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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Waverley, by Sir Walter Scott
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+Title: Waverley
+       Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence
+
+Author: Sir Walter Scott
+
+Posting Date: October 27, 2014 [EBook #4966]
+Release Date: January, 2004
+First Posted: April 5, 2002
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WAVERLEY ***
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+Produced by Robert Rowe, Charles Franks and the Online
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+[Transcriber's Note:
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+I feel that it is important to note that this book is part of the
+Caledonian series. The Caledonian series is a group of 50 books
+comprising all of Sir Walter Scott's works.]
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+WAVERLEY
+
+OR 'T IS SIXTY YEARS SINCE
+
+BY SIR WALTER SCOTT
+
+VOLUME I
+
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+
+PUBLISHERS' NOTE
+
+
+It has long been the ambition of the present publishers to offer to the
+public an ideal edition of the writings of Sir Walter Scott, the great
+poet and novelist of whom William Hazlitt said, 'His works are almost
+like a new edition of human nature.' Secure in the belief not only that
+his writings have achieved a permanent place in the literature of the
+world, but that succeeding generations will prize them still more
+highly, we have, after the most careful planning and study, undertaken
+the publication of this edition of the Waverley Novels and the complete
+poetical writings.
+
+It is evident that the ideal edition of a great classic must be
+distinguished in typography, must present the best available text, and
+must be illustrated in such a way as at once to be beautiful in itself
+and to add to the reader's pleasure and his understanding of the book.
+As to the typography and text, little need be said here. The format of
+the edition has been most carefully studied, and represents the use of
+the best resources of The Riverside Press. The text has been carefully
+edited in the light of Scott's own revisions; all of his own latest
+notes have been included, glossaries have been added, and full
+descriptive notes to the illustrations have been prepared which will,
+we hope, add greatly to the reader's interest and instruction in the
+reading of the novels and poems.
+
+Of the illustrations, which make the special feature of this edition,
+something more may be said. In the case of an author like Sir Walter
+Scott, the ideal edition requires that the beautiful and romantic
+scenery amid which he lived and of which he wrote shall be adequately
+presented to the reader. No other author ever used more charming
+backgrounds or employed them to better advantage. To see Scotland, and
+to visit in person all the scenes of the novels and poems, would enable
+the reader fully to understand these backgrounds and thereby add
+materially to his appreciation of the author.
+
+Before beginning the preparation of this edition, the head of the
+department having it in charge made a visit in person to the scenes of
+the novels and poems, determined to explore all the localities referred
+to by the author, so far as they could be identified. The field proved
+even more productive than had been at first supposed, and photographs
+were obtained in sufficient quantity to illustrate all the volumes.
+These pictures represent the scenes very much as Scott saw them. The
+natural scenery--mountains, woods, lakes, rivers, seashore, and the
+like--is nearly the same as in his day. The ruins of ancient castles
+and abbeys were found to correspond very closely with his descriptions,
+though in many instances he had in imagination rebuilt these ruins and
+filled them with the children of his fancy. The scenes of the stories
+extend into nearly every county in Scotland and through a large part of
+England and Wales. All of these were thoroughly investigated, and
+photographs were made of everything of interest. One of the novels has
+to do with France and Belgium, one with Switzerland, one with the Holy
+Land, one with Constantinople, and one with India. For all of these
+lands, which Scott did not visit in person, and therefore did not
+describe with the same attention to detail as in the case of his own
+country, interesting pictures of characteristic scenery were secured.
+By this method the publishers have hoped to bring before the reader a
+series of photographs which will not only please the eye and give a
+satisfactory artistic effect to the volumes, but also increase the
+reader's knowledge of the country described and add a new charm to the
+delightful work of the author. In addition to the photographs, old
+engravings and paintings have been reproduced for the illustration of
+novels having to do with old buildings, streets, etc., which have long
+since disappeared. For this material a careful search was made in the
+British Museum, the Advocates' Library and City Museum, Edinburgh, the
+Library at Abbotsford, the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, and other
+collections.
+
+It has been thought, too, that the ideal edition of Scott's works would
+not be complete without an adequate portrayal of his more memorable
+characters. This has been accomplished in a series of frontispieces
+specially painted for this edition by twenty of the most distinguished
+illustrators of England.
+
+4 PARK STREET, BOSTON.
+
+
+
+
+
+ADVERTISEMENT TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS
+
+
+IT has been the occasional occupation of the Author of Waverley, for
+several years past, to revise and correct the voluminous series of
+Novels which pass under that name, in order that, if they should ever
+appear as his avowed productions, he might render them in some degree
+deserving of a continuance of the public favour with which they have
+been honoured ever since their first appearance. For a long period,
+however, it seemed likely that the improved and illustrated edition
+which he meditated would be a posthumous publication. But the course of
+the events which occasioned the disclosure of the Author's name having,
+in a great measure, restored to him a sort of parental control over
+these Works, he is naturally induced to give them to the press in a
+corrected, and, he hopes, an improved form, while life and health
+permit the task of revising and illustrating them. Such being his
+purpose, it is necessary to say a few words on the plan of the proposed
+Edition.
+
+In stating it to be revised and corrected, it is not to be inferred
+that any attempt is made to alter the tenor of the stories, the
+character of the actors, or the spirit of the dialogue. There is no
+doubt ample room for emendation in all these points,--but where the
+tree falls it must lie. Any attempt to obviate criticism, however just,
+by altering a work already in the hands of the public is generally
+unsuccessful. In the most improbable fiction, the reader still desires
+some air of vraisemblance, and does not relish that the incidents of a
+tale familiar to him should be altered to suit the taste of critics, or
+the caprice of the Author himself. This process of feeling is so
+natural, that it may be observed even in children, who cannot endure
+that a nursery story should be repeated to them differently from the
+manner in which it was first told.
+
+But without altering, in the slightest degree, either the story or the
+mode of telling it, the Author has taken this opportunity to correct
+errors of the press and slips of the pen. That such should exist cannot
+be wondered at, when it is considered that the Publishers found it
+their interest to hurry through the press a succession of the early
+editions of the various Novels, and that the Author had not the usual
+opportunity of revision. It is hoped that the present edition will be
+found free from errors of that accidental kind.
+
+The Author has also ventured to make some emendations of a different
+character, which, without being such apparent deviations from the
+original stories as to disturb the reader's old associations, will, he
+thinks, add something to the spirit of the dialogue, narrative, or
+description. These consist in occasional pruning where the language is
+redundant, compression where the style is loose, infusion of vigour
+where it is languid, the exchange of less forcible for more appropriate
+epithets--slight alterations in short, like the last touches of an
+artist, which contribute to heighten and finish the picture, though an
+inexperienced eye can hardly detect in what they consist.
+
+The General Preface to the new Edition, and the Introductory Notices to
+each separate work, will contain an account of such circumstances
+attending the first publication of the Novels and Tales as may appear
+interesting in themselves, or proper to be communicated to the public.
+The Author also proposes to publish, on this occasion, the various
+legends, family traditions, or obscure historical facts which have
+formed the ground-work of these Novels, and to give some account of the
+places where the scenes are laid, when these are altogether, or in
+part, real; as well as a statement of particular incidents founded on
+fact; together with a more copious Glossary, and Notes explanatory of
+the ancient customs and popular superstitions referred to in the
+Romances.
+
+Upon the whole, it is hoped that the Waverley Novels, in their new
+dress, will not be found to have lost any part of their attractions in
+consequence of receiving illustrations by the Author, and undergoing
+his careful revision.
+
+ABBOTSFORD, January, 1829.
+
+
+
+
+
+GENERAL PREFACE TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS
+
+    ---And must I ravel out
+    My weaved-up follies?
+
+    Richard II, Act IV.
+
+Having undertaken to give an Introductory Account of the compositions
+which are here offered to the public, with Notes and Illustrations, the
+Author, under whose name they are now for the first time collected,
+feels that he has the delicate task of speaking more of himself and his
+personal concerns than may perhaps be either graceful or prudent. In
+this particular he runs the risk of presenting himself to the public in
+the relation that the dumb wife in the jest-book held to her husband,
+when, having spent half of his fortune to obtain the cure of her
+imperfection, he was willing to have bestowed the other half to restore
+her to her former condition. But this is a risk inseparable from the
+task which the Author has undertaken, and he can only promise to be as
+little of an egotist as the situation will permit. It is perhaps an
+indifferent sign of a disposition to keep his word, that, having
+introduced himself in the third person singular, he proceeds in the
+second paragraph to make use of the first. But it appears to him that
+the seeming modesty connected with the former mode of writing is
+overbalanced by the inconvenience of stiffness and affectation which
+attends it during a narrative of some length, and which may be observed
+less or more in every work in which the third person is used, from the
+Commentaries of Caesar to the Autobiography of Alexander the Corrector.
+
+I must refer to a very early period of my life, were I to point out my
+first achievements as a tale-teller; but I believe some of my old
+schoolfellows can still bear witness that I had a distinguished
+character for that talent, at a time when the applause of my companions
+was my recompense for the disgraces and punishments which the future
+romance-writer incurred for being idle himself, and keeping others
+idle, during hours that should have been employed on our tasks. The
+chief enjoyment of my holidays was to escape with a chosen friend, who
+had the same taste with myself, and alternately to recite to each other
+such wild adventures as we were able to devise. We told, each in turn,
+interminable tales of knight-errantry and battles and enchantments,
+which were continued from one day to another as opportunity offered,
+without our ever thinking of bringing them to a conclusion. As we
+observed a strict secrecy on the subject of this intercourse, it
+acquired all the character of a concealed pleasure, and we used to
+select for the scenes of our indulgence long walks through the solitary
+and romantic environs of Arthur's Seat, Salisbury Crags, Braid Hills,
+and similar places in the vicinity of Edinburgh; and the recollection
+of those holidays still forms an oasis in the pilgrimage which I have
+to look back upon. I have only to add, that my friend still lives, a
+prosperous gentleman, but too much occupied with graver business to
+thank me for indicating him more plainly as a confidant of my childish
+mystery.
+
+When boyhood advancing into youth required more serious studies and
+graver cares, a long illness threw me back on the kingdom of fiction,
+as if it were by a species of fatality. My indisposition arose, in part
+at least, from my having broken a blood-vessel; and motion and speech
+were for a long time pronounced positively dangerous. For several weeks
+I was confined strictly to my bed, during which time I was not allowed
+to speak above a whisper, to eat more than a spoonful or two of boiled
+rice, or to have more covering than one thin counterpane. When the
+reader is informed that I was at this time a growing youth, with the
+spirits, appetite, and impatience of fifteen, and suffered, of course,
+greatly under this severe regimen, which the repeated return of my
+disorder rendered indispensable, he will not be surprised that I was
+abandoned to my own discretion, so far as reading (my almost sole
+amusement) was concerned, and still less so, that I abused the
+indulgence which left my time so much at my own disposal.
+
+There was at this time a circulating library in Edinburgh, founded, I
+believe, by the celebrated Allan Ramsay, which, besides containing a
+most respectable collection of books of every description, was, as
+might have been expected, peculiarly rich in works of fiction. It
+exhibited specimens of every kind, from the romances of chivalry and
+the ponderous folios of Cyrus and Cassandra, down to the most approved
+works of later times. I was plunged into this great ocean of reading
+without compass or pilot; and, unless when some one had the charity to
+play at chess with me, I was allowed to do nothing save read from
+morning to night. I was, in kindness and pity, which was perhaps
+erroneous, however natural, permitted to select my subjects of study at
+my own pleasure, upon the same principle that the humours of children
+are indulged to keep them out of mischief. As my taste and appetite
+were gratified in nothing else, I indemnified myself by becoming a
+glutton of books. Accordingly, I believe I read almost all the
+romances, old plays, and epic poetry in that formidable collection, and
+no doubt was unconsciously amassing materials for the task in which it
+has been my lot to be so much employed.
+
+At the same time I did not in all respects abuse the license permitted
+me. Familiar acquaintance with the specious miracles of fiction brought
+with it some degree of satiety, and I began by degrees to seek in
+histories, memoirs, voyages and travels, and the like, events nearly as
+wonderful as those which were the work of imagination, with the
+additional advantage that they were at least in a great measure true.
+The lapse of nearly two years, during which I was left to the exercise
+of my own free will, was followed by a temporary residence in the
+country, where I was again very lonely but for the amusement which I
+derived from a good though old-fashioned library. The vague and wild
+use which I made of this advantage I cannot describe better than by
+referring my reader to the desultory studies of Waverley in a similar
+situation, the passages concerning whose course of reading were
+imitated from recollections of my own. It must be understood that the
+resemblance extends no farther.
+
+Time, as it glided on, brought the blessings of confirmed health and
+personal strength, to a degree which had never been expected or hoped
+for. The severe studies necessary to render me fit for my profession
+occupied the greater part of my time; and the society of my friends and
+companions, who were about to enter life along with, me, filled up the
+interval with the usual amusements of young men. I was in a situation
+which rendered serious labour indispensable; for, neither possessing,
+on the one hand, any of those peculiar advantages which are supposed to
+favour a hasty advance in the profession of the law, nor being, on the
+other hand, exposed to unusual obstacles to interrupt my progress, I
+might reasonably expect to succeed according to the greater or less
+degree of trouble which I should take to qualify myself as a pleader.
+
+It makes no part of the present story to detail how the success of a
+few ballads had the effect of changing all the purpose and tenor of my
+life, and of converting a painstaking lawyer of some years' standing
+into a follower of literature. It is enough to say, that I had assumed
+the latter character for several years before I seriously thought of
+attempting a work of imagination in prose, although one or two of my
+poetical attempts did not differ from romances otherwise than by being
+written in verse. But yet I may observe, that about this time (now,
+alas! thirty years since) I had nourished the ambitious desire of
+composing a tale of chivalry, which was to be in the style of the
+Castle of Otranto, with plenty of Border characters and supernatural
+incident. Having found unexpectedly a chapter of this intended work
+among some old papers, I have subjoined it to this introductory essay,
+thinking some readers may account as curious the first attempts at
+romantic composition by an author who has since written so much in that
+department. [Footnote: See Appendix No I.] And those who complain, not
+unreasonably, of the profusion of the Tales which have followed
+Waverley, may bless their stars at the narrow escape they have made, by
+the commencement of the inundation, which had so nearly taken place in
+the first year of the century, being postponed for fifteen years later.
+
+This particular subject was never resumed, but I did not abandon the
+idea of fictitious composition in prose, though I determined to give
+another turn to the style of the work.
+
+My early recollections of the Highland scenery and customs made so
+favourable an impression in the poem called the Lady of the Lake, that
+I was induced to think of attempting something of the same kind in
+prose. I had been a good deal in the Highlands at a time when they were
+much less accessible and much less visited than they have been of late
+years, and was acquainted with many of the old warriors of 1745, who
+were, like most veterans, easily induced to fight their battles over
+again for the benefit of a willing listener like myself. It naturally
+occurred to me that the ancient traditions and high spirit of a people
+who, living in a civilised age and country, retained so strong a
+tincture of manners belonging to an early period of society, must
+afford a subject favourable for romance, if it should not prove a
+curious tale marred in the telling.
+
+It was with some idea of this kind that, about the year 1805, I threw
+together about one-third part of the first volume of Waverley. It was
+advertised to be published by the late Mr. John Ballantyne, bookseller
+in Edinburgh, under the name of Waverley; or, 'Tis Fifty Years Since--a
+title afterwards altered to 'Tis Sixty Years Since, that the actual
+date of publication might be made to correspond with the period in
+which the scene was laid. Having proceeded as far, I think, as the
+seventh chapter, I showed my work to a critical friend, whose opinion
+was unfavourable; and having then some poetical reputation, I was
+unwilling to risk the loss of it by attempting a new style of
+composition. I therefore threw aside the work I had commenced, without
+either reluctance or remonstrance. I ought to add that, though my
+ingenious friend's sentence was afterwards reversed on an appeal to the
+public, it cannot be considered as any imputation on his good taste;
+for the specimen subjected to his criticism did not extend beyond the
+departure of the hero for Scotland, and consequently had not entered
+upon the part of the story which was finally found most interesting.
+
+Be that as it may, this portion of the manuscript was laid aside in the
+drawers of an old writing-desk, which, on my first coming to reside at
+Abbotsford in 1811, was placed in a lumber garret and entirely
+forgotten. Thus, though I sometimes, among other literary avocations,
+turned my thoughts to the continuation of the romance which I had
+commenced, yet, as I could not find what I had already written, after
+searching such repositories as were within my reach, and was too
+indolent to attempt to write it anew from memory, I as often laid aside
+all thoughts of that nature.
+
+Two circumstances in particular recalled my recollection of the mislaid
+manuscript. The first was the extended and well-merited fame of Miss
+Edgeworth, whose Irish characters have gone so far to make the English
+familiar with the character of their gay and kind-hearted neighbours of
+Ireland, that she may be truly said to have done more towards
+completing the Union than perhaps all the legislative enactments by
+which it has been followed up.
+
+Without being so presumptuous as to hope to emulate the rich humour,
+pathetic tenderness, and admirable tact which pervade the works of my
+accomplished friend, I felt that something might be attempted for my
+own country, of the same kind with that which Miss Edgeworth so
+fortunately achieved for Ireland--something which might introduce her
+natives to those of the sister kingdom in a more favourable light than
+they had been placed hitherto, and tend to procure sympathy for their
+virtues and indulgence for their foibles. I thought also, that much of
+what I wanted in talent might be made up by the intimate acquaintance
+with the subject which I could lay claim to possess, as having
+travelled through most parts of Scotland, both Highland and Lowland,
+having been familiar with the elder as well as more modern race, and
+having had from my infancy free and unrestrained communication with all
+ranks of my countrymen, from the Scottish peer to the Scottish
+plough-man. Such ideas often occurred to me, and constituted an
+ambitious branch of my theory, however far short I may have fallen of
+it in practice.
+
+But it was not only the triumphs of Miss Edgeworth which worked in me
+emulation, and disturbed my indolence. I chanced actually to engage in
+a work which formed a sort of essay piece, and gave me hope that I
+might in time become free of the craft of romance-writing, and be
+esteemed a tolerable workman.
+
+In the year 1807-08 I undertook, at the request of John Murray, Esq.,
+of Albemarle Street, to arrange for publication some posthumous
+productions of the late Mr. Joseph Strutt, distinguished as an artist
+and an antiquary, amongst which was an unfinished romance, entitled
+Queenhoo Hall. The scene of the tale was laid in the reign of Henry VI,
+and the work was written to illustrate the manners, customs, and
+language of the people of England during that period. The extensive
+acquaintance which Mr. Strutt had acquired with such subjects in
+compiling his laborious Horda Angel-Cynnan, his Regal and
+Ecclesiastical Antiquities, and his Essay on the Sports and Pastimes of
+the People of England had rendered him familiar with all the
+antiquarian lore necessary for the purpose of composing the projected
+romance; and although the manuscript bore the marks of hurry and
+incoherence natural to the first rough draught of the author, it
+evinced (in my opinion) considerable powers of imagination.
+
+As the work was unfinished, I deemed it my duty, as editor, to supply
+such a hasty and inartificial conclusion as could be shaped out from
+the story, of which Mr. Strutt had laid the foundation. This concluding
+chapter [Footnote: See Appendix No. II.] is also added to the present
+Introduction, for the reason already mentioned regarding the preceding
+fragment. It was a step in my advance towards romantic composition; and
+to preserve the traces of these is in a great measure the object of
+this Essay.
+
+Queenhoo Hall was not, however, very successful. I thought I was aware
+of the reason, and supposed that, by rendering his language too
+ancient, and displaying his antiquarian knowledge too liberally, the
+ingenious author had raised up an obstacle to his own success. Every
+work designed for mere amusement must be expressed in language easily
+comprehended; and when, as is sometimes the case in QUEENHOO HALL, the
+author addresses himself exclusively to the antiquary, he must be
+content to be dismissed by the general reader with the criticism of
+Mungo, in the PADLOCK, on the Mauritanian music, 'What signifies me
+hear, if me no understand?'
+
+I conceived it possible to avoid this error; and, by rendering a
+similar work more light and obvious to general comprehension, to escape
+the rock on which my predecessor was shipwrecked.
+
+But I was, on the other hand, so far discouraged by the indifferent
+reception of Mr. Strutt's romance as to become satisfied that the
+manners of the middle ages did not possess the interest which I had
+conceived; and was led to form the opinion that a romance founded on a
+Highland story and more modern events would have a better chance of
+popularity than a tale of chivalry.
+
+My thoughts, therefore, returned more than once to the tale which I had
+actually commenced, and accident at length threw the lost sheets in my
+way.
+
+I happened to want some fishing-tackle for the use of a guest, when it
+occurred to me to search the old writing-desk already mentioned, in
+which I used to keep articles of that nature.
+
+I got access to it with some difficulty; and, in looking for lines and
+flies, the long-lost manuscript presented itself.
+
+I immediately set to work to complete it according to my original
+purpose.
+
+And here I must frankly confess that the mode in which I conducted the
+story scarcely deserved the success which the romance afterwards
+attained.
+
+The tale of WAVERLEY was put together with so little care that I cannot
+boast of having sketched any distinct plan of the work. The whole
+adventures of Waverley, in his movements up and down the country with
+the Highland cateran Bean Lean, are managed without much skill. It
+suited best, however, the road I wanted to travel, and permitted me to
+introduce some descriptions of scenery and manners, to which the
+reality gave an interest which the powers of the Author might have
+otherwise failed to attain for them. And though I have been in other
+instances a sinner in this sort, I do not recollect any of these novels
+in which I have transgressed so widely as in the first of the series.
+
+Among other unfounded reports, it has been said that the copyright of
+Waverley was, during the book's progress through the press, offered for
+sale to various book-sellers in London at a very inconsiderable price.
+This was not the case. Messrs. Constable and Cadell, who published the
+work, were the only persons acquainted with the contents of the
+publication, and they offered a large sum for it while in the course of
+printing, which, however, was declined, the Author not choosing to part
+with the copyright.
+
+The origin of the story of Waverley, and the particular facts on which
+it is founded, are given in the separate introduction prefixed to that
+romance in this edition, and require no notice in this place.
+
+Waverley was published in 1814, and, as the title-page was without the
+name of the Author, the work was left to win its way in the world
+without any of the usual recommendations. Its progress was for some
+time slow; but after the first two or three months its popularity had
+increased in a degree which must have satisfied the expectations of the
+Author, had these been far more sanguine than he ever entertained.
+
+Great anxiety was expressed to learn the name of the Author, but on
+this no authentic information could be attained. My original motive for
+publishing the work anonymously was the consciousness that it was an
+experiment on the public taste which might very probably fail, and
+therefore there was no occasion to take on myself the personal risk of
+discomfiture. For this purpose considerable precautions were used to
+preserve secrecy. My old friend and schoolfellow, Mr. James Ballantyne,
+who printed these Novels, had the exclusive task of corresponding with
+the Author, who thus had not only the advantage of his professional
+talents, but also of his critical abilities. The original manuscript,
+or, as it is technically called, copy, was transcribed under Mr.
+Ballantyne's eye by confidential persons; nor was there an instance of
+treachery during the many years in which these precautions were
+resorted to, although various individuals were employed at different
+times. Double proof-sheets were regularly printed off. One was
+forwarded to the Author by Mr. Ballantyne, and the alterations which it
+received were, by his own hand, copied upon the other proof-sheet for
+the use of the printers, so that even the corrected proofs of the
+Author were never seen in the printing office; and thus the curiosity
+of such eager inquirers as made the most minute investigation was
+entirely at fault.
+
+But although the cause of concealing the Author's name in the first
+instance, when the reception of Waverley was doubtful, was natural
+enough, it is more difficult, it may be thought, to account for the
+same desire for secrecy during the subsequent editions, to the amount
+of betwixt eleven and twelve thousand copies, which followed each other
+close, and proved the success of the work. I am sorry I can give little
+satisfaction to queries on this subject. I have already stated
+elsewhere that I can render little better reason for choosing to remain
+anonymous than by saying with Shylock, that such was my humour. It will
+be observed that I had not the usual stimulus for desiring personal
+reputation, the desire, namely, to float amidst the conversation of
+men. Of literary fame, whether merited or undeserved, I had already as
+much as might have contented a mind more ambitious than mine; and in
+entering into this new contest for reputation I might be said rather to
+endanger what I had than to have any considerable chance of acquiring
+more. I was affected, too, by none of those motives which, at an
+earlier period of life, would doubtless have operated upon me. My
+friendships were formed, my place in society fixed, my life had
+attained its middle course. My condition in society was higher perhaps
+than I deserved, certainly as high as I wished, and there was scarce
+any degree of literary success which could have greatly altered or
+improved my personal condition.
+
+I was not, therefore, touched by the spur of ambition, usually
+stimulating on such occasions; and yet I ought to stand exculpated from
+the charge of ungracious or unbecoming indifference to public applause.
+I did not the less feel gratitude for the public favour, although I did
+not proclaim it; as the lover who wears his mistress's favour in his
+bosom is as proud, though not so vain, of possessing it as another who
+displays the token of her grace upon his bonnet. Far from such an
+ungracious state of mind, I have seldom felt more satisfaction than
+when, returning from a pleasure voyage, I found Waverley in the zenith
+of popularity, and public curiosity in full cry after the name of the
+Author. The knowledge that I had the public approbation was like having
+the property of a hidden treasure, not less gratifying to the owner
+than if all the world knew that it was his own. Another advantage was
+connected with the secrecy which I observed. I could appear or retreat
+from the stage at pleasure, without attracting any personal notice or
+attention, other than what might be founded on suspicion only. In my
+own person also, as a successful author in another department of
+literature, I might have been charged with too frequent intrusions on
+the public patience; but the Author of Waverley was in this respect as
+impassible to the critic as the Ghost of Hamlet to the partisan of
+Marcellus. Perhaps the curiosity of the public, irritated by the
+existence of a secret, and kept afloat by the discussions which took
+place on the subject from time to time, went a good way to maintain an
+unabated interest in these frequent publications. There was a mystery
+concerning the Author which each new novel was expected to assist in
+unravelling, although it might in other respects rank lower than its
+predecessors.
+
+I may perhaps be thought guilty of affectation, should I allege as one
+reason of my silence a secret dislike to enter on personal discussions
+concerning my own literary labours. It is in every case a dangerous
+intercourse for an author to be dwelling continually among those who
+make his writings a frequent and familiar subject of conversation, but
+who must necessarily be partial judges of works composed in their own
+society. The habits of self-importance which are thus acquired by
+authors are highly injurious to a well-regulated mind; for the cup of
+flattery, if it does not, like that of Circe, reduce men to the level
+of beasts, is sure, if eagerly drained, to bring the best and the
+ablest down to that of fools. This risk was in some degree prevented by
+the mask which I wore; and my own stores of self-conceit were left to
+their natural course, without being enhanced by the partiality of
+friends or adulation of flatterers.
+
+If I am asked further reasons for the conduct I have long observed, I
+can only resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as friendly as
+he is intelligent; namely, that the mental organisation of the novelist
+must be characterised, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary
+development of the passion for delitescency! I the rather suspect some
+natural disposition of this kind; for, from the instant I perceived the
+extreme curiosity manifested on the subject, I felt a secret
+satisfaction in baffling it, for which, when its unimportance is
+considered, I do not well know how to account.
+
+My desire to remain concealed, in the character of the Author of these
+Novels, subjected me occasionally to awkward embarrassments, as it
+sometimes happened that those who were sufficiently intimate with me
+would put the question in direct terms. In this case, only one of three
+courses could be followed. Either I must have surrendered my secret, or
+have returned an equivocating answer, or, finally, must have stoutly
+and boldly denied the fact. The first was a sacrifice which I conceive
+no one had a right to force from me, since I alone was concerned in the
+matter. The alternative of rendering a doubtful answer must have left
+me open to the degrading suspicion that I was not unwilling to assume
+the merit (if there was any) which I dared not absolutely lay claim to;
+or those who might think more justly of me must have received such an
+equivocal answer as an indirect avowal. I therefore considered myself
+entitled, like an accused person put upon trial, to refuse giving my
+own evidence to my own conviction, and flatly to deny all that could
+not be proved against me. At the same time I usually qualified my
+denial by stating that, had I been the Author of these works, I would
+have felt myself quite entitled to protect my secret by refusing my own
+evidence, when it was asked for to accomplish a discovery of what I
+desired to conceal.
+
+The real truth is, that I never expected or hoped to disguise my
+connection with these Novels from any one who lived on terms of
+intimacy with me. The number of coincidences which necessarily existed
+between narratives recounted, modes of expression, and opinions
+broached in these Tales and such as were used by their Author in the
+intercourse of private life must have been far too great to permit any
+of my familiar acquaintances to doubt the identity betwixt their friend
+and the Author of Waverley; and I believe they were all morally
+convinced of it. But while I was myself silent, their belief could not
+weigh much more with the world than that of others; their opinions and
+reasoning were liable to be taxed with partiality, or confronted with
+opposing arguments and opinions; and the question was not so much
+whether I should be generally acknowledged to be the Author, in spite
+of my own denial, as whether even my own avowal of the works, if such
+should be made, would be sufficient to put me in undisputed possession
+of that character.
+
+I have been often asked concerning supposed cases, in which I was said
+to have been placed on the verge of discovery; but, as I maintained my
+point with the composure of a lawyer of thirty years' standing, I never
+recollect being in pain or confusion on the subject. In Captain
+Medwyn's Conversations of Lord Byron the reporter states himself to
+have asked my noble and highly gifted friend,' If he was certain about
+these Novels being Sir Walter Scott's?' To which Lord Byron replied,
+'Scott as much as owned himself the Author of Waverley to me in
+Murray's shop. I was talking to him about that Novel, and lamented that
+its Author had not carried back the story nearer to the time of the
+Revolution. Scott, entirely off his guard, replied, "Ay, I might have
+done so; but--" there he stopped. It was in vain to attempt to correct
+himself; he looked confused, and relieved his embarrassment by a
+precipitate retreat.' I have no recollection whatever of this scene
+taking place, and I should have thought that I was more likely to have
+laughed than to appear confused, for I certainly never hoped to impose
+upon Lord Byron in a case of the kind; and from the manner in which he
+uniformly expressed himself, I knew his opinion was entirely formed,
+and that any disclamations of mine would only have savoured of
+affectation. I do not mean to insinuate that the incident did not
+happen, but only that it could hardly have occurred exactly under the
+circumstances narrated, without my recollecting something positive on
+the subject. In another part of the same volume Lord Byron is reported
+to have expressed a supposition that the cause of my not avowing myself
+the Author of Waverley may have been some surmise that the reigning
+family would have been displeased with the work. I can only say, it is
+the last apprehension I should have entertained, as indeed the
+inscription to these volumes sufficiently proves. The sufferers of that
+melancholy period have, during the last and present reign, been
+honoured both with the sympathy and protection of the reigning family,
+whose magnanimity can well pardon a sigh from others, and bestow one
+themselves, to the memory of brave opponents, who did nothing in hate,
+but all in honour.
+
+While those who were in habitual intercourse with the real author had
+little hesitation in assigning the literary property to him, others,
+and those critics of no mean rank, employed themselves in investigating
+with persevering patience any characteristic features which might seem
+to betray the origin of these Novels. Amongst these, one gentleman,
+equally remarkable for the kind and liberal tone of his criticism, the
+acuteness of his reasoning, and the very gentlemanlike manner in which
+he conducted his inquiries, displayed not only powers of accurate
+investigation, but a temper of mind deserving to be employed on a
+subject of much greater importance; and I have no doubt made converts
+to his opinion of almost all who thought the point worthy of
+consideration. [Footnote: Letters on the Author of Waverly; Rodwell and
+Martin, London, 1822.] Of those letters, and other attempts of the same
+kind, the Author could not complain, though his incognito was
+endangered. He had challenged the public to a game at bo-peep, and if
+he was discovered in his 'hiding-hole,' he must submit to the shame of
+detection.
+
+Various reports were of course circulated in various ways; some founded
+on an inaccurate rehearsal of what may have been partly real, some on
+circumstances having no concern whatever with the subject, and others
+on the invention of some importunate persons, who might perhaps imagine
+that the readiest mode of forcing the Author to disclose himself was to
+assign some dishonourable and discreditable cause for his silence.
+
+It may be easily supposed that this sort of inquisition was treated
+with contempt by the person whom it principally regarded; as, among all
+the rumours that were current, there was only one, and that as
+unfounded as the others, which had nevertheless some alliance to
+probability, and indeed might have proved in some degree true.
+
+I allude to a report which ascribed a great part, or the whole, of
+these Novels to the late Thomas Scott, Esq., of the 70th Regiment, then
+stationed in Canada. Those who remember that gentleman will readily
+grant that, with general talents at least equal to those of his elder
+brother, he added a power of social humour and a deep insight into
+human character which rendered him an universally delightful member of
+society, and that the habit of composition alone was wanting to render
+him equally successful as a writer. The Author of Waverley was so
+persuaded of the truth of this, that he warmly pressed his brother to
+make such an experiment, and willingly undertook all the trouble of
+correcting and superintending the press. Mr. Thomas Scott seemed at
+first very well disposed to embrace the proposal, and had even fixed on
+a subject and a hero. The latter was a person well known to both of us
+in our boyish years, from having displayed some strong traits of
+character. Mr. T. Scott had determined to represent his youthful
+acquaintance as emigrating to America, and encountering the dangers and
+hardships of the New World, with the same dauntless spirit which he had
+displayed when a boy in his native country. Mr. Scott would probably
+have been highly successful, being familiarly acquainted with the
+manners of the native Indians, of the old French settlers in Canada,
+and of the Brules or Woodsmen, and having the power of observing with
+accuracy what I have no doubt he could have sketched with force and
+expression. In short, the Author believes his brother would have made
+himself distinguished in that striking field in which, since that
+period, Mr. Cooper has achieved so many triumphs. But Mr. T. Scott was
+already affected by bad health, which wholly unfitted him for literary
+labour, even if he could have reconciled his patience to the task. He
+never, I believe, wrote a single line of the projected work; and I only
+have the melancholy pleasure of preserving in the Appendix [Footnote:
+See Appendix No. III.] the simple anecdote on which he proposed to
+found it.
+
+To this I may add, I can easily conceive that there may have been
+circumstances which gave a colour to the general report of my brother
+being interested in these works; and in particular that it might derive
+strength from my having occasion to remit to him, in consequence of
+certain family transactions, some considerable sums of money about that
+period. To which it is to be added that if any person chanced to evince
+particular curiosity on such a subject, my brother was likely enough to
+divert himself with practising on their credulity.
+
+It may be mentioned that, while the paternity of these Novels was from
+time to time warmly disputed in Britain, the foreign booksellers
+expressed no hesitation on the matter, but affixed my name to the whole
+of the Novels, and to some besides to which I had no claim.
+
+The volumes, therefore, to which the present pages form a Preface are
+entirely the composition of the Author by whom they are now
+acknowledged, with the exception, always, of avowed quotations, and
+such unpremeditated and involuntary plagiarisms as can scarce be
+guarded against by any one who has read and written a great deal. The
+original manuscripts are all in existence, and entirely written
+(horresco referens) in the Author's own hand, excepting during the
+years 1818 and 1819, when, being affected with severe illness, he was
+obliged to employ the assistance of a friendly amanuensis.
+
+The number of persons to whom the secret was necessarily entrusted, or
+communicated by chance, amounted, I should think, to twenty at least,
+to whom I am greatly obliged for the fidelity with which they observed
+their trust, until the derangement of the affairs of my publishers,
+Messrs. Constable and Co., and the exposure of their account books,
+which was the necessary consequence, rendered secrecy no longer
+possible. The particulars attending the avowal have been laid before
+the public in the Introduction to the Chronicles of the Canongate.
+
+The preliminary advertisement has given a sketch of the purpose of this
+edition. I have some reason to fear that the notes which accompany the
+tales, as now published, may be thought too miscellaneous and too
+egotistical. It maybe some apology for this, that the publication was
+intended to be posthumous, and still more, that old men may be
+permitted to speak long, because they cannot in the course of nature
+have long time to speak. In preparing the present edition, I have done
+all that I can do to explain the nature of my materials, and the use I
+have made of them; nor is it probable that I shall again revise or even
+read these tales. I was therefore desirous rather to exceed in the
+portion of new and explanatory matter which is added to this edition
+than that the reader should have reason to complain that the
+information communicated was of a general and merely nominal character.
+It remains to be tried whether the public (like a child to whom a watch
+is shown) will, after having been satiated with looking at the outside,
+acquire some new interest in the object when it is opened and the
+internal machinery displayed to them.
+
+That Waverly and its successors have had their day of favour and
+popularity must be admitted with sincere gratitude; and the Author has
+studied (with the prudence of a beauty whose reign has been rather
+long) to supply, by the assistance of art, the charms which novelty no
+longer affords. The publishers have endeavoured to gratify the
+honourable partiality of the public for the encouragement of British
+art, by illustrating this edition with designs by the most eminent
+living artists. [Footnote: The illustrations here referred to were made
+for the edition of 1829]
+
+To my distinguished countryman, David Wilkie, to Edwin Landseer, who
+has exercised his talents so much on Scottish subjects and scenery, to
+Messrs. Leslie and Newton, my thanks are due, from a friend as well as
+an author. Nor am I less obliged to Messrs. Cooper, Kidd, and other
+artists of distinction to whom I am less personally known, for the
+ready zeal with which they have devoted their talents to the same
+purpose.
+
+Farther explanation respecting the Edition is the business of the
+publishers, not of the Author; and here, therefore, the latter has
+accomplished his task of introduction and explanation. If, like a
+spoiled child, he has sometimes abused or trifled with the indulgence
+of the public, he feels himself entitled to full belief when he
+exculpates himself from the charge of having been at any time
+insensible of their kindness.
+
+ABBOTSFORD, 1st January, 1829.
+
+
+
+
+
+WAVERLEY
+
+OR 'T IS SIXTY YEARS SINCE
+
+    Under which King, Bezonian? speak, or die!
+
+    Henry IV, Part II.
+
+VOLUME II
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+
+The plan of this edition leads me to insert in this place some account
+of the incidents on which the Novel of Waverley is founded. They have
+been already given to the public by my late lamented friend, William
+Erskine, Esq. (afterwards Lord Kinneder), when reviewing the Tales of
+My Landlord for the Quarterly Review in 1817. The particulars were
+derived by the critic from the Author's information. Afterwards they
+were published in the Preface to the Chronicles of the Canongate. They
+are now inserted in their proper place.
+
+The mutual protection afforded by Waverley and Talbot to each other,
+upon which the whole plot depends, is founded upon one of those
+anecdotes which soften the features even of civil war; and, as it is
+equally honourable to the memory of both parties, we have no hesitation
+to give their names at length. When the Highlanders, on the morning of
+the battle of Preston, 1745, made their memorable attack on Sir John
+Cope's army, a battery of four field-pieces was stormed and carried by
+the Camerons and the Stewarts of Appine. The late Alexander Stewart of
+Invernahylewas one of the foremost in the charge, and observing an
+officer of the King's forces, who, scorning to join the flight of all
+around, remained with his sword in his hand, as if determined to the
+very last to defend the post assigned to him, the Highland gentleman
+commanded him to surrender, and received for reply a thrust, which he
+caught in his target. The officer was now defenceless, and the
+battle-axe of a gigantic Highlander (the miller of Invernahyle's mill)
+was uplifted to dash his brains out, when Mr. Stewart with difficulty
+prevailed on him to yield. He took charge of his enemy's property,
+protected his person, and finally obtained him liberty on his parole.
+The officer proved to be Colonel Whitefoord, an Ayrshire gentleman of
+high character and influence, and warmly attached to the House of
+Hanover; yet such was the confidence existing between these two
+honourable men, though of different political principles, that, while
+the civil war was raging, and straggling officers from the Highland
+army were executed without mercy, Invernahyle hesitated not to pay his
+late captive a visit, as he returned to the Highlands to raise fresh
+recruits, on which occasion he spent a day or two in Ayrshire among
+Colonel Whitefoord's Whig friends, as pleasantly and as good-humouredly
+as if all had been at peace around him.
+
+After the battle of Culloden had ruined the hopes of Charles Edward and
+dispersed his proscribed adherents, it was Colonel Whitefoord's turn to
+strain every nerve to obtain Mr. Stewart's pardon. He went to the Lord
+Justice Clerk to the Lord Advocate, and to all the officers of state,
+and each application was answered by the production of a list in which
+Invernahyle (as the good old gentleman was wont to express it) appeared
+'marked with the sign of the beast!' as a subject unfit for favour or
+pardon.
+
+At length Colonel Whitefoord applied to the Duke of Cumberland in
+person. From him, also, he received a positive refusal. He then limited
+his request, for the present, to a protection for Stewart's house,
+wife, children, and property. This was also refused by the Duke; on
+which Colonel Whitefoord, taking his commission from his bosom, laid it
+on the table before his Royal Highness with much emotion, and asked
+permission to retire from the service of a sovereign who did not know
+how to spare a vanquished enemy. The Duke was struck, and even
+affected. He bade the Colonel take up his commission, and granted the
+protection he required. It was issued just in time to save the house,
+corn, and cattle at Invernahyle from the troops, who were engaged in
+laying waste what it was the fashion to call 'the country of the
+enemy.' A small encampment of soldiers was formed on Invernahyle's
+property, which they spared while plundering the country around, and
+searching in every direction for the leaders of the insurrection, and
+for Stewart in particular. He was much nearer them than they suspected;
+for, hidden in a cave (like the Baron of Bradwardine), he lay for many
+days so near the English sentinels that he could hear their muster-roll
+called. His food was brought to him by one of his daughters, a child of
+eight years old, whom Mrs. Stewart was under the necessity of
+entrusting with this commission; for her own motions, and those of all
+her elder inmates, were closely watched. With ingenuity beyond her
+years, the child used to stray about among the soldiers, who were
+rather kind to her, and thus seize the moment when she was unobserved
+and steal into the thicket, when she deposited whatever small store of
+provisions she had in charge at some marked spot, where her father
+might find it. Invernahyle supported life for several weeks by means of
+these precarious supplies; and, as he had been wounded in the battle of
+Culloden, the hardships which he endured were aggravated by great
+bodily pain. After the soldiers had removed their quarters he had
+another remarkable escape.
+
+As he now ventured to his own house at night and left it in the
+morning, he was espied during the dawn by a party of the enemy, who
+fired at and pursued him. The fugitive being fortunate enough to escape
+their search, they returned to the house and charged the family with
+harbouring one of the proscribed traitors. An old woman had presence of
+mind enough to maintain that the man they had seen was the shepherd.
+'Why did he not stop when we called to him?' said the soldier. 'He is
+as deaf, poor man, as a peat-stack,' answered the ready-witted
+domestic. 'Let him be sent for directly.' The real shepherd accordingly
+was brought from the hill, and, as there was time to tutor him by the
+way, he was as deaf when he made his appearance as was necessary to
+sustain his character. Invernahyle was afterwards pardoned under the
+Act of Indemnity.
+
+The Author knew him well, and has often heard these circumstances from
+his own mouth. He was a noble specimen of the old Highlander, far
+descended, gallant, courteous, and brave, even to chivalry. He had been
+out, I believe, in 1715 and 1745, was an active partaker in all the
+stirring scenes which passed in the Highlands betwixt these memorable
+eras; and, I have heard, was remarkable, among other exploits, for
+having fought a duel with the broadsword with the celebrated Rob Roy
+MacGregor at the clachan of Balquidder.
+
+Invernahyle chanced to be in Edinburgh when Paul Jones came into the
+Firth of Forth, and though then an old man, I saw him in arms, and
+heard him exult (to use his own words) in the prospect of drawing his
+claymore once more before he died.' In fact, on that memorable
+occasion, when the capital of Scotland was menaced by three trifling
+sloops or brigs, scarce fit to have sacked a fishing village, he was
+the only man who seemed to propose a plan of resistance. He offered to
+the magistrates, if broadswords and dirks could be obtained, to find as
+many Highlanders among the lower classes as would cut off any boat's
+crew who might be sent into a town full of narrow and winding passages,
+in which they were like to disperse in quest of plunder. I know not if
+his plan was attended to, I rather think it seemed too hazardous to the
+constituted authorities, who might not, even at that time, desire to
+see arms in Highland hands. A steady and powerful west wind settled the
+matter by sweeping Paul Jones and his vessels out of the Firth.
+
+If there is something degrading in this recollection, it is not
+unpleasant to compare it with those of the last war, when Edinburgh,
+besides regular forces and militia, furnished a volunteer brigade of
+cavalry, infantry, and artillery to the amount of six thousand men and
+upwards, which was in readiness to meet and repel a force of a far more
+formidable description than was commanded by the adventurous American.
+Time and circumstances change the character of nations and the fate of
+cities; and it is some pride to a Scotchman to reflect that the
+independent and manly character of a country, willing to entrust its
+own protection to the arms of its children, after having been obscured
+for half a century, has, during the course of his own lifetime,
+recovered its lustre.
+
+Other illustrations of Waverley will be found in the Notes at the foot
+of the pages to which they belong. Those which appeared too long to be
+so placed are given at the end of the chapters to which they severally
+relate. [Footnote: In this edition at the end of the several volumes.]
+
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
+
+
+To this slight attempt at a sketch of ancient Scottish manners the
+public have been more favourable than the Author durst have hoped or
+expected. He has heard, with a mixture of satisfaction and humility,
+his work ascribed to more than one respectable name. Considerations,
+which seem weighty in his particular situation, prevent his releasing
+those gentlemen from suspicion by placing his own name in the
+title-page; so that, for the present at least, it must remain uncertain
+whether Waverley be the work of a poet or a critic, a lawyer or a
+clergyman, or whether the writer, to use Mrs. Malaprop's phrase, be,
+'like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once.' The Author, as he is
+unconscious of anything in the work itself (except perhaps its
+frivolity) which prevents its finding an acknowledged father, leaves it
+to the candour of the public to choose among the many circumstances
+peculiar to different situations in life such as may induce him to
+suppress his name on the present occasion. He may be a writer new to
+publication, and unwilling to avow a character to which he is
+unaccustomed; or he may be a hackneyed author, who is ashamed of too
+frequent appearance, and employs this mystery, as the heroine of the
+old comedy used her mask, to attract the attention of those to whom her
+face had become too familiar. He may be a man of a grave profession, to
+whom the reputation of being a novel-writer might be prejudicial; or he
+may be a man of fashion, to whom writing of any kind might appear
+pedantic. He may be too young to assume the character of an author, or
+so old as to make it advisable to lay it aside.
+
+The Author of Waverley has heard it objected to this novel, that, in
+the character of Callum Beg and in the account given by the Baron of
+Bradwardine of the petty trespasses of the Highlanders upon trifling
+articles of property, he has borne hard, and unjustly so, upon their
+national character. Nothing could be farther from his wish or
+intention. The character of Callum Beg is that of a spirit naturally
+turned to daring evil, and determined, by the circumstances of his
+situation, to a particular species of mischief. Those who have perused
+the curious Letters from the Highlands, published about 1726, will find
+instances of such atrocious characters which fell under the writer's
+own observation, though it would be most unjust to consider such
+villains as representatives of the Highlanders of that period, any more
+than the murderers of Marr and Williamson can be supposed to represent
+the English of the present day. As for the plunder supposed to have
+been picked up by some of the insurgents in 1745, it must be remembered
+that, although the way of that unfortunate little army was neither
+marked by devastation nor bloodshed, but, on the contrary, was orderly
+and quiet in a most wonderful degree, yet no army marches through a
+country in a hostile manner without committing some depredations; and
+several, to the extent and of the nature jocularly imputed to them by
+the Baron, were really laid to the charge of the Highland insurgents;
+for which many traditions, and particularly one respecting the Knight
+of the Mirror, may be quoted as good evidence. [Footnote: A homely
+metrical narrative of the events of the period, which contains some
+striking particulars, and is still a great favourite with the lower
+classes, gives a very correct statement of the behaviour of the
+mountaineers respecting this same military license; and, as the verses
+are little known, and contain some good sense, we venture to insert
+them.]
+
+
+
+
+
+THE AUTHOR'S ADDRESS TO ALL IN GENERAL
+
+
+    Now, gentle readers, I have let you ken
+    My very thoughts, from heart and pen,
+    'Tis needless for to conten'
+                  Or yet controule,
+    For there's not a word o't I can men';
+                  So ye must thole.
+
+    For on both sides some were not good;
+    I saw them murd'ring in cold blood,
+    Not the gentlemen, but wild and rude,
+                  The baser sort,
+    Who to the wounded had no mood
+                  But murd'ring sport!
+
+    Ev'n both at Preston and Falkirk,
+    That fatal night ere it grew mirk,
+    Piercing the wounded with their durk,
+                  Caused many cry!
+    Such pity's shown from Savage and Turk
+                  As peace to die.
+
+    A woe be to such hot zeal,
+    To smite the wounded on the fiell!
+    It's just they got such groats in kail,
+                  Who do the same.
+    It only teaches crueltys real
+                  To them again.
+
+    I've seen the men call'd Highland rogues,
+    With Lowland men make shangs a brogs,
+    Sup kail and brose, and fling the cogs
+                  Out at the door,
+    Take cocks, hens, sheep, and hogs,
+                  And pay nought for.
+
+    I saw a Highlander,'t was right drole,
+    With a string of puddings hung on a pole,
+    Whip'd o'er his shoulder, skipped like a fole,
+                        Caus'd Maggy bann,
+    Lap o'er the midden and midden-hole,
+                        And aff he ran.
+
+    When check'd for this, they'd often tell ye,
+    'Indeed her nainsell's a tume belly;
+    You'll no gie't wanting bought, nor sell me;
+                        Hersell will hae't;
+    Go tell King Shorge, and Shordy's Willie,
+                        I'll hae a meat.'
+
+    I saw the soldiers at Linton-brig,
+    Because the man was not a Whig,
+    Of meat and drink leave not a skig,
+                        Within his door;
+    They burnt his very hat and wig,
+                        And thump'd him sore.
+
+    And through the Highlands they were so rude,
+    As leave them neither clothes nor food,
+    Then burnt their houses to conclude;
+                        'T was tit for tat.
+    How can her nainsell e'er be good,
+                        To think on that?
+
+    And after all, O, shame and grief!
+    To use some worse than murd'ring thief,
+    Their very gentleman and chief,
+                        Unhumanly!
+    Like Popish tortures, I believe,
+                        Such cruelty.
+
+    Ev'n what was act on open stage
+    At Carlisle, in the hottest rage,
+    When mercy was clapt in a cage,
+                        And pity dead,
+    Such cruelty approv'd by every age,
+                        I shook my head.
+
+    So many to curse, so few to pray,
+    And some aloud huzza did cry;
+    They cursed the rebel Scots that day,
+                        As they'd been nowt
+    Brought up for slaughter, as that way
+                        Too many rowt.
+
+    Therefore, alas! dear countrymen,
+    O never do the like again,
+    To thirst for vengeance, never ben'
+                        Your gun nor pa',
+    But with the English e'en borrow and len',
+                        Let anger fa'.
+
+    Their boasts and bullying, not worth a louse,
+    As our King's the best about the house.
+    'T is ay good to be sober and douce,
+                        To live in peace;
+    For many, I see, for being o'er crouse,
+                        Gets broken face.
+
+
+
+
+
+WAVERLEY
+
+OR 'TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I
+
+INTRODUCTORY
+
+
+The title of this work has not been chosen without the grave and solid
+deliberation which matters of importance demand from the prudent. Even
+its first, or general denomination, was the result of no common
+research or selection, although, according to the example of my
+predecessors, I had only to seize upon the most sounding and euphonic
+surname that English history or topography affords, and elect it at
+once as the title of my work and the name of my hero. But, alas! what
+could my readers have expected from the chivalrous epithets of Howard,
+Mordaunt, Mortimer, or Stanley, or from the softer and more sentimental
+sounds of Belmour, Belville, Belfield, and Belgrave, but pages of
+inanity, similar to those which have been so christened for half a
+century past? I must modestly admit I am too diffident of my own merit
+to place it in unnecessary opposition to preconceived associations; I
+have, therefore, like a maiden knight with his white shield, assumed
+for my hero, WAVERLEY, an uncontaminated name, bearing with its sound
+little of good or evil, excepting what the reader shall hereafter be
+pleased to affix to it. But my second or supplemental title was a
+matter of much more difficult election, since that, short as it is, may
+be held as pledging the author to some special mode of laying his
+scene, drawing his characters, and managing his adventures. Had I, for
+example, announced in my frontispiece, 'Waverley, a Tale of other
+Days,' must not every novel-reader have anticipated a castle scarce
+less than that of Udolpho, of which the eastern wing had long been
+uninhabited, and the keys either lost, or consigned to the care of some
+aged butler or housekeeper, whose trembling steps, about the middle of
+the second volume, were doomed to guide the hero, or heroine, to the
+ruinous precincts? Would not the owl have shrieked and the cricket
+cried in my very title-page? and could it have been possible for me,
+with a moderate attention to decorum, to introduce any scene more
+lively than might be produced by the jocularity of a clownish but
+faithful valet, or the garrulous narrative of the heroine's
+fille-de-chambre, when rehearsing the stories of blood and horror which
+she had heard in the servants' hall? Again, had my title borne,
+'Waverley, a Romance from the German,' what head so obtuse as not to
+image forth a profligate abbot, an oppressive duke, a secret and
+mysterious association of Rosycrucians and Illuminati, with all their
+properties of black cowls, caverns, daggers, electrical machines,
+trap-doors, and dark-lanterns? Or if I had rather chosen to call my
+work a 'Sentimental Tale,' would it not have been a sufficient presage
+of a heroine with a profusion of auburn hair, and a harp, the soft
+solace of her solitary hours, which she fortunately finds always the
+means of transporting from castle to cottage, although she herself be
+sometimes obliged to jump out of a two-pair-of-stairs window, and is
+more than once bewildered on her journey, alone and on foot, without
+any guide but a blowzy peasant girl, whose jargon she hardly can
+understand? Or, again, if my Waverley had been entitled 'A Tale of the
+Times,' wouldst thou not, gentle reader, have demanded from me a
+dashing sketch of the fashionable world, a few anecdotes of private
+scandal thinly veiled, and if lusciously painted, so much the better? a
+heroine from Grosvenor Square, and a hero from the Barouche Club or the
+Four-in-Hand, with a set of subordinate characters from the elegantes
+of Queen Anne Street East, or the dashing heroes of the Bow-Street
+Office? I could proceed in proving the importance of a title-page, and
+displaying at the same time my own intimate knowledge of the particular
+ingredients necessary to the composition of romances and novels of
+various descriptions;--but it is enough, and I scorn to tyrannise
+longer over the impatience of my reader, who is doubtless already
+anxious to know the choice made by an author so profoundly versed in
+the different branches of his art.
+
+By fixing, then, the date of my story Sixty Years before this present
+1st November, 1805, I would have my readers understand, that they will
+meet in the following pages neither a romance of chivalry nor a tale of
+modern manners; that my hero will neither have iron on his shoulders,
+as of yore, nor on the heels of his boots, as is the present fashion of
+Bond Street; and that my damsels will neither be clothed 'in purple and
+in pall,' like the Lady Alice of an old ballad, nor reduced to the
+primitive nakedness of a modern fashionable at a rout. From this my
+choice of an era the understanding critic may farther presage that the
+object of my tale is more a description of men than manners. A tale of
+manners, to be interesting, must either refer to antiquity so great as
+to have become venerable, or it must bear a vivid reflection of those
+scenes which are passing daily before our eyes, and are interesting
+from their novelty. Thus the coat-of-mail of our ancestors, and the
+triple-furred pelisse of our modern beaux, may, though for very
+different reasons, be equally fit for the array of a fictitious
+character; but who, meaning the costume of his hero to be impressive,
+would willingly attire him in the court dress of George the Second's
+reign, with its no collar, large sleeves, and low pocket-holes? The
+same may be urged, with equal truth, of the Gothic hall, which, with
+its darkened and tinted windows, its elevated and gloomy roof, and
+massive oaken table garnished with boar's-head and rosemary, pheasants
+and peacocks, cranes and cygnets, has an excellent effect in fictitious
+description. Much may also be gained by a lively display of a modern
+fete, such as we have daily recorded in that part of a newspaper
+entitled the Mirror of Fashion, if we contrast these, or either of
+them, with the splendid formality of an entertainment given Sixty Years
+Since; and thus it will be readily seen how much the painter of antique
+or of fashionable manners gains over him who delineates those of the
+last generation.
+
+Considering the disadvantages inseparable from this part of my subject,
+I must be understood to have resolved to avoid them as much as
+possible, by throwing the force of my narrative upon the characters and
+passions of the actors;--those passions common to men in all stages of
+society, and which have alike agitated the human heart, whether it
+throbbed under the steel corslet of the fifteenth century, the brocaded
+coat of the eighteenth, or the blue frock and white dimity waistcoat of
+the present day. [Footnote: Alas' that attire, respectable and
+gentlemanlike in 1805, or thereabouts, is now as antiquated as the
+Author of Waverley has himself become since that period! The reader of
+fashion will please to fill up the costume with an embroidered
+waistcoat of purple velvet or silk, and a coat of whatever colour he
+pleases.] Upon these passions it is no doubt true that the state of
+manners and laws casts a necessary colouring; but the bearings, to use
+the language of heraldry, remain the same, though the tincture may be
+not only different, but opposed in strong contradistinction. The wrath
+of our ancestors, for example, was coloured gules; it broke forth in
+acts of open and sanguinary violence against the objects of its fury.
+Our malignant feelings, which must seek gratification through more
+indirect channels, and undermine the obstacles which they cannot openly
+bear down, may be rather said to be tinctured sable. But the
+deep-ruling impulse is the same in both cases; and the proud peer, who
+can now only ruin his neighbour according to law, by protracted suits,
+is the genuine descendant of the baron who wrapped the castle of his
+competitor in flames, and knocked him on the head as he endeavoured to
+escape from the conflagration. It is from the great book of Nature, the
+same through a thousand editions, whether of black-letter, or wire-wove
+and hot-pressed, that I have venturously essayed to read a chapter to
+the public. Some favourable opportunities of contrast have been
+afforded me by the state of society in the northern part of the island
+at the period of my history, and may serve at once to vary and to
+illustrate the moral lessons, which I would willingly consider as the
+most important part of my plan; although I am sensible how short these
+will fall of their aim if I shall be found unable to mix them with
+amusement--a task not quite so easy in this critical generation as it
+was 'Sixty Years Since.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II
+
+WAVERLEY-HONOUR--A RETROSPECT
+
+
+It is, then, sixty years since Edward Waverley, the hero of the
+following pages, took leave of his family, to join the regiment of
+dragoons in which he had lately obtained a commission. It was a
+melancholy day at Waverley-Honour when the young officer parted with
+Sir Everard, the affectionate old uncle to whose title and estate he
+was presumptive heir.
+
+A difference in political opinions had early separated the Baronet from
+his younger brother Richard Waverley, the father of our hero. Sir
+Everard had inherited from his sires the whole train of Tory or
+High-Church predilections and prejudices which had distinguished the
+house of Waverley since the Great Civil War. Richard, on the contrary,
+who was ten years younger, beheld himself born to the fortune of a
+second brother, and anticipated neither dignity nor entertainment in
+sustaining the character of Will Wimble. He saw early that, to succeed
+in the race of life, it was necessary he should carry as little weight
+as possible. Painters talk of the difficulty of expressing the
+existence of compound passions in the same features at the same moment;
+it would be no less difficult for the moralist to analyse the mixed
+motives which unite to form the impulse of our actions. Richard
+Waverley read and satisfied himself from history and sound argument
+that, in the words of the old song,
+
+      Passive obedience was a jest,
+      And pshaw! was non-resistance;
+
+yet reason would have probably been unable to combat and remove
+hereditary prejudice could Richard have anticipated that his elder
+brother, Sir Everard, taking to heart an early disappointment, would
+have remained a bachelor at seventy-two. The prospect of succession,
+however remote, might in that case have led him to endure dragging
+through the greater part of his life as 'Master Richard at the Hall,
+the Baronet's brother,' in the hope that ere its conclusion he should
+be distinguished as Sir Richard Waverley of Waverley-Honour, successor
+to a princely estate, and to extended political connections as head of
+the county interest in the shire where it lay.
+
+But this was a consummation of things not to be expected at Richard's
+outset, when Sir Everard was in the prime of life, and certain to be an
+acceptable suitor in almost any family, whether wealth or beauty should
+be the object of his pursuit, and when, indeed, his speedy marriage was
+a report which regularly amused the neighbourhood once a year. His
+younger brother saw no practicable road to independence save that of
+relying upon his own exertions, and adopting a political creed more
+consonant both to reason and his own interest than the hereditary faith
+of Sir Everard in High-Church and in the house of Stuart. He therefore
+read his recantation at the beginning of his career, and entered life
+as an avowed Whig and friend of the Hanover succession.
+
+The ministry of George the First's time were prudently anxious to
+diminish the phalanx of opposition. The Tory nobility, depending for
+their reflected lustre upon the sunshine of a court, had for some time
+been gradually reconciling themselves to the new dynasty. But the
+wealthy country gentlemen of England, a rank which retained, with much
+of ancient manners and primitive integrity, a great proportion of
+obstinate and unyielding prejudice, stood aloof in haughty and sullen
+opposition, and cast many a look of mingled regret and hope to Bois le
+Due, Avignon, and Italy. [Footnote: Where the Chevalier St. George, or,
+as he was termed, the Old Pretender, held his exiled court, as his
+situation compelled him to shift his place of residence.] The accession
+of the near relation of one of those steady and inflexible opponents
+was considered as a means of bringing over more converts, and therefore
+Richard Waverley met with a share of ministerial favour more than
+proportioned to his talents or his political importance. It was,
+however, discovered that he had respectable talents for public
+business, and the first admittance to the minister's levee being
+negotiated, his success became rapid. Sir Everard learned from the
+public 'News-Letter,' first, that Richard Waverley, Esquire, was
+returned for the ministerial borough of Barterfaith; next, that Richard
+Waverley, Esquire, had taken a distinguished part in the debate upon
+the Excise Bill in the support of government; and, lastly, that Richard
+Waverley, Esquire, had been honoured with a seat at one of those boards
+where the pleasure of serving the country is combined with other
+important gratifications, which, to render them the more acceptable,
+occur regularly once a quarter.
