I liked to have her attention while I was preaching, even as a child; and when she was absent I missed her.

It was through my ministrations that she saw her way to professing the Church of Christ, and under my heartfelt benediction that she first broke bread in her Father's house.

I hold the girl in great affection, Finlay; and I grieve to hear this." The other drew a long breath, and his hand tightened on the arm of his chair.

He was, as we know, blind to many of the world's aspects, even to those in which he himself figured; and Dr Drummond's plain hypothesis of his relations with Advena came before him in forced illumination, flash by tragic flash.

This kind of revelation is more discomforting than darkness, since it carries the surprise of assault, and Finlay groped in it, helpless and silent.
"You are grieved, sir ?" he said mechanically.
"Man, she loves you!" exclaimed the Doctor, in a tone that would no longer forbear.
Hugh Finlay seemed to take the words just where they were levelled, in his breast.