4/13 No, no," she added shrewdly, nodding her head, "He will punish us for our sins, but the devil is not going to triumph over the Almighty in the end." Morva pondered seriously as she fed the fire from a heap of dried furze piled up in the corner behind the big chimney. Now tell me about the night when first I came to you. I love that story as much now as I did when I was a child." "That night," said Sara, "oh! that night, my child. I see it as plainly as I have seen the gold of the sunset to-night. It had been blowing all day from the north-west till the bay was like a pot of boiling milk. |