+
+Although these events followed each other so closely that the sagacity
+of the editor of a modern newspaper would have presaged the two last
+even while he announced the first, yet they came upon Sir Everard
+gradually, and drop by drop, as it were, distilled through the cool and
+procrastinating alembic of Dyer's 'Weekly Letter.' [Footnote: See Note
+I. ] For it may be observed in passing, that instead of those
+mail-coaches, by means of which every mechanic at his six-penny club,
+may nightly learn from twenty contradictory channels the yesterday's
+news of the capital, a weekly post brought, in those days, to
+Waverley-Honour, a Weekly Intelligencer, which, after it had gratified
+Sir Everard's curiosity, his sister's, and that of his aged butler, was
+regularly transferred from the Hall to the Rectory, from the Rectory to
+Squire Stubbs's at the Grange, from the Squire to the Baronet's steward
+at his neat white house on the heath, from the steward to the bailiff,
+and from him through a huge circle of honest dames and gaffers, by
+whose hard and horny hands it was generally worn to pieces in about a
+month after its arrival.
+
+This slow succession of intelligence was of some advantage to Richard
+Waverley in the case before us; for, had the sum total of his
+enormities reached the ears of Sir Everard at once, there can be no
+doubt that the new commissioner would have had little reason to pique
+himself on the success of his politics. The Baronet, although the
+mildest of human beings, was not without sensitive points in his
+character; his brother's conduct had wounded these deeply; the Waverley
+estate was fettered by no entail (for it had never entered into the
+head of any of its former possessors that one of their progeny could be
+guilty of the atrocities laid by Dyer's 'Letter' to the door of
+Richard), and if it had, the marriage of the proprietor might have been
+fatal to a collateral heir. These various ideas floated through the
+brain of Sir Everard without, however, producing any determined
+conclusion.
+
+He examined the tree of his genealogy, which, emblazoned with many an
+emblematic mark of honour and heroic achievement, hung upon the
+well-varnished wainscot of his hall. The nearest descendants of Sir
+Hildebrand Waverley, failing those of his eldest son Wilfred, of whom
+Sir Everard and his brother were the only representatives, were, as
+this honoured register informed him (and, indeed, as he himself well
+knew), the Waverleys of Highley Park, com. Hants; with whom the main
+branch, or rather stock, of the house had renounced all connection
+since the great law-suit in 1670.
+
+This degenerate scion had committed a farther offence against the head
+and source of their gentility, by the intermarriage of their
+representative with Judith, heiress of Oliver Bradshawe, of Highley
+Park, whose arms, the same with those of Bradshawe the regicide, they
+had quartered with the ancient coat of Waverley. These offences,
+however, had vanished from Sir Everard's recollection in the heat of
+his resentment; and had Lawyer Clippurse, for whom his groom was
+despatched express, arrived but an hour earlier, he might have had the
+benefit of drawing a new settlement of the lordship and manor of
+Waverley-Honour, with all its dependencies. But an hour of cool
+reflection is a great matter when employed in weighing the comparative
+evil of two measures to neither of which we are internally partial.
+Lawyer Clippurse found his patron involved in a deep study, which he
+was too respectful to disturb, otherwise than by producing his paper
+and leathern ink-case, as prepared to minute his honour's commands.
+Even this slight manoeuvre was embarrassing to Sir Everard, who felt it
+as a reproach to his indecision. He looked at the attorney with some
+desire to issue his fiat, when the sun, emerging from behind a cloud,
+poured at once its chequered light through the stained window of the
+gloomy cabinet in which they were seated. The Baronet's eye, as he
+raised it to the splendour, fell right upon the central scutcheon,
+inpressed with the same device which his ancestor was said to have
+borne in the field of Hastings,--three ermines passant, argent, in a
+field azure, with its appropriate motto, Sans tache. 'May our name
+rather perish,' exclaimed Sir Everard, 'than that ancient and loyal
+symbol should be blended with the dishonoured insignia of a traitorous
+Roundhead!'
+
+All this was the effect of the glimpse of a sunbeam, just sufficient to
+light Lawyer Clippurse to mend his pen. The pen was mended in vain. The
+attorney was dismissed, with directions to hold himself in readiness on
+the first summons.
+
+The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse at the Hall occasioned much
+speculation in that portion of the world to which Waverley-Honour
+formed the centre. But the more judicious politicians of this microcosm
+augured yet worse consequences to Richard Waverley from a movement
+which shortly followed his apostasy. This was no less than an excursion
+of the Baronet in his coach-and-six, with four attendants in rich
+liveries, to make a visit of some duration to a noble peer on the
+confines of the shire, of untainted descent, steady Tory principles,
+and the happy father of six unmarried and accomplished daughters.
+
+Sir Everard's reception in this family was, as it may be easily
+conceived, sufficiently favourable; but of the six young ladies, his
+taste unfortunately determined him in favour of Lady Emily, the
+youngest, who received his attentions with an embarrassment which
+showed at once that she durst not decline them, and that they afforded
+her anything but pleasure.
+
+Sir Everard could not but perceive something uncommon in the restrained
+emotions which the young lady testified at the advances he hazarded;
+but, assured by the prudent Countess that they were the natural effects
+of a retired education, the sacrifice might have been completed, as
+doubtless has happened in many similar instances, had it not been for
+the courage of an elder sister, who revealed to the wealthy suitor that
+Lady Emily's affections were fixed upon a young soldier of fortune, a
+near relation of her own.
+
+Sir Everard manifested great emotion on receiving this intelligence,
+which was confirmed to him, in a private interview, by the young lady
+herself, although under the most dreadful apprehensions of her father's
+indignation.
+
+Honour and generosity were hereditary attributes of the house of
+Waverley. With a grace and delicacy worthy the hero of a romance, Sir
+Everard withdrew his claim to the hand of Lady Emily. He had even,
+before leaving Blandeville Castle, the address to extort from her
+father a consent to her union with the object of her choice. What
+arguments he used on this point cannot exactly be known, for Sir
+Everard was never supposed strong in the powers of persuasion; but the
+young officer, immediately after this transaction, rose in the army
+with a rapidity far surpassing the usual pace of unpatronised
+professional merit, although, to outward appearance, that was all he
+had to depend upon.
+
+The shock which Sir Everard encountered upon this occasion, although
+diminished by the consciousness of having acted virtuously and
+generously had its effect upon his future life. His resolution of
+marriage had been adopted in a fit of indignation; the labour of
+courtship did not quite suit the dignified indolence of his habits; he
+had but just escaped the risk of marrying a woman who could never love
+him, and his pride could not be greatly flattered by the termination of
+his amour, even if his heart had not suffered. The result of the whole
+matter was his return to Waverley-Honour without any transfer of his
+affections, notwithstanding the sighs and languishments of the fair
+tell-tale, who had revealed, in mere sisterly affection, the secret of
+Lady Emily's attachment, and in despite of the nods, winks, and
+innuendos of the officious lady mother, and the grave eulogiums which
+the Earl pronounced successively on the prudence, and good sense, and
+admirable dispositions, of his first, second, third, fourth, and fifth
+daughters.
+
+The memory of his unsuccessful amour was with Sir Everard, as with many
+more of his temper, at once shy, proud, sensitive, and indolent, a
+beacon against exposing himself to similar mortification, pain, and
+fruitless exertion for the time to come. He continued to live at
+Waverley-Honour in the style of an old English gentleman, of an ancient
+descent and opulent fortune. His sister, Miss Rachel Waverley, presided
+at his table; and they became, by degrees, an old bachelor and an
+ancient maiden lady, the gentlest and kindest of the votaries of
+celibacy.
+
+The vehemence of Sir Everard's resentment against his brother was but
+short-lived; yet his dislike to the Whig and the placeman, though
+unable to stimulate him to resume any active measures prejudicial to
+Richard's interest, in the succession to the family estate, continued
+to maintain the coldness between them. Richard knew enough of the
+world, and of his brother's temper, to believe that by any
+ill-considered or precipitate advances on his part, he might turn
+passive dislike into a more active principle. It was accident,
+therefore, which at length occasioned a renewal of their intercourse.
+Richard had married a young woman of rank, by whose family interest and
+private fortune he hoped to advance his career. In her right he became
+possessor of a manor of some value, at the distance of a few miles from
+Waverley-Honour.
+
+Little Edward, the hero of our tale, then in his fifth year, was their
+only child. It chanced that the infant with his maid had strayed one
+morning to a mile's distance from the avenue of Brerewood Lodge, his
+father's seat. Their attention was attracted by a carriage drawn by six
+stately long-tailed black horses, and with as much carving and gilding
+as would have done honour to my lord mayor's. It was waiting for the
+owner, who was at a little distance inspecting the progress of a
+half-built farm-house. I know not whether the boy's nurse had been a
+Welsh--or a Scotch-woman, or in what manner he associated a shield
+emblazoned with three ermines with the idea of personal property, but
+he no sooner beheld this family emblem than he stoutly determined on
+vindicating his right to the splendid vehicle on which it was
+displayed. The Baronet arrived while the boy's maid was in vain
+endeavouring to make him desist from his determination to appropriate
+the gilded coach-and-six. The rencontre was at a happy moment for
+Edward, as his uncle had been just eyeing wistfully, with something of
+a feeling like envy, the chubby boys of the stout yeoman whose mansion
+was building by his direction. In the round-faced rosy cherub before
+him, bearing his eye and his name, and vindicating a hereditary title
+to his family, affection, and patronage, by means of a tie which Sir
+Everard held as sacred as either Garter or Blue-mantle, Providence
+seemed to have granted to him the very object best calculated to fill
+up the void in his hopes and affections. Sir Everard returned to
+Waverley-Hall upon a led horse, which was kept in readiness for him,
+while the child and his attendant were sent home in the carriage to
+Brerewood Lodge, with such a message as opened to Richard Waverley a
+door of reconciliation with his elder brother.
+
+Their intercourse, however, though thus renewed, continued to be rather
+formal and civil than partaking of brotherly cordiality; yet it was
+sufficient to the wishes of both parties. Sir Everard obtained, in the
+frequent society of his little nephew, something on which his
+hereditary pride might found the anticipated pleasure of a continuation
+of his lineage, and where his kind and gentle affections could at the
+same time fully exercise themselves. For Richard Waverley, he beheld in
+the growing attachment between the uncle and nephew the means of
+securing his son's, if not his own, succession to the hereditary
+estate, which he felt would be rather endangered than promoted by any
+attempt on his own part towards a closer intimacy with a man of Sir
+Everard's habits and opinions.
+
+Thus, by a sort of tacit compromise, little Edward was permitted to
+pass the greater part of the year at the Hall, and appeared to stand in
+the same intimate relation to both families, although their mutual
+intercourse was otherwise limited to formal messages and more formal
+visits. The education of the youth was regulated alternately by the
+taste and opinions of his uncle and of his father. But more of this in
+a subsequent chapter.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III
+
+EDUCATION
+
+
+The education of our hero, Edward Waverley, was of a nature somewhat
+desultory. In infancy his health suffered, or was supposed to suffer
+(which is quite the same thing), by the air of London. As soon,
+therefore, as official duties, attendance on Parliament, or the
+prosecution of any of his plans of interest or ambition, called his
+father to town, which was his usual residence for eight months in the
+year, Edward was transferred to Waverley-Honour, and experienced a
+total change of instructors and of lessons, as well as of residence.
+This might have been remedied had his father placed him under the
+superintendence of a permanent tutor. But he considered that one of his
+choosing would probably have been unacceptable at Waverley-Honour, and
+that such a selection as Sir Everard might have made, were the matter
+left to him, would have burdened him with a disagreeable inmate, if not
+a political spy, in his family. He therefore prevailed upon his private
+secretary, a young man of taste and accomplishments, to bestow an hour
+or two on Edward's education while at Brerewood Lodge, and left his
+uncle answerable for his improvement in literature while an inmate at
+the Hall. This was in some degree respectably provided for. Sir
+Everard's chaplain, an Oxonian, who had lost his fellowship for
+declining to take the oaths at the accession of George I, was not only
+an excellent classical scholar, but reasonably skilled in science, and
+master of most modern languages. He was, however, old and indulgent,
+and the recurring interregnum, during which Edward was entirely freed
+from his discipline, occasioned such a relaxation of authority, that
+the youth was permitted, in a great measure, to learn as he pleased,
+what he pleased, and when he pleased. This slackness of rule might have
+been ruinous to a boy of slow understanding, who, feeling labour in the
+acquisition of knowledge, would have altogether neglected it, save for
+the command of a taskmaster; and it might have proved equally dangerous
+to a youth whose animal spirits were more powerful than his imagination
+or his feelings, and whom the irresistible influence of Alma would have
+engaged in field-sports from morning till night. But the character of
+Edward Waverley was remote from either of these. His powers of
+apprehension were so uncommonly quick as almost to resemble intuition,
+and the chief care of his preceptor was to prevent him, as a sportsman
+would phrase it, from over-running his game--that is, from acquiring
+his knowledge in a slight, flimsy, and inadequate manner. And here the
+instructor had to combat another propensity too often united with
+brilliancy of fancy and vivacity of talent--that indolence, namely, of
+disposition, which can only be stirred by some strong motive of
+gratification, and which renounces study as soon as curiosity is
+gratified, the pleasure of conquering the first difficulties exhausted,
+and the novelty of pursuit at an end. Edward would throw himself with
+spirit upon any classical author of which his preceptor proposed the
+perusal, make himself master of the style so far as to understand the
+story, and, if that pleased or interested him, he finished the volume.
+But it was in vain to attempt fixing his attention on critical
+distinctions of philology, upon the difference of idiom, the beauty of
+felicitous expression, or the artificial combinations of syntax. 'I can
+read and understand a Latin author,' said young Edward, with the
+self-confidence and rash reasoning of fifteen, 'and Scaliger or Bentley
+could not do much more.' Alas! while he was thus permitted to read only
+for the gratification of his amusement, he foresaw not that he was
+losing for ever the opportunity of acquiring habits of firm and
+assiduous application, of gaining the art of controlling, directing,
+and concentrating the powers of his mind for earnest investigation--an
+art far more essential than even that intimate acquaintance with
+classical learning which is the primary object of study.
+
+I am aware I may be here reminded of the necessity of rendering
+instruction agreeable to youth, and of Tasso's infusion of honey into
+the medicine prepared for a child; but an age in which children are
+taught the driest doctrines by the insinuating method of instructive
+games, has little reason to dread the consequences of study being
+rendered too serious or severe. The history of England is now reduced
+to a game at cards, the problems of mathematics to puzzles and riddles,
+and the doctrines of arithmetic may, we are assured, be sufficiently
+acquired by spending a few hours a week at a new and complicated
+edition of the Royal Game of the Goose. There wants but one step
+further, and the Creed and Ten Commandments may be taught in the same
+manner, without the necessity of the grave face, deliberate tone of
+recital, and devout attention, hitherto exacted from the well-governed
+childhood of this realm. It may, in the meantime, be subject of serious
+consideration, whether those who are accustomed only to acquire
+instruction through the medium of amusement may not be brought to
+reject that which approaches under the aspect of study; whether those
+who learn history by the cards may not be led to prefer the means to
+the end; and whether, were we to teach religion in the way of sport,
+our pupils may not thereby be gradually induced to make sport of their
+religion. To our young hero, who was permitted to seek his instruction
+only according to the bent of his own mind, and who, of consequence,
+only sought it so long as it afforded him amusement, the indulgence of
+his tutors was attended with evil consequences, which long continued to
+influence his character, happiness, and utility.
+
+Edward's power of imagination and love of literature, although the
+former was vivid and the latter ardent, were so far from affording a
+remedy to this peculiar evil, that they rather inflamed and increased
+its violence. The library at Waverley-Honour, a large Gothic room, with
+double arches and a gallery, contained such a miscellaneous and
+extensive collection of volumes as had been assembled together, during
+the course of two hundred years, by a family which had been always
+wealthy, and inclined, of course, as a mark of splendour, to furnish
+their shelves with the current literature of the day, without much
+scrutiny or nicety of discrimination. Throughout this ample realm
+Edward was permitted to roam at large. His tutor had his own studies;
+and church politics and controversial divinity, together with a love of
+learned ease, though they did not withdraw his attention at stated
+times from the progress of his patron's presumptive heir, induced him
+readily to grasp at any apology for not extending a strict and
+regulated survey towards his general studies. Sir Everard had never
+been himself a student, and, like his sister, Miss Rachel Waverley, he
+held the common doctrine, that idleness is incompatible with reading of
+any kind, and that the mere tracing the alphabetical characters with
+the eye is in itself a useful and meritorious task, without
+scrupulously considering what ideas or doctrines they may happen to
+convey. With a desire of amusement, therefore, which better discipline
+might soon have converted into a thirst for knowledge, young Waverley
+drove through the sea of books like a vessel without a pilot or a
+rudder. Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory
+habit of reading, especially under such opportunities of gratifying it.
+I believe one reason why such numerous instances of erudition occur
+among the lower ranks is, that, with the same powers of mind, the poor
+student is limited to a narrow circle for indulging his passion for
+books, and must necessarily make himself master of the few he possesses
+ere he can acquire more. Edward, on the contrary, like the epicure who
+only deigned to take a single morsel from the sunny side of a peach,
+read no volume a moment after it ceased to excite his curiosity or
+interest; and it necessarily happened, that the habit of seeking only
+this sort of gratification rendered it daily more difficult of
+attainment, till the passion for reading, like other strong appetites,
+produced by indulgence a sort of satiety.
+
+Ere he attained this indifference, however, he had read, and stored in
+a memory of uncommon tenacity, much curious, though ill-arranged and
+miscellaneous information. In English literature he was master of
+Shakespeare and Milton, of our earlier dramatic authors, of many
+picturesque and interesting passages from our old historical
+chronicles, and was particularly well acquainted with Spenser, Drayton,
+and other poets who have exercised themselves on romantic fiction, of
+all themes the most fascinating to a youthful imagination, before the
+passions have roused themselves and demand poetry of a more sentimental
+description. In this respect his acquaintance with Italian opened him
+yet a wider range. He had perused the numerous romantic poems, which,
+from the days of Pulci, have been a favourite exercise of the wits of
+Italy, and had sought gratification in the numerous collections of
+novelle, which were brought forth by the genius of that elegant though
+luxurious nation, in emulation of the 'Decameron.' In classical
+literature, Waverley had made the usual progress, and read the usual
+authors; and the French had afforded him an almost exhaustless
+collection of memoirs, scarcely more faithful than romances, and of
+romances so well written as hardly to be distinguished from memoirs.
+The splendid pages of Froissart, with his heart-stirring and
+eye-dazzling descriptions of war and of tournaments, were among his
+chief favourites; and from those of Brantome and De la Noue he learned
+to compare the wild and loose, yet superstitious, character of the
+nobles of the League with the stern, rigid, and sometimes turbulent
+disposition of the Huguenot party. The Spanish had contributed to his
+stock of chivalrous and romantic lore. The earlier literature of the
+northern nations did not escape the study of one who read rather to
+awaken the imagination than to benefit the understanding. And yet,
+knowing much that is known but to few, Edward Waverley might justly be
+considered as ignorant, since he knew little of what adds dignity to
+man, and qualifies him to support and adorn an elevated situation in
+society.
+
+The occasional attention of his parents might indeed have been of
+service to prevent the dissipation of mind incidental to such a
+desultory course of reading. But his mother died in the seventh year
+after the reconciliation between the brothers, and Richard Waverley
+himself, who, after this event, resided more constantly in London, was
+too much interested in his own plans of wealth and ambition to notice
+more respecting Edward than that he was of a very bookish turn, and
+probably destined to be a bishop. If he could have discovered and
+analysed his son's waking dreams, he would have formed a very different
+conclusion.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV
+
+CASTLE-BUILDING
+
+
+I have already hinted that the dainty, squeamish, and fastidious taste
+acquired by a surfeit of idle reading had not only rendered our hero
+unfit for serious and sober study, but had even disgusted him in some
+degree with that in which he had hitherto indulged.
+
+He was in his sixteenth year when his habits of abstraction and love of
+solitude became so much marked as to excite Sir Everard's affectionate
+apprehension. He tried to counterbalance these propensities by engaging
+his nephew in field-sports, which had been the chief pleasure of his
+own youthful days. But although Edward eagerly carried the gun for one
+season, yet when practice had given him some dexterity, the pastime
+ceased to afford him amusement.
+
+In the succeeding spring, the perusal of old Isaac Walton's fascinating
+volume determined Edward to become 'a brother of the angle.' But of all
+diversions which ingenuity ever devised for the relief of idleness,
+fishing is the worst qualified to amuse a man who is at once indolent
+and impatient; and our hero's rod was speedily flung aside. Society and
+example, which, more than any other motives, master and sway the
+natural bent of our passions, might have had their usual effect upon
+the youthful visionary. But the neighbourhood was thinly inhabited, and
+the home-bred young squires whom it afforded were not of a class fit to
+form Edward's usual companions, far less to excite him to emulation in
+the practice of those pastimes which composed the serious business of
+their lives.
+
+There were a few other youths of better education and a more liberal
+character, but from their society also our hero was in some degree
+excluded. Sir Everard had, upon the death of Queen Anne, resigned his
+seat in Parliament, and, as his age increased and the number of his
+contemporaries diminished, had gradually withdrawn himself from
+society; so that when, upon any particular occasion, Edward mingled
+with accomplished and well-educated young men of his own rank and
+expectations, he felt an inferiority in their company, not so much from
+deficiency of information, as from the want of the skill to command and
+to arrange that which he possessed. A deep and increasing sensibility
+added to this dislike of society. The idea of having committed the
+slightest solecism in politeness, whether real or imaginary, was agony
+to him; for perhaps even guilt itself does not impose upon some minds
+so keen a sense of shame and remorse, as a modest, sensitive, and
+inexperienced youth feels from the consciousness of having neglected
+etiquette or excited ridicule. Where we are not at ease, we cannot be
+happy; and therefore it is not surprising that Edward Waverley supposed
+that he disliked and was unfitted for society, merely because he had
+not yet acquired the habit of living in it with ease and comfort, and
+of reciprocally giving and receiving pleasure.
+
+The hours he spent with his uncle and aunt were exhausted in listening
+to the oft-repeated tale of narrative old age. Yet even there his
+imagination, the predominant faculty of his mind, was frequently
+excited. Family tradition and genealogical history, upon which much of
+Sir Everard's discourse turned, is the very reverse of amber, which,
+itself a valuable substance, usually includes flies, straws, and other
+trifles; whereas these studies, being themselves very insignificant and
+trifling, do nevertheless serve to perpetuate a great deal of what is
+rare and valuable in ancient manners, and to record many curious and
+minute facts which could have been preserved and conveyed through no
+other medium. If, therefore, Edward Waverley yawned at times over the
+dry deduction of his line of ancestors, with their various
+intermarriages, and inwardly deprecated the remorseless and protracted
+accuracy with which the worthy Sir Everard rehearsed the various
+degrees of propinquity between the house of Waverley-Honour and the
+doughty barons, knights, and squires to whom they stood allied; if
+(notwithstanding his obligations to the three ermines passant) he
+sometimes cursed in his heart the jargon of heraldry, its griffins, its
+moldwarps, its wyverns, and its dragons, with all the bitterness of
+Hotspur himself, there were moments when these communications
+interested his fancy and rewarded his attention.
+
+The deeds of Wilibert of Waverley in the Holy Land, his long absence
+and perilous adventures, his supposed death, and his return on the
+evening when the betrothed of his heart had wedded the hero who had
+protected her from insult and oppression during his absence; the
+generosity with which the Crusader relinquished his claims, and sought
+in a neighbouring cloister that peace which passeth not away;
+[Footnote: See Note 2.]--to these and similar tales he would hearken
+till his heart glowed and his eye glistened. Nor was he less affected
+when his aunt, Mrs. Rachel, narrated the sufferings and fortitude of
+Lady Alice Waverley during the Great Civil War. The benevolent features
+of the venerable spinster kindled into more majestic expression as she
+told how Charles had, after the field of Worcester, found a day's
+refuge at Waverley-Honour, and how, when a troop of cavalry were
+approaching to search the mansion, Lady Alice dismissed her youngest
+son with a handful of domestics, charging them to make good with their
+lives an hour's diversion, that the king might have that space for
+escape. 'And, God help her,' would Mrs. Rachel continue, fixing her
+eyes upon the heroine's portrait as she spoke, 'full dearly did she
+purchase the safety of her prince with the life of her darling child.
+They brought him here a prisoner, mortally wounded; and you may trace
+the drops of his blood from the great hall door along the little
+gallery, and up to the saloon, where they laid him down to die at his
+mother's feet. But there was comfort exchanged between them; for he
+knew, from the glance of his mother's eye, that the purpose of his
+desperate defence was attained. Ah! I remember,' she continued, 'I
+remember well to have seen one that knew and loved him. Miss Lucy Saint
+Aubin lived and died a maid for his sake, though one of the most
+beautiful and wealthy matches in this country; all the world ran after
+her, but she wore widow's mourning all her life for poor William, for
+they were betrothed though not married, and died in--I cannot think of
+the date; but I remember, in the November of that very year, when she
+found herself sinking, she desired to be brought to Waverley-Honour
+once more, and visited all the places where she had been with my
+grand-uncle, and caused the carpets to be raised that she might trace
+the impression of his blood, and if tears could have washed it out, it
+had not been there now; for there was not a dry eye in the house. You
+would have thought, Edward, that the very trees mourned for her, for
+their leaves dropt around her without a gust of wind, and, indeed, she
+looked like one that would never see them green again.'
+
+From such legends our hero would steal away to indulge the fancies they
+excited. In the corner of the large and sombre library, with no other
+light than was afforded by the decaying brands on its ponderous and
+ample hearth, he would exercise for hours that internal sorcery by
+which past or imaginary events are presented in action, as it were, to
+the eye of the muser. Then arose in long and fair array the splendour
+of the bridal feast at Waverley-Castle; the tall and emaciated form of
+its real lord, as he stood in his pilgrim's weeds, an unnoticed
+spectator of the festivities of his supposed heir and intended bride;
+the electrical shock occasioned by the discovery; the springing of the
+vassals to arms; the astonishment of the bridegroom; the terror and
+confusion of the bride; the agony with which Wilibert observed that her
+heart as well as consent was in these nuptials; the air of dignity, yet
+of deep feeling, with which he flung down the half-drawn sword, and
+turned away for ever from the house of his ancestors. Then would he
+change the scene, and fancy would at his wish represent Aunt Rachel's
+tragedy. He saw the Lady Waverley seated in her bower, her ear strained
+to every sound, her heart throbbing with double agony, now listening to
+the decaying echo of the hoofs of the king's horse, and when that had
+died away, hearing in every breeze that shook the trees of the park,
+the noise of the remote skirmish. A distant sound is heard like the
+rushing of a swoln stream; it comes nearer, and Edward can plainly
+distinguish the galloping of horses, the cries and shouts of men, with
+straggling pistol-shots between, rolling forwards to the Hall. The lady
+starts up--a terrified menial rushes in--but why pursue such a
+description?
+
+As living in this ideal world became daily more delectable to our hero,
+interruption was disagreeable in proportion. The extensive domain that
+surrounded the Hall, which, far exceeding the dimensions of a park, was
+usually termed Waverley-Chase, had originally been forest ground, and
+still, though broken by extensive glades, in which the young deer were
+sporting, retained its pristine and savage character. It was traversed
+by broad avenues, in many places half grown up with brush-wood, where
+the beauties of former days used to take their stand to see the stag
+coursed with greyhounds, or to gain an aim at him with the crossbow. In
+one spot, distinguished by a moss-grown Gothic monument, which retained
+the name of Queen's Standing, Elizabeth herself was said to have
+pierced seven bucks with her own arrows. This was a very favourite
+haunt of Waverley. At other times, with his gun and his spaniel, which
+served as an apology to others, and with a book in his pocket, which
+perhaps served as an apology to himself, he used to pursue one of these
+long avenues, which, after an ascending sweep of four miles, gradually
+narrowed into a rude and contracted path through the cliffy and woody
+pass called Mirkwood Dingle, and opened suddenly upon a deep, dark, and
+small lake, named, from the same cause, Mirkwood-Mere. There stood, in
+former times, a solitary tower upon a rock almost surrounded by the
+water, which had acquired the name of the Strength of Waverley, because
+in perilous times it had often been the refuge of the family. There, in
+the wars of York and Lancaster, the last adherents of the Red Rose who
+dared to maintain her cause carried on a harassing and predatory
+warfare, till the stronghold was reduced by the celebrated Richard of
+Gloucester. Here, too, a party of Cavaliers long maintained themselves
+under Nigel Waverley, elder brother of that William whose fate Aunt
+Rachel commemorated. Through these scenes it was that Edward loved to
+'chew the cud of sweet and bitter fancy,' and, like a child among his
+toys, culled and arranged, from the splendid yet useless imagery and
+emblems with which his imagination was stored, visions as brilliant and
+as fading as those of an evening sky. The effect of this indulgence
+upon his temper and character will appear in the next chapter.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V
+
+CHOICE OF A PROFESSION
+
+
+From the minuteness with which I have traced Waverley's pursuits, and
+the bias which these unavoidably communicated to his imagination, the
+reader may perhaps anticipate, in the following tale, an imitation of
+the romance of Cervantes. But he will do my prudence injustice in the
+supposition. My intention is not to follow the steps of that inimitable
+author, in describing such total perversion of intellect as
+misconstrues the objects actually presented to the senses, but that
+more common aberration from sound judgment, which apprehends
+occurrences indeed in their reality, but communicates to them a
+tincture of its own romantic tone and colouring. So far was Edward
+Waverley from expecting general sympathy with his own feelings, or
+concluding that the present state of things was calculated to exhibit
+the reality of those visions in which he loved to indulge, that he
+dreaded nothing more than the detection of such sentiments as were
+dictated by his musings. He neither had nor wished to have a confidant,
+with whom to communicate his reveries; and so sensible was he of the
+ridicule attached to them, that, had he been to choose between any
+punishment short of ignominy, and the necessity of giving a cold and
+composed account of the ideal world in which he lived the better part
+of his days, I think he would not have hesitated to prefer the former
+infliction. This secrecy became doubly precious as he felt in advancing
+life the influence of the awakening passions. Female forms of exquisite
+grace and beauty began to mingle in his mental adventures; nor was he
+long without looking abroad to compare the creatures of his own
+imagination with the females of actual life.
+
+The list of the beauties who displayed their hebdomadal finery at the
+parish church of Waverley was neither numerous nor select. By far the
+most passable was Miss Sissly, or, as she rather chose to be called,
+Miss Cecilia Stubbs, daughter of Squire Stubbs at the Grange. I know
+not whether it was by the 'merest accident in the world,' a phrase
+which, from female lips, does not always exclude malice prepense, or
+whether it was from a conformity of taste, that Miss Cecilia more than
+once crossed Edward in his favourite walks through Waverley-Chase. He
+had not as yet assumed courage to accost her on these occasions; but
+the meeting was not without its effect. A romantic lover is a strange
+idolater, who sometimes cares not out of what log he frames the object
+of his adoration; at least, if nature has given that object any
+passable proportion of personal charms, he can easily play the Jeweller
+and Dervise in the Oriental tale, [Footnote: See Hoppner's tale of The
+Seven Lovers.] and supply her richly, out of the stores of his own
+imagination, with supernatural beauty, and all the properties of
+intellectual wealth.
+
+But ere the charms of Miss Cecilia Stubbs had erected her into a
+positive goddess, or elevated her at least to a level with the saint
+her namesake, Mrs. Rachel Waverley gained some intimation which
+determined her to prevent the approaching apotheosis. Even the most
+simple and unsuspicious of the female sex have (God bless them!) an
+instinctive sharpness of perception in such matters, which sometimes
+goes the length of observing partialities that never existed, but
+rarely misses to detect such as pass actually under their observation.
+Mrs. Rachel applied herself with great prudence, not to combat, but to
+elude, the approaching danger, and suggested to her brother the
+necessity that the heir of his house should see something more of the
+world than was consistent with constant residence at Waverley-Honour.
+
+Sir Everard would not at first listen to a proposal which went to
+separate his nephew from him. Edward was a little bookish, he admitted,
+but youth, he had always heard, was the season for learning, and, no
+doubt, when his rage for letters was abated, and his head fully stocked
+with knowledge, his nephew would take to field-sports and country
+business. He had often, he said, himself regretted that he had not
+spent some time in study during his youth: he would neither have shot
+nor hunted with less skill, and he might have made the roof of Saint
+Stephen's echo to longer orations than were comprised in those zealous
+Noes, with which, when a member of the House during Godolphin's
+administration, he encountered every measure of government.
+
+Aunt Rachel's anxiety, however, lent her address to carry her point.
+Every representative of their house had visited foreign parts, or
+served his country in the army, before he settled for life at
+Waverley-Honour, and she appealed for the truth of her assertion to the
+genealogical pedigree, an authority which Sir Everard was never known
+to contradict. In short, a proposal was made to Mr. Richard Waverley,
+that his son should travel, under the direction of his present tutor
+Mr. Pembroke, with a suitable allowance from the Baronet's liberality.
+The father himself saw no objection to this overture; but upon
+mentioning it casually at the table of the minister, the great man
+looked grave. The reason was explained in private. The unhappy turn of
+Sir Everard's politics, the minister observed, was such as would render
+it highly improper that a young gentleman of such hopeful prospects
+should travel on the Continent with a tutor doubtless of his uncle's
+choosing, and directing his course by his instructions. What might Mr.
+Edward Waverley's society be at Paris, what at Rome, where all manner
+of snares were spread by the Pretender and his sons--these were points
+for Mr. Waverley to consider. This he could himself say, that he knew
+his Majesty had such a just sense of Mr. Richard Waverley's merits,
+that, if his son adopted the army for a few years, a troop, he
+believed, might be reckoned upon in one of the dragoon regiments lately
+returned from Flanders.
+
+A hint thus conveyed and enforced was not to be neglected with
+impunity; and Richard Waverley, though with great dread of shocking his
+brother's prejudices, deemed he could not avoid accepting the
+commission thus offered him for his son. The truth is, he calculated
+much, and justly, upon Sir Everard's fondness for Edward, which made
+him unlikely to resent any step that he might take in due submission to
+parental authority. Two letters announced this determination to the
+Baronet and his nephew. The latter barely communicated the fact, and
+pointed out the necessary preparations for joining his regiment. To his
+brother, Richard was more diffuse and circuitous. He coincided with
+him, in the most flattering manner, in the propriety of his son's
+seeing a little more of the world, and was even humble in expressions
+of gratitude for his proposed assistance; was, however, deeply
+concerned that it was now, unfortunately, not in Edward's power exactly
+to comply with the plan which had been chalked out by his best friend
+and benefactor. He himself had thought with pain on the boy's
+inactivity, at an age when all his ancestors had borne arms; even
+Royalty itself had deigned to inquire whether young Waverley was not
+now in Flanders, at an age when his grandfather was already bleeding
+for his king in the Great Civil War. This was accompanied by an offer
+of a troop of horse. What could he do? There was no time to consult his
+brother's inclinations, even if he could have conceived there might be
+objections on his part to his nephew's following the glorious career of
+his predecessors. And, in short, that Edward was now (the intermediate
+steps of cornet and lieutenant being overleapt with great agility)
+Captain Waverley, of Gardiner's regiment of dragoons, which he must
+join in their quarters at Dundee in Scotland, in the course of a month.
+
+Sir Everard Waverley received this intimation with a mixture of
+feelings. At the period of the Hanoverian succession he had withdrawn
+from parliament, and his conduct in the memorable year 1715 had not
+been altogether unsuspected. There were reports of private musters of
+tenants and horses in Waverley-Chase by moonlight, and of cases of
+carbines and pistols purchased in Holland, and addressed to the
+Baronet, but intercepted by the vigilance of a riding officer of the
+excise, who was afterwards tossed in a blanket on a moonless night, by
+an association of stout yeomen, for his officiousness. Nay, it was even
+said, that at the arrest of Sir William Wyndham, the leader of the Tory
+party, a letter from Sir Everard was found in the pocket of his
+night-gown. But there was no overt act which an attainder could be
+founded on, and government, contented with suppressing the insurrection
+of 1715, felt it neither prudent nor safe to push their vengeance
+farther than against those unfortunate gentlemen who actually took up
+arms.
+
+Nor did Sir Everard's apprehensions of personal consequences seem to
+correspond with the reports spread among his Whig neighbours. It was
+well known that he had supplied with money several of the distressed
+Northumbrians and Scotchmen, who, after being made prisoners at Preston
+in Lancashire, were imprisoned in Newgate and the Marshalsea, and it
+was his solicitor and ordinary counsel who conducted the defence of
+some of these unfortunate gentlemen at their trial. It was generally
+supposed, however, that, had ministers possessed any real proof of Sir
+Everard's accession to the rebellion, he either would not have ventured
+thus to brave the existing government, or at least would not have done
+so with impunity. The feelings which then dictated his proceedings were
+those of a young man, and at an agitating period. Since that time Sir
+Everard's Jacobitism had been gradually decaying, like a fire which
+burns out for want of fuel. His Tory and High-Church principles were
+kept up by some occasional exercise at elections and quarter-sessions;
+but those respecting hereditary right were fallen into a sort of
+abeyance. Yet it jarred severely upon his feelings, that his nephew
+should go into the army under the Brunswick dynasty; and the more so,
+as, independent of his high and conscientious ideas of paternal
+authority, it was impossible, or at least highly imprudent, to
+interfere authoritatively to prevent it. This suppressed vexation gave
+rise to many poohs and pshaws which were placed to the account of an
+incipient fit of gout, until, having sent for the Army List, the worthy
+Baronet consoled himself with reckoning the descendants of the houses
+of genuine loyalty, Mordaunts, Granvilles, and Stanleys, whose names
+were to be found in that military record; and, calling up all his
+feelings of family grandeur and warlike glory, he concluded, with logic
+something like Falstaff's, that when war was at hand, although it were
+shame to be on any side but one, it were worse shame to be idle than to
+be on the worst side, though blacker than usurpation could make it. As
+for Aunt Rachel, her scheme had not exactly terminated according to her
+wishes, but she was under the necessity of submitting to circumstances;
+and her mortification was diverted by the employment she found in
+fitting out her nephew for the campaign, and greatly consoled by the
+prospect of beholding him blaze in complete uniform. Edward Waverley
+himself received with animated and undefined surprise this most
+unexpected intelligence. It was, as a fine old poem expresses it, 'like
+a fire to heather set,' that covers a solitary hill with smoke, and
+illumines it at the same time with dusky fire. His tutor, or, I should
+say, Mr. Pembroke, for he scarce assumed the name of tutor, picked up
+about Edward's room some fragments of irregular verse, which he
+appeared to have composed under the influence of the agitating feelings
+occasioned by this sudden page being turned up to him in the book of
+life. The doctor, who was a believer in all poetry which was composed
+by his friends, and written out in fair straight lines, with a capital
+at the beginning of each, communicated this treasure to Aunt Rachel,
+who, with her spectacles dimmed with tears, transferred them to her
+commonplace book, among choice receipts for cookery and medicine,
+favourite texts, and portions from High-Church divines, and a few
+songs, amatory and Jacobitical, which she had carolled in her younger
+days, from whence her nephew's poetical tentamina were extracted when
+the volume itself, with other authentic records of the Waverley family,
+were exposed to the inspection of the unworthy editor of this memorable
+history. If they afford the reader no higher amusement, they will
+serve, at least, better than narrative of any kind, to acquaint him
+with the wild and irregular spirit of our hero:--
+
+    Late, when the Autumn evening fell
+    On Mirkwood-Mere's romantic dell,
+    The lake return'd, in chasten'd gleam,
+    The purple cloud, the golden beam:
+    Reflected in the crystal pool,
+    Headland and bank lay fair and cool;
+    The weather-tinted rock and tower,
+    Each drooping tree, each fairy flower,
+    So true, so soft, the mirror gave,
+    As if there lay beneath the wave,
+    Secure from trouble, toil, and care,
+    A world than earthly world more fair.
+
+
+    But distant winds began to wake,
+    And roused the Genius of the Lake!
+    He heard the groaning of the oak,
+    And donn'd at once his sable cloak,
+    As warrior, at the battle-cry,
+    Invests him with his panoply:
+    Then, as the whirlwind nearer press'd
+    He 'gan to shake his foamy crest
+    O'er furrow'd brow and blacken'd cheek,
+    And bade his surge in thunder speak.
+    In wild and broken eddies whirl'd.
+    Flitted that fond ideal world,
+    And to the shore in tumult tost
+    The realms of fairy bliss were lost.
+
+    Yet, with a stern delight and strange,
+    I saw the spirit-stirring change,
+    As warr'd the wind with wave and wood,
+    Upon the ruin'd tower I stood,
+    And felt my heart more strongly bound,
+    Responsive to the lofty sound,
+    While, joying in the mighty roar,
+    I mourn'd that tranquil scene no more.
+
+    So, on the idle dreams of youth,
+    Breaks the loud trumpet-call of truth,
+    Bids each fair vision pass away,
+    Like landscape on the lake that lay,
+    As fair, as flitting, and as frail,
+    As that which fled the Autumn gale.--
+    For ever dead to fancy's eye
+    Be each gay form that glided by,
+    While dreams of love and lady's charms
+    Give place to honour and to arms!
+
+In sober prose, as perhaps these verses intimate less decidedly, the
+transient idea of Miss Cecilia Stubbs passed from Captain Waverley's
+heart amid the turmoil which his new destinies excited. She appeared,
+indeed, in full splendour in her father's pew upon the Sunday when he
+attended service for the last time at the old parish church, upon which
+occasion, at the request of his uncle and Aunt Rachel, he was induced
+(nothing both, if the truth must be told) to present himself in full
+uniform.
+
+There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an opinion of
+others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the very same time.
+Miss Stubbs had indeed summoned up every assistance which art could
+afford to beauty; but, alas! hoop, patches, frizzled locks, and a new
+mantua of genuine French silk, were lost upon a young officer of
+dragoons who wore for the first time his gold-laced hat, jack-boots,
+and broadsword. I know not whether, like the champion of an old
+ballad,--
+
+    His heart was all on honour bent,
+    He could not stoop to love;
+    No lady in the land had power
+    His frozen heart to move;
+
+or whether the deep and flaming bars of embroidered gold, which now
+fenced his breast, defied the artillery of Cecilia's eyes; but every
+arrow was launched at him in vain.
+
+    Yet did I mark where Cupid's shaft did light;
+    It lighted not on little western flower,
+    But on bold yeoman, flower of all the west,
+    Hight Jonas Culbertfield, the steward's son.
+
+Craving pardon for my heroics (which I am unable in certain cases to
+resist giving way to), it is a melancholy fact, that my history must
+here take leave of the fair Cecilia, who, like many a daughter of Eve,
+after the departure of Edward, and the dissipation of certain idle
+visions which she had adopted, quietly contented herself with a
+pisaller, and gave her hand, at the distance of six months, to the
+aforesaid Jonas, son of the Baronet's steward, and heir (no unfertile
+prospect) to a steward's fortune, besides the snug probability of
+succeeding to his father's office. All these advantages moved Squire
+Stubbs, as much as the ruddy brown and manly form of the suitor
+influenced his daughter, to abate somewhat in the article of their
+gentry; and so the match was concluded. None seemed more gratified than
+Aunt Rachel, who had hitherto looked rather askance upon the
+presumptuous damsel (as much so, peradventure, as her nature would
+permit), but who, on the first appearance of the new-married pair at
+church, honoured the bride with a smile and a profound curtsy, in
+presence of the rector, the curate, the clerk, and the whole
+congregation of the united parishes of Waverley cum Beverley.
+
+I beg pardon, once and for all, of those readers who take up novels
+merely for amusement, for plaguing them so long with old-fashioned
+politics, and Whig and Tory, and Hanoverians and Jacobites. The truth
+is, I cannot promise them that this story shall be intelligible, not to
+say probable, without it. My plan requires that I should explain the
+motives on which its action proceeded; and these motives necessarily
+arose from the feelings, prejudices, and parties of the times. I do not
+invite my fair readers, whose sex and impatience give them the greatest
+right to complain of these circumstances, into a flying chariot drawn
+by hippogriffs, or moved by enchantment. Mine is a humble English
+post-chaise, drawn upon four wheels, and keeping his Majesty's highway.
+Such as dislike the vehicle may leave it at the next halt, and wait for
+the conveyance of Prince Hussein's tapestry, or Malek the Weaver's
+flying sentrybox. Those who are contented to remain with me will be
+occasionally exposed to the dulness inseparable from heavy roads, steep
+hills, sloughs, and other terrestrial retardations; but with tolerable
+horses and a civil driver (as the advertisements have it), I engage to
+get as soon as possible into a more picturesque and romantic country,
+if my passengers incline to have some patience with me during my first
+stages. [Footnote: These Introductory Chapters have been a good deal
+censured as tedious and unnecessary. Yet there are circumstances
+recorded in them which the author has not been able to persuade himself
+to retrench or cancel.]
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI
+
+THE ADIEUS OF WAVERLEY
+
+
+It was upon the evening of this memorable Sunday that Sir Everard
+entered the library, where he narrowly missed surprising our young hero
+as he went through the guards of the broadsword with the ancient weapon
+of old Sir Hildebrand, which, being preserved as an heirloom, usually
+hung over the chimney in the library, beneath a picture of the knight
+and his horse, where the features were almost entirely hidden by the
+knight's profusion of curled hair, and the Bucephalus which he bestrode
+concealed by the voluminous robes of the Bath with which he was
+decorated. Sir Everard entered, and after a glance at the picture and
+another at his nephew, began a little speech, which, however, soon
+dropt into the natural simplicity of his common manner, agitated upon
+the present occasion by no common feeling. 'Nephew,' he said; and then,
+as mending his phrase, 'My dear Edward, it is God's will, and also the
+will of your father, whom, under God, it is your duty to obey, that you
+should leave us to take up the profession of arms, in which so many of
+your ancestors have been distinguished. I have made such arrangements
+as will enable you to take the field as their descendant, and as the
+probable heir of the house of Waverley; and, sir, in the field of
+battle you will remember what name you bear. And, Edward, my dear boy,
+remember also that you are the last of that race, and the only hope of
+its revival depends upon you; therefore, as far as duty and honour will
+permit, avoid danger--I mean unnecessary danger--and keep no company
+with rakes, gamblers, and Whigs, of whom, it is to be feared, there are
+but too many in the service into which you are going. Your colonel, as
+I am informed, is an excellent man--for a Presbyterian; but you will
+remember your duty to God, the Church of England, and the--' (this
+breach ought to have been supplied, according to the rubric, with the
+word KING; but as, unfortunately, that word conveyed a double and
+embarrassing sense, one meaning de facto and the other de jure, the
+knight filled up the blank otherwise)--'the Church of England, and all
+constituted authorities.' Then, not trusting himself with any further
+oratory, he carried his nephew to his stables to see the horses
+destined for his campaign. Two were black (the regimental colour),
+superb chargers both; the other three were stout active hacks, designed
+for the road, or for his domestics, of whom two were to attend him from
+the Hall; an additional groom, if necessary, might be picked up in
+Scotland.
+
+'You will depart with but a small retinue,' quoth the Baronet,
+'compared to Sir Hildebrand, when he mustered before the gate of the
+Hall a larger body of horse than your whole regiment consists of. I
+could have wished that these twenty young fellows from my estate, who
+have enlisted in your troop, had been to march with you on your journey
+to Scotland. It would have been something, at least; but I am told
+their attendance would be thought unusual in these days, when every new
+and foolish fashion is introduced to break the natural dependence of
+the people upon their landlords.'
+
+Sir Everard had done his best to correct this unnatural disposition of
+the times; for he had brightened the chain of attachment between the
+recruits and their young captain, not only by a copious repast of beef
+and ale, by way of parting feast, but by such a pecuniary donation to
+each individual as tended rather to improve the conviviality than the
+discipline of their march. After inspecting the cavalry, Sir Everard
+again conducted his nephew to the library, where he produced a letter,
+carefully folded, surrounded by a little stripe of flox-silk, according
+to ancient form, and sealed with an accurate impression of the Waverley
+coat-of-arms. It was addressed, with great formality, 'To Cosmo Comyne
+Bradwardine, Esq., of Bradwardine, at his principal mansion of
+Tully-Veolan, in Perthshire, North Britain. These--By the hands of
+Captain Edward Waverley, nephew of Sir Everard Waverley, of
+Waverley-Honour, Bart.'
+
+The gentleman to whom this enormous greeting was addressed, of whom we
+shall have more to say in the sequel, had been in arms for the exiled
+family of Stuart in the year 1715, and was made prisoner at Preston in
+Lancashire. He was of a very ancient family, and somewhat embarrassed
+fortune; a scholar, according to the scholarship of Scotchmen, that is,
+his learning was more diffuse than accurate, and he was rather a reader
+than a grammarian. Of his zeal for the classic authors he is said to
+have given an uncommon instance. On the road between Preston and
+London, he made his escape from his guards; but being afterwards found
+loitering near the place where they had lodged the former night, he was
+recognised, and again arrested. His companions, and even his escort,
+were surprised at his infatuation, and could not help inquiring, why,
+being once at liberty, he had not made the best of his way to a place
+of safety; to which he replied, that he had intended to do so, but, in
+good faith, he had returned to seek his Titus Livius, which he had
+forgot in the hurry of his escape. [Footnote: See Note 3.] The
+simplicity of this anecdote struck the gentleman, who, as we before
+observed, had managed the defence of some of those unfortunate persons,
+at the expense of Sir Everard, and perhaps some others of the party. He
+was, besides, himself a special admirer of the old Patavinian, and
+though probably his own zeal might not have carried him such
+extravagant lengths, even to recover the edition of Sweynheim and
+Pannartz (supposed to be the princeps), he did not the less estimate
+the devotion of the North Briton, and in consequence exerted himself to
+so much purpose to remove and soften evidence, detect legal flaws, et
+cetera, that he accomplished the final discharge and deliverance of
+Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine from certain very awkward consequences of a
+plea before our sovereign lord the king in Westminster.
+
+The Baron of Bradwardine, for he was generally so called in Scotland
+(although his intimates, from his place of residence, used to
+denominate him Tully-Veolan, or more familiarly, Tully), no sooner
+stood rectus in curia than he posted down to pay his respects and make
+his acknowledgments at Waverley-Honour. A congenial passion for
+field-sports, and a general coincidence in political opinions, cemented
+his friendship with Sir Everard, notwithstanding the difference of
+their habits and studies in other particulars; and, having spent
+several weeks at Waverley-Honour, the Baron departed with many
+expressions of regard, warmly pressing the Baronet to return his visit,
+and partake of the diversion of grouse-shooting, upon his moors in
+Perthshire next season. Shortly after, Mr. Bradwardine remitted from
+Scotland a sum in reimbursement of expenses incurred in the King's High
+Court of Westminster, which, although not quite so formidable when
+reduced to the English denomination, had, in its original form of
+Scotch pounds, shillings, and pence, such a formidable effect upon the
+frame of Duncan Macwheeble, the laird's confidential factor,
+baron-bailie, and man of resource, that he had a fit of the cholic,
+which lasted for five days, occasioned, he said, solely and utterly by
+becoming the unhappy instrument of conveying such a serious sum of
+money out of his native country into the hands of the false English.
+But patriotism, as it is the fairest, so it is often the most
+suspicious mask of other feelings; and many who knew Bailie Macwheeble
+concluded that his professions of regret were not altogether
+disinterested, and that he would have grudged the moneys paid to the
+LOONS at Westminster much less had they not come from Bradwardine
+estate, a fund which he considered as more particularly his own. But
+the Bailie protested he was absolutely disinterested--
+
+    'Woe, woe, for Scotland, not a whit for me!'
+
+The laird was only rejoiced that his worthy friend, Sir Everard
+Waverley of Waverley-Honour, was reimbursed of the expenditure which he
+had outlaid on account of the house of Bradwardine. It concerned, he
+said, the credit of his own family, and of the kingdom of Scotland at
+large, that these disbursements should be repaid forthwith, and, if
+delayed, it would be a matter of national reproach. Sir Everard,
+accustomed to treat much larger sums with indifference, received the
+remittance of L294, 13S. 6D. without being aware that the payment was
+an international concern, and, indeed, would probably have forgot the
+circumstance altogether, if Bailie Macwheeble had thought of comforting
+his cholic by intercepting the subsidy. A yearly intercourse took
+place, of a short letter and a hamper or a cask or two, between
+Waverley-Honour and Tully-Veolan, the English exports consisting of
+mighty cheeses and mightier ale, pheasants, and venison, and the
+Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon,
+and usquebaugh; all which were meant, sent, and received as pledges of
+constant friendship and amity between two important houses. It followed
+as a matter of course, that the heir-apparent of Waverley-Honour could
+not with propriety visit Scotland without being furnished with
+credentials to the Baron of Bradwardine.
+
+When this matter was explained and settled, Mr. Pembroke expressed his
+wish to take a private and particular leave of his dear pupil. The good
+man's ex hortations to Edward to preserve an unblemished life and
+morals, to hold fast the principles of the Christian religion, and to
+eschew the profane company of scoffers and latitudinarians, too much
+abounding in the army, were not unmingled with his political
+prejudices. It had pleased Heaven, he said, to place Scotland
+(doubtless for the sins of their ancestors in 1642) in a more
+deplorable state of darkness than even this unhappy kingdom of England.
+Here, at least, although the candlestick of the Church of England had
+been in some degree removed from its place, it yet afforded a
+glimmering light; there was a hierarchy, though schismatical, and
+fallen from the principles maintained by those great fathers of the
+church, Sancroft and his brethren; there was a liturgy, though woefully
+perverted in some of the principal petitions. But in Scotland it was
+utter darkness; and, excepting a sorrowful, scattered, and persecuted
+remnant, the pulpits were abandoned to Presbyterians, and, he feared,
+to sectaries of every description. It should be his duty to fortify his
+dear pupil to resist such unhallowed and pernicious doctrines in church
+and state as must necessarily be forced at times upon his unwilling
+ears.
+
+Here he produced two immense folded packets, which appeared each to
+contain a whole ream of closely written manuscript. They had been the
+labour of the worthy man's whole life; and never were labour and zeal
+more absurdly wasted. He had at one time gone to London, with the
+intention of giving them to the world, by the medium of a bookseller in
+Little Britain, well known to deal in such commodities, and to whom he
+was instructed to address himself in a particular phrase and with a
+certain sign, which, it seems, passed at that time current among the
+initiated Jacobites. The moment Mr. Pembroke had uttered the
+Shibboleth, with the appropriate gesture, the bibliopolist greeted him,
+notwithstanding every disclamation, by the title of Doctor, and
+conveying him into his back shop, after inspecting every possible and
+impossible place of concealment, he commenced: 'Eh, Doctor!--Well--all
+under the rose--snug--I keep no holes here even for a Hanoverian rat to
+hide in. And, what--eh! any good news from our friends over the
+water?--and how does the worthy King of France?--Or perhaps you are
+more lately from Rome? it must be Rome will do it at last--the church
+must light its candle at the old lamp.--Eh--what, cautious? I like you
+the better; but no fear.' Here Mr. Pembroke with some difficulty stopt
+a torrent of interrogations, eked out with signs, nods, and winks; and,
+having at length convinced the bookseller that he did him too much
+honour in supposing him an emissary of exiled royalty, he explained his
+actual business.
+
+The man of books with a much more composed air proceeded to examine the
+manuscripts. The title of the first was 'A Dissent from Dissenters, or
+the Comprehension confuted; showing the Impossibility of any
+Composition between the Church and Puritans, Presbyterians, or
+Sectaries of any Description; illustrated from the Scriptures, the
+Fathers of the Church, and the soundest Controversial Divines.' To this
+work the bookseller positively demurred. 'Well meant,' he said, 'and
+learned, doubtless; but the time had gone by. Printed on small-pica it
+would run to eight hundred pages, and could never pay. Begged therefore
+to be excused. Loved and honoured the true church from his soul, and,
+had it been a sermon on the martyrdom, or any twelve-penny touch--why,
+I would venture something for the honour of the cloth. But come, let's
+see the other. "Right Hereditary righted!"--Ah! there's some sense in
+this. Hum--hum--hum--pages so many, paper so much,
+letter-press--Ah--I'll tell you, though, Doctor, you must knock out
+some of the Latin and Greek; heavy, Doctor, damn'd heavy--(beg your
+pardon) and if you throw in a few grains more pepper--I am he that
+never preached my author. I have published for Drake and Charlwood
+Lawton, and poor Amhurst [Footnote: See Note 4.]--Ah, Caleb! Caleb!
+Well, it was a shame to let poor Caleb starve, and so many fat rectors
+and squires among us. I gave him a dinner once a week; but, Lord love
+you, what's once a week, when a man does not know where to go the other
+six days? Well, but I must show the manuscript to little Tom Alibi the
+solicitor, who manages all my law affairs--must keep on the windy side;
+the mob were very uncivil the last time I mounted in Old Palace
+Yard--all Whigs and Roundheads every man of them, Williamites and
+Hanover rats.'
+
+The next day Mr. Pembroke again called on the publisher, but found Tom
+Alibi's advice had determined him against undertaking the work. 'Not
+but what I would go to--(what was I going to say?) to the Plantations
+for the church with pleasure--but, dear Doctor, I have a wife and
+family; but, to show my zeal, I'll recommend the job to my neighbour
+Trimmel--he is a bachelor, and leaving off business, so a voyage in a
+western barge would not inconvenience him.' But Mr. Trimmel was also
+obdurate, and Mr. Pembroke, fortunately perchance for himself, was
+compelled to return to Waverley-Honour with his treatise in vindication
+of the real fundamental principles of church and state safely packed in
+his saddle-bags.
+
+As the public were thus likely to be deprived of the benefit arising
+from his lucubrations by the selfish cowardice of the trade, Mr.
+Pembroke resolved to make two copies of these tremendous manuscripts
+for the use of his pupil. He felt that he had been indolent as a tutor,
+and, besides, his conscience checked him for complying with the request
+of Mr. Richard Waverley, that he would impress no sentiments upon
+Edward's mind inconsistent with the present settlement in church and
+state. But now, thought he, I may, without breach of my word, since he
+is no longer under my tuition, afford the youth the means of judging
+for himself, and have only to dread his reproaches for so long
+concealing the light which the perusal will flash upon his mind. While
+he thus indulged the reveries of an author and a politician, his
+darling proselyte, seeing nothing very inviting in the title of the
+tracts, and appalled by the bulk and compact lines of the manuscript,
+quietly consigned them to a corner of his travelling trunk.
+
+Aunt Rachel's farewell was brief and affectionate. She only cautioned
+her dear Edward, whom she probably deemed somewhat susceptible, against
+the fascination of Scottish beauty. She allowed that the northern part
+of the island contained some ancient families, but they were all Whigs
+and Presbyterians except the Highlanders; and respecting them she must
+needs say, there could be no great delicacy among the ladies, where the
+gentlemen's usual attire was, as she had been assured, to say the
+least, very singular, and not at all decorous. She concluded her
+farewell with a kind and moving benediction, and gave the young
+officer, as a pledge of her regard, a valuable diamond ring (often worn
+by the male sex at that time), and a purse of broad gold-pieces, which
+also were more common Sixty Years Since than they have been of late.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII
+
+A HORSE-QUARTER IN SCOTLAND
+
+
+The next morning, amid varied feelings, the chief of which was a
+predominant, anxious, and even solemn impression, that he was now in a
+great measure abandoned to his own guidance and direction, Edward
+Waverley departed from the Hall amid the blessings and tears of all the
+old domestics and the inhabitants of the village, mingled with some sly
+petitions for sergeantcies and corporalships, and so forth, on the part
+of those who professed that 'they never thoft to ha' seen Jacob, and
+Giles, and Jonathan go off for soldiers, save to attend his honour, as
+in duty bound.' Edward, as in duty bound, extricated himself from the
+supplicants with the pledge of fewer promises than might have been
+expected from a young man so little accustomed to the world. After a
+short visit to London, he proceeded on horseback, then the general mode
+of travelling, to Edinburgh, and from thence to Dundee, a seaport on
+the eastern coast of Angus-shire, where his regiment was then quartered.
+
+He now entered upon a new world, where, for a time, all was beautiful
+because all was new. Colonel Gardiner, the commanding officer of the
+regiment, was himself a study for a romantic, and at the same time an
+inquisitive youth. In person he was tall, handsome, and active, though
+somewhat advanced in life. In his early years he had been what is
+called, by manner of palliative, a very gay young man, and strange
+stories were circulated about his sudden conversion from doubt, if not
+infidelity, to a serious and even enthusiastic turn of mind. It was
+whispered that a supernatural communication, of a nature obvious even
+to the exterior senses, had produced this wonderful change; and though
+some mentioned the proselyte as an enthusiast, none hinted at his being
+a hypocrite. This singular and mystical circumstance gave Colonel
+Gardiner a peculiar and solemn interest in the eyes of the young
+soldier. [Footnote: See Note 5.] It may be easily imagined that the
+officers, of a regiment commanded by so respectable a person composed a
+society more sedate and orderly than a military mess always exhibits;
+and that Waverley escaped some temptations to which he might otherwise
+have been exposed.
+
+Meanwhile his military education proceeded. Already a good horseman, he
+was now initiated into the arts of the manege, which, when carried to
+perfection, almost realise the fable of the Centaur, the guidance of
+the horse appearing to proceed from the rider's mere volition, rather
+than from the use of any external and apparent signal of motion. He
+received also instructions in his field duty; but I must own, that when
+his first ardour was past, his progress fell short in the latter
+particular of what he wished and expected. The duty of an officer, the
+most imposing of all others to the inexperienced mind, because
+accompanied with so much outward pomp and circumstance, is in its
+essence a very dry and abstract task, depending chiefly upon
+arithmetical combinations, requiring much attention, and a cool and
+reasoning head to bring them into action. Our hero was liable to fits
+of absence, in which his blunders excited some mirth, and called down
+some reproof. This circumstance impressed him with a painful sense of
+inferiority in those qualities which appeared most to deserve and
+obtain regard in his new profession. He asked himself in vain, why his
+eye could not judge of distance or space so well as those of his
+companions; why his head was not always successful in disentangling the
+various partial movements necessary to execute a particular evolution;
+and why his memory, so alert upon most occasions, did not correctly
+retain technical phrases and minute points of etiquette or field
+discipline. Waverley was naturally modest, and therefore did not fall
+into the egregious mistake of supposing such minuter rules of military
+duty beneath his notice, or conceiting himself to be born a general,
+because he made an indifferent subaltern. The truth was, that the vague
+and unsatisfactory course of reading which he had pursued, working upon
+a temper naturally retired and abstracted, had given him that wavering
+and unsettled habit of mind which is most averse to study and riveted
+attention. Time, in the mean while, hung heavy on his hands. The gentry
+of the neighbourhood were disaffected, and showed little hospitality to
+the military guests; and the people of the town, chiefly engaged in
+mercantile pursuits, were not such as Waverley chose to associate with.
