CHAPTER V.
THE LIFE OF CRIME IS APPRAISED AND CHOSEN It came to seem expedient to Bernal, however, in the first spring of his new life, to make a final choice between early death and a life, of sin.
Matters came to press upon him, and since virtue was useful only to get one into Heaven, it was not worth the effort unless one meant to die at once.

This was an alternative not without its lures, despite the warnings preached all about him.

It would surely be interesting to die, if one had come properly to the Feet.

Even coming to but one of the Feet, as he had, might make it still more interesting.

Perhaps he would not, for this reason, be always shut up in Heaven.