Vulgar words in Thomas Henry Huxley - A Character Sketch (Page 1)
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The reality pressed hardly upon them; those were dark evenings when he would come home fagged out by a second lecture at the end of a full day's work and lay himself down wearily on one couch, while she, so long a semi-invalid, lay uselessly on another.
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Sometimes the words will come trippingly from the pen as if they were flung out in a brilliant flash of talk, like the following sketch of human character:-- Men, my dear, are very queer animals, a mixture of horse-nervousness, ass-stubbornness, and camel-malice--with an angel bobbing about unexpectedly like the apple in the posset--and when they can do exactly as they please they are very hard to drive.