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But though the intended sacrifice had been a sincerely pure and unselfish

one, it had nevertheless been refused Why it had been refused, was the

question filling David's heart with doubt and despair, as he sat with his

head in his hands, gazing into the fire that March afternoon Maggie was

watching hih he did not perceive it, and by an al hi fair fishers, with that open air look et who continually set

their faces to the winds and waves David was different altogether He was

exceedingly tall, and until years filled in his huge fraawky" But he had the face of a

mediaeval ecclesiastic; spare, and sallow, and pointed at the chin His

hair, black and exceeding fine, hung naturally in long, straggling ht and perhaps a little cruel; his black, deep set

eyes had the glow in them of a passionate and mystical soul Such a man,

if he had not been reared in the straitest sect of Calvinism, would have

adopted it--for it was his soul's native air

That he should go to the university and become a minister seemed to David

as proper as that an apple tree should bear an apple As soon as it was

suggested, he felt hieneral