The next moment she had broken down, but only for a few moments did tears fall and sobs come.

Then she took her two boys in her arms and told us not to mind her foolishness.

There were many things in the world for us to do and we could be useful men, honored and respected, if we always did what was right.

It was a repetition of Helen Macgregor, in her reply to Osbaldistone in which she threatened to have her prisoners "chopped into as many pieces as there are checks in the tartan." But the reason for the outburst was different.

It was not because the occupation suggested was peaceful labor, for we were taught that idleness was disgraceful; but because the suggested occupation was somewhat vagrant in character and not entirely respectable in her eyes.