Vulgar words in Mufti (Page 1)
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"When we danced and made love at the Grafton Galleries."
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"Such a serious girl you were too, Margaret; I wonder how you ever put up with a brainless sort of ass like me."
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"Damn the swine," muttered Vane.
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You see, they either want to make love to me, or else to confide that they love another.
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"Soda water syphons and flour; hunting, cricket and making love."
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Hunting, cricket and making love... Is it not written in 'Who's Who'--unless that interesting publication is temporarily out of print?"
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It seemed impossible to kill the damn thing... For a while he bit the whistling atrocity to his heart's content; then with it still between his fore paws he looked up into Vane's face.
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It was just as Vane was abusing himself heartily for being an ass that he saw her coming towards him through a clearing in the undergrowth.
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"There are people," she said calmly, "who consider I'm the limit--a nasty, fast hussy..." "What appalling affectation on your part," jeered Vane lighting his pipe.
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He hoped that it might help to keep the damn woman quiet for a bit; and, besides everybody was giving dances.
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And then, indeed, she could have said with reason--'I sure have made a damn fool of myself.'
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"You must be even more damn foolish than most humans," it remarked, "if you try to make yourself think that the way of a man with a maid depends on the doing of things that are worth while."
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Damn clever thing to do too; I mustn't forget to congratulate him if he does..." He turned in at the courtyard of the hotel, glancing round for Nancy Smallwood.
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Did he, or did he not, mean to make love to the girl he had just left at the Savoy?
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Let's go on a 'bus..." "No damn fear," returned Bill.
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In moments of extreme feeling she sometimes reverted to the language of her fathers, with its soft West Country burr... "When Green come courtin' me, he just tuk me in tu his arms, and give me a great fat little kiss..." "And, by Jove, Mrs. Green, he was a damn lucky fellow to be able to do it," cried Vane, taking the kindly old hand in both his own.
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True the second bark seemed in the nature of an apology; but damn it, one must do something... "You've come," said Vane, and with the sight of her every other thought left his head.
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"Damn it," he cried, "and why can't we cheat 'em, Joan?
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Damn it, man, it's not religion--it's common horse sense."
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"Damn bad," said Vane, nodding his head.
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A damn good flogging twice a day--you'll pardon my language, is what they want."
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And Vane, with his cue grasped in both hands, contemplated braining him with the butt...
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"Of all the bandy-legged crowd of C3 perishers I've ever seen, this crowd fills the bill... Why one damn fellow who's helping in the cook-house--peeling potatoes--says it gives him pains in the stummick... Work too hard... And in civil life he was outside porter in a goods yard."
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"How damn funny, old bird," he said still chuckling; "how damn funny..." The humour of the situation had struck him suddenly.
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He would keep the woman company, and he would be happy just like her, instead of having to force his frozen hands to hold that cursed slippery wood... And Joan would be happy, because she would have saved Blandford; and Baxter, damn him, he would be happy; and the whole blessed outfit would be happy as well as him when he had just dropped on to sleep...