The stern religion with which he was enraptured, its insistence upon a higher law, was there, and he heard again the precepts which had helped to bind him to his own children.

• 原来那时在他面前的，是使他入于出神状态的严肃的宗教，以及宗教所要求的一种更高的法律，因而他又重新听见对儿孙应尽义务的教义了。