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"I tell you she's a devilish sight too good for you; and if you don't marry her, you'll never get such a wife." "Troth," answered Mrs. Burke, "I think myself there's something over you, or you wouldn't spake as you do a wife for Hycy one of Gerald Cavanagh's daughters make a wife for him! not while I'm alive at any rate, plaise God."
I had reached the top, and although I could see nothing on account of the mist, I knew that right below me lay the woods, with only about a mile of steeply sloping hillside separating me from their agreeable privacy. Despite the cold and the wet and the fact that I was getting devilish hungry, my spirits somehow began to rise.
"Pay, or go to prison! there is no other way, unless you have notes for two or three thousand francs to lend them," said Malicorne, in a careless tone; "if you have them, shell out, and we will cut, devilish glad to get away." "Oh, this is dreadful!" said Miss Dimpleton, with indignation; "daring to jest with such dreadful misfortunes."
"Not particularly," he acknowledged; "though I wouldn't drive around the city to avoid him. Somehow I may be blind I can't think that I am doing him an infamous wrong: that he lost you proves that. Why, under the circumstances, should you, anyone, stay? I don't feel a particle immoral, or even devilish. It's all so sensible and balanced and superior.
The Killer did his bloody work with a thoroughness and a devilish cunning that defied detection. It was plain that each murder might be set down to the same agency. Each was stamped with the same unmistakable sign-manual: one sheep killed, its throat torn into red ribands, and the others untouched.
I could see something devilish in the smile at Doltaire's lip's, but his look was wandering between Alixe and me, and he replied urbanely, "I have ambition yet to connive at captivity"; and then he looked full and meaningly at her.
Meantime, during the night several hundred Boer marksmen had been sent round into the sluit, and were now lying right across poor Broadwood's retreat. The Boers, acting with their devilish coolness as usual, took possession of the waggons without giving the alarm.
Hyperion to a satyr! It's devilish good, my boy!" "It's devilish good," said Wayworth, "and it's in a different key altogether from the key of her rehearsal." "I'll run you six months!" the manager declared; and he rushed round again to the actress, leaving Wayworth with a sense that she had already pulled him through. She had with the audience an immense personal success.
He received us very haughtily, and in a manner not at all consistent with the kind messages he had sent us. Pipes and Coffee were served, and the conversation was rather slack. At his feet sat one of the most extraordinary figures I ever saw in my life; a countenance more devilish was never given to Dervish before.
The nose was large, distinctively Roman, yielding him a hawklike appearance, but it was his eyes which fascinated me. They were dark, and deeply set, absolute wells of cruelty. I had never before seen such eyes in the face of a human being; they were beastly, devilish; I could feel my blood chill as I looked into their depths, yet I held myself erect, and waited for the man to speak.
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