"
One can imagine our feelings as we listened to this strange discourse from
the lips of him who only a short time before had been so opposed to such
things!
"And then, Paula, I have something more to say," said my father. "Do you
remember the day when I hit you on the head with your Bible as I took it
away from you? I wish to say that I am sorry beyond expression for what I
did that day;--and now have you pardoned me, little daughter?"
For reply Paula took my father's hands in hers, then in a flood of
generosity and forgetfulness of self she gave her Bible back to him, simply
saying, "I give it back to you, dearest uncle!"
"You give it back to me!" said my father, stupefied, "You give me back the
Bible you loved so much!" "Yes," answered Paula, "because Teresa has
promised to give me another."
"But do you mean to tell me that you would care for a new Bible as much as
this one?"
"Oh, no," she said, "Father gave me that one, and it's full of his
markings, and it was in that Bible that I learned to love the Lord Jesus."
"And then--?"
"Well, it's because it is the most precious thing that I have in all the
world that I give it to you. Because you see I love you so, and I would
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