Vulgar words in A Certain Rich Man (Page 1)
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Watts McHurdie filled _Freedom's Banner_ with incendiary verse, always giving the name of the tune at the beginning of each contribution, by which it might be sung, and the way he clanked Slavery's chains and made love to Freedom was highly disconcerting; but the town liked it.
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Watts looked imploringly at the recruiting officer and blubbered in wrath: "Yes, damn you--yea; that's right.
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I wrote to his damn Yankee government that I was needing the money last winter to go East on the aid committee and would replace it, and now that I'm going out to-morrow to die for his damn Yankee government, he has the impertinence to come in here and say I stole that money.
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"Shot in the back--damn it, shot in the back!" he screamed, as he jumped into the air.
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"Well, they're all givin' you somethin', Johnnie: Watts here has given a bit of a posey in verse; and my friend, General Hendricks, I'm told, has given you a hundred-dollar note; and General Philemon Ward has given you Wendell Phillips' orations; and your sweetheart--God bless her, whoever she is--will be givin' ye the makins' of a broken heart; and your mother'll be givin' you her blessin'--and the saints' prayers go with 'em; and me, havin' known your father before you and the mother that bore you, and seein' her rub the roses off her cheeks tryin' to keep your ornery little soul in your worthless little body, I'll give you this sentiment to put in your pipe and smoke: John Barclay, man--if they ever be's a law agin damn fools, the first raid the officers should make is on the colleges.
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"What a damn disreputable business your commerce is, anyway!
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He pulled himself together and gripped his chair as he said, "Not by a damn sight he ain't.
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You make your personal check for the nine thousand, and give it to the old cuss who's in the county treasurer's office now, with the descriptions of the land, and get the tax receipts; he'll bring the check back to the bank; you give him credit on his pass-book with the other checks, and just hold your own check out in the drawer as cash.
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You damn cold-nosed Yankee Brahmins--you have Faith and you have Hope, but you have no more Charity than a sausage-grinder."
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General, the more I live with you damn Yankees and fight for your flag and die for your country, sir, the more astonished I am at your limited and provincial knowledge of the United States language.
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The general smiled and replied: "No, John, you'll get the social bug and go around in knee-breeches, riding a horse after a scared fox, or keeping a lot of hussies on a yacht.
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"There you go, Gabe Carnine; since you've moved to town and got to be president of a bank, you're mighty damn scared about making paupers.
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It was five drinks in Jake Dolan that stopped the medley, when the drinks aforesaid inspired him to rise grandly from his chair at the front of the hall at an installation of officers of Henry Schnitzler Post of the Grand Army, and stalk majestically out of the room, while the singing was in progress, saying as he turned back at the door, before thumping heavily down the stairs, "Well, I'm getting pretty damn tired of that!"
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For Barclay was a man of enthusiasms, who occasionally liked to mouth a hard jaw-breaking "damn," and who followed his instincts with womanly faith in them--so that he became known as a man of impulse.
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Then he sneered at me--you know the supercilious way he has, the damn miserable hound-pup way he has of grinning at you,--and says, 'I regarded it as a loan, even though you seemed to regard it as a bargain.'
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Suddenly tears flushed into the dimmed eyes of the colonel, and he cried, through a smile, "Bob Hendricks, I believe in my soul you're a liar--a damn liar, sir, but, boy, you're a thoroughbred--God bless you, you're a thoroughbred."
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The sheriff he's run, and so has the deputy; they can't stand the boy crying, and damn it to hell, Mart, I can't, either; so I just left 'em in the office and locked the door and come around to see you.
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'Well,' says I, 'it amounts to the same thing; she can't pay her fine, and that damn reform judge, wanting to make a record as a Spartan, has committed her to jail till it is paid!'
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"Then, damn 'em, let 'em go on with their commissioners and boards and legislative committees; they can't catch us.
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He came in at nine o'clock to-night, and the damn Pop judge put his bail at $15,999 to cover his alleged shortage, and the stinker won't accept us old boys on the bond--Phil and Watts and Os and the Company 'C' boys I could get before the judge went to bed, and Gabe Carnine, the gut, would not sign--would not sign old Mart's bond, sir, and I hope to be in hell with a fishpole some day poking him down every time his slimy fingers get on the rim of the kettle.
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'Well,' says I, 'I'm going to ask him to blow his damn horn under my window every morning at five o'clock,' I says, 'and then I'm going to get up and poke my head out of the window and say: "Mister, you can get me up in the army, but on this occasion would you be obliging enough to go to hell"!'
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Shame on you, John Barclay--shame on you, and may God damn you for this thing, John Barclay!"
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He chuckled a moment, and then his face changed as he said, "Neal, I wish you'd go into the mail room and see if the noon mail has anything in it from that damn scoundrel who's trying to start a cracker factory in St. Louis--I hate to bother to smash him right now when we're so busy."
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But it so happened that the damn scoundrel thought better of his intention and took fifty thousand for his first thought, and Neal Ward, being one of the component parts of an engaged couple, went ahead being sensible about it.
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Neal Ward, sitting in his room, heard Barclay say: "What kind of a damn bunco game were you fellows putting up on me in 1900?
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Barclay threw back his head and roared: "Naw--naw--it isn't that; it's the damn newspapers.
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I could finance a scheme to buy out the meat trust and the lumber trust, and I could control every line of advertising that goes into the damn magazines--and I could buy the paper trust too, and that would fix 'em.
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There was a silence when the stranger went, and Barclay, whose face had grown red, cried, "Damn 'em--damn 'em all--kick a man when he is down!"
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"Damn cheerful you are, Watts," returned Barclay.
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"The people--the people," snapped Barclay, impatiently, "the people take my money for bridges and halls and parks and churches and statues and then call me a murderer--oh, damn the people!
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But you're a coward too, Johnnie; sitting in your own house while your horse-thief friend used your cellar to work out the disgrace of the man who gave his good name to save your own--that was a fine trick--a damn fine trick, wasn't it, Mr. Barclay?"
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They know what I know, that the damn people are here to be skinned."
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So she let a man make love to her who could lend them all some money and keep the father out of jail and the prince and his friend from the awful fate of failure.
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So the man lent the money and made love, and made love.
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She knew she had wronged the prince by letting the man make love to her, and her soul was smudged and--oh, Jeanette, she was such a foolish, weak, miserable little princess, and they didn't tell her that there is only one prince for every princess, and one princess for every prince--so she took the man, and sent away the prince, and the man made love ever so beautifully--but it was not the real thing, my dear,--not the real thing.
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Barclay gazed at the young man abstractedly for a minute that seemed interminable, and then broke out, "Damn it, Neal, I can't propose to you--but that's about what I've got you out here to-night for."