It were an ill thing to do to teach him to despise the home where his mother first saw light, and the kinsfolks who are called by her name." Kate's sound sense and good feeling showed her the truth of her father's words, and she dutifully promised not to transgress; but she did not altogether relish the thought of the prospect in store for her cousin, and as she went upstairs with Bessie to the comfortable bed chamber they shared together, she whispered, with a mischievous light dancing in her eyes: "Ah, it is one thing for the grave and reverend elders to plan, but it is another for the young to obey.

Methinks Cuthbert will need no hint from me to despise the home of the honest wool stapler.

He has been bred in woods and forests.

He has the blood of the Trevlyns in his veins.

I trow the shop on London Bridge will have small charms for him.