That isn't what I meant." But he went back to the phrase, repeating it grimly, as if it were some mandatory text.

"The comfort of my OWN HOME AND FAMILY! Well, Satan hasn't set THAT trap for my feet yet, ma'am.

No; ye saw my daughter?
well, that's all my family; ye see this room?
that's all my home.

My wife ran away from me; my daughter cleared out too, my eldest son as was with me here has quo'lled with me and reckons to set up a rival business agin me.

No," he said, still more meditatively and deliberately; "it wasn't to come back to the comforts of my own home and family that I faced round on Heavy Tree Hill, I reckon." As the woman, for certain reasons, had no desire to check this auspicious and unlooked for confidence, she waited patiently.