of Corgarff, with Marget's mother saying,
"Children, you have all my poor old heart, to keep the fire of your
young hearts warm."

She was a gracious lady, and she dwelt with us until we bore her to the
little churchyard on the hill-side, where there is a clump of trees to
break the cold sough of the winds into a lullaby. By that time another
Marget, beautiful of face like the Forbeses, lithe of limb like the
Gordons--we never could agree whom she most resembled!--had been given
to us. She was our guerdon of the reverent gospel of home, which is
the high altar of this world, the source and sanctuary of our
well-being as men and women.

We have tried to live up to that ideal, and none can do more, unless,
indeed, it be to seek the perfect heights of the Sermon on the Mount
itself. It is good to look upward there, even if one cannot hope to
reach the golden peaks of that world without an end--Amen!

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