Vulgar words in Mr. Prohack (Page 1)
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Mr. Prohack had once asked a friend in the club, and having received no answer but "Ozzie," Mr. Prohack had added: "He's a perfect ass," and had given as a reason for this harsh judgment: "Well, I can't stick the way he walks across the hall."
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Was it possible that she, so sensible and acute, had failed to perceive that the fellow was a perfect ass?
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For in spite of his amiability, a perfect ass the fellow was.
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And yet she could be ecstatic in the arms of that perfect ass!
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It was at this period Mr. Prohack was convinced that Sissie, in addition to being an indescribably heartless daughter, was a perfect fool hoodwinked by a perfect ass, and that Ozzie's motive in the affair was not solely or chiefly admiration for Sissie, but admiration of the great fortune which, he had learnt, had fallen into the lap of Sissie's father.
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And it was somewhat impaired by the other fact that he had been ass enough to tell the police.
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Ozzie seemed to grow more likeable, and less despicable, under the honest and frankly ardent gaze of Miss Prohack; and Mr. Prohack was again visited by a doubt whether the fellow was after all the perfectly silly ass which he was reputed to be.
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If you and I weren't the greatest pals I shouldn't be such an ass as to talk in this strain to you.
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Mr. Prohack was conscious of a certain surprising sympathy for this chubby simpering young man with the peculiar vocation, whom but lately he had scorned and whom on one occasion he had described as a perfect ass.
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And he added to himself: "Could I foresee when I called this youth a perfect ass that in a very short time I should be receiving him, not unpleasantly, as a prospective son-in-law?
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As he kissed her all his despondency and worry fell away from him, and he saw with extraordinary clearness that since the previous evening he had been an irrational ass.
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So he said: "Well, my beloved infant, if it's any use to you I'm prepared to admit once for all that I was an ass.
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"Do try not to be an ass."