"My little heart feels not large enough to receive so many." "The worst of it is," continued Donal, who once started was not ready to draw rein, "that those who chiefly advocate this extension of the family bonds, begin by loving their own immediate relations less than anybody else.

Extension with them means slackening--as if any one could learn to love more by loving less, or go on to do better without doing well! He who loves his own little will not love others much." "But how can we love those who are nothing to us ?" objected Miss Graeme.
"That would be impossible.

The family relations are for the sake of developing a love rooted in a far deeper though less recognized relation .-- But I beg your pardon, Miss Graeme.

Little Davie alone is my pupil, and I forget myself." "I am very glad to listen to you," returned Miss Graeme.

"I cannot say I am prepared to agree with you.