Woman with a Parasol

Ah, because he knew everything!' said she, with a triumphant simplicity of faith in Angel Clare that the most perfect man could hardly have deserved, much less her husband. ¡¡¡¡`Yes, but you should not take negative opinions wholesale from another person like that. A pretty fellow he must be to teach you such scepticism!' ¡¡¡¡`He never forced my judgment! He would never argue on the subject with me! But I looked at it in this way; what he believed, after inquiring deep into doctrines, was much more likely to be right than what I might believe, who hadn't looked into doctrines at all.' ¡¡¡¡`What used he to say? He must have said something?' ¡¡¡¡She reflected; and with her acute memory for the letter of Angel Clare's remarks, even when she did not comprehend their spirit, she recalled a merciless polemical syllogism that she had heard him use when, as it occasionally happened, he indulged in a species of thinking aloud with her at his side. In delivering it she gave also Clare's accent and manner with reverential faithfulness. ¡¡¡¡`Say that again,' asked d'Urberville, who had listened with the greatest attention. ¡¡¡¡She repeated the argument, and d'Urberville thoughtfully murmured the words after her.