Say it's in a novel--and you are a fool if you believe it.
Say it's in a newspaper--and you are a fool if you doubt it.

Mr.Le Frank, following the general example, followed it on this occasion a little too unreservedly.

He avowed his doubts of the circumstance just related, although it was, on the authority of a lady, a circumstance occurring in real life! Far from being offended, Miss Minerva cordially sympathized with him.
"It _is_ too theatrical to be believed," she admitted; "but this fainting young person is positively the interesting stranger we have been expecting from Italy.

You know Mrs.Gallilee.Hers was the first smelling-bottle produced; hers was the presence of mind which suggested a horizontal position.

'Help the heart,' she said; 'don't impede it.' The whole theory of fainting fits, in six words! In another moment," proceeded the governess making a theatrical point without suspecting it--"in another moment, Mrs.Gallilee herself stood in need of the smelling-bottle." Mr.Le Frank was not a true believer, even yet.