Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

“I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.”

“Show Pleasant Riderhood a Wedding in the street, and she only saw two people ta…”

“I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath…”

“He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with oth…”