Rafael Sabatini,
The Spiritualist
(1905)
“ You live out your lives in this wretched corner of the world much as a rat lives in its burrow, and as your minds are closed to intelligence, so, too, do you close your ears to knowledge. Derision is the ever-ready weapon of the ignorant, and because the things that I tell you are things of which you never dreamt in your unenlightened lives you laugh and call me charlatan. ”
Rafael Sabatini,
The Spiritualist
(1905)
“ He addressed us all, collectively; but ever and anon his glance wandered to the sailor, who had been the first to express his want of faith, as though to him he conveyed a special challenge.Receiving no answer, Delamort looked about from one to another, until his sinister glance lighted on Pascal."Will you submit yourself to the test?" he asked. "Will you let me summon your brother's spirit for you?" ”
Rafael Sabatini,
The Spiritualist
(1905)
“ I stayed at the Hôtel du Cerf, whereof Jules Coupri is host, and for companions of an evening I had the village notary, a couple of grocers, a haberdasher—ho was in his way a leader of fashion in Aubepine—the postmaster, and half-a-dozen young farmers, who were in the habit of coming there to drink their petit-vin and exchange their ideas.A student of human nature in my humble way, I made a point of mingling freely with them, and I am afraid that their patience and good nature drew me to talk a good deal. ”
