Vulgar words in Romance of Roman Villas - (The Renaissance) (Page 1)

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bastard x 2
beat (one's) brains out x 1
hussy x 1
            

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"Look you, Bazzi," she said when we were alone, "that hussy, Margherita, must leave our friend's house at once.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 958   ~   ~   ~

There lacked not shrugging of shoulders at this imputed parentage and Florence revolted against receiving a bastard and a mulatto as its sovereign.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 988   ~   ~   ~

The opening words of this ungracious speech caused my spirit to leap within me, for Duke Alessandro far from confiding to me or to any one else the secret that he was the child of a mulattress, and in all probability the bastard of the Pope, had persistently maintained that he was the legitimatised son and rightful heir of the last Duke of Florence, and his mother a princess whose name would in time be divulged, and this notwithstanding that his dark complexion proclaimed him of Oriental race.

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"Death will come, but not quickly,--unless you beat your brains out against the bars of your cage, and before that you will shriek and call for me, but I will not come.

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