He was already a thorough Cardross--not in the least a Bruce; he inherited Helen's great blue eyes, large frame, and healthy temperament, and was, in short, that repetition of the mother in the son which Dame Nature delights in, and out of which she sometimes makes the finest and noblest men that the world ever sees.
"Boy has been wide awake these two hours, noticing every thing," said his mother, with a mother's firm conviction that this rather imaginative fact was the most interesting possible to every body.

"He might have known the loch quite well already, by the way he kept staring at it." "He will know it well enough by-and by," said the earl, smiling.

"You are aware, Helen, that he and you are permanently coming home." "To the Manse?
yes! My dear father! he will keep us there during his life time.

Afterward we must take our chance, my boy and I." "Not quite that.

Are you not aware--I thought, from circumstances, you must have guessed it long ago--that Cairnforth Castle, and my whole property, will be yours sometime ?" "I will tell you no untruth, Lord Cairnforth.