It is easy for you to bear; you are not the one accountable.

I am.

And if the pawnbroker or the silver-smith does stand between me and absolute dishonesty, yet to find myself in such a miserable condition, with next to nothing between us and the workhouse, may well make me doubt whether I have been a true servant of the Lord, for surely such shall never be ashamed! During these last days the enemy has even dared to tempt me with the question, whether after all, these unbelievers may not be right, and the God that ruleth in the earth a mere projection of what the conscience and heart bribe the imagination to construct for them!" "I wouldn't think that before I was driven to it, father," said Dorothy, scarcely knowing what she said, for his doubt shot a poisoned arrow of despair into the very heart of her heart.
He, never doubting the security of his child's faith, had no slightest suspicion into what a sore spot his words had carried torture.

He did not know that the genius of doubt--shall I call him angel or demon ?--had knocked at her door, had called through her window; that words dropped by Faber, indicating that science was against all idea of a God, and the confidence of their tone, had conjured up in her bosom hollow fears, faint dismays, and stinging questions.

Ready to trust, and incapable of arrogance, it was hard for her to imagine how a man like Mr.Faber, upright and kind and self-denying, could say such things if he did not _know_ them true.