Vulgar words in Frank Reynolds, R.I. (Page 1)
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[Illustration: There's no 'olding 'im now, sir, since 'e's gone into knickers--e's' that pomptious!
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A single telling sentence, uttering some quaint sentiment, perhaps in quaint idiom, would set up a train of ideas ultimately resulting, after much meditative elaboration, in a Mrs. Gamp or a Dick Swiveller.
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Equally clever is the study of a small boy, (reproduced on page 27) whose "pomptiousness" on attaining the dignity of knickers forms the subject of admiring comment from his mother to a friendly curate: the mother herself being a wonderful study of low life.