: The Cruise of the Shining Light by Duncan Norman - Orphans Fiction; Conduct of life Fiction; Uncles Fiction; Newfoundland and Labrador Fiction

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My uncle touched me again--moving nearer, now, that his hand might lie upon me. "Dannie," he whispered, "if you must sin the sins of us--"

"Ay, sir?"

"They'll be some poor folk t' suffer. An' Dannie--"

I was very grave in the pause.

"You'll not forget t' be kind, will you," he pleaded, "t' them that suffer for your sins?"

"I will not sin," I protested, "t' the hurt of any others."

He seemed not to hear. "An' you'll bear your own pain," he continued, "like a man, will you not?"

I would bear it like a man.

"That's good," said he. "That's very good!"

The moon was now risen from the sea: the room full of white light.

"Me? Oh no!"

"He'll remember," said I, confidently, "that you was once a little lad--jus' like me."

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