Vulgar words in Kenelm Chillingly — Complete (Page 1)
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"Well, just before I went to school I remember hearing you say that you had a quarrel with Lord Hautfort, and that he was an ass, and you would write and tell him so.
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When you wrote did you say, 'You are an ass'?
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But you cannot learn too early this fact, that irony is to the high-bred what Billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank: he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.
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He was an ass to raise the question; for, if he had not, I should not have exercised the right.
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That flaunting hussy Jane, the under-housemaid--" "Jane!
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Came in a yellow and two posters, knocked up the Temperance and then knocked up me to see for the pony, and was much put out as he could not get any grog at the Temperance."
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Excuse the liberty I take, as your sincere well-wisher, when I tell you that you are at present a conceited fool,--in short, that which makes one boy call another an 'ass.'
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A minute after Kenelm had quitted the room he reappeared at the door, and said in a conciliatory whisper, "Don't take it to heart that I called you a conceited fool and an ass.
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But there is a more conceited fool and a greater ass than either of us; and that is the Age in which we have the misfortune to be born,--an Age of Progress, Mr. Saunderson, junior!--an Age of Prigs."
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"Ah," said Kenelm, with a sigh, "I own myself the dullest of blockheads; for instead of tempting me into the field of party politics, your talk leaves me in stolid amaze that you do not take to your heels, where honour can only be saved by flight."
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"And--and," faltered Sir Peter, "if the last of the race fails, he must lean upon me, and--if one of the two break down--it shall not be--" "Shall not be that cross-cropping blockhead, my dear Sir Peter.