Huish sat there, preening his sinister vanity, glorying in his precedency in evil; and the villainous courage and readiness of the creature shone out of him like a candle from a lantern.

Dismay and a kind of respect seized hold on Davis in his own despite.

Until that moment, he had seen the clerk always hanging back, always listless, uninterested, and openly grumbling at a word of anything to do; and now, by the touch of an enchanter's wand, he beheld him sitting girt and resolved, and his face radiant.

He had raised the devil, he thought; and asked who was to control him?
and his spirits quailed.
'Look as long as you like,' Huish was going on.

'You don't see any green in my eye! I ain't afryde of Attwater, I ain't afryde of you, and I ain't afryde of words.