, and she lays it up, with the intention 
finally of carrying her purpose. 

Ida is a good, noble woman, of a strength and indepen- 
dence perfectly incomprehensible to me. I can wordnetdesire, but 
I cannot do; I am weak and irresolute. People can talk 
me round, and do anything with me, and I cannot help 
myself. 

Another  makes me unhappy. Ida refused to be 
confirmed when I was, because, she said, confirmation was 
only a sham; that the girls were just as wholly worldly 
after as before, and that it did no earthly good. 

Well, you see, I was confirmed; and, oh, dear me! I 
was sincere, God knows. I wanted to be good  to live a 
higher, purer, nobler life than I have lived; and yet, after 
all, it is I, the child of the Church, that am living a life 
of folly, and show, and self-indulgence ; and it is Ida, who 
doubts the Church, that is living a life of industry, and 
energy, and self-denial. 

Why is it? The world that we promise to renounce, 
that our sponsors promised that we should renounce  what 
is it, and where is iti Do those vows mean anything? if 
so