The famine and the fever that followed it left him fatherless and brotherless.

The emigration schemes robbed him and his mother of their surviving relations.

The mission school and the missionary's charity effected the half conversion of the mother and a whole-hearted acceptance of the new faith on the part of AEneas.

Unlike most of his fellows in the college classrooms, he refused to regard an English curacy as the goal of his ambition.

It seemed to him that his conversion ought not to end in his parading the streets of Liverpool in a black coat and a white tie.