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Yet what most amazed Tarzan was that though he realized the incredibility of it all, he at the same time accepted it as a matter of course, first that a lion should climb at all and second that he should enter the upper terraces where even Sheeta, the panther, dared not venture. To the very top of a tall tree the ape-man clawed his awkward way and after him came Numa, the lion, moaning dismally.
The incredibility of the whole affair is what places us in such a position of security; for as long as I lie low and you continue to act the part of the interesting widow, nobody can possibly get at the truth." "I think I've acted my part well, up to the present," she said, "and I hope to continue to do so. To influence the doctor will be a difficult task, I fear.
Sometimes they attempt, indeed, to explain or reconcile them, but such explanations generally increase the incredibility of the narrative. The latest verdict of ultra-conservatism is that these dates and chronological notes are interpolated by some later hand; but this, too, is quite out of the question.
Of so fundamental an importance was young Stephen in his life that the idea that he could ever lose him was of an absurd and monstrous incredibility. No, of that there was no question but he was conscious nevertheless of the supreme urgency of the occasion. That young Stephen had ever been delicate or in any way a weakling was a monstrous suggestion.
She could reflect but on one subject one idea, one pervading horrible idea had taken possession of her soul. She felt that through every person to whom she might impart her tale would listen with incredibility, and mockery, that the truth of that awful visitation could not be questioned by her own better judgment. She considered herself one
And still he looked at her smooth, pure features; at her placid eyes, in which, after all, he seemed to detect a little natural sadness; and the accusation in his mind assumed so grotesque an incredibility that he asked himself how he should dare to hint at it. 'Sibyl
A great joy flashed into Mr. Caryll's in quick response; a joy in her she thought with ready vanity and a heightening admiration. "Will you make it yours, as it should be as it must ever be to lead and not to follow?" he cried, flattering incredibility trembling in his voice. "And why not, sir?" she demanded, now thoroughly aroused. "Why not, indeed since you are you?" quoth he.
George heard; and suddenly, because another had voiced his own fantastic message, its incredibility and unreality became appalling, and yet he felt infinitely reconciled to both because he interpreted aright that little muffled exclamation from Olivia. What did it matter oh, what did it matter whether or not the reality were grotesque?
And there's Cayley!" "It's incredible!" I exclaimed. "Well, it's true, anyhow!" Jim asserted. "And I don't see myself where the incredibility comes in." "You say that Mr. Pendennis wrote from Berlin not a week after I left England, and that he and Anne Anne are at this moment staying with you in Chelsea? When I've been constantly with her, saw her murdered in the streets of Warsaw!"
This we believe is the cleverest performance upon ghosts and ghost-seers that has appeared in English since the days of Richard Glanvill; and with the others, it will be of service in checking the progress of the pitiable superstition which has been readily accepted by a large class of people, so peculiarly constituted that they could not help rejecting the Christian religion for its "unreasonableness and incredibility!"
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