He got to enjoy the hot, scented atmosphere and rare blossoms of the conservatory, and it became a daily delight to him to sit an hour in Colin's studio and watch the progress of some favorite picture.
But above all his life was made rich by his grandson.

Nature, as she often does, reproduced in the second generation what she had totally omitted in the first.

The boy was his grandfather over again.

They agreed upon every point.

It was the laird who taught Alexander to spear a salmon, and throw a trout-line, and stalk a deer.