There's no sense in it, if he does not think
about you. He said himself he didn't come to call the righteous,
but sinners to repentance."
"I wish I could repent."
"You can, if you will."
"I can't make myself sorry for what's gone and done with."
"No; it wants him to do that. But you can turn from your old
ways, and ask him to take you for a pupil. Aren't you willing to
learn, if he be willing to teach you?"
"I don't know. It's all so dull and stupid! I never could bear
going to church."
"It's not one bit like that! It's like going to your mother, and
saying you're going to try to be a good boy, and not vex her any
more."
"I see. It's all right, I dare say! But I've had as much of it as
I can stand! You see, I'm not used to such things. You go away,
and send Mewks. Don't be far off, though, and mind you don't go
home without letting me know. There! Go along."
She had just reached the door, when he called her again.
"I say! Mind whom you trust in this house. There's no harm in
Mrs. Redmain; she only grows stupid directly she don't like a
thing. But that Miss Yolland!--that woman's the devil. I know
more about her than you or any one else. I can't bear her to be
about Hesper; but, if I told her the half I know, she would not
believe the half of that. I shall find a way, though. But I am
forgetting! you know her as well as I do--that is, you would, if
you were wicked enough to understand.
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