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Updated: June 5, 2025
"I say, Snowdrop," said the non commissioned officer, "where be them black rascals, them pioneers where is the fateague party, my Lily white, who ought to have the trench dug by this time?" "Dere now," grumbled the negro, "dere now easy ting to deal wid white gentleman, but debil cannot satisfy dem worsted sash."
She used ter say, 'I doesn't want ter be a man, fer I kin make ten men fight fer me. So she could, sho' 'nuff, fer all de young men in our parts would fight de debil hisself for de sake ob Missy S'wanee." "Go on, go on," cried Marian; "the Northern soldiers were coming "
"De debil blow de fire," she answered, chuckling. "Then the devil is a chef de cuisine. This sauce is bewitching." "Yo' like it?" Delighted. "Tis a spell in itself. Confess, mammy, Old Nick mixed it?" "No, he only blow de fire," she reiterated, with a grin. "Any one been to see me, mammy?"
Father Jack, indignant at its being supposed he was asleep at his post, would rate those present on his landing, "What you all meek such a debil of a noise for, hey? I wa'nt sleep, only noddin'." The establishment of Mount Vernon employed a perfect army of domestics; yet to each one was assigned special duties, and from each one strict performance was required.
You all ab charity, and all ab faith; so now, my dear bredren, we go down on our knees, and thank God for all this, and more especially that I save all your souls from going to the debil, who run about Barbadoes like one roaring lion, seeking what he may lay hold of, and cram into his dam fiery jaw." "That will do, Peter," said O'Brien; "we have the cream of it, I think."
The astonished mule lashed out wildly and furiously, but Sam, with his body laid close on her back, his hands grasping her tail, and his legs and feet pressing tight to her flanks, held on with the clutch of despair. "Seize de debil! seize him! he gone mad!" he shouted frantically, but the soldiers were in such fits of laughter that they could do nothing.
At daybreak, Marshall and I and the rouseabout started on good horses, each going at different angles, but agreeing to meet at the Debil debil Waterhole, and to wait there for each other. If any one of us did not come after a certain time, we were to conclude that he had found the adventurers and was making his way back with them.
He started the big screw to revolving, but the ship did not move. It shivered and trembled throughout its length but remained stationary. "Maybe dar's a debil fish what hab circumulated dis ship in de exteror portion ob his anatomy," suggested Washington, rolling his eyes until only the whites were visible.
For to the Kruboy, "Panier," as he calls "Spaniard," is a name of horror worse even than Portugee, although he holds "God made white man and God made black man, but dem debil make Portugee," and he also remembers an unfortunate affair that occurred some years ago now, in connection with coffee-growing.
"Mebbe it's to make 'em love de priv'lege mo'." "But what keeps them away, Maria? what hinders?" "Chile, de Lord hab His angels, and de debil he hab his ministers; and dey takes all sorts o' shapes, de angels and de ministers too. I reckon dere's some work o' dat sort goin' on." Maria spoke in a sort of sententious wisdom which did not satisfy me at all. I thought there was something behind.
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