Show me how a man treats women an' I'll tell ye what he amounts to.

There's the test that shows whether he's a man or a spaniel dog." There was a little moment of silence then--how well I remember it! The schoolmaster broke the silence by adding: "Well ye know, lad, I think the greatest thing that Jesus Christ did was showing to a wicked world the sanctity o' motherhood." That, I think, was the last lesson in the school year.

Just beyond us I could see the slant of Bowman's Hill.

What an amount of pains they gave those days to the building of character! It will seem curious and perhaps even wearisome now, but it must show here if I am to hold the mirror up to the time.
"I wonder why Kate is asking about me," I said.
"Never mind the reason.

She is your friend and let us thank God for it.
Think how she came to yer help in the old barn an' say a thousand prayers, my lad.