He almost felt the dear old hymn thrilling through the still room.

In some way, too, Colin had grasped the grandest points of his father's character.

In this picture the man's splendid physical beauty seemed in some mysterious way to give assurance of an equally splendid spiritual nature.
"If this is making pictures, Colin, I'll no say but what you could paint a sermon, my dear lad.

I hae ne'er seen a picture before." Then he turned to another, and his swarthy face glowed with an intense emotion.

There was a sudden sense of tightening in his throat, and he put his hand up and slowly raised his hat.