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If you insist upon having the bird, I may go to the duke and withdraw my gift." "Would you do that for me, Sir Max?" she asked, eagerly. "Ay, and a great deal more, Fräulein. I tremble at the thought of what you could make me do," he answered. "In the fiend's name, let the duke have the bird," cried Yolanda. "He will pout more than I if you don't. He is of a sullen nature."
Neither did he know what excuse to make in order to obtain admittance, and he was debating the matter in his head with great uncertainty, when the Earl's pursuivant, having cast an eye upon him, exclaimed, to his no small surprise, "Yeomen, make room for the fellow in the orange-tawny cloak. Come forward, Sir Coxcomb, and make haste. What, in the fiend's name, has kept you waiting?
Someone touched his elbow and, turning, he saw Sir Percevall, with the light of triumph on his fat face. "Fortune's smiles have turned to mere laughter, my lad," he said, chuckling. "This American princess hath the Queen's good-will. How the fiend's name came you acquainted?" In the inner chamber, Elizabeth was seated at a small table, at the opposite end of which sat Rebecca.
"How TWO sops what mean you?" said Foster "what mean you?" "You will know in time," said Varney; "and then this other banquet but thou wilt esteem Her too choice a morsel for the fiend's tooth she must have her psalms, and harps, and seraphs." Anthony Foster heard, and came slowly back to the table. "God! Sir Richard, and must that then be done?"
Seize him! Away! And help you, Master Sergeant, to bear this piece of the foul fiend's cunning devising. Ho, ho! see you how it is tricked out and furbished up, all for the battle, I warrant ye!" The soldiers had already seized upon Adam, who, stupefied by astonishment rather than fear, uttered no sound, and attempted no struggle.
The rifle fell from Gale's racked hands. How horribly plain that fiend's intention! Gale tried to close his eyes, but could not. He prayed wildly for a sudden blindness to faint as Thorne had fainted. But he was transfixed to the spot with eyes that pierced the red light. Mercedes was growing weaker, seemed about to collapse. "Oh, Jim Lash, are you dead?" cried Gale. "Oh, Laddy!... Oh, Yaqui!"
When I repeated the contents of the note, his calm face crimsoned with passion, his eyes flashed, and his lips quivered with indignation. "Yes, I thought it would come to that; unhappy, miserable Alice! how could you bestow the affections of a warm, true heart on a despicable wretch like Theophilus Moncton. The old fiend's ambition and this fatal passion have been your ruin."
The Etheling smiled against his will. "Our foe would needs be a Grendel to reach us from that side." He struck the wand sharply against his riding-boots. "Oh, it is not that I think the work so pressing." "In the Fiend's name, what then is the cause of your distemper?"
"It may interest you," remarked Kennedy, still holding Carroll in his vise-like grip, while the drug fiend's shattered nerves caused him to cower and tremble, "to know that a special detective working for me has located Mr. and Mrs. Dawson at Bar Harbor, where they are enjoying a quiet honeymoon.
He had to let Carinthia Jane depart under the charge of his housekeeper, Mrs. Carthew, a staid excellent lady, poorly gifted with observation. Her report of the performance of the ceremony at Croridge village church, a half mile from Lekkatts, was highly reassuring to the anxious old admiral still lying on his back with memory and gout at their fiend's play, and livid forecasts hovering.
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