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My face must have showed my wonder, my incredulity, indeed, for explaining himself he said, "I am a literary pilgrim, sir " "Who has surely lost his way," I ventured. Then with a smile that made no more allowances necessary he assured me, "Oh, no, sir! I am quite at home in the hills of Hingham. I have been out at Concord for a few days, and am now on the main road from Concord to Dubuque.
"Do you play?" exclaimed Mrs. Kame, in a voice of mixed incredulity and hope. "Play!" cried Mr. Brent, "she can teach Jerry Shorter or the Duchess of Taunton." "The Duchess cheats," announced Cecil Grainger. "I caught her at it at Cannes " "Indeed, I don't play very well," Honora interrupted him, "and besides " "Suppose we go over to Mrs. Spence's house," Trixton Brent suggested.
It is very natural that, at the time when the Persian was writing, he should take so many precautions against any spirit of incredulity on the part of those who were likely to read his narrative. Nowadays, when we have all seen this sort of room, his precautions would be superfluous. The discovery flung us into a state of alarm that made us forget all our past and present sufferings.
At this unexpected announcement, imprecations and murmurs of incredulity were heard on all sides. "Woman, would you shield your husband's murderer?" exclaimed an over-zealous barn-burner. "Shield him!" she retorted, as if aroused from a trance. "No, no! I'm not here for that! But this is not the patroon. His every feature is burned into my heart! I tell you it is not he. Yet he should be here.
And that he was not boasting now was plainly evident, both to her and Kelton. His declaration had been merely a calm announcement of a deliberate purpose. He was as natural now as he had been all along. She saw Kelton's expression change saw the incredulity go out of it, observed his face whiten a little. But his former vindictiveness remained.
I had seen him more than once in the company of Dr Gröne, and when we reached Colombo, and read in the papers handed to us on broad that our ship contained the famous European professor who was journeying to Mandalay to become a Buddhist priest, after a touching farewell with wife and children, Dr Gall expressed both astonishment and incredulity.
No wonder I got angry. But I might have come at some proper estimation of Farrar's incredulity by that time. "I suppose you wouldn't take a lady's word," I growled. "Not for that," he said, busy again with the sail stops; "nor St. Chrysostom's, were he to come here and vouch for it. It is too damned improbable." "Stranger things than that have happened," I retorted, fuming.
She pressed forward, and, before she had time to think twice, was addressing Monsieur Baudouin, and telling him what she knew. "What! you can tell me where this etching is? You can take me to it?" he exclaimed, with a sort of joyful incredulity. Laura answered by turning to Esther and saying. "This young lady can tell you more about it. The etching is in the possession of her family."
This the apostle showeth in that third chapter of his Epistle to the Hebrews, where he tells us that the people of the Jews, after a forty years' patience and endeavour to do them good by the means appointed for that purpose, their end was to be cut down, or excluded the land of promise, for their final incredulity.
"Take it," he insisted, extending the package. "Of course it won't keep Western Union time, but it'll look good on you." She appeared to be gaining on her incredulity, but a vestige of it remained. "I won't touch it," she declared with more spirit than could have been expected from the perishing, "I won't touch it till you give me a good big kiss."
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