Somethin' wrong with me, perhaps, but I don't seem to be able to work up no excitement about it.

I'd like to, but somehow it ain't in me." When Macdonald Bhain reported this difficulty of Yankee's to Mrs.
Murray, she only said: "'What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God ?'" And with this Macdonald Bhain was content, and when he told Yankee, the latter came as near to excitement as he ever allowed himself.

He chewed vigorously for a few moments, then, slapping his thigh, he exclaimed: "By jings! That's great.

She's all right, ain't she?
We ain't all built the same way, but I'm blamed if I don't like her model." But the shantymen noticed that the revival had swept into the church, during the winter months, a great company of the young people of the congregation; and of these, a band of some ten or twelve young men, with Don among them, were attending daily a special class carried on in the vestry of the church for those who desired to enter training for the ministry.
Mrs.Murray urged Ranald to join this class, for, even though he had no intention of becoming a minister, still the study would be good for him, and would help him in his after career.

She remembered how Ranald had told her that he had no intention of being a farmer or lumberman.