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I don't think I need tell how deeply that sight cut me, but if life has another such moment coming for me all I have to say is that I hope I may die before I live to see it which is Irish, but most damnably true.
I must go home now." In taking leave of the men she asked if she could hope to find them here again the next day. "The full moon will make it damnably light," replied the father, "but they will scarcely venture to assail the right of asylum, and the ships anchored according to regulation at Tanis, with a cargo of wood from Sinope.
"The girl was damnably clever, for she gave us only the things we already knew, and but few new facts; knowing that she would inevitably die soon, she talked but it was empty talk. The one thing of import we have learned is that they burn no fuel, use no fuel of any sort but in some inconceivable manner get their energy from the radiations of the suns of space.
"My dear uncle," said Philippe, whose phraseology had a flavor of his affinities in Paris, "you love this girl, and you are devilishly right. She is damnably handsome! Instead of billing and cooing she makes you trot like a valet; well, that's all simple enough; but she wants to see you six feet underground, so that she may marry Max, whom she adores."
He held out his brown hand, and she, rising from her chair, gripped his fingers as a child might have done, and looked at him with dog's eyes. "Good-by!" said she, huskily. "You are real, ain't you?" "Damnably so," admitted Peter. "Good-by, then, Gracie." And he left her standing by the table, the empty wine-glass before her. The streets stretched before him emptily. That poor, done-for kid!
"Master," quoth Roger, glancing furtively about, "in my youth I did see a goodly man be-devilled by horrid spells by an ancient hag that was a noted witch, and he acted thus a poor wight that was thereafter damnably be-devilled into a small, black rabbit, see you " "Saw you all this indeed, Roger?" "All but the be-devilling, master, for being young and sore frighted I ran away and hid myself.
It was a damnably exciting game far beyond polo or even slaying long-haired tigers in Manchuria and he would play it and bluff without a card in his hand. He was not a noble hero, you see, but just a strong and passionate young man with "it"! The day was so gorgeous Sabine woke with some kind of joyousness.
You have been meddling in my affairs! just as you have always meddled in them, for matter of that! But this time you've done it with a vengeance you've done it damnably!" He struck his hand upon a table near. "What right had you" he approached her threateningly "what earthly right had you to go and see Enid Glenwilliam yesterday, just simply that you might spoil my chances with her!
And he knew, he knew quite well he was only in possession of a tithe of his natural faculties. And in his male spirit he felt himself hating her: hating her deeply, damnably. But he said to himself: "No, I won't hate her. I won't hate her." So he went on, over the Ponte Vecchio, where the jeweller's windows on the bridge were already blazing with light, on into the town.
"Fifteen thousand a year, by gad!" exclaimed the taller of the two, giving a supercilious sniff to the brandy he had just poured out. "Yes, ha! ha! and a damnably pretty filly into the bargain!" "You always were so infernally lucky!" retorted the first. "Call it rather the reward of virtue," answered his companion with a laugh that showed his big, white teeth.
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