Her music was old-fashioned, of course; but I have a fancy that perhaps the older the music one learns first, the better; for the deeper is thereby the rooting of that which will have the atmosphere of the age to blossom in.

But then to every lover of the truth, a true thing is dearer because it is old-fashioned, and dearer because it is new-fashioned: and true music, like true love, like all truth, laughs at the god Fashion, because it knows him to be but an ape.
Every day, then, except Saturday and Sunday, Miss Machar had for two years been in the habit of walking or driving to Glashruach, and there spending the morning hours; but of late her father had been ailing, and as he was so old that she could not without anxiety leave him when suffering from the smallest indisposition, she had found herself compelled either to give up teaching Ginevra, or to ask Mr.Galbraith to allow her to go, when such occasion should render it necessary, to the manse.

She did the latter; the laird had consented; and thence arose the duty required of Nicie.

Mr.
Machar's health did not improve as the spring advanced, and by the time Mr.Galbraith left for London, he was confined to his room, and Ginevra's walk to the manse for lessons had settled into a custom..