Matilda answered; but as she did so something made her voice tremble and her eyes fill.
"For the sake of doing right, then, and for the sake of being like Jesus, some of us are willing to be unlike other people; though the consequences of that are not always pleasant. Is there nothing more to be said on the subject?"
"The people that have the Lord's name in their foreheads, will be with him by and by," remarked a girl who had not yet spoken.
"And he is with them now," said Mr. Wharncliffe. "Yes, Sarah."
"And then there will be a great gulf between," said a boy.
"Well, I think we have got reason enough," said Mr. Wharncliffe. "To be on the right side of the dividing gulf then, we must be content to be on the same side of it now. Daniel judged so, it is clear. On the whole, did he lose anything?"
The teacher's eyes were looking at Norton, and he was constrained to answer no.
"What did he gain?"
Norton was still the one looked at, and he fidgeted. Mr. Wharncliffe waited.
"I suppose, God gave him learning and wisdom."