+The arrival of summer, and a curiosity to know something more of
+Scotland than he could see in a ride from his quarters, determined him
+to request leave of absence for a few weeks. He resolved first to visit
+his uncle's ancient friend and correspondent, with the purpose of
+extending or shortening the time of his residence according to
+circumstances. He travelled of course on horse-back, and with a single
+attendant, and passed his first night at a miserable inn, where the
+landlady had neither shoes nor stockings, and the landlord, who called
+himself a gentleman, was disposed to be rude to his guest, because he
+had not bespoke the pleasure of his society to supper. [Footnote: See
+Note 6.] The next day, traversing an open and uninclosed country,
+Edward gradually approached the Highlands of Perthshire, which at first
+had appeared a blue outline in the horizon, but now swelled into huge
+gigantic masses, which frowned defiance over the more level country
+that lay beneath them. Near the bottom of this stupendous barrier, but
+still in the Lowland country, dwelt Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine of
+Bradwardine; and, if grey-haired eld can be in aught believed, there
+had dwelt his ancestors, with all their heritage, since the days of the
+gracious King Duncan.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII
+
+A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE
+
+
+It was about noon when Captain Waverley entered the straggling village,
+or rather hamlet, of Tully-Veolan, close to which was situated the
+mansion of the proprietor. The houses seemed miserable in the extreme,
+especially to an eye accustomed to the smiling neatness of English
+cottages. They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side
+of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a
+primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the
+hoofs of the first passing horse. Occasionally, indeed, when such a
+consummation seemed inevitable, a watchful old grandam, with her close
+cap, distaff, and spindle, rushed like a sibyl in frenzy out of one of
+these miserable cells, dashed into the middle of the path, and
+snatching up her own charge from among the sunburnt loiterers, saluted
+him with a sound cuff, and transported him back to his dungeon, the
+little white-headed varlet screaming all the while, from the very top
+of his lungs, a shrilly treble to the growling remonstrances of the
+enraged matron. Another part in this concert was sustained by the
+incessant yelping of a score of idle useless curs, which followed,
+snarling, barking, howling, and snapping at the horses' heels; a
+nuisance at that time so common in Scotland, that a French tourist,
+who, like other travellers, longed to find a good and rational reason
+for everything he saw, has recorded, as one of the memorabilia of
+Caledonia, that the state maintained, in each village a relay of curs,
+called collies, whose duty it was to chase the chevaux de poste (too
+starved and exhausted to move without such a stimulus) from one hamlet
+to another, till their annoying convoy drove them to the end of their
+stage. The evil and remedy (such as it is) still exist.--But this is
+remote from our present purpose, and is only thrown out for
+consideration of the collectors under Mr. Dent's Dog Bill.
+
+As Waverley moved on, here and there an old man, bent as much by toil
+as years, his eyes bleared with age and smoke, tottered to the door of
+his hut, to gaze on the dress of the stranger and the form and motions
+of the horses, and then assembled, with his neighbours, in a little
+group at the smithy, to discuss the probabilities of whence the
+stranger came and where he might be going. Three or four village girls,
+returning from the well or brook with pitchers and pails upon their
+heads, formed more pleasing objects, and, with their thin short-gowns
+and single petticoats, bare arms, legs, and feet, uncovered heads and
+braided hair, somewhat resembled Italian forms of landscape. Nor could
+a lover of the picturesque have challenged either the elegance of their
+costume or the symmetry of their shape; although, to say the truth, a
+mere Englishman in search of the COMFORTABLE, a word peculiar to his
+native tongue, might have wished the clothes less scanty, the feet and
+legs somewhat protected from the weather, the head and complexion
+shrouded from the sun, or perhaps might even have thought the whole
+person and dress considerably improved by a plentiful application of
+spring water, with a quantum sufficit of soap. The whole scene was
+depressing; for it argued, at the first glance, at least a stagnation
+of industry, and perhaps of intellect. Even curiosity, the busiest
+passion of the idle, seemed of a listless cast in the village of
+Tully-Veolan: the curs aforesaid alone showed any part of its activity;
+with the villagers it was passive. They stood, and gazed at the
+handsome young officer and his attendant, but without any of those
+quick motions and eager looks that indicate the earnestness with which
+those who live in monotonous ease at home look out for amusement
+abroad. Yet the physiognomy of the people, when more closely examined,
+was far from exhibiting the indifference of stupidity; their features
+were rough, but remarkably intelligent; grave, but the very reverse of
+stupid; and from among the young women an artist might have chosen more
+than one model whose features and form resembled those of Minerva. The
+children also, whose skins were burnt black, and whose hair was
+bleached white, by the influence of the sun, had a look and manner of
+life and interest. It seemed, upon the whole, as if poverty, and
+indolence, its too frequent companion, were combining to depress the
+natural genius and acquired information of a hardy, intelligent, and
+reflecting peasantry.
+
+Some such thoughts crossed Waverley's mind as he paced his horse slowly
+through the rugged and flinty street of Tully-Veolan, interrupted only
+in his meditations by the occasional caprioles which his charger
+exhibited at the reiterated assaults of those canine Cossacks, the
+collies before mentioned. The village was more than half a mile long,
+the cottages being irregularly divided from each other by gardens, or
+yards, as the inhabitants called them, of different sizes, where (for
+it is Sixty Years Since) the now universal potato was unknown, but
+which were stored with gigantic plants of kale or colewort, encircled
+with groves of nettles, and exhibited here and there a huge hemlock, or
+the national thistle, overshadowing a quarter of the petty inclosure.
+The broken ground on which the village was built had never been
+levelled; so that these inclosures presented declivities of every
+degree, here rising like terraces, there sinking like tan-pits. The
+dry-stone walls which fenced, or seemed to fence (for they were sorely
+breached), these hanging gardens of Tully-Veolan were intersected by a
+narrow lane leading to the common field, where the joint labour of the
+villagers cultivated alternate ridges and patches of rye, oats, barley,
+and pease, each of such minute extent that at a little distance the
+unprofitable variety of the surface resembled a tailor's book of
+patterns. In a few favoured instances, there appeared behind the
+cottages a miserable wigwam, compiled of earth, loose stones, and turf,
+where the wealthy might perhaps shelter a starved cow or sorely galled
+horse. But almost every hut was fenced in front by a huge black stack
+of turf on one side of the door, while on the other the family dunghill
+ascended in noble emulation.
+
+About a bowshot from the end of the village appeared the inclosures
+proudly denominated the Parks of Tully-Veolan, being certain square
+fields, surrounded and divided by stone walls five feet in height. In
+the centre of the exterior barrier was the upper gate of the avenue,
+opening under an archway, battlemented on the top, and adorned with two
+large weather-beaten mutilated masses of upright stone, which, if the
+tradition of the hamlet could be trusted, had once represented, at
+least had been once designed to represent, two rampant Bears, the
+supporters of the family of Bradwardine. This avenue was straight and
+of moderate length, running between a double row of very ancient
+horse-chestnuts, planted alternately with sycamores, which rose to such
+huge height, and nourished so luxuriantly, that their boughs completely
+over-arched the broad road beneath. Beyond these venerable ranks, and
+running parallel to them, were two high walls, of apparently the like
+antiquity, overgrown with ivy, honeysuckle, and other climbing plants.
+The avenue seemed very little trodden, and chiefly by foot-passengers;
+so that being very broad, and enjoying a constant shade, it was clothed
+with grass of a deep and rich verdure, excepting where a foot-path,
+worn by occasional passengers, tracked with a natural sweep the way
+from the upper to the lower gate. This nether portal, like the former,
+opened in front of a wall ornamented with some rude sculpture, with
+battlements on the top, over which were seen, half-hidden by the trees
+of the avenue, the high steep roofs and narrow gables of the mansion,
+with lines indented into steps, and corners decorated with small
+turrets. One of the folding leaves of the lower gate was open, and as
+the sun shone full into the court behind, a long line of brilliancy was
+flung upon the aperture up the dark and gloomy avenue. It was one of
+those effects which a painter loves to represent, and mingled well with
+the struggling light which found its way between the boughs of the
+shady arch that vaulted the broad green alley.
+
+The solitude and repose of the whole scene seemed almost monastic; and
+Waverley, who had given his horse to his servant on entering the first
+gate, walked slowly down the avenue, enjoying the grateful and cooling
+shade, and so much pleased with the placid ideas of rest and seclusion
+excited by this confined and quiet scene, that he forgot the misery and
+dirt of the hamlet he had left behind him. The opening into the paved
+court-yard corresponded with the rest of the scene. The house, which
+seemed to consist of two or three high, narrow, and steep-roofed
+buildings, projecting from each other at right angles, formed one side
+of the inclosure. It had been built at a period when castles were no
+longer necessary, and when the Scottish architects had not yet acquired
+the art of designing a domestic residence. The windows were numberless,
+but very small; the roof had some nondescript kind of projections,
+called bartizans, and displayed at each frequent angle a small turret,
+rather resembling a pepper-box than a Gothic watchtower. Neither did
+the front indicate absolute security from danger. There were loop-holes
+for musketry, and iron stanchions on the lower windows, probably to
+repel any roving band of gypsies, or resist a predatory visit from the
+caterans of the neighbouring Highlands. Stables and other offices
+occupied another side of the square. The former were low vaults, with
+narrow slits instead of windows, resembling, as Edward's groom
+observed, 'rather a prison for murderers, and larceners, and such like
+as are tried at 'sizes, than a place for any Christian cattle.' Above
+these dungeon-looking stables were granaries, called girnels, and other
+offices, to which there was access by outside stairs of heavy masonry.
+Two battlemented walls, one of which faced the avenue, and the other
+divided the court from the garden, completed the inclosure.
+
+Nor was the court without its ornaments. In one corner was a
+tun-bellied pigeon-house, of great size and rotundity, resembling in
+figure and proportion the curious edifice called Arthur's Oven, which
+would have turned the brains of all the antiquaries in England, had not
+the worthy proprietor pulled it down for the sake of mending a
+neighbouring dam-dyke. This dove-cot, or columbarium, as the owner
+called it, was no small resource to a Scottish laird of that period,
+whose scanty rents were eked out by the contributions levied upon the
+farms by these light foragers, and the conscriptions exacted from the
+latter for the benefit of the table.
+
+Another corner of the court displayed a fountain, where a huge bear,
+carved in stone, predominated over a large stone-basin, into which he
+disgorged the water. This work of art was the wonder of the country ten
+miles round. It must not be forgotten, that all sorts of bears, small
+and large, demi or in full proportion, were carved over the windows,
+upon the ends of the gables, terminated the spouts, and supported the
+turrets, with the ancient family motto, 'Beware the Bear', cut under
+each hyperborean form. The court was spacious, well paved, and
+perfectly clean, there being probably another entrance behind the
+stables for removing the litter. Everything around appeared solitary,
+and would have been silent, but for the continued plashing of the
+fountain; and the whole scene still maintained the monastic illusion
+which the fancy of Waverley had conjured up. And here we beg permission
+to close a chapter of still life. [Footnote: See Note 7.]
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX
+
+MORE OF THE MANOR-HOUSE AND ITS ENVIRONS
+
+
+After having satisfied his curiosity by gazing around him for a few
+minutes, Waverley applied himself to the massive knocker of the
+hall-door, the architrave of which bore the date 1594. But no answer
+was returned, though the peal resounded through a number of apartments,
+and was echoed from the court-yard walls without the house, startling
+the pigeons from the venerable rotunda which they occupied, and
+alarming anew even the distant village curs, which had retired to sleep
+upon their respective dunghills. Tired of the din which he created, and
+the unprofitable responses which it excited, Waverley began to think
+that he had reached the castle of Orgoglio as entered by the victorious
+Prince Arthur,--
+
+    When 'gan he loudly through the house to call,
+    But no man cared to answer to his cry;
+    There reign'd a solemn silence over all,
+    Nor voice was heard, nor wight was seen in bower or hall.
+
+Filled almost with expectation of beholding some 'old, old man, with
+beard as white as snow,' whom he might question concerning this
+deserted mansion, our hero turned to a little oaken wicket-door, well
+clenched with iron-nails, which opened in the court-yard wall at its
+angle with the house. It was only latched, notwithstanding its
+fortified appearance, and, when opened, admitted him into the garden,
+which presented a pleasant scene. [Footnote: Footnote: At Ravelston may
+be seen such a garden, which the taste of the proprietor, the author's
+friend and kinsman, Sir Alexander Keith, Knight Mareschal, has
+judiciously preserved. That, as well as the house is, however, of
+smaller dimensions than the Baron of Bradwardine's mansion and garden
+are presumed to have been.] The southern side of the house, clothed
+with fruit-trees, and having many evergreens trained upon its walls,
+extended its irregular yet venerable front along a terrace, partly
+paved, partly gravelled, partly bordered with flowers and choice
+shrubs. This elevation descended by three several flights of steps,
+placed in its centre and at the extremities, into what might be called
+the garden proper, and was fenced along the top by a stone parapet with
+a heavy balustrade, ornamented from space to space with huge grotesque
+figures of animals seated upon their haunches, among which the
+favourite bear was repeatedly introduced. Placed in the middle of the
+terrace between a sashed-door opening from the house and the central
+flight of steps, a huge animal of the same species supported on his
+head and fore-paws a sun-dial of large circumference, inscribed with
+more diagrams than Edward's mathematics enabled him to decipher.
+
+The garden, which seemed to be kept with great accuracy, abounded in
+fruit-trees, and exhibited a profusion of flowers and evergreens, cut
+into grotesque forms. It was laid out in terraces, which descended rank
+by rank from the western wall to a large brook, which had a tranquil
+and smooth appearance, where it served as a boundary to the garden;
+but, near the extremity, leapt in tumult over a strong dam, or
+wear-head, the cause of its temporary tranquillity, and there forming a
+cascade, was overlooked by an octangular summer-house, with a gilded
+bear on the top by way of vane. After this feat, the brook, assuming
+its natural rapid and fierce character, escaped from the eye down a
+deep and wooded dell, from the copse of which arose a massive, but
+ruinous tower, the former habitation of the Barons of Bradwardine. The
+margin of the brook, opposite to the garden, displayed a narrow meadow,
+or haugh, as it was called, which formed a small washing-green; the
+bank, which retired behind it, was covered by ancient trees.
+
+The scene, though pleasing, was not quite equal to the gardens of
+Alcina; yet wanted not the 'due donzellette garrule' of that enchanted
+paradise, for upon the green aforesaid two bare-legged damsels, each
+standing in a spacious tub, performed with their feet the office of a
+patent washing-machine. These did not, however, like the maidens of
+Armida, remain to greet with their harmony the approaching guest, but,
+alarmed at the appearance of a handsome stranger on the opposite side,
+dropped their garments (I should say garment, to be quite correct) over
+their limbs, which their occupation exposed somewhat too freely, and,
+with a shrill exclamation of 'Eh, sirs!' uttered with an accent between
+modesty and coquetry, sprung off like deer in different directions.
+
+Waverley began to despair of gaining entrance into this solitary and
+seemingly enchanted mansion, when a man advanced up one of the garden
+alleys, where he still retained his station. Trusting this might be a
+gardener, or some domestic belonging to the house, Edward descended the
+steps in order to meet him; but as the figure approached, and long
+before he could descry its features, he was struck with the oddity of
+its appearance and gestures. Sometimes this mister wight held his hands
+clasped over his head, like an Indian Jogue in the attitude of penance;
+sometimes he swung them perpendicularly, like a pendulum, on each side;
+and anon he slapped them swiftly and repeatedly across his breast, like
+the substitute used by a hackney-coachman for his usual flogging
+exercise, when his cattle are idle upon the stand, in a clear frosty
+day. His gait was as singular as his gestures, for at times he hopped
+with great perseverance on the right foot, then exchanged that
+supporter to advance in the same manner on the left, and then putting
+his feet close together he hopped upon both at once. His attire also
+was antiquated and extravagant. It consisted in a sort of grey jerkin,
+with scarlet cuffs and slashed sleeves, showing a scarlet lining; the
+other parts of the dress corresponded in colour, not forgetting a pair
+of scarlet stockings, and a scarlet bonnet, proudly surmounted with a
+turkey's feather. Edward, whom he did not seem to observe, now
+perceived confirmation in his features of what the mien and gestures
+had already announced. It was apparently neither idiocy nor insanity
+which gave that wild, unsettled, irregular expression to a face which
+naturally was rather handsome, but something that resembled a compound
+of both, where the simplicity of the fool was mixed with the
+extravagance of a crazed imagination. He sung with great earnestness,
+and not without some taste, a fragment of an old Scottish ditty:--
+
+    False love, and hast thou play'd me this
+    In summer among the flowers?
+    I will repay thee back again
+    In winter among the showers.
+    Unless again, again, my love,
+    Unless you turn again;
+    As you with other maidens rove,
+    I'll smile on other men.
+
+[Footnote: This is a genuine ancient fragment, with some alteration in
+the two last lines.]
+
+Here lifting up his eyes, which had hitherto been fixed in observing
+how his feet kept time to the tune, he beheld Waverley, and instantly
+doffed his cap, with many grotesque signals of surprise, respect, and
+salutation. Edward, though with little hope of receiving an answer to
+any constant question, requested to know whether Mr. Bradwardine were
+at home, or where he could find any of the domestics. The questioned
+party replied, and, like the witch of Thalaba, 'still his speech was
+song,'--
+
+    The Knight's to the mountain
+    His bugle to wind;
+    The Lady's to greenwood
+    Her garland to bind.
+    The bower of Burd Ellen
+    Has moss on the floor,
+    That the step of Lord William
+    Be silent and sure.
+
+This conveyed no information, and Edward, repeating his queries,
+received a rapid answer, in which, from the haste and peculiarity of
+the dialect, the word 'butler' was alone intelligible. Waverley then
+requested to see the butler; upon which the fellow, with a knowing look
+and nod of intelligence, made a signal to Edward to follow, and began
+to dance and caper down the alley up which he had made his approaches.
+A strange guide this, thought Edward, and not much unlike one of
+Shakespeare's roynish clowns. I am not over prudent to trust to his
+pilotage; but wiser men have been led by fools. By this time he reached
+the bottom of the alley, where, turning short on a little parterre of
+flowers, shrouded from the east and north by a close yew hedge, he
+found an old man at work without his coat, whose appearance hovered
+between that of an upper servant and gardener; his red nose and ruffled
+shirt belonging to the former profession; his hale and sunburnt visage,
+with his green apron, appearing to indicate
+
+    Old Adam's likeness, set to dress this garden.
+
+The major domo, for such he was, and indisputably the second officer of
+state in the barony (nay, as chief minister of the interior, superior
+even to Bailie Macwheeble in his own department of the kitchen and
+cellar)--the major domo laid down his spade, slipped on his coat in
+haste, and with a wrathful look at Edward's guide, probably excited by
+his having introduced a stranger while he was engaged in this
+laborious, and, as he might suppose it, degrading office, requested to
+know the gentleman's commands. Being informed that he wished to pay his
+respects to his master, that his name was Waverley, and so forth, the
+old man's countenance assumed a great deal of respectful importance.
+'He could take it upon his conscience to say, his honour would have
+exceeding pleasure in seeing him. Would not Mr. Waverley choose some
+refreshment after his journey? His honour was with the folk who were
+getting doon the dark hag; the twa gardener lads (an emphasis on the
+word twa) had been ordered to attend him; and he had been just amusing
+himself in the mean time with dressing Miss Rose's flower-bed, that he
+might be near to receive his honour's orders, if need were; he was very
+fond of a garden, but had little time for such divertisements.'
+
+'He canna get it wrought in abune twa days in the week at no rate
+whatever,' said Edward's fantastic conductor.
+
+A grim look from the butler chastised his interference, and he
+commanded him, by the name of Davie Gellatley, in a tone which admitted
+no discussion, to look for his honour at the dark hag, and tell him
+there was a gentleman from the south had arrived at the Ha'.
+
+'Can this poor fellow deliver a letter?' asked Edward.
+
+'With all fidelity, sir, to any one whom he respects. I would hardly
+trust him with a long message by word of mouth--though he is more knave
+than fool.'
+
+Waverley delivered his credentials to Mr. Gellatley, who seemed to
+confirm the butler's last observation, by twisting his features at him,
+when he was looking another way, into the resemblance of the grotesque
+face on the bole of a German tobacco pipe; after which, with an odd
+conge to Waverley, he danced off to discharge his errand.
+
+'He is an innocent, sir,' said the butler; 'there is one such in almost
+every town in the country, but ours is brought far ben. [Footnote: See
+Note 8.] He used to work a day's turn weel enough; but he helped Miss
+Rose when she was flemit with the Laird of Killancureit's new English
+bull, and since that time we ca' him Davie Do-little; indeed we might
+ca' him Davie Do-naething, for since he got that gay clothing, to
+please his honour and my young mistress (great folks will have their
+fancies), he has done naething but dance up and down about the toun,
+without doing a single turn, unless trimming the laird's fishing-wand
+or busking his flies, or may be catching a dish of trouts at an orra
+time. But here comes Miss Rose, who, I take burden upon me for her,
+will be especial glad to see one of the house of Waverley at her
+father's mansion of Tully-Veolan.'
+
+But Rose Bradwardine deserves better of her unworthy historian than to
+be introduced at the end of a chapter.
+
+In the mean while it may be noticed, that Waverley learned two things
+from this colloquy: that in Scotland a single house was called a TOWN,
+and a natural fool an INNOCENT.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X
+
+ROSE BRADWARDINE AND HER FATHER
+
+
+Miss Bradwardine was but seventeen; yet, at the last races of the
+county town of ----, upon her health being proposed among a round of
+beauties, the Laird of Bumperquaigh, permanent toast-master and
+croupier of the Bautherwhillery Club, not only said MORE to the pledge
+in a pint bumper of Bourdeaux, but, ere pouring forth the libation,
+denominated the divinity to whom it was dedicated, 'the Rose of
+Tully-Veolan'; upon which festive occasion three cheers were given by
+all the sitting members of that respectable society, whose throats the
+wine had left capable of such exertion. Nay, I am well assured, that
+the sleeping partners of the company snorted applause, and that
+although strong bumpers and weak brains had consigned two or three to
+the floor, yet even these, fallen as they were from their high estate,
+and weltering--I will carry the parody no farther--uttered divers
+inarticulate sounds, intimating their assent to the motion.
+
+Such unanimous applause could not be extorted but by acknowledged
+merit; and Rose Bradwardine not only deserved it, but also the
+approbation of much more rational persons than the Bautherwhillery Club
+could have mustered, even before discussion of the first magnum. She
+was indeed a very pretty girl of the Scotch cast of beauty, that is,
+with a profusion of hair of paley gold, and a skin like the snow of her
+own mountains in whiteness. Yet she had not a pallid or pensive cast of
+countenance; her features, as well as her temper, had a lively
+expression; her complexion, though not florid, was so pure as to seem
+transparent, and the slightest emotion sent her whole blood at once to
+her face and neck. Her form, though under the common size, was
+remarkably elegant, and her motions light, easy, and unembarrassed. She
+came from another part of the garden to receive Captain Waverley, with
+a manner that hovered between bashfulness and courtesy.
+
+The first greetings past, Edward learned from her that the dark hag,
+which had somewhat puzzled him in the butler's account of his master's
+avocations, had nothing to do either with a black cat or a broomstick,
+but was simply a portion of oak copse which was to be felled that day.
+She offered, with diffident civility, to show the stranger the way to
+the spot, which, it seems, was not far distant; but they were prevented
+by the appearance of the Baron of Bradwardine in person, who, summoned
+by David Gellatley, now appeared, 'on hospitable thoughts intent,'
+clearing the ground at a prodigious rate with swift and long strides,
+which reminded Waverley of the seven-league boots of the nursery fable.
+He was a tall, thin, athletic figure, old indeed and grey-haired, but
+with every muscle rendered as tough as whip-cord by constant exercise.
+He was dressed carelessly, and more like a Frenchman than an Englishman
+of the period, while, from his hard features and perpendicular rigidity
+of stature, he bore some resemblance to a Swiss officer of the guards,
+who had resided some time at Paris, and caught the costume, but not the
+ease or manner, of its inhabitants. The truth was, that his language
+and habits were as heterogeneous as his external appearance.
+
+Owing to his natural disposition to study, or perhaps to a very general
+Scottish fashion of giving young men of rank a legal education, he had
+been bred with a view to the bar. But the politics of his family
+precluding the hope of his rising in that profession, Mr. Bradwardine
+travelled with high reputation for several years, and made some
+campaigns in foreign service. After his demele with the law of high
+treason in 1715, he had lived in retirement, conversing almost entirely
+with those of his own principles in the vicinage. The pedantry of the
+lawyer, superinduced upon the military pride of the soldier, might
+remind a modern of the days of the zealous volunteer service, when the
+bar-gown of our pleaders was often flung over a blazing uniform. To
+this must be added the prejudices of ancient birth and Jacobite
+politics, greatly strengthened by habits of solitary and secluded
+authority, which, though exercised only within the bounds of his
+half-cultivated estate, was there indisputable and undisputed. For, as
+he used to observe, 'the lands of Bradwardine, Tully-Veolan, and
+others, had been erected into a free barony by a charter from David the
+First, cum liberali potest. habendi curias et justicias, cum fossa et
+furca (LIE, pit and gallows) et saka et soka, et thol et theam, et
+infang-thief et outfang-thief, sive hand-habend. sive bak-barand.' The
+peculiar meaning of all these cabalistical words few or none could
+explain; but they implied, upon the whole, that the Baron of
+Bradwardine might, in case of delinquency, imprison, try, and execute
+his vassals at his pleasure. Like James the First, however, the present
+possessor of this authority was more pleased in talking about
+prerogative than in exercising it; and excepting that he imprisoned two
+poachers in the dungeon of the old tower of Tully-Veolan, where they
+were sorely frightened by ghosts, and almost eaten by rats, and that he
+set an old woman in the jougs (or Scottish pillory) for saying' there
+were mair fules in the laird's ha' house than Davie Gellatley,' I do
+not learn that he was accused of abusing his high powers. Still,
+however, the conscious pride of possessing them gave additional
+importance to his language and deportment.
+
+At his first address to Waverley, it would seem that the hearty
+pleasure he felt to behold the nephew of his friend had somewhat
+discomposed the stiff and upright dignity of the Baron of Bradwardine's
+demeanour, for the tears stood in the old gentleman's eyes, when,
+having first shaken Edward heartily by the hand in the English fashion,
+he embraced him a la mode Francoise, and kissed him on both sides of
+his face; while the hardness of his gripe, and the quantity of Scotch
+snuff which his accolade communicated, called corresponding drops of
+moisture to the eyes of his guest.
+
+'Upon the honour of a gentleman,' he said, 'but it makes me young again
+to see you here, Mr. Waverley! A worthy scion of the old stock of
+Waverley-Honour--spes altera, as Maro hath it--and you have the look of
+the old line, Captain Waverley; not so portly yet as my old friend Sir
+Everard--mais cela viendra avec le tems, as my Dutch acquaintance,
+Baron Kikkitbroeck, said of the sagesse of Madame son epouse. And so ye
+have mounted the cockade? Right, right; though I could have wished the
+colour different, and so I would ha' deemed might Sir Everard. But no
+more of that; I am old, and times are changed. And how does the worthy
+knight baronet, and the fair Mrs. Rachel?--Ah, ye laugh, young man! In
+troth she was the fair Mrs. Rachel in the year of grace seventeen
+hundred and sixteen; but time passes--et singula praedantur anni--that
+is most certain. But once again ye are most heartily welcome to my poor
+house of Tully-Veolan! Hie to the house, Rose, and see that Alexander
+Saunderson looks out the old Chateau Margaux, which I sent from
+Bourdeaux to Dundee in the year 1713.'
+
+Rose tripped off demurely enough till she turned the first corner, and
+then ran with the speed of a fairy, that she might gain leisure, after
+discharging her father's commission, to put her own dress in order, and
+produce all her little finery, an occupation for which the approaching
+dinner-hour left but limited time.
+
+'We cannot rival the luxuries of your English table, Captain Waverley,
+or give you the epulae lautiores of Waverley-Honour. I say epulae
+rather than prandium, because the latter phrase is popular: epulae ad
+senatum, prandium vero ad populum attinet, says Suetonius Tranquillus.
+But I trust ye will applaud my Bourdeaux; c'est des deux oreilles, as
+Captain Vinsauf used to say; vinum primae notae, the principal of Saint
+Andrews denominated it. And, once more, Captain Waverley, right glad am
+I that ye are here to drink the best my cellar can make forthcoming.'
+
+This speech, with the necessary interjectional answers, continued from
+the lower alley where they met up to the door of the house, where four
+or five servants in old-fashioned liveries, headed by Alexander
+Saunderson, the butler, who now bore no token of the sable stains of
+the garden, received them in grand COSTUME,
+
+    In an old hall hung round with pikes and with bows,
+    With old bucklers and corslets that had borne many shrewd
+      blows.
+
+With much ceremony, and still more real kindness, the Baron, without
+stopping in any intermediate apartment, conducted his guest through
+several into the great dining parlour, wainscotted with black oak, and
+hung round with the pictures of his ancestry, where a table was set
+forth in form for six persons, and an old-fashioned beaufet displayed
+all the ancient and massive plate of the Bradwardine family. A bell was
+now heard at the head of the avenue; for an old man, who acted as
+porter upon gala days, had caught the alarm given by Waverley's
+arrival, and, repairing to his post, announced the arrival of other
+guests.
+
+These, as the Baron assured his young friend, were very estimable
+persons. 'There was the young Laird of Balmawhapple, a Falconer by
+surname, of the house of Glenfarquhar, given right much to
+field-sports--gaudet equis et canibus--but a very discreet young
+gentleman. Then there was the Laird of Killancureit, who had devoted
+his leisure UNTILL tillage and agriculture, and boasted himself to be
+possessed of a bull of matchless merit, brought from the county of
+Devon (the Damnonia of the Romans, if we can trust Robert of
+Cirencester). He is, as ye may well suppose from such a tendency, but
+of yeoman extraction--servabit odorem testa diu--and I believe, between
+ourselves, his grandsire was from the wrong side of the Border--one
+Bullsegg, who came hither as a steward, or bailiff, or ground-officer,
+or something in that department, to the last Girnigo of Killancureit,
+who died of an atrophy. After his master's death, sir,--ye would hardly
+believe such a scandal, --but this Bullsegg, being portly and comely of
+aspect, intermarried with the lady dowager, who was young and amorous,
+and possessed himself of the estate, which devolved on this unhappy
+woman by a settlement of her umwhile husband, in direct contravention
+of an unrecorded taillie, and to the prejudice of the disponer's own
+flesh and blood, in the person of his natural heir and seventh cousin,
+Girnigo of Tipperhewit, whose family was so reduced by the ensuing
+law-suit, that his representative is now serving as a private
+gentleman-sentinel in the Highland Black Watch. But this gentleman, Mr.
+Bullsegg of Killancureit that now is, has good blood in his veins by
+the mother and grandmother, who were both of the family of
+Pickletillim, and he is well liked and looked upon, and knows his own
+place. And God forbid, Captain Waverley, that we of irreproachable
+lineage should exult over him, when it may be, that in the eighth,
+ninth, or tenth generation, his progeny may rank, in a manner, with the
+old gentry of the country. Rank and ancestry, sir, should be the last
+words in the mouths of us of unblemished race--vix ea nostra voco, as
+Naso saith. There is, besides, a clergyman of the true (though
+suffering) Episcopal church of Scotland. [Footnote: See Note 9.] He was
+a confessor in her cause after the year 1715, when a Whiggish mob
+destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and plundered his
+dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting also with his mart
+and his mealark, and with two barrels, one of single and one of double
+ale, besides three bottles of brandy. My baron-bailie and doer, Mr.
+Duncan Macwheeble, is the fourth on our list. There is a question,
+owing to the incertitude of ancient orthography, whether he belongs to
+the clan of Wheedle or of Quibble, but both have produced persons
+eminent in the law.'--
+
+  As such he described them by person and name,
+  They enter'd, and dinner was served as they came.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI
+
+THE BANQUET
+
+
+The entertainment was ample and handsome, according to the Scotch ideas
+of the period, and the guests did great honour to it. The Baron eat
+like a famished soldier, the Laird of Balmawhapple like a sportsman,
+Bullsegg of Killancureit like a farmer, Waverley himself like a
+traveller, and Bailie Macwheeble like all four together; though, either
+out of more respect, or in order to preserve that proper declination of
+person which showed a sense that he was in the presence of his patron,
+he sat upon the edge of his chair, placed at three feet distance from
+the table, and achieved a communication with his plate by projecting
+his person towards it in a line which obliqued from the bottom of his
+spine, so that the person who sat opposite to him could only see the
+foretop of his riding periwig.
+
+This stooping position might have been inconvenient to another person;
+but long habit made it, whether seated or walking, perfectly easy to
+the worthy Bailie. In the latter posture it occasioned, no doubt, an
+unseemly projection of the person towards those who happened to walk
+behind; but those being at all times his inferiors (for Mr. Macwheeble
+was very scrupulous in giving place to all others), he cared very
+little what inference of contempt or slight regard they might derive
+from the circumstance. Hence, when he waddled across the court to and
+from his old grey pony, he somewhat resembled a turnspit walking upon
+its hind legs.
+
+The nonjuring clergyman was a pensive and interesting old man, with
+much of the air of a sufferer for conscience' sake. He was one of those
+
+    Who, undeprived, their benefice forsook.
+
+For this whim, when the Baron was out of hearing, the Bailie used
+sometimes gently to rally Mr. Rubrick, upbraiding him with the nicety
+of his scruples. Indeed, it must be owned, that he himself, though at
+heart a keen partisan of the exiled family, had kept pretty fair with
+all the different turns of state in his time; so that Davie Gellatley
+once described him as a particularly good man, who had a very quiet and
+peaceful conscience, THAT NEVER DID HIM ANY HARM.
+
+When the dinner was removed, the Baron announced the health of the
+King, politely leaving to the consciences of his guests to drink to the
+sovereign de facto or de jure, as their politics inclined. The
+conversation now became general; and, shortly afterwards, Miss
+Bradwardine, who had done the honours with natural grace and
+simplicity, retired, and was soon followed by the clergyman. Among the
+rest of the party, the wine, which fully justified the encomiums of the
+landlord, flowed freely round, although Waverley, with some difficulty,
+obtained the privilege of sometimes neglecting the glass. At length, as
+the evening grew more late, the Baron made a private signal to Mr.
+Saunders Saunderson, or, as he facetiously denominated him, Alexander
+ab Alexandro, who left the room with a nod, and soon after returned,
+his grave countenance mantling with a solemn and mysterious smile, and
+placed before his master a small oaken casket, mounted with brass
+ornaments of curious form. The Baron, drawing out a private key,
+unlocked the casket, raised the lid, and produced a golden goblet of a
+singular and antique appearance, moulded into the shape of a rampant
+bear, which the owner regarded with a look of mingled reverence, pride,
+and delight, that irresistibly reminded Waverley of Ben Jonson's Tom
+Otter, with his Bull, Horse, and Dog, as that wag wittily denominated
+his chief carousing cups. But Mr. Bradwardine, turning towards him with
+complacency, requested him to observe this curious relic of the olden
+time.
+
+'It represents,' he said, 'the chosen crest of our family, a bear, as
+ye observe, and RAMPANT; because a good herald will depict every animal
+in its noblest posture, as a horse SALIENT, a greyhound CURRANT, and,
+as may be inferred, a ravenous animal in actu ferociori, or in a
+voracious, lacerating, and devouring posture. Now, sir, we hold this
+most honourable achievement by the wappen-brief, or concession of arms,
+of Frederick Red-beard, Emperor of Germany, to my predecessor, Godmund
+Bradwardine, it being the crest of a gigantic Dane, whom he slew in the
+lists in the Holy Land, on a quarrel touching the chastity of the
+emperor's spouse or daughter, tradition saith not precisely which, and
+thus, as Virgilius hath it--
+
+    Mutemus clypeos, Danaumque insignia nobis
+    Aptemus.
+
+Then for the cup, Captain Waverley, it was wrought by the command of
+Saint Duthac, Abbot of Aberbrothock, for behoof of another baron of the
+house of Bradwardine, who had valiantly defended the patrimony of that
+monastery against certain encroaching nobles. It is properly termed the
+Blessed Bear of Bradwardine (though old Doctor Doubleit used jocosely
+to call it Ursa Major), and was supposed, in old and Catholic times, to
+be invested with certain properties of a mystical and supernatural
+quality. And though I give not in to such anilia, it is certain it has
+always been esteemed a solemn standard cup and heirloom of our house;
+nor is it ever used but upon seasons of high festival, and such I hold
+to be the arrival of the heir of Sir Everard under my roof; and I
+devote this draught to the health and prosperity of the ancient and
+highly-to-be-honoured house of Waverley.'
+
+During this long harangue, he carefully decanted a cob-webbed bottle of
+claret into the goblet, which held nearly an English pint; and, at the
+conclusion, delivering the bottle to the butler, to be held carefully
+in the same angle with the horizon, he devoutly quaffed off the
+contents of the Blessed Bear of Bradwardine.
+
+Edward, with horror and alarm, beheld the animal making his rounds, and
+thought with great anxiety upon the appropriate motto, 'Beware the
+Bear'; but, at the same time, plainly foresaw that, as none of the
+guests scrupled to do him this extraordinary honour, a refusal on his
+part to pledge their courtesy would be extremely ill received.
+Resolving, therefore, to submit to this last piece of tyranny, and then
+to quit the table, if possible, and confiding in the strength of his
+constitution, he did justice to the company in the contents of the
+Blessed Bear, and felt less inconvenience from the draught than he
+could possibly have expected. The others, whose time had been more
+actively employed, began to show symptoms of innovation--'the good wine
+did its good office.' [Footnote: Southey's Madoc.] The frost of
+etiquette and pride of birth began to give way before the genial
+blessings of this benign constellation, and the formal appellatives
+with which the three dignitaries had hitherto addressed each other were
+now familiarly abbreviated into Tully, Bally, and Killie. When a few
+rounds had passed, the two latter, after whispering together, craved
+permission (a joyful hearing for Edward) to ask the grace-cup. This,
+after some delay, was at length produced, and Waverley concluded the
+orgies of Bacchus were terminated for the evening. He was never more
+mistaken in his life.
+
+As the guests had left their horses at the small inn, or change-house,
+as it was called, of the village, the Baron could not, in politeness,
+avoid walking with them up the avenue, and Waverley from the same
+motive, and to enjoy after this feverish revel the cool summer evening,
+attended the party. But when they arrived at Luckie Macleary's the
+Lairds of Balmawhapple and Killancureit declared their determination to
+acknowledge their sense of the hospitality of Tully-Veolan by
+partaking, with their entertainer and his guest Captain Waverley, what
+they technically called deoch an doruis, a stirrup-cup, [Footnote 2:
+See Note 10] to the honour of the Baron's roof-tree.
+
+It must be noticed that the Bailie, knowing by experience that the
+day's jovialty, which had been hitherto sustained at the expense of his
+patron, might terminate partly at his own, had mounted his spavined
+grey pony, and, between gaiety of heart and alarm for being hooked into
+a reckoning, spurred him into a hobbling canter (a trot was out of the
+question), and had already cleared the village. The others entered the
+change-house, leading Edward in unresisting submission; for his
+landlord whispered him, that to demur to such an overture would be
+construed into a high misdemeanour against the leges conviviales, or
+regulations of genial compotation. Widow Macleary seemed to have
+expected this visit, as well she might, for it was the usual
+consummation of merry bouts, not only at Tully-Veolan, but at most
+other gentlemen's houses in Scotland, Sixty Years Since. The guests
+thereby at once acquitted themselves of their burden of gratitude for
+their entertainer's kindness, encouraged the trade of his change-house,
+did honour to the place which afforded harbour to their horses, and
+indemnified themselves for the previous restraints imposed by private
+hospitality, by spending what Falstaff calls the sweet of the night in
+the genial license of a tavern.
+
+Accordingly, in full expectation of these distinguished guests, Luckie
+Macleary had swept her house for the first time this fortnight,
+tempered her turf-fire to such a heat as the season required in her
+damp hovel even at Midsummer, set forth her deal table newly washed,
+propped its lame foot with a fragment of turf, arranged four or five
+stools of huge and clumsy form upon the sites which best suited the
+inequalities of her clay floor; and having, moreover, put on her clean
+toy, rokelay, and scarlet plaid, gravely awaited the arrival of the
+company, in full hope of custom and profit. When they were seated under
+the sooty rafters of Luckie Macleary's only apartment, thickly
+tapestried with cobwebs, their hostess, who had already taken her cue
+from the Laird of Balmawhapple, appeared with a huge pewter
+measuring-pot, containing at least three English quarts, familiarly
+denominated a Tappit Hen, and which, in the language of the hostess,
+reamed (i.e., mantled) with excellent claret just drawn from the cask.
+
+It was soon plain that what crumbs of reason the Bear had not devoured
+were to be picked up by the Hen; but the confusion which appeared to
+prevail favoured Edward's resolution to evade the gaily circling glass.
+The others began to talk thick and at once, each performing his own
+part in the conversation without the least respect to his neighbour.
+The Baron of Bradwardine sung French chansons-a-boire, and spouted
+pieces of Latin; Killancureit talked, in a steady unalterable dull key,
+of top-dressing and bottom-dressing, [Footnote: This has been censured
+as an anachronism; and it must be confessed that agriculture of this
+kind was unknown to the Scotch Sixty Years Since.] and year-olds, and
+gimmers, and dinmonts, and stots, and runts, and kyloes, and a proposed
+turnpike-act; while Balmawhapple, in notes exalted above both, extolled
+his horse, his hawks, and a greyhound called Whistler. In the middle of
+this din, the Baron repeatedly implored silence; and when at length the
+instinct of polite discipline so far prevailed that for a moment he
+obtained it, he hastened to beseech their attention 'unto a military
+ariette, which was a particular favourite of the Marechal Duc de
+Berwick'; then, imitating, as well as he could, the manner and tone of
+a French musquetaire, he immediately commenced,--
+
+    Mon coeur volage, dit elle,
+      N'est pas pour vous, garcon;
+    Est pour un homme de guerre,
+      Qui a barbe au menton.
+                 Lon, Lon, Laridon.
+
+    Qui port chapeau a plume,
+      Soulier a rouge talon,
+    Qui joue de la flute,
+      Aussi du violon.
+                 Lon, Lon, Laridon.
+
+Balmawhapple could hold no longer, but broke in with what he called a
+d--d good song, composed by Gibby Gaethroughwi't, the piper of Cupar;
+and, without wasting more time, struck up,--
+
+    It's up Glenbarchan's braes I gaed,
+    And o'er the bent of Killiebraid,
+    And mony a weary cast I made,
+      To cuittle the moor-fowl's tail.
+
+[Footnote: Suum cuique. This snatch of a ballad was composed by Andrew
+MacDonald, the ingenious and unfortunate author of Vimonda.]
+
+The Baron, whose voice was drowned in the louder and more obstreperous
+strains of Balmawhapple, now dropped the competition, but continued to
+hum 'Lon, Lon, Laridon,' and to regard the successful candidate for the
+attention of the company with an eye of disdain, while Balmawhapple
+proceeded,--
+
+    If up a bonny black-cock should spring,
+    To whistle him down wi' a slug in his wing,
+    And strap him on to my lunzie string,
+    Right seldom would I fail.
+
+After an ineffectual attempt to recover the second verse, he sung the
+first over again; and, in prosecution of his triumph, declared there
+was 'more sense in that than in all the derry-dongs of France, and
+Fifeshire to the boot of it.' The Baron only answered with a long pinch
+of snuff and a glance of infinite contempt. But those noble allies, the
+Bear and the Hen, had emancipated the young laird from the habitual
+reverence in which he held Bradwardine at other times. He pronounced
+the claret shilpit, and demanded brandy with great vociferation. It was
+brought; and now the Demon of Politics envied even the harmony arising
+from this Dutch concert, merely because there was not a wrathful note
+in the strange compound of sounds which it produced. Inspired by her,
+the Laird of Balmawhapple, now superior to the nods and winks with
+which the Baron of Bradwardine, in delicacy to Edward, had hitherto
+checked his entering upon political discussion, demanded a bumper, with
+the lungs of a Stentor, 'to the little gentleman in black velvet who
+did such service in 1702, and may the white horse break his neck over a
+mound of his making!'
+
+Edward was not at that moment clear-headed enough to remember that King
+William's fall, which occasioned his death, was said to be owing to his
+horse stumbling at a mole-hill; yet felt inclined to take umbrage at a
+toast which seemed, from the glance of Balmawhapple's eye, to have a
+peculiar and uncivil reference to the Government which he served. But,
+ere he could interfere, the Baron of Bradwardine had taken up the
+quarrel. 'Sir,' he said, 'whatever my sentiments tanquam privatus may
+be in such matters, I shall not tamely endure your saying anything that
+may impinge upon the honourable feelings of a gentleman under my roof.
+Sir, if you have no respect for the laws of urbanity, do ye not respect
+the military oath, the sacramentum militare, by which every officer is
+bound to the standards under which he is enrolled? Look at Titus
+Livius, what he says of those Roman soldiers who were so unhappy as
+exuere sacramentum, to renounce their legionary oath; but you are
+ignorant, sir, alike of ancient history and modern courtesy.'
+
+'Not so ignorant as ye would pronounce me,' roared Balmawhapple. 'I ken
+weel that you mean the Solemn League and Covenant; but if a' the Whigs
+in hell had taken the--'
+
+Here the Baron and Waverley both spoke at once, the former calling out,
+'Be silent, sir! ye not only show your ignorance, but disgrace your
+native country before a stranger and an Englishman'; and Waverley, at
+the same moment, entreating Mr. Bradwardine to permit him to reply to
+an affront which seemed levelled at him personally. But the Baron was
+exalted by wine, wrath, and scorn above all sublunary considerations.
+
+'I crave you to be hushed, Captain Waverley; you are elsewhere,
+peradventure, sui juris,--foris-familiated, that is, and entitled, it
+may be, to think and resent for yourself; but in my domain, in this
+poor Barony of Bradwardine, and under this roof, which is quasi mine,
+being held by tacit relocation by a tenant at will, I am in loco
+parentis to you, and bound to see you scathless. And for you, Mr.
+Falconer of Balmawhapple, I warn ye, let me see no more aberrations
+from the paths of good manners.'
+
+'And I tell you, Mr. Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine of Bradwardine and
+Tully-Veolan,' retorted the sportsman in huge disdain, 'that I'll make
+a moor-cock of the man that refuses my toast, whether it be a
+crop-eared English Whig wi' a black ribband at his lug, or ane wha
+deserts his ain friends to claw favour wi' the rats of Hanover.'
+
+In an instant both rapiers were brandished, and some desperate passes
+exchanged. Balmawhapple was young, stout, and active; but the Baron,
+infinitely more master of his weapon, would, like Sir Toby Belch, have
+tickled his opponent other gates than he did had he not been under the
+influence of Ursa Major.
+
+Edward rushed forward to interfere between the combatants, but the
+prostrate bulk of the Laird of Killancureit, over which he stumbled,
+intercepted his passage. How Killancureit happened to be in this
+recumbent posture at so interesting a moment was never accurately
+known. Some thought he was about to insconce himself under the table;
+he himself alleged that he stumbled in the act of lifting a
+joint-stool, to prevent mischief, by knocking down Balmawhapple. Be
+that as it may, if readier aid than either his or Waverley's had not
+interposed, there would certainly have been bloodshed. But the
+well-known clash of swords, which was no stranger to her dwelling,
+aroused Luckie Macleary as she sat quietly beyond the hallan, or
+earthen partition of the cottage, with eyes employed on Boston's 'Crook
+the Lot,' while her ideas were engaged in summing up the reckoning. She
+boldly rushed in, with the shrill expostulation, 'Wad their honours
+slay ane another there, and bring discredit on an honest widow-woman's
+house, when there was a' the lee-land in the country to fight upon?' a
+remonstrance which she seconded by flinging her plaid with great
+dexterity over the weapons of the combatants. The servants by this time
+rushed in, and being, by great chance, tolerably sober, separated the
+incensed opponents, with the assistance of Edward and Killancureit. The
+latter led off Balmawhapple, cursing, swearing, and vowing revenge
+against every Whig, Presbyterian, and fanatic in England and Scotland,
+from John-o'-Groat's to the Land's End, and with difficulty got him to
+horse. Our hero, with the assistance of Saunders Saunderson, escorted
+the Baron of Bradwardine to his own dwelling, but could not prevail
+upon him to retire to bed until he had made a long and learned apology
+for the events of the evening, of which, however, there was not a word
+intelligible, except something about the Centaurs and the Lapithae.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII
+
+REPENTANCE AND A RECONCILIATION
+
+
+Waverley was unaccustomed to the use of wine, excepting with great
+temperance. He slept therefore soundly till late in the succeeding
+morning, and then awakened to a painful recollection of the scene of
+the preceding evening. He had received a personal affront--he, a
+gentleman, a soldier, and a Waverley. True, the person who offered it
+was not, at the time it was given, possessed of the moderate share of
+sense which nature had allotted him; true also, in resenting this
+insult, he would break the laws of Heaven as well as of his country;
+true, in doing so, he might take the life of a young man who perhaps
+respectably discharged the social duties, and render his family
+miserable, or he might lose his own--no pleasant alternative even to
+the bravest, when it is debated coolly and in private.
+
+All this pressed on his mind; yet the original statement recurred with
+the same irresistible force. He had received a personal insult; he was
+of the house of Waverley; and he bore a commission. There was no
+alternative; and he descended to the breakfast parlour with the
+intention of taking leave of the family, and writing to one of his
+brother officers to meet him at the inn midway between Tully-Veolan and
+the town where they were quartered, in order that he might convey such
+a message to the Laird of Balmawhapple as the circumstances seemed to
+demand. He found Miss Bradwardine presiding over the tea and coffee,
+the table loaded with warm bread, both of flour, oatmeal, and
+barleymeal, in the shape of loaves, cakes, biscuits, and other
+varieties, together with eggs, reindeer ham, mutton and beef ditto,
+smoked salmon, marmalade, and all the other delicacies which induced
+even Johnson himself to extol the luxury of a Scotch breakfast above
+that of all other countries. A mess of oatmeal porridge, flanked by a
+silver jug, which held an equal mixture of cream and butter-milk, was
+placed for the Baron's share of this repast; but Rose observed, he had
+walked out early in the morning, after giving orders that his guest
+should not be disturbed.
+
+Waverley sat down almost in silence, and with an air of absence and
+abstraction which could not give Miss Bradwardine a favourable opinion
+of his talents for conversation. He answered at random one or two
+observations which she ventured to make upon ordinary topics; so that,
+feeling herself almost repulsed in her efforts at entertaining him, and
+secretly wondering that a scarlet coat should cover no better breeding,
+she left him to his mental amusement of cursing Doctor Doubleit's
+favourite constellation of Ursa Major as the cause of all the mischief
+which had already happened and was likely to ensue. At once he started,
+and his colour heightened, as, looking toward the window, he beheld the
+Baron and young Balmawhapple pass arm in arm, apparently in deep
+conversation; and he hastily asked, 'Did Mr. Falconer sleep here last
+night?' Rose, not much pleased with the abruptness of the first
+question which the young stranger had addressed to her, answered drily
+in the negative, and the conversation again sunk into silence.
+
+At this moment Mr. Saunderson appeared, with a message from his master,
+requesting to speak with Captain Waverley in another apartment. With a
+heart which beat a little quicker, not indeed from fear, but from
+uncertainty and anxiety, Edward obeyed the summons. He found the two
+gentlemen standing together, an air of complacent dignity on the brow
+of the Baron, while something like sullenness or shame, or both,
+blanked the bold visage of Balmawhapple. The former slipped his arm
+through that of the latter, and thus seeming to walk with him, while in
+reality he led him, advanced to meet Waverley, and, stopping in the
+midst of the apartment, made in great state the following oration:
+'Captain Waverley--my young and esteemed friend, Mr. Falconer of
+Balmawhapple, has craved of my age and experience, as of one not wholly
+unskilled in the dependencies and punctilios of the duello or
+monomachia, to be his interlocutor in expressing to you the regret with
+which he calls to remembrance certain passages of our symposion last
+night, which could not but be highly displeasing to you, as serving for
+the time under this present existing government. He craves you, sir, to
+drown in oblivion the memory of such solecisms against the laws of
+politeness, as being what his better reason disavows, and to receive
+the hand which he offers you in amity; and I must needs assure you that
+nothing less than a sense of being dans son tort, as a gallant French
+chevalier, Mons. Le Bretailleur, once said to me on such an occasion,
+and an opinion also of your peculiar merit, could have extorted such
+concessions; for he and all his family are, and have been, time out of
+mind, Mavortia pectora, as Buchanan saith, a bold and warlike sept, or
+people.'
+
+Edward immediately, and with natural politeness, accepted the hand
+which Balmawhapple, or rather the Baron in his character of mediator,
+extended towards him. 'It was impossible,' he said, 'for him to
+remember what a gentleman expressed his wish he had not uttered; and he
+willingly imputed what had passed to the exuberant festivity of the
+day.'
+
+'That is very handsomely said,' answered the Baron; 'for undoubtedly,
+if a man be ebrius, or intoxicated, an incident which on solemn and
+festive occasions may and will take place in the life of a man of
+honour; and if the same gentleman, being fresh and sober, recants the
+contumelies which he hath spoken in his liquor, it must be held vinum
+locutum est; the words cease to be his own. Yet would I not find this
+exculpation relevant in the case of one who was ebriosus, or an
+habitual drunkard; because, if such a person choose to pass the greater
+part of his time in the predicament of intoxication, he hath no title
+to be exeemed from the obligations of the code of politeness, but
+should learn to deport himself peaceably and courteously when under
+influence of the vinous stimulus. And now let us proceed to breakfast,
+and think no more of this daft business.'
+
+I must confess, whatever inference may be drawn from the circumstance,
+that Edward, after so satisfactory an explanation, did much greater
+honour to the delicacies of Miss Bradwardine's breakfast-table than his
+commencement had promised. Balmawhapple, on the contrary, seemed
+embarrassed and dejected; and Waverley now, for the first time,
+observed that his arm was in a sling, which seemed to account for the
+awkward and embarrassed manner with which he had presented his hand. To
+a question from Miss Bradwardine, he muttered in answer something about
+his horse having fallen; and seeming desirous to escape both from the
+subject and the company, he arose as soon as breakfast was over, made
+his bow to the party, and, declining the Baron's invitation to tarry
+till after dinner, mounted his horse and returned to his own home.
+
+Waverley now announced his purpose of leaving Tully-Veolan early enough
+after dinner to gain the stage at which he meant to sleep; but the
+unaffected and deep mortification with which the good-natured and
+affectionate old gentleman heard the proposal quite deprived him of
+courage to persist in it. No sooner had he gained Waverley's consent to
+lengthen his visit for a few days than he laboured to remove the
+grounds upon which he conceived he had meditated a more early retreat.
+'I would not have you opine, Captain Waverley, that I am by practice or
+precept an advocate of ebriety, though it may be that, in our festivity
+of last night, some of our friends, if not perchance altogether ebrii,
+or drunken, were, to say the least, ebrioli, by which the ancients
+designed those who were fuddled, or, as your English vernacular and
+metaphorical phrase goes, half-seas-over. Not that I would so insinuate
+respecting you, Captain Waverley, who, like a prudent youth, did rather
+abstain from potation; nor can it be truly said of myself, who, having
+assisted at the tables of many great generals and marechals at their
+solemn carousals, have the art to carry my wine discreetly, and did
+not, during the whole evening, as ye must have doubtless observed,
+exceed the bounds of a modest hilarity.'
+
+There was no refusing assent to a proposition so decidedly laid down by
+him, who undoubtedly was the best judge; although, had Edward formed
+his opinion from his own recollections, he would have pronounced that
+the Baron was not only ebriolus, but verging to become ebrius; or, in
+plain English, was incomparably the most drunk of the party, except
+perhaps his antagonist the Laird of Balmawhapple. However, having
+received the expected, or rather the required, compliment on his
+sobriety, the Baron proceeded--'No, sir, though I am myself of a strong
+temperament, I abhor ebriety, and detest those who swallow wine gulce
+causa, for the oblectation of the gullet; albeit I might deprecate the
+law of Pittacus of Mitylene, who punished doubly a crime committed
+under the influence of 'Liber Pater'; nor would I utterly accede to the
+objurgation of the younger Plinius, in the fourteenth book of his
+'Historia Naturalis.' No, sir, I distinguish, I discriminate, and
+approve of wine so far only as it maketh glad the face, or, in the
+language of Flaccus, recepto amico.'
+
+Thus terminated the apology which the Baron of Bradwardine thought it
+necessary to make for the superabundance of his hospitality; and it may
+be easily believed that he was neither interrupted by dissent nor any
+expression of incredulity.
+
+He then invited his guest to a morning ride, and ordered that Davie
+Gellatley should meet them at the dern path with Ban and Buscar. 'For,
+until the shooting season commence, I would willingly show you some
+sport, and we may, God willing, meet with a roe. The roe, Captain
+Waverley, may be hunted at all times alike; for never being in what is
+called PRIDE OF GREASE, he is also never out of season, though it be a
+truth that his venison is not equal to that of either the red or fallow
+deer. [Footnote: The learned in cookery dissent from the Baron of
+Bradwardine, and hold the roe venison dry and indifferent food, unless
+when dressed in soup and Scotch collops.] But he will serve to show how
+my dogs run; and therefore they shall attend us with David Gellatley.'
+
+Waverley expressed his surprise that his friend Davie was capable of
+such trust; but the Baron gave him to understand that this poor
+simpleton was neither fatuous, nec naturaliter idiota, as is expressed
+in the brieves of furiosity, but simply a crack-brained knave, who
+could execute very well any commission which jumped with his own
+humour, and made his folly a plea for avoiding every other. 'He has
+made an interest with us,' continued the Baron, 'by saving Rose from a
+great danger with his own proper peril; and the roguish loon must
+therefore eat of our bread and drink of our cup, and do what he can, or
+what he will, which, if the suspicions of Saunderson and the Bailie are
+well founded, may perchance in his case be commensurate terms.'
+
+Miss Bradwardine then gave Waverley to understand that this poor
+simpleton was dotingly fond of music, deeply affected by that which was
+melancholy, and transported into extravagant gaiety by light and lively
+airs. He had in this respect a prodigious memory, stored with
+miscellaneous snatches and fragments of all tunes and songs, which he
+sometimes applied, with considerable address, as the vehicles of
+remonstrance, explanation, or satire. Davie was much attached to the
+few who showed him kindness; and both aware of any slight or ill usage
+which he happened to receive, and sufficiently apt, where he saw
+opportunity, to revenge it. The common people, who often judge hardly
+of each other as well as of their betters, although they had expressed
+great compassion for the poor innocent while suffered to wander in rags
+about the village, no sooner beheld him decently clothed, provided for,
+and even a sort of favourite, than they called up all the instances of
+sharpness and ingenuity, in action and repartee, which his annals
+afforded, and charitably bottomed thereupon a hypothesis that David
+Gellatley was no farther fool than was necessary to avoid hard labour.
+This opinion was not better founded than that of the Negroes, who, from
+the acute and mischievous pranks of the monkeys, suppose that they have
+the gift of speech, and only suppress their powers of elocution to
+escape being set to work. But the hypothesis was entirely imaginary;
+David Gellatley was in good earnest the half-crazed simpleton which he
+appeared, and was incapable of any constant and steady exertion. He had
+just so much solidity as kept on the windy side of insanity, so much
+wild wit as saved him from the imputation of idiocy, some dexterity in
+field-sports (in which we have known as great fools excel), great
+kindness and humanity in the treatment of animals entrusted to him,
+warm affections, a prodigious memory, and an ear for music.
+
+The stamping of horses was now heard in the court, and Davie's voice
+singing to the two large deer greyhounds,
+
+    Hie away, hie away,
+    Over bank and over brae,
+    Where the copsewood is the greenest,
+    Where the fountains glisten sheenest,
+    Where the lady-fern grows strongest,
+    Where the morning dew lies longest,
+    Where the black-cock sweetest sips it,
+    Where the fairy latest trips it.
+    Hie to haunts right seldom seen,
+    Lovely, lonesome, cool, and green,
+    Over bank and over brae,
+    Hie away, hie away.
+
+'Do the verses he sings,' asked Waverley, 'belong to old Scottish
+poetry, Miss Bradwardine?'
+
+'I believe not,' she replied. 'This poor creature had a brother, and
+Heaven, as if to compensate to the family Davie's deficiencies, had
+given him what the hamlet thought uncommon talents. An uncle contrived
+to educate him for the Scottish kirk, but he could not get preferment
+because he came from our GROUND. He returned from college hopeless and
+brokenhearted, and fell into a decline. My father supported him till
+his death, which happened before he was nineteen. He played beautifully
+on the flute, and was supposed to have a great turn for poetry. He was
+affectionate and compassionate to his brother, who followed him like
+his shadow, and we think that from him Davie gathered many fragments of
+songs and music unlike those of this country. But if we ask him where
+he got such a fragment as he is now singing, he either answers with
+wild and long fits of laughter, or else breaks into tears of
+lamentation; but was never heard to give any explanation, or to mention
+his brother's name since his death.'
+
+'Surely,' said Edward, who was readily interested by a tale bordering
+on the romantic, 'surely more might be learned by more particular
+inquiry.'
