Vulgar words in The King in Yellow (Page 1)

This book at a glance

ass x 4
damn x 2
fag x 2
make love x 1
            

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It's four years now that you've shut yourself up here like an owl, never going anywhere, never taking any healthy exercise, never doing a damn thing but poring over those books up there on the mantelpiece."

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Then again, instead of going to bed when your day's work is done, you run off to picnics at Sulzer's Park, or go to the Eldorado or Coney Island, and when you come down here next morning you are fagged out.

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I saw I had made an ass of myself and attempted to repair the damage.

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When at last I decided that it was useless to go on, and that I must make up my mind to spend at least one night on the moors, I threw myself down thoroughly fagged out.

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"How long have you made love to me?"

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Meantime Clifford in a bland whisper was telling Rowden what an ass he was.

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Ten minutes later he sat in his room in the Hôtel du Sénat repeating with an imbecile smile: "What an ass I am, what an ass!"

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"Damn the cactus."

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