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Updated: May 31, 2025
“You?” replied Lucifer contemptuously; “do you imagine that Adeliza would look at you?” “Why not?” asked Belial, surveying himself complacently in the glass. He was humpbacked, squinting, and lame, and his horns stood up under his wig. The discussion ended in a wager: after which there was no retreat for Lucifer.
Where was he, her one lover, for she thought of no other? She had no fear of a rival with him, not even of that Lady Adeliza, of whom she had heard, and whom she had once feared. Now she knew that he really had loved her, and feared nothing; for even supposing that he would in time forget her, love had not had time to change yet. And need it change at all?
Feeling himself incapable of coming to a decision, he sent for Belial, unfolded the matter, and requested his advice. “What a shame that our new inspector will not let you marry Adeliza!” lamented his counsellor. “If you did, my private opinion is that forty-eight hours afterwards you would care just as much for her as you do now for Madam Lucifer, neither more nor less.
"D'ye think I'm not a thousand times more afraid of your mistress than of all the saints in the calendar? There," addressing Adeliza and her betrothed, "be off! You'll find all debts paid, and a nice balance at the bank. Cut! Run!" They did not wait to be told twice. Earth yawned. The gates of Tartarus stood wide.
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