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Jessop, much broken in health because of her daughter's terrible end, has gone back with her husband to live at his house in Stowley." "What," shouted Beecot senior, "is that she-devil to go free, too?" "I don't think she was so bad as we thought," said Paul. "I fancied she was a thoroughly bad woman, but she really was not. She certainly committed bigamy, but then she thought Jessop was drowned.
"Sit down, damn you," said Denison, the supercargo, "and don't excite them any more. They're ready for any mischief now. Oh, you she-devil," and he darted into the middle of the room towards Rimé and his grand-daughter. A stout muscular girl had torn the child's arms from the old man's waist, and was beating her savagely in the face with clenched fists.
She-devil, indeed, Cervera had set fire to a crumpled newspaper, with which to illuminate the bottom of the well. "Ah, there you are!" she exultingly cried, on discovering Nick in the glare of the light. "On your feet, eh? You were lucky to escape, Detective Carter." "And you'll be lucky if you escape Detective Carter," sternly retorted Nick, quickly stamping out the fire.
"Do you threaten me, you she-devil?" snarls Hardin, alarmed at the settled, resolute face. "I have a little piece of news for you which will block your game, my lady. There is no proof of the legitimacy of the child, Isabel Valois. A claim has already been filed by a distant Mexican relative of the Peraltas. The suit will come up soon.
Not an affair for The Yard this time, Cleek, but a thing you must take up on your own, if you take it up at all; and I tell you frankly, I don't like it." "Why?" "For one thing, it's from Paris; and well, you know what dangers Paris would have for you. There's that she-devil you broke with that woman Margot.
Suddenly a gleam of mirth came into his gloomy eyes. He bent over the young man, and said in a hoarse, chuckling whisper: "But I got even after all!" "How?" "He's tied up to that lying little she-devil, hard and fast!" It was a freshly furrowed field, so large that the eye at first scarcely took in its magnitude.
Then why not with this little she-devil, whose power is fading every year with her youth and beauty?" "It is quite true, we should be mindful of the device of our Invisible Fathers. The end sanctifies the means," sighed Woellner. "I believe it to be indispensable, and you will grant that I am right.
There were faces, many faces, that looked back at him with steady eyes and tight lips.... Verily it was time he conquered the riding, shooting, beautiful she-devil who had made this thing possible! The sooner he got Tharon Last away from this bunch of spawn the better. Then he would sweep in with all his old swift methods, only sharper ones this time, and "clean" them all.
When the flask was empty he dashed it against the floor, and looking at the young girl cried: "And so you propose to run the Vagrery, little she-devil, confounded wench?" "Yes, seigneur bishop; I am now twenty years of age, and this is the first day of my life that I have been able to say: 'I belong to myself I can go and come, jump, sing, dance, just as I please' "
"That little she-devil who has taken a fancy to Will," said Fred with a grin, "is capable of more atrocities than all the Turks between here and Stamboul! She looks to me like Santanita, Cleopatra, Salome, Caesar's wife, and all the Borgia ladies rolled in one. There's something added, though, that they lacked." "Youth," said I. "Beauty. Athletic grace. Sinuous charm."
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