While the breath is in his body, I'll be with him.

And he's not long for here, either: that I can tell you, Charlie--he's not long for here.

The mark is on his brow; and better so--maybe better so.' I was a while silent, not knowing what to say; and when I roused my head at last to speak, she got before me.
'Charlie,' she said, 'what's right for me, neednae be right for you.
There's sin upon this house and trouble; you are a stranger; take your things upon your back and go your ways to better places and to better folk, and if you were ever minded to come back, though it were twenty years syne, you would find me aye waiting.' 'Mary Ellen,' I said, 'I asked you to be my wife, and you said as good as yes.

That's done for good.

Wherever you are, I am; as I shall answer to my God.' As I said the words, the wind suddenly burst out raving, and then seemed to stand still and shudder round the house of Aros.