"Father, do you do all that the Ten Commandments say?"
"Ye-e-es."
He looks like a person whose last hope has escaped him. I would so much like to help him; but what, in Heaven's name, can I do?
Then he collects himself, shakes his head a little and says, with great tears in his eyes:
"Father, I don't believe that I can do all those things that the Ten Commandments say."
And I draw him to me and we cry together because life is so difficult, while Dirty plods away like a good girl.
XII
This we all know, that sin came into the world by the law.
Dirty's Ten Commandments have brought it to us.
When she comes, she now always has Luther's terrible Little Catechism[1] and Balslev's equally objectionable work with her. Her parents evidently look upon it as most natural that she should also cultivate her soul at our house.