puir fellow, he sought me oot where I was, and wouldna leave till I
cam' wi him.

"'Go home,' I said, 'Howe; it's death for ye to be oot in this sleet
and cold. Why not leave me to lie in the bed I hae made?'

"He took me by the arm into a passage. I see the gaslicht on his
white face, and the shining o' his eyes.

"'Because I have a mother...'

"Dominie, he pulled me oot o' hell."

"Me tae, Andra, but no your hell. Ye mind the Roman Triumph, when a
general cam' hame wi' his spoils. Laddie, we're the captives that go
with his chariot up the Capitol."

Donald Menzies was a man of moods, and the Doctor's prayer had
loosed his imagination so that he saw visions.

"Look," said he, as we stood on a ridge, "I hef seen it before in
the book of Joshua."

Below the bearers had crossed a burn on foot, and were ascending the
slope where an open space of deep green was fringed with purple
heather.

"The ark hass gone over Jordan, and George will have come into the
Land of Promise."