16/24 You shall not touch pitch and not be defiled. If your eye offend you, pluck it out. He is my step-son, I know; but I will pluck him out like an eye that has offended. It is he that has robbed me of my child.' 'Am I not still your child ?' said Hester, going down on her knees with her hands in her mother's lap and her eyes turned up to her mother's face. |