believing

There was now an interest, however, in believing the housekeeper; and they soon became sensible that the authority of a servant, who had known him since he was four years old, and whose own manners indicated respectability, was not to be hastily rejected.

There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.

Presently Ruby Gillis started up to take a sum to the master; she fell back into her seat with a little shriek, believing that her hair was pulled out by the roots.

“It is a conspiracy, then?” asked Dantès, who after believing himself free, now began to feel a tenfold alarm.