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Then came shame. Like the evilest of the evil Things it had been lurking in the background waiting its turn, it was its turn now. Margaret stood quite still, ashamed. She could not name the strange feeling, for she had never been ashamed before, but she sat there a piteous little figure in the grip of it. It was awful to be only nine and feel like that! To shrink from going home past Mrs.
But Bubbles was too proud of her performance to allow it to be set aside; so she picked up the snake, and started to carry it back on a forked stick. On the way, however, she too fell into a fright at sight of an innocent little land terrapin traveling along with his house on his back. "Don't tech it, don't, Miss Dimple," she cried in terror. "Dey has de evilest eyes.
Unconsciously Gaston had touched the spring that unlocked the evilest part of Jude's nature. Jealousy, love, hate, were blotted out by this unlooked-for suggestion. His dark face flushed and his dull eyes gleamed. Money! Money! To handle it, spend it and enjoy it without great bodily effort in earning it. This had ever been a consuming passion with Jude.
For there is a salt which uniteth good with evil; and even the evilest is worthy, as spicing and as final over-foaming: Oh, how could I not be ardent for Eternity, and for the marriage-ring of rings the ring of the return? Never yet have I found the woman by whom I should like to have children, unless it be this woman whom I love: for I love thee, O Eternity!
Joshua drew himself into securer, position on the camel and shook its harness. "Love!" he said with a frown. "The evilest tie and the strongest between Israel and Mizraim!" "Nay," Caleb protested, "thou hast loved." "A daughter of Israel," the warrior answered bluntly. "Dost thou follow me into Goshen, Caleb?"
"Oh! we must never talk about that again, Richard; you saw me in the evilest guise I ever wore, and that is saying much." "But," I responded, "you put it on for a better reason than you could tell me then or can tell me now, though now I know your story." "Please don't forget," she murmured, "that you know too much." "No, no!
'Yet it seems strange, said my brother, 'that after all these years he should have murdered her thus, whom you say he loved. Surely even the evilest of men had shrunk from such a deed! 'There is little that is strange about it, answered my father. 'How can we know what words were spoken between them before he stabbed her?
"You men always lose your wits when you see her," she would say. "'Tis said Sir John Oxon" with a malicious little glance at that gentleman, who stood near her ladyship across the room "'tis said Sir John Oxon lost more, and broke a fine match, and squandered his fortune, and sank into the evilest reputation all for love of her."
He stopped awhile and then went on again and said: "To say sooth they be not very handy for crushing as a man crushes a wasp, because sorcery goes with them, and the wiles of one who is their Queen, the evilest woman who ever spat upon the blessed Host of the Altar: yet is she strong, a devouring sea of souls, God help us!" And he blessed himself therewith.
Yet in the days to come they shall be slothful to try it, because their masters shall be so much mightier than thine, that they shall not need to show the high hand, and until the days get to their evilest, men shall be cozened into thinking that it is of their own free will that they must needs buy leave to labour by pawning their labour that is to be.
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