Absolute devotion has a horror of every sort of disagreement, even in ideas which it does not share.

Sometimes the doctor accepted his darling's reasonings as he would her kisses, said as they were in the sweetest of voices with the purest and most fervent feeling.

Believers and unbelievers speak different languages and cannot understand each other.

The young girl pleading God's cause was unreasonable with the old man, as a spoilt child sometimes maltreats its mother.

The abbe rebuked her gently, telling her that God had power to humiliate proud spirits.