Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys

“ Whisky-drinking — card-playing — was this what she was expected to tolerate ? Truly an unregenerate household this, and yet one in which godly reproof was forbidden her.
A difficult task, indeed, lay before her.
Here was an erring soul to be brought to a knowledge of its own sinfulness. A household in which comfort held veritable snares for the unwary. Here was no sense of "danger to come," no self-conviction of sin, no fighting daily with the old Adam of unrighteousness. What a work lay before her! What a stupendous mountain of duty her feet must needs climb. ”

“ My sight's failing me fast, and the days are long to a blind old man."
Catherine Macpherson gave a gasp.
Play cribbage! read a newspaper! Surely these were the very works and wiles of the devil!
"I have never touched a card in my life, Jamie," she said sternly. " I could not bring myself to do it now. As for newspapers," she gave a glance of dislike at the Times as she spoke, " I would, of course, do my duty to you — though I'll not say I hold with the opinions and politics of the day, or consider the contents of a journal as wholesome reading." ”

“ Scotch people are, perhaps, the least demonstrative in the way of affection of any nation on the face of the earth. Still, it surprised Margaret Weimar to see her father and his sister greet each other as if their parting had been a thing of days instead of years. ”