Vulgar words in The Maids of Paradise (Page 1)
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Our Creator did not make love of country a trite virtue, but a passion, and set it in our bodies along with our other passions.
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Now there's Terrec, who has the evil eye--not that I believe it, but, damn him, he'd better not try any tricks on me!
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"Lord, how I would appreciate one, though--anything with a bit of grass in the yard and a shovelful of dirt--enough to grow some damn flower, you know.... Did you smell the posies in the square to-night?...
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He went on muttering, half to himself: "We're of the same breed--pariahs; fortunately, pariahs don't last long,... like the wild creatures who never die natural deaths,... old age is one of the curses they can safely discount,... and so can we, Scarlett, so can we.... For you'll be mauled by a lion or kicked into glory by a horse or an ox or an ass,... and I'll fall off a balloon,... or the camel will give me tetanus, or the elephant will get me in one way or another,... or something...." Again he twisted around to look at me.
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"That's a damn good bill," said Byram, suddenly.
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"Don't talk such langwidge in my presence, Mr. Horan," he said, sharply; "a camuel is a camuel, but remember: 'kind hearts is more than cornets,' an' it's easier for that there camuel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a cussin' cuss to cuss his way into Kingdom Come!"
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"If you mean to intimate that I have fallen in love you are certainly an astonishing ass!"
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Am I an ass, Scarlett?
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"No; not an ass," I said.
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"Run for your life, you hopeless ass!"
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Here's to her--damn her impudence!
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"Mr. Scarlett, Dear Sir and Friend,--Trusting you're well I am pleased to admit the same, the blind Goddess having smiled on me and the circus since we quit that damn terra firma for a more peeceful climb.