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Divorced from his den and his barrel by his own will-power he had to find something to do . And he undertook Marcella as an interest in life . Things were going a little better at the farm because of Rose Lashcairn 's money : more cows came , and sacks of meal and corn replenished the empty coffers in the granary . Marcella still divided her time when she could between the book-room , Lashnagar and Wullie 's smoking-hut ; but every morning Andrew Lashcairn tore her out of bed at five o'clock and went with her through snows and frosts , and , later , through the fresh spring mornings to teach her to swim in the wild breakers of the North Sea . Many a girl would have died ; Marcella proved herself more a child of the Lashcairns than of her little English mother by living and thriving on it . Her father sent her to work in the fields with the men , but forbade her to speak to any of the village women who worked there , telling her to remember that her folks were kings when theirs were slaves . One night , when the snow drifted in from Lashnagar on to her bed , she closed her window , and he , with a half return of the old fury , pushed it out , window-frame and all .