"-- It is a grand place, anyhow!" "You are right--as you see it now.

But wait till winter! Then perhaps you will change your impression a little." "Pardon me if I doubt whether you know what winter can be so well as I do.

This east coast is by all accounts a bitter place, but I fancy it is only upon a great hill-side you can know the heart and soul of a snow-blast." "I yield that," returned Mr.Graeme.

"-- It is bitter enough here though, and a mercy we can keep warm in-doors." "Which is often more than we shepherd-folk can do," said Donal.
Mr.Graeme used to say afterwards he was never so immediately taken with a man.

It was one of the charms of Donal's habit of being, that he never spoke as if he belonged to any other than the class in which he had been born and brought up.