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Now while he would have been perfectly justified, they said, in asserting that he saw no truth in the things he denied, was he justifiable in concluding that his not seeing a thing was a proof of its non-existence anything more, in fact, than a presumption against its existence? or in denouncing every man who said he believed this or that which Bascombe did not believe, as either a knave or a fool, if not both in one?
Because, being such a wintry fashion of female, she made all others of the sex shine by contrast, and her father guessed it was just her manly, hard, bustling way that showed up the feminine softness and charming voice and general appealing qualities of Nelly Bascombe. Nelly was a tall, fine woman of forty years old.
But oh, how terribly the time crept in its going! for she dared not approach the deserted house while the daylight kept watching it like a dog; and what if Leopold should have destroyed himself in the madness of his despair before she could go to him! She had not a friend to help her. George Bascombe? she shuddered at the thought of him.
"Well, all I will say more of Bascombe is, that if he were not conceited he would be honest; and if he were as honest as he believes himself, he would not be so ready to judge every one dishonest who does not agree with him." "I hope we may have another talk soon," said the doctor, searching for a cork. "Some day I will tell you a few things that may stagger you."
As soon as it was over, it was all a mist from which gleamed or gloomed large the face of George Bascombe with its keen unbelieving eyes and scornful lips.
Or was not this all he knew that there was a church of England, which paid him for reading public prayers to a God in whom the congregation and himself were supposed by some to believe, by others, Bascombe, for instance, not? These reflections were not pleasant, especially with Sunday so near.
During the week the hope had almost settled into conviction; and one consequence was that, although she was not a whit more inclined to introduce George Bascombe to the sick-chamber, she found herself not only equal, but no longer averse to meeting him; and on the following Saturday, when he presented himself as usual, come to spend the Sunday, she listened to her aunt, and consented to go out with him for a ride in the evening, however, when Mrs.
And for your confidence, in strict secrecy, I can give you mine. Warner don't want her to go. He badly wants me and her both, while, for her part, she don't want to go and hates the thought; but, so far, she's determined to do so if I come." "That ain't love, however," argued Mr. Ball. "It ain't," admitted Nelly Bascombe, "and you mustn't fox yourself to think she'll come to you for love.
'Twas a chord in twain that sprang But the lyre-shell was my heart. He took a pull at the stout, laid his head on the table, and sobbed like a locomotive." "But it's not very bad not bad at all, so far as I see," said Helen, who had a woman's weakness for the side attacked, in addition to a human partiality for fair play. "No, not bad at all for absolute nonsense," said Bascombe.
Here Bascombe checked himself, remembering that a sudden attack upon what was, at least, the more was the pity, a time-honoured system, might rouse a woman's prejudices; and as Helen had already listened to a large amount of undermining remark without perceiving the direction of his tunnels, he resolved, before venturing an open assault, to make sure that those prejudices stood, lightly borne, over an abyss of seething objection.
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