In such a case, a more gentle nature than ever endowed a Yordas might have grown hardened and bitter; and Duncan, being of true Yordas fibre (thickened and toughened with slower Scotch sap), was not of the sort to be ousted lightly and grow at the feet of his supplanters.
Therefore he cast himself on the winds, in search of fairer soil, and was not heard of in his native land; and Scargate Hall and estates were held by the sisters in joint tenancy, with remainder to the first son born of whichever it might be of them.

And this was so worded through the hurry of their father to get some one established in the place of his own son.
But from paltry passions, turn away a little while to the things which excite, but are not excited by them.
Scargate Hall stands, high and old, in the wildest and most rugged part of the wild and rough North Riding.

Many are the tales about it, in the few and humble cots, scattered in the modest distance, mainly to look up at it.

In spring and summer, of the years that have any, the height and the air are not only fine, but even fair and pleasant.

So do the shadows and the sunshine wander, elbowing into one another on the moor, and so does the glance of smiling foliage soothe the austerity of crag and scaur.