+
+'Perhaps so,' answered Rose; 'but my father will not permit any one to
+practise on his feelings on this subject.'
+
+By this time the Baron, with the help of Mr. Saunderson, had indued a
+pair of jack-boots of large dimensions, and now invited our hero to
+follow him as he stalked clattering down the ample stair-case, tapping
+each huge balustrade as he passed with the butt of his massive
+horse-whip, and humming, with the air of a chasseur of Louis Quatorze,--
+
+    Pour la chasse ordonnee il faut preparer tout.
+    Ho la ho! Vite! vite debout!
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIII
+
+A MORE RATIONAL DAY THAN THE LAST
+
+
+The Baron of Bradwardine, mounted on an active and well-managed horse,
+and seated on a demi-pique saddle, with deep housings to agree with his
+livery, was no bad representative of the old school. His light-coloured
+embroidered coat, and superbly barred waistcoat, his brigadier wig,
+surmounted by a small gold-laced cocked-hat, completed his personal
+costume; but he was attended by two well-mounted servants on horseback,
+armed with holster-pistols.
+
+In this guise he ambled forth over hill and valley, the admiration of
+every farm-yard which they passed in their progress, till, 'low down in
+a grassy vale,' they found David Gellatley leading two very tall deer
+greyhounds, and presiding over half a dozen curs, and about as many
+bare-legged and bare-headed boys, who, to procure the chosen
+distinction of attending on the chase, had not failed to tickle his
+ears with the dulcet appellation of Maister Gellatley, though probably
+all and each had hooted him on former occasions in the character of
+daft Davie. But this is no uncommon strain of flattery to persons in
+office, nor altogether confined to the barelegged villagers of
+Tully-Veolan; it was in fashion Sixty Years Since, is now, and will be
+six hundred years hence, if this admirable compound of folly and
+knavery, called the world, shall be then in existence.
+
+These Gillie-wet-foots, as they were called, were destined to beat the
+bushes, which they performed with so much success, that, after half an
+hour's search, a roe was started, coursed, and killed; the Baron
+following on his white horse, like Earl Percy of yore, and
+magnanimously flaying and embowelling the slain animal (which, he
+observed, was called by the French chasseurs, faire la curee) with his
+own baronial couteau de chasse. After this ceremony, he conducted his
+guest homeward by a pleasant and circuitous route, commanding an
+extensive prospect of different villages and houses, to each of which
+Mr. Bradwardine attached some anecdote of history or genealogy, told in
+language whimsical from prejudice and pedantry, but often respectable
+for the good sense and honourable feelings which his narrative
+displayed, and almost always curious, if not valuable, for the
+information they contained.
+
+The truth is, the ride seemed agreeable to both gentlemen, because they
+found amusement in each other's conversation, although their characters
+and habits of thinking were in many respects totally opposite. Edward,
+we have informed the reader, was warm in his feelings, wild and
+romantic in his ideas and in his taste of reading, with a strong
+disposition towards poetry. Mr Bradwardine was the reverse of all this,
+and piqued himself upon stalking through life with the same upright,
+starched, stoical gravity which distinguished his evening promenade
+upon the terrace of Tully-Veolan, where for hours together--the very
+model of old Hardyknute--
+
+    Stately stepp'd he east the wa',
+    And stately stepp'd he west
+
+As for literature, he read the classic poets, to be sure, and the
+'Epithalamium' of Georgius Buchanan and Arthur Johnston's Psalms, of a
+Sunday; and the 'Deliciae Poetarum Scotorum,' and Sir David Lindsay's
+'Works', and Barbour's 'Brace', and Blind Harry's 'Wallace', and 'The
+Gentle Shepherd', and 'The Cherry and The Slae.'
+
+But though he thus far sacrificed his time to the Muses, he would, if
+the truth must be spoken, have been much better pleased had the pious
+or sapient apothegms, as well as the historical narratives, which these
+various works contained, been presented to him in the form of simple
+prose. And he sometimes could not refrain from expressing contempt of
+the 'vain and unprofitable art of poem-making', in which, he said,'the
+only one who had excelled in his time was Allan Ramsay, the
+periwigmaker.'
+
+[Footnote: The Baron ought to have remembered that the joyous Allan
+literally drew his blood from the house of the noble earl whom he
+terms--
+
+    Dalhousie of an old descent
+    My stoup, my pride, my ornament.]
+
+But although Edward and he differed TOTO COELO, as the Baron would have
+said, upon this subject, yet they met upon history as on a neutral
+ground, in which each claimed an interest. The Baron, indeed, only
+cumbered his memory with matters of fact, the cold, dry, hard outlines
+which history delineates. Edward, on the contrary, loved to fill up and
+round the sketch with the colouring of a warm and vivid imagination,
+which gives light and life to the actors and speakers in the drama of
+past ages. Yet with tastes so opposite, they contributed greatly to
+each other's amusement. Mr. Bradwardine's minute narratives and
+powerful memory supplied to Waverley fresh subjects of the kind upon
+which his fancy loved to labour, and opened to him a new mine of
+incident and of character. And he repaid the pleasure thus communicated
+by an earnest attention, valuable to all story-tellers, more especially
+to the Baron, who felt his habits of self-respect flattered by it; and
+sometimes also by reciprocal communications, which interested Mr.
+Bradwardine, as confirming or illustrating his own favourite anecdotes.
+Besides, Mr. Bradwardine loved to talk of the scenes of his youth,
+whichl had been spent in camps and foreign lands, and had many
+interesting particulars to tell of the generals under whom he had
+served and the actions he had witnessed.
+
+Both parties returned to Tully-Veolan in great good-humour with each
+other; Waverley desirous of studying more attentively what he
+considered as a singular and interesting character, gifted with a
+memory containing a curious register of ancient and modern anecdotes;
+and Bradwardine disposed to regard Edward as puer (or rather juvenis)
+bonae spei et magnae indolis, a youth devoid of that petulant
+volatility which is impatient of, or vilipends, the conversation and
+advice of his seniors, from which he predicted great things of his
+future success and deportment in life. There was no other guest except
+Mr. Rubrick, whose information and discourse, as a clergyman and a
+scholar, harmonised very well with that of the Baron and his guest.
+
+Shortly after dinner, the Baron, as if to show that his temperance was
+not entirely theoretical, proposed a visit to Rose's apartment, or, as
+he termed it, her troisieme etage. Waverley was accordingly conducted
+through one or two of those long awkward passages with which ancient
+architects studied to puzzle the inhabitants of the houses which they
+planned, at the end of which Mr. Bradwardine began to ascend, by two
+steps at once, a very steep, narrow, and winding stair, leaving Mr.
+Rubrick and Waverley to follow at more leisure, while he should
+announce their approach to his daughter.
+
+After having climbed this perpendicular corkscrew until their brains
+were almost giddy, they arrived in a little matted lobby, which served
+as an anteroom to Rose's sanctum sanctorum, and through which they
+entered her parlour. It was a small, but pleasant apartment, opening to
+the south, and hung with tapestry; adorned besides with two pictures,
+one of her mother, in the dress of a shepherdess, with a bell-hoop; the
+other of the Baron, in his tenth year, in a blue coat, embroidered
+waistcoat, laced hat, and bag-wig, with a bow in his hand. Edward could
+not help smiling at the costume, and at the odd resemblance between the
+round, smooth, red-cheeked, staring visage in the portrait, and the
+gaunt, bearded, hollow-eyed, swarthy features, which travelling,
+fatigues of war, and advanced age, had bestowed on the original. The
+Baron joined in the laugh. 'Truly,' he said,'that picture was a woman's
+fantasy of my good mother's (a daughter of the Laird of Tulliellum,
+Captain Waverley; I indicated the house to you when we were on the top
+of the Shinnyheuch; it was burnt by the Dutch auxiliaries brought in by
+the Government in 1715); I never sate for my pourtraicture but once
+since that was painted, and it was at the special and reiterated
+request of the Marechal Duke of Berwick.'
+
+The good old gentleman did not mention what Mr. Rubrick afterwards told
+Edward, that the Duke had done him this honour on account of his being
+the first to mount the breach of a fort in Savoy during the memorable
+campaign of 1709, and his having there defended himself with his
+half-pike for nearly ten minutes before any support reached him. To do
+the Baron justice, although sufficiently prone to dwell upon, and even
+to exaggerate, his family dignity and consequence, he was too much a
+man of real courage ever to allude to such personal acts of merit as he
+had himself manifested.
+
+Miss Rose now appeared from the interior room of her apartment, to
+welcome her father and his friends. The little labours in which she had
+been employed obviously showed a natural taste, which required only
+cultivation. Her father had taught her French and Italian, and a few of
+the ordinary authors in those languages ornamented her shelves. He had
+endeavoured also to be her preceptor in music; but as he began with the
+more abstruse doctrines of the science, and was not perhaps master of
+them himself, she had made no proficiency farther than to be able to
+accompany her voice with the harpsichord; but even this was not very
+common in Scotland at that period. To make amends, she sung with great
+taste and feeling, and with a respect to the sense of what she uttered
+that might be proposed in example to ladies of much superior musical
+talent. Her natural good sense taught her that, if, as we are assured
+by high authority, music be 'married to immortal verse,' they are very
+often divorced by the performer in a most shameful manner. It was
+perhaps owing to this sensibility to poetry, and power of combining its
+expression with those of the musical notes, that her singing gave more
+pleasure to all the unlearned in music, and even to many of the
+learned, than could have been communicated by a much finer voice and
+more brilliant execution unguided by the same delicacy of feeling.
+
+A bartizan, or projecting gallery, before the windows of her parlour,
+served to illustrate another of Rose's pursuits; for it was crowded
+with flowers of different kinds, which she had taken under her special
+protection. A projecting turret gave access to this Gothic balcony,
+which commanded a most beautiful prospect. The formal garden, with its
+high bounding walls, lay below, contracted, as it seemed, to a mere
+parterre; while the view extended beyond them down a wooded glen, where
+the small river was sometimes visible, sometimes hidden in copse. The
+eye might be delayed by a desire to rest on the rocks, which here and
+there rose from the dell with massive or spiry fronts, or it might
+dwell on the noble, though ruined tower, which was here beheld in all
+its dignity, frowning from a promontory over the river. To the left
+were seen two or three cottages, a part of the village, the brow of the
+hill concealed the others. The glen, or dell, was terminated by a sheet
+of water, called Loch Veolan, into which the brook discharged itself,
+and which now glistened in the western sun. The distant country seemed
+open and varied in surface, though not wooded; and there was nothing to
+interrupt the view until the scene was bounded by a ridge of distant
+and blue hills, which formed the southern boundary of the strath or
+valley. To this pleasant station Miss Bradwardine had ordered coffee.
+
+The view of the old tower, or fortalice, introduced some family
+anecdotes and tales of Scottish chivalry, which the Baron told with
+great enthusiasm. The projecting peak of an impending crag which rose
+near it had acquired the name of Saint Swithin's Chair. It was the
+scene of a peculiar superstition, of which Mr. Rubrick mentioned some
+curious particulars, which reminded Waverley of a rhyme quoted by Edgar
+in King Lear; and Rose was called upon to sing a little legend, in
+which they had been interwoven by some village poet,
+
+    Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung,
+    Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.
+
+The sweetness of her voice, and the simple beauty of her music, gave
+all the advantage which the minstrel could have desired, and which his
+poetry so much wanted. I almost doubt if it can be read with patience,
+destitute of these advantages, although I conjecture the following copy
+to have been somewhat corrected by Waverley, to suit the taste of those
+who might not relish pure antiquity.
+
+                Saint Swithin's Chair
+
+      On Hallow-Mass Eve, ere ye boune ye to rest,
+      Ever beware that your couch be bless'd;
+      Sign it with cross, and sain it with bead,
+      Sing the Ave, and say the Creed.
+
+      For on Hallow-Mass Eve the Night-Hag will ride,
+      And all her nine-fold sweeping on by her side,
+      Whether the wind sing lowly or loud,
+      Sailing through moonshine or swath'd in the cloud.
+
+      The Lady she sat in Saint Swithin's Chair,
+      The dew of the night has damp'd her hair:
+      Her cheek was pale; but resolved and high
+      Was the word of her lip and the glance of her eye.
+
+      She mutter'd the spell of Swithin bold,
+      When his naked foot traced the midnight wold,
+      When he stopp'd the Hag as she rode the night,
+      And bade her descend, and her promise plight.
+
+       He that dare sit on Saint Swithin's Chair,
+       When the Night-Hag wings the troubled air,
+       Questions three, when he speaks the spell,
+       He may ask, and she must tell.
+
+       The Baron has been with King Robert his liege
+       These three long years in battle and siege;
+       News are there none of his weal or his woe,
+       And fain the Lady his fate would know.
+
+       She shudders and stops as the charm she speaks;--
+       Is it the moody owl that shrieks?
+       Or is it that sound, betwixt laughter and scream,
+       The voice of the Demon who haunts the stream?
+
+       The moan of the wind sunk silent and low,
+       And the roaring torrent had ceased to flow;
+       The calm was more dreadful than raging storm,
+       When the cold grey mist brought the ghastly Form!
+
+'I am sorry to disappoint the company, especially Captain Waverley, who
+listens with such laudable gravity; it is but a fragment, although I
+think there are other verses, describing the return of the Baron from
+the wars, and how the lady was found "clay-cold upon the grounsill
+ledge.'"
+
+'It is one of those figments,' observed Mr. Bradwardine, 'with which
+the early history of distinguished families was deformed in the times
+of superstition; as that of Rome, and other ancient nations, had their
+prodigies, sir, the which you may read in ancient histories, or in the
+little work compiled by Julius Obsequens, and inscribed by the learned
+Scheffer, the editor, to his patron, Benedictus Skytte, Baron of
+Dudershoff.'
+
+'My father has a strange defiance of the marvellous, Captain Waverley,'
+observed Rose, 'and once stood firm when a whole synod of Presbyterian
+divines were put to the rout by a sudden apparition of the foul fiend.'
+
+Waverley looked as if desirous to hear more.
+
+'Must I tell my story as well as sing my song? Well--Once upon a time
+there lived an old woman, called Janet Gellatley, who was suspected to
+be a witch, on the infallible grounds that she was very old, very ugly,
+very poor, and had two sons, one of whom was a poet and the other a
+fool, which visitation, all the neighbourhood agreed, had come upon her
+for the sin of witchcraft. And she was imprisoned for a week in the
+steeple of the parish church, and sparely supplied with food, and not
+permitted to sleep until she herself became as much persuaded of her
+being a witch as her accusers; and in this lucid and happy state of
+mind was brought forth to make a clean breast, that is, to make open
+confession of her sorceries, before all the Whig gentry and ministers
+in the vicinity, who were no conjurors themselves. My father went to
+see fair play between the witch and the clergy; for the witch had been
+born on his estate. And while the witch was confessing that the Enemy
+appeared, and made his addresses to her as a handsome black
+man,--which, if you could have seen poor old blear-eyed Janet,
+reflected little honour on Apollyon's taste,--and while the auditors
+listened with astonished ears, and the clerk recorded with a trembling
+hand, she, all of a sudden, changed the low mumbling tone with which
+she spoke into a shrill yell, and exclaimed, "Look to yourselves! look
+to yourselves! I see the Evil One sitting in the midst of ye." The
+surprise was general, and terror and flight its immediate consequences.
+Happy were those who were next the door; and many were the disasters
+that befell hats, bands, cuffs, and wigs, before they could get out of
+the church, where they left the obstinate prelatist to settle matters
+with the witch and her admirer at his own peril or pleasure.'
+
+'Risu solvuntur tabulae,' said the Baron; 'when they recovered their
+panic trepidation they were too much ashamed to bring any wakening of
+the process against Janet Gellatley.' [Footnote: See Note 11]
+
+This anecdote led to a long discussion of
+
+       All those idle thoughts and fantasies,
+         Devices, dreams, opinions unsound,
+         Shows, visions, soothsays, and prophecies,
+       And all that feigned is, as leasings, tales, and lies.
+
+With such conversation, and the romantic legends which it introduced,
+closed our hero's second evening in the house of Tully-Veolan.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIV
+
+A DISCOVERY--WAVERLEY BECOMES DOMESTICATED AT TULLY-VEOLAN
+
+
+The next day Edward arose betimes, and in a morning walk around the
+house and its vicinity came suddenly upon a small court in front of the
+dog-kennel, where his friend Davie was employed about his four-footed
+charge. One quick glance of his eye recognised Waverley, when,
+instantly turning his back, as if he had not observed him, he began to
+sing part of an old ballad:--
+
+    Young men will love thee more fair and more fast;
+      Heard ye so merry the little bird sing?
+    Old men's love the longest will last,
+      And the throstle-cock's head is under his wing.
+
+    The young man's wrath is like light straw on fire;
+      Heard ye so merry the little bird sing?
+    But like red-hot steel is the old man's ire,
+      And the throstle-cock's head is under his wing.
+
+    The young man will brawl at the evening board;
+      Heard ye so merry the little bird sing?
+    But the old man will draw at the dawning the sword,
+      And the throstle-cock's head is under his wing.
+
+Waverley could not avoid observing that Davie laid something like a
+satirical emphasis on these lines. He therefore approached, and
+endeavoured, by sundry queries, to elicit from him what the innuendo
+might mean; but Davie had no mind to explain, and had wit enough to
+make his folly cloak his knavery. Edward could collect nothing from
+him, excepting that the Laird of Balmawhapple had gone home yesterday
+morning 'wi' his boots fu' o' bluid.' In the garden, however, he met
+the old butler, who no longer attempted to conceal that, having been
+bred in the nursery line with Sumack and Co. of Newcastle, he sometimes
+wrought a turn in the flower-borders to oblige the Laird and Miss Rose.
+By a series of queries, Edward at length discovered, with a painful
+feeling of surprise and shame, that Balmawhapple's submission and
+apology had been the consequence of a rencontre with the Baron before
+his guest had quitted his pillow, in which the younger combatant had
+been disarmed and wounded in the sword arm.
+
+Greatly mortified at this information, Edward sought out his friendly
+host, and anxiously expostulated with him upon the injustice he had
+done him in anticipating his meeting with Mr. Falconer, a circumstance
+which, considering his youth and the profession of arms which he had
+just adopted, was capable of being represented much to his prejudice.
+The Baron justified himself at greater length than I choose to repeat.
+He urged that the quarrel was common to them, and that Balmawhapple
+could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to both,
+which he had done in his case by an honourable meeting, and in that of
+Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary,
+and which, being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the whole
+affair.
+
+With this excuse, or explanation, Waverley was silenced, if not
+satisfied; but he could not help testifying some displeasure against
+the Blessed Bear, which had given rise to the quarrel, nor refrain from
+hinting that the sanctified epithet was hardly appropriate. The Baron
+observed, he could not deny that 'the Bear, though allowed by heralds
+as a most honourable ordinary, had, nevertheless, somewhat fierce,
+churlish, and morose in his disposition (as might be read in Archibald
+Simson, pastor of Dalkeith's 'Hieroglyphica Animalium') and had thus
+been the type of many quarrels and dissensions which had occurred in
+the house of Bradwardine; of which,' he continued, 'I might commemorate
+mine own unfortunate dissension with my third cousin by the mother's
+side, Sir Hew Halbert, who was so unthinking as to deride my family
+name, as if it had been QUASI BEAR-WARDEN; a most uncivil jest, since
+it not only insinuated that the founder of our house occupied such a
+mean situation as to be a custodier of wild beasts, a charge which, ye
+must have observed, is only entrusted to the very basest plebeians;
+but, moreover, seemed to infer that our coat-armour had not been
+achieved by honourable actions in war, but bestowed by way of
+paranomasia, or pun, upon our family appellation,--a sort of bearing
+which the French call armoires parlantes, the Latins arma cantantia,
+and your English authorities canting heraldry, [Footnote: See Note 12]
+being indeed a species of emblazoning more befitting canters,
+gaberlunzies, and such like mendicants, whose gibberish is formed upon
+playing upon the word, than the noble, honourable, and useful science
+of heraldry, which assigns armorial bearings as the reward of noble and
+generous actions, and not to tickle the ear with vain quodlibets, such
+as are found in jestbooks.' Of his quarrel with Sir Hew he said nothing
+more than that it was settled in a fitting manner.
+
+Having been so minute with respect to the diversions of Tully-Veolan on
+the first days of Edward's arrival, for the purpose of introducing its
+inmates to the reader's acquaintance, it becomes less necessary to
+trace the progress of his intercourse with the same accuracy. It is
+probable that a young man, accustomed to more cheerful society, would
+have tired of the conversation of so violent an assertor of the 'boast
+of heraldry' as the Baron; but Edward found an agreeable variety in
+that of Miss Bradwardine, who listened with eagerness to his remarks
+upon literature, and showed great justness of taste in her answers. The
+sweetness of her disposition had made her submit with complacency, and
+even pleasure, to the course of reading prescribed by her father,
+although it not only comprehended several heavy folios of history, but
+certain gigantic tomes in high-church polemics. In heraldry he was
+fortunately contented to give her only such a slight tincture as might
+be acquired by perusal of the two folio volumes of Nisbet. Rose was
+indeed the very apple of her father's eye. Her constant liveliness, her
+attention to all those little observances most gratifying to those who
+would never think of exacting them, her beauty, in which he recalled
+the features of his beloved wife, her unfeigned piety, and the noble
+generosity of her disposition, would have justified the affection of
+the most doting father.
+
+His anxiety on her behalf did not, however, seem to extend itself in
+that quarter where, according to the general opinion, it is most
+efficiently displayed, in labouring, namely, to establish her in life,
+either by a large dowry or a wealthy marriage. By an old settlement,
+almost all the landed estates of the Baron went, after his death, to a
+distant relation; and it was supposed that Miss Bradwardine would
+remain but slenderly provided for, as the good gentleman's cash matters
+had been too long under the exclusive charge of Bailie Macwheeble to
+admit of any great expectations from his personal succession. It is
+true, the said Bailie loved his patron and his patron's daughter next
+(though at an incomparable distance) to himself. He thought it was
+possible to set aside the settlement on the male line, and had actually
+procured an opinion to that effect (and, as he boasted, without a fee)
+from an eminent Scottish counsel, under whose notice he contrived to
+bring the point while consulting him regularly on some other business.
+But the Baron would not listen to such a proposal for an instant. On
+the contrary, he used to have a perverse pleasure in boasting that the
+barony of Bradwardine was a male fief, the first charter having been
+given at that early period when women were not deemed capable to hold a
+feudal grant; because, according to Les coustusmes de Normandie, c'est
+l'homme ki se bast et ki conseille; or, as is yet more ungallantly
+expressed by other authorities, all of whose barbarous names he
+delighted to quote at full length, because a woman could not serve the
+superior, or feudal lord, in war, on account of the decorum of her sex,
+nor assist him with advice, because of her limited intellect, nor keep
+his counsel, owing to the infirmity of her disposition. He would
+triumphantly ask, how it would become a female, and that female a
+Bradwardine, to be seen employed in servitio exuendi, seu detrahendi,
+caligas regis post battaliam? that is, in pulling off the king's boots
+after an engagement, which was the feudal service by which he held the
+barony of Bradwardine. 'No,' he said, 'beyond hesitation, procul dubio,
+many females, as worthy as Rose, had been excluded, in order to make
+way for my own succession, and Heaven forbid that I should do aught
+that might contravene the destination of my forefathers, or impinge
+upon the right of my kinsman, Malcolm Bradwardine of Inchgrabbit, an
+honourable, though decayed branch of my own family.'
+
+The Bailie, as prime minister, having received this decisive
+communication from his sovereign, durst not press his own opinion any
+farther, but contented himself with deploring, on all suitable
+occasions, to Saunderson, the minister of the interior, the laird's
+self-willedness, and with laying plans for uniting Rose with the young
+Laird of Balmawhapple, who had a fine estate, only moderately burdened,
+and was a faultless young gentleman, being as sober as a saint--if you
+keep brandy from him and him from brandy--and who, in brief, had no
+imperfection but that of keeping light company at a time; such as
+Jinker, the horse-couper, and Gibby Gaethroughwi't, the piper o' Cupar;
+'o' whilk follies, Mr. Saunderson, he'll mend, he'll mend,' pronounced
+the Bailie.
+
+'Like sour ale in simmer,' added Davie Gellatley, who happened to be
+nearer the conclave than they were aware of.
+
+Miss Bradwardine, such as we have described her, with all the
+simplicity and curiosity of a recluse, attached herself to the
+opportunities of increasing her store of literature which Edward's
+visit afforded her. He sent for some of his books from his quarters,
+and they opened to her sources of delight of which she had hitherto had
+no idea. The best English poets, of every description, and other works
+on belles-lettres, made a part of this precious cargo. Her music, even
+her flowers, were neglected, and Saunders not only mourned over, but
+began to mutiny against, the labour for which he now scarce received
+thanks. These new pleasures became gradually enhanced by sharing them
+with one of a kindred taste. Edward's readiness to comment, to recite,
+to explain difficult passages, rendered his assistance invaluable; and
+the wild romance of his spirit delighted a character too young and
+inexperienced to observe its deficiencies. Upon subjects which
+interested him, and when quite at ease, he possessed that flow of
+natural, and somewhat florid eloquence, which has been supposed as
+powerful even as figure, fashion, fame, or fortune, in winning the
+female heart. There was, therefore, an increasing danger in this
+constant intercourse to poor Rose's peace of mind, which was the more
+imminent as her father was greatly too much abstracted in his studies,
+and wrapped up in his own dignity, to dream of his daughter's incurring
+it. The daughters of the house of Bradwardine were, in his opinion,
+like those of the house of Bourbon or Austria, placed high above the
+clouds of passion which might obfuscate the intellects of meaner
+females; they moved in another sphere, were governed by other feelings,
+and amenable to other rules than those of idle and fantastic affection.
+In short, he shut his eyes so resolutely to the natural consequences of
+Edward's intimacy with Miss Bradwardine, that the whole neighbourhood
+concluded that he had opened them to the advantages of a match between
+his daughter and the wealthy young Englishman, and pronounced him much
+less a fool than he had generally shown himself in cases where his own
+interest was concerned.
+
+If the Baron, however, had really meditated such an alliance, the
+indifference of Waverley would have been an insuperable bar to his
+project. Our hero, since mixing more freely with the world, had learned
+to think with great shame and confusion upon his mental legend of Saint
+Cecilia, and the vexation of these reflections was likely, for some
+time at least, to counterbalance the natural susceptibility of his
+disposition. Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we
+have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which
+captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank,
+too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but
+destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination
+delights to dress the empress of his affections. Was it possible to
+bow, to tremble, and to adore, before the timid, yet playful little
+girl, who now asked Edward to mend her pen, now to construe a stanza in
+Tasso, and now how to spell a very--very long word in her version of
+it? All these incidents have their fascination on the mind at a certain
+period of life, but not when a youth is entering it, and rather looking
+out for some object whose affection may dignify him in his own eyes
+than stooping to one who looks up to him for such distinction. Hence,
+though there can be no rule in so capricious a passion, early love is
+frequently ambitious in choosing its object; or, which comes to the
+same, selects her (as in the case of Saint Cecilia aforesaid) from a
+situation that gives fair scope for le beau ideal, which the reality of
+intimate and familiar life rather tends to limit and impair. I knew a
+very accomplished and sensible young man cured of a violent passion for
+a pretty woman, whose talents were not equal to her face and figure, by
+being permitted to bear her company for a whole afternoon. Thus, it is
+certain, that had Edward enjoyed such an opportunity of conversing with
+Miss Stubbs, Aunt Rachel's precaution would have been unnecessary, for
+he would as soon have fallen in love with the dairy-maid. And although
+Miss Bradwardine was a very different character, it seems probable that
+the very intimacy of their intercourse prevented his feeling for her
+other sentiments than those of a brother for an amiable and
+accomplished sister; while the sentiments of poor Rose were gradually,
+and without her being conscious, assuming a shade of warmer affection.
+
+I ought to have said that Edward, when he sent to Dundee for the books
+before mentioned, had applied for, and received permission, extending
+his leave of absence. But the letter of his commanding officer
+contained a friendly recommendation to him not to spend his time
+exclusively with persons who, estimable as they might be in a general
+sense, could not be supposed well affected to a government which they
+declined to acknowledge by taking the oath of allegiance. The letter
+further insinuated, though with great delicacy, that although some
+family connections might be supposed to render it necessary for Captain
+Waverley to communicate with gentlemen who were in this unpleasant
+state of suspicion, yet his father's situation and wishes ought to
+prevent his prolonging those attentions into exclusive intimacy. And it
+was intimated, that, while his political principles were endangered by
+communicating with laymen of this description, he might also receive
+erroneous impressions in religion from the prelatic clergy, who so
+perversely laboured to set up the royal prerogative in things sacred.
+
+This last insinuation probably induced Waverley to set both down to the
+prejudices of his commanding officer. He was sensible that Mr.
+Bradwardine had acted with the most scrupulous delicacy, in never
+entering upon any discussion that had the most remote tendency to bias
+his mind in political opinions, although he was himself not only a
+decided partisan of the exiled family, but had been trusted at
+different times with important commissions for their service. Sensible,
+therefore, that there was no risk of his being perverted from his
+allegiance, Edward felt as if he should do his uncle's old friend
+injustice in removing from a house where he gave and received pleasure
+and amusement, merely to gratify a prejudiced and ill-judged suspicion.
+He therefore wrote a very general answer, assuring his commanding
+officer that his loyalty was not in the most distant danger of
+contamination, and continued an honoured guest and inmate of the house
+of Tully-Veolan.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XV
+
+A CREAGH, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
+
+
+When Edward had been a guest at Tully-Veolan nearly six weeks, he
+descried, one morning, as he took his usual walk before the breakfast
+hour, signs of uncommon perturbation in the family. Four bare-legged
+dairy-maids, with each an empty milk-pail in her hand, ran about with
+frantic gestures, and uttering loud exclamations of surprise, grief,
+and resentment. From their appearance, a pagan might have conceived
+them a detachment of the celebrated Belides, just come from their
+baling penance. As nothing was to be got from this distracted chorus,
+excepting 'Lord guide us!' and 'Eh sirs!' ejaculations which threw no
+light upon the cause of their dismay, Waverley repaired to the
+fore-court, as it was called, where he beheld Bailie Macwheeble
+cantering his white pony down the avenue with all the speed it could
+muster. He had arrived, it would seem, upon a hasty summons, and was
+followed by half a score of peasants from the village who had no great
+difficulty in keeping pace with him.
+
+The Bailie, greatly too busy and too important to enter into
+explanations with Edward, summoned forth Mr. Saunderson, who appeared
+with a countenance in which dismay was mingled with solemnity, and they
+immediately entered into close conference. Davie Gellatley was also
+seen in the group, idle as Diogenes at Sinope while his countrymen were
+preparing for a siege. His spirits always rose with anything, good or
+bad, which occasioned tumult, and he continued frisking, hopping,
+dancing, and singing the burden of an old ballad--
+
+    'Our gear's a' gane,'
+
+until, happening to pass too near the Bailie, he received an admonitory
+hint from his horse-whip, which converted his songs into lamentation.
+
+Passing from thence towards the garden, Waverley beheld the Baron in
+person, measuring and re-measuring, with swift and tremendous strides,
+the length of the terrace; his countenance clouded with offended pride
+and indignation, and the whole of his demeanour such as seemed to
+indicate, that any inquiry concerning the cause of his discomposure
+would give pain at least, if not offence. Waverley therefore glided
+into the house, without addressing him, and took his way to the
+breakfast-parlour, where he found his young friend Rose, who, though
+she neither exhibited the resentment of her father, the turbid
+importance of Bailie Macwheeble, nor the despair of the handmaidens,
+seemed vexed and thoughtful. A single word explained the mystery. 'Your
+breakfast will be a disturbed one, Captain Waverley. A party of
+Caterans have come down upon us last night, and have driven off all our
+milch cows.'
+
+'A party of Caterans?'
+
+'Yes; robbers from the neighbouring Highlands. We used to be quite free
+from them while we paid blackmail to Fergus Mac-Ivor Vich Ian Vohr; but
+my father thought it unworthy of his rank and birth to pay it any
+longer, and so this disaster has happened. It is not the value of the
+cattle, Captain Waverley, that vexes me; but my father is so much hurt
+at the affront, and is so bold and hot, that I fear he will try to
+recover them by the strong hand; and if he is not hurt himself, he will
+hurt some of these wild people, and then there will be no peace between
+them and us perhaps for our life-time; and we cannot defend ourselves
+as in old times, for the government have taken all our arms; and my
+dear father is so rash--O what will become of us!'--Here poor Rose lost
+heart altogether, and burst into a flood of tears.
+
+The Baron entered at this moment, and rebuked her with more asperity
+than Waverley had ever heard him use to any one. 'Was it not a shame,'
+he said, 'that she should exhibit herself before any gentleman in such
+a light, as if she shed tears for a drove of horned nolt and milch
+kine, like the daughter of a Cheshire yeoman!--Captain Waverley, I must
+request your favourable construction of her grief, which may, or ought
+to proceed, solely from seeing her father's estate exposed to spulzie
+and depredation from common thieves and sorners, while we are not
+allowed to keep half a score of muskets, whether for defence or rescue.'
+
+Bailie Macwheeble entered immediately afterwards, and by his report of
+arms and ammunition confirmed this statement, informing the Baron, in a
+melancholy voice, that though the people would certainly obey his
+honour's orders, yet there was no chance of their following the gear to
+ony guid purpose, in respect there were only his honour's body servants
+who had swords and pistols, and the depredators were twelve
+Highlanders, completely armed after the manner of their country. Having
+delivered this doleful annunciation, he assumed a posture of silent
+dejection, shaking his head slowly with the motion of a pendulum when
+it is ceasing to vibrate, and then remained stationary, his body
+stooping at a more acute angle than usual, and the latter part of his
+person projecting in proportion.
+
+The Baron, meanwhile, paced the room in silent indignation, and at
+length fixing his eye upon an old portrait, whose person was clad in
+armour, and whose features glared grimly out of a huge bush of hair,
+part of which descended from his head to his shoulders, and part from
+his chin and upper-lip to his breast-plate,--'That gentleman, Captain
+Waverley, my grandsire,' he said, 'with two hundred horse,--whom he
+levied within his own bounds, discomfited and put to the rout more than
+five hundred of these Highland reivers, who have been ever lapis
+offensionis et petra scandali, a stumbling-block and a rock of offence,
+to the Lowland vicinage--he discomfited them, I say, when they had the
+temerity to descend to harry this country, in the time of the civil
+dissensions, in the year of grace sixteen hundred forty and two. And
+now, sir, I, his grandson, am thus used at such unworthy hands.'
+
+Here there was an awful pause; after which all the company, as is usual
+in cases of difficulty, began to give separate and inconsistent
+counsel. Alexander ab Alexandro proposed they should send some one to
+compound with the Caterans, who would readily, he said, give up their
+prey for a dollar a head. The Bailie opined that this transaction would
+amount to theft-boot, or composition of felony; and he recommended that
+some canny hand should be sent up to the glens to make the best bargain
+he could, as it were for himself, so that the Laird might not be seen
+in such a transaction. Edward proposed to send off to the nearest
+garrison for a party of soldiers and a magistrate's warrant; and Rose,
+as far as she dared, endeavoured to insinuate the course of paying the
+arrears of tribute money to Fergus Mac-Ivor Vich Ian Vohr, who, they
+all knew, could easily procure restoration of the cattle, if he were
+properly propitiated.
+
+None of these proposals met the Baron's approbation. The idea of
+composition, direct or implied, was absolutely ignominious; that of
+Waverley only showed that he did not understand the state of the
+country, and of the political parties which divided it; and, standing
+matters as they did with Fergus Mac-Ivor Vich Ian Vohr, the Baron would
+make no concession to him, were it, he said, 'to procure restitution in
+integrum of every stirk and stot that the chief, his forefathers, and
+his clan, had stolen since the days of Malcolm Canmore.'
+
+In fact his voice was still for war, and he proposed to send expresses
+to Balmawhapple, Killancureit, Tulliellum, and other lairds, who were
+exposed to similar depredations, inviting them to join in the pursuit;
+'and then, sir, shall these nebulones nequissimi, as Leslaeus calls
+them, be brought to the fate of their predecessor Cacus,
+
+    "Elisos oculos, et siccum sanguine guttur."'
+
+The Bailie, who by no means relished these warlike counsels, here
+pulled forth an immense watch, of the colour, and nearly of the size,
+of a pewter warming-pan, and observed it was now past noon, and that
+the Caterans had been seen in the pass of Ballybrough soon after
+sunrise; so that, before the allied forces could assemble, they and
+their prey would be far beyond the reach of the most active pursuit,
+and sheltered in those pathless deserts, where it was neither advisable
+to follow, nor indeed possible to trace them.
+
+This proposition was undeniable. The council therefore broke up without
+coming to any conclusion, as has occurred to councils of more
+importance; only it was determined that the Bailie should send his own
+three milkcows down to the mains for the use of the Baron's family, and
+brew small ale, as a substitute for milk, in his own. To this
+arrangement, which was suggested by Saunderson, the Bailie readily
+assented, both from habitual deference to the family, and an internal
+consciousness that his courtesy would, in some mode or other, be repaid
+tenfold.
+
+The Baron having also retired to give some necessary directions,
+Waverley seized the opportunity to ask, whether this Fergus, with the
+unpronounceable name, was the chief thief-taker of the district?
+
+'Thief-taker!' answered Rose, laughing; 'he is a gentleman of great
+honour and consequence, the chieftain of an independent branch of a
+powerful Highland clan, and is much respected, both for his own power
+and that of his kith, kin, and allies.'
+
+'And what has he to do with the thieves, then? Is he a magistrate, or
+in the commission of the peace?' asked Waverley.
+
+'The commission of war rather, if there be such a thing,' said Rose;
+'for he is a very unquiet neighbour to his unfriends, and keeps a
+greater following on foot than many that have thrice his estate. As to
+his connection with the thieves, that I cannot well explain; but the
+boldest of them will never steal a hoof from any one that pays
+black-mail to Vich lan Vohr.'
+
+'And what is black-mail?'
+
+'A sort of protection-money that Low-Country gentlemen and heritors,
+lying near the Highlands, pay to some Highland chief, that he may
+neither do them harm himself, nor suffer it to be done to them by
+others; and then if your cattle are stolen, you have only to send him
+word, and he will recover them; or it may be, he will drive away cows
+from some distant place, where he has a quarrel, and give them to you
+to make up your loss.' [Footnote: See note 13.]
+
+'And is this sort of Highland Jonathan Wild admitted into society, and
+called a gentleman?'
+
+'So much so,' said Rose, 'that the quarrel between my father and Fergus
+Mac-Ivor began at a county meeting, where he wanted to take precedence
+of all the Lowland gentlemen then present, only my father would not
+suffer it. And then he upbraided my father that he was under his
+banner, and paid him tribute; and my father was in a towering passion,
+for Bailie Macwheeble, who manages such things his own way, had
+contrived to keep this black-mail a secret from him, and passed it in
+his account for cess-money. And they would have fought; but Fergus
+Mac-Ivor said, very gallantly, he would never raise his hand against a
+grey head that was so much respected as my father's.--O I wish, I wish
+they had continued friends!'
+
+'And did you ever see this Mr. Mac-Ivor, if that be his name, Miss
+Bradwardine?'
+
+'No, that is not his name; and he would consider MASTER as a sort of
+affront, only that you are an Englishman, and know no better. But the
+Lowlanders call him, like other gentlemen, by the name of his estate,
+Glennaquoich; and the Highlanders call him Vich Ian Vohr, that is, the
+son of John the Great; and we upon the braes here call him by both
+names indifferently.'
+
+'I am afraid I shall never bring my English tongue to call him by
+either one or other.'
+
+'But he is a very polite, handsome man,' continued Rose; 'and his
+sister Flora is one of the most beautiful and accomplished young ladies
+in this country; she was bred in a convent in France, and was a great
+friend of mine before this unhappy dispute. Dear Captain Waverley, try
+your influence with my father to make matters up. I am sure this is but
+the beginning of our troubles; for Tully-Veolan has never been a safe
+or quiet residence when we have been at feud with the Highlanders. When
+I was a girl about ten, there was a skirmish fought between a party of
+twenty of them and my father and his servants behind the mains; and the
+bullets broke several panes in the north windows, they were so near.
+Three of the Highlanders were killed, and they brought them in wrapped
+in their plaids, and laid them on the stone floor of the hall; and next
+morning, their wives and daughters came, clapping their hands, and
+crying the coronach, and shrieking, and carried away the dead bodies,
+with the pipes playing before them. I could not sleep for six weeks
+without starting and thinking I heard these terrible cries, and saw the
+bodies lying on the steps, all stiff and swathed up in their bloody
+tartans. But since that time there came a party from the garrison at
+Stirling, with a warrant from the Lord Justice Clerk, or some such
+great man, and took away all our arms; and now, how are we to protect
+ourselves if they come down in any strength?'
+
+Waverley could not help starting at a story which bore so much
+resemblance to one of his own day-dreams. Here was a girl scarce
+seventeen, the gentlest of her sex, both in temper and appearance, who
+had witnessed with her own eyes such a scene as he had used to conjure
+up in his imagination, as only occurring in ancient times, and spoke of
+it coolly, as one very likely to recur. He felt at once the impulse of
+curiosity, and that slight sense of danger which only serves to
+heighten its interest. He might have said with Malvolio, '"I do not now
+fool myself, to let imagination jade me!" I am actually in the land of
+military and romantic adventures, and it only remains to be seen what
+will be my own share in them.'
+
+The whole circumstances now detailed concerning the state of the
+country seemed equally novel and extraordinary. He had indeed often
+heard of Highland thieves, but had no idea of the systematic mode in
+which their depredations were conducted; and that the practice was
+connived at, and even encouraged, by many of the Highland chieftains,
+who not only found the creaghs, or forays, useful for the purpose of
+training individuals of their clan to the practice of arms, but also of
+maintaining a wholesome terror among their Lowland neighbours, and
+levying, as we have seen, a tribute from them, under colour of
+protection-money.
+
+Bailie Macwheeble, who soon afterwards entered, expatiated still more
+at length upon the same topic. This honest gentleman's conversation was
+so formed upon his professional practice, that Davie Gellatley once
+said his discourse was like a 'charge of horning.' He assured our hero,
+that 'from the maist ancient times of record, the lawless thieves,
+limmers, and broken men of the Highlands, had been in fellowship
+together by reason of their surnames, for the committing of divers
+thefts, reifs, and herships upon the honest men of the Low Country,
+when they not only intromitted with their whole goods and gear, corn,
+cattle, horse, nolt, sheep, outsight and insight plenishing, at their
+wicked pleasure, but moreover made prisoners, ransomed them, or
+concussed them into giving borrows (pledges) to enter into captivity
+again;--all which was directly prohibited in divers parts of the
+Statute Book, both by the act one thousand five hundred and
+sixty-seven, and various others; the whilk statutes, with all that had
+followed and might follow thereupon, were shamefully broken and
+vilipended by the said sorners, limmers, and broken men, associated
+into fellowships, for the aforesaid purposes of theft, stouthreef,
+fire-raising, murther, raptus mulierum, or forcible abduction of women,
+and such like as aforesaid.'
+
+It seemed like a dream to Waverley that these deeds of violence should
+be familiar to men's minds, and currently talked of as falling within
+the common order of things, and happening daily in the immediate
+vicinity, without his having crossed the seas, and while he was yet in
+the otherwise well-ordered island of Great Britain.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVI
+
+AN UNEXPECTED ALLY APPEARS
+
+
+The Baron returned at the dinner-hour, and had in a great measure
+recovered his composure and good-humour. He not only confirmed the
+stories which Edward had heard from Rose and Bailie Macwheeble, but
+added many anecdotes from his own experience, concerning the state of
+the Highlands and their inhabitants. The chiefs he pronounced to be, in
+general, gentlemen of great honour and high pedigree, whose word was
+accounted as a law by all those of their own sept, or clan. 'It did not
+indeed,' he said, 'become them, as had occurred in late instances, to
+propone their prosapia, a lineage which rested for the most part on the
+vain and fond rhymes of their seannachies or bhairds, as aequiponderate
+with the evidence of ancient charters and royal grants of antiquity,
+conferred upon distinguished houses in the Low Country by divers
+Scottish monarchs; nevertheless, such was their outrecuidance and
+presumption, as to undervalue those who possessed such evidents, as if
+they held their lands in a sheep's skin.'
+
+This, by the way, pretty well explained the cause of quarrel between
+the Baron and his Highland ally. But he went on to state so many
+curious particulars concerning the manners, customs, and habits of this
+patriarchal race that Edward's curiosity became highly interested, and
+he inquired whether it was possible to make with safety an excursion
+into the neighbouring Highlands, whose dusky barrier of mountains had
+already excited his wish to penetrate beyond them. The Baron assured
+his guest that nothing would be more easy, providing this quarrel were
+first made up, since he could himself give him letters to many of the
+distinguished chiefs, who would receive him with the utmost courtesy
+and hospitality.
+
+While they were on this topic, the door suddenly opened, and, ushered
+by Saunders Saunderson, a Highlander, fully armed and equipped, entered
+the apartment. Had it not been that Saunders acted the part of master
+of the ceremonies to this martial apparition, without appearing to
+deviate from his usual composure, and that neither Mr. Bradwardine nor
+Rose exhibited any emotion, Edward would certainly have thought the
+intrusion hostile. As it was, he started at the sight of what he had
+not yet happened to see, a mountaineer in his full national costume.
+The individual Gael was a stout, dark, young man, of low stature, the
+ample folds of whose plaid added to the appearance of strength which
+his person exhibited. The short kilt, or petticoat, showed his sinewy
+and clean-made limbs; the goatskin purse, flanked by the usual
+defences, a dirk and steel-wrought pistol, hung before him; his bonnet
+had a short feather, which indicated his claim to be treated as a
+duinhe-wassel, or sort of gentleman; a broadsword dangled by his side,
+a target hung upon his shoulder, and a long Spanish fowling-piece
+occupied one of his hands. With the other hand he pulled off his
+bonnet, and the Baron, who well knew their customs, and the proper mode
+of addressing them, immediately said, with an air of dignity, but
+without rising, and much, as Edward thought, in the manner of a prince
+receiving an embassy, 'Welcome, Evan Dhu Maccombich; what news from
+Fergus Mac-Ivor Vich lan Vohr?'
+
+'Fergus Mac-Ivor Vich lan Vohr,' said the ambassador, in good English,
+'greets you well, Baron of Bradwardine and Tully-Veolan, and is sorry
+there has been a thick cloud interposed between you and him, which has
+kept you from seeing and considering the friendship and alliances that
+have been between your houses and forebears of old; and he prays you
+that the cloud may pass away, and that things may be as they have been
+heretofore between the clan Ivor and the house of Bradwardine, when
+there was an egg between them for a flint and a knife for a sword. And
+he expects you will also say, you are sorry for the cloud, and no man
+shall hereafter ask whether it descended from the bill to the valley,
+or rose from the valley to the hill; for they never struck with the
+scabbard who did not receive with the sword, and woe to him who would
+lose his friend for the stormy cloud of a spring morning.'
+
+To this the Baron of Bradwardine answered with suitable dignity, that
+he knew the chief of Clan Ivor to be a well-wisher to the King, and he
+was sorry there should have been a cloud between him and any gentleman
+of such sound principles, 'for when folks are banding together, feeble
+is he who hath no brother.'
+
+This appearing perfectly satisfactory, that the peace between these
+august persons might be duly solemnised, the Baron ordered a stoup of
+usquebaugh, and, filling a glass, drank to the health and prosperity of
+Mac-Ivor of Glennaquoich; upon which the Celtic ambassador, to requite
+his politeness, turned down a mighty bumper of the same generous
+liquor, seasoned with his good wishes to the house of Bradwardine.
+
+Having thus ratified the preliminaries of the general treaty of
+pacification, the envoy retired to adjust with Mr. Macwheeble some
+subordinate articles with which it was not thought necessary to trouble
+the Baron. These probably referred to the discontinuance of the
+subsidy, and apparently the Bailie found means to satisfy their ally,
+without suffering his master to suppose that his dignity was
+compromised. At least, it is certain, that after the plenipotentiaries
+had drunk a bottle of brandy in single drams, which seemed to have no
+more effect upon such seasoned vessels than if it had been poured upon
+the two bears at the top of the avenue, Evan Dhu Maccombich, having
+possessed himself of all the information which he could procure
+respecting the robbery of the preceding night, declared his intention
+to set off immediately in pursuit of the cattle, which he pronounced to
+be 'no that far off; they have broken the bone,' he observed, 'but they
+have had no tune to suck the marrow.'
+
+Our hero, who had attended Evan Dhu during his perquisitions, was much
+struck with the ingenuity which he displayed in collecting information,
+and the precise and pointed conclusions which he drew from it. Evan
+Dhu, on his part, was obviously flattered with the attention of
+Waverley, the interest he seemed to take in his inquiries, and his
+curiosity about the customs and scenery of the Highlands. Without much
+ceremony he invited Edward to accompany him on a short walk of ten or
+fifteen miles into the mountains, and see the place where the cattle
+were conveyed to; adding, 'If it be as I suppose, you never saw such a
+place in your life, nor ever will, unless you go with me or the like of
+me.'
+
+Our hero, feeling his curiosity considerably excited by the idea of
+visiting the den of a Highland Cacus, took, however, the precaution to
+inquire if his guide might be trusted. He was assured that the
+invitation would on no account have been given had there been the least
+danger, and that all he had to apprehend was a little fatigue; and, as
+Evan proposed he should pass a day at his Chieftain's house in
+returning, where he would be sure of good accommodation and an
+excellent welcome, there seemed nothing very formidable in the task he
+undertook. Rose, indeed, turned pale when she heard of it; but her
+father, who loved the spirited curiosity of his young friend, did not
+attempt to damp it by an alarm of danger which really did not exist,
+and a knapsack, with a few necessaries, being bound on the shoulders of
+a sort of deputy gamekeeper, our hero set forth with a fowling-piece in
+his hand, accompanied by his new friend Evan Dhu, and followed by the
+gamekeeper aforesaid, and by two wild Highlanders, the attendants of
+Evan, one of whom had upon his shoulder a hatchet at the end of a pole,
+called a Lochaber-axe, [Footnote: See Note 14] and the other a long
+ducking-gun. Evan, upon Edward's inquiry, gave him to understand that
+this martial escort was by no means necessary as a guard, but merely,
+as he said, drawing up and adjusting his plaid with an air of dignity,
+that he might appear decently at Tully-Veolan, and as Vich Ian Vohr's
+foster-brother ought to do. 'Ah!' said he, 'if you Saxon duinhe-wassel
+(English gentleman) saw but the Chief with his tail on!'
+
+'With his tail on?' echoed Edward in some surprise.
+
+'Yes--that is, with all his usual followers, when he visits those of
+the same rank. There is,' he continued, stopping and drawing himself
+proudly up, while he counted upon his fingers the several officers of
+his chief's retinue; 'there is his hanchman, or right-hand man; then
+his bard, or poet; then his bladier, or orator, to make harangues to
+the great folks whom he visits; then his gilly-more, or armour-bearer,
+to carry his sword and target, and his gun; then his gilly-casfliuch,
+who carries him on his back through the sikes and brooks; then his
+gilly-comstrian, to lead his horse by the bridle in steep and difficult
+paths; then his gilly-trushharnish, to carry his knapsack; and the
+piper and the piper's man, and it may be a dozen young lads beside,
+that have no business, but are just boys of the belt, to follow the
+Laird and do his honour's bidding.'
+
+'And does your Chief regularly maintain all these men?' demanded
+Waverley.
+
+'All these?' replied Evan; 'ay, and many a fair head beside, that would
+not ken where to lay itself, but for the mickle barn at Glennaquoich.'
+
+With similar tales of the grandeur of the Chief in peace and war, Evan
+Dhu beguiled the way till they approached more closely those huge
+mountains which Edward had hitherto only seen at a distance. It was
+towards evening as they entered one of the tremendous passes which
+afford communication between the high and low country; the path, which
+was extremely steep and rugged, winded up a chasm between two
+tremendous rocks, following the passage which a foaming stream, that
+brawled far below, appeared to have worn for itself in the course of
+ages. A few slanting beams of the sun, which was now setting, reached
+the water in its darksome bed, and showed it partially, chafed by a
+hundred rocks and broken by a hundred falls. The descent from the path
+to the stream was a mere precipice, with here and there a projecting
+fragment of granite, or a scathed tree, which had warped its twisted
+roots into the fissures of the rock. On the right hand, the mountain
+rose above the path with almost equal inaccessibility; but the hill on
+the opposite side displayed a shroud of copsewood, with which some
+pines were intermingled.
+
+'This,' said Evan, 'is the pass of Bally-Brough, which was kept in
+former times by ten of the clan Donnochie against a hundred of the
+Low-Country carles. The graves of the slain are still to be seen in
+that little corrie, or bottom, on the opposite side of the burn; if
+your eyes are good, you may see the green specks among the heather.
+See, there is an earn, which you Southrons call an eagle. You have no
+such birds as that in England. He is going to fetch his supper from the
+Laird of Bradwardine's braes, but I 'll send a slug after him.'
+
+He fired his piece accordingly, but missed the superb monarch of the
+feathered tribes, who, without noticing the attempt to annoy him,
+continued his majestic flight to the southward. A thousand birds of
+prey, hawks, kites, carrion-crows, and ravens, disturbed from the
+lodgings which they had just taken up for the evening, rose at the
+report of the gun, and mingled their hoarse and discordant notes with
+the echoes which replied to it, and with the roar of the mountain
+cataracts. Evan, a little disconcerted at having missed his mark, when
+he meant to have displayed peculiar dexterity, covered his confusion by
+whistling part of a pibroch as he reloaded his piece, and proceeded in
+silence up the pass.
+
+It issued in a narrow glen, between two mountains, both very lofty and
+covered with heath. The brook continued to be their companion, and they
+advanced up its mazes, crossing them now and then, on which occasions
+Evan Dhu uniformly offered the assistance of his attendants to carry
+over Edward; but our hero, who had been always a tolerable pedestrian,
+declined the accommodation, and obviously rose in his guide's opinion,
+by showing that he did not fear wetting his feet. Indeed he was
+anxious, so far as he could without affectation, to remove the opinion
+which Evan seemed to entertain of the effeminacy of the Lowlanders, and
+particularly of the English.
+
+Through the gorge of this glen they found access to a black bog, of
+tremendous extent, full of large pit-holes, which they traversed with
+great difficulty and some danger, by tracks which no one but a
+Highlander could have followed. The path itself, or rather the portion
+of more solid ground on which the travellers half walked, half waded,
+was rough, broken, and in many places quaggy and unsound. Sometimes the
+ground was so completely unsafe that it was necessary to spring from
+one hillock to another, the space between being incapable of bearing
+the human weight. This was an easy matter to the Highlanders, who wore
+thin-soled brogues fit for the purpose, and moved with a peculiar
+springing step; but Edward began to find the exercise, to which he was
+unaccustomed, more fatiguing than he expected. The lingering twilight
+served to show them through this Serbonian bog, but deserted them
+almost totally at the bottom of a steep and very stony hill, which it
+was the travellers' next toilsome task to ascend. The night, however,
+was pleasant, and not dark; and Waverley, calling up mental energy to
+support personal fatigue, held on his march gallantly, though envying
+in his heart his Highland attendants, who continued, without a symptom
+of abated vigour, the rapid and swinging pace, or rather trot, which,
+according to his computation, had already brought them fifteen miles
+upon their journey.
+
+After crossing this mountain and descending on the other side towards a
+thick wood, Evan Dhu held some conference with his Highland attendants,
+in consequence of which Edward's baggage was shifted from the shoulders
+of the gamekeeper to those of one of the gillies, and the former was
+sent off with the other mountaineer in a direction different from that
+of the three remaining travellers. On asking the meaning of this
+separation, Waverley was told that the Lowlander must go to a hamlet
+about three miles off for the night; for unless it was some very
+particular friend, Donald Bean Lean, the worthy person whom they
+supposed to be possessed of the cattle, did not much approve of
+strangers approaching his retreat. This seemed reasonable, and silenced
+a qualm of suspicion which came across Edward's mind when he saw
+himself, at such a place and such an hour, deprived of his only Lowland
+companion. And Evan immediately afterwards added,'that indeed he
+himself had better get forward, and announce their approach to Donald
+Bean Lean, as the arrival of a sidier roy (red soldier) might otherwise
+be a disagreeable surprise.' And without waiting for an answer, in
+jockey phrase, he trotted out, and putting himself to a very round
+pace, was out of sight in an instant.
+
+Waverley was now left to his own meditations, for his attendant with
+the battle-axe spoke very little English. They were traversing a thick,
+and, as it seemed, an endless wood of pines, and consequently the path
+was altogether indiscernible in the murky darkness which surrounded
+them. The Highlander, however, seemed to trace it by instinct, without
+the hesitation of a moment, and Edward followed his footsteps as close
+as he could.
+
+After journeying a considerable time in silence, he could not help
+asking, 'Was it far to the end of their journey?'
+
+'Ta cove was tree, four mile; but as duinhe-wassel was a wee taiglit,
+Donald could, tat is, might--would--should send ta curragh.'
+
+This conveyed no information. The curragh which was promised might be a
+man, a horse, a cart, or chaise; and no more could be got from the man
+with the battle-axe but a repetition of 'Aich ay! ta curragh.'
+
+But in a short time Edward began to conceive his meaning, when, issuing
+from the wood, he found himself on the banks of a large river or lake,
+where his conductor gave him to understand they must sit down for a
+little while. The moon, which now began to rise, showed obscurely the
+expanse of water which spread before them, and the shapeless and
+indistinct forms of mountains with which it seemed to be surrounded.
+The cool and yet mild air of the summer night refreshed Waverley after
+his rapid and toilsome walk; and the perfume which it wafted from the
+birch trees, [Footnote: It is not the weeping birch, the most common
+species in the Highlands, but the woolly-leaved Lowland birch, that is
+distinguished by this fragrance.] bathed in the evening dew, was
+exquisitely fragrant.
+
+He had now time to give himself up to the full romance of his
+situation. Here he sate on the banks of an unknown lake, under the
+guidance of a wild native, whose language was unknown to him, on a
+visit to the den of some renowned outlaw, a second Robin Hood, perhaps,
+or Adam o' Gordon, and that at deep midnight, through scenes of
+difficulty and toil, separated from his attendant, left by his guide.
+What a variety of incidents for the exercise of a romantic imagination,
+and all enhanced by the solemn feeling of uncertainty at least, if not
+of danger! The only circumstance which assorted ill with the rest was
+the cause of his journey--the Baron's milk-cows! this degrading
+incident he kept in the background.
+
+While wrapt in these dreams of imagination, his companion gently
+touched him, and, pointing in a direction nearly straight across the
+lake, said, 'Yon's ta cove.' A small point of light was seen to twinkle
+in the direction in which he pointed, and, gradually increasing in size
+and lustre, seemed to flicker like a meteor upon the verge of the
+horizon. While Edward watched this phenomenon, the distant dash of oars
+was heard. The measured sound approached near and more near, and
+presently a loud whistle was heard in the same direction. His friend
+with the battle-axe immediately whistled clear and shrill, in reply to
+the signal, and a boat, manned with four or five Highlanders, pushed
+for a little inlet, near which Edward was sitting. He advanced to meet
+them with his attendant, was immediately assisted into the boat by the
+officious attention of two stout mountaineers, and had no sooner seated
+himself than they resumed their oars, and began to row across the lake
+with great rapidity.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVII
+
+THE HOLD OF A HIGHLAND ROBBER
+
+
+The party preserved silence, interrupted only by the monotonous and
+murmured chant of a Gaelic song, sung in a kind of low recitative by
+the steersman, and by the dash of the oars, which the notes seemed to
+regulate, as they dipped to them in cadence. The light, which they now
+approached more nearly, assumed a broader, redder and more irregular
+splendour. It appeared plainly to be a large fire, but whether kindled
+upon an island or the mainland Edward could not determine. As he saw
+it, the red glaring orb seemed to rest on the very surface of the lake
+itself, and resembled the fiery vehicle in which the Evil Genius of an
+Oriental tale traverses land and sea. They approached nearer, and the
+light of the fire sufficed to show that it was kindled at the bottom of
+a huge dark crag or rock, rising abruptly from the very edge of the
+water; its front, changed by the reflection to dusky red, formed a
+strange and even awful contrast to the banks around, which were from
+time to time faintly and partially illuminated by pallid moonlight.
+
+The boat now neared the shore, and Edward could discover that this
+large fire, amply supplied with branches of pine-wood by two figures,
+who, in the red reflection of its light, appeared like demons, was
+kindled in the jaws of a lofty cavern, into which an inlet from the
+lake seemed to advance; and he conjectured, which was indeed true, that
+the fire had been lighted as a beacon to the boatmen on their return.
+They rowed right for the mouth of the cave, and then, shifting their
+oars, permitted the boat to enter in obedience to the impulse which it
+had received. The skiff passed the little point or platform of rock on
+which the fire was blazing, and running about two boats' lengths
+farther, stopped where the cavern (for it was already arched overhead)
+ascended from the water by five or six broad ledges of rock, so easy
+and regular that they might be termed natural steps. At this moment a
+quantity of water was suddenly flung upon the fire, which sunk with a
+hissing noise, and with it disappeared the light it had hitherto
+afforded. Four or five active arms lifted Waverley out of the boat,
+placed him on his feet, and almost carried him into the recesses of the
+cave. He made a few paces in darkness, guided in this manner; and
+advancing towards a hum of voices, which seemed to sound from the
+centre of the rock, at an acute turn Donald Bean Lean and his whole
+establishment were before his eyes.
+
+The interior of the cave, which here rose very high, was illuminated by
+torches made of pine-tree, which emitted a bright and bickering light,
+attended by a strong though not unpleasant odour. Their light was
+assisted by the red glare of a large charcoal fire, round which were
+seated five or six armed Highlanders, while others were indistinctly
+seen couched on their plaids in the more remote recesses of the cavern.
