only she could not prove it....

but I have proved that the Margites is a part of me....

not that I believe my own proof--scepticism forbid! Oh, would to heaven that the said whole disagreeable universe were annihilated, if it were only just to settle by fair experiment whether any of master "I" remained when they were gone! Buzzard and dogmatist! And how do you know that that would settle it?
And if it did--why need it be settled ?....
'I daresay there is an answer pat for all this.

I could write a pretty one myself in half an hour.

But then I should not believe it ....