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Then he glanced at the mirror, and on its brilliantly polished surface saw not his own face but the face of the gardener, the man who had given him the hand! Features, colour, hair all all were identical wonderfully, hideously identical and as the eyes met his, they smiled devilishly. Early the next day, Mr.
"Perhaps you will explain," I said, "for what purpose you submitted me to that ordeal. If you proposed to correct my skepticism concerning supernatural manifestations, you have succeeded." "Yes," said my companion, musingly, "they are devilishly clever; but we knew that already." I stared at him, fatuously.
The deuce! one doesn't get into that thing for pleasure; I have business that is devilishly pressing or I wouldn't trust my bones to it. And that horse, which you call Rougeot, he doesn't look likely to make up for lost time." "We are going to harness Bichette while those gentlemen take their coffee," replied Pierrotin. "Go and ask, you," he said to his porter, "if Pere Leger is coming with us "
The carriage now advanced rapidly, leaving the escort to follow slowly towards the manor-house, the gray roofs of which appeared and disappeared among the trees. Some of the men lingered on the way to knock the stiff clay of the road-bed from their shoes. "This is devilishly like the road to Paradise," remarked Beau-Pied.
I cannot remember, not enough to distinguish between them." "Fichtre! But this is most devilishly irritating. To think that I have to do with a man so stupid such an idiot, such an ass!" "At least you know how the berths were occupied, how many in each, and which persons? Yes? You can tell me that? Well, go on.
Anthony in the leisure moments when they were not actively engaged in temptation. I don't believe her father was an English vice-consul. He was Satan. I wonder what she told Mrs. McMurray. I have been thinking over the matter to-night. The good lady was wrong. Whatever were the morals of the Renaissance, personalities were essentially positive. They were devilishly wicked or angelically good.
James's Street, everywhere; but it is as if my eyes had been always shut, and now they are open. I can see London to-night. And that cross looked so devilishly ironical up there, as if it were silently laughing at the tumult in the rain. Don't you feel London to-night, too, Valentine?" "I always feel it." "Tragically or comically?" "I don't know that I could say truly either.
Billy met him midway upon the road and much skirmishing ensued, Billy taking two lines of attack: first, that Smith was a perfect gentleman, and, second, that Bishop had no business to have such a devilishly pretty daughter. Finally these tactics prevailed, Bishop took the right about, and a guinea dropped into the ambassador's palm completed the episode.
He was rather a literal-minded young man, as Caroline's brother would have been likely to be. Betty buried her face in her hands. "My head aches," she said, "and I was never in my life so mad and so miserable. I can't understand why everything and everybody should behave so devilishly. You and every one else, I mean. I just simply can't bear to have Nancy suffer so.
Cesarine, with a look of ironical curiosity, was watching her father, who, livid and trembling with nervous excitement, was walking up and down, like a wild beast in his cage. As soon as the baroness appeared, "Things are going badly," said her husband, "very badly. Our game is devilishly compromised." "You think so?" "I am but too sure of it. Such a well-combined stroke too!
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