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Mephistopheles |
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Mephistopheles: see Faust Faust (foust), Faustus ..... Click the link for more information. . Mephistopheles fiend to whom Faust sells his soul. [Ger. Lit.: Faust] See : Devil Mephistopheles the cynical, malicious devil to whom Faust sells his soul. [Ger. Lit.: Faust, Payton, 436] See : Evil |
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| A carriage at the gate, and Mortimer's man arrives, looking rather like a spurious Mephistopheles and an unacknowledged member of that gentleman's family. he laughed, as mockingly, as heartlessly as Mephistopheles, and so laughing, vanished. As the young fry of clerks looked at this man playing bowls in the gardens of the ministry with the minister's children, they cracked their brains to guess the secret of his influence and the nature of his services; while, on the other hand, the aristocrats in all the various ministries looked upon him as a dangerous Mephistopheles, courted him, and gave him back with usury the flatteries he bestowed in the higher sphere. |
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