Vulgar words in Kincaid's Battery (Page 1)
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"Now, uncle, there's a big difference--" "DAMN THE DIFFERENCE!
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All that night of the illumination he had not closed his eyes, except in anguish for having tried to make love on the same day when--and to the same Anna Callender before whom--he had drawn upon himself the roaring laugh of the crowded street; or in a sort of remorse for letting himself become the rival of a banished friend who, though warned that a whole platoon of him would make no difference, suddenly seemed to plead a prohibitory difference to one's inmost sense of honor.
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They saw Mobile Point a semicircle of darting fire, and the _Brooklyn_ "athwart the _Hartford's_ hawse"; but they did not see, atom-small, perched high in the rigging of the flag-ship and demanding from the decks below, "why this?" and "why that?" a certain "plain sailor" well known to New Orleans and the wide world; did not see the torpedoes lying in watery ambush for him, nor hear the dread tale of them called to him from the _Brooklyn_ while his ship passed astern of her, nor him command "full speed ahead" as he retorted, "Damn the torpedoes!"