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The party were ushered into a spacious and cool apartment on the ground-floor, where a table was covered with all the varieties of a tropical breakfast, consisting of fried fish, curries, devilled poultry, salt meats, and everything which could tend to stimulate an enfeebled appetite.
In a very few years I shall no longer be 'devil, but 'devilled," and he would chuckle at his grim and ill-omened joke. Philip felt his father's eyes playing upon him, and shrunk from them.
"I am going to imagine that we are, and make my breakfast of peaches and cream and chocolate! Shall I give you some?" He shook his head, with a little grimace. "No, thanks. I'm Philistine enough to prefer devilled kidneys and tea. I wonder if there is anything in the letters." He drew a key from his waistcoat pocket, and, unlocking the bag, shook its contents upon the tablecloth.
Then I would go to a slap-up restaurant, and have green peas, and a bottle of fizz, and a chump chop O! and I forgot, I'd 'ave some devilled whitebait first and green gooseberry tart, and 'ot coffee, and some of that form of vice in big bottles with a seal Benedictine that's the bloomin' nyme!
I looked over his shoulder, in wild horrer at them awful words, and then I whispered, "Devilled crabs and do you keep still, Josiah Allen; I'd ruther not have anythin' to eat at all than to have you act so it hain't devilish." "Wall, what is the difference?" he sez, out loud and strong; "devilish or bedevilled, they both mean the same.
'I never was devilled in my life! shouted the King; 'you must have eaten somebody else! 'That's just what I was saying to myself! returned the faqir sleepily; 'I thought it couldn't be only the spices that -Snore, snore, snore! 'Look here! cried King Karan, in a rage, shaking the faqir,'you must eat me too!
"I'm an idiot, Bob," I said, as we turned in at the farm gate, "and I let my imagination run away with me." Bob wagged his tail in approval of the sentiment. Breakfast was ready when I got in. There was a cold chicken on the sideboard, devilled chicken on the table, a trio of boiled eggs, and a dish of scrambled eggs. As regarded quantity Mrs. Beale never failed us.
Mogley passed out, walking down the five flights of stairs to the street, forgetful of the elevator. The dramatic editor looked at his watch. "Half-past twelve," he said; then, to a man at another desk: "Jack, I can't come just yet. I'll meet you at the club. Order devilled crabs and a bottle of Bass for me." He ran up-stairs to the night editor. "Mr. Dorney, have you the theatre proofs?
He sat down to the table, and took a choice morsel of boned chicken on his plate. "John, I have come up to talk to you about Verner's Pride." "What about it?" asked John, speaking with his mouth full of devilled kidneys. "The place is Lionel Verner's." "How d'ye make out that?" asked John. "That codicil revoked the will which left the estate to you. It gave it to him."
I laughed, as I handed back the empty tankard. "Like your father," he said hopelessly. "But your father lived to learn better, which I doubt you will do." "He got a stomach affliction," I devilled, "so that one mouthful of spirits turned it outside in. It were wisdom not to drink when one's tank will not hold the drink." While we talked Pons was gathering to my bedside my clothes for the day.
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