"
Vi's face was full of distress; "Isa," she said, "may I ask you a
question?"
"What is it?"
"When you pray, do you kneel before that--that----"
"Crucifix? sometimes, at others before the Virgin and child."
Vi shuddered. "O Isa, have you forgotten the second commandment? 'Thou
shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of anything that
is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the
waters under the earth; thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve
them.'"
"I have not forgotten, but am content to do as the church directs,"
returned Isadore, coldly.
"Isa, didn't they promise Aunt Louise that they would not interfere with
your religion?"
"Yes."
"And then broke their promise. How can you think they are good?"
"They did it to save my soul. Was not that a good and praiseworthy
motive?"
"Yes; but if they thought it their duty to try to make you believe as they
do, they should not have promised not to do so."
"But in that case I should never have been placed in the convent, and they
would have had no opportunity to labor for my conversion.
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