Vulgar words in Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin (Page 1)

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bastard x 2
blockhead x 1
fag x 1
            

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_Hong-Kong.--July 3rd_.--I am headachy and fagged, for I have had some hours of the most fatiguing of all things--a succession of interviews, beginning with the Admiral, General, &c,...

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The blockheads have gone on negotiating with me just long enough to enable Grant to bring all his army up to this point.

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_Five P.M._--M. de Bastard, Gros' secretary, has just returned from Tung-chow.

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Several of our people, Colonel Walker, with his escort, my private Secretary, Mr. Loch, Baron Gros' Secretary of Embassy, Comte de Bastard, and others, passed through the Tartar army during the course of the morning on their way from Tung-chow without encountering any rudeness or ill-treatment whatsoever.

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