That is all there is to hope for, and we may as well look the thing in the face.

Only I confess, my dear fellow, that your experience convinces me that marriage should be avoided at whatever inconvenience.

Indeed I have long wondered that anyone can take the responsibility of bringing a child into the world.

But probably nobody does in cold blood, except misguided idiots like Bastin," he added.

"He would have twenty, had not his luck intervened." "Then you believe in nothing, Friend," I said.
"Nothing, I am sorry to say, except what I see and my five senses appreciate." "You reject all possibility of miracle, for instance ?" "That depends on what you mean by miracle.