Not that it matters much, since I should have learned all about it when it pleases Providence to remove me to a better world, which in our circumstances may happen any day.

Now I must change my clothes before I see to the cooking and other things." "I am bound to admit," said Bickley, looking after him, "that old Bastin is not so stupid as he seems.

From his point of view the arguments he advances are quite logical.

Moreover I think he is right when he says that we look at things through the wrong end of the telescope.

After all the universe is very big and who knows what may happen there?
Who knows even what may have happened on this little earth during the aeons of its existence, whenever its balance chanced to shift, as the Ice Ages show us it has often done?
Still I believe that old Oro to be a Prince of Liars." "That remains to be proved," I answered cautiously.