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Updated: June 27, 2025
Do you think that any school could do for you what all these years of forgetting yourself and caring for others have done all your loving patience with your afflicted mother, all your care of your sister and the little lads, all your forbearance with Dan, all your late joy in him? If you cared for me, Shenac, you would not say you are not fit." It was very pleasant to listen to all this.
Yes; her work for the children was done. She said it over and over again, repeating that it was better so, and that she was glad and thankful that all would be so well. But she said it with many a tear and many a sigh and sob; for, having no experience of life beyond her long labour and care for them, it seemed to this foolish Shenac that really and truly her life's work was done.
He wondered as well as Shenac, but not in the same way; for he had felt in his own heart the wondrous power that lies in the simple truth of God to comfort and strengthen and enlighten; and it came into his mind, sometimes, that the good days of which he had read were coming back again, when the Lord used to work openly in the eyes of all the people, making his Church the instrument of spreading the glory of his name by the conversion of many in a day.
He did not often speak of his happiness in words, just as he had seldom spoken of his troubles; but every tone of his gentle voice and every glance of his loving eye spoke to the heart of his sister, filling it with content for his sake. What was the cause of the change? what was the secret of her brother's peace? Shenac wondered and wondered.
About this time they had a visit from their Uncle Allister, their mother's brother, in whose house Hamish had passed the summer. He brought his two daughters pretty, cheerful girls who determined between themselves, encouraged by Hamish, that they should carry off Shenac for a month's visit when they went home.
The old man's dogmatic ways vexed and irritated Shenac many a time; even Hamish had much ado to keep his patience and the thread of his argument at the same time; but Allister never lost his temper, and if the old man grew bitter and disagreeable, as he sometimes did, the best cure for it was Allister's good-humoured determination not to see it, and so they always got on well together.
"He who sent them knows them every one; and He can make his grace sufficient for us," said Hamish softly. "Ay, for you, Hamish." "And for you too, Shenac. You are not very far from the light, dear sister. Never fear." "And in that purest light of thine We clearly light shall see," murmured Shenac.
"What's that about Shenac yonder?" said that young person, coming in upon them. "I should like to know what you are plotting, you two, together and bringing in my innocent name too!" "Nothing very bad," said Shenac, laughing. "I want Christie to cut my hair, it is such a trouble; it takes a whole half-hour at one time or other of the day to keep it neat, and half-hours are precious."
She would hardly have found courage to break away from them all and go to a new, untried life, of her own free will, even though her work at home were done. This was the thing which Shenac thought she never could tell even to Hamish.
The additional width which Katie quietly appropriated to Shenac's skirt would have been declared a piece of sinful extravagance, if the mother had known of it before Shenac was turning round, from one to another, to be admired with the new dress on. She did cry out at the length. Why the stocking could only just be seen above the shoe tied round the slender ankle!
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