"If you knew how I feel the folly of it now, perhaps even you would wish that I felt it less.
"But we must each of us dree his own weird," he proceeded, with wonderful sweetness, when Aaron did not answer.

"And so far, at least, as Elspeth is concerned, surely I have done my duty.

I had the bringing up of her from the days when she was learning to speak." "She got into the way o' letting you do everything for her," the warper responded sourly.

"You thought for her, you acted for her, frae the first; you toomed her, and then filled her up wi' yoursel'." "She always needed some one to lean on." "Ay, because you had maimed her.

She grew up in the notion that you were all the earth and the wonder o' the world." "Could I help that ?" "Help it! Did you try?
It was the one thing you were sure o' yoursel'; it was the one thing you thought worth anybody's learning.