“You move too quickly for me to argue,” I said sullenly enough, “But I have read about table-turning and spirit rappings in Papa’s magazines and I say it sounds like conjuring tricks for the credulous.” “You have read accounts by sceptics,” she said, all fire. “Nothing is easier to mock.” “I have read accounts by believers,” I said staunchly. “I have recognised credulity.” “Why are you so angry, Cousin Sabine?” said she. “Because I have never heard you say what was silly before now,” I said, and that was true, though doubtless it was not why I was angry. “One may conjure real daemons with
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