"Give me," said he, "a full account of your whole life."

I felt instantaneously that there was no concealment possible; alldisguise fell away, and an unknown power forced me to speak absoluteand exact truth. I detailed the events of my life as well as Icould, and the good man was not a little affected by the recital ofmy early trials, poverty, and temptation. It did not seem a somewhatgood life when spread out in that presence, and I trembled as Iproceeded; but I plead youth, inexperience, and bad examples.

"Have you been accustomed," he said, after a time, rather sorrowfully, "tobreak the Sabbath?"