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'I rather think you'll find him a useful man; and to be so in his line of business he must have his wits about him, I can tell you. 'He amused me devilishly, said Wylder, 'with a sort of exhortation he treated me to; he's a delightfully impudent chap, and gave me to understand I was a limb of the Devil, and he a saint.
"I am told by a part of me that never lies, Davy," he answered, laying his hand upon his heart; "and besides," he added, "I should dislike devilishly to go too far on such a day and have to come back again." "We will rest here," I said, laughing, "and send in Benjy to find out." "Davy," he answered, with withering contempt, "you have no more romance in you than a turnip.
I expressed my gratitude for his kindness, which I was sure he would show, in providing fifty-five army rations for fifty- five doctors and nurses devilishly hungry and utterly destitute. After some hesitation he consented to give me a "chit," and turning to a sergeant who had been my guide down a dark street, said: "Take this officer to the depot and see that he gets everything he wants."
Carnac liked the new-comer for his healthy bearing, for the iron hardness of his head, and for the intelligence of his dark eyes. He disliked him, however, for something that made him critical of his father, something covert and devilishly alert.
"God forbid! Only you have been using the wrong preposition. You should have said that it was written at them." Ernest stared at her in child-like wonder. "By Jove! you are too devilishly clever!" he exclaimed. After a little silence he said not without hesitation: "And do you apply your theory to all artists, or only to us makers of rhyme?" "To all," she replied. He looked at her questioningly.
To me, for example, youth and beauty are nothing; for haven't I been a captain of cavalry in the imperial guard, and carried my spurs into all the capitals of Europe, and known all the handsomest women of these capitals? Don't talk to me; I tell you youth and beauty are devilishly common and silly.
"I didn't know Inez had got religious," he said, when Judith finished. "She hasn't. She doesn't believe anything except that beauty is right and ugliness is wrong." "Then she'd better clean up her door-yard!" exclaimed Douglas. "O darn it!" sighed Judith. "I can't even discuss poetry with you without your heaving a brick." "I'm not heaving bricks. O Judith, I'm so devilishly unhappy!"
"Oh! nothing; only that I see, in spite of all your efforts to hide it with that handkerchief knotted so carefully round your neck, that you have there on the back of it a long, black mark, which to-morrow will be indigo, the day after green, and then yellow, until it fades away altogether, like any other bruise a black mark that looks devilishly like the authentic flourish which accompanies the signature of a good, stout club on a calf's skin or on vellum, if that term pleases you better."
"Ay, but he will be devilishly altered, I imagine; for his wound has already been but a bad beautifier to his face. Moreover, if the dog has any delicacy, he will naturally dislike to be known as the gallant of that gay city where he shone so successfully, and will disguise himself as well as he is able. I hear wonders of his powers of self- transformation."
You don't know the Indian as I do, Miss Van Ashton. The high-caste Indian women are quite as incapable of such things as you are. It was a devilishly clever stroke on Don Felipe's part, I'll admit, but he has deceived himself as thoroughly as the rest of the world." "What proof have you?" she asked with a surprised and mystified look, her woman's curiosity thoroughly aroused.
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