We sometimes disputed, and very fond we were of argument, and very desirous of confuting one another. 我们时有争论,也特别喜好辩论,常想驳倒对方。
However, it gave him so high an opinion of my abilities in the confuting way, that he seriously proposed my being his colleague in a project he had of setting up a new sect. 无论如何这使他对于我的说服人的方法极为赞赏,他正在建立一种宗教派别,极力要我成为同志。