Vulgar words in The La Chance Mine Mystery (Page 1)
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But I had also guessed where he lived, by the dirt on him, and was ass enough to carry him home to the squalid, half-French, half-Indian village the Caraquet people called Skunk's Misery.
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"Why, here's some more," I exclaimed like an ass, glaring at the envelope's inside back.
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"I don't mean about those two boys, for I bet they're no more dead than I am, and it would be just like them to lie low and set up a smothered strike among the men as soon as you were ass enough to be taken in by some stray bones!
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"It was plain damn foolery!
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I know he _hit_ those chumps who could have got him if they had obeyed orders--let alone that if they'd stayed out I'd have got him clean myself when he came in.
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Of course I have Thompson's cards; I can't help it if you think I'm an ass.
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"No," I said furiously and then saw I was an ass, "I mean, not now!"
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It's an easy enough thing to do if you just slip your pencil inside an envelope and write blindly, but it made me sick to think of poor old Thompson scrawling in the inside of his envelope, furiously, furtively, while the ink of his neat copperplate dried on the outside, and Macartney likely stood by poring over the actual letter, wondering if there was any flaw in it that could show out and damn him.
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I wheeled to get out of that damn lean-to quicker than I had got in; and instead I stood rooted to the floor.
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"Bon Dieu, I thought you was him come back," he gasped in his bastard French Indian, "that man that half killed me on the Caraquet road!
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They've got Mr. Wilbraham, and"--he turned his head to me again--"they damn nearly got me!"
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"He's made love to Marcia, of course, for a blind, like he did everything else.
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"I'd met him: and I liked him, because he never made love to me.
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"You ass, Collins, with Macartney ignorant of the real way in on us, and he and his gang digging open Thompson's tunnel against the daylight, with you and me and Dunn in the dark on that shelf in Thompson's stope we came in here by, we'd have the drop on the lot.
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"Sacré damn, bring Mademoiselle Paulette and _come out_!
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But it damn well would have been me, if it hadn't been for"--he paused casually, and pointed behind him--"Baker."
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That old ass Thompson gave me that, when I scooped him up on the road.