You take this seriously through and through.

I laugh at it in the bottom of my heart, and size it up at its true value.

I'm like a child that don't really believe in goblins, yet likes the shivery effects of goblin stories." "I don't believe in goblins, either," said Arkwright.
"You don't believe in anything else," said Josh.
Arkwright steered him through the throng, and up to the hostess--Mrs.
Burke, stout, honest, with sympathy in her eyes and humor in the lines round her sweet mouth.

"Well, Josh," she said in a slow, pleasant monotone, "you HAVE done a lot of growing since I saw you.

I always knew you'd come to some bad end.