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It was much too fine a night to think of going to bed at once, and so, although the witching hour of nine P.M. had struck, Edward and I were still leaning out of the open window in our nightshirts, watching the play of the cedar-branch shadows on the moonlit lawn, and planning schemes of fresh devilry for the sunshiny morrow.
Powitt had a younger brother, who was engaged in another City office, and this younger brother also gambled in Ravengar shares, and also lost. The two brothers gambled more and more, and old Powitt once told me that Mr. Ravengar misled them sometimes from sheer what shall I call it? 'Devilry, Hugo suggested. 'I can believe it. That would be his idea of a good joke.
Bigot, I doubted not, found in Madame Cournal's liking for Doltaire all sorts of things of which he never would have dreamed; for there is no such potent devilry in this world as the jealousy of such a sort of man over a woman whose vanity and cupidity are the springs of her affections. Doltaire's imprisonment in a room of the Intendance was not so mysterious as suggestive.
"Such men as he know what they are about, and are not too punctilious with regard to other people's inconvenience." "No," Gifford responded quietly. "All the same, his non-appearance is a little mysterious." Kelson blew away the suggestion of mystery in a short, contemptuous laugh. "Oh, he is probably up to some devilry with some fool of a girl," he said in an offhand tone.
These "Christian" conquerors were a hundredfold worse. They showed their devilry by arranging a meeting that should cause Mr. Nevinson to write to his paper that Koritza wished to be Greek. The arrival of a well-known journalist was a chance to be exploited. Unluckily for Condoulis, we were not in the Balkans for the first time. The visit arranged for us at the Bishop's therefore missed fire.
"Who are these men, Marceau?" cried the seigneur furiously. "They are prisoners, your excellency." "Prisoners! Whose prisoners?" "Yours, your excellency." "Who ordered you to detain them?" "You did. The escort brought your signet-ring." "I never saw the men. There is devilry in this. But they shall not beard me in my own castle, nor stand between me and my own wife.
The rest stayed without to mind the horses and keep off the gathering crowd. One of the men had a torch which lighted the red pavement. Vigo saw this first. "Morbleu! is it a shambles?" "That is wine," I said. "They spilled wine for effect, they spilled so little blood!" Thus Lucas, speaking with as cool devilry as if he still commanded the situation.
Her own sensations at once captivated and astonished her. This had ceased to be an adventure dictated by merry devilry, undertaken out of lightness of heart, inspired by a mischievous desire to see dust whirl and straws fly, or undertaken even out of necessity to support self-satisfaction by ranging herself with cynical audacity on the side of the Eternal Laughter. This was serious.
"I don't know," she answered faintly; "mere devilry, I think." And she laughed. The laugh shook the wounded lung. Her face turned from white to grey, her teeth clenched. There was a spasm as of a sudden wrenching loose from the body, then it sank back, collapsed, motionless, against Talbot's breast. The two men carried her out between them.
"Humph! well! So!" said the Doctor, at last, "You've all gone overboard with a smash, I understand?" The walker gave him no regard. "True, is it?" said the doctor. Mr. Rossitur made no answer, unless a smothered grunt might be taken for one. "How came it about?" "Folly and devilry." "Humph! bad capital to work upon. I hope the principal is gone with the interest.
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