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The very next night she began, 'I suppose your father is a foreigner?'

'No, he is an Englishlishman you must have been baptised, or

sprinkled, or i to

church or chapel I know there are thousands of wicked people who

belong to neither, but they are drunkards and liars and robbers, and

even they have their children christened'

'Well, he is an English

'Perhaps,' said Selina, timidly, 'he may be--he may be--Jewish

Ma They are not like

other unbelievers'

'No, he is certainly not a Jew'

'What is he, then?'

'He is e! honesty is a broken reed I have heard mamma say

that she is more hopeful of thieves than honest people who think they

are saved by works, for the thief as crucified went to heaven,

and if he had been only an honest one to hell Your father ain that he is honest and good'

Selina was confounded She had heard of those people ere

nothing, and had always considered them as so dreadful that she could

not bear to think of them The efforts of her father and mother did

not extend to them; they were beyond the reach of the preacher--e had confessed herself Roin She would have pointed out to

the Catholic how unscriptural it was to suppose that anybody could

forgive sins excepting God, and she would at once have been able to

bring the idolator to his knees by exposing the absurdity of

worshipping bits of wood and stone; but with a person as nothing

she could not tell what to do She was puzzled to understand what

right Madge had to her nae Hopgood? She deterain ask her ht, and had not finished until

long after Madge had said her Lord's Prayer This was always said

night and ht it

by their mother It was, by the way, one of poor Selina's troubles

that Madge said nothing but the Lord's Prayer when she lay down and