← He glanced quickly over his shoulder, and in a lowered voice said, "I am the devil." 🔊
← "It will be the more pleasant, our little deal," the devil went on, "because you are—I mistake not?—a diabolist." 🔊
← The devil looked at his watch. 🔊
← The devil had made as though to stretch forth his hand across the table, but he paused in his gesture. 🔊
← "Can't you"—but the devil had now stretched forth his hand across the table. 🔊
← You don't mean to say you're going to wait limply here till the devil comes to fetch you." 🔊
← With an inhibitive gesture to my friend, "Mr. Soames," I said emphatically to the devil, "is a Catholic diabolist"; 🔊
← The more I think of it, the more detestable the devil seems to me. 🔊
← I was miserably aware, as I passed the devil, that I nodded and smiled to him. 🔊