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"What sayeth the son of Shitan?" demanded the pacha, impatiently. "The unbeliever declareth that his tongue is glued to his mouth from the terror of your highness's presence. He fainteth after water to restore him, and enable him to speak." "Let him be fed," rejoined the pacha. But Mustapha had heard enough to know that the sailor would not be content with the pure element.
But I am not an unbeliever, my dear Countess, and, on my sacred word, when I see a perfect creature like you, I desire to believe everything she believes, if only to be pleasant to her!" When Camors, who was not quite so innocent, asked himself what was the secret of his aunt's politic conduct, but little effort was necessary to understand it.
The devoutest person could have rendered no greater homage to the efficacy of an honest prayer than he did in this distrust of his wife. It was as if a professed unbeliever in ghosts should be frightened by a ghost story. "And mind you!" said Mr. Cruncher. "No games to-morrow!
I went home from you that Tuesday, looked at the pilules that you gave me then, and wondered what good there could be in them. Was it possible that those little grains, scarcely visible, could cure my immense, long-standing disease? That's what I thought unbeliever that I was! and I smiled; but when I took the pilule it was instantaneous!
Yet with all this blood on their hands, and all this crime on their consciences, they turn round and fling the epithet of "cruel" at the perennial victims of their malice. One of the most effective arts of priestcraft has been the misrepresentation and slander of heretics. To give the unbeliever a bad name is to prejudice believers against all communication with him.
Three or four years ago a returned American Irishman, an avowed unbeliever, but an active Nationalist and one of Mr. Forster's "suspects," had come into the neighbourhood and done his worst to break up the parish.
You sue for the hand of an unbeliever, the daughter of an unbelieving heretic; you go over to Fostat nay, hear me out and place your brain and your strong arm at the service of the infidels it is but yesterday; but I, I, the shepherd of my flock, will not suffer that he who is the highest in rank, the richest in possessions, the most powerful by the mere dignity of his name, shall pervert thousands of the Jacobite brethren.
But yet, do not think that by the subjection I have here mentioned, that I do intend women should be their husbands' slaves. 'Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. Object. But my husband is an unbeliever; what shall I do? Answer. If so, then what I have said before lieth upon thee with an engagement so much the stronger. For, 1.
Then, closing his eyes, he quoted the sacred Scriptures for the first time in his life without irreverent intention. "The spirit is willing," sighed the wretched unbeliever, "but the flesh is weak."
'If we've got to make our life up out of a woman, one woman, woman only, yes, I do, said Gerald. 'I don't believe I shall ever make up MY life, at that rate. Birkin watched him almost angrily. 'You are a born unbeliever, he said. 'I only feel what I feel, said Gerald. And he looked again at Birkin almost sardonically, with his blue, manly, sharp-lighted eyes.
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