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' 'A sin?' says gentle Moses. 'You surprise me, Aaron. I confess
it never struck me in that light before. But I think I see your point.
We have a conference to-night on the Holy Mountain; I may be able to
get a clause inserted--' 'Do, there's a good fellow,' says the other.
'But aren't you a little hard on the youngsters?' asks Moses. 'You
wouldn't believe it, but I was a boy myself once and I should have got
into a lot of rows if such an enactment had been in existence then.
Moreover (and here his eyes assume a rapt, prophetic look) I seem to
see, rising out of the distant future, a personage of royal line,
beloved of God--one David who, if your proposal were to come into force,
would be classed as a pretty hot sinner,' 'Oh, bother David! Look here,
I'm not asking for a loan of money, old man. Just see to it that my New
Sin is inscribed on the Tables. Hang it all! What's that, to a man of
your influence up there? You can't think how it annoys me nowadays to
see all these young people--all these young people--need I go into
particulars?' 'You needn't.


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