Vulgar words in The Kingdom Round the Corner - A Novel (Page 1)

This book at a glance

brain x 2
damaged goods x 1
make love x 3
            

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"If any man were to play false by Terry, I think--I think I'd brain him."

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The first time he affords you with a reason for hating him, you'll hate him like---- The way you said: so that you could brain him without compunction.

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If you think that I ever let him make love to me, you're mistaken.

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She denied to herself that she wanted him to make love to her; at the same time she was disappointed at the persistency with which he held her off.

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She liked to believe that, if he had made love to her, she would have rebuffed him.

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So here was the injustice of her social situation; without having committed a solitary indiscretion, she was damaged goods--debarred from matrimony, yet coveted by men.

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