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You, ye diabolic canaille, what has a Governor much to do with you? You, I think, he will rather swiftly dismiss from his thoughts, which have the whole celestial and terrestrial for their scope, and not the subterranean of scoundreldom alone.

If in the eye of God this is justifiable, then a just God might permit a devil to torture us in the cause of diabolic science.... To cut up a living horse day after day in order to practise students in dissection is a crime and abomination hardly less monstrous from his not having an immortal soul.

Joan's bright eyes turned quickly upon Raymond, who had flushed with boyish pride and pleasure and shame at hearing himself thus praised. Joan listened with flashing eyes and ever-varying colour. At the close of the tale she spoke. "I have heard of that wretched boy the tool and sport of the old man's evil arts, the victim of the son's diabolic cruelty when he has no other victim to torment.

Griswold would be the very man to write them, if he would. As Rufus Griswold seated himself at Edgar Poe's desk a look that was almost diabolic came into his face. The temporary substitution was but a step, he told himself, to permanent succession.

And the story had gone too far, was too diabolic in its accuracy, for a flat denial without explanation. The truth? His hostess still regarded him patiently. He searched her with his eyes, his gaze finally falling. "If one is guiltless one does not fear the truth," he muttered slowly, "nor does virtue fear a lie but a half-truth will damn even the innocent, Mrs. Hammond."

When first he hears Horatio's story, he seems to incline to the belief that it must be the work of some diabolic agency: "If it assume my noble father's person, I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape, And bid me hold my peace;" although, characteristically, in almost the next line he exclaims "My father's spirit in arms! All is not well," etc.

The gigantic elevators and other harbour buildings stood mistily in this inferno, their heads clear and sinister above the mirk. It was impossible to decide whether an enormous mass of pitchy and Tartarian gloom was being slowly moulded by diabolic invisible hands into a city, or a city, the desperate and damned abode of a loveless race, was disintegrating into its proper fume and dusty chaos.

"Ah!" said the bishop, "it was by intuition diabolic, I doubt not, that they took that way. I believe these men to have been possessed by all fiends whatsoever."

It is not only our enemies, those desperate characters it is we ourselves who know not what we do, thence springs the glimmering hope that perhaps we do better than we think: that to scramble through this random business with hands reasonably clean to have played the part of a man or woman with some reasonable fulness, to have often resisted the diabolic, and at the end to be still resisting it, is for the poor human soldier to have done right well.

It was Anne's face but her face as it would be, utterly unillumined by the inward lights of thought and emotion. It was the lazy, expressionless mask which was sometimes her face. The portrait was terribly like; and at the same time it was the most malicious of lies. Yes, it would be diabolic when it was finished, Gombauld decided; he wondered what she would think of it.