The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Chapter 6 Page 70

teach you that all this is true; and I am satisfied you know it all to be true, and believe it yourself.” — ”That is true, sir,” said Atkins; “but with what face can I say anything to my wife of all this, when she will tell me immediately it cannot be true?” — ”Not true!” said I; “what do you mean by that?” — ”Why, sir,” said he, “she will tell me it cannot be true that this God I shall tell her of can be just, or can punish or reward, since I am not punished and sent to the devil, that have been such a wicked creature as she knows I have been, even to her, and to everybody else; and that I should be suffered to live, that have been always acting so contrary to what I must tell her is good, and to what I ought to have done.” — ”Why, truly,