8/12 If you don't hear well tell me so that I can repeat. You know that in looking after your welfare I'm never weary." She began to read in a monotonous and snuffling voice the considerations of cases of sinfulness. At the end of each paragraph she made a long pause in order to give the girl time to recall her sins and to repent of them. After finishing the first commandment, _to love God above all things_, Aunt Isabel looked at her over her spectacles and was satisfied with her sad and thoughtful mien. She coughed piously and after a long pause began to read the second commandment. |