XII.
"Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he
cannot be my disciple."--_Luke 14:33._
"I cannot understand him," Frue Bogstad was saying. "His actions are so
strange."
"It's simply wicked of him," added Froken Selma Bogstad. "He is bringing
the whole family into disrepute."
The mother did not reply, but turned her face thoughtfully away from the
angry daughter.
"The boy is completely carried away with this American religion,"
continued the girl, pacing nervously back and forth in the room. "Pastor
Tonset called to see him the other day, and you ought to have heard
them! The pastor, as our friend, came to advise him; but do you think
Henrik would take any advice? Why, he even argued with the pastor,
saying that he could prove the truth of this religion from the
Scriptures."
"Has he talked to you about it?"
"Yes; and he wanted me to accompany him to Osterhausgaden where these
people hold meetings. I told him definitely and forcibly that I didn't
want him to mention religion to me.
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