Aping a God in a sonorous Heaven.

Give me the Devil in all mercy then,

Bad as he is! for I will none of such!"

And laughed an oily laugh of easy jest

To bow out God and let the Devil in.

And grasped of both wild hands, swung trenchant. Page [285]

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Then, as it chanced, old Kurt had come that morn