He rejoiced especially that she
should delight in feeling the wind about her, for he held it to indicate
sympathy with that spirit whose symbol it was, and which he loved to think
of as folding her about, closer and more lovingly than his own cherishing
soul.
Of her own impulse, and almost from the moment of her mother's death, she
had given herself to his service, first in doing all the little duties of
the house, and then, as her strength and faculty grew, in helping him more
and more in his trade. As soon as she had cleared away the few things
necessary for a breakfast of porridge and milk, Maggie would hasten to join
her father where he stooped over his last, for he was a little
shortsighted.
When he lifted his head you might see that, notwithstanding the ruggedness
of his face, he was a good looking man, with strong, well-proportioned
features, in which, even on Sundays, when he scrubbed his face
unmercifully, there would still remain lines suggestive of ingrained rosin
and heelball.
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