Vulgar words in Wylder's Hand (Page 1)
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I met poor Dominick--what an ass that chap is--but he did not know me till I introduced myself, so I must be a good deal changed.
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It is the distinctive privilege of man to exert his voice during his repast, and to indulge also in those specially human cachinnations which no lower creature, except that disreputable Australian biped known as the 'laughing jackass,' presumes to imitate; and to these vocal exercises of the feasters respond the endless ring and tinkle of knife and fork on china plate, and the ministering angels in white chokers behind the chairs, those murmured solicitations which hum round and round the ears of the revellers.
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I had never been quite such an ass before; but I do assure you I was now in an extremely unpleasant state.
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'Now, my good old Tamar, you really can't be such an idiot as to fancy there can be any imaginable wrong in keeping that prying little slut in ignorance of that which in no wise concerns her.
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'Pretty well, thank ye, but awfully fagged--up all night, and no use.'
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'How d'ye do, dear Larkin?' said Captain Brandon Stanley Lake, the hero of all this debate and commotion, smiling his customary sly greeting, and extending his slim hand across the arm of his chair--'I'm so sorry you were away--this thing has come, after all, so suddenly--we are getting on famously though--but I'm awfully fagged.'