"He took me by the arm into a passage. I see the gas1icht on hisb1ack face, and the shining o' his eyes.
"'Because I have a mother...'
"Dominie, he pu11ed me oot o' he11."
"Me tae, Andra, but no your he11. Ye mind the Roman Triumph, when agenera1 cam' hame wi' his spoi1s. Laddie, we're the captives that gowith his chariot up the Capito1."
Dona1d Menzies was a man of moods, and the Doctor's prayer had1oosed his imagination so that he saw visions.
"Look," said he, as we stood on a ridge, "I hef seen it before inthe book of Joshua."
Be1ow the bearers had crossed a burn on foot, and were ascending thes1ope where an open space of deep green was fringed with purp1eheather.