Vulgar words in The Actress in High Life - An Episode in Winter Quarters (Page 1)
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The ladies were still complimenting L'Isle on his refutation of Moodie's tenets, so obnoxious to their own convictions, when they met a peasant trudging along, _cujado_ in hand, with the small end of which he occasionally enlivened the motions of an ass toiling under a heavy sack of grain.
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A peasant on an ass, coming down the road, had stopped and stood at gaze at a distance, watching these equestrian manoeuvres.
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If you had not been blockheads, you might have known it, from the extraordinary neatness of the rose-colored envelope, with its figured green border."
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"Damn his neck!" said Lord Strathern, striding up and down the room.
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"Then Lady Mabel is an automaton," he added scornfully, "and I, blockhead that I am, never found it out till now!
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Thus to "damn with faint praise," displeased Mr. L---- more than positive censure, and he exclaimed: "Then you never saw her play Jane Shore.