bitterly; "three days after, a
poor, submissive, and credulous child, I was already a spy upon my
comrades, hearing and remembering their conversation, and reporting it to
the superior, who congratulated me on my .  What they thus made me do
was shameful, and yet, God knows!  I thought I was accomplishing a
charitable duty.  I was happy in obeying the commands of a superior whom
I respected, and to whose words I listened, in my childish faith, as I
should have listened to those of Heaven.  One day, that I had broken some
rule of the house, the superior said to me: 'My child, you have deserved
a severe punishment; but you will be pardoned, if you succeed in
surprising one of your comrades in the same fault that you have
committed.' And for that, notwithstanding my faith and blind obedience,
this  to turn informer, from the motive of personal
interest, might appear odious to me, the superior added.  'I speak to
you, my child, for the sake of your comrade's salvation.  Were he to
escape punishment, his evil habits would become habitual.  But by
detecting him in a fault, and exposing him to salutary correction, you
will have the double advantage of aiding in his salvation