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George Eliot: This is a...

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This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

Source: Mr. Tulliver, in The Mill on the Floss, bk. 3, ch. 9 (1860). Old Harry was the Devil.
-- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880), English novelist; Mary Ann Evans was the foremost woman novelist of her time, e.g., Silas Marner, 1861.


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