What inference can be made about the characters beliefs

What effect is achieved by the use of the phrase "as the devil would have it" in the second sentence?

Read this excerpt from edgar allen poe the masque of the red death and answer the question that follows. what kind of writing does the excerpt represent? here the case was very diffierent, as might have been expected from the dukes love

Ineed . read the passage, and choose the two (2) inferences that are most firmly based on the given information. up through the 1700s, many europeans believed that a king’s touch could cure diseases. at his coronation in 1775, for example, king louis the sixteenth of france touched 2,400 of his ailing subjects. 1. the touch of a king truly has special healing power others do not have 2. there had been other kings of france named louis. 3. french coronations were public events. 4. the french suffered