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"Yes, but she must obey."
Teresa contented herself with a shrug of her shoulders, for she saw that my
father was not going to yield. And now Paula had returned with her Bible in
hand.
"And now," said my father, after a moment of silence, "let us see those
words. Have you found them yet?"
Paula had paused, her hand turning over the pages of her Bible rapidly.
"No, uncle, not yet, but I will find them soon."
Again there was silence. Teresa had returned to the kitchen, the door
closing with a bang to demonstrate her displeasure. Nothing could be heard
but the tick-tack of the clock, and the sound of the turning pages, as
Paula, in spite of her tears, looked for the desired words.
"Here it is," she said at last, smiling in spite of her emotion. "See,
uncle, here you are, at the fifth chapter of Acts, verse 29."
"'We ought to obey God, rather than men!'" murmured my father two or three
times, as he read the words of Holy Writ, while Paula looked at him with
confident eyes, even though a few tears still lingered.
"Let us see, now, something of the context," he added. "Oh, yes, here it
is," and he commenced to read aloud,
"'And the high priest asked them saying, Did not we straitly command you
that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled
Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon
us.
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