Vulgar words in Embarrassments (Page 1)

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ass x 2
blockhead x 1
damn x 1
make love x 1
            

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He had cared for her lovely face, cared for it in the amused and haunted way it had been her poor little delusive gift to make men care; and her lovely face, damn it, with the monstrous gear she had begun to rig upon it, was just what had let him in.

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No, he wouldn't tell me what it was; he would give me the night to guess, and if I shouldn't guess it would be because I was as big an ass as himself.

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However, a lone man might be an ass: he had room in his life for his ears.

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"I have been butting my skull against a wall," he had said in those hours of confidence; "and, to be as sublime a blockhead, if you'll allow me the word, you, my dear fellow, have kept sounding the charge.

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My servant makes love to a young person employed in the rooms above these, and he had a long bout of it last evening.

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