Vulgar words in The House of a Thousand Candles (Page 1)
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"That's about the size of it."
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I occasionally entertained the idea that he would some day brain me as I sat dining upon the viands which he prepared with so much skill; or perhaps he would poison me, that being rather more in his line of business and perfectly easy of accomplishment; but the house was bare and lonely and he was a resource.
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"Bates, I'm trying my best to think well of you; but I want you to understand"-I smote the table with my clenched hand-"that if these women, or your employer, Mr. Pickering, or that damned hound, Morgan, or you- damn you, I don't know who or what you are!-think you can scare me away from here, you've waked up the wrong man, and I'll tell you another thing,-and you may repeat it to your school-teachers and to Mr. Pickering, who pays you, and to Morgan, whom somebody has hired to kill me,-that I'm going to keep faith with my dead grandfather, and that when I've spent my year here and done what that old man wished me to do, I'll give them this house and every acre of ground and every damned dollar the estate carries with it.
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"Damn your pardon, and go on!"
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"It's all a great big game, fixed up to try you and Pickering,-but principally you, you blockhead!