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"Who can it be?... so early in the day ... not yet ten o'clock ... it is very mysterious." "It is only mysterious," said I, "as long as you don't open the door. Shall I answer the bell?" "No yes wait a moment ... suppose it is that demon, my landlord, or that archfiend, my tailor then you must say ... holy St.
This, however, is not because these people have made the archfiend an object of worship, but because the Gypsy language, descending directly from the Sanskrit, has retained in its primitive exalted sense a word which the English language has received only in its debased and perverted sense.
One evening, a short period before the family left France, a party of those murderers, who were sent for by Robespierre, from the frontiers which divide France from Italy, and who were by that archfiend employed in all the butcheries, and massacres of Paris, entered the peaceful village of la Reine, in search of Monsieur O . His lady saw them advancing, and anticipating their errand, had just time to give her husband intelligence of their approach, who left his chateau by a back door, and secreted himself in the house of a neighbour.
Sam, bid the gentleman meet me in the banquet hall, and then, mark you, thou archfiend of blackness, seek out at once that man Hawkins in his hidden lair, and bid him have ample repast spread instantly, on pain of my displeasure. By all the saints! if it be not at once forthcoming I will toast the scoundrel over his own slow fire."
"For a long time Squeaknibble would not believe that there was any such archfiend as a cat; but she came to be convinced to the contrary one memorable night, on which occasion she lost two inches of her beautiful tail, and received so terrible a fright that for fully an hour afterward her little heart beat so violently as to lift her off her feet and bump her head against the top of our domestic hole.
"That is mine," he stated, not flinching under the indignant protest. "If it's yours will you inform me what you intend to do with it?" "I intend to introduce it in the House at to-morrow's session and work for its passage." "He's got a bill there," roared the chairman, turning to the Duke, "that's written by the Devil himself! It makes old Waymouth archfiend of all the ramrodders in this State!
Lawrence's imagination was so filled with the poetical and dramatic suggestions which he derived from the Kemble brother and sister, that I thought a likeness of them lurked in this portrait of the Prince of Darkness; and perhaps he could scarcely have found a better model for his archfiend than my uncle, to whom his mother occasionally addressed the characteristic reproof, "Sir, you are as proud as Lucifer!"
Even among the men of the logs, who are bad, one man stands alone as the archfiend of them all. And now it is possible, for he is a big man she, Wa-ha-ta-na-ta, the mother of Pierre and of Jeanne, maybe is permitted to stoop close and breathe upon the dead face of this man the weird curse of the barren lands almost forgotten, now, even among her own people the blighting curse of the "Yaga Tah!"
The fact that the dragon was succeeded by the beast, who reigned in his stead, is proof that the dragon does not signify the personal devil; for, as far as we know, the archfiend has never resigned his position, but is still doing his infernal business at the same stand. In many respects the beast is similar to the dragon.
The army of the saints preserve us!" "From what, blockhead?" "From the archfiend in the flesh. 'Tis Drake that hath sailed into the bay." The commandant sat and gaped in stupid affright. "Drake!" shouted the soldier. He had no need to say more. His officer's chin dropped on to his breast. "We are dead men," he muttered. "Why has he come hither? We have no gold, no treasure-ships.
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