Vulgar words in The Making Of A Novelist - An Experiment In Autobiography (Page 1)
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Damn it all, sergeant, what d'ye want to spoil the lad's prospects for?'
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which proved instantly efficacious; and a minute or two later I was on shore at Galata, astride a donkey whose tail was industriously twisted round by his driver, and who was followed by an unequally laden brother ass, who bore my portmanteau on one flank and my trunk upon another.
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Just as the old Hoja went by, and the placid little donkey followed at his heels, the Circassian stepped into the horse-road, gave the weapon a braggadocio swing, and at a single blow divided the head of the poor little ass from the body as cleanly as any dandy swordsman of the Guards will sever a hanging sheep.
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If under such conditions a man had no such faith, he would be an ass beyond the reach of satire.