It was buried up in the air; and the Glamour on which it had floated so gaily, would soon be buried under the ice.

Summer alone could bring them together again--the one from the dry gloom of the barn, the other from the cold seclusion of its wintry hebetude.
Meantime Mrs Forbes was somewhat troubled in her mind as to what should be done with Alec; and she often talked with the schoolmaster about him.

Herself of higher birth, socially considered, than her husband, she had the ambition that her son should be educated for some profession.

Now in Scotland education is more easily got than almost anything else; and whether there might be room for the exercise of the profession afterwards, was a matter of less moment to Mrs Forbes, seeing she was not at all willing that the farm which had been in her husband's family for hundreds of years, should pass into the hands of strangers, and Alec himself had the strongest attachment to the ancestral soil; for to be loved it is not necessary that land should be freehold.

At length his increased diligence, which had not escaped her observation, and was testified to by Mr Malison, confirmed her determination that he should at least go to college.