But till he believes that I can do it, how can I even begin!" "How can you expect him to believe, if he has no proof ?" "There are proofs enough in the Bible and elsewhere, if he will but accept them.

If he refuses to examine into the credentials, the fault is his, not mine.

I really do not wish to be hard; but would not you do the same, if any one refused to employ you, because he chose to deny that you were a legally qualified practitioner ?" "Not so badly put; but what should I do in that case?
Go on quietly curing his neighbours, till he began to alter his mind as to my qualifications, and came in to be cured himself.

But here's this difference between you and me.

I am not bound to attend to any one who don't send for me; while you think that you are, and carry the notion a little too far, for I expect you to kill yourself by it some day." "Well ?" said Frank, with something of that lazy Oxford tone, which is intended to save the speaker the trouble of giving his arguments, when he has already made up his mind, or thinks that he has so done.
"Well, if I thought myself bound to doctor the man, willy-nilly, as you do, I would certainly go to him, and show him, at least, that I understood his complaint.