Men may call her an angel lightly enough; Jim knows her to be an angel, and says never a word.

His romance is true, and pure, and beautiful while it lasts--the only true, pure, and beautiful romance many women ever inspire, and alas! they never know of it, and would not prize it if they did.
That was the feeling Dick had for Christina Shine.

Thore had been others--Richard Haddon was not bigoted in his constancy--but now it was Miss Chris, and to him she was both angel and princess; a princess stolen from her royal cradle by the impostor Shine under moving and mysterious circumstances, and at the instigation of a disreputable uncle.

It only remained for Dick to slaughter the latter in fair fight, under the eyes of an admiring multitude, in order to restore Chris to all her royal dignities and privileges.
Jock Summers had not relaxed his grip on the boy's ear.

He led him to a small dairy sunk in the side of the hill and roofed with stone.
Ye may bide in there, laddie,' he said, 'till I can make up my mind.