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doesn’t seem to embarrass your idea of common sense, or Poll’s, and for that matter I’m making no reflections. You’ve got plenty of gumption. But how you can reconcile the two, I can’t see.”
“It takes faith, Papa,” Mary said gently.
“That’s the word. That’s the one makes a mess of everything, far’s I’m concerned. Bounces up like a jack-in-the-box. Solves everything.
“Well it doesn’t solve anything for me, for I haven’t got any.
“Wouldn’t hurt it if I had. Don’t believe in it.
“Not for me.
“For you, for anyone that can manage it, all right. More power to you. Might be glad if I could myself. But I can’t.
“I’m not exactly an atheist, you know. Least I don’t suppose I am. Seems as unfounded to me to say there isn’t a God as to say there is. You can’t prove it either way. But that’s
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