"My mind is in much the same state at leaving Scotland, and going back to my work in London.

I hardly know which I admire most--your beautiful country or the people who inhabit it.

I have had some pleasant talk with your poorer neighbors; the one improvement I could wish for among them is a keener sense of their religious duties." This was an objection new in Randal's experience of travelers in general.
"Our Highlanders have noble qualities," he said.

"If you knew them as well as I do, you would find a true sense of religion among them; not presenting itself, however, to strangers as strongly--I had almost said as aggressively--as the devotional feeling of the Lowland Scotch.
Different races, different temperaments." "And all," the Captain added, gravely and gently, "with souls to be saved.

If I sent to these poor people some copies of the New Testament, translated into their own language, would my gift be accepted ?" Strongly interested by this time, in studying Captain Bennydeck's character on the side of it which was new to him, Randal owned that he observed with surprise the interest which his friend felt in perfect strangers.