Vulgar words in Simon Called Peter (Page 1)
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First-year men--that is to say, junior officers returning from their first leave--were the most encumbered, self-possessed, and asserting; those of the second year, so to say, usually got a corner-seat and looked out of window; while here and there a senior officer, or a subaltern with a senior's face, selected a place, arranged his few possessions, and got out a paper, not in the Oxford manner, as if he owned the place, but in the Cambridge, as if he didn't care a damn who did.
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"Damn it!
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"Damn!" he exploded.
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"That's one type of ass, and the second is (dropping his voice) your friend here and his like, if you don't mind my saying so.
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"Silly old ass!
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But Peter did not tumble to that; he felt an ass and very uncomfortable, and he broke into open revolt.
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The girl with me on the boat--oh, damn, I've told you!--and I am swearing, and you're a parson, but it can't be helped now--well, the girl told me we should meet again, and that it was probably you who was mixed up with my fate-line.
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"I'm highly privileged, I'm sure," he said, and could have kicked himself for a stupid ass.
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Still, he told himself that he was an ass, and the two of them sauntered slowly townwards.
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He told himself he was an ass to think so, but he could not get rid of the sensation.
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He doesn't care a damn if a chap drinks and swears and commits what the Statute-Book and the Prayer-Book call fornication.
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He knew he was behaving like an ass, but he could not help it.
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_Damn_ society!
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He probably thought he was drunk, then he spotted lights going out, and like an ass he blew his whistle.
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Peter acquiesced, feeling rather more than an ass, but the drinks had gone slightly to his head.
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"I don't care a damn for anyone!" said Peter fiercely; "let her.
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They don't damn-well worry about identification papers much here--too little, p'raps, these days.
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"A kiss, first, Julie: no one will see and it doesn't matter a damn if they do.
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"Eat and drink and sleep, and make love, Peter, if there's anybody to make love to."
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Every scrap of me is modern, down to Venns' cami-knickers that you wouldn't let me talk about.
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"I don't care a damn if they do, Peter!
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The English girl, with her beauty, her civilisation, her rank and place, made her appeal to her fiancé; and the Spanish bastard dancer, with her daring, her passion, her naked humanity, so coarse and so intensely human, made her appeal also.
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"Damn!" said the other, and turned away.
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And I damn-well shall if we sit on here!
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However, I don't care a damn!
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"Damn God!
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She saw no crucifix to sustain her, but she did see the bastard Spanish dancing-girl.