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God hates most in any person" Regi did not answer so she continued "A lie and I am very glad to be able to say that none of you --- boys have ever told one." I was struck. The full force of what she had said came upon me.  The old old story of my broken arm, and how I had said, and say it still that when I went up into that loft I did not remember

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Mama having told me not to. Mama had asked me some time after the accident last year if I had not gone up, ^[[knowing she did not allow it]] and to confess the story and ask God's pardon and hers. She said that when I fell I said "That's what I get for disobeying my mother." I know nothing of it. Two of the girls said I said so.

The idea had never come into my head that my word was doubted