"Will the 'Allgemeine Zeitung' have the benefit of your researches?" asked the Englishman.
"Most like. The people at home love to have tidings of shoots from the old German lingual stock. The dialect of this locality is a truly noteworthy one."
"I heard it spoken just now by the young blossom we met on the road this morning."
"Does she live here?"
"No. She had driven in to the village to make some purchases. Her father is one Reinfelter, who tills the soil of his ancestral demesne over there near the mountains."
"From whom did you learn these facts?"
"From the tradesman with whom she had been talking."
"Will agnosticism let you be absolutely sure his statements are true?"
"No; and even less sure that they are untrue. It seems to me that a vast amount of credulity is needed for positive unbelief. Do atheists ever have doubts about anything?"
"We don't sit still and say, 'Quien sabe?' like you agnostics. When nobody shall believe or disbelieve, who will act?"