Vulgar words in Dr. Wortle's School (Page 1)
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In a letter which he wrote he spoke of one youthful divine as "a conceited ass who had preached for forty minutes."
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"He passes all the morning in the school whipping the boys himself because he has sent Mr. Peacocke away, and then amuses himself in the evening by making love to Mr. Peacocke's wife, as he calls her."
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"'Amo' in the cool of the evening," certainly meant making love.
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To accuse a clergyman of a parish, and a schoolmaster, of making love to a lady so circumstanced as Mrs. Peacocke, no doubt was libellous.
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did he really think that I was making love to the woman; did he doubt that I was treating her and her husband with kindness, as one human being is bound to treat another in affliction; did he believe, in his heart, that I sent the man away in order that I might have an opportunity for a wicked purpose of my own?
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When you read those abominable words did they induce your lordship to believe that I had been guilty of the inexpressible treachery of making love to the poor lady whose misfortunes I was endeavouring to relieve, and of doing so almost in my wife's presence?
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They were less loud, and, as other boys would have said of them, less "cocky" than of yore.