Vulgar words in A Fountain Sealed (Page 1)
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They would have come with him had they not been rather knocked up by the early rise on the steamer and by the long wait at the custom-house.
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How filled with bitter shame and anguish I am when I see him there, in that house, sacred to my grief and to my memories--making love to my mother?"
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It was, perhaps, the culminating symptom of his initiation, of his transformation, when Jack, who had considered her while she spoke, standing perfectly still, his hands in his pockets, his head bent, his eyes steadily on her, now, finding nothing better to do than obey her first suggestion and go to bed, took her hand before going, put it to his lips--and his glance, as he kissed her hand, brought the tears, again, to Valerie's eyes--and said: "Damn goodness."
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And once more his own change, his own initiation to subtler standards, was marked by the fact that when the old, ethical self, still over-glib with its assurances, tried to urge upon him that all was for the best in a wonderful world, ventured to murmur an axiom or so as to the grace, the dignity, the added spiritual significance of old age, the new self, awakened to tragedy, turned angry eyes upon that vision of the rose in the devastated garden, and once more muttered, in silence:--"Damn!"