Another people would have dreamed of this battle in an entirely different manner.
THE DEMON POPE[26]
BY RICHARD GARNETT[Notes]
“So you won’t sell me your soul?” said the devil.
“Thank you,” replied the student, “I had rather keep it myself, if it’s all the same to you.”
“But it’s not all the same to me. I want it very particularly. Come, I’ll be liberal. I said twenty years. You can have thirty.”
The student shook his head.
“Forty!”
Another shake.
“Fifty!”