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He made a few remarks about the weather, which had certainly not improved since morning; and then, resolving that he would find out what was the matter before he was much older, he glided down the ladder and went aft. Lady Victoria had disappeared, and her brother was trying to light a short black pipe. "Duke," Barker began, "what the deuce is the matter with Claudius this morning?"
This Langdon's a deuce of a queer fish, I can tell you. I wonder Crane has anything to do with him, for the Boss is straight as they make them." "Did you back Lauzanne then, Alan?" "You bet I did; quick, too; and was hunting all over for the gov'nor to tell him. You see, I know Langdon he comes to the bank sometimes. He's that slick he'll hardly say 'Good-day, for fear of giving something away."
'To the deuce with you! would be a fair translation of the exalted lady's reply. She railed at his insufferable pride. 'And you were wrong, wrong, she pursued. 'You offended the prince mightily: you travestied his most noble ancestor 'In your service, may it please you. 'You offended, offended him, I say, and you haven't the courage to make reparation.
"Hamar said you would come!" "Said I would come! How the deuce did he know?" Kelson exclaimed. "I didn't know myself till the moment before I started."
But you wait till this evening, and then take a turn along here, and ask the different people how much they've got left of their year's wages. Yes, the town's a fine place the very deuce of a fine place!" And he spat disgustedly. Pelle had quite lost all his blind courage. He saw not a single person doing anything by which he himself might earn his bread.
The pleasure of the dinner to Felix and it was not too great was in watching Nedda's face. She hardly spoke, but how she listened! Nor did Derek say much, but what he did say had a queer, sarcastic twinge about it. "An unpleasant young man," was John's comment afterward. "How the deuce did he ever come to be Tod's son?
Let them go to the deuce with their vile constructions and their lying inventions!’ This outburst brought a flush of colour to her face. ‘You have heard, then, what they say of me?’ ‘I heard some detestable falsehoods; but none but fools would credit them for a moment, Helen, so don’t let them trouble you.’ ‘I did not think Mr.
"Don't let us speak of Paris, Master Andres; here we have neither the leather nor the tools to make Parisian shoes; and we haven't the legs to put into them, either." "The deuce! Are they so fashionable?" "Fashionable! I should say so! I can hold the foot of a well-grown Parisian woman in the hollow of my hand. And when they walk they don't touch the pavement!
"See here, McCabe, I've had a deuce of a time with that case. Must have been something wrong with the address, you know." "How's that?" says I. "Why," says he, "it led me to a smelly, top-floor flat up in Harlem, and all I could find there was this impossible person, Mrs. Fletcher Shaw. Of all the sniveling, lying, vicious-tongued old harridans! Do you know what she did?
How the deuce did you sleep?" "Well and safely, considering that I was in a summer-house without lock or bolt." "Well! I need not ask you now as to your opinion of our immediately getting off. We shall have, however, some trouble about our horses, for he will not allow a quadruped near the house, except some monster of an animal that he rides himself; and, by St. Hubert!