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His black moustache was very black and his eyes were of so dark a brown as to appear black also. When he smiled he revealed a row of very large white teeth, and his smile was correctly Mephistophelean. He smoked a hundred and twenty Egyptian cigarettes per diem, and the first and second fingers of either hand were coffee-coloured. "Good-evening, Inspector," he said courteously.
Andrew Lang not inaptly catches the note of Mark Twain's earlier manner, when he speaks of his "almost Mephistophelean coolness, an unwearying search after the comic sides of serious subjects, after the mean possibilities of the sublime these with a native sense of incongruities and a glorious vein of exaggeration." Mark Twain began his career as a wag; he rejoiced in being a fun-maker.
He did not fancy himself the holder of any Mephistophelean commission for the general annihilation of belief like George Bascombe, only one from nature's bureau of ways and means for the cure of the ailing body which, indeed, to him, comprised all there was of humanity.
There was a Mephistophelean restitution in not striving to wrest the Eclipse from Lucretia with The Dutchman. And now, in this year, had come the entirely new experience of an affection his admiration for Allis Porter. It conflicted with every other emotion that governed his being.
"Riches, my boy," he said, tapping him on the shoulder with the same quick, awakening Mephistophelean touch. The contact raised Lightbody from revery. He drew back, shocked at the ways through which his thoughts had wandered. "No, no, Jim," he said. "No, you mustn't, nothing like that not at such a time." "You're right," said De Gollyer, instantly masked in gravity. "You're quite right.
The reader may, perhaps, recall the high forehead and the singularly long black eyebrows that give such a Mephistophelean touch to his face. He occupies one of those pleasant little detached houses in the mixed style that make the western end of the Upper Sandgate Road so interesting.
The red-haired judge, with straw hat and Mephistophelean limp, was there, looking like an Offenbach villain out for a spree.
But even as we stepped from the car, the great church-like oaken doors were thrown open, and there, framed in the monkish porch, stood the tall, elegant figure of the Colonel. "Gentlemen," he cried, "welcome to Cray's Folly." He advanced smiling, and in the bright sunlight seemed even more Mephistophelean than he had seemed in Harley's office.
For they range all the way from the most mordant to the most pathetic irony from Mephistophelean laughter to warm, human tears: "Sunt lachrymae rerum." "Make a reputation first by your more solid achievements," counselled Oliver Wendell Holmes. "You can't expect to do anything great with Macbeth, if you first come on flourishing Paul Pry's umbrella."
Carlyle seems to have regarded him at this period as a sort of fallen demigod; and although he sneers, with an almost Mephistophelean distortion of visage, at the philosopher's half inarticulate drawling of speech, at his snuffy, nasal utterance of the ever-recurring "omnject" and "sumnject" yet gleams of sympathy and affection, not unmixed with sorrow, appear here and there in what he says concerning him.
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