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"She is not a common peasant woman You could not believe that she would

ever kick her heels in a 'foursome reel,' or pass coarse jokes with the

lads Yet she ar, sir She has a soul, and she is conscious of it She

had parents, grave and thoughtful, who governed by a look, without waste

of words Though she lives on the wild Fife coast, she has grown up

beneath the shade of Judea's palms; for the Bible has blended itself with

all her life Sarah, Moses, Joshua, Ruth, and David, are far more real

people to her than Peel or Wellington, or Jenny Lind, or even Victoria

She has been fed upon faith, subjected to duty, andand death The very week I met her, she had lost her

father and three eldest brothers in a sudden storm If you could see her

eyes, you could look into her pure soul A woar, father"

"A lover is allowed to exaggerate, Allan"

"But I do not exaggerate Uneducated she certainly is She can write a

little; and in the long stors, I read aloud to her and

to her brother But Scott and Burns and Leigh Hunt are not an education

Her Bible has really been her only teacher"

"It is His Word," said John Caenerations to who, had no other

book It eous unto death It entle, faithful, pure, ideal I remember my mother, Allan; she came

from the same school Her soul lived so el had suddenly appeared to her, she would scarcely have been