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Updated: May 29, 2025
The children began repeating it in a sing-song fashion. Suddenly Pen violently clutched hold of Pauline. "Will God forgive our badnesses?" she asked. "He will I know He will," answered Pauline; and just at that instant there came a cry from Harry. "A boat! a boat!" he shrieked. "And it's coming our way. I knew Nellie was a brick. I knew she'd do it."
There is a resurrection of deeds as well as of bodies, and all our buried badnesses will front us again, shaking their gory locks at us, and saying that we did them. Instead of following closely the narrative, we may best gather up its lessons by considering the actors in the tragedy. I. We see in Herod the depths of evil possible to a weak character.
Some of us, for instance, prefer to think with pleasure about things that ought never to have been done, and to give a wicked immortality to thoughts that ought never to have had a being. Some men's tastes and inclinations are so vitiated and corrupted that they find a joy in living their badnesses over again.
It perhaps even seemed to me more Cruikshank's than Dickens's; it was a thing of such vividly terrible images, and all marked with that peculiarity of Cruikshank that the offered flowers or goodnesses, the scenes and figures intended to comfort and cheer, present themselves under his hand as but more subtly sinister, or more suggestively queer, than the frank badnesses and horrors.
Isn't it queer," broke forth Evangeline suddenly, "how when you get to be old you never were bad when you were young? The badnesses have kind of kind of faded out. I bet there were badnesses!" And Miss Theodosia found herself nodding decisively. She, too, bet there were. A hilarious little crow suddenly sounded from without the window; it was accompanied by a deep man-sound of mirth.
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