low white trash."
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Neb, stand here close beside the door, and if any one tries to come in brain him with your gun-stock.
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"Damn it all--know you, sir--sure I do--but for life of me can't tell where."
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"Damn me, I've got it--hell, yes; hospital tent--Shenandoah--bullet imbedded under third rib--ordinary case--that's why I forgot--clear as mud now--get the name in a minute--Captain--Captain Keith--that's it--shake hands."
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"Don't remember me I s'pose--don't think you ever saw me--delirious when I came--hate to tell you what you was talking about--gave you hypodermic first thing--behaved well enough though when I dug out the lead--Minié bullet, badly blunted hitting the rib--thought you might die with blood poison--couldn't stay to see--too damn much to do--evidently didn't though--remember me now?"
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"That's it--charge of Stonewall's field hospital--just happened to ride into Waite's camp that night--damn lucky for you I did--young snip there wanted to saw the bone--I stopped that--liked your face--imagined you might be worth saving--ain't so sure of it now, or you wouldn't be out in this God forsaken country, eating such grub--my name's Fairbain--Joseph Wright Fairbain, M.D.--contract surgeon for the railroad--working on the line?"
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"Damn me, Keith, you came near giving me a shock," he said, jerkily.
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Because I saw him, and talked with him yesterday--damn me, if I didn't, right here in this town."
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He got to Carson City with two wagons, a driver and a cook--had eight thousand dollars with him, too, the damn fool.
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You ought to have heard him cuss when he told me--it seemed to be the papers that bothered him most--them, and the mules."
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"Damn me, no, it couldn't be that," he exclaimed, one hand pressing his head.
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Damn the light; a glow worm would be better."
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Damn me, if that drunken fool isn't waking up."
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"Will when I git good an' ready--go sleep, stay wake, just as I please--don't care damn what yer do--got new frien' now."
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damn yer!
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"Well, I didn't know--thought maybe you wanted a job, and didn't like to ask for it--have known 'em like that--no harm done--if you ever do want anything like that, just come to me--my name's Fairbain--everybody knows me here--operated on most of 'em--rest expect to be--Damn that engineer.
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Then she would go up herself, and throw the hussy out.
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De ol' man he swear fine at him, he call him eberyt'ing--a damn liar, a damn scoundrel--but Mr. Hawley he jest grin, and say ober de same ting."
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Den Hawley, he got plumb tired ob de ol' man swearin' at him, an' he grabbed a picter out ob he's pocket, an' says, 'Damn you; look at dat!
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"Damn you, I think I'm the one to ask for an explanation," he growled.
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He's not only involving her in his criminal conspiracy, but he's making love to her; he's teaching her to love him.
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"You women beat the devil," he ejaculated, gruffly, "pretending to be so damn particular.
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"I reckon, Christie," he said slowly, between puffs on his cigar, the lighted end of which faintly illumined his face, "you've got the idea I have brought you out here to make love.
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"You're an adventuress--a damn adventuress--Hawley's mistress, probably--a--" "Now, see here, Waite," and Fairbain swung himself forward, "you drop that.
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Hope, alone with that damn villain.
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He had made love before, yet somehow this was different; he felt half afraid of this woman, and it was a new sensation altogether, and not unpleasant.
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"Wall, if that ol' cuss is yere now we'uns is sure in fer a fight," he commented positively.
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Another moment, and they distinctly heard a voice: "Hustle up thar now, Manuel, an' turn out; it's your watch; wake up, damn yer--maybe that'll bring yer ter life."
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Thought the cuss had give up, an' got careless.
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"It'll sure be dead then," he muttered, "that cuss will never be got no other way."
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"Damn your talking, Keith," he returned savagely.
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"Damn you--yes!"
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"Quarter of an inch--quarter of an inch too high--scraped the lung--Lord, if I can only get it out--got to do it now--can't wait--here, Bristoe, that leather case on my saddle--run, damn you--we'll save him yet, girl--there, drop his head in your lap--yes, cry if you want to--only hold still--open the case, will you--down here, where I can reach it--now water--all our canteens--Hope, tear me off a strip of your under-skirt--what am I going to do?--extract the ball--got to do it--blood poison in this sun."
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How long he was at it, or what he did, she scarcely knew--she heard the splash of water; caught the flash of the sun on the probe; felt the half conscious shudder of the wounded man, whose head was in her lap, the deft, quick movements of Fairbain, and then-- "That's it--I've got it--missed the lung by a hair--damn me I'm proud of that job--you're a good girl."
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"Thought so--have seen Keith shoot before--I wonder how the cuss ever managed to get him."