"They embalmed their dead after a fashion.

Did you ever hear that they embalmed the living ?" The little man's eyes shot fire.
"No, nor will I believe in any such outrageous impossibilities! If that is all, I have little faith in Unorna's mysterious counsellor." "The faith which removes mountains is generally gained by experience when it is gained at all, and the craving for explanation takes the place, in some minds, of a willingness to learn.

It is not my business to find explanations, nor to raise my little self to your higher level, by standing upon this curbstone, in order to deliver a lecture in the popular form, upon matters that interest me.

It is enough that I have found what I wanted.

Go and do likewise.