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The wealth existed, over in England; of that they were ready to take their oath, and the project which they had formed was as ingenious as it was diabolic: to feign a denunciation, to enact a pretended arrest, to place before the unfortunate girl the alternative of death or marriage with one of the gang, were the chief incidents of this inquitous project, and it was in the Cabaret de la Liberte that lots were thrown as to which among the herd of miscreants should be the favoured one to play the chief role in the sinister drama.
Poor boy! He was very sweet. She became somewhat pensive. Gombauld painted on with fury. The restlessness of an unsatisfied desire, which, before, had distracted his mind, making work impossible, seemed now to have converted itself into a kind of feverish energy. When it was finished, he told himself, the portrait would be diabolic.
Stott, and his expression was so diabolic that it was the first time for many days that he had looked natural. "Red" McGonnigle, with his hat over his face, dozed in the shade of the bed-wagon. Aunt Lizzie busied herself with preparations for departure. Miss Eyester perused the testimonials for a patent medicine contained in a pamphlet left by previous campers.
She looked directly down upon him, foreshortened to a face, and even with the distance and the broad glare of noon between them she recognized his aspect his gayest, of diabolic glee. There lurked about him the impish quality of the whistle that had summoned her. "Come down," he called. All sorts of wonders and terrors were beating around her.
He replied that it had been given to him by Marion, a young and comely maid in the house. In her presence and before the whole household he repeated his false story, and clung to it with a bitter effrontery that we may well call diabolic, remembering how the nervous terror of punishment and exposure sinks the angel in man.
Strange and weird wood-notes in winter are nearly sure to be those of a raven or a jay; if deep, they are likely to come from a raven. "Quok, quok, ha, ha, ha-hreww, hrrr, hooop, hooop," the diabolic noises came, and Rolf, coming gently forward, caught a glimpse of sable pinions swooping through the lower pines.
It was like having the mood which the War had left, seated dark, heavy, smiling, indifferent in your Empire chair; it was like listening to that mood talking through thick pink lips above a little diabolic beard.
"The diabolic instinct may have descended to her," said the priests, "and attracts her to the sorceress. We had best sprinkle her with holy water." So they sprinkled her with holy water, and used exorcisms.
It was like having the mood which the war had left, seated dark, heavy, smiling, indifferent in your Empire chair; it was like listening to that mood talking through thick pink lips above a little diabolic beard.
It was probably supposed that a heretic would be unable to repeat the prayer and the creed, being under diabolic influence. Joan of Arc then asked whether she might make her confession before the tribunal. Cauchon refused this request, but told her that he would send some one to whom she might confess. He then warned her that if she were to leave her prison she would be condemned as a heretic.
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