He had also an appreciative love of money; he knew just how many sixpences he owned, and though he could give if asked to do so, he always wanted the dominie to give him a good reason for giving.

The child gave him back again his youth, and a fuller and nobler one than he himself had known.
And God was very gracious to him, and lengthened out this second youth to a green old age.

These men of old Gaul had iron constitutions; they did not begin to think themselves old men until they had turned fourscore.

It was thirty years after Helen's death when Tallisker one night sent this word to his life-long friend, "I hae been called, Crawford; come and see me once more." They all went together to the manse.

The dominie was in his ninety-first year, and he was going home.