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Peregrine was disturbed at this information, believing that the fellow had taken some desperate course, in consequence of his being dismissed from his service, and began to wish that he had indulged his inclination, by retaining him still about his person.
Confidence is never half-way: it is, or it is not. His confidence was gone. His faith was dead. The wretched banker had rested his every hope and happiness on the love of his wife. Believing that she had proved faithless, that she had played him false, and was unworthy of trust, he admitted no possibility of peaceful joy, and felt tempted to seek consolation from self-destruction.
They all believe in one God Manitou, the author of good, and worship him as such; but believing that human nature is too gross to communicate with the Arbitrator of all things, they pray generally through the intervention of the elements or even of certain animals, in the same manner that the Catholics address themselves to their saints.
And how can they know Him, unless they read their Bibles with simple, childlike hearts, determined to let the Bible tell its own story: believing that those who walked with Christ on earth, must know best what He was like? Why? Because they will not ask Christ to come and show Himself to them, and make them see Him, and love Him, and admire Him, whether they will or not.
I shall tell him that of course we don't really believe in them in our everyday heads, but they are nice to think about, and to think perhaps some day a fairy thing might happen." Marjory laughed. "Isn't that believing in them?" "No, not really. I can't quite explain what I mean." "I've made fairies for myself," said Marjory. "There are plenty of them in the garden, and I understand what they say.
Percivale does not seem, by all I can make out, a bit nearer believing in any thing than poor Wynnie herself. Father. At least, he doesn't fancy he believes when he does not, as so many do, and consider themselves superior persons in consequence.
And it was for this reason, and believing he MIGHT experience them if left there in solitude, with no distracting or extraneous humanity around him, it had been agreed between him and the Friendly Nobleman, who had fine Barbarian instincts, that as he the Friendly Nobleman and his family were to spend their holidays abroad, the Barbarian should be allowed, on the eve and day of Christmas, to stay at Stukeley alone.
I am certain you can't." "I have not had the opportunity of trying the experiment so far, but I believe . . . ." "Don't flatter yourself by believing anything; that house is full of the spies of the police." "Then you think that I could not give you and two or three of your girls a little supper?" "I should take very good care not to go to it, that's all I know.
He is accused of "habitual drunkenness," and was probably not free from the intemperance which was a common Persian failing; but there is not sufficient ground for believing that his indulgence was excessive, much less that it proceeded to the extent of affecting his reason.
At the end of her wits with fear, she thought she would go after my uncle or me; so, without thinking any more about it, as she knew our address, she takes a cab and gets driven to the Rue de Varennes, believing in her simplicity that this was where our shops and offices were. She arrives and asks for my uncle.
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