"
"Why not?"
Daisy hesitated, and at last said, "It had nothing to do with
Sunday, papa."
"But obedience is not out of place on Sunday, is it?"
"No, papa, — except —"
"Well, except what?"
"Papa, if God tells me to do one thing, and you tell me
another, what shall I do?" Daisy had hid her face in her
father's breast.
"What counter command have you to plead in this case?"
"Papa, may I show it to you?"
"Certainly."
She got down off his lap, twinkling away a tear hastily, and
went to the bookcase for the big Bible aforesaid. Mr. Randolph
seeing what she was after, and that she could not lift it,
went to her help, and brought it to the library table. Daisy
turned over the leaves with fingers that trembled yet,
hastily, flurriedly; and paused and pointed to the words that
her father read, "Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath
day."
Mr. Randolph read them, and the words following, and the words
that went before; then he turned from them, and drew Daisy to
her place in his arms again.
"Daisy, there is another commandment there, 'Honour thy father
and thy mother.' Is there not ?"
"Yes, papa."
"Is not one command as good as the other?"
"Papa, I think not," said Daisy.
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