"It's a stern country and one has much to bear; but it calls.

One fears the hardships, cold, and danger--but one goes." Agatha looked up quietly, but he noted the gleam in her eyes.
"You _know_! Well, you can imagine what it cost my father to resist the call, but he did resist for many years.

He loved my mother, but I think he hated the growing town; then there was the dream of riches that might be his.

He was not greedy, and my brother did not need money.

George had a talent for business and his employers soon promoted him; but I was fond of science, and it was my father's ambition that I should make independent researches and not be forced to work for pay." She hesitated, and then went on: "Perhaps I am boring you, but I wanted you to understand what his duty must have cost.