Vulgar words in The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories (Page 1)
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Instead of which our poor scholar (with Homer and Shakespeare and Pausanias piled upon his one small deal table) had to encounter the life of the shabby recluse in London lodgings--synonymous for him, as passage after passage in his books recounts, with incompetence and vulgarity in every form, at best 'an ailing lachrymose slut incapable of effort,' more often sheer foulness and dishonesty, 'by lying, slandering, quarrelling, by drunkenness, by brutal vice, by all abominations that distinguish the lodging-letter of the metropolis.'
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You think I made an ass of myself about that affair in the wood.
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'Damn the post-office!' yelled Mr. Farmiloe, alone with his errand-boy, and shaking his fist in the air.
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I say--_damn_ the post-office.'
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'Ass!' cried Topham, in his mind.
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She has only to remain seated instead of moving away; to listen with a smile instead of looking bored; to be at home instead of being out,--and she is making love to a man.
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'There's something in all this,' granted the listener, 'but it doesn't explain the behaviour of a man who, after frightful experience in marriage--after recovering his freedom--after finding himself welcomed by congenial society--after inheriting a fortune to use as he likes--goes and offers himself to an artful hussy in a lodging-house.'
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Yes, I was ass enough to tell that girl the whole story of my life.
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I find it an impossible thing to imagine myself offering marriage--making love--to a girl such as those I meet in the big houses.'
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The woman did not cheat him, and Thomas knew enough of life to respect her for this remarkable honesty; she was simply an ailing, lachrymose slut, incapable of effort.