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'Yes! yes! God forgive me! I am afraid it was, he answered hurriedly; 'but I must not. 'Oh, don't you worry, went on Abe cheerfully; 'I'll look after that part; and anyway, ain't they the blankest blankety blank' going off again into a roll of curses, till Craig, in an agony of entreaty, succeeded in arresting the flow of profanity possible to no one but a mountain stage-driver.
Sergeant Mackay's wrath at the slur cast upon the pipe band, the only band, in his opinion, worthy of any real man's attention, was intensified by his lapse into his habit of profanity, which, out of deference to the Pilot, he for some weeks had been earnestly striving to hold in check. "Oh well, Scotty, don't spoil your record for me.
Conway yelled, and forthwith he beat Farrel between the shoulder-blades with a horny old fist and cursed him lovingly. "Cut out the profanity, Mr. Conway," Don Mike warned him. "Some ladies are about due on the job." "When'd you light in the Palomar, boy? Gimme your hand. What the say, ain't it a pity the old man couldn't have lasted until you got back? Ain't it, now, son?"
From his lips there flowed not prayer but a clear and limpid stream of undiluted profanity, and it was all directed at that quietly stubborn piece of unyielding mechanism. "I should think, Perry," I chided, "that a man of your professed religiousness would rather be at his prayers than cursing in the presence of imminent death." "Death!" he cried. "Death is it that appalls you?
Their remarks were prefaced and interlarded and concluded with it, so that it was no longer an oath or a blasphemy. "Je's, I was sore at 'm. I told him where to get off at. Nobody can talk to me like that. Je's, I should say not." So accustomed had it grown that it was not even thought of as profanity.
That act, however, served to arouse me to a sense of my position. What did I there? It was a profanity a defiling, I swore; from which you'll see, that Bardelys was grown of a sudden very nice. "Monsieur," she was saying, "you are exhausted."
Recla to not use him as an example in front of the class. Discipline like that can be humiliating to a boy." "Damned right it can." "Do you always use profanity in your home in what you call choice occasions?" "I sometimes do. I like to feel free to let words gush out but I'm careful not to use them in violent ways." "Well, he used the F word. I think of that as violent. Don't you?"
It would be almost profanity to talk to this women, who knew about as much of it as an African fetish-worshipper knows of the Eternal of that love which counts fidelity not by months and years; which, though it has its root in mortal life, stretches out safely and fearlessly into the life everlasting.
For ten minutes Abe struggled to sort out a few enunciable oaths from the mass of profanity that surged through his brain and at length he succeeded. "I always thought you was crazy, Mawruss," he said after the first paroxysm had exhausted itself, "and now I know it." "Why am I crazy?" Morris asked.
Women have an art of expressing contempt by syllabic emphasis that men never acquire. It is their failure to accomplish this that induces men to substitute profanity. Nevertheless, as that excellent woman remarked, the things I say in these papers are for the most part opinions. But what of that; what moves the world but opinions what has moved it up to where it is now, but opinions?
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