Vulgar words in Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth (Page 1)
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Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team WILD WINGS A ROMANCE OF YOUTH BY MARGARET REBECCA PIPER 1921 CONTENTS I MOSTLY TONY II WITH ROSALIND IN ARDEN III A GIRL WHO COULDN'T STOP BEING A PRINCESS IV A BOY WHO WASN'T AN ASS BUT BEHAVED LIKE ONE V WHEN YOUTH MEETS YOUTH VI A SHADOW ON THE PATH VII DEVELOPMENTS BY MAIL VIII THE LITTLE LADY WHO FORGOT IX TEDDY SEIZES THE DAY X TONY DANCES INTO A DISCOVERY XI THINGS THAT WERE NOT ALL ON THE CARD XII AND THERE IS A FLAME XIII BITTER FRUIT XIV SHACKLES XV ON THE EDGE OF THE PRECIPICE XVI IN WHICH PHIL GETS HIS EYES OPENED XVII A WEDDING RING IT WAS HARD TO REMEMBER XVIII A YOUNG MAN IN LOVE XIX TWO HOLIDAYS MAKE CONFESSION XX A YOUNG MAN NOT FOR SALE XXI HARRISON CRESSY REVERTS XXII THE DUNBURY CURE XXIII SEPTEMBER CHANGES XXIV A PAST WHICH DID NOT STAY BURIED XXV ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE XXVI THE KALEIDOSCOPE REVOLVES XXVII TROUBLED WATERS XXVIII IN DARK PLACES XXIX THE PEDIGREE OF PEARLS XXX THE FIERY FURNACE XXXI THE MOVING FINGER CONTINUES TO WRITE XXXII DWELLERS IN DREAMS XXXIII WAITING FOR THE END OF THE STORY XXXIV IN WHICH TWO MASSEYS MEET IN MEXICO XXXV GEOFFREY ANNERSLEY ARRIVES XXXVI THE PAST AND FUTURE MEET XXXVII ALAN MASSEY LOSES HIMSELF XXXVIII THE SONG IN THE NIGHT XXXIX IN WHICH THE TALE ENDS IN THE HOUSE ON THE HILL CHAPTER I MOSTLY TONY Among the voluble, excited, commencement-bound crowd that boarded the Northampton train at Springfield two male passengers were conspicuous for their silence as they sat absorbed in their respective newspapers which each had hurriedly purchased in transit from train to train.
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CHAPTER IV A BOY WHO WASN'T AN ASS BUT BEHAVED LIKE ONE Baccalaureate services being over and the graduates duly exhorted to the wisdom of the ages, the latter were for a time permitted to alight from their lofty pedestal in the public eye and to revert temporarily to the comfortable if less exalted state of being plain every day human girls.
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"I suppose you think I made an awful ass of myself at college this year," he averred gloomily.
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You aren't really an ass, you know.
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Take her out on the fool pond, walk her up Sunset Hill, quarrel with her, make love to her, anything, so she won't guess.
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You will be making love to me next."
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Tony listened intently, watching his face as he read, feeling as if this were a new Dick--a Dick she did not know at all, albeit a most interesting person.
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Funny, now the scare is over and he is all safe, I shall probably cuss him out as hard as ever next time he tries to preach at me."
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"Maybe it is because I do know it and because he is so devilish right that I damn him," observed the youngest Holiday sagely, his eyes meeting his uncle's over his sister's head.
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Damn him!"
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Mine for you may damn me forever, or it may take me to the very gate of Heaven.
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"Damn you, Jim Roberts!
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"Damn the ring!" he exploded.
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You have not made love to her?"
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I won't even make love to her--if I can help it," he qualified in a little lower tone.
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She gives you entire credit for being the blind, stubborn, pigheaded jack-ass that you are."
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The fellow's an ass, an unobjectionable ass, it is true, but with all the ear marks.
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What if his grandson turned out to be a second Herbert Lathrop, an unobjectionable, possibly even an objectionable ass.
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He wanted instead distinctly to forget there was a Madeline Taylor and that he had been fool enough to make love to her once.
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Why should He make love if He didn't want lovers to be happy?"
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I did make love to her and asked her to marry me the night Granny died.
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It is all the things I have done and haven't done before that has smashed me in the end--my fool attitude of have a good time and damn the expense.