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"This last roused me. I could hear nothing bad of her from man or woman. "'You she-devil, said I, turning to her, 'not one word more. She turned toward the house. "But they annoyed the men, and I concluded to keep them still. "'Sergeant, said I, addressing the orderly, and nearing the house, the women close at my heels.
"I am not nervous," said Leonard to Francisco, "but that she-devil frightens me. If it were not for Juanna, she would cause us to be murdered on the first possible opportunity, and if only she can secure her safety, I believe that she will do it yet."
"Truly my grandsire speaks wisely on this matter as on all others," answered Aziel, "but still I do not understand." "Then I will be more clear, Prince. How comes it that I find you alone with this beautiful sorceress, this worshipper of the she-devil, Baaltis, with whom you should scorn even to speak, except such words as courtesy demands?"
To this Sir Dietrich answered in wrath: "'Tis I, that hath warned the noble and mighty princes and the bold Hagen, the Burgundian liegeman. Go to, thou she-devil, thou durst not make me suffer for the deed." Sore abashed was King Etzel's wife, for bitterly she feared Sir Dietrich. At once she left him, not a word she spake, but gazed with furious glance upon her foes.
The mother of Solano was a she-devil under the saddle, and killed two men by throwing herself upon them; and the sire was Satanas, of whom stories are told around the camp-fires as far south as San Luis Obispo. "Ah, he is wise, the patron! 'Then let them also prove their courage in other ways.
"Perhaps you know something about that." "I?" He changed color. Twenty years of dunning boarders has made me pretty sharp at reading faces, and he looked as uncomfortable as if he owed me money. "I!" I knew then that I had been right about the voice. It had been his. "You!" I retorted. "You were here Sunday morning and spent some time with the Ladleys. I am the old she-devil.
And the more he thought, the more he began to be suspicious and suddenly he wondered why he slept so heavily at night, and all of a sudden he saw the reason. Drugged! that old she-devil was drugging his drink. That was it, of course but it had been for the last time: she shouldn't do it again.
You she-devil!" he hissed; "this is your doing, is it?" and he burst into a torrent of curses and imprecations. "Be silent!" Mr. Britton ordered, sternly, and Kate accompanied the command with an ominous click of her revolver. The wretch cowered into silence, but his eyes glowed with fairly demoniac fury. "Now," said Mr.
'Yes, that little she-devil came and sat down in the school. It's a long time ago now, she might then have been about ten. Of course, I let her come; I thought her uncle was sending her to prepare for her first communion. But for two months she utterly revolutionised the whole class. She made herself worshipped, the minx!
"And you will tell me, I suppose," said Waife, with an incredulous, bitter irony, that seemed to wither himself in venting it, so did his whole frame recoil and shrink "you will tell me that it was from the same considerate tenderness that you would have again filched her from me some months later, to place her with that 'she-devil' who was once more by your side; to be reared and sold to O horror! horror! unimaginable horror! that pure helpless infant! you, armed with the name of father! you, strong in that mighty form of man!"
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