"It is a terrible word you have said, and may the Lord forgive you." "Forgive me!" echoed his brother, in a kind of frenzy.

"Indeed, he will not be doing that.

Did not the minister's wife tell me as much ?" "No, no," said his brother.

"She would not be saying that." "Indeed, that is her very word," said Black Hugh.
"She could not say that," said his brother, "for it is not the Word of God." "Indeed," replied Black Hugh, like a man who had thought it all out, "she would be reading it out of the Book to me that unless I would be forgiving, that--that--" he paused, not being able to find a word, but went on--"then I need not hope to be forgiven my own self." "Yes, yes.

That is true," assented Macdonald Bhain.