"Weedon Scott was a masterful man. He was the lord of the domain of the home, sitting in the high places of the family councils, and governing with a vigorous hand. All things had been taken from him, even to his land, yet was he cheerful and confident. He moved among men, and they bowed before his greatness; but they loved him, too, and gazed upon him with a mixture of awe and respect and wonder." (Chapter 19, page 272)
