"Dear Sam," she said kindly, and guessing his feelings, as having
gone along with them, "I don't wonder you are sorry for him; but
indeed I think it is better for him to be sheltered from beginning
real life just now."
"Papa said he would not have taken him," said Sam; "but it seems so
hard to have all his life changed for a thing that sounds worse than
he meant it to be."
"Sam," said Miss Fosbrook, "I once read a sermon, that said that our
conduct in little things does decide the tenor of our lives. You
know one moment of hastiness cost Moses the Promised Land; and only a
little while ago, we heard how Joash had but few victories allowed to
him, because he did not think it worth while to strike the ground as
often as Elisha told him. It is the little things that show whether
we are to be trusted with great."
"It is such a tremendous punishment," said Sam, "when he would have
put it back again."
"My brother knew a banker's clerk who was transported for borrowing
what he meant to put back again. No, Sam; people must bear the
result of their doings; and your father judges for Hal as much in
kindness as in anger.
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