For my own share, I want no trade with men who need to be convinced of that fact.
If I am in their premises, and discover such a thing of them, I will quit their premises; if they are in mine, I will, as old Samuel advised, count my spoons.

Ingenious gentlemen who believe that Beelzebub made this world, are not a class of gentlemen I can get profit from.

Let them keep at a distance, lest mischief fall out between us.

They are of the set deserving to be called--and this not in the way of profane swearing, but of solemn wrath and pity, I say of virtuous anger and inexorable reprobation--the damned set.

For, in very deed, they are doomed and damned, by Nature's oldest Act of Parliament, they, and whatsoever thing they do or say or think; unless they can escape from that devil-element.
Which I still hope they may!-- "But with regard to the facts themselves, 'DE NOTRE MAISON,' I take leave to say, they too are without basis of truth.