"
Zachariah, although a firm believer in his faith, and not a coward,
was tempted to be silent. He was heavy and slow in action, and this
kind of company was strange to him. Furthermore, Pauline was not an
open enemy, and notwithstanding her little blasphemies, she was
attractive. But then he remembered with shame that he was ordered to
testify to the truth wherever he might be, and unable to find
anything of his own by which he could express himself, a text of the
Bible came into his mind, and, half to himself, he repeated it aloud:
"I form the light and create darkness: I make peace and create evil;
I the Lord do all these things."
"What is that?" said Jean. "Repeat it."
Zachariah slowly repeated it. He had intended to add to it something
which might satisfy his conscience and rebuke Pauline, but he could
not.
"Whence is that?" said Jean.
"From the Bible; give me one and I will show it to you."
There was no English Bible in the house. It was a book not much
used; but Pauline presently produced a French version, and Jean read
the passage--"Qui forme la lumiere, et qui cree les tenebres; qui
fait la paix, et qui cree l'adversite; c'est moi, l'Eternel, qui fais
toutes les choses la.
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