+In one large aperture, which the robber facetiously called his SPENCE
+(or pantry), there hung by the heels the carcasses of a sheep, or ewe,
+and two cows lately slaughtered. The principal inhabitant of this
+singular mansion, attended by Evan Dhu as master of the ceremonies,
+came forward to meet his guest, totally different in appearance and
+manner from what his imagination had anticipated. The profession which
+he followed, the wilderness in which he dwelt, the wild warrior forms
+that surrounded him, were all calculated to inspire terror. From such
+accompaniments, Waverley prepared himself to meet a stern, gigantic,
+ferocious figure, such as Salvator would have chosen to be the central
+object of a group of banditti. [Footnote: See Note 15.]
+
+Donald Bean Lean was the very reverse of all these. He was thin in
+person and low in stature, with light sandy-coloured hair, and small
+pale features, from which he derived his agnomen of BEAN or white; and
+although his form was light, well proportioned and active, he appeared,
+on the whole, rather a diminutive and insignificant figure. He had
+served in some inferior capacity in the French army, and in order to
+receive his English visitor in great form, and probably meaning, in his
+way, to pay him a compliment, he had laid aside the Highland dress for
+the time, to put on an old blue and red uniform and a feathered hat, in
+which he was far from showing to advantage, and indeed looked so
+incongruous, compared with all around him, that Waverley would have
+been tempted to laugh, had laughter been either civil or safe. The
+robber received Captain Waverley with a profusion of French politeness
+and Scottish hospitality, seemed perfectly to know his name and
+connections, and to be particularly acquainted with his uncle's
+political principles. On these he bestowed great applause, to which
+Waverley judged it prudent to make a very general reply.
+
+Being placed at a convenient distance from the charcoal fire, the heat
+of which the season rendered oppressive, a strapping Highland damsel
+placed before Waverley, Evan, and Donald Bean three cogues, or wooden
+vessels composed of staves and hoops, containing eanaruich, [Footnote:
+This was the regale presented by Rob Roy to the Laird of Tullibody.] a
+sort of strong soup, made out of a particular part of the inside of the
+beeves. After this refreshment, which, though coarse, fatigue and
+hunger rendered palatable, steaks, roasted on the coals, were supplied
+in liberal abundance, and disappeared before Evan Dhu and their host
+with a promptitude that seemed like magic, and astonished Waverley, who
+was much puzzled to reconcile their voracity with what he had heard of
+the abstemiousness of the Highlanders. He was ignorant that this
+abstinence was with the lower ranks wholly compulsory, and that, like
+some animals of prey, those who practise it were usually gifted with
+the power of indemnifying themselves to good purpose when chance threw
+plenty in their way. The whisky came forth in abundance to crown the
+cheer. The Highlanders drank it copiously and undiluted; but Edward,
+having mixed a little with water, did not find it so palatable as to
+invite him to repeat the draught. Their host bewailed himself
+exceedingly that he could offer him no wine: 'Had he but known
+four-and-twenty hours before, he would have had some, had it been
+within the circle of forty miles round him. But no gentleman could do
+more to show his sense of the honour of a visit from another than to
+offer him the best cheer his house afforded. Where there are no bushes
+there can be no nuts, and the way of those you live with is that you
+must follow,'
+
+He went on regretting to Evan Dhu the death of an aged man, Donnacha an
+Amrigh, or Duncan with the Cap, 'a gifted seer,' who foretold, through
+the second sight, visitors of every description who haunted their
+dwelling, whether as friends or foes.
+
+'Is not his son Malcolm taishatr (a second-sighted person)?' asked Evan.
+
+'Nothing equal to his father,' replied Donald Bean. 'He told us the
+other day, we were to see a great gentleman riding on a horse, and
+there came nobody that whole day but Shemus Beg, the blind harper, with
+his dog. Another time he advertised us of a wedding, and behold it
+proved a funeral; and on the creagh, when he foretold to us we should
+bring home a hundred head of horned cattle, we gripped nothing but a
+fat bailie of Perth.'
+
+From this discourse he passed to the political and military state of
+the country; and Waverley was astonished, and even alarmed, to find a
+person of this description so accurately acquainted with the strength
+of the various garrisons and regiments quartered north of the Tay. He
+even mentioned the exact number of recruits who had joined Waverley's
+troop from his uncle's estate, and observed they were PRETTY MEN,
+meaning, not handsome, but stout warlike fellows. He put Waverley in
+mind of one or two minute circumstances which had happened at a general
+review of the regiment, which satisfied him that the robber had been an
+eye-witness of it; and Evan Dhu having by this time retired from the
+conversation, and wrapped himself up in his plaid to take some repose,
+Donald asked Edward, in a very significant manner, whether he had
+nothing particular to say to him.
+
+Waverley, surprised and somewhat startled at this question from such a
+character, answered, he had no motive in visiting him but curiosity to
+see his extraordinary place of residence. Donald Bean Lean looked him
+steadily in the face for an instant, and then said, with a significant
+nod, 'You might as well have confided in me; I am as much worthy of
+trust as either the Baron of Bradwardine or Vich Ian Vohr. But you are
+equally welcome to my house.'
+
+Waverley felt an involuntary shudder creep over him at the mysterious
+language held by this outlawed and lawless bandit, which, in despite of
+his attempts to master it, deprived him of the power to ask the meaning
+of his insinuations. A heath pallet, with the flowers stuck uppermost,
+had been prepared for him in a recess of the cave, and here, covered
+with such spare plaids as could be mustered, he lay for some time
+watching the motions of the other inhabitants of the cavern. Small
+parties of two or three entered or left the place, without any other
+ceremony than a few words in Gaelic to the principal outlaw, and, when
+he fell asleep, to a tall Highlander who acted as his lieutenant, and
+seemed to keep watch during his repose. Those who entered seemed to
+have returned from some excursion, of which they reported the success,
+and went without farther ceremony to the larder, where, cutting with
+their dirks their rations from the carcasses which were there
+suspended, they proceeded to broil and eat them at their own pleasure
+and leisure. The liquor was under strict regulation, being served out
+either by Donald himself, his lieutenant, or the strapping Highland
+girl aforesaid, who was the only female that appeared. The allowance of
+whisky, however, would have appeared prodigal to any but Highlanders,
+who, living entirely in the open air and in a very moist climate, can
+consume great quantities of ardent spirits without the usual baneful
+effects either upon the brain or constitution.
+
+At length the fluctuating groups began to swim before the eyes of our
+hero as they gradually closed; nor did he re-open them till the morning
+sun was high on the lake without, though there was but a faint and
+glimmering twilight in the recesses of Uaimh an Ri, or the King's
+Cavern, as the abode of Donald Bean Lean was proudly denominated.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVIII
+
+WAVERLEY PROCEEDS ON HIS JOURNEY
+
+
+When Edward had collected his scattered recollection, he was surprised
+to observe the cavern totally deserted. Having arisen and put his dress
+in some order, he looked more accurately round him; but all was still
+solitary. If it had not been for the decayed brands of the fire, now
+sunk into grey ashes, and the remnants of the festival, consisting of
+bones half burnt and half gnawed, and an empty keg or two, there
+remained no traces of Donald and his band. When Waverley sallied forth
+to the entrance of the cave, he perceived that the point of rock, on
+which remained the marks of last night's beacon, was accessible by a
+small path, either natural or roughly hewn in the rock, along the
+little inlet of water which ran a few yards up into the cavern, where,
+as in a wetdock, the skiff which brought him there the night before was
+still lying moored. When he reached the small projecting platform on
+which the beacon had been established, he would have believed his
+further progress by land impossible, only that it was scarce probable
+but what the inhabitants of the cavern had some mode of issuing from it
+otherwise than by the lake. Accordingly, he soon observed three or four
+shelving steps, or ledges of rock, at the very extremity of the little
+platform; and, making use of them as a staircase, he clambered by their
+means around the projecting shoulder of the crag on which the cavern
+opened, and, descending with some difficulty on the other side, he
+gained the wild and precipitous shores of a Highland loch, about four
+miles in length and a mile and a half across, surrounded by heathy and
+savage mountains, on the crests of which the morning mist was still
+sleeping.
+
+Looking back to the place from which he came, he could not help
+admiring the address which had adopted a retreat of such seclusion and
+secrecy. The rock, round the shoulder of which he had turned by a few
+imperceptible notches, that barely afforded place for the foot, seemed,
+in looking back upon it, a huge precipice, which barred all further
+passage by the shores of the lake in that direction. There could be no
+possibility, the breadth of the lake considered, of descrying the
+entrance of the narrow and low-browed cave from the other side; so
+that, unless the retreat had been sought for with boats, or disclosed
+by treachery, it might be a safe and secret residence to its garrison
+as long as they were supplied with provisions. Having satisfied his
+curiosity in these particulars, Waverley looked around for Evan Dhu and
+his attendants, who, he rightly judged, would be at no great distance,
+whatever might have become of Donald Bean Lean and his party, whose
+mode of life was, of course, liable to sudden migrations of abode.
+Accordingly, at the distance of about half a mile, he beheld a
+Highlander (Evan apparently) angling in the lake, with another
+attending him, whom, from the weapon which he shouldered, he recognised
+for his friend with the battle-axe.
+
+Much nearer to the mouth of the cave he heard the notes of a lively
+Gaelic song, guided by which, in a sunny recess, shaded by a glittering
+birch-tree, and carpeted with a bank of firm white sand, he found the
+damsel of the cavern, whose lay had already reached him, busy, to the
+best of her power, in arranging to advantage a morning repast of milk,
+eggs, barley-bread, fresh butter, and honey-comb. The poor girl had
+already made a circuit of four miles that morning in search of the
+eggs, of the meal which baked her cakes, and of the other materials of
+the breakfast, being all delicacies which she had to beg or borrow from
+distant cottagers. The followers of Donald Bean Lean used little food
+except the flesh of the animals which they drove away from the
+Lowlands; bread itself was a delicacy seldom thought of, because hard
+to be obtained, and all the domestic accommodations of milk, poultry,
+butter, etc., were out of the question in this Scythian camp. Yet it
+must not be omitted that, although Alice had occupied a part of the
+morning in providing those accommodations for her guest which the
+cavern did not afford, she had secured time also to arrange her own
+person in her best trim. Her finery was very simple. A short
+russet-coloured jacket and a petticoat of scanty longitude was her
+whole dress; but these were clean, and neatly arranged. A piece of
+scarlet embroidered cloth, called the snood, confined her hair, which
+fell over it in a profusion of rich dark curls. The scarlet plaid,
+which formed part of her dress, was laid aside, that it might not
+impede her activity in attending the stranger. I should forget Alice's
+proudest ornament were I to omit mentioning a pair of gold ear-rings
+and a, golden rosary, which her father (for she was the daughter of
+Donald Bean Lean) had brought from France, the plunder, probably, of
+some battle or storm.
+
+Her form, though rather large for her years, was very well
+proportioned, and her demeanour had a natural and rustic grace, with
+nothing of the sheepishness of an ordinary peasant. The smiles,
+displaying a row of teeth of exquisite whiteness, and the laughing
+eyes, with which, in dumb show, she gave Waverley that morning greeting
+which she wanted English words to express, might have been interpreted
+by a coxcomb, or perhaps by a young soldier who, without being such,
+was conscious of a handsome person, as meant to convey more than the
+courtesy of an hostess. Nor do I take it upon me to say that the little
+wild mountaineer would have welcomed any staid old gentleman advanced
+in life, the Baron of Bradwardine, for example, with the cheerful pains
+which she bestowed upon Edward's accommodation. She seemed eager to
+place him by the meal which she had so sedulously arranged, and to
+which she now added a few bunches of cranberries, gathered in an
+adjacent morass. Having had the satisfaction of seeing him seated at
+his breakfast, she placed herself demurely upon a stone at a few yards'
+distance, and appeared to watch with great complacency for some
+opportunity of serving him.
+
+Evan and his attendant now returned slowly along the beach, the latter
+bearing a large salmon-trout, the produce of the morning's sport,
+together with the angling-rod, while Evan strolled forward, with an
+easy, self-satisfied, and important gait, towards the spot where
+Waverley was so agreeably employed at the breakfast-table. After
+morning greetings had passed on both sides, and Evan, looking at
+Waverley, had said something in Gaelic to Alice, which made her laugh,
+yet colour up to her eyes, through a complexion well en-browned by sun
+and wind, Evan intimated his commands that the fish should be prepared
+for breakfast. A spark from the lock of his pistol produced a light,
+and a few withered fir branches were quickly in flame, and as speedily
+reduced to hot embers, on which the trout was broiled in large slices.
+To crown the repast, Evan produced from the pocket of his short jerkin
+a large scallop shell, and from under the folds of his plaid a ram's
+horn full of whisky. Of this he took a copious dram, observing he had
+already taken his MORNING with Donald Bean Lean before his departure;
+he offered the same cordial to Alice and to Edward, which they both
+declined. With the bounteous air of a lord, Evan then proffered the
+scallop to Dugald Mahony, his attendant, who, without waiting to be
+asked a second time, drank it off with great gusto. Evan then prepared
+to move towards the boat, inviting Waverley to attend him. Meanwhile,
+Alice had made up in a small basket what she thought worth removing,
+and flinging her plaid around her, she advanced up to Edward, and with
+the utmost simplicity, taking hold of his hand, offered her cheek to
+his salute, dropping at the same time her little curtsy. Evan, who was
+esteemed a wag among the mountain fair, advanced as if to secure a
+similar favour; but Alice, snatching up her basket, escaped up the
+rocky bank as fleetly as a roe, and, turning round and laughing, called
+something out to him in Gaelic, which he answered in the same tone and
+language; then, waving her hand to Edward, she resumed her road, and
+was soon lost among the thickets, though they continued for some time
+to hear her lively carol, as she proceeded gaily on her solitary
+journey.
+
+They now again entered the gorge of the cavern, and stepping into the
+boat, the Highlander pushed off, and, taking advantage of the morning
+breeze, hoisted a clumsy sort of sail, while Evan assumed the helm,
+directing their course, as it appeared to Waverley, rather higher up
+the lake than towards the place of his embarkation on the preceding
+night. As they glided along the silver mirror, Evan opened the
+conversation with a panegyric upon Alice, who, he said, was both CANNY
+and FENDY; and was, to the boot of all that, the best dancer of a
+strathspey in the whole strath. Edward assented to her praises so far
+as he understood them, yet could not help regretting that she was
+condemned to such a perilous and dismal life.
+
+'Oich! for that,' said Evan, 'there is nothing in Perthshire that she
+need want, if she ask her father to fetch it, unless it be too hot or
+too heavy.'
+
+'But to be the daughter of a cattle-stealer--a common thief!' 'Common
+thief!--no such thing: Donald Bean Lean never LIFTED less than a drove
+in his life.'
+
+'Do you call him an uncommon thief, then?'
+
+'No; he that steals a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cotter,
+is a thief; he that lifts a drove from a Sassenach laird is a
+gentleman-drover. And, besides, to take a tree from the forest, a
+salmon from the river, a deer from the hill, or a cow from a Lowland
+strath, is what no Highlander need ever think shame upon.'
+
+'But what can this end in, were he taken in such an appropriation?'
+
+'To be sure he would DIE FOR THE LAW, as many a pretty man has done
+before him.'
+
+'Die for the law!'
+
+'Ay; that is, with the law, or by the law; be strapped up on the KIND
+gallows of Crieff, [Footnote: See Note 16.] where his father died, and
+his goodsire died, and where I hope he'll live to die himsell, if he's
+not shot, or slashed, in a creagh.'
+
+'You HOPE such a death for your friend, Evan?'
+
+'And that do I e'en; would you have me wish him to die on a bundle of
+wet straw in yon den of his, like a mangy tyke?'
+
+'But what becomes of Alice, then?'
+
+'Troth, if such an accident were to happen, as her father would not
+need her help ony langer, I ken nought to hinder me to marry her
+mysell.'
+
+'Gallantly resolved,' said Edward; 'but, in the meanwhile, Evan, what
+has your father-in-law (that shall be, if he have the good fortune to
+be hanged) done with the Baron's cattle?'
+
+'Oich,' answered Evan,'they were all trudging before your lad and Allan
+Kennedy before the sun blinked ower Ben Lawers this morning; and
+they'll be in the pass of Bally-Brough by this time, in their way back
+to the parks of Tully-Veolan, all but two, that were unhappily
+slaughtered before I got last night to Uaimh an Ri.'
+
+'And where are we going, Evan, if I may be so bold as to ask?' said
+Waverley.
+
+'Where would you be ganging, but to the Laird's ain house of
+Glennaquoich? Ye would not think to be in his country, without ganging
+to see him? It would be as much as a man's life's worth.'
+
+'And are we far from Glennaquoich?'
+
+'But five bits of miles; and Vich Ian Vohr will meet us.'
+
+In about half an hour they reached the upper end of the lake, where,
+after landing Waverley, the two Highanders drew the boat into a little
+creek among thick flags and reeds, where it lay perfectly concealed.
+The oars they put in another place of concealment, both for the use of
+Donald Bean Lean probably, when his occasions should next bring him to
+that place.
+
+The travellers followed for some time a delightful opening into the
+hills, down which a little brook found its way to the lake. When they
+had pursued their walk a short distance, Waverley renewed his questions
+about their host of the cavern.
+
+'Does he always reside in that cave?'
+
+'Out, no! it's past the skill of man to tell where he's to be found at
+a' times; there's not a dern nook, or cove, or corrie, in the whole
+country that he's not acquainted with.'
+
+'And do others beside your master shelter him?'
+
+'My master? MY master is in Heaven,' answered Evan, haughtily; and then
+immediately assuming his usual civility of manner, 'but you mean my
+Chief;--no, he does not shelter Donald Bean Lean, nor any that are like
+him; he only allows him (with a smile) wood and water.'
+
+'No great boon, I should think, Evan, when both seem to be very plenty.'
+
+'Ah! but ye dinna see through it. When I say wood and water, I mean the
+loch and the land; and I fancy Donald would be put till 't if the Laird
+were to look for him wi' threescore men in the wood of Kailychat
+yonder; and if our boats, with a score or twa mair, were to come down
+the loch to Uaimh an Ri, headed by mysell, or ony other pretty man.'
+
+'But suppose a strong party came against him from the Low Country,
+would not your Chief defend him?'
+
+'Na, he would not ware the spark of a flint for him--if they came with
+the law.'
+
+'And what must Donald do, then?'
+
+'He behoved to rid this country of himsell, and fall back, it may be,
+over the mount upon Letter Scriven.'
+
+'And if he were pursued to that place?'
+
+'I'se warrant he would go to his cousin's at Rannoch.'
+
+'Well, but if they followed him to Rannoch?'
+
+'That,' quoth Evan, 'is beyond all belief; and, indeed, to tell you the
+truth, there durst not a Lowlander in all Scotland follow the fray a
+gun-shot beyond Bally-Brough, unless he had the help of the Sidier Dhu.'
+
+'Whom do you call so?'
+
+'The Sidier Dhu? the black soldier; that is what they call the
+independent companies that were raised to keep peace and law in the
+Highlands. Vich Ian Vohr commanded one of them for five years, and I
+was sergeant mysell, I shall warrant ye. They call them Sidier Dhu
+because they wear the tartans, as they call your men--King George's
+men--Sidier Roy, or red soldiers.'
+
+'Well, but when you were in King George's pay, Evan, you were surely
+King George's soldiers?'
+
+'Troth, and you must ask Vich Ian Vohr about that; for we are for his
+king, and care not much which o' them it is. At ony rate, nobody can
+say we are King George's men now, when we have not seen his pay this
+twelve-month.'
+
+This last argument admitted of no reply, nor did Edward attempt any; he
+rather chose to bring back the discourse to Donald Bean Lean. 'Does
+Donald confine himself to cattle, or does he LIFT, as you call it,
+anything else that comes in his way?'
+
+'Troth, he's nae nice body, and he'll just tak onything, but most
+readily cattle, horse, or live Christians; for sheep are slow of
+travel, and inside plenishing is cumbrous to carry, and not easy to put
+away for siller in this country.'
+
+'But does he carry off men and women?'
+
+'Out, ay. Did not ye hear him speak o' the Perth bailie? It cost that
+body five hundred merks ere he got to the south of Bally-Brough. And
+ance Donald played a pretty sport. [Footnote: See Note 17.] There was
+to be a blythe bridal between the Lady Cramfeezer, in the howe o' the
+Mearns (she was the auld laird's widow, and no sae young as she had
+been hersell), and young Gilliewhackit, who had spent his heirship and
+movables, like a gentleman, at cock-matches, bull-baitings,
+horse-races, and the like. Now, Donald Bean Lean, being aware that the
+bridegroom was in request, and wanting to cleik the cunzie (that is, to
+hook the siller), he cannily carried off Gilliewhackit ae night when he
+was riding dovering hame (wi' the malt rather abune the meal), and with
+the help of his gillies he gat him into the hills with the speed of
+light, and the first place he wakened in was the cove of Uaimh an Ri.
+So there was old to do about ransoming the bridegroom; for Donald would
+not lower a farthing of a thousand punds--'
+
+'The devil!'
+
+'Punds Scottish, ye shall understand. And the lady had not the siller
+if she had pawned her gown; and they applied to the governor o'
+Stirling castle, and to the major o' the Black Watch; and the governor
+said it was ower far to the northward, and out of his district; and the
+major said his men were gane hame to the shearing, and he would not
+call them out before the victual was got in for all the Cramfeezers in
+Christendom, let alane the Mearns, for that it would prejudice the
+country. And in the meanwhile ye'll no hinder Gilliewhackit to take the
+small-pox. There was not the doctor in Perth or Stirling would look
+near the poor lad; and I cannot blame them, for Donald had been
+misguggled by ane of these doctors about Paris, and he swore he would
+fling the first into the loch that he catched beyond the pass. However
+some cailliachs (that is, old women) that were about Donald's hand
+nursed Gilliewhackit sae weel that, between the free open air in the
+cove and the fresh whey, deil an he did not recover maybe as weel as if
+he had been closed in a glazed chamber and a bed with curtains, and fed
+with red wine and white meat. And Donald was sae vexed about it that,
+when he was stout and weel, he even sent him free home, and said he
+would be pleased with onything they would like to gie him for the
+plague and trouble which he had about Gilliewhackit to an unkenn'd
+degree. And I cannot tell you precisely how they sorted; but they
+agreed sae right that Donald was invited to dance at the wedding in his
+Highland trews, and they said that there was never sae meikle siller
+clinked in his purse either before or since. And to the boot of all
+that, Gilliewhackit said that, be the evidence what it liked, if he had
+the luck to be on Donald's inquest, he would bring him in guilty of
+nothing whatever, unless it were wilful arson or murder under trust.'
+
+With such bald and disjointed chat Evan went on illustrating the
+existing state of the Highlands, more perhaps to the amusement of
+Waverley than that of our readers. At length, after having marched over
+bank and brae, moss and heather, Edward, though not unacquainted with
+the Scottish liberality in computing distance, began to think that
+Evan's five miles were nearly doubled. His observation on the large
+measure which the Scottish allowed of their land, in comparison to the
+computation of their money, was readily answered by Evan with the old
+jest, 'The deil take them wha have the least pint stoup.'
+
+[Footnote: The Scotch are liberal in computing their land and liquor;
+the Scottish pint corresponds to two English quarts. As for their coin,
+every one knows the couplet--
+
+         How can the rogues pretend to sense?
+         Their pound is only twenty pence.]
+
+And now the report of a gun was heard, and a sportsman was seen, with
+his dogs and attendant, at the upper end of the glen. 'Shough,' said
+Dugald Mahony, 'tat's ta Chief.'
+
+'It is not,' said Evan, imperiously. 'Do you think he would come to
+meet a Sassenach duinhe-wassel in such a way as that?'
+
+But as they approached a little nearer, he said, with an appearance of
+mortification, 'And it is even he, sure enough; and he has not his tail
+on after all; there is no living creature with him but Callum Beg.'
+
+In fact, Fergus Mac-Ivor, of whom a Frenchman might have said as truly
+as of any man in the Highlands, 'Qu'il connoit bien ses gens' had no
+idea of raising himself in the eyes of an English young man of fortune
+by appearing with a retinue of idle Highlanders disproportioned to the
+occasion. He was well aware that such an unnecessary attendance would
+seem to Edward rather ludicrous than respectable; and, while few men
+were more attached to ideas of chieftainship and feudal power, he was,
+for that very reason, cautious of exhibiting external marks of dignity,
+unless at the time and in the manner when they were most likely to
+produce an imposing effect. Therefore, although, had he been to receive
+a brother chieftain, he would probably have been attended by all that
+retinue which Evan described with so much unction, he judged it more
+respectable to advance to meet Waverley with a single attendant, a very
+handsome Highland boy, who carried his master's shooting-pouch and his
+broadsword, without which he seldom went abroad.
+
+When Fergus and Waverley met, the latter was struck with the peculiar
+grace and dignity of the Chieftain's figure. Above the middle size and
+finely proportioned, the Highland dress, which he wore in its simplest
+mode, set off his person to great advantage. He wore the trews, or
+close trowsers, made of tartan, chequed scarlet and white; in other
+particulars his dress strictly resembled Evan's, excepting that he had
+no weapon save a dirk, very richly mounted with silver. His page, as we
+have said, carried his claymore; and the fowling-piece, which he held
+in his hand, seemed only designed for sport. He had shot in the course
+of his walk some young wild-ducks, as, though CLOSE TIME was then
+unknown, the broods of grouse were yet too young for the sportsman. His
+countenance was decidedly Scottish, with all the peculiarities of the
+northern physiognomy, but yet had so little of its harshness and
+exaggeration that it would have been pronounced in any country
+extremely handsome. The martial air of the bonnet, with a single
+eagle's feather as a distinction, added much to the manly appearance of
+his head, which was besides ornamented with a far more natural and
+graceful cluster of close black curls than ever were exposed to sale in
+Bond Street.
+
+An air of openness and affability increased the favorable impression
+derived from this handsome and dignified exterior. Yet a skilful
+physiognomist would have been less satisfied with the countenance on
+the second than on the first view. The eyebrow and upper lip bespoke
+something of the habit of peremptory command and decisive superiority.
+Even his courtesy, though open, frank, and unconstrained, seemed to
+indicate a sense of personal importance; and, upon any check or
+accidental excitation, a sudden, though transient lour of the eye
+showed a hasty, haughty, and vindictive temper, not less to be dreaded
+because it seemed much under its owner's command. In short, the
+countenance of the Chieftain resembled a smiling summer's day, in
+which, notwithstanding, we are made sensible by certain, though slight
+signs that it may thunder and lighten before the close of evening.
+
+It was not, however, upon their first meeting that Edward had an
+opportunity of making these less favourable remarks. The Chief received
+him as a friend of the Baron of Bradwardine, with the utmost expression
+of kindness and obligation for the visit; upbraided him gently with
+choosing so rude an abode as he had done the night before; and entered
+into a lively conversation with him about Donald Bean's housekeeping,
+but without the least hint as to his predatory habits, or the immediate
+occasion of Waverley's visit, a topic which, as the Chief did not
+introduce it, our hero also avoided. While they walked merrily on
+towards the house of Glennaquoich, Evan, who now fell respectfully into
+the rear, followed with Callum Beg and Dugald Mahony.
+
+We shall take the opportunity to introduce the reader to some
+particulars of Fergus Mac-Ivor's character and history, which were not
+completely known to Waverley till after a connection which, though
+arising from a circumstance so casual, had for a length of time the
+deepest influence upon his character, actions, and prospects. But this,
+being an important subject, must form the commencement of a new chapter.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIX
+
+THE CHIEF AND HIS MANSION
+
+
+The ingenious licentiate Francisco de Ubeda, when he commenced his
+history of 'La Picara Justina Diez,'--which, by the way, is one of the
+most rare books of Spanish literature,--complained of his pen having
+caught up a hair, and forthwith begins, with more eloquence than common
+sense, an affectionate expostulation with that useful implement,
+upbraiding it with being the quill of a goose,--a bird inconstant by
+nature, as frequenting the three elements of water, earth, and air
+indifferently, and being, of course, 'to one thing constant never.' Now
+I protest to thee, gentle reader, that I entirely dissent from
+Francisco de Ubeda in this matter, and hold it the most useful quality
+of my pen, that it can speedily change from grave to gay, and from
+description and dialogue to narrative and character. So that if my
+quill display no other properties of its mother-goose than her
+mutability, truly I shall be well pleased; and I conceive that you, my
+worthy friend, will have no occasion for discontent. From the jargon,
+therefore, of the Highland gillies I pass to the character of their
+Chief. It is an important examination, and therefore, like Dogberry, we
+must spare no wisdom.
+
+The ancestor of Fergus Mac-Ivor, about three centuries before, had set
+up a claim to be recognised as chief of the numerous and powerful clan
+to which he belonged, the name of which it is unnecessary to mention.
+Being defeated by an opponent who had more justice, or at least more
+force, on his side, he moved southwards, with those who adhered to him,
+in quest of new settlements, like a second AEneas. The state of the
+Perthshire Highlands favoured his purpose. A great baron in that
+country had lately become traitor to the crown; Ian, which was the name
+of our adventurer, united himself with those who were commissioned by
+the king to chastise him, and did such good service that he obtained a
+grant of the property, upon which he and his posterity afterwards
+resided. He followed the king also in war to the fertile regions of
+England, where he employed his leisure hours so actively in raising
+subsidies among the boors of Northumberland and Durham, that upon his
+return he was enabled to erect a stone tower, or fortalice, so much
+admired by his dependants and neighbours that he, who had hitherto been
+called Ian Mac-Ivor, or John the son of Ivor, was thereafter
+distinguished, both in song and genealogy, by the high title of Ian nan
+Chaistel, or John of the Tower. The descendants of this worthy were so
+proud of him that the reigning chief always bore the patronymic title
+of Vich Ian Vohr, i.e. the son of John the Great; while the clan at
+large, to distinguish them from that from which they had seceded, were
+denominated Sliochd nan Ivor, the race of Ivor.
+
+The father of Fergus, the tenth in direct descent from John of the
+Tower, engaged heart and hand in the insurrection of 1715, and was
+forced to fly to France, after the attempt of that year in favour of
+the Stuarts had proved unsuccessful. More fortunate than other
+fugitives, he obtained employment in the French service, and married a
+lady of rank in that kingdom, by whom he had two children, Fergus and
+his sister Flora. The Scottish estate had been forfeited and exposed to
+sale, but was repurchased for a small price in the name of the young
+proprietor, who in consequence came to reside upon his native domains.
+[Footnote: See Note 18.] It was soon perceived that he possessed a
+character of uncommon acuteness, fire, and ambition, which, as he
+became acquainted with the state of the country, gradually assumed a
+mixed and peculiar tone, that could only have been acquired Sixty Years
+Since.
+
+Had Fergus Mac-Ivor lived Sixty Years sooner than he did, he would in
+all probability have wanted the polished manner and knowledge of the
+world which he now possessed; and had he lived Sixty Years later, his
+ambition and love of rule would have lacked the fuel which his
+situation now afforded. He was indeed, within his little circle, as
+perfect a politician as Castruccio Castracani himself. He applied
+himself with great earnestness to appease all the feuds and dissensions
+which often arose among other clans in his neighbourhood, so that he
+became a frequent umpire in their quarrels. His own patriarchal power
+he strengthened at every expense which his fortune would permit, and
+indeed stretched his means to the uttermost to maintain the rude and
+plentiful hospitality which was the most valued attribute of a
+chieftain. For the same reason he crowded his estate with a tenantry,
+hardy indeed, and fit for the purposes of war, but greatly outnumbering
+what the soil was calculated to maintain. These consisted chiefly of
+his own clan, not one of whom he suffered to quit his lands if he could
+possibly prevent it. But he maintained, besides, many adventurers from
+the mother sept, who deserted a less warlike, though more wealthy chief
+to do homage to Fergus Mac-Ivor. Other individuals, too, who had not
+even that apology, were nevertheless received into his allegiance,
+which indeed was refused to none who were, like Poins, proper men of
+their hands, and were willing to assume the name of Mac-Ivor.
+
+He was enabled to discipline these forces, from having obtained command
+of one of the independent companies raised by government to preserve
+the peace of the Highlands. While in this capacity he acted with vigour
+and spirit, and preserved great order in the country under his charge.
+He caused his vassals to enter by rotation into his company, and serve
+for a certain space of time, which gave them all in turn a general
+notion of military discipline. In his campaigns against the banditti,
+it was observed that he assumed and exercised to the utmost the
+discretionary power which, while the law had no free course in the
+Highlands, was conceived to belong to the military parties who were
+called in to support it. He acted, for example, with great and
+suspicious lenity to those freebooters who made restitution on his
+summons and offered personal submission to himself, while he rigorously
+pursued, apprehended, and sacrificed to justice all such interlopers as
+dared to despise his admonitions or commands. On the other hand, if any
+officers of justice, military parties, or others, presumed to pursue
+thieves or marauders through his territories, and without applying for
+his consent and concurrence, nothing was more certain than that they
+would meet with some notable foil or defeat; upon which occasions
+Fergus Mac-Ivor was the first to condole with them, and after gently
+blaming their rashness, never failed deeply to lament the lawless state
+of the country. These lamentations did not exclude suspicion, and
+matters were so represented to government that our Chieftain was
+deprived of his military command. [Footnote: See Note 19.]
+
+Whatever Fergus Mac-Ivor felt on this occasion, he had the art of
+entirely suppressing every appearance of discontent; but in a short
+time the neighbouring country began to feel bad effects from his
+disgrace. Donald Bean Lean, and others of his class, whose depredations
+had hitherto been confined to other districts, appeared from
+thenceforward to have made a settlement on this devoted border; and
+their ravages were carried on with little opposition, as the Lowland
+gentry were chiefly Jacobites, and disarmed. This forced many of the
+inhabitants into contracts of black-mail with Fergus Mac-Ivor, which
+not only established him their protector, and gave him great weight in
+all their consultations, but, moreover, supplied funds for the waste of
+his feudal hospitality, which the discontinuance of his pay might have
+otherwise essentially diminished.
+
+In following this course of conduct, Fergus had a further object than
+merely being the great man of his neighbourhood, and ruling
+despotically over a small clan. From his infancy upward he had devoted
+himself to the cause of the exiled family, and had persuaded himself,
+not only that their restoration to the crown of Britain would be
+speedy, but that those who assisted them would be raised to honour and
+rank. It was with this view that he laboured to reconcile the
+Highlanders among themselves, and augmented his own force to the
+utmost, to be prepared for the first favourable opportunity of rising.
+With this purpose also he conciliated the favour of such Lowland
+gentlemen in the vicinity as were friends to the good cause; and for
+the same reason, having incautiously quarrelled with Mr. Bradwardine,
+who, notwithstanding his peculiarities, was much respected in the
+country, he took advantage of the foray of Donald Bean Lean to solder
+up the dispute in the manner we have mentioned. Some, indeed, surmised
+that he caused the enterprise to be suggested to Donald, on purpose to
+pave the way to a reconciliation, which, supposing that to be the case,
+cost the Laird of Bradwardine two good milch cows. This zeal in their
+behalf the House of Stuart repaid with a considerable share of their
+confidence, an occasional supply of louis-d'or, abundance of fair
+words, and a parchment, with a huge waxen seal appended, purporting to
+be an earl's patent, granted by no less a person than James the Third
+King of England, and Eighth King of Scotland, to his right feal,
+trusty, and well-beloved Fergus Mac-Ivor of Glennaquoich, in the county
+of Perth, and kingdom of Scotland.
+
+With this future coronet glittering before his eyes, Fergus plunged
+deeply into the correspondence and plots of that unhappy period; and,
+like all such active agents, easily reconciled his conscience to going
+certain lengths in the service of his party, from which honour and
+pride would have deterred him had his sole object been the direct
+advancement of his own personal interest. With this insight into a
+bold, ambitious, and ardent, yet artful and politic character, we
+resume the broken thread of our narrative.
+
+The chief and his guest had by this time reached the house of
+Glennaquoich, which consisted of Ian nan Chaistel's mansion, a high
+rude-looking square tower, with the addition of a lofted house, that
+is, a building of two stories, constructed by Fergus's grandfather when
+he returned from that memorable expedition, well remembered by the
+western shires under the name of the Highland Host. Upon occasion of
+this crusade against the Ayrshire Whigs and Covenanters, the Vich Ian
+Vohr of the time had probably been as successful as his predecessor was
+in harrying Northumberland, and therefore left to his posterity a rival
+edifice as a monument of his magnificence.
+
+Around the house, which stood on an eminence in the midst of a narrow
+Highland valley, there appeared none of that attention to convenience,
+far less to ornament and decoration, which usually surrounds a
+gentleman's habitation. An inclosure or two, divided by dry-stone
+walls, were the only part of the domain that was fenced; as to the
+rest, the narrow slips of level ground which lay by the side of the
+brook exhibited a scanty crop of barley, liable to constant
+depredations from the herds of wild ponies and black cattle that grazed
+upon the adjacent hills. These ever and anon made an incursion upon the
+arable ground, which was repelled by the loud, uncouth, and dissonant
+shouts of half a dozen Highland swains, all running as if they had been
+mad, and every one hallooing a half-starved dog to the rescue of the
+forage. At a little distance up the glen was a small and stunted wood
+of birch; the hills were high and heathy, but without any variety of
+surface; so that the whole view was wild and desolate rather than grand
+and solitary. Yet, such as it was, no genuine descendant of Ian nan
+Chaistel would have changed the domain for Stow or Blenheim.
+
+There was a sight, however, before the gate, which perhaps would have
+afforded the first owner of Blenheim more pleasure than the finest view
+in the domain assigned to him by the gratitude of his country. This
+consisted of about a hundred Highlanders, in complete dress and arms;
+at sight of whom the Chieftain apologised to Waverley in a sort of
+negligent manner. 'He had forgot,' he said, 'that he had ordered a few
+of his clan out, for the purpose of seeing that they were in a fit
+condition to protect the country, and prevent such accidents as, he was
+sorry to learn, had befallen the Baron of Bradwardine. Before they were
+dismissed, perhaps Captain Waverley might choose to see them go through
+a part of their exercise.'
+
+Edward assented, and the men executed with agility and precision some
+of the ordinary military movements. They then practised individually at
+a mark, and showed extraordinary dexterity in the management of the
+pistol and firelock. They took aim, standing, sitting, leaning, or
+lying prostrate, as they were commanded, and always with effect upon
+the target. Next, they paired off for the broadsword exercise; and,
+having manifested their individual skill and dexterity, united in two
+bodies, and exhibited a sort of mock encounter, in which the charge,
+the rally, the flight, the pursuit, and all the current of a heady
+fight, were exhibited to the sound of the great war bagpipe.
+
+On a signal made by the Chief, the skirmish was ended. Matches were
+then made for running, wrestling, leaping, pitching the bar, and other
+sports, in which this feudal militia displayed incredible swiftness,
+strength, and agility; and accomplished the purpose which their
+Chieftain had at heart, by impressing on Waverley no light sense of
+their merit as soldiers, and of the power of him who commanded them by
+his nod. [Footnote: See Note 20.]
+
+'And what number of such gallant fellows have the happiness to call you
+leader?' asked Waverley.
+
+'In a good cause, and under a chieftain whom they loved, the race of
+Ivor have seldom taken the field under five hundred claymores. But you
+are aware, Captain Waverley, that the disarming act, passed about
+twenty years ago, prevents their being in the complete state of
+preparation as in former times; and I keep no more of my clan under
+arms than may defend my own or my friends' property, when the country
+is troubled with such men as your last night's landlord; and
+government, which has removed other means of defence, must connive at
+our protecting ourselves.'
+
+'But, with your force, you might soon destroy or put down such gangs as
+that of Donald Bean Lean.'
+
+'Yes, doubtless; and my reward would be a summons to deliver up to
+General Blakeney, at Stirling, the few broadswords they have left us;
+there were little policy in that, methinks. But come, captain, the
+sound of the pipes informs me that dinner is prepared. Let me have the
+honour to show you into my rude mansion.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XX
+
+A HIGHLAND FEAST
+
+
+Ere Waverley entered the banqueting hall, he was offered the
+patriarchal refreshment of a bath for the feet, which the sultry
+weather, and the morasses he had traversed, rendered highly acceptable.
+He was not, indeed, so luxuriously attended upon this occasion as the
+heroic travellers in the Odyssey; the task of ablution and abstersion
+being performed, not by a beautiful damsel, trained
+
+    To chafe the limb, and pour the fragrant oil,
+
+but by a smoke-dried skinny old Highland woman, who did not seem to
+think herself much honoured by the duty imposed upon her, but muttered
+between her teeth, 'Our fathers' herds did not feed so near together
+that I should do you this service.' A small donation, however, amply
+reconciled this ancient handmaiden to the supposed degradation; and, as
+Edward proceeded to the hall, she gave him her blessing in the Gaelic
+proverb, 'May the open hand be filled the fullest.'
+
+The hall, in which the feast was prepared, occupied all the first story
+of lan nan Chaistel's original erection, and a huge oaken table
+extended through its whole length. The apparatus for dinner was simple,
+even to rudeness, and the company numerous, even to crowding. At the
+head of the table was the Chief himself, with Edward, and two or three
+Highland visitors of neighbouring clans; the elders of his own tribe,
+wadsetters and tacksmen, as they were called, who occupied portions of
+his estate as mortgagers or lessees, sat next in rank; beneath them,
+their sons and nephews and foster-brethren; then the officers of the
+Chief's household, according to their order; and lowest of all, the
+tenants who actually cultivated the ground. Even beyond this long
+perspective, Edward might see upon the green, to which a huge pair of
+folding doors opened, a multitude of Highlanders of a yet inferior
+description, who, nevertheless, were considered as guests, and had
+their share both of the countenance of the entertainer and of the cheer
+of the day. In the distance, and fluctuating round this extreme verge
+of the banquet, was a changeful group of women, ragged boys and girls,
+beggars, young and old, large greyhounds, and terriers, and pointers,
+and curs of low degree; all of whom took some interest, more or less
+immediate, in the main action of the piece.
+
+This hospitality, apparently unbounded, had yet its line of economy.
+Some pains had been bestowed in dressing the dishes of fish, game,
+etc., which were at the upper end of the table, and immediately under
+the eye of the English stranger. Lower down stood immense clumsy joints
+of mutton and beef, which, but for the absence of pork, [Footnote: See
+Note 21.] abhorred in the Highlands, resembled the rude festivity of
+the banquet of Penelope's suitors. But the central dish was a yearling
+lamb, called 'a hog in har'st,' roasted whole. It was set upon its
+legs, with a bunch of parsley in its mouth, and was probably exhibited
+in that form to gratify the pride of the cook, who piqued himself more
+on the plenty than the elegance of his master's table. The sides of
+this poor animal were fiercely attacked by the clansmen, some with
+dirks, others with the knives which were usually in the same sheath
+with the dagger, so that it was soon rendered a mangled and rueful
+spectacle. Lower down still, the victuals seemed of yet coarser
+quality, though sufficiently abundant. Broth, onions, cheese, and the
+fragments of the feast regaled the sons of Ivor who feasted in the open
+air.
+
+The liquor was supplied in the same proportion, and under similar
+regulations. Excellent claret and champagne were liberally distributed
+among the Chief's immediate neighbours; whisky, plain or diluted, and
+strong beer refreshed those who sat near the lower end. Nor did this
+inequality of distribution appear to give the least offence. Every one
+present understood that his taste was to be formed according to the
+rank which he held at table; and, consequently, the tacksmen and their
+dependants always professed the wine was too cold for their stomachs,
+and called, apparently out of choice, for the liquor which was assigned
+to them from economy. [Footnote: See Note 22.] The bag-pipers, three in
+number, screamed, during the whole time of dinner, a tremendous
+war-tune; and the echoing of the vaulted roof, and clang of the Celtic
+tongue, produced such a Babel of noises that Waverley dreaded his ears
+would never recover it. Mac-Ivor, indeed, apologised for the confusion
+occasioned by so large a party, and pleaded the necessity of his
+situation, on which unlimited hospitality was imposed as a paramount
+duty. 'These stout idle kinsmen of mine,' he said, 'account my estate
+as held in trust for their support; and I must find them beef and ale,
+while the rogues will do nothing for themselves but practise the
+broadsword, or wander about the hills, shooting, fishing, hunting,
+drinking, and making love to the lasses of the strath. But what can I
+do, Captain Waverley? everything will keep after its kind, whether it
+be a hawk or a Highlander.' Edward made the expected answer, in a
+compliment upon his possessing so many bold and attached followers.
+
+'Why, yes,' replied the Chief, 'were I disposed, like my father, to put
+myself in the way of getting one blow on the head, or two on the neck,
+I believe the loons would stand by me. But who thinks of that in the
+present day, when the maxim is, "Better an old woman with a purse in
+her hand than three men with belted brands"?' Then, turning to the
+company, he proposed the 'Health of Captain Waverley, a worthy friend
+of his kind neighbour and ally, the Baron of Bradwardine.'
+
+'He is welcome hither,' said one of the elders, 'if he come from Cosmo
+Comyne Bradwardine.'
+
+'I say nay to that,' said an old man, who apparently did not mean to
+pledge the toast; 'I say nay to that. While there is a green leaf in
+the forest, there will be fraud in a Comyne.
+
+'There is nothing but honour in the Baron of Bradwardine,' answered
+another ancient; 'and the guest that comes hither from him should be
+welcome, though he came with blood on his hand, unless it were blood of
+the race of Ivor.'
+
+The old man whose cup remained full replied, 'There has been blood
+enough of the race of Ivor on the hand of Bradwardine.'
+
+'Ah! Ballenkeiroch,' replied the first, 'you think rather of the flash
+of the carbine at the mains of Tully-Veolan than the glance of the
+sword that fought for the cause at Preston.'
+
+'And well I may,' answered Ballenkeiroch; 'the flash of the gun cost me
+a fair-haired son, and the glance of the sword has done but little for
+King James.'
+
+The Chieftain, in two words of French, explained to Waverley that the
+Baron had shot this old man's son in a fray near Tully-Veolan, about
+seven years before; and then hastened to remove Ballenkeiroch's
+prejudice, by informing him that Waverley was an Englishman,
+unconnected by birth or alliance with the family of Bradwardine; upon
+which the old gentleman raised the hitherto-untasted cup and
+courteously drank to his health. This ceremony being requited in kind,
+the Chieftain made a signal for the pipes to cease, and said aloud,
+'Where is the song hidden, my friends, that Mac-Murrough cannot find
+it?'
+
+Mac-Murrough, the family bhairdh, an aged man, immediately took the
+hint, and began to chant, with low and rapid utterance, a profusion of
+Celtic verses, which were received by the audience with all the
+applause of enthusiasm. As he advanced in his declamation, his ardour
+seemed to increase. He had at first spoken with his eyes fixed on the
+ground; he now cast them around as if beseeching, and anon as if
+commanding, attention, and his tones rose into wild and impassioned
+notes, accompanied with appropriate gestures. He seemed to Edward, who
+attended to him with much interest, to recite many proper names, to
+lament the dead, to apostrophise the absent, to exhort, and entreat,
+and animate those who were present. Waverley thought he even discerned
+his own name, and was convinced his conjecture was right from the eyes
+of the company being at that moment turned towards him simultaneously.
+The ardour of the poet appeared to communicate itself to the audience.
+Their wild and sun-burnt countenances assumed a fiercer and more
+animated expression; all bent forward towards the reciter, many sprung
+up and waved their arms in ecstasy, and some laid their hands on their
+swords. When the song ceased, there was a deep pause, while the aroused
+feelings of the poet and of the hearers gradually subsided into their
+usual channel.
+
+The Chieftain, who, during this scene had appeared rather to watch the
+emotions which were excited than to partake their high tone of
+enthusiasm, filled with claret a small silver cup which stood by him.
+'Give this,' he said to an attendant, 'to Mac-Murrough nan Fonn (i.e.
+of the songs), and when he has drank the juice, bid him keep, for the
+sake of Vich Ian Vohr, the shell of the gourd which contained it.' The
+gift was received by Mac-Murrough with profound gratitude; he drank the
+wine, and, kissing the cup, shrouded it with reverence in the plaid
+which was folded on his bosom. He then burst forth into what Edward
+justly supposed to be an extemporaneous effusion of thanks and praises
+of his Chief. It was received with applause, but did not produce the
+effect of his first poem. It was obvious, however, that the clan
+regarded the generosity of their Chieftain with high approbation. Many
+approved Gaelic toasts were then proposed, of some of which the
+Chieftain gave his guest the following versions:--
+
+'To him that will not turn his back on friend or foe.' 'To him that
+never forsook a comrade.' 'To him that never bought or sold justice.'
+'Hospitality to the exile, and broken bones to the tyrant.' 'The lads
+with the kilts.' 'Highlanders, shoulder to shoulder,'--with many other
+pithy sentiments of the like nature.
+
+Edward was particularly solicitous to know the meaning of that song
+which appeared to produce such effect upon the passions of the company,
+and hinted his curiosity to his host. 'As I observe,' said the
+Chieftain, 'that you have passed the bottle during the last three
+rounds, I was about to propose to you to retire to my sister's
+tea-table, who can explain these things to you better than I can.
+Although I cannot stint my clan in the usual current of their
+festivity, yet I neither am addicted myself to exceed in its amount,
+nor do I,' added he, smiling, 'keep a Bear to devour the intellects of
+such as can make good use of them.'
+
+Edward readily assented to this proposal, and the Chieftain, saying a
+few words to those around him, left the table, followed by Waverley. As
+the door closed behind them, Edward heard Vich Ian Vohr's health
+invoked with a wild and animated cheer, that expressed the satisfaction
+of the guests and the depth of their devotion to his service.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXI
+
+THE CHIEFTAIN'S SISTER
+
+
+The drawing-room of Flora Mac-Ivor was furnished in the plainest and
+most simple manner; for at Glennaquoich every other sort of expenditure
+was retrenched as much as possible, for the purpose of maintaining, in
+its full dignity, the hospitality of the Chieftain, and retaining and
+multiplying the number of his dependants and adherents. But there was
+no appearance of this parsimony in the dress of the lady herself, which
+was in texture elegant, and even rich, and arranged in a manner which
+partook partly of the Parisian fashion and partly of the more simple
+dress of the Highlands, blended together with great taste. Her hair was
+not disfigured by the art of the friseur, but fell in jetty ringlets on
+her neck, confined only by a circlet, richly set with diamonds. This
+peculiarity she adopted in compliance with the Highland prejudices,
+which could not endure that a woman's head should be covered before
+wedlock.
+
+Flora Mac-Ivor bore a most striking resemblance to her brother Fergus;
+so much so that they might have played Viola and Sebastian with the
+same exquisite effect produced by the appearance of Mrs. Henry Siddons
+and her brother, Mr. William Murray, in these characters. They had the
+same antique and regular correctness of profile; the same dark eyes,
+eye-lashes, and eye-brows; the same clearness of complexion, excepting
+that Fergus's was embrowned by exercise and Flora's possessed the
+utmost feminine delicacy. But the haughty and somewhat stern regularity
+of Fergus's features was beautifully softened in those of Flora. Their
+voices were also similar in tone, though differing in the key. That of
+Fergus, especially while issuing orders to his followers during their
+military exercise, reminded Edward of a favourite passage in the
+description of Emetrius:
+
+    --whose voice was heard around,
+    Loud as a trumpet with a silver sound.
+
+That of Flora, on the contrary, was soft and sweet--'an excellent thing
+in woman'; yet, in urging any favourite topic, which she often pursued
+with natural eloquence, it possessed as well the tones which impress
+awe and conviction as those of persuasive insinuation. The eager glance
+of the keen black eye, which, in the Chieftain, seemed impatient even
+of the material obstacles it encountered, had in his sister acquired a
+gentle pensiveness. His looks seemed to seek glory, power, all that
+could exalt him above others in the race of humanity; while those of
+his sister, as if she were already conscious of mental superiority,
+seemed to pity, rather than envy, those who were struggling for any
+farther distinction. Her sentiments corresponded with the expression of
+her countenance. Early education had impressed upon her mind, as well
+as on that of the Chieftain, the most devoted attachment to the exiled
+family of Stuart. She believed it the duty of her brother, of his clan,
+of every man in Britain, at whatever personal hazard, to contribute to
+that restoration which the partisans of the Chevalier St. George had
+not ceased to hope for. For this she was prepared to do all, to suffer
+all, to sacrifice all. But her loyalty, as it exceeded her brother's in
+fanaticism, excelled it also in purity. Accustomed to petty intrigue,
+and necessarily involved in a thousand paltry and selfish discussions,
+ambitious also by nature, his political faith was tinctured, at least,
+if not tainted, by the views of interest and advancement so easily
+combined with it; and at the moment he should unsheathe his claymore,
+it might be difficult to say whether it would be most with the view of
+making James Stuart a king or Fergus Mac-Ivor an earl. This, indeed,
+was a mixture of feeling which he did not avow even to himself, but it
+existed, nevertheless, in a powerful degree.
+
+In Flora's bosom, on the contrary, the zeal of loyalty burnt pure and
+unmixed with any selfish feeling; she would have as soon made religion
+the mask of ambitious and interested views as have shrouded them under
+the opinions which she had been taught to think patriotism. Such
+instances of devotion were not uncommon among the followers of the
+unhappy race of Stuart, of which many memorable proofs will recur to
+the minds of most of my readers. But peculiar attention on the part of
+the Chevalier de St. George and his princess to the parents of Fergus
+and his sister, and to themselves when orphans, had riveted their
+faith. Fergus, upon the death of his parents, had been for some time a
+page of honour in the train of the Chevalier's lady, and, from his
+beauty and sprightly temper, was uniformly treated by her with the
+utmost distinction. This was also extended to Flora, who was maintained
+for some time at a convent of the first order at the princess's
+expense, and removed from thence into her own family, where she spent
+nearly two years. Both brother and sister retained the deepest and most
+grateful sense of her kindness.
+
+Having thus touched upon the leading principle of Flora's character, I
+may dismiss the rest more slightly. She was highly accomplished, and
+had acquired those elegant manners to be expected from one who, in
+early youth, had been the companion of a princess; yet she had not
+learned to substitute the gloss of politeness for the reality of
+feeling. When settled in the lonely regions of Glennaquoich, she found
+that her resources in French, English, and Italian literature were
+likely to be few and interrupted; and, in order to fill up the vacant
+time, she bestowed a part of it upon the music and poetical traditions
+of the Highlanders, and began really to feel the pleasure in the
+pursuit which her brother, whose perceptions of literary merit were
+more blunt, rather affected for the sake of popularity than actually
+experienced. Her resolution was strengthened in these researches by the
+extreme delight which her inquiries seemed to afford those to whom she
+resorted for information.
+
+Her love of her clan, an attachment which was almost hereditary in her
+bosom, was, like her loyalty, a more pure passion than that of her
+brother. He was too thorough a politician, regarded his patriarchal
+influence too much as the means of accomplishing his own
+aggrandisement, that we should term him the model of a Highland
+Chieftain. Flora felt the same anxiety for cherishing and extending
+their patriarchal sway, but it was with the generous desire of
+vindicating from poverty, or at least from want and foreign oppression,
+those whom her brother was by birth, according to the notions of the
+time and country, entitled to govern. The savings of her income, for
+she had a small pension from the Princess Sobieski, were dedicated, not
+to add to the comforts of the peasantry, for that was a word which they
+neither knew nor apparently wished to know, but to relieve their
+absolute necessities when in sickness or extreme old age. At every
+other period they rather toiled to procure something which they might
+share with the Chief, as a proof of their attachment, than expected
+other assistance from him save what was afforded by the rude
+hospitality of his castle, and the general division and subdivision of
+his estate among them. Flora was so much beloved by them that, when
+Mac-Murrough composed a song in which he enumerated all the principal
+beauties of the district, and intimated her superiority by concluding,
+that 'the fairest apple hung on the highest bough,' he received, in
+donatives from the individuals of the clan, more seed-barley than would
+have sowed his Highland Parnassus, the bard's croft, as it was called,
+ten times over.
+
+From situation as well as choice, Miss Mac-Ivor's society was extremely
+limited. Her most intimate friend had been Rose Bradwardine, to whom
+she was much attached; and when seen together, they would have afforded
+an artist two admirable subjects for the gay and the melancholy muse.
+Indeed Rose was so tenderly watched by her father, and her circle of
+wishes was so limited, that none arose but what he was willing to
+gratify, and scarce any which did not come within the compass of his
+power. With Flora it was otherwise. While almost a girl she had
+undergone the most complete change of scene, from gaiety and splendour
+to absolute solitude and comparative poverty; and the ideas and wishes
+which she chiefly fostered respected great national events, and changes
+not to be brought round without both hazard and bloodshed, and
+therefore not to be thought of with levity. Her manner, consequently,
+was grave, though she readily contributed her talents to the amusement
+of society, and stood very high in the opinion of the old Baron, who
+used to sing along with her such French duets of Lindor and Cloris,
+etc., as were in fashion about the end of the reign of old Louis le
+Grand.
+
+It was generally believed, though no one durst have hinted it to the
+Baron of Bradwardine, that Flora's entreaties had no small share in
+allaying the wrath of Fergus upon occasion of their quarrel. She took
+her brother on the assailable side, by dwelling first upon the Baron's
+age, and then representing the injury which the cause might sustain,
+and the damage which must arise to his own character in point of
+prudence--so necessary to a political agent, if he persisted in
+carrying it to extremity. Otherwise it is probable it would have
+terminated in a duel, both because the Baron had, on a former occasion,
+shed blood of the clan, though the matter had been timely accommodated,
+and on account of his high reputation for address at his weapon, which
+Fergus almost condescended to envy. For the same reason she had urged
+their reconciliation, which the Chieftain the more readily agreed to as
+it favoured some ulterior projects of his own.
+
+To this young lady, now presiding at the female empire of the
+tea-table, Fergus introduced Captain Waverley, whom she received with
+the usual forms of politeness.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXII
+
+HIGHLAND MINSTRELSY
+
+
+When the first salutations had passed, Fergus said to his sister, 'My
+dear Flora, before I return to the barbarous ritual of our forefathers,
+I must tell you that Captain Waverley is a worshipper of the Celtic
+muse, not the less so perhaps that he does not understand a word of her
+language. I have told him you are eminent as a translator of Highland
+poetry, and that Mac-Murrough admires your version of his songs upon
+the same principle that Captain Waverley admires the original,--because
+he does not comprehend them. Will you have the goodness to read or
+recite to our guest in English the extraordinary string of names which
+Mac-Murrough has tacked together in Gaelic? My life to a moor-fowl's
+feather, you are provided with a version; for I know you are in all the
+bard's councils, and acquainted with his songs long before he rehearses
+them in the hall.'
+
+'How can you say so, Fergus? You know how little these verses can
+possibly interest an English stranger, even if I could translate them
+as you pretend.'
+
+'Not less than they interest me, lady fair. To-day your joint
+composition, for I insist you had a share in it, has cost me the last
+silver cup in the castle, and I suppose will cost me something else
+next time I hold cour pleniere, if the muse descends on Mac-Murrough;
+for you know our proverb,--"When the hand of the chief ceases to
+bestow, the breath of the bard is frozen in the utterance."--Well, I
+would it were even so: there are three things that are useless to a
+modern Highlander,--a sword which he must not draw, a bard to sing of
+deeds which he dare not imitate, and a large goat-skin purse without a
+louis-d'or to put into it.'
+
+'Well, brother, since you betray my secrets, you cannot expect me to
+keep yours. I assure you, Captain Waverley, that Fergus is too proud to
+exchange his broardsword for a marechal's baton, that he esteems
+Mac-Murrough a far greater poet than Homer, and would not give up his
+goat-skin purse for all the louis-d'or which it could contain.'
+
+'Well pronounced, Flora; blow for blow, as Conan [Footnote: See Note
+23.] said to the devil. Now do you two talk of bards and poetry, if not
+of purses and claymores, while I return to do the final honours to the
+senators of the tribe of Ivor.' So saying, he left the room.
+
+The conversation continued between Flora and Waverley; for two
+well-dressed young women, whose character seemed to hover between that
+of companions and dependants, took no share in it. They were both
+pretty girls, but served only as foils to the grace and beauty of their
+patroness. The discourse followed the turn which the Chieftain had
+given it, and Waverley was equally amused and surprised with the
+account which the lady gave him of Celtic poetry.
+
+'The recitation,' she said, 'of poems recording the feats of heroes,
+the complaints of lovers, and the wars of contending tribes, forms the
+chief amusement of a winter fire-side in the Highlands. Some of these
+are said to be very ancient, and if they are ever translated into any
+of the languages of civilised Europe, cannot fail to produce a deep and
+general sensation. Others are more modern, the composition of those
+family bards whom the chieftains of more distinguished name and power
+retain as the poets and historians of their tribes. These, of course,
+possess various degrees of merit; but much of it must evaporate in
+translation, or be lost on those who do not sympathise with the
+feelings of the poet.'
+
+'And your bard, whose effusions seemed to produce such effect upon the
+company to-day, is he reckoned among the favourite poets of the
+mountains?'
+
+'That is a trying question. His reputation is high among his
+countrymen, and you must not expect me to depreciate it. [Footnote: The
+Highland poet almost always was an improvisatore. Captain Burt met one
+of them at Lovat's table.]
+
+'But the song, Miss Mac-Ivor, seemed to awaken all those warriors, both
+young and old.'
+
+'The song is little more than a catalogue of names of the Highland
+clans under their distinctive peculiarities, and an exhortation to them
+to remember and to emulate the actions of their forefathers.'
+
+'And am I wrong in conjecturing, however extraordinary the guess
+appears, that there was some allusion to me in the verses which he
+recited?'
+
+'You have a quick observation, Captain Waverley, which in this instance
+has not deceived you. The Gaelic language, being uncommonly vocalic, is
+well adapted for sudden and extemporaneous poetry; and a bard seldom
+fails to augment the effects of a premeditated song by throwing in any
+stanzas which may be suggested by the circumstances attending the
+recitation.'
+
+'I would give my best horse to know what the Highland bard could find
+to say of such an unworthy Southron as myself.'
+
+'It shall not even cost you a lock of his mane. Una, mavourneen! (She
+spoke a few words to one of the young girls in attendance, who
+instantly curtsied and tripped out of the room.) I have sent Una to
+learn from the bard the expressions he used, and you shall command my
+skill as dragoman.'
