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"It's to your credit you don't. Her mother has reason to believe that there is some deviltry on foot between her and Sibley. I'm to find out and thwart her if I can. I suppose I shall have to say, in substance: 'Since you will throw yourself away on the fellow, go through all the formalities that society demands. In such case your family will submit, if they can't approve.
And senility is another name for satiety. It is satiety's masquerade. Bah!" "But look at me!" I cried. Carquinez was ever a demon for haling ones soul out and making rags and tatters of it. He looked me witheringly up and down. "You see no signs," I challenged. "Decay is insidious," he retorted. "You are rotten ripe." I laughed and forgave him for his very deviltry. But he refused to be forgiven.
Many shop-windows were still dressed invitingly as they were when the shell burst, but beyond the goods exposed for sale was only a deep hole. The pure deviltry of a shell no one can explain. Nor why it spares a looking-glass and wrecks a wall that has been standing since the twelfth century.
I daresay it was something of a blow to his pride in the Force to learn that such deviltry had actually been fathered by one of his trusted officers; something the same sorrowful anger that stirs a man when one of his own kin goes wrong. Then, as if he were half-ashamed of his burst of feeling, he dismissed us with a wave of his hand and a gruff "That's all, to-night."
But Eldrick flushed as if a direct accusation had been levelled at himself, and he turned on the inquiry agent almost impatiently. "Murder!" he exclaimed. "Oh, come! I really, that's rather a stiff order! I dare say Pratt's been up to all sorts of trickery, and even deviltry but murder is quite another thing. You're pretty ready to accuse him!"
Their communications had sometimes a ridiculous aimlessness, and occasionally a subtle deviltry coated about with religion, like a pill with sugar, but often a significant and fearful accuracy. Once, I remember, they foretold an indefinite calamity to be brought upon me before sunset on the following Saturday.
My companion stopped before a long, very narrow entrance, a mere longitudinal slit in the brick wall, and with a wink of infantine deviltry motioned me to look inside. I did so, and saw a room, really a cell, of fair height but scarcely six feet square, and barely able to contain a rude, slanting couch of stone covered with matting, on which lay, at a painful angle, a richly dressed Chinaman.
A light hand gripped his arm. Janet had followed him out, was at his side. Barely audible he heard her quick, excited breathing. "Must you shoot him?" she whispered. "Why spare him for more deviltry? But I'll not have the chance now." "I can't bear to think of even his blood being on our hands. Let him go," Janet said. "He's gone without our permission, I'd say." "Isn't it just as well?
I'll wager he's up to some of his old-time deviltry." These and other little observations Jack let fall made it plain to me that he was a natural student of men and their impulses, and that his insight and judgment, unerring and anticipatory, had put him where he is to-day, at the head of a department.
The tree which had been set on fire to attract the attention of the airship still blazed, sending a twist of flame far up into the sky. In the glare of the fire the savages looked like fiends ready for any act of deviltry. Now and then three figures larger than the rest stood together as if in conference, and then the shouts grew louder, and the line about the boat closer drawn.
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