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Multitudinous questions, and answers en masse, composed a charivari, to which the genius of Rossini alone could have given a suitable accompaniment, and which was only terminated by Mrs Hilary and Mr Toobad retreating with the captive damsels.
Before surprise permitted reply, the young lady had locked herself up in her own apartment. 'Why, Scythrop, said Mr Glowry, elongating his face exceedingly, 'the devil is come among us sure enough, as Mr Toobad observes: I thought you and Marionetta were both of a mind. 'So we are, I believe, sir, said Scythrop, gloomily, and stalked away to his tower.
'And a pint of port. I will make my exit like Werter. Go. Stay. Did Miss O'Carroll say any thing? 'No. 'Did Miss Toobad say any thing? 'The strange lady? No. 'Did either of them cry? 'No. 'What did they do? 'Nothing. 'What did Mr Toobad say? 'He said, fifty times over, the devil was come among us. 'And they are gone? 'Yes; and the dinner is getting cold.
One of the wheels was found to be broken; and Mr Toobad, leaving the postilion to get the chariot as well as he could to Claydyke for the purpose of cleaning and repairing, had walked back to Nightmare Abbey, followed by his servant with the imperial, and repeating all the way his favourite quotation from the Revelations.
The good old times were always on his lips; meaning the days when polemic theology was in its prime, and rival prelates beat the drum ecclesiastic with Herculean vigour, till the one wound up his series of syllogisms with the very orthodox conclusion of roasting the other. But the dearest friend of Mr Glowry, and his most welcome guest, was Mr Toobad, the Manichaean Millenarian.
Modern literature is a north-east wind a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it so. The way to produce fine fruit is to blight the flower. You call this a paradox. Marry, so be it. Ponder thereon. The conversation was interrupted by the re-appearance of Mr Toobad, covered with mud.
This gave the young lady time to escape, and enclose herself in her chamber; while Mr Toobad, rising slowly, and rubbing his knees and shoulders, said, 'You see, my dear Scythrop, in this little incident, one of the innumerable proofs of the temporary supremacy of the devil; for what but a systematic design and concurrent contrivance of evil could have made the angles of time and place coincide in our unfortunate persons at the head of this accursed staircase?
Mr Toobad is gone too, and a strange lady with him. 'Gone! 'Gone. And Mr and Mrs Hilary, and Miss O'Carroll: they are all gone. There is nobody left but Mr Asterias and his son, and they are going to-night. 'Then I have lost them both. 'Won't you come to dinner? 'No. 'Shall I bring your dinner here? 'Yes. 'What will you have? 'A pint of port and a pistol. 'A pistol!
She was finishing her education in a German convent, but Mr Toobad described her as being fully impressed with the truth of his Ahrimanic philosophy, and being altogether as gloomy and antithalian a young lady as Mr Glowry himself could desire for the future mistress of Nightmare Abbey.
Sometimes one of the two has a temporary supremacy. According to Mr Toobad, the present period would be the reign of Ahrimanes. It is difficult to conceive where this heterogeneous mythological company could have originally met, except at a table d'hote, like the six kings in 'Candide'. pensions: 'PENSION. Pay given to a slave of state for treason to his country. JOHNSON'S Dictionary.
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