This, however, he did after every briefest sentence he uttered: a sip only he took, nothing like a mouthful.
Donal told him that Davie, of all the boys he had known, was far the quickest, and that just because he was morally the most teachable.
"You greatly gratify me, Mr.Grant," said the earl.

"I have long wished such a man as you for Davie.

If only I had known you when Forgue was preparing for college!" "I must have been at that time only at college myself, my lord!" "True! true!" "But for Davie, it is a privilege to teach him!" "If only it might last a while!" returned the earl.

"But of course you have the church in your eye!" "My lord, I have not." "What!" cried his lordship almost eagerly; "you intend giving your life to teaching ?" "My lord," returned Donal, "I never trouble myself about my life.

Why should we burden the mule of the present with the camel-load of the future.