+
+Una returned in a few minutes, and repeated to her mistress a few lines
+in Gaelic. Flora seemed to think for a moment, and then, slightly
+colouring, she turned to Waverley--'It is impossible to gratify your
+curiosity, Captain Waverley, without exposing my own presumption. If
+you will give me a few moments for consideration, I will endeavour to
+engraft the meaning of these lines upon a rude English translation
+which I have attempted of a part of the original. The duties of the
+tea-table seem to be concluded, and, as the evening is delightful, Una
+will show you the way to one of my favourite haunts, and Cathleen and I
+will join you there.'
+
+Una, having received instructions in her native language, conducted
+Waverley out by a passage different from that through which he had
+entered the apartment. At a distance he heard the hall of the Chief
+still resounding with the clang of bagpipes and the high applause of
+his guests. Having gained the open air by a postern door, they walked a
+little way up the wild, bleak, and narrow valley in which the house was
+situated, following the course of the stream that winded through it. In
+a spot, about a quarter of a mile from the castle, two brooks, which
+formed the little river, had their junction. The larger of the two came
+down the long bare valley, which extended, apparently without any
+change or elevation of character, as far as the hills which formed its
+boundary permitted the eye to reach. But the other stream, which had
+its source among the mountains on the left hand of the strath, seemed
+to issue from a very narrow and dark opening betwixt two large rocks.
+These streams were different also in character. The larger was placid,
+and even sullen in its course, wheeling in deep eddies, or sleeping in
+dark blue pools; but the motions of the lesser brook were rapid and
+furious, issuing from between precipices, like a maniac from his
+confinement, all foam and uproar.
+
+It was up the course of this last stream that Waverley, like a knight
+of romance, was conducted by the fair Highland damsel, his silent
+guide. A small path, which had been rendered easy in many places for
+Flora's accommodation, led him through scenery of a very different
+description from that which he had just quitted. Around the castle all
+was cold, bare, and desolate, yet tame even in desolation; but this
+narrow glen, at so short a distance, seemed to open into the land of
+romance. The rocks assumed a thousand peculiar and varied forms. In one
+place a crag of huge size presented its gigantic bulk, as if to forbid
+the passenger's farther progress; and it was not until he approached
+its very base that Waverley discerned the sudden and acute turn by
+which the pathway wheeled its course around this formidable obstacle.
+In another spot the projecting rocks from the opposite sides of the
+chasm had approached so near to each other that two pine-trees laid
+across, and covered with turf, formed a rustic bridge at the height of
+at least one hundred and fifty feet. It had no ledges, and was barely
+three feet in breadth.
+
+While gazing at this pass of peril, which crossed, like a single black
+line, the small portion of blue sky not intercepted by the projecting
+rocks on either side, it was with a sensation of horror that Waverley
+beheld Flora and her attendant appear, like inhabitants of another
+region, propped, as it were, in mid air, upon this trembling structure.
+She stopped upon observing him below, and, with an air of graceful ease
+which made him shudder, waved her handkerchief to him by way of signal.
+He was unable, from the sense of dizziness which her situation
+conveyed, to return the salute; and was never more relieved than when
+the fair apparition passed on from the precarious eminence which she
+seemed to occupy with so much indifference, and disappeared on the
+other side.
+
+Advancing a few yards, and passing under the bridge which he had viewed
+with so much terror, the path ascended rapidly from the edge of the
+brook, and the glen widened into a sylvan amphitheatre, waving with
+birch, young oaks, and hazels, with here and there a scattered
+yew-tree. The rocks now receded, but still showed their grey and shaggy
+crests rising among the copse-wood. Still higher rose eminences and
+peaks, some bare, some clothed with wood, some round and purple with
+heath, and others splintered into rocks and crags. At a short turning
+the path, which had for some furlongs lost sight of the brook, suddenly
+placed Waverley in front of a romantic waterfall. It was not so
+remarkable either for great height or quantity of water as for the
+beautiful accompaniments which made the spot interesting. After a
+broken cataract of about twenty feet, the stream was received in a
+large natural basin filled to the brim with water, which, where the
+bubbles of the fall subsided, was so exquisitely clear that, although
+it was of great depth, the eye could discern each pebble at the bottom.
+Eddying round this reservoir, the brook found its way as if over a
+broken part of the ledge, and formed a second fall, which seemed to
+seek the very abyss; then, wheeling out beneath from among the smooth
+dark rocks which it had polished for ages, it wandered murmuring down
+the glen, forming the stream up which Waverley had just ascended.
+[Footnote: See Note 24.] The borders of this romantic reservoir
+corresponded in beauty; but it was beauty of a stern and commanding
+cast, as if in the act of expanding into grandeur. Mossy banks of turf
+were broken and interrupted by huge fragments of rock, and decorated
+with trees and shrubs, some of which had been planted under the
+direction of Flora, but so cautiously that they added to the grace
+without diminishing the romantic wildness of the scene.
+
+Here, like one of those lovely forms which decorate the landscapes of
+Poussin, Waverley found Flora gazing on the waterfall. Two paces
+further back stood Cathleen, holding a small Scottish harp, the use of
+which had been taught to Flora by Rory Dall, one of the last harpers of
+the Western Highlands. The sun, now stooping in the west, gave a rich
+and varied tinge to all the objects which surrounded Waverley, and
+seemed to add more than human brilliancy to the full expressive
+darkness of Flora's eye, exalted the richness and purity of her
+complexion, and enhanced the dignity and grace of her beautiful form.
+Edward thought he had never, even in his wildest dreams, imagined a
+figure of such exquisite and interesting loveliness. The wild beauty of
+the retreat, bursting upon him as if by magic, augmented the mingled
+feeling of delight and awe with which he approached her, like a fair
+enchantress of Boiardo or Ariosto, by whose nod the scenery around
+seemed to have been created an Eden in the wilderness.
+
+Flora, like every beautiful woman, was conscious of her own power, and
+pleased with its effects, which she could easily discern from the
+respectful yet confused address of the young soldier. But, as she
+possessed excellent sense, she gave the romance of the scene and other
+accidental circumstances full weight in appreciating the feelings with
+which Waverley seemed obviously to be impressed; and, unacquainted with
+the fanciful and susceptible peculiarities of his character, considered
+his homage as the passing tribute which a woman of even inferior charms
+might have expected in such a situation. She therefore quietly led the
+way to a spot at such a distance from the cascade that its sound should
+rather accompany than interrupt that of her voice and instrument, and,
+sitting down upon a mossy fragment of rock, she took the harp from
+Cathleen.
+
+'I have given you the trouble of walking to this spot, Captain
+Waverley, both because I thought the scenery would interest you, and
+because a Highland song would suffer still more from my imperfect
+translation were I to introduce it without its own wild and appropriate
+accompaniments. To speak in the poetical language of my country, the
+seat of the Celtic Muse is in the mist of the secret and solitary hill,
+and her voice in the murmur of the mountain stream. He who woos her
+must love the barren rock more than the fertile valley, and the
+solitude of the desert better than the festivity of the hall.'
+
+Few could have heard this lovely woman make this declaration, with a
+voice where harmony was exalted by pathos, without exclaiming that the
+muse whom she invoked could never find a more appropriate
+representative. But Waverley, though the thought rushed on his mind,
+found no courage to utter it. Indeed, the wild feeling of romantic
+delight with which he heard the few first notes she drew from her
+instrument amounted almost to a sense of pain. He would not for worlds
+have quitted his place by her side; yet he almost longed for solitude,
+that he might decipher and examine at leisure the complication of
+emotions which now agitated his bosom.
+
+Flora had exchanged the measured and monotonous recitative of the bard
+for a lofty and uncommon Highland air, which had been a battle-song in
+former ages. A few irregular strains introduced a prelude of a wild and
+peculiar tone, which harmonised well with the distant waterfall, and
+the soft sigh of the evening breeze in the rustling leaves of an aspen,
+which overhung the seat of the fair harpress. The following verses
+convey but little idea of the feelings with which, so sung and
+accompanied, they were heard by Waverley:--
+
+    There is mist on the mountain, and night on the vale,
+    But more dark is the sleep of the sons of the Gael.
+    A stranger commanded--it sunk on the land,
+    It has frozen each heart, and benumb'd every hand!
+
+    The dirk and the target lie sordid with dust,
+    The bloodless claymore is but redden'd with rust;
+    On the hill or the glen if a gun should appear,
+    It is only to war with the heath-cock or deer.
+
+    The deeds of our sires if our bards should rehearse,
+    Let a blush or a blow be the meed of their verse!
+    Be mute every string, and be hush'd every tone,
+    That shall bid us remember the fame that is flown.
+
+    But the dark hours of night and of slumber are past,
+    The morn on our mountains is dawning at last;
+    Glenaladale's peaks are illumined with the rays,
+    And the streams of Glenfinnan leap bright in the blaze.
+
+[Footnote: The young and daring adventurer, Charles Edward, landed at
+Glenaladale, in Moidart, and displayed his standard in the valley of
+Glenfinnan, mustering around it the Mac-Donalds, the Camerons, and
+other less numerous clans, whom he had prevailed on to join him. There
+is a monument erected on the spot, with a Latin inscription by the late
+Doctor Gregory.]
+
+    O high-minded Moray! the exiled! the dear!
+    In the blush of the dawning the STANDARD uprear!
+    Wide, wide on the winds of the north let it fly,
+    Like the sun's latest flash when the tempest is nigh!
+
+[Footnote: The Marquis of Tullibardine's elder brother, who, long
+exiled, returned to Scotland with Charles Edward in 1745.]
+
+    Ye sons of the strong, when that dawning shall break,
+    Need the harp of the aged remind you to wake?
+    That dawn never beam'd on your forefathers' eye,
+    But it roused each high chieftain to vanquish or die.
+
+    O, sprung from the Kings who in Islay kept state,
+    Proud chiefs of Clan Ranald, Glengarry, and Sleat!
+    Combine like three streams from one mountain of snow,
+    And resistless in union rush down on the foe!
+
+    True son of Sir Evan, undaunted Lochiel,
+    Place thy targe on thy shoulder and burnish thy steel!
+    Rough Keppoch, give breath to thy bugle's bold swell,
+    Till far Coryarrick resound to the knell!
+
+    Stern son of Lord Kenneth, high chief of Kintail,
+    Let the stag in thy standard bound wild in the gale!
+    May the race of Clan Gillean, the fearless and free,
+    Remember Glenlivat, Harlaw, and Dundee!
+
+    Let the clan of grey Fingon, whose offspring has given
+    Such heroes to earth and such martyrs to heaven,
+    Unite with the race of renown'd Rorri More,
+    To launch the long galley and stretch to the oar.
+
+    How Mac-Shimei will joy when their chief shall display
+    The yew-crested bonnet o'er tresses of grey!
+    How the race of wrong'd Alpine and murder'd Glencoe
+    Shall shout for revenge when they pour on the foe!
+
+    Ye sons of brown Dermid, who slew the wild boar,
+    Resume the pure faith of the great Callum-More!
+    Mac-Neil of the islands, and Moy of the Lake,
+    For honour, for freedom, for vengeance awake!
+
+Here a large greyhound, bounding up the glen, jumped upon Flora and
+interrupted her music by his importunate caresses. At a distant whistle
+he turned and shot down the path again with the rapidity of an arrow.
+'That is Fergus's faithful attendant, Captain Waverley, and that was
+his signal. He likes no poetry but what is humorous, and comes in good
+time to interrupt my long catalogue of the tribes, whom one of your
+saucy English poets calls
+
+    Our bootless host of high-born beggars,
+    Mac-Leans, Mac-Kenzies, and Mac-Gregors.'
+
+Waverley expressed his regret at the interruption.
+
+'O you cannot guess how much you have lost! The bard, as in duty bound,
+has addressed three long stanzas to Vich Ian Vohr of the Banners,
+enumerating all his great properties, and not forgetting his being a
+cheerer of the harper and bard--"a giver of bounteous gifts." Besides,
+you should have heard a practical admonition to the fair-haired son of
+the stranger, who lives in the land where the grass is always
+green--the rider on the shining pampered steed, whose hue is like the
+raven, and whose neigh is like the scream of the eagle for battle. This
+valiant horseman is affectionately conjured to remember that his
+ancestors were distinguished by their loyalty as well as by their
+courage. All this you have lost; but, since your curiosity is not
+satisfied, I judge, from the distant sound of my brother's whistle, I
+may have time to sing the concluding stanzas before he comes to laugh
+at my translation.'
+
+    Awake on your hills, on your islands awake,
+    Brave sons of the mountain, the frith, and the lake!
+    'T is the bugle--but not for the chase is the call;
+    'T is the pibroch's shrill summons--but not to the hall.
+
+    'T is the summons of heroes for conquest or death,
+    When the banners are blazing on mountain and heath:
+    They call to the dirk, the claymore, and the targe,
+    To the march and the muster, the line and the charge.
+
+    Be the brand of each chieftain like Fin's in his ire!
+    May the blood through his veins flow like currents of fire!
+    Burst the base foreign yoke as your sires did of yore,
+    Or die like your sires, and endure it no more!
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIII
+
+WAVEELEY CONTINUES AT GLENNAQUOICH
+
+
+As Flora concluded her song, Fergus stood before them. 'I knew I should
+find you here, even without the assistance of my friend Bran. A simple
+and unsublimed taste now, like my own, would prefer a jet d'eau at
+Versailles to this cascade, with all its accompaniments of rock and
+roar; but this is Flora's Parnassus, Captain Waverley, and that
+fountain her Helicon. It would be greatly for the benefit of my cellar
+if she could teach her coadjutor, Mac-Murrough, the value of its
+influence: he has just drunk a pint of usquebaugh to correct, he said,
+the coldness of the claret. Let me try its virtues.' He sipped a little
+water in the hollow of his hand, and immediately commenced, with a
+theatrical air,--
+
+    'O Lady of the desert, hail!
+     That lovest the harping of the Gael,
+     Through fair and fertile regions borne,
+     Where never yet grew grass or corn.
+
+But English poetry will never succeed under the influence of a Highland
+Helicon. Allons, courage!
+
+    O vous, qui buvez, a tasse pleine,
+    A cette heureuse f ontaine,
+    Ou on ne voit, sur le rivage,
+      Que quelques vilains troupeaux,
+    Suivis de nymphes de village,
+      Qui les escortent sans sabots--'
+
+'A truce, dear Fergus! spare us those most tedious and insipid persons
+of all Arcadia. Do not, for Heaven's sake, bring down Coridon and
+Lindor upon us.'
+
+'Nay, if you cannot relish la houlette et le chalumeau, have with you
+in heroic strains.'
+
+'Dear Fergus, you have certainly partaken of the inspiration of
+Mac-Murrough's cup rather than of mine.'
+
+'I disclaim it, ma belle demoiselle, although I protest it would be the
+more congenial of the two. Which of your crack-brained Italian
+romancers is it that says,
+
+                               Io d'Elicona niente
+    Mi curo, in fe de Dio; che'l bere d'acque
+    (Bea chi ber ne vuol) sempre mi spiacque!
+
+[Footnote:
+
+    Good sooth, I reck nought of your Helicon;
+    Drink water whoso will, in faith I will drink none.]
+
+But if you prefer the Gaelic, Captain Waverley, here is little Cathleen
+shall sing you Drimmindhu. Come, Cathleen, astore (i.e. my dear),
+begin; no apologies to the cean-kinne.'
+
+Cathleen sung with much liveliness a little Gaelic song, the burlesque
+elegy of a countryman on the loss of his cow, the comic tones of which,
+though he did not understand the language, made Waverley laugh more
+than once. [Footnote: This ancient Gaelic ditty is still well known,
+both in the Highlands and in Ireland It was translated into English,
+and published, if I mistake not, under the auspices of the facetious
+Tom D'Urfey, by the title of 'Colley, my Cow.']
+
+'Admirable, Cathleen!' cried the Chieftain; 'I must find you a handsome
+husband among the clansmen one of these days.'
+
+Cathleen laughed, blushed, and sheltered herself behind her companion.
+
+In the progress of their return to the castle, the Chieftain warmly
+pressed Waverley to remain for a week or two, in order to see a grand
+hunting party, in which he and some other Highland gentlemen proposed
+to join. The charms of melody and beauty were too strongly impressed in
+Edward's breast to permit his declining an invitation so pleasing. It
+was agreed, therefore, that he should write a note to the Baron of
+Bradwardine, expressing his intention to stay a fortnight at
+Glennaquoich, and requesting him to forward by the bearer (a gilly of
+the Chieftain's) any letters which might have arrived for him.
+
+This turned the discourse upon the Baron, whom Fergus highly extolled
+as a gentleman and soldier. His character was touched with yet more
+discrimination by Flora, who observed he was the very model of the old
+Scottish cavalier, with all his excellencies and peculiarities. 'It is
+a character, Captain Waverley, which is fast disappearing; for its best
+point was a self-respect which was never lost sight of till now. But in
+the present time the gentlemen whose principles do not permit them to
+pay court to the existing government are neglected and degraded, and
+many conduct themselves accordingly; and, like some of the persons you
+have seen at Tully-Veolan, adopt habits and companions inconsistent
+with their birth and breeding. The ruthless proscription of party seems
+to degrade the victims whom it brands, however unjustly. But let us
+hope a brighter day is approaching, when a Scottish country gentleman
+may be a scholar without the pedantry of our friend the Baron, a
+sportsman without the low habits of Mr. Falconer, and a judicious
+improver of his property without becoming a boorish two-legged steer
+like Killancureit.'
+
+Thus did Flora prophesy a revolution, which time indeed has produced,
+but in a manner very different from what she had in her mind.
+
+The amiable Rose was next mentioned, with the warmest encomium on her
+person, manners, and mind. 'That man,' said Flora, 'will find an
+inestimable treasure in the affections of Rose Bradwardine who shall be
+so fortunate as to become their object. Her very soul is in home, and
+in the discharge of all those quiet virtues of which home is the
+centre. Her husband will be to her what her father now is, the object
+of all her care, solicitude, and affection. She will see nothing, and
+connect herself with nothing, but by him and through him. If he is a
+man of sense and virtue, she will sympathise in his sorrows, divert his
+fatigue, and share his pleasures. If she becomes the property of a
+churlish or negligent husband, she will suit his taste also, for she
+will not long survive his unkindness. And, alas! how great is the
+chance that some such unworthy lot may be that of my poor friend! O
+that I were a queen this moment, and could command the most amiable and
+worthy youth of my kingdom to accept happiness with the hand of Rose
+Bradwardine!'
+
+'I wish you would command her to accept mine en attendant,' said
+Fergus, laughing.
+
+I don't know by what caprice it was that this wish, however jocularly
+expressed, rather jarred on Edward's feelings, notwithstanding his
+growing inclination to Flora and his indifference to Miss Bradwardine.
+This is one of the inexplicabilities of human nature, which we leave
+without comment.
+
+'Yours, brother?' answered Flora, regarding him steadily. 'No; you have
+another bride--Honour; and the dangers you must run in pursuit of her
+rival would break poor Rose's heart.'
+
+With this discourse they reached the castle, and Waverley soon prepared
+his despatches for Tully-Veolan. As he knew the Baron was punctilious
+in such matters, he was about to impress his billet with a seal on
+which his armorial bearings were engraved, but he did not find it at
+his watch, and thought he must have left it at Tully-Veolan. He
+mentioned his loss, borrowing at the same time the family seal of the
+Chieftain.
+
+'Surely,' said Miss Mac-Ivor, 'Donald Bean Lean would not--'
+
+'My life for him in such circumstances,' answered her brother;
+'besides, he would never have left the watch behind.'
+
+'After all, Fergus,' said Flora, 'and with every allowance, I am
+surprised you can countenance that man.'
+
+'I countenance him? This kind sister of mine would persuade you,
+Captain Waverley, that I take what the people of old used to call "a
+steakraid," that is, a "collop of the foray," or, in plainer words, a
+portion of the robber's booty, paid by him to the Laird, or Chief,
+through whose grounds he drove his prey. O, it is certain that, unless
+I can find some way to charm Flora's tongue, General Blakeney will send
+a sergeant's party from Stirling (this he said with haughty and
+emphatic irony) to seize Vich lan Vohr, as they nickname me, in his own
+castle.'
+
+'Now, Fergus, must not our guest be sensible that all this is folly and
+affectation? You have men enough to serve you without enlisting
+banditti, and your own honour is above taint. Why don't you send this
+Donald Bean Lean, whom I hate for his smoothness and duplicity even
+more than for his rapine, out of your country at once? No cause should
+induce me to tolerate such a character.'
+
+'No cause, Flora?' said the Chieftain significantly.
+
+'No cause, Fergus! not even that which is nearest to my heart. Spare it
+the omen of such evil supporters!'
+
+'O but, sister,' rejoined the Chief gaily, 'you don't consider my
+respect for la belle passion. Evan Dhu Maccombich is in love with
+Donald's daughter, Alice, and you cannot expect me to disturb him in
+his amours. Why, the whole clan would cry shame on me. You know it is
+one of their wise sayings, that a kinsman is part of a man's body, but
+a foster-brother is a piece of his heart.'
+
+'Well, Fergus, there is no disputing with you; but I would all this may
+end well.'
+
+'Devoutly prayed, my dear and prophetic sister, and the best way in the
+world to close a dubious argument. But hear ye not the pipes, Captain
+Waverley? Perhaps you will like better to dance to them in the hall
+than to be deafened with their harmony without taking part in the
+exercise they invite us to.'
+
+Waverley took Flora's hand. The dance, song, and merry-making
+proceeded, and closed the day's entertainment at the castle of Vich Ian
+Vohr. Edward at length retired, his mind agitated by a variety of new
+and conflicting feelings, which detained him from rest for some time,
+in that not unpleasing state of mind in which fancy takes the helm, and
+the soul rather drifts passively along with the rapid and confused tide
+of reflections than exerts itself to encounter, systematise, or examine
+them. At a late hour he fell asleep, and dreamed of Flora Mac-Ivor.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIV
+
+A STAG-HUNT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
+
+
+Shall this be a long or a short chapter? This is a question in which
+you, gentle reader, have no vote, however much you may be interested in
+the consequences; just as you may (like myself) probably have nothing
+to do with the imposing a new tax, excepting the trifling circumstance
+of being obliged to pay it. More happy surely in the present case,
+since, though it lies within my arbitrary power to extend my materials
+as I think proper, I cannot call you into Exchequer if you do not think
+proper to read my narrative. Let me therefore consider. It is true that
+the annals and documents in my hands say but little of this Highland
+chase; but then I can find copious materials for description elsewhere.
+There is old Lindsay of Pitscottie ready at my elbow, with his Athole
+hunting, and his 'lofted and joisted palace of green timber; with all
+kind of drink to be had in burgh and land, as ale, beer, wine,
+muscadel, malvaise, hippocras, and aquavitae; with wheat-bread,
+main-bread, ginge-bread, beef, mutton, lamb, veal, venison, goose,
+grice, capon, coney, crane, swan, partridge, plover, duck, drake,
+brisselcock, pawnies, black-cock, muir-fowl, and capercailzies'; not
+forgetting the 'costly bedding, vaiselle, and napry,' and least of all
+the 'excelling stewards, cunning baxters, excellent cooks, and
+pottingars, with confections and drugs for the desserts.' Besides the
+particulars which may be thence gleaned for this Highland feast (the
+splendour of which induced the Pope's legate to dissent from an opinion
+which he had hitherto held, that Scotland, namely, was the--the--the
+latter end of the world)--besides these, might I not illuminate my
+pages with Taylor the Water Poet's hunting in the Braes of Mar, where,--
+
+    Through heather, mosse,'mong frogs, and bogs, and fogs,
+      'Mongst craggy cliffs and thunder-batter'd hills,
+    Hares, hinds, bucks, roes, are chased by men and dogs,
+      Where two hours' hunting fourscore fat deer kills.
+    Lowland, your sports are low as is your seat;
+    The Highland games and minds are high and great?
+
+But without further tyranny over my readers, or display of the extent
+of my own reading, I shall content myself with borrowing a single
+incident from the memorable hunting at Lude, commemorated in the
+ingenious Mr. Gunn's essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so proceed in my
+story with all the brevity that my natural style of composition,
+partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and
+the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me.
+
+The solemn hunting was delayed, from various causes, for about three
+weeks. The interval was spent by Waverley with great satisfaction at
+Glennaquoich; for the impression which Flora had made on his mind at
+their first meeting grew daily stronger. She was precisely the
+character to fascinate a youth of romantic imagination. Her manners,
+her language, her talents for poetry and music, gave additional and
+varied influence to her eminent personal charms. Even in her hours of
+gaiety she was in his fancy exalted above the ordinary daughters of
+Eve, and seemed only to stoop for an instant to those topics of
+amusement and gallantry which others appear to live for. In the
+neighbourhood of this enchantress, while sport consumed the morning and
+music and the dance led on the hours of evening, Waverley became daily
+more delighted with his hospitable landlord, and more enamoured of his
+bewitching sister.
+
+At length the period fixed for the grand hunting arrived, and Waverley
+and the Chieftain departed for the place of rendezvous, which was a
+day's journey to the northward of Glennaquoich. Fergus was attended on
+this occasion by about three hundred of his clan, well armed and
+accoutred in their best fashion. Waverley complied so far with the
+custom of the country as to adopt the trews (he could not be reconciled
+to the kilt), brogues, and bonnet, as the fittest dress for the
+exercise in which he was to be engaged, and which least exposed him to
+be stared at as a stranger when they should reach the place of
+rendezvous. They found on the spot appointed several powerful Chiefs,
+to all of whom Waverley was formally presented, and by all cordially
+received. Their vassals and clansmen, a part of whose feudal duty it
+was to attend on these parties, appeared in such numbers as amounted to
+a small army. These active assistants spread through the country far
+and near, forming a circle, technically called the tinchel, which,
+gradually closing, drove the deer in herds together towards the glen
+where the Chiefs and principal sportsmen lay in wait for them. In the
+meanwhile these distinguished personages bivouacked among the flowery
+heath, wrapped up in their plaids, a mode of passing a summer's night
+which Waverley found by no means unpleasant.
+
+For many hours after sunrise the mountain ridges and passes retained
+their ordinary appearance of silence and solitude, and the Chiefs, with
+their followers, amused themselves with various pastimes, in which the
+joys of the shell, as Ossian has it, were not forgotten. 'Others apart
+sate on a hill retired,' probably as deeply engaged in the discussion
+of politics and news as Milton's spirits in metaphysical disquisition.
+At length signals of the approach of the game were descried and heard.
+Distant shouts resounded from valley to valley, as the various parties
+of Highlanders, climbing rocks, struggling through copses, wading
+brooks, and traversing thickets, approached more and more near to each
+other, and compelled the astonished deer, with the other wild animals
+that fled before them, into a narrower circuit. Every now and then the
+report of muskets was heard, repeated by a thousand echoes. The baying
+of the dogs was soon added to the chorus, which grew ever louder and
+more loud. At length the advanced parties of the deer began to show
+themselves; and as the stragglers came bounding down the pass by two or
+three at a time, the Chiefs showed their skill by distinguishing the
+fattest deer, and their dexterity in bringing them down with their
+guns. Fergus exhibited remarkable address, and Edward was also so
+fortunate as to attract the notice and applause of the sportsmen.
+
+But now the main body of the deer appeared at the head of the glen,
+compelled into a very narrow compass, and presenting such a formidable
+phalanx that their antlers appeared at a distance, over the ridge of
+the steep pass, like a leafless grove. Their number was very great, and
+from a desperate stand which they made, with the tallest of the
+red-deer stags arranged in front, in a sort of battle-array, gazing on
+the group which barred their passage down the glen, the more
+experienced sportsmen began to augur danger. The work of destruction,
+however, now commenced on all sides. Dogs and hunters were at work, and
+muskets and fusees resounded from every quarter. The deer, driven to
+desperation, made at length a fearful charge right upon the spot where
+the more distinguished sportsmen had taken their stand. The word was
+given in Gaelic to fling themselves upon their faces; but Waverley, on
+whose English ears the signal was lost, had almost fallen a sacrifice
+to his ignorance of the ancient language in which it was communicated.
+Fergus, observing his danger, sprung up and pulled him with violence to
+the ground, just as the whole herd broke down upon them. The tide being
+absolutely irresistible, and wounds from a stag's horn highly
+dangerous, the activity of the Chieftain may be considered, on this
+occasion, as having saved his guest's life. He detained him with a firm
+grasp until the whole herd of deer had fairly run over them. Waverley
+then attempted to rise, but found that he had suffered several very
+severe contusions, and, upon a further examination, discovered that he
+had sprained his ankle violently.
+
+[Footnote: The thrust from the tynes, or branches, of the stag's horns
+was accounted far more dangerous than those of the boar's tusk:--
+
+    If thou be hurt with horn of stag,
+    it brings thee to thy bier,
+    But barber's hand shall boar's hurt heal,
+    thereof have thou no fear.]
+
+This checked the mirth of the meeting, although the Highlanders,
+accustomed to such incidents, and prepared for them, had suffered no
+harm themselves. A wigwam was erected almost in an instant, where
+Edward was deposited on a couch of heather. The surgeon, or he who
+assumed the office, appeared to unite the characters of a leech and a
+conjuror. He was an old smoke-dried Highlander, wearing a venerable
+grey beard, and having for his sole garment a tartan frock, the skirts
+of which descended to the knee, and, being undivided in front, made the
+vestment serve at once for doublet and breeches. [Footnote: This garb,
+which resembled the dress often put on children in Scotland, called a
+polonie (i. e. polonaise), is a very ancient modification of the
+Highland garb. It was, in fact, the hauberk or shirt of mail, only
+composed of cloth instead of rings of armour.] He observed great
+ceremony in approaching Edward; and though our hero was writhing with
+pain, would not proceed to any operation which might assuage it until
+he had perambulated his couch three times, moving from east to west,
+according to the course of the sun. This, which was called making the
+deasil, [Footnote: Old Highlanders will still make the deasil around
+those whom they wish well to. To go round a person in the opposite
+direction, or withershins (German wider-shins), is unlucky, and a sort
+of incantation.] both the leech and the assistants seemed to consider
+as a matter of the last importance to the accomplishment of a cure; and
+Waverley, whom pain rendered incapable of expostulation, and who indeed
+saw no chance of its being attended to, submitted in silence.
+
+After this ceremony was duly performed, the old Esculapius let his
+patient's blood with a cupping-glass with great dexterity, and
+proceeded, muttering all the while to himself in Gaelic, to boil on the
+fire certain herbs, with which he compounded an embrocation. He then
+fomented the parts which had sustained injury, never failing to murmur
+prayers or spells, which of the two Waverley could not distinguish, as
+his ear only caught the words Gaspar-Melchior-Balthazar-max-prax-fax,
+and similar gibberish. The fomentation had a speedy effect in
+alleviating the pain and swelling, which our hero imputed to the virtue
+of the herbs or the effect of the chafing, but which was by the
+bystanders unanimously ascribed to the spells with which the operation
+had been accompanied. Edward was given to understand that not one of
+the ingredients had been gathered except during the full moon, and that
+the herbalist had, while collecting them, uniformly recited a charm,
+which in English ran thus:--
+
+    Hail to thee, them holy herb,
+    That sprung on holy ground!
+    All in the Mount Olivet
+    First wert thou found.
+    Thou art boot for many a bruise,
+    And healest many a wound;
+    In our Lady's blessed name,
+    I take thee from the ground.
+
+[Footnote: This metrical spell, or something very like it, is preserved
+by Reginald Scott in his work on Witchcraft.]
+
+Edward observed with some surprise that even Fergus, notwithstanding
+his knowledge and education, seemed to fall in with the superstitious
+ideas of his countrymen, either because he deemed it impolitic to
+affect scepticism on a matter of general belief, or more probably
+because, ike most men who do not think deeply or accurately on such
+subjects, he had in his mind a reserve of superstition which balanced
+the freedom of his expressions and practice upon other occasions.
+Waverley made no commentary, therefore, on the manner of the treatment,
+but rewarded the professor of medicine with a liberality beyond the
+utmost conception of his wildest hopes. He uttered on the occasion so
+many incoherent blessings in Gaelic and English that Mac-Ivor, rather
+scandalised at the excess of his acknowledgments, cut them short by
+exclaiming, Ceud mile mhalloich ort! i.e. 'A hundred thousand curses on
+you!' and so pushed the helper of men out of the cabin.
+
+After Waverley was left alone, the exhaustion of pain and fatigue--for
+the whole day's exercise had been severe--threw him into a profound,
+but yet a feverish sleep, which he chiefly owed to an opiate draught
+administered by the old Highlander from some decoction of herbs in his
+pharmacopoeia.
+
+Early the next morning, the purpose of their meeting being over, and
+their sports damped by the untoward accident, in which Fergus and all
+his friends expressed the greatest sympathy, it became a question how
+to dispose of the disabled sportsman. This was settled by Mac-Ivor, who
+had a litter prepared, of 'birch and hazel-grey,'
+
+[FOOTNOTE:
+
+    On the morrow they made their biers
+    Of birch and hazel grey. Chevy Chase.]
+
+which was borne by his people with such caution and dexterity as
+renders it not improbable that they may have been the ancestors of some
+of those sturdy Gael who have now the happiness to transport the belles
+of Edinburgh in their sedan-chairs to ten routs in one evening. When
+Edward was elevated upon their shoulders he could not help being
+gratified with the romantic effect produced by the breaking up of this
+sylvan camp. [Footnote: See Note 25.]
+
+The various tribes assembled, each at the pibroch of their native clan,
+and each headed by their patriarchal ruler. Some, who had already begun
+to retire, were seen winding up the hills, or descending the passes
+which led to the scene of action, the sound of their bagpipes dying
+upon the ear. Others made still a moving picture upon the narrow plain,
+forming various changeful groups, their feathers and loose plaids
+waving in the morning breeze, and their arms glittering in the rising
+sun. Most of the Chiefs came to take farewell of Waverley, and to
+express their anxious hope they might again, and speedily, meet; but
+the care of Fergus abridged the ceremony of taking leave. At length,
+his own men being completely assembled and mustered, Mac-Ivor commenced
+his march, but not towards the quarter from which they had come. He
+gave Edward to understand that the greater part of his followers now on
+the field were bound on a distant expedition, and that when he had
+deposited him in the house of a gentleman, who he was sure would pay
+him every attention, he himself should be under the necessity of
+accompanying them the greater part of the way, but would lose no time
+in rejoining his friend.
+
+Waverley was rather surprised that Fergus had not mentioned this
+ulterior destination when they set out upon the hunting-party; but his
+situation did not admit of many interrogatories. The greater part of
+the clansmen went forward under the guidance of old Ballenkeiroch and
+Evan Dhu Maccombich, apparently in high spirits. A few remained for the
+purpose of escorting the Chieftain, who walked by the side of Edward's
+litter, and attended him with the most affectionate assiduity. About
+noon, after a journey which the nature of the conveyance, the pain of
+his bruises, and the roughness of the way rendered inexpressibly
+painful, Waverley was hospitably received into the house of a gentleman
+related to Fergus, who had prepared for him every accommodation which
+the simple habits of living then universal in the Highlands put in his
+power. In this person, an old man about seventy, Edward admired a relic
+of primitive simplicity. He wore no dress but what his estate afforded;
+the cloth was the fleece of his own sheep, woven by his own servants,
+and stained into tartan by the dyes produced from the herbs and lichens
+of the hills around him. His linen was spun by his daughters and
+maidservants, from his own flax; nor did his table, though plentiful,
+and varied with game and fish, offer an article but what was of native
+produce.
+
+Claiming himself no rights of clanship or vassalage, he was fortunate
+in the alliance and protection of Vich Ian Vohr and other bold and
+enterprising Chieftains, who protected him in the quiet unambitious
+life he loved. It is true, the youth born on his grounds were often
+enticed to leave him for the service of his more active friends; but a
+few old servants and tenants used to shake their grey locks when they
+heard their master censured for want of spirit, and observed, 'When the
+wind is still, the shower falls soft.' This good old man, whose charity
+and hospitality were unbounded, would have received Waverley with
+kindness had he been the meanest Saxon peasant, since his situation
+required assistance. But his attention to a friend and guest of Vich
+Ian Vohr was anxious and unremitted. Other embrocations were applied to
+the injured limb, and new spells were put in practice. At length, after
+more solicitude than was perhaps for the advantage of his health,
+Fergus took farewell of Edward for a few days, when, he said, he would
+return to Tomanrait, and hoped by that time Waverley would be able to
+ride one of the Highland ponies of his landlord, and in that manner
+return to Glennaquoich.
+
+The next day, when his good old host appeared, Edward learned that his
+friend had departed with the dawn, leaving none of his followers except
+Callum Beg, the sort of foot-page who used to attend his person, and
+who had now in charge to wait upon Waverley. On asking his host if he
+knew where the Chieftain was gone, the old man looked fixedly at him,
+with something mysterious and sad in the smile which was his only
+reply. Waverley repeated his question, to which his host answered in a
+proverb,--
+
+    What sent the messengers to hell,
+    Was asking what they knew full well.
+
+[Footnote: Corresponding to the Lowland saying, 'Mony ane speirs the
+gate they ken fu' weel.']
+
+He was about to proceed, but Callum Beg said, rather pertly, as Edward
+thought, that 'Ta Tighearnach (i.e. the Chief) did not like ta
+Sassenagh duinhe-wassel to be pingled wi' mickle speaking, as she was
+na tat weel.' From this Waverley concluded he should disoblige his
+friend by inquiring of a stranger the object of a journey which he
+himself had not communicated.
+
+It is unnecessary to trace the progress of our hero's recovery. The
+sixth morning had arrived, and he was able to walk about with a staff,
+when Fergus returned with about a score of his men. He seemed in the
+highest spirits, congratulated Waverley on his progress towards
+recovery, and finding he was able to sit on horseback, proposed their
+immediate return to Glennaquoich. Waverley joyfully acceded, for the
+form of its fair mistress had lived in his dreams during all the time
+of his confinement.
+
+    Now he has ridden o'er moor and moss,
+        O'er hill and many a glen,
+
+Fergus, all the while, with his myrmidons, striding stoutly by his
+side, or diverging to get a shot at a roe or a heath-cock. Waverley's
+bosom beat thick when they approached the old tower of Ian nan
+Chaistel, and could distinguish the fair form of its mistress advancing
+to meet them.
+
+Fergus began immediately, with his usual high spirits, to exclaim,
+'Open your gates, incomparable princess, to the wounded Moor Abindarez,
+whom Rodrigo de Narvez, constable of Antiquera, conveys to your castle;
+or open them, if you like it better, to the renowned Marquis of Mantua,
+the sad attendant of his half-slain friend Baldovinos of the Mountain.
+Ah, long rest to thy soul, Cervantes! without quoting thy remnants, how
+should I frame my language to befit romantic ears!'
+
+Flora now advanced, and welcoming Waverley with much kindness,
+expressed her regret for his accident, of which she had already heard
+particulars, and her surprise that her brother should not have taken
+better care to put a stranger on his guard against the perils of the
+sport in which he engaged him. Edward easily exculpated the Chieftain,
+who, indeed, at his own personal risk, had probably saved his life.
+
+This greeting over, Fergus said three or four words to his sister in
+Gaelic. The tears instantly sprung to her eyes, but they seemed to be
+tears of devotion and joy, for she looked up to heaven and folded her
+hands as in a solemn expression of prayer or gratitude. After the pause
+of a minute, she presented to Edward some letters which had been
+forwarded from Tully-Veolan during his absence, and at the same time
+delivered some to her brother. To the latter she likewise gave three or
+four numbers of the Caledonian Mercury, the only newspaper which was
+then published to the north of the Tweed.
+
+Both gentlemen retired to examine their despatches, and Edward speedily
+found that those which he had received contained matters of very deep
+interest.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXV
+
+NEWS FROM ENGLAND
+
+
+The letters which Waverley had hitherto received from his relations in
+England were not such as required any particular notice in this
+narrative. His father usually wrote to him with the pompous affectation
+of one who was too much oppressed by public affairs to find leisure to
+attend to those of his own family. Now and then he mentioned persons of
+rank in Scotland to whom he wished his son should pay some attention;
+but Waverley, hitherto occupied by the amusements which he had found at
+Tully-Veolan and Glennaquoich, dispensed with paying any attention to
+hints so coldly thrown out, especially as distance, shortness of leave
+of absence, and so forth furnished a ready apology. But latterly the
+burden of Mr. Richard Waverley's paternal epistles consisted in certain
+mysterious hints of greatness and influence which he was speedily to
+attain, and which would ensure his son's obtaining the most rapid
+promotion, should he remain in the military service. Sir Everard's
+letters were of a different tenor. They were short; for the good
+Baronet was none of your illimitable correspondents, whose manuscript
+overflows the folds of their large post paper, and leaves no room for
+the seal; but they were kind and affectionate, and seldom concluded
+without some allusion to our hero's stud, some question about the state
+of his purse, and a special inquiry after such of his recruits as had
+preceded him from Waverley-Honour. Aunt Rachel charged him to remember
+his principles of religion, to take care of his health, to beware of
+Scotch mists, which, she had heard, would wet an Englishman through and
+through, never to go out at night without his great-coat, and, above
+all, to wear flannel next to his skin.
+
+Mr. Pembroke only wrote to our hero one letter, but it was of the bulk
+of six epistles of these degenerate days, containing, in the moderate
+compass of ten folio pages, closely written, a precis of a
+supplementary quarto manuscript of addenda, delenda, et corrigenda in
+reference to the two tracts with which he had presented Waverley. This
+he considered as a mere sop in the pan to stay the appetite of Edward's
+curiosity until he should find an opportunity of sending down the
+volume itself, which was much too heavy for the post, and which he
+proposed to accompany with certain interesting pamphlets, lately
+published by his friend in Little Britain, with whom he had kept up a
+sort of literary correspondence, in virtue of which the library shelves
+of Waverley-Honour were loaded with much trash, and a good round bill,
+seldom summed in fewer than three figures, was yearly transmitted, in
+which Sir Everard Waverley of Waverley-Honour, Bart., was marked Dr. to
+Jonathan Grubbet, bookseller and stationer, Little Britain. Such had
+hitherto been the style of the letters which Edward had received from
+England; but the packet delivered to him at Glennaquoich was of a
+different and more interesting complexion. It would be impossible for
+the reader, even were I to insert the letters at full length, to
+comprehend the real cause of their being written, without a glance into
+the interior of the British cabinet at the period in question.
+
+The ministers of the day happened (no very singular event) to be
+divided into two parties; the weakest of which, making up by assiduity
+of intrigue their inferiority in real consequence, had of late acquired
+some new proselytes, and with them the hope of superseding their rivals
+in the favour of their sovereign, and overpowering them in the House of
+Commons. Amongst others, they had thought it worth while to practise
+upon Richard Waverley. This honest gentleman, by a grave mysterious
+demeanour, an attention to the etiquette of business rather more than
+to its essence, a facility in making long dull speeches, consisting of
+truisms and commonplaces, hashed up with a technical jargon of office,
+which prevented the inanity of his orations from being discovered, had
+acquired a certain name and credit in public life, and even
+established, with many, the character of a profound politician; none of
+your shining orators, indeed, whose talents evaporate in tropes of
+rhetoric and flashes of wit, but one possessed of steady parts for
+business, which would wear well, as the ladies say in choosing their
+silks, and ought in all reason to be good for common and every-day use,
+since they were confessedly formed of no holiday texture.
+
+This faith had become so general that the insurgent party in the
+cabinet, of which we have made mention, after sounding Mr. Richard
+Waverley, were so satisfied with his sentiments and abilities as to
+propose that, in case of a certain revolution in the ministry, he
+should take an ostensible place in the new order of things, not indeed
+of the very first rank, but greatly higher, in point both of emolument
+and influence, than that which he now enjoyed. There was no resisting
+so tempting a proposal, notwithstanding that the Great Man under whose
+patronage he had enlisted, and by whose banner he had hitherto stood
+firm, was the principal object of the proposed attack by the new
+allies. Unfortunately this fair scheme of ambition was blighted in the
+very bud by a premature movement. All the official gentlemen concerned
+in it who hesitated to take the part of a voluntary resignation were
+informed that the king had no further occasion for their services; and
+in Richard Waverley's case, which the minister considered as aggravated
+by ingratitude, dismissal was accompanied by something like personal
+contempt and contumely. The public, and even the party of whom he
+shared the fall, sympathised little in the disappointment of this
+selfish and interested statesman; and he retired to the country under
+the comfortable reflection that he had lost, at the same time,
+character, credit, and,--what he at least equally deplored,--emolument.
+
+Richard Waverley's letter to his son upon this occasion was a
+masterpiece of its kind. Aristides himself could not have made out a
+harder case. An unjust monarch and an ungrateful country were the
+burden of each rounded paragraph. He spoke of long services and
+unrequited sacrifices; though the former had been overpaid by his
+salary, and nobody could guess in what the latter consisted, unless it
+were in his deserting, not from conviction, but for the lucre of gain,
+the Tory principles of his family. In the conclusion, his resentment
+was wrought to such an excess by the force of his own oratory, that he
+could not repress some threats of vengeance, however vague and
+impotent, and finally acquainted his son with his pleasure that he
+should testify his sense of the ill-treatment he had sustained by
+throwing up his commission as soon as the letter reached him. This, he
+said, was also his uncle's desire, as he would himself intimate in due
+course.
+
+Accordingly, the next letter which Edward opened was from Sir Everard.
+His brother's disgrace seemed to have removed from his well-natured
+bosom all recollection of their differences, and, remote as he was from
+every means of learning that Richard's disgrace was in reality only the
+just as well as natural consequence of his own unsuccessful intrigues,
+the good but credulous Baronet at once set it down as a new and
+enormous instance of the injustice of the existing government. It was
+true, he said, and he must not disguise it even from Edward, that his
+father could not have sustained such an insult as was now, for the
+first time, offered to one of his house, unless he had subjected
+himself to it by accepting of an employment under the present system.
+Sir Everard had no doubt that he now both saw and felt the magnitude of
+this error, and it should be his (Sir Everard's) business to take care
+that the cause of his regret should not extend itself to pecuniary
+consequences. It was enough for a Waverley to have sustained the public
+disgrace; the patrimonial injury could easily be obviated by the head
+of their family. But it was both the opinion of Mr. Richard Waverley
+and his own that Edward, the representative of the family of
+Waverley-Honour, should not remain in a situation which subjected him
+also to such treatment as that with which his father had been
+stigmatised. He requested his nephew therefore to take the fittest, and
+at the same time the most speedy, opportunity of transmitting his
+resignation to the War Office, and hinted, moreover, that little
+ceremony was necessary where so little had been used to his father. He
+sent multitudinous greetings to the Baron of Bradwardine.
+
+A letter from Aunt Rachel spoke out even more plainly. She considered
+the disgrace of brother Richard as the just reward of his forfeiting
+his allegiance to a lawful though exiled sovereign, and taking the
+oaths to an alien; a concession which her grandfather, Sir Nigel
+Waverley, refused to make, either to the Roundhead Parliament or to
+Cromwell, when his life and fortune stood in the utmost extremity. She
+hoped her dear Edward would follow the footsteps of his ancestors, and
+as speedily as possible get rid of the badge of servitude to the
+usurping family, and regard the wrongs sustained by his father as an
+admonition from Heaven that every desertion of the line of loyalty
+becomes its own punishment. She also concluded with her respects to Mr.
+Bradwardine, and begged Waverley would inform her whether his daughter,
+Miss Rose, was old enough to wear a pair of very handsome ear-rings,
+which she proposed to send as a token of her affection. The good lady
+also desired to be informed whether Mr. Bradwardine took as much Scotch
+snuff and danced as unweariedly as he did when he was at
+Waverley-Honour about thirty years ago.
+
+These letters, as might have been expected, highly excited Waverley's
+indignation. From the desultory style of his studies, he had not any
+fixed political opinion to place in opposition to the movements of
+indignation which he felt at his father's supposed wrongs. Of the real
+cause of his disgrace Edward was totally ignorant; nor had his habits
+at all led him to investigate the politics of the period in which he
+lived, or remark the intrigues in which his father had been so actively
+engaged. Indeed, any impressions which he had accidentally adopted
+concerning the parties of the times were (owing to the society in which
+he had lived at Waverley-Honour) of a nature rather unfavourable to the
+existing government and dynasty. He entered, therefore, without
+hesitation into the resentful feeling of the relations who had the best
+title to dictate his conduct, and not perhaps the less willingly when
+he remembered the tedium of his quarters, and the inferior figure which
+he had made among the officers of his regiment. If he could have had
+any doubt upon the subject it would have been decided by the following
+letter from his commanding officer, which, as it is very short, shall
+be inserted verbatim:--
+
+SIR,--
+
+Having carried somewhat beyond the line of my duty an indulgence which
+even the lights of nature, and much more those of Christianity, direct
+towards errors which may arise from youth and inexperience, and that
+altogether without effect, I am reluctantly compelled, at the present
+crisis, to use the only remaining remedy which is in my power. You are,
+therefore, hereby commanded to repair to--, the headquarters of the
+regiment, within three days after the date of this letter. If you shall
+fail to do so, I must report you to the War Office as absent without
+leave, and also take other steps, which will be disagreeable to you as
+well as to,
+
+Sir,
+
+Your obedient Servant,
+
+J. GARDINER, Lieut.-Col.
+
+Commanding the ----Regt. Dragoons.
+
+Edward's blood boiled within him as he read this letter. He had been
+accustomed from his very infancy to possess in a great measure the
+disposal of his own time, and thus acquired habits which rendered the
+rules of military discipline as unpleasing to him in this as they were
+in some other respects. An idea that in his own case they would not be
+enforced in a very rigid manner had also obtained full possession of
+his mind, and had hitherto been sanctioned by the indulgent conduct of
+his lieutenant-colonel. Neither had anything occurred, to his
+knowledge, that should have induced his commanding officer, without any
+other warning than the hints we noticed at the end of the fourteenth
+chapter, so suddenly to assume a harsh and, as Edward deemed it, so
+insolent a tone of dictatorial authority. Connecting it with the
+letters he had just received from his family, he could not but suppose
+that it was designed to make him feel, in his present situation, the
+same pressure of authority which had been exercised in his father's
+case, and that the whole was a concerted scheme to depress and degrade
+every member of the Waverley family.
+
+Without a pause, therefore, Edward wrote a few cold lines, thanking his
+lieutenant-colonel for past civilities, and expressing regret that he
+should have chosen to efface the remembrance of them by assuming a
+different tone towards him. The strain of his letter, as well as what
+he (Edward) conceived to be his duty in the present crisis, called upon
+him to lay down his commission; and he therefore inclosed the formal
+resignation of a situation which subjected him to so unpleasant a
+correspondence, and requested Colonel Gardiner would have the goodness
+to forward it to the proper authorities.
+
+Having finished this magnanimous epistle, he felt somewhat uncertain
+concerning the terms in which his resignation ought to be expressed,
+upon which subject he resolved to consult Fergus Mac-Ivor. It may be
+observed in passing that the bold and prompt habits of thinking,
+acting, and speaking which distinguished this young Chieftain had given
+him a considerable ascendency over the mind of Waverley. Endowed with
+at least equal powers of understanding, and with much finer genius,
+Edward yet stooped to the bold and decisive activity of an intellect
+which was sharpened by the habit of acting on a preconceived and
+regular system, as well as by extensive knowledge of the world.
+
+When Edward found his friend, the latter had still in his hand the
+newspaper which he had perused, and advanced to meet him with the
+embarrassment of one who has unpleasing news to communicate. 'Do your
+letters, Captain Waverley, confirm the unpleasing information which I
+find in this paper?'
+
+He put the paper into his hand, where his father's disgrace was
+registered in the most bitter terms, transferred probably from some
+London journal. At the end of the paragraph was this remarkable
+innuendo:--
+
+'We understand that "this same RICHARD who hath done all this" is not
+the only example of the WAVERING HONOUR of W-v-r-ly H-n-r. See the
+Gazette of this day.'
+
+With hurried and feverish apprehension our hero turned to the place
+referred to, and found therein recorded, 'Edward Waverley, captain in
+---- regiment dragoons, superseded for absence without leave'; and in
+the list of military promotions, referring to the same regiment, he
+discovered this farther article, 'Lieut. Julius Butler, to be captain,
+VICE Edward Waverley, superseded.'
+
+Our hero's bosom glowed with the resentment which undeserved and
+apparently premeditated insult was calculated to excite in the bosom of
+one who had aspired after honour, and was thus wantonly held up to
+public scorn and disgrace. Upon comparing the date of his colonel's
+letter with that of the article in the Gazette, he perceived that his
+threat of making a report upon his absence had been literally
+fulfilled, and without inquiry, as it seemed, whether Edward had either
+received his summons or was disposed to comply with it. The whole,
+therefore, appeared a formed plan to degrade him in the eyes of the
+public; and the idea of its having succeeded filled him with such
+bitter emotions that, after various attempts to conceal them, he at
+length threw himself into Mac-Ivor's arms, and gave vent to tears of
+shame and indignation.
+
+It was none of this Chieftain's faults to be indifferent to the wrongs
+of his friends; and for Edward, independent of certain plans with which
+he was connected, he felt a deep and sincere interest. The proceeding
+appeared as extraordinary to him as it had done to Edward. He indeed
+knew of more motives than Waverley was privy to for the peremptory
+order that he should join his regiment. But that, without further
+inquiry into the circumstances of a necessary delay, the commanding
+officer, in contradiction to his known and established character,
+should have proceeded in so harsh and unusual a manner was a mystery
+which he could not penetrate. He soothed our hero, however, to the best
+of his power, and began to turn his thoughts on revenge for his
+insulted honour.
+
+Edward eagerly grasped at the idea. 'Will you carry a message for me to
+Colonel Gardiner, my dear Fergus, and oblige me for ever?'
+
+Fergus paused. 'It is an act of friendship which you should command,
+could it be useful, or lead to the righting your honour; but in the
+present case I doubt if your commanding officer would give you the
+meeting on account of his having taken measures which, however harsh
+and exasperating, were still within the strict bounds of his duty.
+Besides, Gardiner is a precise Huguenot, and has adopted certain ideas
+about the sinfulness of such rencontres, from which it would be
+impossible to make him depart, especially as his courage is beyond all
+suspicion. And besides, I--I, to say the truth--I dare not at this
+moment, for some very weighty reasons, go near any of the military
+quarters or garrisons belonging to this government.'
+
+'And am I,' said Waverley, 'to sit down quiet and contented under the
+injury I have received?'
+
+'That will I never advise my friend,' replied Mac-Ivor. 'But I would
+have vengeance to fall on the head, not on the hand, on the tyrannical
+and oppressive government which designed and directed these
+premeditated and reiterated insults, not on the tools of office which
+they employed in the execution of the injuries they aimed at you.'
+
+'On the government!' said Waverley.
+
+'Yes,' replied the impetuous Highlander, 'on the usurping House of
+Hanover, whom your grandfather would no more have served than he would
+have taken wages of red-hot gold from the great fiend of hell!'
+
+'But since the time of my grandfather two generations of this dynasty
+have possessed the throne,' said Edward coolly.
+
+'True,' replied the Chieftain; 'and because we have passively given
+them so long the means of showing their native character,--because both
+you and I myself have lived in quiet submission, have even truckled to
+the times so far as to accept commissions under them, and thus have
+given them an opportunity of disgracing us publicly by resuming them,
+are we not on that account to resent injuries which our fathers only
+apprehended, but which we have actually sustained? Or is the cause of
+the unfortunate Stuart family become less just, because their title has
+devolved upon an heir who is innocent of the charges of misgovernment
+brought against his father? Do you remember the lines of your favourite
+poet?
+
+    Had Richard unconstrain'd resign'd the throne,
+    A king can give no more than is his own;
+    The title stood entail'd had Richard had a son.
+
+You see, my dear Waverley, I can quote poetry as well as Flora and you.
+But come, clear your moody brow, and trust to me to show you an
+honourable road to a speedy and glorious revenge. Let us seek Flora,
+who perhaps has more news to tell us of what has occurred during our
+absence. She will rejoice to hear that you are relieved of your
+servitude. But first add a postscript to your letter, marking the time
+when you received this calvinistical colonel's first summons, and
+express your regret that the hastiness of his proceedings prevented
+your anticipating them by sending your resignation. Then let him blush
+for his injustice.'
+
+The letter was sealed accordingly, covering a formal resignation of the
+commission, and Mac-Ivor despatched it with some letters of his own by
+a special messenger, with charge to put them into the nearest
+post-office in the Lowlands.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVI
+
+AN ECLAIRCISSEMENT
+
+
+The hint which the Chieftain had thrown out respecting Flora was not
+unpremeditated. He had observed with great satisfaction the growing
+attachment of Waverley to his sister, nor did he see any bar to their
+union, excepting the situation which Waverley's father held in the
+ministry, and Edward's own commission in the army of George II. These
+obstacles were now removed, and in a manner which apparently paved the
+way for the son's becoming reconciled to another allegiance. In every
+other respect the match would be most eligible. The safety, happiness,
+and honourable provision of his sister, whom he dearly loved, appeared
+to be ensured by the proposed union; and his heart swelled when he
+considered how his own interest would be exalted in the eyes of the
+ex-monarch to whom he had dedicated his service, by an alliance with
+one of those ancient, powerful, and wealthy English families of the
+steady cavalier faith, to awaken whose decayed attachment to the Stuart
+family was now a matter of such vital importance to the Stuart cause.
+Nor could Fergus perceive any obstacle to such a scheme. Waverley's
+attachment was evident; and as his person was handsome, and his taste
+apparently coincided with her own, he anticipated no opposition on the
+part of Flora. Indeed, between his ideas of patriarchal power and those
+which he had acquired in France respecting the disposal of females in
+marriage, any opposition from his sister, dear as she was to him, would
+have been the last obstacle on which he would have calculated, even had
+the union been less eligible.
+
+Influenced by these feelings, the Chief now led Waverley in quest of
+Miss Mac-Ivor, not without the hope that the present agitation of his
+guest's spirits might give him courage to cut short what Fergus termed
+the romance of the courtship. They found Flora, with her faithful
+attendants, Una and Cathleen, busied in preparing what appeared to
+Waverley to be white bridal favours. Disguising as well as he could the
+agitation of his mind, Waverley asked for what joyful occasion Miss
+Mac-Ivor made such ample preparation.
+
+'It is for Fergus's bridal,' she said, smiling.
+
+'Indeed!' said Edward; 'he has kept his secret well. I hope he will
+allow me to be his bride's-man.'
+
+'That is a man's office, but not yours, as Beatrice says,' retorted
+Flora.
+
+'And who is the fair lady, may I be permitted to ask, Miss Mac-Ivor?'
+
+'Did not I tell you long since that Fergus wooed no bride but Honour?'
+answered Flora.
+
+'And am I then incapable of being his assistant and counsellor in the
+pursuit of honour?' said our hero, colouring deeply. 'Do I rank so low
+in your opinion?'
+
+'Far from it, Captain Waverley. I would to God you were of our
+determination! and made use of the expression which displeased you,
+solely
+
+    Because you are not of our quality,
+    But stand against us as an enemy.'
+
+'That time is past, sister,' said Fergus; 'and you may wish Edward
+Waverley (no longer captain) joy of being freed from the slavery to an
+usurper, implied in that sable and ill-omened emblem.'
+
+'Yes,' said Waverley, undoing the cockade from his hat, 'it has pleased
+the king who bestowed this badge upon me to resume it in a manner which
+leaves me little reason to regret his service.'
+
+'Thank God for that!' cried the enthusiast; 'and O that they may be
+blind enough to treat every man of honour who serves them with the same
+indignity, that I may have less to sigh for when the struggle
+approaches!'
+
+'And now, sister,' said the Chieftain, 'replace his cockade with one of
+a more lively colour. I think it was the fashion of the ladies of yore
+to arm and send forth their knights to high achievement.'
+
+'Not,' replied the lady, 'till the knight adventurer had well weighed
+the justice and the danger of the cause, Fergus. Mr. Waverley is just
+now too much agitated by feelings of recent emotion for me to press
+upon him a resolution of consequence.'
+
+Waverley felt half alarmed at the thought of adopting the badge of what
+was by the majority of the kingdom esteemed rebellion, yet he could not
+disguise his chagrin at the coldness with which Flora parried her
+brother's hint. 'Miss Mac-Ivor, I perceive, thinks the knight unworthy
+of her encouragement and favour,' said he, somewhat bitterly.
+
+'Not so, Mr. Waverley,' she replied, with great sweetness. 'Why should
+I refuse my brother's valued friend a boon which I am distributing to
+his whole clan? Most willingly would I enlist every man of honour in
+the cause to which my brother has devoted himself. But Fergus has taken
+his measures with his eyes open. His life has been devoted to this
+cause from his cradle; with him its call is sacred, were it even a
+summons to the tomb. But how can I wish you, Mr. Waverley, so new to
+the world, so far from every friend who might advise and ought to
+influence you,--in a moment, too, of sudden pique and indignation,--how
+can I wish you to plunge yourself at once into so desperate an
+enterprise?'
+
+Fergus, who did not understand these delicacies, strode through the
+apartment biting his lip, and then, with a constrained smile, said,
+'Well, sister, I leave you to act your new character of mediator
+between the Elector of Hanover and the subjects of your lawful
+sovereign and benefactor,' and left the room.
+
+There was a painful pause, which was at length broken by Miss Mac-Ivor.
+'My brother is unjust,' she said, 'because he can bear no interruption
+that seems to thwart his loyal zeal.'
+
+'And do you not share his ardour?' asked Waverley,
+
+'Do I not?' answered Flora. 'God knows mine exceeds his, if that be
+possible. But I am not, like him, rapt by the bustle of military
+preparation, and the infinite detail necessary to the present
+undertaking, beyond consideration of the grand principles of justice
+and truth, on which our enterprise is grounded; and these, I am
+certain, can only be furthered by measures in themselves true and just.
+To operate upon your present feelings, my dear Mr. Waverley, to induce
+you to an irretrievable step, of which you have not considered either
+the justice or the danger, is, in my poor judgment, neither the one nor
+the other.'
+
+'Incomparable Flora!' said Edward, taking her hand, 'how much do I need
+such a monitor!'
+
+'A better one by far,' said Flora, gently withdrawing her hand, 'Mr.
+Waverley will always find in his own bosom, when he will give its small
+still voice leisure to be heard.'
