The scalding tears poured down my cheeks as Mr. Fontaine told me this,the first, I think, that I had shed that week, for after that dreadful night, my sorrow had been of a dry and bitter kind,and a stinging remorse seized me as I thought of the times I had been cross and disobedient to mammy.

I have increased the penalties for the disobedient in order that through fear of becoming liable to them you may be brought to your senses.

They were frankly disobedient of any law except their own; respectful of nothing but bullets, brains and their own interpretation of the Will of Allah.

" "And the disobedient among the Israelites," cried others, "died before they reached the promised land."

But the Great Stone Face was the measure of their defect rather than the means of their attainment because, unlike Esther and Scrooge and Ernest, they were "disobedient unto the heavenly vision.

" "Don't you think," continued the child, "that people who wont listen to what is told them, and wont be cured of being foolish and wicked, are very like the old Jews you told us about yesterday, who had God among them, and Moses teaching them what God wished them to do, and still were as disobedient as ever?"

And if it please you to show signs of taking his matter to heart, I hope that the truth, which he will make to appear, will convict the forgers of heretics of being slanderers and disobedient towards you rather than zealots for the faith.

But neither to the one nor the other of these is this satire any way intended: it is aimed only at the refractory and disobedient on either side.