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The Malays have a bottle-imp, the polong, which will take no other sustenance than the blood of its owner, but it rewards him by aiding him in carrying out revengeful purposes.
"Know it, my sweet lump of charcoal; I'd know it among a thousand, if ye'd only use it in its own pretty natural tones; but if you will go and screech like a bottle-imp, you know," said Corrie, remonstratively, "how can you expect a stupid feller like me to recognize it?"
And in the whirl of it Éloise had uttered no word to break her bonds. But broken they must be; in what insanity had she riveted them, set free this slave of his passion? His bottle-imp had not her master once said it? must grow into a demon that with his wide wings would blacken the sky. One experience of it was too much. Oh, why had nobody warned her?
"Know it, my sweet lump of charcoal; I'd know it among a thousand, if ye'd only use it in its own pretty natural tones; but, if you will go and screech like a bottle-imp, you know," said Corrie, remonstratively, "how can you expect a stupid feller like me to recognise it?"
I mentioned the possibility of enlisting Bailey's influence. "Oh, we don't want Philistines like that infernal Bottle-Imp running us," he said hastily, and would hear of no concerted action for the end he had in view. "I'd rather not have the extension. "You see," he went on to explain, "Bailey's wanting in the essentials." "What essentials?" said I.
He, guessing the meaning of the ring at once, darted out and gave chase. The small boy fled on the wings of terror, with his blue eyes starting from their sockets. The fireman was tall and heavy, but he was also strong and in his prime, so that a short run brought him up with the fugitive, whom he seized with a grip of iron. "Now, then, young bottle-imp, what did you mean by that?"
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