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They quoted, moreover, this startling explanation of the whole affair: that the magician who exhibited the Veiled Lady and who, by the bye, was the handsomest man in the whole world had bartered his own soul for seven years' possession of a familiar fiend, and that the last year of the contract was wearing towards its close.
"First of all," Tom suggested, "I think we had better start a roaring good campfire." "What do we want such a thing as that for?" Harry protested. "The day is warm enough." "The fire will be just the thing," laughed Tom quietly. "Come on and gather the wood with me. Alf! Oh, you Alf Drew!" But the cigarette fiend was not in evidence If he heard, he did not answer.
At the grave the body had been lowered to its resting-place, and all being ready, the attendants standing with uncovered heads, I was just about to begin the reading of the solemn words of the burial service, when a tall, blue-eyed man with gray side-whiskers pushed his way to the head of the grave, and in a voice choked with passion, exclaimed: "There lies as noble a gentleman as ever breathed, and he owes his death to that fiend!" pointing his finger at the wife, who stood pale and silent looking down into the grave.
And Elzbieta and Marija, too, might lose their places if that hell fiend Connor chose to set to work to ruin them, they would all be turned out. And even if he did not, they could not live even if the boys left school again, they could surely not pay all the bills without him and Ona.
This man ran a very fairish country-bred, a long, racking high mare with the temper of a fiend, and the paces of an airy wandering seraph a drifty, glidy stretch. The mare was, as a delicate tribute to Mrs. Reiver, called "The Lady Regula Baddun" or for short, Regula Baddun. Shackles' jockey, Brunt, was a quiet, well-behaved boy, but his nerves had been shaken.
He will lower the pitch to suit some actress that cannot sing, he will lick M. Gaudissart's boots!" cried the sick man, who clung to life. "He has friends that will praise him in all the newspapers; and when things are like that in such a shop, Mme. Cibot, they can find holes in anybody's coat. ... What fiend drove you to do it?"
"It is frightful for a woman to be in the clutches of these devils, and when that fiend Jeffreys comes to Dorchester, God help the women he judges! I wonder what has become of the girl." "She may have been released." "Why should they release her when they would think it was within her power to betray me?" Golding shrugged his shoulders. "It was only a suggestion," he said. "What is in your mind?"
She called it an adder, but it appears to have been a striped snake. It seems a fiend, haunting the house. On further inquiry, the snake is described as plaided with brown and black. Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrows, and uses fire-arms, a pistol, perhaps a revolver.
He was for ever ill-treating her, and she too proud to complain. She will not even tell me all that he has done to her. She never told me of those marks on her arm that you saw this morning, but I know very well that they come from a stab with a hat-pin. The sly fiend Heaven forgive me that I should speak of him so, now that he is dead, but a fiend he was if ever one walked the earth.
To-day finds a man in the full glow of health, and strength, and happiness; to-morrow comes death, cold, pitiless, irresistible; mocking all hope, freezing desire, crushing all effort with the eternal law of time and human destiny, it strikes him down with the icy fury of a fiend. Poetry, passion, humanity, are shivered at the touch.
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