"You may take it away, if you wish." There was something in the saying of the last sentence that nettled him.
He had seen all, or nearly all, the physical laws, which were to him as the Credo is to a Catholic or the Profession of Faith to a Moslem, openly and shamelessly outraged, defied, and set at nought.

To say he was angry would be to give a very inadequate idea of his feelings, because he, the greatest exposer of Spiritualism, Dowieism, and Christian Scientism in the United States, was not only angry, but--for the time being only, as he hoped--utterly bewildered.

It was too much, as he would have put it, to take lying down, and so, greatly daring, he took a couple of strides towards Phadrig, and said with a snarl in his voice: "I guess you mean really if _you_ wish, Mr Miracle-Worker.

It was mighty clever, however you did it, but you haven't got me to believe that physical laws are frauds yet.

You want me to pick that ball up ?" "Certainly, Professor--if you can--now," replied Phadrig, with a little twitch of his lips which might have been a smile, or something else.
Hoskins van Huysman was a strong man, and he knew it.