"And so poor people are permitted to live only upon condition that
they wait upon the rich?"

"Is that a hard condition; or if it were, they will be rewarded in a
better world than this?"

"Is there a better world than this?"

"Is it possible you do not know there is?"

"I heard my father once say something about a world to come; but he
stopped short, and said I was too young to understand what he
meant."

"The world to come," returned the dean, "is where we shall go after
death; and there no distinction will be made between rich and poor--
all persons there will be equal."

"Aye, now I see what makes it a better world than this. But cannot
this world try to be as good as that?"

"In respect to placing all persons on a level, it is utterly
impossible. God has ordained it otherwise."

"How! has God ordained a distinction to be made, and will not make
any Himself?"

The dean did not proceed in his instructions. He now began to think
his brother in the right, and that the boy was too young, or too
weak, to comprehend the subject.