+
+'No, Miss Mac-Ivor, I dare not hope it; a thousand circumstances of
+fatal self-indulgence have made me the creature rather of imagination
+than reason. Durst I but hope--could I but think--that you would deign
+to be to me that affectionate, that condescending friend, who would
+strengthen me to redeem my errors, my future life--'
+
+'Hush, my dear sir! now you carry your joy at escaping the hands of a
+Jacobite recruiting officer to an unparalleled excess of gratitude.'
+
+'Nay, dear Flora, trifle with me no longer; you cannot mistake the
+meaning of those feelings which I have almost involuntarily expressed;
+and since I have broken the barrier of silence, let me profit by my
+audacity. Or may I, with your permission, mention to your brother--'
+
+'Not for the world, Mr. Waverley!'
+
+'What am I to understand?' said Edward. 'Is there any fatal bar--has
+any prepossession--'
+
+'None, sir,' answered Flora. 'I owe it to myself to say that I never
+yet saw the person on whom I thought with reference to the present
+subject.'
+
+'The shortness of our acquaintance, perhaps--If Miss Mac-Ivor will
+deign to give me time--'
+
+'I have not even that excuse. Captain Waverley's character is so
+open--is, in short, of that nature that it cannot be misconstrued,
+either in its strength or its weakness.'
+
+'And for that weakness you despise me?' said Edward.
+
+'Forgive me, Mr. Waverley--and remember it is but within this half hour
+that there existed between us a barrier of a nature to me
+insurmountable, since I never could think of an officer in the service
+of the Elector of Hanover in any other light than as a casual
+acquaintance. Permit me then to arrange my ideas upon so unexpected a
+topic, and in less than an hour I will be ready to give you such
+reasons for the resolution I shall express as may be satisfactory at
+least, if not pleasing to you.' So saying Flora withdrew, leaving
+Waverley to meditate upon the manner in which she had received his
+addresses.
+
+Ere he could make up his mind whether to believe his suit had been
+acceptable or no, Fergus re-entered the apartment. 'What, a la mort,
+Waverley?' he cried. 'Come down with me to the court, and you shall see
+a sight worth all the tirades of your romances. An hundred firelocks,
+my friend, and as many broadswords, just arrived from good friends; and
+two or three hundred stout fellows almost fighting which shall first
+possess them. But let me look at you closer. Why, a true Highlander
+would say you had been blighted by an evil eye. Or can it be this silly
+girl that has thus blanked your spirit. Never mind her, dear Edward;
+the wisest of her sex are fools in what regards the business of life.'
+
+'Indeed, my good friend,' answered Waverley, 'all that I can charge
+against your sister is, that she is too sensible, too reasonable.'
+
+'If that be all, I ensure you for a louis-d'or against the mood lasting
+four-and-twenty hours. No woman was ever steadily sensible for that
+period; and I will engage, if that will please you, Flora shall be as
+unreasonable to-morrow as any of her sex. You must learn, my dear
+Edward, to consider women en mousquetaire.' So saying, he seized
+Waverley's arm and dragged him off to review his military preparations.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVII
+
+UPON THE SAME SUBJECT
+
+
+Fergus Mac-Ivor had too much tact and delicacy to renew the subject
+which he had interrupted. His head was, or appeared to be, so full of
+guns, broadswords, bonnets, canteens, and tartan hose that Waverley
+could not for some time draw his attention to any other topic.
+
+'Are you to take the field so soon, Fergus,' he asked, 'that you are
+making all these martial preparations?'
+
+'When we have settled that you go with me, you shall know all; but
+otherwise, the knowledge might rather be prejudicial to you.'
+
+'But are you serious in your purpose, with such inferior forces, to
+rise against an established government? It is mere frenzy.'
+
+'Laissez faire a Don Antoine; I shall take good care of myself. We
+shall at least use the compliment of Conan, who never got a stroke but
+he gave one. I would not, however,' continued the Chieftain, 'have you
+think me mad enough to stir till a favourable opportunity: I will not
+slip my dog before the game's afoot. But, once more, will you join with
+us, and you shall know all?'
+
+'How can I?' said Waverley; 'I, who have so lately held that commission
+which is now posting back to those that gave it? My accepting it
+implied a promise of fidelity, and an acknowledgment of the legality of
+the government.'
+
+'A rash promise,' answered Fergus, 'is not a steel handcuff, it may be
+shaken off, especially when it was given under deception, and has been
+repaid by insult. But if you cannot immediately make up your mind to a
+glorious revenge, go to England, and ere you cross the Tweed you will
+hear tidings that will make the world ring; and if Sir Everard be the
+gallant old cavalier I have heard him described by some of our HONEST
+gentlemen of the year one thousand seven hundred and fifteen, he will
+find you a better horse-troop and a better cause than you have lost.'
+
+'But your sister, Fergus?'
+
+'Out, hyperbolical fiend!' replied the Chief, laughing; 'how vexest
+thou this man! Speak'st thou of nothing but of ladies?'
+
+'Nay, be serious, my dear friend,' said Waverley; 'I feel that the
+happiness of my future life must depend upon the answer which Miss
+Mac-Ivor shall make to what I ventured to tell her this morning.'
+
+'And is this your very sober earnest,' said Fergus, more gravely, 'or
+are we in the land of romance and fiction?'
+
+'My earnest, undoubtedly. How could you suppose me jesting on such a
+subject?'
+
+'Then, in very sober earnest,' answered his friend, 'I am very glad to
+hear it; and so highly do I think of Flora, that you are the only man
+in England for whom I would say so much. But before you shake my hand
+so warmly, there is more to be considered. Your own family--will they
+approve your connecting yourself with the sister of a high-born
+Highland beggar?'
+
+'My uncle's situation,' said Waverley, 'his general opinions, and his
+uniform indulgence, entitle me to say, that birth and personal
+qualities are all he would look to in such a connection. And where can
+I find both united in such excellence as in your sister?'
+
+'O nowhere! cela va sans dire,' replied Fergus, with a smile. 'But your
+father will expect a father's prerogative in being consulted.'
+
+'Surely; but his late breach with the ruling powers removes all
+apprehension of objection on his part, especially as I am convinced
+that my uncle will be warm in my cause.'
+
+'Religion perhaps,' said Fergus, 'may make obstacles, though we are not
+bigotted Catholics.'
+
+'My grandmother was of the Church of Rome, and her religion was never
+objected to by my family. Do not think of MY friends, dear Fergus; let
+me rather have your influence where it may be more necessary to remove
+obstacles--I mean with your lovely sister.'
+
+'My lovely sister,' replied Fergus, 'like her loving brother, is very
+apt to have a pretty decisive will of her own, by which, in this case,
+you must be ruled; but you shall not want my interest, nor my counsel.
+And, in the first place, I will give you one hint--Loyalty is her
+ruling passion; and since she could spell an English book she has been
+in love with the memory of the gallant Captain Wogan, who renounced the
+service of the usurper Cromwell to join the standard of Charles II,
+marched a handful of cavalry from London to the Highlands to join
+Middleton, then in arms for the king, and at length died gloriously in
+the royal cause. Ask her to show you some verses she made on his
+history and fate; they have been much admired, I assure you. The next
+point is--I think I saw Flora go up towards the waterfall a short time
+since; follow, man, follow! don't allow the garrison time to strengthen
+its purposes of resistance. Alerte a la muraille! Seek Flora out, and
+learn her decision as soon as you can, and Cupid go with you, while I
+go to look over belts and cartouch-boxes.'
+
+Waverley ascended the glen with an anxious and throbbing heart. Love,
+with all its romantic train of hopes, fears, and wishes, was mingled
+with other feelings of a nature less easily defined. He could not but
+remember how much this morning had changed his fate, and into what a
+complication of perplexity it was likely to plunge him. Sunrise had
+seen him possessed of an esteemed rank in the honourable profession of
+arms, his father to all appearance rapidly rising in the favour of his
+sovereign. All this had passed away like a dream: he himself was
+dishonoured, his father disgraced, and he had become involuntarily the
+confidant at least, if not the accomplice, of plans, dark, deep, and
+dangerous, which must infer either the subversion of the government he
+had so lately served or the destruction of all who had participated in
+them. Should Flora even listen to his suit favourably, what prospect
+was there of its being brought to a happy termination amid the tumult
+of an impending insurrection? Or how could he make the selfish request
+that she should leave Fergus, to whom she was so much attached, and,
+retiring with him to England, wait, as a distant spectator, the success
+of her brother's undertaking, or the ruin of all his hopes and
+fortunes? Or, on the other hand, to engage himself, with no other aid
+than his single arm, in the dangerous and precipitate counsels of the
+Chieftain, to be whirled along by him, the partaker of all his
+desperate and impetuous motions, renouncing almost the power of
+judging, or deciding upon the rectitude or prudence of his actions,
+this was no pleasing prospect for the secret pride of Waverley to stoop
+to. And yet what other conclusion remained, saving the rejection of his
+addresses by Flora, an alternative not to be thought of in the present
+high-wrought state of his feelings with anything short of mental agony.
+Pondering the doubtful and dangerous prospect before him, he at length
+arrived near the cascade, where, as Fergus had augured, he found Flora
+seated.
+
+She was quite alone, and as soon as she observed his approach she rose
+and came to meet him. Edward attempted to say something within the
+verge of ordinary compliment and conversation, but found himself
+unequal to the task. Flora seemed at first equally embarrassed, but
+recovered herself more speedily, and (an unfavourable augury for
+Waverley's suit) was the first to enter upon the subject of their last
+interview. 'It is too important, in every point of view, Mr. Waverley,
+to permit me to leave you in doubt on my sentiments.'
+
+'Do not speak them speedily,' said Waverley, much agitated, 'unless
+they are such as I fear, from your manner, I must not dare to
+anticipate. Let time--let my future conduct--let your brother's
+influence--'
+
+'Forgive me, Mr. Waverley,' said Flora, her complexion a little
+heightened, but her voice firm and composed. 'I should incur my own
+heavy censure did I delay expressing my sincere conviction that I can
+never regard you otherwise than as a valued friend. I should do you the
+highest injustice did I conceal my sentiments for a moment. I see I
+distress you, and I grieve for it, but better now than later; and O,
+better a thousand times, Mr. Waverley, that you should feel a present
+momentary disappointment than the long and heart-sickening griefs which
+attend a rash and ill-assorted marriage!'
+
+'Good God!' exclaimed Waverley, 'why should you anticipate such
+consequences from a union where birth is equal, where fortune is
+favourable, where, if I may venture to say so, the tastes are similar,
+where you allege no preference for another, where you even express a
+favourable opinion of him whom you reject?'
+
+'Mr. Waverley, I HAVE that favourable opinion,' answered Flora; 'and so
+strongly that, though I would rather have been silent on the grounds of
+my resolution, you shall command them, if you exact such a mark of my
+esteem and confidence.'
+
+She sat down upon a fragment of rock, and Waverley, placing himself
+near her, anxiously pressed for the explanation she offered.
+
+'I dare hardly,' she said, 'tell you the situation of my feelings, they
+are so different from those usually ascribed to young women at my
+period of life; and I dare hardly touch upon what I conjecture to be
+the nature of yours, lest I should give offence where I would willingly
+administer consolation. For myself, from my infancy till this day I
+have had but one wish--the restoration of my royal benefactors to their
+rightful throne. It is impossible to express to you the devotion of my
+feelings to this single subject; and I will frankly confess that it has
+so occupied my mind as to exclude every thought respecting what is
+called my own settlement in life. Let me but live to see the day of
+that happy restoration, and a Highland cottage, a French convent, or an
+English palace will be alike indifferent to me.'
+
+'But, dearest Flora, how is your enthusiastic zeal for the exiled
+family inconsistent with my happiness?'
+
+'Because you seek, or ought to seek, in the object of your attachment a
+heart whose principal delight should be in augmenting your domestic
+felicity and returning your affection, even to the height of romance.
+To a man of less keen sensibility, and less enthusiastic tenderness of
+disposition, Flora Mac-Ivor might give content, if not happiness; for,
+were the irrevocable words spoken, never would she be deficient in the
+duties which she vowed.'
+
+'And why,--why, Miss Mac-Ivor, should you think yourself a more
+valuable treasure to one who is less capable of loving, of admiring
+you, than to me?'
+
+'Simply because the tone of our affections would be more in unison, and
+because his more blunted sensibility would not require the return of
+enthusiasm which I have not to bestow. But you, Mr. Waverley, would for
+ever refer to the idea of domestic happiness which your imagination is
+capable of painting, and whatever fell short of that ideal
+representation would be construed into coolness and indifference, while
+you might consider the enthusiasm with which I regarded the success of
+the royal family as defrauding your affection of its due return.'
+
+'In other words, Miss Mac-Ivor, you cannot love me?' said her suitor
+dejectedly.
+
+'I could esteem you, Mr. Waverley, as much, perhaps more, than any man
+I have ever seen; but I cannot love you as you ought to be loved. O! do
+not, for your own sake, desire so hazardous an experiment! The woman
+whom you marry ought to have affections and opinions moulded upon
+yours. Her studies ought to be your studies; her wishes, her feelings,
+her hopes, her fears, should all mingle with yours. She should enhance
+your pleasures, share your sorrows, and cheer your melancholy.'
+
+'And why will not you, Miss Mac-Ivor, who can so well describe a happy
+union, why will not you be yourself the person you describe?'
+
+'Is it possible you do not yet comprehend me?' answered Flora. 'Have I
+not told you that every keener sensation of my mind is bent exclusively
+towards an event upon which, indeed, I have no power but those of my
+earnest prayers?'
+
+'And might not the granting the suit I solicit,' said Waverley, too
+earnest on his purpose to consider what he was about to say, 'even
+advance the interest to which you have devoted yourself? My family is
+wealthy and powerful, inclined in principles to the Stuart race, and
+should a favourable opportunity--'
+
+'A favourable opportunity!' said Flora--somewhat scornfully. 'Inclined
+in principles! Can such lukewarm adherence be honourable to yourselves,
+or gratifying to your lawful sovereign? Think, from my present
+feelings, what I should suffer when I held the place of member in a
+family where the rights which I hold most sacred are subjected to cold
+discussion, and only deemed worthy of support when they shall appear on
+the point of triumphing without it!'
+
+'Your doubts,' quickly replied Waverley, 'are unjust as far as concerns
+myself. The cause that I shall assert, I dare support through every
+danger, as undauntedly as the boldest who draws sword in its behalf.'
+
+'Of that,' answered Flora, 'I cannot doubt for a moment. But consult
+your own good sense and reason rather than a prepossession hastily
+adopted, probably only because you have met a young woman possessed of
+the usual accomplishments in a sequestered and romantic situation. Let
+your part in this great and perilous drama rest upon conviction, and
+not on a hurried and probably a temporary feeling.'
+
+Waverley attempted to reply, but his words failed him. Every sentiment
+that Flora had uttered vindicated the strength of his attachment; for
+even her loyalty, although wildly enthusiastic, was generous and noble,
+and disdained to avail itself of any indirect means of supporting the
+cause to which she was devoted.
+
+After walking a little way in silence down the path, Flora thus resumed
+the conversation.--'One word more, Mr. Waverley, ere we bid farewell to
+this topic for ever; and forgive my boldness if that word have the air
+of advice. My brother Fergus is anxious that you should join him in his
+present enterprise. But do not consent to this; you could not, by your
+single exertions, further his success, and you would inevitably share
+his fall, if it be God's pleasure that fall he must. Your character
+would also suffer irretrievably. Let me beg you will return to your own
+country; and, having publicly freed yourself from every tie to the
+usurping government, I trust you will see cause, and find opportunity,
+to serve your injured sovereign with effect, and stand forth, as your
+loyal ancestors, at the head of your natural followers and adherents, a
+worthy representative of the house of Waverley.'
+
+'And should I be so happy as thus to distinguish myself, might I not
+hope--'
+
+'Forgive my interruption,' said Flora. 'The present time only is ours,
+and I can but explain to you with candour the feelings which I now
+entertain; how they might be altered by a train of events too
+favourable perhaps to be hoped for, it were in vain even to conjecture.
+Only be assured, Mr. Waverley, that, after my brother's honour and
+happiness, there is none which I shall more sincerely pray for than for
+yours.'
+
+With these words she parted from him, for they were now arrived where
+two paths separated. Waverley reached the castle amidst a medley of
+conflicting passions. He avoided any private interview with Fergus, as
+he did not find himself able either to encounter his raillery or reply
+to his solicitations. The wild revelry of the feast, for Mac-Ivor kept
+open table for his clan, served in some degree to stun reflection. When
+their festivity was ended, he began to consider how he should again
+meet Miss Mac-Ivor after the painful and interesting explanation of the
+morning. But Flora did not appear. Fergus, whose eyes flashed when he
+was told by Cathleen that her mistress designed to keep her apartment
+that evening, went himself in quest of her; but apparently his
+remonstrances were in vain, for he returned with a heightened
+complexion and manifest symptoms of displeasure. The rest of the
+evening passed on without any allusion, on the part either of Fergus or
+Waverley, to the subject which engrossed the reflections of the latter,
+and perhaps of both.
+
+When retired to his own apartment, Edward endeavoured to sum up the
+business of the day. That the repulse he had received from Flora would
+be persisted in for the present, there was no doubt. But could he hope
+for ultimate success in case circumstances permitted the renewal of his
+suit? Would the enthusiastic loyalty, which at this animating moment
+left no room for a softer passion, survive, at least in its engrossing
+force, the success or the failure of the present political
+machinations? And if so, could he hope that the interest which she had
+acknowledged him to possess in her favour might be improved into a
+warmer attachment? He taxed his memory to recall every word she had
+used, with the appropriate looks and gestures which had enforced them,
+and ended by finding himself in the same state of uncertainty. It was
+very late before sleep brought relief to the tumult of his mind, after
+the most painful and agitating day which he had ever passed.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVIII
+
+A LETTER FROM TULLY-VEOLAN
+
+
+In the morning, when Waverley's troubled reflections had for some time
+given way to repose, there came music to his dreams, but not the voice
+of Selma. He imagined himself transported back to Tully-Veolan, and
+that he heard Davie Gellatley singing in the court those matins which
+used generally to be the first sounds that disturbed his repose while a
+guest of the Baron of Bradwardine. The notes which suggested this
+vision continued, and waxed louder, until Edward awoke in earnest. The
+illusion, however, did not seem entirely dispelled. The apartment was
+in the fortress of lan nan Chaistel, but it was still the voice of
+Davie Gellatley that made the following lines resound under the
+window:--
+
+    My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
+    My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
+    A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe,
+    My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
+
+[Footnote: These lines form the burden of an old song to which Burns
+wrote additional verses.]
+
+Curious to know what could have determined Mr. Gellatley on an
+excursion of such unwonted extent, Edward began to dress himself in all
+haste, during which operation the minstrelsy of Davie changed its tune
+more than once:--
+
+    There's nought in the Highlands but syboes and leeks,
+    And lang-leggit callants gaun wanting the breeks,
+    Wanting the breeks, and without hose and shoon,
+    But we'll a'win the breeks when King Jamie comes hame.
+
+[Footnote: These lines are also ancient, and I believe to the tune of
+We'll never hae peace till Jamie comes hame, to which Burns likewise
+wrote some verses.]
+
+By the time Waverley was dressed and had issued forth, David had
+associated himself with two or three of the numerous Highland loungers
+who always graced the gates of the castle with their presence, and was
+capering and dancing full merrily in the doubles and full career of a
+Scotch foursome reel, to the music of his own whistling. In this double
+capacity of dancer and musician he continued, until an idle piper, who
+observed his zeal, obeyed the unanimous call of seid suas (i.e. blow
+up), and relieved him from the latter part of his trouble. Young and
+old then mingled in the dance as they could find partners. The
+appearance of Waverley did not interrupt David's exercise, though he
+contrived, by grinning, nodding, and throwing one or two inclinations
+of the body into the graces with which he performed the Highland fling,
+to convey to our hero symptoms of recognition. Then, while busily
+employed in setting, whooping all the while, and snapping his fingers
+over his head, he of a sudden prolonged his side-step until it brought
+him to the place where Edward was standing, and, still keeping time to
+the music like Harlequin in a pantomime, he thrust a letter into our
+hero's hand, and continued his saltation without pause or intermission.
+Edward, who perceived that the address was in Rose's hand-writing,
+retired to peruse it, leaving the faithful bearer to continue his
+exercise until the piper or he should be tired out.
+
+The contents of the letter greatly surprised him. It had originally
+commenced with 'Dear Sir'; but these words had been carefully erased,
+and the monosyllable 'Sir' substituted in their place. The rest of the
+contents shall be given in Rose's own language.
+
+I fear I am using an improper freedom by intruding upon you, yet I
+cannot trust to any one else to let you know some things which have
+happened here, with which it seems necessary you should be acquainted.
+Forgive me, if I am wrong in what I am doing; for, alas! Mr. Waverley,
+I have no better advice than that of my own feelings; my dear father is
+gone from this place, and when he can return to my assistance and
+protection, God alone knows. You have probably heard that, in
+consequence of some troublesome news from the Highlands, warrants were
+sent out for apprehending several gentlemen in these parts, and, among
+others, my dear father. In spite of all my tears and entreaties that he
+would surrender himself to the government, he joined with Mr. Falconer
+and some other gentlemen, and they have all gone northwards, with a
+body of about forty horsemen. So I am not so anxious concerning his
+immediate safety as about what may follow afterwards, for these
+troubles are only beginning. But all this is nothing to you, Mr.
+Waverley, only I thought you would be glad to learn that my father has
+escaped, in case you happen to have heard that he was in danger.
+
+The day after my father went off there came a party of soldiers to
+Tully-Veolan, and behaved very rudely to Bailie Macwheeble; but the
+officer was very civil to me, only said his duty obliged him to search
+for arms and papers. My father had provided against this by taking away
+all the arms except the old useless things which hung in the hall, and
+he had put all his papers out of the way. But O! Mr. Waverley, how
+shall I tell you, that they made strict inquiry after you, and asked
+when you had been at Tully-Veolan, and where you now were. The officer
+is gone back with his party, but a non-commissioned officer and four
+men remain as a sort of garrison in the house. They have hitherto
+behaved very well, as we are forced to keep them in good-humour. But
+these soldiers have hinted as if, on your falling into their hands, you
+would be in great danger; I cannot prevail on myself to write what
+wicked falsehoods they said, for I am sure they are falsehoods; but you
+will best judge what you ought to do. The party that returned carried
+off your servant prisoner, with your two horses, and everything that
+you left at Tully-Veolan. I hope God will protect you, and that you
+will get safe home to England, where you used to tell me there was no
+military violence nor fighting among clans permitted, but everything
+was done according to an equal law that protected all who were harmless
+and innocent. I hope you will exert your indulgence as to my boldness
+in writing to you, where it seems to me, though perhaps erroneously,
+that your safety and honour are concerned. I am sure--at least I think,
+my father would approve of my writing; for Mr. Rubrick is fled to his
+cousin's at the Duchran, to to be out of danger from the soldiers and
+the Whigs, and Bailie Macwheeble does not like to meddle (he says) in
+other men's concerns, though I hope what may serve my father's friend
+at such a time as this cannot be termed improper interference.
+Farewell, Captain Waverley! I shall probaby never see you more; for it
+would be very improper to wish you to call at Tully-Veolan just now,
+even if these men were gone; but I will always remember with gratitude
+your kindness in assisting so poor a scholar as myself, and your
+attentions to my dear, dear father.
+
+I remain, your obliged servant,
+
+ROSE COMYNE BRADWARDINE.
+
+P.S.--I hope you will send me a line by David Gellatley, just to say
+you have received this and that you will take care of yourself; and
+forgive me if I entreat you, for your own sake, to join none of these
+unhappy cabals, but escape, as fast as possible, to your own fortunate
+country. My compliments to my dear Flora and to Glennaquoich. Is she
+not as handsome and accomplished as I have described her?
+
+Thus concluded the letter of Rose Bradwardine, the contents of which
+both surprised and affected Waverley. That the Baron should fall under
+the suspicions of government, in consequence of the present stir among
+the partisans of the house of Stuart, seemed only the natural
+consequence of his political predilections; but how HE himself should
+have been involved in such suspicions, conscious that until yesterday
+he had been free from harbouring a thought against the prosperity of
+the reigning family, seemed inexplicable. Both at Tully-Veolan and
+Glennaquoich his hosts had respected his engagements with the existing
+government, and though enough passed by accidental innuendo that might
+induce him to reckon the Baron and the Chief among those disaffected
+gentlemen who were still numerous in Scotland, yet until his own
+connection with the army had been broken off by the resumption of his
+commission, he had no reason to suppose that they nourished any
+immediate or hostile attempts against the present establishment. Still
+he was aware that, unless he meant at once to embrace the proposal of
+Fergus Mac-Ivor, it would deeply concern him to leave the suspicious
+neighbourhood without delay, and repair where his conduct might undergo
+a satisfactory examination. Upon this he the rather determined, as
+Flora's advice favoured his doing so, and because he felt inexpressible
+repugnance at the idea of being accessary to the plague of civil war.
+Whatever were the original rights of the Stuarts, calm reflection told
+him that, omitting the question how far James the Second could forfeit
+those of his posterity, he had, according to the united voice of the
+whole nation, justly forfeited his own. Since that period four monarchs
+had reigned in peace and glory over Britain, sustaining and exalting
+the character of the nation abroad and its liberties at home. Reason
+asked, was it worth while to disturb a government so long settled and
+established, and to plunge a kingdom into all the miseries of civil
+war, for the purpose of replacing upon the throne the descendants of a
+monarch by whom it had been wilfully forfeited? If, on the other hand,
+his own final conviction of the goodness of their cause, or the
+commands of his father or uncle, should recommend to him allegiance to
+the Stuarts, still it was necessary to clear his own character by
+showing that he had not, as seemed to be falsely insinuated, taken any
+step to this purpose during his holding the commission of the reigning
+monarch,
+
+The affectionate simplicity of Rose and her anxiety for his safety, his
+sense too of her unprotected state, and of the terror and actual
+dangers to which she might be exposed, made an impression upon his
+mind, and he instantly wrote to thank her in the kindest terms for her
+solicitude on his account, to express his earnest good wishes for her
+welfare and that of her father, and to assure her of his own safety.
+The feelings which this task excited were speedily lost in the
+necessity which he now saw of bidding farewell to Flora Mac-Ivor,
+perhaps for ever. The pang attending this reflection was inexpressible;
+for her high-minded elevation of character, her self-devotion to the
+cause which she had embraced, united to her scrupulous rectitude as to
+the means of serving it, had vindicated to his judgment the choice
+adopted by his passions. But time pressed, calumny was busy with his
+fame, and every hour's delay increased the power to injure it. His
+departure must be instant.
+
+With this determination he sought out Fergus, and communicated to him
+the contents of Rose's letter, with his own resolution instantly to go
+to Edinburgh, and put into the hands of some one or other of those
+persons of influence to whom he had letters from his father his
+exculpation from any charge which might be preferred against him.
+
+'You run your head into the lion's mouth,' answered Mac-Ivor. 'You do
+not know the severity of a government harassed by just apprehensions,
+and a consciousness of their own illegality and insecurity. I shall
+have to deliver you from some dungeon in Stirling or Edinburgh Castle.'
+
+'My innocence, my rank, my father's intimacy with Lord M--, General
+G--, etc., will be a sufficient protection,' said Waverley.
+
+'You will find the contrary,' replied the Chieftain, 'these gentlemen
+will have enough to do about their own matters. Once more, will you
+take the plaid, and stay a little while with us among the mists and the
+crows, in the bravest cause ever sword was drawn in?'
+
+[Footnote: A Highland rhyme on Glencairn's Expedition, in 1650, has
+these lines--
+
+      We'll bide a while amang ta crows,
+      We'll wiske ta sword and bend ta bows]
+
+'For many reasons, my dear Fergus, you must hold me excused.'
+
+'Well then,' said Mac-Ivor, 'I shall certainly find you exerting your
+poetical talents in elegies upon a prison, or your antiquarian
+researches in detecting the Oggam [Footnote: The Oggam is a species of
+the old Irish character. The idea of the correspondence betwixt the
+Celtic and Punic, founded on a scene in Plautus, was not started till
+General Vallancey set up his theory, long after the date of Fergus
+Mac-Ivor] character or some Punic hieroglyphic upon the keystones of a
+vault, curiously arched. Or what say you to un petit pendement bien
+joli? against which awkward ceremony I don't warrant you, should you
+meet a body of the armed West-Country Whigs.'
+
+'And why should they use me so?' said Waverley.
+
+'For a hundred good reasons,' answered Fergus. 'First, you are an
+Englishman; secondly, a gentleman; thirdly, a prelatist abjured; and,
+fourthly, they have not had an opportunity to exercise their talents on
+such a subject this long while. But don't be cast down, beloved; all
+will be done in the fear of the Lord.'
+
+'Well, I must run my hazard.'
+
+'You are determined, then?'
+
+'I am.'
+
+'Wilful will do't' said Fergus. 'But you cannot go on foot, and I shall
+want no horse, as I must march on foot at the head of the children of
+Ivor; you shall have brown Dermid.'
+
+'If you will sell him, I shall certainly be much obliged.'
+
+'If your proud English heart cannot be obliged by a gift or loan, I
+will not refuse money at the entrance of a campaign: his price is
+twenty guineas. [Remember, reader, it was Sixty Years Since.] And when
+do you propose to depart?'
+
+'The sooner the better,' answered Waverley.
+
+'You are right, since go you must, or rather, since go you will. I will
+take Flora's pony and ride with you as far as Bally-Brough. Callum Beg,
+see that our horses are ready, with a pony for yourself, to attend and
+carry Mr. Waverley's baggage as far as--(naming a small town), where he
+can have a horse and guide to Edinburgh. Put on a Lowland dress,
+Callum, and see you keep your tongue close, if you would not have me
+cut it out. Mr. Waverley rides Dermid.' Then turning to Edward, 'You
+will take leave of my sister?'
+
+'Surely--that is, if Miss Mac-Ivor will honour me so far.'
+
+'Cathleen, let my sister know Mr. Waverley wishes to bid her farewell
+before he leaves us. But Rose Bradwardine, her situation must be
+thought of; I wish she were here. And why should she not? There are but
+four red-coats at Tully-Veolan, and their muskets would be very useful
+to us.'
+
+To these broken remarks Edward made no answer; his ear indeed received
+them, but his soul was intent upon the expected entrance of Flora. The
+door opened. It was but Cathleen, with her lady's excuse, and wishes
+for Captain Waverley's health and happiness.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIX
+
+WAVERLEY'S RECEPTION IN THE LOWLANDS AFTER HIS HIGHLAND TOUR
+
+
+It was noon when the two friends stood at the top of the pass of
+Bally-Brough. 'I must go no farther,' said Fergus Mac-Ivor, who during
+the journey had in vain endeavoured to raise his friend's spirits. 'If
+my cross-grained sister has any share in your dejection, trust me she
+thinks highly of you, though her present anxiety about the public cause
+prevents her listening to any other subject. Confide your interest to
+me; I will not betray it, providing you do not again assume that vile
+cockade.'
+
+'No fear of that, considering the manner in which it has been recalled.
+Adieu, Fergus; do not permit your sister to forget me.'
+
+'And adieu, Waverley; you may soon hear of her with a prouder title.
+Get home, write letters, and make friends as many and as fast as you
+can; there will speedily be unexpected guests on the coast of Suffolk,
+or my news from France has deceived me.' [Footnote: The sanguine
+Jacobites, during the eventful years 1745-46, kept up the spirits of
+their party by the rumour of descents from France on behalf of the
+Chevalier St. George.]
+
+Thus parted the friends; Fergus returning back to his castle, while
+Edward, followed by Callum Beg, the latter transformed from point to
+point into a Low-Country groom, proceeded to the little town of--.
+
+Edward paced on under the painful and yet not altogether embittered
+feelings which separation and uncertainty produce in the mind of a
+youthful lover. I am not sure if the ladies understand the full value
+of the influence of absence, nor do I think it wise to teach it them,
+lest, like the Clelias and Mandanes of yore, they should resume the
+humour of sending their lovers into banishment. Distance, in truth,
+produces in idea the same effect as in real perspective. Objects are
+softened, and rounded, and rendered doubly graceful; the harsher and
+more ordinary points of character are mellowed down, and those by which
+it is remembered are the more striking outlines that mark sublimity,
+grace, or beauty. There are mists too in the mental as well as the
+natural horizon, to conceal what is less pleasing in distant objects,
+and there are happy lights, to stream in full glory upon those points
+which can profit by brilliant illumination.
+
+Waverley forgot Flora Mac-Ivor's prejudices in her magnanimity, and
+almost pardoned her indifference towards his affection when he
+recollected the grand and decisive object which seemed to fill her
+whole soul. She, whose sense of duty so wholly engrossed her in the
+cause of a benefactor, what would be her feelings in favour of the
+happy individual who should be so fortunate as to awaken them? Then
+came the doubtful question, whether he might not be that happy man,--a
+question which fancy endeavoured to answer in the affirmative, by
+conjuring up all she had said in his praise, with the addition of a
+comment much more flattering than the text warranted. All that was
+commonplace, all that belonged to the every-day world, was melted away
+and obliterated in those dreams of imagination, which only remembered
+with advantage the points of grace and dignity that distinguished Flora
+from the generality of her sex, not the particulars which she held in
+common with them. Edward was, in short, in the fair way of creating a
+goddess out of a high-spirited, accomplished, and beautiful young
+woman; and the time was wasted in castle-building until, at the descent
+of a steep hill, he saw beneath him the market-town of ----.
+
+The Highland politeness of Callum Beg--there are few nations, by the
+way, who can boast of so much natural politeness as the Highlanders
+[Footnote: The Highlander, in former times, had always a high idea of
+his own gentility, and was anxious to impress the same upon those with
+whom he conversed. His language abounded in the phrases of courtesy and
+compliment; and the habit of carrying arms, and mixing with those who
+did so, made it particularly desirable they should use cautious
+politeness in their intercourse with each other.]--the Highland
+civility of his attendant had not permitted him to disturb the reveries
+of our hero. But observing him rouse himself at the sight of the
+village, Callum pressed closer to his side, and hoped 'when they cam to
+the public, his honour wad not say nothing about Vich Ian Vohr, for ta
+people were bitter Whigs, deil burst tem.'
+
+Waverley assured the prudent page that he would be cautious; and as he
+now distinguished, not indeed the ringing of bells, but the tinkling of
+something like a hammer against the side of an old mossy, green,
+inverted porridge-pot that hung in an open booth, of the size and shape
+of a parrot's cage, erected to grace the east end of a building
+resembling an old barn, he asked Callum Beg if it were Sunday.
+
+'Could na say just preceesely; Sunday seldom cam aboon the pass of
+Bally-Brough.'
+
+On entering the town, however, and advancing towards the most apparent
+public-house which presented itself, the numbers of old women, in
+tartan screens and red cloaks, who streamed from the barn-resembling
+building, debating as they went the comparative merits of the blessed
+youth Jabesh Rentowel and that chosen vessel Maister Goukthrapple,
+induced Callum to assure his temporary master 'that it was either ta
+muckle Sunday hersell, or ta little government Sunday that they ca'd ta
+fast.'
+
+On alighting at the sign of the Seven-branched Golden Candlestick,
+which, for the further delectation of the guests, was graced with a
+short Hebrew motto, they were received by mine host, a tall thin
+puritanical figure, who seemed to debate with himself whether he ought
+to give shelter to those who travelled on such a day. Reflecting,
+however, in all probability, that he possessed the power of mulcting
+them for this irregularity, a penalty which they might escape by
+passing into Gregor Duncanson's, at the sign of the Highlander and the
+Hawick Gill, Mr. Ebenezer Cruickshanks condescended to admit them into
+his dwelling.
+
+To this sanctified person Waverley addressed his request that he would
+procure him a guide, with a saddle-horse, to carry his portmanteau to
+Edinburgh.
+
+'And whar may ye be coming from?' demanded mine host of the Candlestick.
+
+'I have told you where I wish to go; I do not conceive any further
+information necessary either for the guide or his saddle-horse.'
+
+'Hem! Ahem!' returned he of the Candlestick, somewhat disconcerted at
+this rebuff. 'It's the general fast, sir, and I cannot enter into ony
+carnal transactions on sic a day, when the people should be humbled and
+the backsliders should return, as worthy Mr. Goukthrapple said; and
+moreover when, as the precious Mr. Jabesh Rentowel did weel observe,
+the land was mourning for covenants burnt, broken, and buried.'
+
+'My good friend,' said Waverley, 'if you cannot let me have a horse and
+guide, my servant shall seek them elsewhere.'
+
+'Aweel! Your servant? and what for gangs he not forward wi' you
+himsell?'
+
+Waverley had but very little of a captain of horse's spirit within
+him--I mean of that sort of spirit which I have been obliged to when I
+happened, in a mail coach or diligence, to meet some military man who
+has kindly taken upon him the disciplining of the waiters and the
+taxing of reckonings. Some of this useful talent our hero had, however,
+acquired during his military service, and on this gross provocation it
+began seriously to arise. 'Look ye, sir; I came here for my own
+accommodation, and not to answer impertinent questions. Either say you
+can, or cannot, get me what I want; I shall pursue my course in either
+case.'
+
+Mr. Ebenezer Cruickshanks left the room with some indistinct
+mutterings; but whether negative or acquiescent, Edward could not well
+distinguish. The hostess, a civil, quiet, laborious drudge, came to
+take his orders for dinner, but declined to make answer on the subject
+of the horse and guide; for the Salique law, it seems, extended to the
+stables of the Golden Candlestick.
+
+From a window which overlooked the dark and narrow court in which
+Callum Beg rubbed down the horses after their journey, Waverley heard
+the following dialogue betwixt the subtle foot-page of Vich Ian Vohr
+and his landlord:--
+
+'Ye'll be frae the north, young man?' began the latter.
+
+'And ye may say that,' answered Callum.
+
+'And ye'll hae ridden a lang way the day, it may weel be?'
+
+'Sae lang, that I could weel tak a dram.'
+
+'Gudewife, bring the gill stoup.'
+
+Here some compliments passed fitting the occasion, when my host of the
+Golden Candlestick, having, as he thought, opened his guest's heart by
+this hospitable propitiation, resumed his scrutiny.
+
+'Ye'll no hae mickle better whisky than that aboon the Pass?'
+
+'I am nae frae aboon the Pass.'
+
+'Ye're a Highlandman by your tongue?'
+
+'Na; I am but just Aberdeen-a-way.'
+
+'And did your master come frae Aberdeen wi' you?'
+
+'Ay; that's when I left it mysell,' answered the cool and impenetrable
+Callum Beg.
+
+'And what kind of a gentleman is he?'
+
+'I believe he is ane o' King George's state officers; at least he's aye
+for ganging on to the south, and he has a hantle siller, and never
+grudges onything till a poor body, or in the way of a lawing.'
+
+'He wants a guide and a horse frae hence to Edinburgh?'
+
+'Ay, and ye maun find it him forthwith.'
+
+'Ahem! It will be chargeable.'
+
+'He cares na for that a bodle.'
+
+'Aweel, Duncan--did ye say your name was Duncan, or Donald?'
+
+'Na, man--Jamie--Jamie Steenson--I telt ye before.'
+
+This last undaunted parry altogether foiled Mr. Cruickshanks, who,
+though not quite satisfied either with the reserve of the master or the
+extreme readiness of the man, was contented to lay a tax on the
+reckoning and horse-hire that might compound for his ungratified
+curiosity. The circumstance of its being the fast day was not forgotten
+in the charge, which, on the whole, did not, however, amount to much
+more than double what in fairness it should have been.
+
+Callum Beg soon after announced in person the ratification of this
+treaty, adding, 'Ta auld deevil was ganging to ride wi' ta
+duinhe-wassel hersell.'
+
+'That will not be very pleasant, Callum, nor altogether safe, for our
+host seems a person of great curiosity; but a traveller must submit to
+these inconveniences. Meanwhile, my good lad, here is a trifle for you
+to drink Vich Ian Vohr's health.'
+
+The hawk's eye of Callum flashed delight upon a golden guinea, with
+which these last words were accompanied. He hastened, not without a
+curse on the intricacies of a Saxon breeches pocket, or spleuchan, as
+he called it, to deposit the treasure in his fob; and then, as if he
+conceived the benevolence called for some requital on his part, he
+gathered close up to Edward, with an expression of countenance
+peculiarly knowing, and spoke in an undertone, 'If his honour thought
+ta auld deevil Whig carle was a bit dangerous, she could easily provide
+for him, and teil ane ta wiser.'
+
+'How, and in what manner?'
+
+'Her ain sell,' replied Callum, 'could wait for him a wee bit frae the
+toun, and kittle his quarters wi'her skene-occle.'
+
+'Skene-occle! what's that?'
+
+Callum unbuttoned his coat, raised his left arm, and, with an emphatic
+nod, pointed to the hilt of a small dirk, snugly deposited under it, in
+the lining of his jacket. Waverley thought he had misunderstood his
+meaning; he gazed in his face, and discovered in Callum's very handsome
+though embrowned features just the degree of roguish malice with which
+a lad of the same age in England would have brought forward a plan for
+robbing an orchard.
+
+'Good God, Callum, would you take the man's life?'
+
+'Indeed,' answered the young desperado, 'and I think he has had just a
+lang enough lease o 't, when he's for betraying honest folk that come
+to spend siller at his public.'
+
+Edward saw nothing was to be gained by argument, and therefore
+contented himself with enjoining Callum to lay aside all practices
+against the person of Mr. Ebenezer Cruickshanks; in which injunction
+the page seemed to acquiesce with an air of great indifference.
+
+'Ta duinhe-wassel might please himsell; ta auld rudas loon had never
+done Callum nae ill. But here's a bit line frae ta Tighearna, tat he
+bade me gie your honour ere I came back.'
+
+The letter from the Chief contained Flora's lines on the fate of
+Captain Wogan, whose enterprising character is so well drawn by
+Clarendon. He had originally engaged in the service of the Parliament,
+but had abjured that party upon the execution of Charles I; and upon
+hearing that the royal standard was set up by the Earl of Glencairn and
+General Middleton in the Highlands of Scotland, took leave of Charles
+II, who was then at Paris, passed into England, assembled a body of
+Cavaliers in the neighbourhood of London, and traversed the kingdom,
+which had been so long under domination of the usurper, by marches
+conducted with such skill, dexterity, and spirit that he safely united
+his handful of horsemen with the body of Highlanders then in arms.
+After several months of desultory warfare, in which Wogan's skill and
+courage gained him the highest reputation, he had the misfortune to be
+wounded in a dangerous manner, and no surgical assistance being within
+reach he terminated his short but glorious career.
+
+There were obvious reasons why the politic Chieftain was desirous to
+place the example of this young hero under the eye of Waverley, with
+whose romantic disposition it coincided so peculiarly. But his letter
+turned chiefly upon some trifling commissions which Waverley had
+promised to execute for him in England, and it was only toward the
+conclusion that Edward found these words: 'I owe Flora a grudge for
+refusing us her company yesterday; and, as I am giving you the trouble
+of reading these lines, in order to keep in your memory your promise to
+procure me the fishing-tackle and cross-bow from London, I will enclose
+her verses on the Grave of Wogan. This I know will tease her; for, to
+tell you the truth, I think her more in love with the memory of that
+dead hero than she is likely to be with any living one, unless he shall
+tread a similar path. But English squires of our day keep their
+oak-trees to shelter their deer parks, or repair the losses of an
+evening at White's, and neither invoke them to wreathe their brows nor
+shelter their graves. Let me hope for one brilliant exception in a dear
+friend, to whom I would most gladly give a dearer title.'
+
+The verses were inscribed,
+
+    To an Oak Tree
+
+    In the Church-Yard of ----, in the Highlands of Scotland,
+    said to mark the Grave of Captain Wogan, killed in 1649.
+
+    Emblem of England's ancient faith,
+      Full proudly may thy branches wave,
+    Where loyalty lies low in death,
+      And valour fills a timeless grave.
+
+    And thou, brave tenant of the tomb!
+      Repine not if our clime deny,
+    Above thine honour'd sod to bloom
+      The flowerets of a milder sky.
+
+    These owe their birth to genial May;
+      Beneath a fiercer sun they pine,
+    Before the winter storm decay;
+      And can their worth be type of thine?
+
+    No! for, 'mid storms of Fate opposing,
+      Still higher swell'd thy dauntless heart,
+    And, while Despair the scene was closing,
+      Commenced thy brief but brilliant part.
+
+    'T was then thou sought'st on Albyn's hill,
+      (When England's sons the strife resign'd)
+    A rugged race resisting still,
+      And unsubdued though unrefined.
+
+    Thy death's hour heard no kindred wail,
+      No holy knell thy requiem rung;
+    Thy mourners were the plaided Gael,
+      Thy dirge the clamourous pibroch sung.
+
+    Yet who, in Fortune's summer-shine
+      To waste life's longest term away,
+    Would change that glorious dawn of thine,
+      Though darken'd ere its noontide day!
+
+    Be thine the tree whose dauntless boughs
+      Brave summer's drought and winter's gloom.
+    Rome bound with oak her patriots' brows,
+      As Albyn shadows Wogan's tomb.
+
+Whatever might be the real merit of Flora Mac-Ivor's poetry, the
+enthusiasm which it intimated was well calculated to make a
+corresponding impression upon her lover. The lines were read--read
+again, then deposited in Waverley's bosom, then again drawn out, and
+read line by line, in a low and smothered voice, and with frequent
+pauses which prolonged the mental treat, as an epicure protracts, by
+sipping slowly, the enjoyment of a delicious beverage. The entrance of
+Mrs. Cruickshanks with the sublunary articles of dinner and wine hardly
+interrupted this pantomime of affectionate enthusiasm.
+
+At length the tall ungainly figure and ungracious visage of Ebenezer
+presented themselves. The upper part of his form, notwithstanding the
+season required no such defence, was shrouded in a large great-coat,
+belted over his under habiliments, and crested with a huge cowl of the
+same stuff, which, when drawn over the head and hat, completely
+overshadowed both, and, being buttoned beneath the chin, was called a
+trot-cozy. His hand grasped a huge jockey-whip, garnished with
+brassmounting. His thin legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes, fastened at
+the sides with rusty clasps. Thus accoutred, he stalked into the midst
+of the apartment, and announced his errand in brief phrase: 'Yer horses
+are ready.'
+
+'You go with me yourself then, landlord?'
+
+'I do, as far as Perth; where ye may be supplied with a guide to
+Embro', as your occasions shall require.'
+
+Thus saying, he placed under Waverley's eye the bill which he held in
+his hand; and at the same time, self-invited, filled a glass of wine
+and drank devoutly to a blessing on their journey. Waverley stared at
+the man's impudence, but, as their connection was to be short and
+promised to be convenient, he made no observation upon it; and, having
+paid his reckoning, expressed his intention to depart immediately. He
+mounted Dermid accordingly and sallied forth from the Golden
+Candlestick, followed by the puritanical figure we have described,
+after he had, at the expense of some time and difficulty, and by the
+assistance of a 'louping-on-stane,' or structure of masonry erected for
+the traveller's convenience in front of the house, elevated his person
+to the back of a long-backed, raw-boned, thin-gutted phantom of a
+broken-down blood-horse, on which Waverley's portmanteau was deposited.
+Our hero, though not in a very gay humour, could hardly help laughing
+at the appearance of his new squire, and at imagining the astonishment
+which his person and equipage would have excited at Waverley-Honour.
+
+Edward's tendency to mirth did not escape mine host of the Candlestick,
+who, conscious of the cause, infused a double portion of souring into
+the pharisaical leaven of his countenance, and resolved internally
+that, in one way or other, the young 'Englisher' should pay dearly for
+the contempt with which he seemed to regard him. Callum also stood at
+the gate and enjoyed, with undissembled glee, the ridiculous figure of
+Mr. Cruickshanks. As Waverley passed him he pulled off his hat
+respectfully, and, approaching his stirrup, bade him 'Tak heed the auld
+whig deevil played him nae cantrip.'
+
+Waverley once more thanked and bade him farewell, and then rode briskly
+onward, not sorry to be out of hearing of the shouts of the children,
+as they beheld old Ebenezer rise and sink in his stirrups to avoid the
+concussions occasioned by a hard trot upon a half-paved street. The
+village of--was soon several miles behind him.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXX
+
+SHOWS THAT THE LOSS OF A HORSE'S SHOE MAY BE A SERIOUS INCONVENIENCE
+
+
+The manner and air of Waverley, but, above all, the glittering contents
+of his purse, and the indifference with which he seemed to regard them,
+somewhat overawed his companion, and deterred him from making any
+attempts to enter upon conversation. His own reflections were moreover
+agitated by various surmises, and by plans of self-interest with which
+these were intimately connected. The travellers journeyed, therefore,
+in silence, until it was interrupted by the annunciation, on the part
+of the guide, that his 'naig had lost a fore-foot shoe, which,
+doubtless, his honour would consider it was his part to replace.'
+
+This was what lawyers call a fishing question, calculated to ascertain
+how far Waverley was disposed to submit to petty imposition. 'My part
+to replace your horse's shoe, you rascal!' said Waverley, mistaking the
+purport of the intimation.
+
+'Indubitably,' answered Mr. Cruickshanks; 'though there was no preceese
+clause to that effect, it canna be expected that I am to pay for the
+casualties whilk may befall the puir naig while in your honour's
+service. Nathless, if your honour--'
+
+'O, you mean I am to pay the farrier; but where shall we find one?'
+
+Rejoiced at discerning there would be no objection made on the part of
+his temporary master, Mr. Cruickshanks assured him that Cairnvreckan, a
+village which they were about to enter, was happy in an excellent
+blacksmith; 'but as he was a professor, he would drive a nail for no
+man on the Sabbath or kirk-fast, unless it were in a case of absolute
+necessity, for which he always charged sixpence each shoe.' The most
+important part of this communication, in the opinion of the speaker,
+made a very slight impression on the hearer, who only internally
+wondered what college this veterinary professor belonged to, not aware
+that the word was used to denote any person who pretended to uncommon
+sanctity of faith and manner.
+
+As they entered the village of Cairnvreckan, they speedily
+distinguished the smith's house. Being also a public, it was two
+stories high, and proudly reared its crest, covered with grey slate,
+above the thatched hovels by which it was surrounded. The adjoining
+smithy betokened none of the Sabbatical silence and repose which
+Ebenezer had augured from the sanctity of his friend. On the contrary,
+hammer clashed and anvil rang, the bellows groaned, and the whole
+apparatus of Vulcan appeared to be in full activity. Nor was the labour
+of a rural and pacific nature. The master smith, benempt, as his sign
+intimated, John Mucklewrath, with two assistants, toiled busily in
+arranging, repairing, and furbishing old muskets, pistols, and swords,
+which lay scattered around his workshop in military confusion. The open
+shed, containing the forge, was crowded with persons who came and went
+as if receiving and communicating important news, and a single glance
+at the aspect of the people who traversed the street in haste, or stood
+assembled in groups, with eyes elevated and hands uplifted, announced
+that some extraordinary intelligence was agitating the public mind of
+the municipality of Cairnvreckan. 'There is some news,' said mine host
+of the Candlestick, pushing his lantern-jawed visage and bare-boned nag
+rudely forward into the crowd--'there is some news; and, if it please
+my Creator, I will forthwith obtain speirings thereof.'
+
+Waverley, with better regulated curiosity than his attendant's,
+dismounted and gave his horse to a boy who stood idling near. It arose,
+perhaps, from the shyness of his character in early youth, that he felt
+dislike at applying to a stranger even for casual information, without
+previously glancing at his physiognomy and appearance. While he looked
+about in order to select the person with whom he would most willingly
+hold communication, the buzz around saved him in some degree the
+trouble of interrogatories. The names of Lochiel, Clanronald,
+Glengarry, and other distinguished Highland Chiefs, among whom Vich Ian
+Vohr was repeatedly mentioned, were as familiar in men's mouths as
+household words; and from the alarm generally expressed, he easily
+conceived that their descent into the Lowlands, at the head of their
+armed tribes, had either already taken place or was instantly
+apprehended.
+
+Ere Waverley could ask particulars, a strong, large-boned,
+hard-featured woman, about forty, dressed as if her clothes had been
+flung on with a pitchfork, her cheeks flushed with a scarlet red where
+they were not smutted with soot and lamp-black, jostled through the
+crowd, and, brandishing high a child of two years old, which she danced
+in her arms without regard to its screams of terror, sang forth with
+all her might,--
+
+    Charlie is my darling, my darling, my darling,
+    Charlie is my darling,
+    The young Chevalier!
+
+'D' ye hear what's come ower ye now,' continued the virago, 'ye
+whingeing Whig carles? D'ye hear wha's coming to cow yer cracks?
+
+    Little wot ye wha's coming,
+    Little wot ye wha's coming,
+    A' the wild Macraws are coming.'
+
+The Vulcan of Cairnvreckan, who acknowledged his Venus in this exulting
+Bacchante, regarded her with a grim and ire-foreboding countenance,
+while some of the senators of the village hastened to interpose.
+'Whisht, gudewife; is this a time or is this a day to be singing your
+ranting fule sangs in?--a time when the wine of wrath is poured out
+without mixture in the cup of indignation, and a day when the land
+should give testimony against popery, and prelacy, and quakerism, and
+independency, and supremacy, and erastianism, and antinomianism, and a'
+the errors of the church?'
+
+'And that's a' your Whiggery,' reechoed the Jacobite heroine; 'that's
+a' your Whiggery, and your presbytery, ye cut-lugged, graning carles!
+What! d' ye think the lads wi' the kilts will care for yer synods and
+yer presbyteries, and yer buttock-mail, and yer stool o' repentance?
+Vengeance on the black face o't! mony an honester woman's been set upon
+it than streeks doon beside ony Whig in the country. I mysell--'
+
+Here John Mucklewrath, who dreaded her entering upon a detail of
+personal experience, interposed his matrimonial authority. 'Gae hame,
+and be d--(that I should say sae), and put on the sowens for supper.'
+
+'And you, ye doil'd dotard,' replied his gentle helpmate, her wrath,
+which had hitherto wandered abroad over the whole assembly, being at
+once and violently impelled into its natural channel, 'YE stand there
+hammering dog-heads for fules that will never snap them at a
+Highlandman, instead of earning bread for your family and shoeing this
+winsome young gentleman's horse that's just come frae the north! I'se
+warrant him nane of your whingeing King George folk, but a gallant
+Gordon, at the least o' him.'
+
+The eyes of the assembly were now turned upon Waverley, who took the
+opportunity to beg the smith to shoe his guide's horse with all speed,
+as he wished to proceed on his journey; for he had heard enough to make
+him sensible that there would be danger in delaying long in this place.
+The smith's eyes rested on him with a look of displeasure and
+suspicion, not lessened by the eagerness with which his wife enforced
+Waverley's mandate. 'D'ye hear what the weel-favoured young gentleman
+says, ye drunken ne'er-do-good?'
+
+'And what may your name be, sir?' quoth Mucklewrath.
+
+'It is of no consequence to you, my friend, provided I pay your labour.'
+
+'But it may be of consequence to the state, sir,' replied an old
+farmer, smelling strongly of whisky and peat-smoke; 'and I doubt we
+maun delay your journey till you have seen the Laird.'
+
+'You certainly,' said Waverley, haughtily, 'will find it both difficult
+and dangerous to detain me, unless you can produce some proper
+authority.'
+
+There was a pause and a whisper among the crowd--'Secretary
+Murray'--'Lord Lewis Gordon'--'Maybe the Chevalier himsell!' Such were
+the surmises that passed hurriedly among them, and there was obviously
+an increased disposition to resist Waverley's departure. He attempted
+to argue mildly with them, but his voluntary ally, Mrs. Mucklewrath,
+broke in upon and drowned his expostulations, taking his part with an
+abusive violence which was all set down to Edward's account by those on
+whom it was bestowed. 'YE'LL stop ony gentleman that's the Prince's
+freend?' for she too, though with other feelings, had adopted the
+general opinion respecting Waverley. 'I daur ye to touch him,'
+spreading abroad her long and muscular fingers, garnished with claws
+which a vulture might have envied. 'I'll set my ten commandments in the
+face o' the first loon that lays a finger on him.'
+
+'Gae hame, gudewife,' quoth the farmer aforesaid; 'it wad better set
+you to be nursing the gudeman's bairns than to be deaving us here.'
+
+'HIS bairns?' retorted the Amazon, regarding her husband with a grin of
+ineffable contempt--'HIS bairns!
+
+    O gin ye were dead, gudeman,
+      And a green turf on your head, gudeman!
+    Then I wad ware my widowhood
+      Upon a ranting Highlandman'
+
+This canticle, which excited a suppressed titter among the younger part
+of the audience, totally overcame the patience of the taunted man of
+the anvil. 'Deil be in me but I'll put this het gad down her throat!'
+cried he in an ecstasy of wrath, snatching a bar from the forge; and he
+might have executed his threat, had he not been withheld by a part of
+the mob, while the rest endeavoured to force the termagant out of his
+presence.
+
+Waverley meditated a retreat in the confusion, but his horse was
+nowhere to be seen. At length he observed at some distance his faithful
+attendant, Ebenezer, who, as soon as he had perceived the turn matters
+were likely to take, had withdrawn both horses from the press, and,
+mounted on the one and holding the other, answered the loud and
+repeated calls of Waverley for his horse. 'Na, na! if ye are nae friend
+to kirk and the king, and are detained as siccan a person, ye maun
+answer to honest men of the country for breach of contract; and I maun
+keep the naig and the walise for damage and expense, in respect my
+horse and mysell will lose to-morrow's day's wark, besides the
+afternoon preaching.'
+
+Edward, out of patience, hemmed in and hustled by the rabble on every
+side, and every moment expecting personal violence, resolved to try
+measures of intimidation, and at length drew a pocket-pistol,
+threatening, on the one hand, to shoot whomsoever dared to stop him,
+and, on the other, menacing Ebenezer with a similar doom if he stirred
+a foot with the horses. The sapient Partridge says that one man with a
+pistol is equal to a hundred unarmed, because, though he can shoot but
+one of the multitude, yet no one knows but that he himself may be that
+luckless individual. The levy en masse of Cairnvreckan would therefore
+probably have given way, nor would Ebenezer, whose natural paleness had
+waxed three shades more cadaverous, have ventured to dispute a mandate
+so enforced, had not the Vulcan of the village, eager to discharge upon
+some more worthy object the fury which his helpmate had provoked, and
+not ill satisfied to find such an object in Waverley, rushed at him
+with the red-hot bar of iron with such determination as made the
+discharge of his pistol an act of self-defence. The unfortunate man
+fell; and while Edward, thrilled with a natural horror at the incident,
+neither had presence of mind to unsheathe his sword nor to draw his
+remaining pistol, the populace threw themselves upon him, disarmed him,
+and were about to use him with great violence, when the appearance of a
+venerable clergyman, the pastor of the parish, put a curb on their fury.
+
+This worthy man (none of the Goukthrapples or Rentowels) maintained his
+character with the common people, although he preached the practical
+fruits of Christian faith as well as its abstract tenets, and was
+respected by the higher orders, notwithstanding he declined soothing
+their speculative errors by converting the pulpit of the gospel into a
+school of heathen morality. Perhaps it is owing to this mixture of
+faith and practice in his doctrine that, although his memory has formed
+a sort of era in the annals of Cairnvreckan, so that the parishioners,
+to denote what befell Sixty Years Since, still say it happened 'in good
+Mr. Morton's time,' I have never been able to discover which he
+belonged to, the evangelical or the moderate party in the kirk. Nor do
+I hold the circumstance of much moment, since, in my own remembrance,
+the one was headed by an Erskine, the other by a Robertson.
+
+[Footnote: The Reverend John Erskine, D. D, an eminent Scottish divine
+and a most excellent man, headed the Evangelical party in the Church of
+Scotland at the time when the celebrated Doctor Robertson, the
+historian, was the leader of the Moderate party. These two
+distinguished persons were colleagues in the Old Grey Friars' Church,
+Edinburgh; and, however much they differed in church politics,
+preserved the most perfect harmony as private friends and as clergymen
+serving the same cure]
+
+Mr. Morton had been alarmed by the discharge of the pistol and the
+increasing hubbub around the smithy. His first attention, after he had
+directed the bystanders to detain Waverley, but to abstain from
+injuring him, was turned to the body of Mucklewrath, over which his
+wife, in a revulsion of feeling, was weeping, howling, and tearing her
+elf-locks in a state little short of distraction. On raising up the
+smith, the first discovery was that he was alive; and the next that he
+was likely to live as long as if he had never heard the report of a
+pistol in his life. He had made a narrow escape, however; the bullet
+had grazed his head and stunned him for a moment or two, which trance
+terror and confusion of spirit had prolonged somewhat longer. He now
+arose to demand vengeance on the person of Waverley, and with
+difficulty acquiesced in the proposal of Mr. Morton that he should be
+carried before the Laird, as a justice of peace, and placed at his
+disposal. The rest of the assistants unanimously agreed to the measure
+recommended; even Mrs. Mucklewrath, who had begun to recover from her
+hysterics, whimpered forth, 'She wadna say naething against what the
+minister proposed; he was e'en ower gude for his trade, and she hoped
+to see him wi' a dainty decent bishop's gown on his back; a comelier
+sight than your Geneva cloaks and bands, I wis.'
+
+All controversy being thus laid aside, Waverley, escorted by the whole
+inhabitants of the village who were not bed-ridden, was conducted to
+the house of Cairnvreckan, which was about half a mile distant.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXI
+
+AN EXAMINATION
+
+
+Major Melville of Cairnvreckan, an elderly gentleman, who had spent his
+youth in the military service, received Mr. Morton with great kindness,
+and our hero with civility, which the equivocal circumstances wherein
+Edward was placed rendered constrained and distant.
+
+The nature of the smith's hurt was inquired into, and, as the actual
+injury was likely to prove trifling, and the circumstances in which it
+was received rendered the infliction on Edward's part a natural act of
+self-defence, the Major conceived he might dismiss that matter on
+Waverley's depositing in his hands a small sum for the benefit of the
+wounded person.
+
+'I could wish, sir,' continued the Major, 'that my duty terminated
+here; but it is necessary that we should have some further inquiry into
+the cause of your journey through the country at this unfortunate and
+distracted time.'
