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Next, he took a little vermilion from a small parcel and rubbed it over his face until it presented the somewhat demoniac appearance of a fiery red. He also drew a broad red score along the crown of his head, which was closely shaved, with the exception of the usual tuft or scalplock on the top.
"Yet I do not ask you to forgive me; I don't expect that you can or will; but unless the devil gets possession of me again which, so sure as ever there was a demoniac in this world, he had this afternoon when you so tempted me I hope soon to place you in safety, either in a friendly port, or on board of a British vessel; and then what becomes of me is of little consequence, now since the only living soul who cared a dollar for me is at rest amongst the coral branches at the bottom of the deep green sea."
The plot of The Kedziad was to be based on the From-Rags-to-Riches leitmotiv, Kedzie was to be a cruelly treated waif brought up as a boy by a demoniac Italian padrone who made her steal. She was to be sent into a rich man's home to rob it. She would find the rich man about to commit suicide all over his sumptuous library.
Are you satisfied thus far?" "She will die happy and innocent," muttered Lucretia, with the growl of demoniac disappointment. "Will you wait, then, till my forgery is detected, and I have no power to buy the silence of the trustees, wait till I am in prison, and on a trial for life and death? Reflect, every day, every hour, of delay is fraught with peril.
Hark! now the blue line discovers too late that the mass is the enemy, and half the line withers in the point-blank discharge. They are swept from the ground. Jack is trembling demoniac. The gray mass springs forward; they have seized the guns four of them and turn them upon the disappearing blue. Then a hoarse shout of delirious triumph.
At night his creed retaliates on him; he believes himself one of the reprobates he has been all day denouncing, and curses God for the very decree he has all day been glorifying Him for. "He, whom he has for twelve hours been vociferating 'is the loveliest among ten thousand, becomes the object of demoniac hostility and execration.
Jesus said unto him, If them canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. Mark ix. 23. The necessity and power of faith is the prominent lesson of this narrative of the healing of a demoniac boy, especially as it is told by the Evangelist Mark, The lesson is enforced by the actions of all the persons in the group, except the central figure, Christ.
He longed madly to seize this woman in his arms and tear her from the side of his rival. The madness of his love cried out to him, and sent the blood surging to his brain. But he fought fought himself with almost demoniac fury, and won.
The unlooked-for attack on the part of Le Gros was now explained: he was not acting for himself, but as the deputy of the others! it was plain they had given him orders, and from the attitude in which they stood, and the demoniac expression already noticed, I felt satisfied that some new torture was intended for me. I did not cry out for Brace, it would have been of no use.
Still Reddin stood there, chilled through and through, brooding upon the house. Not until dawn, like a knife, gashed the east with blood did he stir. He sighed. 'Too late! he said. Then he laughed. 'Beaten by the parson! A demoniac rage surged in him. He picked up a piece of rock, and lifting it in both arms, flung it at the house. It smashed the kitchen window.
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