diablotins

Updated: May 16, 2025

Their touch is so gentle, and their speech is so soft, and they have no slang of the camp, and yet they are such diablotins to fight and eat steel, and die laughing, all so quiet and nonchalant. Give me the aristocrats the real thing, you know. Not the ginger-cakes, just gilt, that are ashamed of being honest bread but the old blood like Bel-a-faire-peur."

Ouida - Under Two Flags