Before the congregation left, the Doctor addressed a few words of most practical advice, exhorting them, in especial, to live in the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount, and to be good neighbours.

It was on one of those occasions that he settled a dispute between masters and men--whether the cutting of grass for the horses' breakfast should be included in the day's work--and ended the only bitterness known in Drumtochty.
At the kirk gate Hay introduced himself to his father's friend, and the General looked round to find his daughter, but Kate had disappeared.
She had seen the face of Marget Howe after the Sacrament as the face of one in a vision, and she had followed Marget to the road.
"Will you let me walk with you for a little?
I am General Carnegie's daughter, and I would like to speak to you about the Sacrament; it was lovely." [Illustration: "Will you let me walk with you for a little ?"] "Ye dae me much honour, Miss Carnegie," and Marget slightly flushed, "an' much pleasure, for there is naething dearer tae me than keeping the Sacrament; it is my joy every day and muckle comfort in life." "But I thought you had it only once a year ?" questioned Kate.
"With bread and wine in outward sign that is once, and maybe eneuch, for it makes ane high day for us all, but div ye not think, Miss Carnegie, that all our life should be ane Sacrament ?" "Tell me," said Kate, looking into Marget's sweet, spiritual face.
"Is it no the picture of His Luve, who thocht o' everybody but Himsel', an' saved everybody but Himsel', an' didna He say we maun drink His cup and live His life ?" Kate only signed that Marget should go on.
"Noo a 'm judgin' that ilka ane o's is savit juist as we are baptised intae the Lord's death, and ilka time ane o's keeps back a hot word, or humbles a proud heart, or serves anither at a cost, we have eaten the Body and drunk the Blood o' the Lord." "You are a good woman," cried Kate, in her impulsive way, so quick to be pleased or offended.

"May I come to see you some day ?" "Dinna think me better than I am: a woman who had many sins tae fecht and needit many trials tae chasten her; but ye will be welcome at Whinny Knowe for yir ain sake and yir people's, an' gin it ever be in ma pooer tae serve ye, Miss Carnegie, in ony wy, it wull be ma joy." Twice as she came through the woods Kate stopped; once she bit her lip, once she dashed a tear from her eye.
"Where did you go to, lassie ?" and the General met Kate at the gateway.
"Lord Hay came to the drive with me, and was quite disappointed not to meet you--a very nice lad indeed, manly and well-mannered." "Never mind Lord Hay, dad; I 've been with the most delightful woman I 've ever seen." "Do you mean she was in kirk ?" "Yes, sitting across the table--she is a farmer's wife, and a better lady than we saw in India.
"Oh, dad," and Kate kissed her father, "I wish I had known my mother; it had been better for me, and.

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