186 THE FLORAL TELEGRAPH. 
Now, my dear ladies, the finding 
me insensible, and the subsequent 
sickness, I dispute not — therefore, 
in fair reciprocity of courtesy, neither 
ought they nor you to dispute the 
events that led to it; the which I 
have fully detailed. It is not by 
proving one certain fact that you 
can disprove another. Supposing any 
fair lady had a beautiful diamond 
necklace as well as a superb pair of 
ruby bracelets, what would she think 
of the sophist who would pretend to 
prove that she had not the diamonds, 
merely because he proved that she 
had the rubies ? Thus these simple¬ 
tons and very malicious gainsayers 
