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It was the hugest joke life had ever played on him. His sister! He could fancy Conniston twisting his mustaches, his cool eyes glimmering with silent laughter, looking on his predicament, and he could fancy Conniston saying: "It's funny, old top, devilish funny but it'll be funnier still when some other man comes along and carries her off!"
'When a man says a woman's voice is sweet, it means that she has bored him; that what she has to say interests him so little that he turns to contemplation of her voice. This American is a devilish cute fellow. A babble of voices took up the charge and demanded immediate explanation. 'To a certain extent, said Selwyn stoutly, 'there is much in what Mr. Smyth says.
"There's a devilish pretty girl, you know, at 'The Green Man' at Little Barton; I don't know whether I can get away in time." Dick stuffed his bast in his pocket, and muttered things uncomplimentary to Banstead. "Dinner's at a quarter to eight. You can take it or leave it," said he. "I suppose I've jolly well got to take it," said Banstead, unruffled.
And now, while both elastic gunwales were springing in and out, as the whale dallied with the doomed craft in this devilish way; and from his body being submerged beneath the boat, he could not be darted at from the bows, for the bows were almost inside of him, as it were; and while the other boats involuntarily paused, as before a quick crisis impossible to withstand, then it was that monomaniac Ahab, furious with this tantalizing vicinity of his foe, which placed him all alive and helpless in the very jaws he hated; frenzied with all this, he seized the long bone with his naked hands, and wildly strove to wrench it from its gripe.
As some of them openly said in the Isle of Terceira, that they believed verily God would consume them, and that he took part with the Lutherans and heretics ... saying further, that so soon as they had thrown the dead body of the Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Grenville overboard, they verily thought that as he had a devilish faith and religion, and therefore the devil loved him, so he presently sunk into the bottom of the sea and down into hell, where he raised up all the devils to the revenge of his death, and that they brought so great a storm and torments upon the Spaniards, because they only maintained the Catholic and Romish religion.
Just then up waddled Jogglebury, puffing and wheezing like a stranded grampus; the idea having just struck him that he might get off on the plea of not having room for the servant. 'Ah, you are a good fellow, replied Mr. Sponge 'a devilish good fellow. I was just telling Mrs. Jogglebury wasn't I, Mrs.
A cunning leer passed over the greyish countenance as the dazzling vision protruded itself before Mr. Sharpley. The fellow's good for another five that's a bonanza these devilish hard times." The attorney then glanced over the contents of the prized letter once more and evidently experienced a fresh sensation of delight.
Unfortunately, she did not play loud enough to divert the attention of the Portuguese cook, who promptly gave warning next day, saying she could not stand these "devilish practices"! We had failed to realise that the very wall, close to which our small table was placed, divided the kitchen from the large ground-floor library, so the poor woman doubtless sat with her ear well jammed up against this partition, and considered every rap of the table leg on the floor, a distinct footstep of the devil!
Both these women were examples of his power of forgiveness, and now a tender word to Clara might fasten shame on him such was her gratitude! And if he did not marry Laetitia, laughter would be devilish all around him such was the world's! Probably Vernon would not long be thankful for the chance which varied the monotony of his days. What of Horace?
'Private and confidential, that looks bad." SPENDQUICK. "Devilish bad, indeed." Frank opens the note, and reads, half aloud, "Dear Hazeldean " He always Spendquicks me when he lends me money; and 't is 'My dear Lord' when he wants it back. Capital sign!" Frank reads on, but to himself, and with a changing countenance,
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