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"All that is wanting is a good round swear-word now and again." "Oh, I assure you I am not unlearned," he retorted. "No man can drive dogs else. I can swear from hell to breakfast, by damn, and back again, if you will permit me, to the last link of perdition.
But I venture to affirm that in the main they were kindly, though it is quite possible that in the first moment of surprise he had to keep down a swear-word or two. The long and the short of it all is that next day the Fynes made up their minds to take into their confidence a certain wealthy old lady.
"Same here. Let's go together." And they both laughed, and the squirrel that had come to meet Joan darted off with a sour look. He had anticipated a fat meal of peanuts. He was out of it now, he saw, and muttered whatever was the squirrel equivalent for a swear-word.
I never saw a pack-saddle. What is it like, Jim?" "Score one against culture," said I. "I'll know it when I see it." Goodloe was looking at old Rundle's document when he ripped out a most uncollegiate swear-word. "Come here," he said, holding the paper up against the sunlight. "Look at that," he said, laying his finger against it.
Couldn't make out how many kinds of perfectly swear-word fool he was? He regretted that he had not been more emphatic about those cuffs. And Breede had said it after witnessing that salute from the pitcher's box! He must be a hard man to convince of anything. What more proof did he want? Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! The man who couldn't make him out was calling for him.
Granny herself says it should never be taken lightly, unless you just perfectly know, but of course we do, don't we? I think you'll like fumed oak better, after all and poor old Pops saying you're such a puzzle to him. He says he can't make out just how many kinds of a perfectly swear-word fool you are, but I can, and that's just deliciously enough for anybody.
Begobs, b'ys, it's proud av him we should be this day. Didn't he swear strong an' fine like? Howly hivens! it's a delight to hear damn said like that." For some reason that "swear-word" pleased New York and the country generally, showing that even an oath has its purpose in this world, so long as it is properly used. Dean Swift said a lie "was too good to be lavished about." So it is of profanity.
Out of it all they managed to gather that this was the parrot's worst expression, and only lately learned of a "badda carpentiera," who had found difficulty in fashioning the wooden cage he was making, and had used "badda wodda" in consequence. Hope could scarcely wait till he had finished to cry, anxiously, "But, father, it isn't a real swear-word, now, is it?
But I venture to affirm that in the main they were kindly, though it is quite possible that in the first moment of surprise he had to keep down a swear-word or two. The long and the short of it all is that next day the Fynes made up their minds to take into their confidence a certain wealthy old lady.
A man who had been spending two hours a day for the last three weeks in interrogating the Gadfly might be pardoned an occasional swear-word. "We will drop that subject," he said quietly. "What I wanted to see you for particularly is this: My position here as Cardinal gives me some voice, if I choose to claim my privilege, in the question of what is to be done with you.
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