If it were an ordinary man who thus offended, he might rebuke him by asking
if he remembered who said those words; once, when it was a man specially
regarded who gave the offence, I heard him say something to this effect,
"The maister doesna forget whaur and whan he spak thae words: I houp ye do
forget!" Indeed the most powerful force in the education of Maggie was the
evident attitude of her father toward that Son of Man who was even now
bringing the children of God to the knowledge of that Father of whom the
whole family in heaven and earth is named. Mingling with her delights in
the inanimate powers of Nature, in the sun and the wind, in the rain and
the growth, in the running waters and the darkness sown with stars, was
such a sense of His presence that she felt like him, He might at any moment
appear to her father, or, should it so please Him, even to herself.
Two or three miles away, in the heart of the hills, on the outskirts of the
farm of Stonecross, lived an old cottar and his wife, who paid a few
shillings of rent to Mr.
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