"
"Are ye Whig and Kirk like your father?"
"I am Whig--until something more to the dawn than that comes up. For
the Kirk ... I will tell truth and say that I have my inner
differences. But they do not lean toward Pope or prelate.... I am
Christian, where Christ is taken very universally--the higher Self,
the mounting Wisdom of us all.... Some high things you and I may view
differently, but I believe that there are high things."
"And seek them?"
"And seek them."
"You always had the air to me," vouchsafed White Farm, "of one wha
hunted gowd elsewhaur than in the earthly mine." He looked at the red
west, and drew his plaid about him, and took firmer clutch upon his
staff. "But the lassie does not love you?"
"My trust is that she may come to do so."
The elder got to his feet. Alexander rose also.
"It's coming night! Ye will be gaeing on over the muir to the House?"
"Yes. Then, sir, I may come to White Farm, or meet her when I may, and
have my chance?"
"Aye. If so be I hear nae great thing against ye. If so be ye're
reasonable. If so be that in no way do ye try to hurt the lassie."
"I'll be reasonable," said the laird of Glenfernie. "And I'd not hurt
Elspeth if I could!" His face shone, his voice was a deep and happy
music. He was so bound, so at the feet of Elspeth, that he could not
but believe in joy and fortune.
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