"People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must
not
be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have
believed
it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it."
"Ah! yes, grandmother, I daresay. I'm sure you are right. But he'll
believe now."
"I don't know that," replied her grandmother.
"Won't you, Curdie?" said Irene, looking round at him as she asked the
question.
He was standing in the middle of the floor, staring, and looking
strangely bewildered. This she thought came of his astonishment at the
beauty of the lady.
"Make a bow to my grandmother, Curdie," she said.
"I don't see any grandmother," answered Curdie, rather gruffly.
"Don't see my grandmother when I'm sitting in her lap!" exclaimed the
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