It is for a moment only, and then you are a gray-haired man again, and she has been in her grave for many a year; but you have that moment." Aaron rose, amazed and wrathful.

"The de'il tak' you," he cried, "how did you find out that ?" Perhaps Tommy's nose turned up rapturously in reply, for the best of us cannot command ourselves altogether at great moments, but when he spoke he was modest again.
"It was sympathy that told me," he explained; "and, Aaron, if you will only believe me, it tells me also that a little of the man you were still clings to you.

Come out of the moroseness in which you have enveloped yourself so long.

Think what a joy it would be to Elspeth." "It's little she would care." "If you want to hurt her, tell her so." "I'm no denying but what she's fell fond o' me." "Then for her sake," Tommy pleaded.
But the warper turned on him with baleful eyes.

"She likes me," he said in a grating voice, "and yet I'm as nothing to her; we are all as nothing to her beside you.