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"I am a beast!" he said. "I should have known that if that sweet saint got word of these petty devilries of mine she would despise me; and I tell you, Charles, I'd go through fire to regain her respect." "I hope it is to be regained on easier terms," said Charles; and then to ease the situation which began to irk him by its solemnity, he made a feeble joke.
'What occupation would be to me between crop and crop? It is better than scaring bears. But these people do not understand. He picked the masks from the floor, and looked in my face as simply as a child. 'By what road didst thou attain knowledge to make these devilries? I said, pointing. 'I cannot tell. I am but a Lepcha of Darjeeling, and yet the stuff 'Which thou hast stolen. 'Nay, surely.
Familiar as I should have been with the methods of the dread Chinaman, with his callous disregard of human suffering, of human life, of human law, I could not reconcile my ideas the ideas of a modern, ordinary middle-class practitioner with these Far Eastern devilries which were taking place in London.
"A tyrant," continued Robin, heeding not the interruption nor the angry gesture of Montagu, "a tyrant who at this moment meditates the destruction of the House of Nevile. And not contented with this world's weapons, palters with the Evil One for the snares and devilries of witchcraft." "Hush, man! Not so loud," said Montagu, in an altered voice. "Approach nearer, nearer yet.
"And if you, Anderson, disobey my orders my orders, do you hear? an explosion such as took place in the middle of the English channel shall take place in the middle of this ship." "For God's sake leave the bridge. I want my wits about me, and I have no intention of earning another exhibition of your devilries." "Then be careful not to trouble me again."
He stood in a reeling world. And the fear weakening his limbs changed his drunken stupor to a heart-heaving sickness. He swayed to and fro, with a cold sweat oozing from his chalky face. "What's ado wi' the fellow?" cried Gourlay. "Oom? He's swinging like a saugh-wand. I must wa-alk round this and have a look!" John's drunken submissiveness encouraged his father to new devilries.
In good truth, Crailey was the ringleader in all the devilries of the town. Many a youth swore to avoid the roisterer's company for all time, and, within two hours of the vow, found himself, flagon in hand, engaged in a bout that would last the night, with Mr. Gray out-bumpering the hardiest, at the head of the table.
"But to return. After all, you know, Radicals and Tories do still intermarry! It hasn't quite come to that!" "No, but it's coming to that!" cried Coryston, bringing his hand down in a slap on the tea-table. "And women like my mother are determined it shall come to it. They want to see this country divided up into two hostile camps fighting it out blood and thunder, and devilries galore.
Every time he glanced across at the thing sitting there he was swept with fresh surges of fury and disgust. But his vicious constraint curbed them under, and refused them a natural expression. They sought an unnatural. Some vent they must have, and they found it in a score of wild devilries he began to practise on his son.
Now to have done with this and return to the Bestiary; for I want to finish this work before I go." And posting himself in front of the cathedral, he studied the south porch, which had most of zoological mysticism and devilries. But he did not find the monstrosities of his fancy. At Chartres the Vices and Virtues were not symbolized by more or less chimerical creatures, but by human faces.
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