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But in a simple and almost entirely uneducated country gentleman like you, it's simply grotesque." "Go on about the newspaper, J. J." "Here it is for you; but I don't see that it's much use giving it to you if your mind is made up beforehand to disbelieve every word that's in it."
I saw you coming along with him, and you could have knocked me down with a feather." "But I well, I really can't believe that he's a detective," I declared, utterly incredulous. "Believe it, or disbelieve it it's a fact, I tell you. You've been given away somehow, and Dyer has now just got you in his palm." Briefly I explained how I had met Upton, and how Mr. Gibbs had been introduced.
Now I tell you truly, I believe in man as man, and I disbelieve in all distinctions except such as follow the natural lines of cleavage in a society which has crystallized according to its own true laws. But the essence of equality is to be able to say the truth; and there is nothing more curious than these truths relating to the stratification of society.
I knew for certain that in a moment I should hold in my arms, should press to my heart her magnificent body, should kiss her golden eyebrows; and I wanted to disbelieve it, to tantalize myself, and was sorry that she had cost me so little trouble and had yielded so soon. But suddenly I heard heavy footsteps.
One betrayed his master and the other did likewise, only with far greater subtlety and wickedness teaching thousands to disbelieve his claims to godhood to regard Christianity as a crude compound of Greek mythology and Jewish tradition a thing built of myth and fable.
John Ferrier groaned internally. "There are stories of her which I would fain disbelieve stories that she is sealed to some Gentile. This must be the gossip of idle tongues. What is the thirteenth rule in the code of the sainted Joseph Smith?
"And a mighty strong player holds them," I added. "More's the pity." He nodded. "I saw the lady this afternoon in the Park. I rather fancy almost any man would be quite willing to have her claim him as her husband." "And, therefore, her story will be very generally accepted," I said. "Doubtless it's far easier to accept it than to disbelieve it."
Motley on the ground of the most trivial differences in point of taste in personal matters, so told that it is hard to disbelieve them, and they show that the caprices which we might have thought belonged exclusively to absolute rulers among their mistresses or their minions may be felt in the councils of a great people which calls itself self-governing. It is perfectly true that Mr.
And if a Christian asserts that my belief is a false light and that presently I shall "come to Christ," I cannot disprove his assertion. I can but disbelieve it. I hesitate even to make the obvious retort. I hope I shall offend no susceptibilities when I assert that this great and very definite personality in the hearts and imaginations of mankind does not and never has attracted me.
There are probably ten thousand people in this good city of Boston and for aught I know a hundred thousand who believe, or, if you like, disbelieve, as I do." "It cannot be true," was Edith's reply. "But if it is so, it is too sad to think of." "Why, I suspect," Arthur continued lightly, "that the Pagans regard me as too orthodox lately, though you'd hardly agree with them."
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