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The Mephistophelian and mocking character of Lox is strongly shown when he says, "Nothing but a cat-tail or bulrush can kill me," this being evidently an allusion to Glooskap. This is to an Indian much like blasphemy. Lox, or Raccoon, or Badger, for they are all the same, in his journeyings after mere mischief reminds us of an Indian Tyl Eulenspiegel.
They are diabolic, if you will, but not Mephistophelian. There is the abstract horror in them which we associate with unknown powers of darkness, but not the guile with which we endow a personal devil.
I took advantage of the Syrian's absence to open Grim's valise, remove the bottle of doped whisky and set it on the table close to the window beside the two bottles that I had bought downstairs one of which, for the sake of appearances, I opened just as Yussuf Dakmar entered, smiling to conceal anxiety. "You made a bad break that time" Grim was in Mephistophelian humor.
That seems to be your specialty. Now don't smile that Mephistophelian smile at me. It doesn't frighten me. Von Gerhard, take him down to his hotel. I'm dying for my kimono and bed. And this child is trembling like a race-horse. Now run along, all of you. Things that look greenery-yallery at night always turn pink in the morning. Great Heavens!
"What is the good of concerning yourself with his appearance? Whatever it was, he is removed beyond all feminine influences now." A frown, making three folds at the root of her nose, accentuated the Mephistophelian slant of her eyebrows. "You suffer, Razumov," she suggested, in her low, confident voice. "What nonsense!" Razumov faced the woman fairly.
She had, as if designedly to relieve these effects, a pair of Mephistophelian black eyebrows and a very neat black dress. The glare of the gas lit up her piquant hair and face perfectly against the brown background of the shutters. The background was blue and not brown in one place; at the place where Rupert's knife had torn a great opening in the wood about an hour before.
He stopped, put his hand on the cloth, and drew forth a flimsy pair of tights of carmine hue part of the Mephistophelian costume that Theodore had worn on the night of the party next door. With this in his hand, and a clearer understanding of the house, with its staircase at the rear.
They've been six months in Hampshire, and now they are in town. She has Thursday afternoons." "Good," I said, "I'll go the very next Friday, and take my chance...." Fortunately only one visitor appeared to tea. And as soon as I had explained my curiosity, he joined me in petitioning for the story which follows: Stoffles was her name, a familiar abbreviation, and Mephistophelian was her nature.
For not even here was my father's satire of the cheerless and Mephistophelian school. From this record of error he drew forth the granderas of truth. He showed how earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.
A close-up shows a very comic little being, encased in a prickly, chestnut-colored armor, which should make him fearless in a den of a hundred anteaters. The front view of his head is a bit mephistophelian, for it is drawn upward into two horny spines; but the side view recalls a little girl with her hair brushed very tightly up and back from her face.
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