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But why, in the devil's name, should she sail from Acapulco in ballast? It looks to me as if bags of gold might make very good ballast." "That's just what I was thinking," said Nunez. "And what's more," said the other, "I'll bet she brought it down from California with her when she arrived at Acapulco. I don't believe she originally cleared from there."
There is evil to be eliminated; there are thousands of things we ought not to do. But the best way to get rid of the tares is to sow good wheat in abundance. The way to avoid the things we ought not to do is to do the things that ought to be done. The empty life is a standing invitation to temptation; the busy man seldom finds the devil's card left at his door.
Six hours later, when the shadow of Devil's Spur had crossed the river, and spread a slight coolness over the flat beyond, the Pioneer coach, leaving the summit, began also to bathe its heated bulk in the long shadows of the descent.
Alas! she looked more joyful than I had seen her for a long time, and smiled at me with her sweet little mouth: but when she saw my snow-white hair, she gave a cry, which made Dom. Consul throw open the door of the judgment-chamber, and say, "Ha, ha! thou knowest well what news I have brought thee; come in, thou stubborn devil's brat!"
'Top-sails up, my lad. The officer, for all his gold braid, went as pale as death. 'Top-sails up, in the devil's name. The blue-jackets on the deck fell over themselves in fear. Yes, my lad, even though I hadn't a sword dangling by my side, I said, 'Top-sails up, in the devil's name. And they obeyed me they obeyed me. They didn't dart not to. 'Top-sails up, in the devil's name.
The steamer starts, the devils give a creak.... "A-va-va!" shouts the captain; at the bows a bell is rung, on the black deck there are sounds of running, knocking, cries of anxiety.... The Dir starts once more, puffs painfully, and apparently tries to move backwards. "What is it?" I ask, and feel something like a faint terror. There is no answer. "He'd like a collision, the devil's doll!"
And further still, art thou not the devil's agent, who only can, and who certainly will, suitably reward thee, if thou proceedest, and if thou effectest thy wicked purpose? Could any man but thee put together upon paper the following questions with so much unconcern as thou seemest to have written them? give them a reperusal, O heart of adamant! 'Whither can she fly to avoid me?
But I smelt earth keenly, and the damp grass and the devil's play of their feet on my chin, chest, and thighs, revived a fit of wrath enough to set me staggering on my legs again. They permitted it, for the purpose of battering me further.
Goody Nurse, who sat near the child, bent over and whispered some encouraging words in her ear. "Verily, the Devil's own will be the Devil's own!" declared the pastor, his eyes flashing with fury. "When one of Satan's imps hath been wounded by a shaft of truth, shot from the bow of God, the angels of darkness, verily, will hover over the suffering devil, and seek to undo what God hath done."
"Tried to bolt, eh! Must stop that. Fifty lashes, Troke. Tell Macklewain to be ready or stay, I'll tell him myself I'll break the young devil's spirit, blank him." "Yes, sir," said Troke. "Good evening, sir." "Troke pick out some likely man, will you? That last fellow you had ought to have been tied up himself. His flogging wouldn't have killed a flea."
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