There he discovered a talent and developed a taste for singing that delighted his leader's heart, and opened out to himself a new world.

The piano, too, was a new and rare treat to Ranald.

In all the country there was no other, and even in the manse it was seldom heard, for Mrs.Murray found little time, amid the multitude of household and congregational duties, to keep up her piano practice.

That part of her life, with others of like kind, she had been forced to lose.
But since Maimie's coming, the piano had been in daily use, and even on the Sabbath days, though not without danger to the sensibilities of the neighbors, she had used it to accompany the hymns with which the day always closed.
"Let us have the parts," cried Hughie.

"Maimie and I will take the air, and Ranald will take the bass.