Vulgar words in The Heavenly Twins (Page 1)
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As the tissues waste, the esteem of men is fawned for instead of being honestly earned, criticism is deprecated, importance is attached to the babbling of blockheads, and even to the opinion of fools.
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He expected that she would end by making love to him; in which case he promised himself the pleasure of paying her off by acting for a time after the manner proposed by the Barber's Fifth Brother.
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Man's safety, and man's pleasure; if there is any sin in it, _damn the woman_.
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She always went there when she felt brain-fagged and world-weary, and came away refreshed.
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"She'll put you in _Punch_, or revile you in the Dailies; Magazine you; write you down an ass in a novel; blackguard you in choice language from a public platform; or paint a picture of you which will make you wish you had never been born.
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He had even stuck up for her against his own interests with her old ass of a father--and, by Jove!
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Collect a few, and you will soon see clearly the particular kind of ass you are by the mistakes you have made in consequence of having confided in them.
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I noticed that she did not get on well with men as a rule, and she may repel you at first, but persevere, for she _can_ be fascinating, and to both sexes too, which is rare; but I am told that people who begin by disliking often end by adoring her--people with anything in them, I mean, for, as I have learnt to observe under your able tuition, the 'blockhead majority' _does_ do despitefully by what it cannot comprehend.
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Yesterday she wanted to know the name of an officer now at the barracks, and made her husband understand which she meant in this way: 'He is a little man,' she said, 'who puts his hands deep down in his pockets, hunches up his shoulders, and says _damn_ emphatically.'
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You'll be making love to Mrs. Colquhoun.'
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"You're looking fagged," he remarked presently.
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"Oh, you won't see her again to-day, you may be sure," she rejoined; "and it is just as well, you bear, if you mean to make love to her with that kind of countenance!"