Vulgar words in The Wooden Horse (Page 1)
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I remember once getting up at three in the morning to go and play cricket somewhere--fearful hot day it was, but I knocked up fifty, I remember.
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It was still incredible that Robin, the work of her hands as it were, into whom she had poured all things that were lovely and of good report, could have made love to an ordinary girl of the middle classes--a vulgar girl with a still more vulgar mother.
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Her present thought was of Robin; that she must alter her feelings about him, take him from his pedestal--a Trojan who could make love to any kind of girl!
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Then your nephew came: he made love to me, and I loved him in return."
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I thought Cambridge would knock it out of you, but it didn't; it encouraged you, and you were always with people who thought as you did, and you fancied that your own little corner of the earth--your own little potato-patch--was better than every one else's gardens; I thought you were a pretty poor thing when you came back from Cambridge last year, but now you've beaten my expectations by a good deal----" "I say----" he broke in--"really I----" but she went on unheeding-- "Instead of working and doing something like any decent man would, you loafed along with your friends learning to tie your tie and choosing your waistcoat-buttons; you go and make love to a decent girl and then when you've tired of her tell her so, and seem surprised at her hitting back.
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"I suppose you made love to--ah--Miss Feverel?" he said, turning directly to Robin.