"How
bigoted you are, Violet. I could not have believed it of so sweet and
gentle a young thing as you. I trust you will not consider it your duty to
betray me to mamma?"
"Betray you? can you think I would? So Aunt Louise does not know? Oh, Isa,
can you think it right to hide it from her--your own mother?"
"Yes; because I was directed to do so by my father confessor, and because
my motive is a good one, and 'the end sanctifies the means.'"
"Isa, mamma has taught me, and the Bible says it too, that it is never
right to do evil that good may come."
"Perhaps you and your mamma do not always understand the real meaning of
what the Bible says. It must be that many people misunderstand it, else
why are there so many denominations of Protestants, teaching opposite
doctrines, and all professing to get them from the Bible?"
Violet in her extreme youth and want of information and ability to argue,
was not prepared with an answer.
"Does Virgy know?" she asked.
"About my change of views and my oratory? Yes."
"And does she----"
"Virgy is altogether worldly, and cares nothing for religion of any kind.
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