'If I was to see you I was to hide.' Montroymont sighed.

'Well, and that's good of her too,' said he.

'The less that I ken of thir doings the better for me; and the best thing you can do is just to obey her, and see and be a good son to her, the same as ye are to me, Francie.' At the tenderness of this expression the heart of Francie swelled within his bosom, and his remorse was poured out.

'Faither!' he cried, 'I said "deil" to-day; many's the time I said it, and _damnable_ too, and _hellitsh_.

I ken they're all right; they're beeblical.