Now if you turn religion out, you see, you are sure to
fall into false notions; and that is what these Mechanics' Institute
people do.'
'Yes,' said Lucy, 'I have heard what you say about those things
before, but I never saw them in connection with each other.'
'Nor should I have seen them in this light, if it had not been for a
conversation between Captain Atherly and another gentleman, one day
at Dykelands,' said Helen. 'But, Lucy, did you leave this party,
then, only because I said it was wrong, or because you thought so
yourself?'
'Indeed, I can hardly tell,' answered Lucy; 'I scarcely know what to
think right and what wrong, but I thought I might be certain that it
was safer to go home.'
'I do not see,' said Helen, drawing herself up, and feeling as if she
had done a very wise thing, and known her reasons for doing it, too,
'I do not see that it is so very hard to know what is right from what
is wrong. It is the easiest way to think what Papa and Mamma would
approve, and then try to recollect what reasons they would give.'
'But then you are not always sure of what they would say,' replied
Lucy; 'at least I am not, and it is not always possible to ask them.
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