And Whilst It Is A Fact That John Jones Did Fish A Little On
Sunday, Once, He Didn't Really Catch
Anything but only just one small
useless mud-cat; and maybe that wouldn't have been so awful if he had
Thrown it back - as he says he did, but he didn't. Pity but they would
repent of these dreadful things - and maybe they will yet.'
But while I was shamefully trying to draw attention to these poor chaps
- who were doubtless directing the celestial attention to me at the same
moment, though I never once suspected that - I had heedlessly left my
candle burning. It was not a time to neglect even trifling precautions.
There was no occasion to add anything to the facilities for attracting
notice to me - so I put the light out.
It was a long night to me, and perhaps the most distressful one I ever
spent. I endured agonies of remorse for sins which I knew I had
committed, and for others which I was not certain about, yet was sure
that they had been set down against me in a book by an angel who was
wiser than I and did not trust such important matters to memory. It
struck me, by and by, that I had been making a most foolish and
calamitous mistake, in one respect: doubtless I had not only made my own
destruction sure by directing attention to those other boys, but had
already accomplished theirs! - Doubtless the lightning had stretched them
all dead in their beds by this time!
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