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A league with demons would be less abominable! I must close the account, and shake off such pestilential scoundrels! Laura comes! I will question her a little, and then ! Dover-Street I am returned, and am still tormented by delay! I cannot help it I said I would not use wilful cruelty: that were to heap unnecessary damnation! Laura began by softening my heart with her narrative.
How did you get here? Be quick! save yourself from this whirlpool of destruction, for the demons and perīs who guard me will wake and seize you." 'But love's arrow had struck me deep, and the girl, too, looked kindly on me. I could not go away. For some months I remained hidden in her house. We did not dare to let her mother know of our love.
Some of them are like Caligula, who wished that all the people had only one neck that he might strike it off at one blow. Oh, the slain, the slain! A long procession of usurers and libertines and infamous quacks and legal charlatans and world-grabbing monsters. What apostleship of despoliation! Demons incarnate.
It also appeals to the will, fears, and hopes of mortals living in constant need; religion provides them with gods, demons, to whom they call, appease, and conciliate.
Even a London street becomes a scene of this kind as he pictures it in his imagination with huge motorbuses, like demons of violence, smashing their way through the traffic. Or he takes us to some South American forest, where the vampire bats suck the blood of horses during the night.
At times he came flashing through the scud of her thoughts magnificently in person, and how to stamp that splendid figure of manhood on a madman's conduct was the task she supposed herself to be attempting while she shrank from it, and worshipped the figure, abhorred the deed. She could not unite them. He was like some great cathedral organ foully handled in the night by demons.
In the second half of the fifth century Attila, "the Scourge of God," swept down upon Europe with his Huns, mysterious, terrible, as a fire out of heaven, and more like an army of demons than men, destroying city after city, and driving the people before them, until they came to Orléans. There they met the combined Roman and Gothic armies.
There was another interval of utter insensibility; it was brief; for, upon again lapsing into life there had been no perceptible descent in the pendulum. But it might have been long; for I knew there were demons who took note of my swoon, and who could have arrested the vibration at pleasure. Upon my recovery, too, I felt very oh, inexpressibly sick and weak, as if through long inanition.
There were men plowing with little horned imps sitting on their shoulders and on their horses' heads. There were men praying with a skull hanging over their heads and little demons behind them mocking their attitudes. There were men fighting with big serpents, and skeletons dancing together.
She knew that Arenta would again relate all her experiences, and she disliked to mingle them with her renewed dreams of love and her lover. "She will talk and talk," said Cornelia to her mother, "and then there will be tea and chocolate and more talk, and I have heard all I wish to hear about that dreadful city, and the demons who walk in blood."
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