Vulgar words in Jill the Reckless (Page 1)
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"Ass!" said Derek.
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"If I were an ass like Algy Martyn," said Derek, "I wouldn't go about advertising the fact that I'd been born.
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In the old days when he had fagged for him at Winchester he had thought Derek the most wonderful person in the world, and this view he still retained.
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And damn quick!"
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"And, as you suggest, damn quick.
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I have eaten rose-leaves and am no more a golden ass, so to speak.
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"A silly ass at the club named Jimmy Monroe told me to take a flutter in some rotten thing called Amalgamated Dyes.
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And to think I could be there right now if I wasn't a bonehead!"
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"A bonehead?"
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"Damn!" said Freddie softly, and hurried off down the street.
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He wondered whether he had made a frightful ass of himself, spraying bank-notes all over the place like that to comparative strangers.
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A man at the club, a fool named--I've forgotten his damn name--recommended Amalgamated Dyestuffs as a speculation.
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Damn that man!
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It is then that, stripped for a brief moment of our armour of complacency and self-esteem, we see ourselves as we are--frightful chumps in a world where nothing goes right; a grey world in which, hoping to click, we merely get the raspberry; where, animated by the best intentions, we nevertheless succeed in perpetrating the scaliest bloomers and landing our loved ones neck-deep in the gumbo.
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"Well.... Well, look here, it makes me seem a fearful ass and all that, but I'd better tell you.
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Well, like an ass, I sent round to Derek to bail us out, and that's how he heard of the thing.
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Such a damn silly story, too!" said Algy with some indignation.
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"Damn Ronny Devereux!"
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"Most men are chumps."
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"Damn you!
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"Oh, damn everybody!"
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"Gentlemen, you silly idiots," complained Mr. Miller loudly, "you've had three weeks to get these movements into your thick heads, and you haven't done a damn thing right!
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"You silly ass!"
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"But that long boob, that Pilkington ... he would never stand for my handing you one and a half per cent."
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"Oh, damn it, one and a half, then," said Mr. Goble morosely.
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"Get out of the light!" bellowed Mr. Goble, always a man of direct speech, adding "Damn you!" for good measure.
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"It's too--damn--BLUE!" rasped Mr. Goble, impatient of the vacillating criticism.
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"Oh, damn it!" cried the stage-director, his patience at last giving way.
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"You talk too damn much!" said Mr. Goble, eyeing him with distaste.
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And the audience, confound them, had roared with laughter at every damn silly thing the fellow had said!
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Both of them, hand in hand, or he alone, the chump, the boob, the easy mark who got this sort of thing wished on him!
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"Damn it!" he cried.
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Good old Ronny told me what you were, and, like a silly ass, I wasted a lot of time trying to make him believe you weren't that sort of chap at all.