Vulgar words in Mr. Britling Sees It Through (Page 1)
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"Damn!" cried Mr. Britling, and "How the devil ?"
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Oh, damn !"
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"Care-oh damn!
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He thought it outrageous to dispute and contradict, and he thought that making love was a cheerful, comfortable thing to be done in a state of high good humour and intense mutual appreciation.
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I was a fool ever to dream of making love beautifully...." Exactly like running your car into a soft wet ditch when you cannot get out and you cannot get on.
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Deep in the being of Mr. Direck was the conviction that what she ought to be doing was making love in a rapturously egotistical manner, and enjoying every scrap of her own delightful self and her own delightful vitality-while she had it, but for the purposes of their conversation he did not care to put it any more definitely than to say that he thought we owed it to ourselves to develop our personalities.
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Damn these Germans!"
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It would begin with the figure of a neatly brushed patriot, with an intent expression upon his intelligent face, seated in the Londonward train, reading the war news-the first comforting war news for many days-and trying not to look as though his life was torn up by the roots and all his being aflame with devotion; and it would conclude after forty-eight hours of fuss, inquiry, talk, waiting, telephoning, with the same gentleman, a little fagged and with a kind of weary apathy in his eyes, returning by the short cut from the station across Claverings park to resume his connection with his abandoned roots.
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Cruel blockheads.
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I have been needlessly starved, and fagged to death and exasperated.
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Well, damn it, we're in for it now; we've got to plough through with it-with what we have-as what we are."
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"That's about the size of it," said Raeburn.... "Do you think, sir, there'll be civil war?" asked the young staff officer abruptly after a pause.
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Damn the Kaiser!
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Damn all fools.... Give my love to the Mother and the bruddykins and every one...." ยง 19 It was just a day or so over three weeks after this last letter from Hugh that Mr. Direck reappeared at Matching's Easy.
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"How can I let you make love to me," she said, "when our English men are all going to the war, when Teddy is a prisoner and Hugh is in the trenches.