+
+Mr. Ebenezer Cruickshanks now stood forth, and communicated to the
+magistrate all he knew or suspected from the reserve of Waverley and
+the evasions of Callum Beg. The horse upon which Edward rode, he said,
+he knew to belong to Vich Ian Vohr, though he dared not tax Edward's
+former attendant with the fact, lest he should have his house and
+stables burnt over his head some night by that godless gang, the
+Mac-Ivors. He concluded by exaggerating his own services to kirk and
+state, as having been the means, under God (as he modestly qualified
+the assertion), of attaching this suspicious and formidable delinquent.
+He intimated hopes of future reward, and of instant reimbursement for
+loss of time, and even of character, by travelling on the state
+business on the fast-day.
+
+To this Major Melville answered, with great composure, that so far from
+claiming any merit in this affair, Mr. Cruickshanks ought to deprecate
+the imposition of a very heavy fine for neglecting to lodge, in terms
+of the recent proclamation, an account with the nearest magistrate of
+any stranger who came to his inn; that, as Mr. Cruickshanks boasted so
+much of religion and loyalty, he should not impute this conduct to
+disaffection, but only suppose that his zeal for kirk and state had
+been lulled asleep by the opportunity of charging a stranger with
+double horse-hire; that, however, feeling himself incompetent to decide
+singly upon the conduct of a person of such importance, he should
+reserve it for consideration of the next quarter-sessions. Now our
+history for the present saith no more of him of the Candlestick, who
+wended dolorous and malcontent back to his own dwelling.
+
+Major Melville then commanded the villagers to return to their homes,
+excepting two, who officiated as constables, and whom he directed to
+wait below. The apartment was thus cleared of every person but Mr.
+Morton, whom the Major invited to remain; a sort of factor, who acted
+as clerk; and Waverley himself. There ensued a painful and embarrassed
+pause, till Major Melville, looking upon Waverley with much compassion,
+and often consulting a paper or memorandum which he held in his hand,
+requested to know his name.
+
+'Edward Waverley.'
+
+'I thought so; late of the--dragoons, and nephew of Sir Everard
+Waverley of Waverley-Honour?'
+
+'The same.'
+
+'Young gentleman, I am extremely sorry that this painful duty has
+fallen to my lot.'
+
+'Duty, Major Melville, renders apologies superfluous.'
+
+'True, sir; permit me, therefore, to ask you how your time has been
+disposed of since you obtained leave of absence from your regiment,
+several weeks ago, until the present moment?'
+
+'My reply,' said Waverley, 'to so general a question must be guided by
+the nature of the charge which renders it necessary. I request to know
+what that charge is, and upon what authority I am forcibly detained to
+reply to it?'
+
+'The charge, Mr. Waverley, I grieve to say, is of a very high nature,
+and affects your character both as a soldier and a subject. In the
+former capacity you are charged with spreading mutiny and rebellion
+among the men you commanded, and setting them the example of desertion,
+by prolonging your own absence from the regiment, contrary to the
+express orders of your commanding officer. The civil crime of which you
+stand accused is that of high treason and levying war against the king,
+the highest delinquency of which a subject can be guilty.'
+
+'And by what authority am I detained to reply to such heinous
+calumnies?'
+
+'By one which you must not dispute, nor I disobey.'
+
+He handed to Waverley a warrant from the Supreme Criminal Court of
+Scotland, in full form, for apprehending and securing the person of
+Edward Waverley, Esq., suspected of treasonable practices and other
+high crimes and misdemeanours.
+
+The astonishment which Waverley expressed at this communication was
+imputed by Major Melville to conscious guilt, while Mr. Morton was
+rather disposed to construe it into the surprise of innocence unjustly
+suspected. There was something true in both conjectures; for although
+Edward's mind acquitted him of the crime with which he was charged, yet
+a hasty review of his own conduct convinced him he might have great
+difficulty in establishing his innocence to the satisfaction of others.
+
+'It is a very painful part of this painful business,' said Major
+Melville, after a pause, 'that, under so grave a charge, I must
+necessarily request to see such papers as you have on your person.'
+
+'You shall, sir, without reserve,' said Edward, throwing his
+pocket-book and memorandums upon the table; 'there is but one with
+which I could wish you would dispense.'
+
+'I am afraid, Mr. Waverley, I can indulge you with no reservation,'
+
+'You shall see it then, sir; and as it can be of no service, I beg it
+may be returned.'
+
+He took from his bosom the lines he had that morning received, and
+presented them with the envelope. The Major perused them in silence,
+and directed his clerk to make a copy of them. He then wrapped the copy
+in the envelope, and placing it on the table before him, returned the
+original to Waverley, with an air of melancholy gravity.
+
+After indulging the prisoner, for such our hero must now be considered,
+with what he thought a reasonable time for reflection, Major Melville
+resumed his examination, premising that, as Mr. Waverley seemed to
+object to general questions, his interrogatories should be as specific
+as his information permitted. He then proceeded in his investigation,
+dictating, as he went on, the import of the questions and answers to
+the amanuensis, by whom it was written down.
+
+'Did Mr. Waverley know one Humphry Houghton, a non-commissioned officer
+in Gardiner's dragoons?'
+
+'Certainly; he was sergeant of my troop, and son of a tenant of my
+uncle.'
+
+'Exactly--and had a considerable share of your confidence, and an
+influence among his comrades?'
+
+'I had never occasion to repose confidence in a person of his
+description,' answered Waverley. 'I favoured Sergeant Houghton as a
+clever, active young fellow, and I believe his fellow-soldiers
+respected him accordingly.'
+
+'But you used through this man,' answered Major Melville, 'to
+communicate with such of your troop as were recruited upon
+Waverley-Honour?'
+
+'Certainly; the poor fellows, finding themselves in a regiment chiefly
+composed of Scotch or Irish, looked up to me in any of their little
+distresses, and naturally made their countryman and sergeant their
+spokesman on such occasions.'
+
+'Sergeant Houghton's influence,' continued the Major, 'extended, then,
+particularly over those soldiers who followed you to the regiment from
+your uncle's estate?'
+
+'Surely; but what is that to the present purpose?'
+
+'To that I am just coming, and I beseech your candid reply. Have you,
+since leaving the regiment, held any correspondence, direct or
+indirect, with this Sergeant Houghton?'
+
+'I!--I hold correspondence with a man of his rank and situation! How,
+or for what purpose?'
+
+'That you are to explain. But did you not, for example, send to him for
+some books?'
+
+'You remind me of a trifling commission,' said Waverley, 'which I gave
+Sergeant Houghton, because my servant could not read. I do recollect I
+bade him, by letter, select some books, of which I sent him a list, and
+send them to me at Tully-Veolan.'
+
+'And of what description were those books?'
+
+'They related almost entirely to elegant literature; they were designed
+for a lady's perusal.'
+
+'Were there not, Mr. Waverley, treasonable tracts and pamphlets among
+them?'
+
+'There were some political treatises, into which I hardly looked. They
+had been sent to me by the officiousness of a kind friend, whose heart
+is more to be esteemed than his prudence or political sagacity; they
+seemed to be dull compositions.'
+
+'That friend,' continued the persevering inquirer, 'was a Mr. Pembroke,
+a nonjuring clergyman, the author of two treasonable works, of which
+the manuscripts were found among your baggage?'
+
+'But of which, I give you my honour as a gentleman,' replied Waverley,
+'I never read six pages.'
+
+'I am not your judge, Mr. Waverley; your examination will be
+transmitted elsewhere. And now to proceed. Do you know a person that
+passes by the name of Wily Will, or Will Ruthven?'
+
+'I never heard of such a name till this moment.'
+
+'Did you never through such a person, or any other person, communicate
+with Sergeant Humphry Houghton, instigating him to desert, with as many
+of his comrades as he could seduce to join him, and unite with the
+Highlanders and other rebels now in arms under the command of the Young
+Pretender?'
+
+'I assure you I am not only entirely guiltless of the plot you have
+laid to my charge, but I detest it from the very bottom of my soul, nor
+would I be guilty of such treachery to gain a throne, either for myself
+or any other man alive.'
+
+'Yet when I consider this envelope in the handwriting of one of those
+misguided gentlemen who are now in arms against their country, and the
+verses which it enclosed, I cannot but find some analogy between the
+enterprise I have mentioned and the exploit of Wogan, which the writer
+seems to expect you should imitate.'
+
+Waverley was struck with the coincidence, but denied that the wishes or
+expectations of the letter-writer were to be regarded as proofs of a
+charge otherwise chimerical.
+
+'But, if I am rightly informed, your time was spent, during your
+absence from the regiment, between the house of this Highland Chieftain
+and that of Mr. Bradwardine of Bradwardine, also in arms for this
+unfortunate cause?'
+
+'I do not mean to disguise it; but I do deny, most resolutely, being
+privy to any of their designs against the government.'
+
+'You do not, however, I presume, intend to deny that you attended your
+host Glennaquoich to a rendezvous, where, under a pretence of a general
+hunting match, most of the accomplices of his treason were assembled to
+concert measures for taking arms?'
+
+'I acknowledge having been at such a meeting,' said Waverley; 'but I
+neither heard nor saw anything which could give it the character you
+affix to it.'
+
+'From thence you proceeded,' continued the magistrate, 'with
+Glennaquoich and a part of his clan to join the army of the Young
+Pretender, and returned, after having paid your homage to him, to
+discipline and arm the remainder, and unite them to his bands on their
+way southward?'
+
+'I never went with Glennaquoich on such an errand. I never so much as
+heard that the person whom you mention was in the country.'
+
+He then detailed the history of his misfortune at the hunting match,
+and added, that on his return he found himself suddenly deprived of his
+commission, and did not deny that he then, for the first time, observed
+symptoms which indicated a disposition in the Highlanders to take arms;
+but added that, having no inclination to join their cause, and no
+longer any reason for remaining in Scotland, he was now on his return
+to his native country, to which he had been summoned by those who had a
+right to direct his motions, as Major Melville would perceive from the
+letters on the table.
+
+Major Melville accordingly perused the letters of Richard Waverley, of
+Sir Everard, and of Aunt Rachel; but the inferences he drew from them
+were different from what Waverley expected. They held the language of
+discontent with government, threw out no obscure hints of revenge, and
+that of poor Aunt Rachel, which plainly asserted the justice of the
+Stuart cause, was held to contain the open avowal of what the others
+only ventured to insinuate.
+
+'Permit me another question, Mr. Waverley,' said Major Melville. 'Did
+you not receive repeated letters from your commanding officer, warning
+you and commanding you to return to your post, and acquainting you with
+the use made of your name to spread discontent among your soldiers?'
+
+'I never did, Major Melville. One letter, indeed, I received from him,
+containing a civil intimation of his wish that I would employ my leave
+of absence otherwise than in constant residence at Bradwardine, as to
+which, I own, I thought he was not called on to interfere; and,
+finally, I received, on the same day on which I observed myself
+superseded in the "Gazette," a second letter from Colonel Gardiner,
+commanding me to join the regiment, an order which, owing to my
+absence, already mentioned and accounted for, I received too late to be
+obeyed. If there were any intermediate letters, and certainly from the
+Colonel's high character I think it probable that there were, they have
+never reached me.'
+
+'I have omitted, Mr. Waverley,' continued Major Melville, 'to inquire
+after a matter of less consequence, but which has nevertheless been
+publicly talked of to your disadvantage. It is said that a treasonable
+toast having been proposed in your hearing and presence, you, holding
+his Majesty's commission, suffered the task of resenting it to devolve
+upon another gentleman of the company. This, sir, cannot be charged
+against you in a court of justice; but if, as I am informed, the
+officers of your regiment requested an explanation of such a rumour, as
+a gentleman and soldier I cannot but be surprised that you did not
+afford it to them.'
+
+This was too much. Beset and pressed on every hand by accusations, in
+which gross falsehoods were blended with such circumstances of truth as
+could not fail to procure them credit,--alone, unfriended, and in a
+strange land, Waverley almost gave up his life and honour for lost,
+and, leaning his head upon his hand, resolutely refused to answer any
+further questions, since the fair and candid statement he had already
+made had only served to furnish arms against him.
+
+Without expressing either surprise or displeasure at the change in
+Waverley's manner, Major Melville proceeded composedly to put several
+other queries to him.
+
+'What does it avail me to answer you?' said Edward sullenly. 'You
+appear convinced of my guilt, and wrest every reply I have made to
+support your own preconceived opinion. Enjoy your supposed triumph,
+then, and torment me no further. If I am capable of the cowardice and
+treachery your charge burdens me with, I am not worthy to be believed
+in any reply I can make to you. If I am not deserving of your
+suspicion--and God and my own conscience bear evidence with me that it
+is so--then I do not see why I should, by my candour, lend my accusers
+arms against my innocence. There is no reason I should answer a word
+more, and I am determined to abide by this resolution.'
+
+And again he resumed his posture of sullen and determined silence.
+
+'Allow me,' said the magistrate, 'to remind you of one reason that may
+suggest the propriety of a candid and open confession. The inexperience
+of youth, Mr. Waverley, lays it open to the plans of the more designing
+and artful; and one of your friends at least--I mean Mac-Ivor of
+Glennaquoich--ranks high in the latter class, as, from your apparent
+ingenuousness, youth, and unacquaintance with the manners of the
+Highlands, I should be disposed to place you among the former. In such
+a case, a false step or error like yours, which I shall be happy to
+consider as involuntary, may be atoned for, and I would willingly act
+as intercessor. But, as you must necessarily be acquainted with the
+strength of the individuals in this country who have assumed arms, with
+their means and with their plans, I must expect you will merit this
+mediation on my part by a frank and candid avowal of all that has come
+to your knowledge upon these heads; in which case, I think I can
+venture to promise that a very short personal restraint will be the
+only ill consequence that can arise from your accession to these
+unhappy intrigues.'
+
+Waverley listened with great composure until the end of this
+exhortation, when, springing from his seat with an energy he had not
+yet displayed, he replied, 'Major Melville, since that is your name, I
+have hitherto answered your questions with candour, or declined them
+with temper, because their import concerned myself alone; but, as you
+presume to esteem me mean enough to commence informer against others,
+who received me, whatever may be their public misconduct, as a guest
+and friend, I declare to you that I consider your questions as an
+insult infinitely more offensive than your calumnious suspicions; and
+that, since my hard fortune permits me no other mode of resenting them
+than by verbal defiance, you should sooner have my heart out of my
+bosom than a single syllable of information on subjects which I could
+only become acquainted with in the full confidence of unsuspecting
+hospitality.'
+
+Mr. Morton and the Major looked at each other; and the former, who, in
+the course of the examination, had been repeatedly troubled with a
+sorry rheum, had recourse to his snuff-box and his handkerchief.
+
+'Mr. Waverley,' said the Major, 'my present situation prohibits me
+alike from giving or receiving offence, and I will not protract a
+discussion which approaches to either. I am afraid I must sign a
+warrant for detaining you in custody, but this house shall for the
+present be your prison. I fear I cannot persuade you to accept a share
+of our supper?--(Edward shook his head)--but I will order refreshments
+in your apartment.'
+
+Our hero bowed and withdrew, under guard of the officers of justice, to
+a small but handsome room, where, declining all offers of food or wine,
+he flung himself on the bed, and, stupified by the harassing events and
+mental fatigue of this miserable day, he sunk into a deep and heavy
+slumber. This was more than he himself could have expected; but it is
+mentioned of the North-American Indians, when at the stake of torture,
+that on the least intermission of agony they will sleep until the fire
+is applied to awaken them.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXII
+
+A CONFERENCE AND THE CONSEQUENCE
+
+
+Major Melville had detained Mr. Morton during his examination of
+Waverley, both because he thought he might derive assistance from his
+practical good sense and approved loyalty, and also because it was
+agreeable to have a witness of unimpeached candour and veracity to
+proceedings which touched the honour and safety of a young Englishman
+of high rank and family, and the expectant heir of a large fortune.
+Every step he knew would be rigorously canvassed, and it was his
+business to place the justice and integrity of his own conduct beyond
+the limits of question.
+
+When Waverley retired, the laird and clergyman of Cairnvreckan sat down
+in silence to their evening meal. While the servants were in attendance
+neither chose to say anything on the circumstances which occupied their
+minds, and neither felt it easy to speak upon any other. The youth and
+apparent frankness of Waverley stood in strong contrast to the shades
+of suspicion which darkened around him, and he had a sort of naivete
+and openness of demeanour that seemed to belong to one unhackneyed in
+the ways of intrigue, and which pleaded highly in his favour.
+
+Each mused over the particulars of the examination, and each viewed it
+through the medium of his own feelings. Both were men of ready and
+acute talent, and both were equally competent to combine various parts
+of evidence, and to deduce from them the necessary conclusions. But the
+wide difference of their habits and education often occasioned a great
+discrepancy in their respective deductions from admitted premises.
+
+Major Melville had been versed in camps and cities; he was vigilant by
+profession and cautious from experience, had met with much evil in the
+world, and therefore, though himself an upright magistrate and an
+honourable man, his opinions of others were always strict, and
+sometimes unjustly severe. Mr. Morton, on the contrary, had passed from
+the literary pursuits of a college, where he was beloved by his
+companions and respected by his teachers, to the ease and simplicity of
+his present charge, where his opportunities of witnessing evil were
+few, and never dwelt upon but in order to encourage repentance and
+amendment; and where the love and respect of his parishioners repaid
+his affectionate zeal in their behalf by endeavouring to disguise from
+him what they knew would give him the most acute pain, namely, their
+own occasional transgressions of the duties which it was the business
+of his life to recommend. Thus it was a common saying in the
+neighbourhood (though both were popular characters), that the laird
+knew only the ill in the parish and the minister only the good.
+
+A love of letters, though kept in subordination to his clerical studies
+and duties, also distinguished the pastor of Cairnvreckan, and had
+tinged his mind in earlier days with a slight feeling of romance, which
+no after incidents of real life had entirely dissipated. The early loss
+of an amiable young woman whom he had married for love, and who was
+quickly followed to the grave by an only child, had also served, even
+after the lapse of many years, to soften a disposition naturally mild
+and contemplative. His feelings on the present occasion were therefore
+likely to differ from those of the severe disciplinarian, strict
+magistrate, and distrustful man of the world.
+
+When the servants had withdrawn, the silence of both parties continued,
+until Major Melville, filling his glass and pushing the bottle to Mr.
+Morton, commenced--
+
+'A distressing affair this, Mr. Morton. I fear this youngster has
+brought himself within the compass of a halter.'
+
+'God forbid!' answered the clergyman.
+
+'Marry, and amen,' said the temporal magistrate; 'but I think even your
+merciful logic will hardly deny the conclusion.'
+
+'Surely, Major,' answered the clergyman, 'I should hope it might be
+averted, for aught we have heard tonight?'
+
+'Indeed!' replied Melville. 'But, my good parson, you are one of those
+who would communicate to every criminal the benefit of clergy.'
+
+'Unquestionably I would. Mercy and long-suffering are the grounds of
+the doctrine I am called to teach.'
+
+'True, religiously speaking; but mercy to a criminal may be gross
+injustice to the community. I don't speak of this young fellow in
+particular, who I heartily wish may be able to clear himself, for I
+like both his modesty and his spirit. But I fear he has rushed upon his
+fate.'
+
+'And why? Hundreds of misguided gentlemen are now in arms against the
+government, many, doubtless, upon principles which education and early
+prejudice have gilded with the names of patriotism and heroism;
+Justice, when she selects her victims from such a multitude (for surely
+all will not be destroyed), must regard the moral motive. He whom
+ambition or hope of personal advantage has led to disturb the peace of
+a well-ordered government, let him fall a victim to the laws; but
+surely youth, misled by the wild visions of chivalry and imaginary
+loyalty, may plead for pardon.'
+
+'If visionary chivalry and imaginary loyalty come within the
+predicament of high treason,' replied the magistrate, 'I know no court
+in Christendom, my dear Mr. Morton, where they can sue out their Habeas
+Corpus.'
+
+'But I cannot see that this youth's guilt is at all established to my
+satisfaction,' said the clergyman.
+
+'Because your good-nature blinds your good sense,' replied Major
+Melville. 'Observe now: This young man, descended of a family of
+hereditary Jacobites, his uncle the leader of the Tory interest in the
+county of ----, his father a disobliged and discontented courtier, his
+tutor a nonjuror and the author of two treasonable volumes--this youth,
+I say, enters into Gardiner's dragoons, bringing with him a body of
+young fellows from his uncle's estate, who have not stickled at avowing
+in their way the High-Church principles they learned at
+Waverley-Honour, in their disputes with their comrades. To these young
+men Waverley is unusually attentive; they are supplied with money
+beyond a soldier's wants and inconsistent with his discipline; and are
+under the management of a favourite sergeant, through whom they hold an
+unusually close communication with their captain, and affect to
+consider themselves as independent of the other officers, and superior
+to their comrades.'
+
+'All this, my dear Major, is the natural consequence of their
+attachment to their young landlord, and of their finding themselves in
+a regiment levied chiefly in the north of Ireland and the west of
+Scotland, and of course among comrades disposed to quarrel with them,
+both as Englishmen and as members of the Church of England.'
+
+'Well said, parson!' replied the magistrate. 'I would some of your
+synod heard you. But let me go on. This young man obtains leave of
+absence, goes to Tully-Veolan--the principles of the Baron of
+Bradwardine are pretty well known, not to mention that this lad's uncle
+brought him off in the year fifteen; he engages there in a brawl, in
+which he is said to have disgraced the commission he bore; Colonel
+Gardiner writes to him, first mildly, then more sharply--I think you
+will not doubt his having done so, since he says so; the mess invite
+him to explain the quarrel in which he is said to have been involved;
+he neither replies to his commander nor his comrades. In the meanwhile
+his soldiers become mutinous and disorderly, and at length, when the
+rumour of this unhappy rebellion becomes general, his favourite
+Sergeant Houghton and another fellow are detected in correspondence
+with a French emissary, accredited, as he says, by Captain Waverley,
+who urges him, according to the men's confession, to desert with the
+troop and join their captain, who was with Prince Charles. In the
+meanwhile this trusty captain is, by his own admission, residing at
+Glennaquoich with the most active, subtle, and desperate Jacobite in
+Scotland; he goes with him at least as far as their famous hunting
+rendezvous, and I fear a little farther. Meanwhile two other summonses
+are sent him; one warning him of the disturbances in his troop, another
+peremptorily ordering him to repair to the regiment, which, indeed,
+common sense might have dictated, when he observed rebellion thickening
+all round him. He returns an absolute refusal, and throws up his
+commission.'
+
+'He had been already deprived of it,' said Mr. Morton.
+
+'But he regrets,' replied Melville, 'that the measure had anticipated
+his resignation. His baggage is seized at his quarters and at
+Tully-Veolan, and is found to contain a stock of pestilent Jacobitical
+pamphlets, enough to poison a whole country, besides the unprinted
+lucubrations of his worthy friend and tutor Mr. Pembroke.'
+
+'He says he never read them,' answered the minister.
+
+'In an ordinary case I should believe him,' replied the magistrate,
+'for they are as stupid and pedantic in composition as mischievous in
+their tenets. But can you suppose anything but value for the principles
+they maintain would induce a young man of his age to lug such trash
+about with him? Then, when news arrive of the approach of the rebels,
+he sets out in a sort of disguise, refusing to tell his name; and, if
+yon old fanatic tell truth, attended by a very suspicious character,
+and mounted on a horse known to have belonged to Glennaquoich, and
+bearing on his person letters from his family expressing high rancour
+against the house of Brunswick, and a copy of verses in praise of one
+Wogan, who abjured the service of the Parliament to join the Highland
+insurgents, when in arms to restore the house of Stuart, with a body of
+English cavalry--the very counterpart of his own plot--and summed up
+with a "Go thou and do likewise" from that loyal subject, and most safe
+and peaceable character, Fergus Mac-Ivor of Glennaquoich, Vich Ian
+Vohr, and so forth. And, lastly,' continued Major Melville, warming in
+the detail of his arguments, 'where do we find this second edition of
+Cavalier Wogan? Why, truly, in the very track most proper for execution
+of his design, and pistolling the first of the king's subjects who
+ventures to question his intentions.'
+
+Mr. Morton prudently abstained from argument, which he perceived would
+only harden the magistrate in his opinion, and merely asked how he
+intended to dispose of the prisoner?
+
+'It is a question of some difficulty, considering the state of the
+country,' said Major Melville.
+
+'Could you not detain him (being such a gentleman-like young man) here
+in your own house, out of harm's way, till this storm blow over?'
+
+'My good friend,' said Major Melville, 'neither your house nor mine
+will be long out of harm's way, even were it legal to confine him here.
+I have just learned that the commander-in-chief, who marched into the
+Highlands to seek out and disperse the insurgents, has declined giving
+them battle at Coryarrick, and marched on northward with all the
+disposable force of government to Inverness, John-o'-Groat's House, or
+the devil, for what I know, leaving the road to the Low Country open
+and undefended to the Highland army.'
+
+'Good God!' said the clergyman. 'Is the man a coward, a traitor, or an
+idiot?'
+
+'None of the three, I believe,' answered Melville. 'Sir John has the
+commonplace courage of a common soldier, is honest enough, does what he
+is commanded, and understands what is told him, but is as fit to act
+for himself in circumstances of importance as I, my dear parson, to
+occupy your pulpit.'
+
+This important public intelligence naturally diverted the discourse
+from Waverley for some time; at length, however, the subject was
+resumed.
+
+'I believe,' said Major Melville, 'that I must give this young man in
+charge to some of the detached parties of armed volunteers who were
+lately sent out to overawe the disaffected districts. They are now
+recalled towards Stirling, and a small body comes this way to-morrow or
+next day, commanded by the westland man--what's his name? You saw him,
+and said he was the very model of one of Cromwell's military saints.'
+
+'Gilfillan, the Cameronian,' answered Mr. Morton. 'I wish the young
+gentleman may be safe with him. Strange things are done in the heat and
+hurry of minds in so agitating a crisis, and I fear Gilfillan is of a
+sect which has suffered persecution without learning mercy.'
+
+'He has only to lodge Mr. Waverley in Stirling Castle,' said the Major;
+'I will give strict injunctions to treat him well. I really cannot
+devise any better mode for securing him, and I fancy you would hardly
+advise me to encounter the responsibility of setting him at liberty.'
+
+'But you will have no objection to my seeing him tomorrow in private?'
+said the minister.
+
+'None, certainly; your loyalty and character are my warrant. But with
+what view do you make the request?'
+
+'Simply,' replied Mr. Morton, 'to make the experiment whether he may
+not be brought to communicate to me some circumstances which may
+hereafter be useful to alleviate, if not to exculpate, his conduct.'
+
+The friends now parted and retired to rest, each filled with the most
+anxious reflections on the state of the country.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXIII
+
+A CONFIDANT
+
+
+Waverley awoke in the morning from troubled dreams and unrefreshing
+slumbers to a full consciousness of the horrors of his situation. How
+it might terminate he knew not. He might be delivered up to military
+law, which, in the midst of civil war, was not likely to be scrupulous
+in the choice of its victims or the quality of the evidence. Nor did he
+feel much more comfortable at the thoughts of a trial before a Scottish
+court of justice, where he knew the laws and forms differed in many
+respects from those of England, and had been taught to believe, however
+erroneously, that the liberty and rights of the subject were less
+carefully protected. A sentiment of bitterness rose in his mind against
+the government, which he considered as the cause of his embarrassment
+and peril, and he cursed internally his scrupulous rejection of
+Mac-Ivor's invitation to accompany him to the field.
+
+'Why did not I,' he said to himself, 'like other men of honour, take
+the earliest opportunity to welcome to Britain the descendant of her
+ancient kings and lineal heir of her throne? Why did not I--
+
+    Unthread the rude eye of rebellion,
+    And welcome home again discarded faith,
+    Seek out Prince Charles, and fall before his feet?
+
+All that has been recorded of excellence and worth in the house of
+Waverley has been founded upon their loyal faith to the house of
+Stuart. From the interpretation which this Scotch magistrate has put
+upon the letters of my uncle and father, it is plain that I ought to
+have understood them as marshalling me to the course of my ancestors;
+and it has been my gross dulness, joined to the obscurity of expression
+which they adopted for the sake of security, that has confounded my
+judgment. Had I yielded to the first generous impulse of indignation
+when I learned that my honour was practised upon, how different had
+been my present situation! I had then been free and in arms fighting,
+like my forefathers, for love, for loyalty, and for fame. And now I am
+here, netted and in the toils, at the disposal of a suspicious, stern,
+and cold-hearted man, perhaps to be turned over to the solitude of a
+dungeon or the infamy of a public execution. O, Fergus! how true has
+your prophecy proved; and how speedy, how very speedy, has been its
+accomplishment!'
+
+While Edward was ruminating on these painful subjects of contemplation,
+and very naturally, though not quite so justly, bestowing upon the
+reigning dynasty that blame which was due to chance, or, in part at
+least, to his own unreflecting conduct, Mr. Morton availed himself of
+Major Melville's permission to pay him an early visit.
+
+Waverley's first impulse was to intimate a desire that he might not be
+disturbed with questions or conversation; but he suppressed it upon
+observing the benevolent and reverend appearance of the clergyman who
+had rescued him from the immediate violence of the villagers.
+
+'I believe, sir,' said the unfortunate young man,'that in any other
+circumstances I should have had as much gratitude to express to you as
+the safety of my life may be worth; but such is the present tumult of
+my mind, and such is my anticipation of what I am yet likely to endure,
+that I can hardly offer you thanks for your interposition.'
+
+Mr. Morton replied, that, far from making any claim upon his good
+opinion, his only wish and the sole purpose of his visit was to find
+out the means of deserving it. 'My excellent friend, Major Melville,'
+he continued, 'has feelings and duties as a soldier and public
+functionary by which I am not fettered; nor can I always coincide in
+opinions which he forms, perhaps with too little allowance for the
+imperfections of human nature.' He paused and then proceeded: 'I do not
+intrude myself on your confidence, Mr. Waverley, for the purpose of
+learning any circumstances the knowledge of which can be prejudicial
+either to yourself or to others; but I own my earnest wish is that you
+would intrust me with any particulars which could lead to your
+exculpation. I can solemnly assure you they will be deposited with a
+faithful and, to the extent of his limited powers, a zealous agent.'
+
+'You are, sir, I presume, a Presbyterian clergyman?' Mr. Morton bowed.
+'Were I to be guided by the prepossessions of education, I might
+distrust your friendly professions in my case; but I have observed that
+similar prejudices are nourished in this country against your
+professional brethren of the Episcopal persuasion, and I am willing to
+believe them equally unfounded in both cases.'
+
+'Evil to him that thinks otherwise,' said Mr. Morton; 'or who holds
+church government and ceremonies as the exclusive gage of Christian
+faith or moral virtue.'
+
+'But,' continued Waverley, 'I cannot perceive why I should trouble you
+with a detail of particulars, out of which, after revolving them as
+carefully as possible in my recollection, I find myself unable to
+explain much of what is charged against me. I know, indeed, that I am
+innocent, but I hardly see how I can hope to prove myself so.'
+
+'It is for that very reason, Mr. Waverley,' said the clergyman, 'that I
+venture to solicit your confidence. My knowledge of individuals in this
+country is pretty general, and can upon occasion be extended. Your
+situation will, I fear, preclude your taking those active steps for
+recovering intelligence or tracing imposture which I would willingly
+undertake in your behalf; and if you are not benefited by my exertions,
+at least they cannot be prejudicial to you.'
+
+Waverley, after a few minutes' reflection, was convinced that his
+reposing confidence in Mr. Morton, so far as he himself was concerned,
+could hurt neither Mr. Bradwardine nor Fergus Mac-Ivor, both of whom
+had openly assumed arms against the government, and that it might
+possibly, if the professions of his new friend corresponded in
+sincerity with the earnestness of his expression, be of some service to
+himself. He therefore ran briefly over most of the events with which
+the reader is already acquainted, suppressing his attachment to Flora,
+and indeed neither mentioning her nor Rose Bradwardine in the course of
+his narrative.
+
+Mr. Morton seemed particularly struck with the account of Waverley's
+visit to Donald Bean Lean. 'I am glad,' he said, 'you did not mention
+this circumstance to the Major. It is capable of great misconstruction
+on the part of those who do not consider the power of curiosity and the
+influence of romance as motives of youthful conduct. When I was a young
+man like you, Mr. Waverley, any such hair-brained expedition (I beg
+your pardon for the expression) would have had inexpressible charms for
+me. But there are men in the world who will not believe that danger and
+fatigue are often incurred without any very adequate cause, and
+therefore who are sometimes led to assign motives of action entirely
+foreign to the truth. This man Bean Lean is renowned through the
+country as a sort of Robin Hood, and the stories which are told of his
+address and enterprise are the common tales of the winter fireside. He
+certainly possesses talents beyond the rude sphere in which he moves;
+and, being neither destitute of ambition nor encumbered with scruples,
+he will probably attempt, by every means, to distinguish himself during
+the period of these unhappy commotions.' Mr. Morton then made a careful
+memorandum of the various particulars of Waverley's interview with
+Donald Bean Lean and the other circumstances which he had communicated.
+
+The interest which this good man seemed to take in his misfortunes,
+above all, the full confidence he appeared to repose in his innocence,
+had the natural effect of softening Edward's heart, whom the coldness
+of Major Melville had taught to believe that the world was leagued to
+oppress him. He shook Mr. Morton warmly by the hand, and, assuring him
+that his kindness and sympathy had relieved his mind of a heavy load,
+told him that, whatever might be his own fate, he belonged to a family
+who had both gratitude and the power of displaying it. The earnestness
+of his thanks called drops to the eyes of the worthy clergyman, who was
+doubly interested in the cause for which he had volunteered his
+services, by observing the genuine and undissembled feelings of his
+young friend.
+
+Edward now inquired if Mr. Morton knew what was likely to be his
+destination.
+
+'Stirling Castle,' replied his friend; 'and so far I am well pleased
+for your sake, for the governor is a man of honour and humanity. But I
+am more doubtful of your treatment upon the road; Major Melville is
+involuntarily obliged to intrust the custody of your person to another.'
+
+'I am glad of it,' answered Waverley. 'I detest that cold-blooded
+calculating Scotch magistrate. I hope he and I shall never meet more.
+He had neither sympathy with my innocence nor with my wretchedness; and
+the petrifying accuracy with which he attended to every form of
+civility, while he tortured me by his questions, his suspicions, and
+his inferences, was as tormenting as the racks of the Inquisition. Do
+not vindicate him, my dear sir, for that I cannot bear with patience;
+tell me rather who is to have the charge of so important a state
+prisoner as I am.'
+
+'I believe a person called Gilfillan, one of the sect who are termed
+Cameronians.'
+
+'I never heard of them before.'
+
+'They claim,' said the clergyman, 'to represent the more strict and
+severe Presbyterians, who, in Charles Second's and James Second's days,
+refused to profit by the Toleration, or Indulgence, as it was called,
+which was extended to others of that religion. They held conventicles
+in the open fields, and, being treated with great violence and cruelty
+by the Scottish government, more than once took arms during those
+reigns. They take their name from their leader, Richard Cameron.'
+
+'I recollect,' said Waverley; 'but did not the triumph of Presbytery at
+the Revolution extinguish that sect?'
+
+'By no means,' replied Morton; 'that great event fell yet far short of
+what they proposed, which was nothing less than the complete
+establishment of the Presbyterian Church upon the grounds of the old
+Solemn League and Covenant. Indeed, I believe they scarce knew what
+they wanted; but being a numerous body of men, and not unacquainted
+with the use of arms, they kept themselves together as a separate party
+in the state, and at the time of the Union had nearly formed a most
+unnatural league with their old enemies the Jacobites to oppose that
+important national measure. Since that time their numbers have
+gradually diminished; but a good many are still to be found in the
+western counties, and several, with a better temper than in 1707, have
+now taken arms for government. This person, whom they call Gifted
+Gilfillan, has been long a leader among them, and now heads a small
+party, which will pass here to-day or to-morrow on their march towards
+Stirling, under whose escort Major Melville proposes you shall travel.
+I would willingly speak to Gilfillan in your behalf; but, having deeply
+imbibed all the prejudices of his sect, and being of the same fierce
+disposition, he would pay little regard to the remonstrances of an
+Erastian divine, as he would politely term me. And now, farewell, my
+young friend; for the present I must not weary out the Major's
+indulgence, that I may obtain his permission to visit you again in the
+course of the day.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXIV
+
+THINGS MEND A LITTLE
+
+
+About noon Mr. Morton returned and brought an invitation from Major
+Melville that Mr. Waverley would honour him with his company to dinner,
+notwithstanding the unpleasant affair which detained him at
+Cairnvreckan, from which he should heartily rejoice to see Mr. Waverley
+completely extricated. The truth was that Mr. Morton's favourable
+report and opinion had somewhat staggered the preconceptions of the old
+soldier concerning Edward's supposed accession to the mutiny in the
+regiment; and in the unfortunate state of the country the mere
+suspicion of disaffection or an inclination to join the insurgent
+Jacobites might infer criminality indeed, but certainly not dishonour.
+Besides, a person whom the Major trusted had reported to him (though,
+as it proved, inaccurately) a contradiction of the agitating news of
+the preceding evening. According to this second edition of the
+intelligence, the Highlanders had withdrawn from the Lowland frontier
+with the purpose of following the army in their march to Inverness. The
+Major was at a loss, indeed, to reconcile his information with the
+well-known abilities of some of the gentlemen in the Highland army, yet
+it was the course which was likely to be most agreeable to others. He
+remembered the same policy had detained them in the north in the year
+1715, and he anticipated a similar termination to the insurrection as
+upon that occasion.
+
+This news put him in such good-humour that he readily acquiesced in Mr.
+Morton's proposal to pay some hospitable attention to his unfortunate
+guest, and voluntarily added, he hoped the whole affair would prove a
+youthful escapade, which might be easily atoned by a short confinement.
+The kind mediator had some trouble to prevail on his young friend to
+accept the invitation. He dared not urge to him the real motive, which
+was a good-natured wish to secure a favourable report of Waverley's
+case from Major Melville to Governor Blakeney. He remarked, from the
+flashes of our hero's spirit, that touching upon this topic would be
+sure to defeat his purpose. He therefore pleaded that the invitation
+argued the Major's disbelief of any part of the accusation which was
+inconsistent with Waverley's conduct as a soldier and a man of honour,
+and that to decline his courtesy might be interpreted into a
+consciousness that it was unmerited. In short, he so far satisfied
+Edward that the manly and proper course was to meet the Major on easy
+terms that, suppressing his strong dislike again to encounter his cold
+and punctilious civility, Waverley agreed to be guided by his new
+friend.
+
+The meeting at first was stiff and formal enough. But Edward, having
+accepted the invitation, and his mind being really soothed and relieved
+by the kindness of Morton, held himself bound to behave with ease,
+though he could not affect cordiality. The Major was somewhat of a bon
+vivant, and his wine was excellent. He told his old campaign stories,
+and displayed much knowledge of men and manners. Mr. Morton had an
+internal fund of placid and quiet gaiety, which seldom failed to
+enliven any small party in which he found himself pleasantly seated.
+Waverley, whose life was a dream, gave ready way to the predominating
+impulse and became the most lively of the party. He had at all times
+remarkable natural powers of conversation, though easily silenced by
+discouragement. On the present occasion he piqued himself upon leaving
+on the minds of his companions a favourable impression of one who,
+under such disastrous circumstances, could sustain his misfortunes with
+ease and gaiety. His spirits, though not unyielding, were abundantly
+elastic, and soon seconded his efforts. The trio were engaged in very
+lively discourse, apparently delighted with each other, and the kind
+host was pressing a third bottle of Burgundy, when the sound of a drum
+was heard at some distance. The Major, who, in the glee of an old
+soldier, had forgot the duties of a magistrate, cursed, with a muttered
+military oath, the circumstances which recalled him to his official
+functions. He rose and went towards the window, which commanded a very
+near view of the highroad, and he was followed by his guests.
+
+The drum advanced, beating no measured martial tune, but a kind of
+rub-a-dub-dub, like that with which the fire-drum startles the
+slumbering artizans of a Scotch burgh. It is the object of this history
+to do justice to all men; I must therefore record, in justice to the
+drummer, that he protested he could beat any known march or point of
+war known in the British army, and had accordingly commenced with
+'Dumbarton's Drums,' when he was silenced by Gifted Gilfillan, the
+commander of the party, who refused to permit his followers to move to
+this profane, and even, as he said, persecutive tune, and commanded the
+drummer to beat the 119th Psalm. As this was beyond the capacity of the
+drubber of sheepskin, he was fain to have recourse to the inoffensive
+row-de-dow as a harmless substitute for the sacred music which his
+instrument or skill were unable to achieve. This may be held a trifling
+anecdote, but the drummer in question was no less than town-drummer of
+Anderton. I remember his successor in office, a member of that
+enlightened body, the British Convention. Be his memory, therefore,
+treated with due respect.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXV
+
+A VOLUNTEER SIXTY YEARS SINCE
+
+
+On hearing the unwelcome sound of the drum, Major Melville hastily
+opened a sashed door and stepped out upon a sort of terrace which
+divided his house from the highroad from which the martial music
+proceeded. Waverley and his new friend followed him, though probably he
+would have dispensed with their attendance. They soon recognised in
+solemn march, first, the performer upon the drum; secondly, a large
+flag of four compartments, on which were inscribed the words, COVENANT,
+KIRK, KING, KINGDOMS. The person who was honoured with this charge was
+followed by the commander of the party, a thin, dark, rigid-looking
+man, about sixty years old. The spiritual pride, which in mine host of
+the Candlestick mantled in a sort of supercilious hypocrisy, was in
+this man's face elevated and yet darkened by genuine and undoubting
+fanaticism. It was impossible to behold him without imagination placing
+him in some strange crisis, where religious zeal was the ruling
+principle. A martyr at the stake, a soldier in the field, a lonely and
+banished wanderer consoled by the intensity and supposed purity of his
+faith under every earthly privation, perhaps a persecuting inquisitor,
+as terrific in power as unyielding in adversity; any of these seemed
+congenial characters to this personage. With these high traits of
+energy, there was something in the affected precision and solemnity of
+his deportment and discourse that bordered upon the ludicrous; so that,
+according to the mood of the spectator's mind and the light under which
+Mr. Gilfillan presented himself, one might have feared, admired, or
+laughed at him. His dress was that of a West-Country peasant, of better
+materials indeed than that of the lower rank, but in no respect
+affecting either the mode of the age or of the Scottish gentry at any
+period. His arms were a broadsword and pistols, which, from the
+antiquity of their appearance, might have seen the rout of Pentland or
+Bothwell Brigg.
+
+As he came up a few steps to meet Major Melville, and touched solemnly,
+but slightly, his huge and over-brimmed blue bonnet, in answer to the
+Major, who had courteously raised a small triangular gold-laced hat,
+Waverley was irresistibly impressed with the idea that he beheld a
+leader of the Roundheads of yore in conference with one of
+Marlborough's captains.
+
+The group of about thirty armed men who followed this gifted commander
+was of a motley description. They were in ordinary Lowland dresses, of
+different colours, which, contrasted with the arms they bore, gave them
+an irregular and mobbish appearance; so much is the eye accustomed to
+connect uniformity of dress with the military character. In front were
+a few who apparently partook of their leader's enthusiasm, men
+obviously to be feared in a combat, where their natural courage was
+exalted by religious zeal. Others puffed and strutted, filled with the
+importance of carrying arms and all the novelty of their situation,
+while the rest, apparently fatigued with their march, dragged their
+limbs listlessly along, or straggled from their companions to procure
+such refreshments as the neighbouring cottages and alehouses afforded.
+Six grenadiers of Ligonier's, thought the Major to himself, as his mind
+reverted to his own military experience, would have sent all these
+fellows to the right about.
+
+Greeting, however, Mr. Gilfillan civilly, he requested to know if he
+had received the letter he had sent to him upon his march, and could
+undertake the charge of the state prisoner whom he there mentioned as
+far as Stirling Castle. 'Yea,' was the concise reply of the Cameronian
+leader, in a voice which seemed to issue from the very penetralia of
+his person.
+
+'But your escort, Mr. Gilfillan, is not so strong as I expected,' said
+Major Melville.
+
+'Some of the people,' replied Gilfillan, 'hungered and were athirst by
+the way, and tarried until their poor souls were refreshed with the
+word.'
+
+'I am sorry, sir,' replied the Major, 'you did not trust to your
+refreshing your men at Cairnvreckan; whatever my house contains is at
+the command of persons employed in the service.'
+
+'It was not of creature-comforts I spake,' answered the Covenanter,
+regarding Major Melville with something like a smile of contempt;
+'howbeit, I thank you; but the people remained waiting upon the
+precious Mr. Jabesh Rentowel for the out-pouring of the afternoon
+exhortation.'
+
+'And have you, sir,' said the Major, 'when the rebels are about to
+spread themselves through this country, actually left a great part of
+your command at a fieldpreaching?'
+
+Gilfillan again smiled scornfully as he made this indirect answer
+--'Even thus are the children of this world wiser in their generation
+than the children of light!'
+
+'However, sir,' said the Major, 'as you are to take charge of this
+gentleman to Stirling, and deliver him, with these papers, into the
+hands of Governor Blakeney, I beseech you to observe some rules of
+military discipline upon your march. For example, I would advise you to
+keep your men more closely together, and that each in his march should
+cover his file-leader, instead of straggling like geese upon a common;
+and, for fear of surprise, I further recommend to you to form a small
+advance-party of your best men, with a single vidette in front of the
+whole march, so that when you approach a village or a wood'--(here the
+Major interrupted himself)--'But as I don't observe you listen to me,
+Mr. Gilfillan, I suppose I need not give myself the trouble to say more
+upon the subject. You are a better judge, unquestionably, than I am of
+the measures to be pursued; but one thing I would have you well aware
+of, that you are to treat this gentleman, your prisoner, with no rigour
+nor incivility, and are to subject him to no other restraint than is
+necessary for his security.'
+
+'I have looked into my commission,' said Mr. Gilfillan,' subscribed by
+a worthy and professing nobleman, William, Earl of Glencairn; nor do I
+find it therein set down that I am to receive any charges or commands
+anent my doings from Major William Melville of Cairnvreckan.'
+
+Major Melville reddened even to the well-powdered ears which appeared
+beneath his neat military sidecurls, the more so as he observed Mr.
+Morton smile at the same moment. 'Mr. Gilfillan,' he answered, with
+some asperity, 'I beg ten thousand pardons for interfering with a
+person of your importance. I thought, however, that as you have been
+bred a grazier, if I mistake not, there might be occasion to remind you
+of the difference between Highlanders and Highland cattle; and if you
+should happen to meet with any gentleman who has seen service, and is
+disposed to speak upon the subject, I should still imagine that
+listening to him would do you no sort of harm. But I have done, and
+have only once more to recommend this gentleman to your civility as
+well as to your custody. Mr. Waverley, I am truly sorry we should part
+in this way; but I trust, when you are again in this country, I may
+have an opportunity to render Cairnvreckan more agreeable than
+circumstances have permitted on this occasion.'
+
+So saying, he shook our hero by the hand. Morton also took an
+affectionate farewell, and Waverley, having mounted his horse, with a
+musketeer leading it by the bridle and a file upon each side to prevent
+his escape, set forward upon the march with Gilfillan and his party.
+Through the little village they were accompanied with the shouts of the
+children, who cried out, 'Eh! see to the Southland gentleman that's
+gaun to be hanged for shooting lang John Mucklewrath, the smith!
+
+
+
+
+
+APPENDICES TO THE GENERAL PREFACE
+
+
+NO. I
+
+FRAGMENT [Footnote: It is not to be supposed that these fragments are
+given in possessing any intrinsic value of themselves; but there may be
+some curiosity attached to them, as to the first etchings of a plate,
+which are accounted interesting by those who have, in any degree, been
+interested in the more finished works of the artist.] OF A ROMANCE
+WHICH WAS TO HAVE BEEN ENTITLED
+
+THOMAS THE RHYMER
+
+CHAPTER I
+
+THE sun was nearly set behind the distant mountains of Liddesdale, when
+a few of the scattered and terrified inhabitants of the village of
+Hersildoune, which had four days before been burned by a predatory band
+of English Borderers, were now busied in repairing their ruined
+dwellings. One high tower in the centre of the village alone exhibited
+no appearance of devastation. It was surrounded with court walls, and
+the outer gate was barred and bolted. The bushes and brambles which
+grew around, and had even insinuated their branches beneath the gate,
+plainly showed that it must have been many years since it had been
+opened. While the cottages around lay in smoking ruins, this pile,
+deserted and desolate as it seemed to be, had suffered nothing from the
+violence of the invaders; and the wretched beings who were endeavouring
+to repair their miserable huts against nightfall seemed to neglect the
+preferable shelter which it might have afforded them without the
+necessity of labour.
+
+Before the day had quite gone down, a knight, richly armed and mounted
+upon an ambling hackney, rode slowly into the village. His attendants
+were a lady, apparently young and beautiful, who rode by his side upon
+a dappled palfrey; his squire, who carried his helmet and lance, and
+led his battlehorse, a noble steed, richly caparisoned. A page and four
+yeomen bearing bows and quivers, short swords, and targets of a span
+breadth, completed his equipage, which, though small, denoted him to be
+a man of high rank.
+
+He stopped and addressed several of the inhabitants whom curiosity had
+withdrawn from their labour to gaze at him; but at the sound of his
+voice, and still more on perceiving the St. George's Cross in the caps
+of his followers, they fled, with a loud cry, 'that the Southrons were
+returned.' The knight endeavoured to expostulate with the fugitives,
+who were chiefly aged men, women, and children; but their dread of the
+English name accelerated their flight, and in a few minutes, excepting
+the knight and his attendants, the place was deserted by all. He paced
+through the village to seek a shelter for the night, and, despairing to
+find one either in the inaccessible tower or the plundered huts of the
+peasantry, he directed his course to the left hand, where he spied a
+small decent habitation, apparently the abode of a man considerably
+above the common rank. After much knocking, the proprietor at length
+showed himself at the window, and speaking in the English dialect, with
+great signs of apprehension, demanded their business. The warrior
+replied that his quality was an English knight and baron, and that he
+was travelling to the court of the King of Scotland on affairs of
+consequence to both kingdoms.
+
+'Pardon my hesitation, noble Sir Knight,' said the old man, as he
+unbolted and unbarred his doors--'Pardon my hesitation, but we are here
+exposed to too many intrusions to admit of our exercising unlimited and
+unsuspicious hospitality. What I have is yours; and God send your
+mission may bring back peace and the good days of our old Queen
+Margaret!'
+
+'Amen, worthy Franklin,' quoth the Knight--'Did you know her?'
+
+'I came to this country in her train,' said the Franklin; 'and the care
+of some of her jointure lands which she devolved on me occasioned my
+settling here.'
+
+'And how do you, being an Englishman,' said the Knight, 'protect your
+life and property here, when one of your nation cannot obtain a single
+night's lodging, or a draught of water were he thirsty?'
+
+'Marry, noble sir,' answered the Franklin, 'use, as they say, will make
+a man live in a lion's den; and as I settled here in a quiet time, and
+have never given cause of offence, I am respected by my neighbours, and
+even, as you see, by our FORAYERS from England.'
+
+'I rejoice to hear it, and accept your hospitality. Isabella, my love,
+our worthy host will provide you a bed. My daughter, good Franklin, is
+ill at ease. We will occupy your house till the Scottish King shall
+return from his northern expedition; meanwhile call me Lord Lacy of
+Chester.'
+
+The attendants of the Baron, assisted by the Franklin, were now busied
+in disposing of the horses, and arranging the table for some
+refreshment for Lord Lacy and his fair companion. While they sat down
+to it, they were attended by their host and his daughter, whom custom
+did not permit to eat in their presence, and who afterwards withdrew to
+an outer chamber, where the squire and page (both young men of noble
+birth) partook of supper, and were accommodated with beds. The yeomen,
+after doing honour to the rustic cheer of Queen Margaret's bailiff,
+withdrew to the stable, and each, beside his favourite horse, snored
+away the fatigues of their journey.
+
+Early on the following morning the travellers were roused by a
+thundering knocking at the door of the house, accompanied with many
+demands for instant admission in the roughest tone. The squire and page
+of Lord Lacy, after buckling on their arms, were about to sally out to
+chastise these intruders, when the old host, after looking out at a
+private casement, contrived for reconnoitring his visitors, entreated
+them, with great signs of terror, to be quiet, if they did not mean
+that all in the house should be murdered.
+
+He then hastened to the apartment of Lord Lacy, whom he met dressed in
+a long furred gown and the knightly cap called a MORTIER, irritated at
+the noise, and demanding to know the cause which had disturbed the
+repose of the household.
+
+'Noble sir,' said the Franklin, 'one of the most formidable and bloody
+of the Scottish Border riders is at hand; he is never seen,' added he,
+faltering with terror, 'so far from the hills but with some bad
+purpose, and the power of accomplishing it; so hold yourself to your
+guard, for--'
+
+A loud crash here announced that the door was broken down, and the
+knight just descended the stair in time to prevent bloodshed betwixt
+his attendants and the intruders. They were three in number; their
+chief was tall, bony, and athletic, his spare and muscular frame, as
+well as the hardness of his features, marked the course of his life to
+have been fatiguing and perilous. The effect of his appearance was
+aggravated by his dress, which consisted of a jack or jacket, composed
+of thick buff leather, on which small plates of iron of a lozenge form
+were stitched in such a manner as to overlap each other and form a coat
+of mail, which swayed with every motion of the wearer's body. This
+defensive armour covered a doublet of coarse grey cloth, and the
+Borderer had a few half-rusted plates of steel on his shoulders, a
+two-edged sword, with a dagger hanging beside it, in a buff belt; a
+helmet, with a few iron bars, to cover the face instead of a visor, and
+a lance of tremendous and uncommon length, completed his appointments.
+The looks of the man were as wild and rude as his attire: his keen
+black eyes never rested one moment fixed upon a single object, but
+constantly traversed all around, as if they ever sought some danger to
+oppose, some plunder to seize, or some insult to revenge. The latter
+seemed to be his present object, for, regardless of the dignified
+presence of Lord Lacy, he uttered the most incoherent threats against
+the owner of the house and his guests.
+
+'We shall see--ay, marry shall we--if an English hound is to harbour
+and reset the Southrons here. Thank the Abbot of Melrose and the good
+Knight of Coldingnow that have so long kept me from your skirts. But
+those days are gone, by Saint Mary, and you shall find it!'
+
+It is probable the enraged Borderer would not have long continued to
+vent his rage in empty menaces, had not the entrance of the four yeomen
+with their bows bent convinced him that the force was not at this
+moment on his own side.
+
+Lord Lacy now advanced towards him. 'You intrude upon my privacy,
+soldier; withdraw yourself and your followers. There is peace betwixt
+our nations, or my servants should chastise thy presumption.'
+
+'Such peace as ye give such shall ye have,' answered the moss-trooper,
+first pointing with his lance towards the burned village and then
+almost instantly levelling it against Lord Lacy. The squire drew his
+sword and severed at one blow the steel head from the truncheon of the
+spear.
+
+'Arthur Fitzherbert,' said the Baron, 'that stroke has deferred thy
+knighthood for one year; never must that squire wear the spurs whose
+unbridled impetuosity can draw unbidden his sword in the presence of
+his master. Go hence and think on what I have said.'
+
+The squire left the chamber abashed.
+
+'It were vain,' continued Lord Lacy, 'to expect that courtesy from a
+mountain churl which even my own followers can forget. Yet, before thou
+drawest thy brand (for the intruder laid his hand upon the hilt of his
+sword), thou wilt do well to reflect that I came with a safe-conduct
+from thy king, and have no time to waste in brawls with such as thou.'
+
+'From MY king--from my king!' re-echoed the mountaineer. 'I care not
+that rotten truncheon (striking the shattered spear furiously on the
+ground) for the King of Fife and Lothian. But Habby of Cessford will be
+here belive; and we shall soon know if he will permit an English churl
+to occupy his hostelrie.'
+
+Having uttered these words, accompanied with a lowering glance from
+under his shaggy black eyebrows, he turned on his heel and left the
+house with his two followers. They mounted their horses, which they had
+tied to an outer fence, and vanished in an instant.
+
+'Who is this discourteous ruffian?' said Lord Lacy to the Franklin, who
+had stood in the most violent agitation during this whole scene.
+
+'His name, noble lord, is Adam Kerr of the Moat, but he is commonly
+called by his companions the Black Rider of Cheviot. I fear, I fear, he
+comes hither for no good; but if the Lord of Cessford be near, he will
+not dare offer any unprovoked outrage.'
+
+'I have heard of that chief,' said the Baron. 'Let me know when he
+approaches, and do thou, Rodulph (to the eldest yeoman), keep a strict
+watch. Adelbert (to the page), attend to arm me.' The page bowed, and
+the Baron withdrew to the chamber of the Lady Isabella to explain the
+cause of the disturbance.
+
+No more of the proposed tale was ever written; but the Author's purpose
+was that it should turn upon a fine legend of superstition which is
+current in the part of the Borders where he had his residence, where,
+in the reign of Alexander III of Scotland, that renowned person Thomas
+of Hersildoune, called the Rhymer, actually flourished. This personage,
+the Merlin of Scotland, and to whom some of the adventures which the
+British bards assigned to Merlin Caledonius, or the Wild, have been
+transferred by tradition, was, as is well known, a magician, as well as
+a poet and prophet. He is alleged still to live in the land of Faery,
+and is expected to return at some great convulsion of society, in which
+he is to act a distinguished part, a tradition common to all nations,
+as the belief of the Mahomedans respecting their twelfth Imaum
+demonstrates.
+
+Now, it chanced many years since that there lived on the Borders a
+jolly, rattling horse-cowper, who was remarkable for a reckless and
+fearless temper, which made him much admired and a little dreaded
+amongst his neighbours. One moonlight night, as he rode over Bowden
+Moor, on the west side of the Eildon Hills, the scene of Thomas the
+Rhymer's prophecies, and often mentioned in his story, having a brace
+of horses along with him which he had not been able to dispose of, he
+met a man of venerable appearance and singularly antique dress, who, to
+his great surprise, asked the price of his horses, and began to chaffer
+with him on the subject. To Canobie Dick, for so shall we call our
+Border dealer, a chap was a chap, and he would have sold a horse to the
+devil himself, without minding his cloven hoof, and would have probably
+cheated Old Nick into the bargain. The stranger paid the price they
+agreed on, and all that puzzled Dick in the transaction was, that the
+gold which he received was in unicorns, bonnet-pieces, and other
+ancient coins, which would have been invaluable to collectors, but were
+rather troublesome in modern currency. It was gold, however, and
+therefore Dick contrived to get better value for the coin than he
+perhaps gave to his customer. By the command of so good a merchant, he
+brought horses to the same spot more than once, the purchaser only
+stipulating that he should always come, by night, and alone. I do not
+know whether it was from mere curiosity, or whether some hope of gain
+mixed with it, but after Dick had sold several horses in this way, he
+began to complain that dry bargains were unlucky, and to hint that,
+since his chap must live in the neighbourhood, he ought, in the
+courtesy of dealing, to treat him to half a mutchkin.
+
+'You may see my dwelling if you will,' said the stranger; 'but if you
+lose courage at what you see there, you will rue it all your life.'
+
+Dicken, however, laughed the warning to scorn, and, having alighted to
+secure his horse, he followed the stranger up a narrow foot-path, which
+led them up the hills to the singular eminence stuck betwixt the most
+southern and the centre peaks, and called from its resemblance to such
+an animal in its form the Lucken Hare. At the foot of this eminence,
+which is almost as famous for witch meetings as the neighbouring
+wind-mill of Kippilaw, Dick was somewhat startled to observe that his
+conductor entered the hillside by a passage or cavern, of which he
+himself, though well acquainted with the spot, had never seen or heard.
+
+'You may still return,' said his guide, looking ominously back upon
+him; but Dick scorned to show the white feather, and on they went. They
+entered a very long range of stables; in every stall stood a coal-black
+horse; by every horse lay a knight in coal-black armour, with a drawn
+sword in his hand; but all were as silent, hoof and limb, as if they
+had been cut out of marble. A great number of torches lent a gloomy
+lustre to the hall, which, like those of the Caliph Vathek, was of
+large dimensions. At the upper end, however, they at length arrived,
+where a sword and horn lay on an antique table.
+
+'He that shall sound that horn and draw that sword,' said the stranger,
+who now intimated that he was the famous Thomas of Hersildoune, 'shall,
+if his heart fail him not, be king over all broad Britain. So speaks
+the tongue that cannot lie. But all depends on courage, and much on
+your taking the sword or the horn first.'
+
+Dick was much disposed to take the sword, but his bold spirit was
+quailed by the supernatural terrors of the hall, and he thought to
+unsheath the sword first might be construed into defiance, and give
+offence to the powers of the Mountain. He took the bugle with a
+trembling hand, and [sounded] a feeble note, but loud enough to produce
+a terrible answer. Thunder rolled in stunning peals through the immense
+hall; horses and men started to life; the steeds snorted, stamped,
+grinded their bits, and tossed on high their heads; the warriors sprung
+to their feet, clashed their armour, and brandished their swords.
+Dick's terror was extreme at seeing the whole army, which had been so
+lately silent as the grave, in uproar, and about to rush on him. He
+dropped the horn, and made a feeble attempt to seize the enchanted
+sword; but at the same moment a voice pronounced aloud the mysterious
+words:
+
+    'Woe to the coward, that ever he was born,
+    Who did not draw the sword before he blew the horn!'
+
+At the same time a whirlwind of irresistible fury howled through the
+long hall, bore the unfortunate horse-jockey clear out of the mouth of
+the cavern, and precipitated him over a steep bank of loose stones,
+where the shepherds found him the next morning, with just breath
+sufficient to tell his fearful tale, after concluding which he expired.
+
+This legend, with several variations, is found in many parts of
+Scotland and England; the scene is sometimes laid in some favourite
+glen of the Highlands, sometimes in the deep coal-mines of
+Northumberland and Cumberland, which run so far beneath the ocean. It
+is also to be found in Reginald Scott's book on "Witchcraft," which was
+written in the sixteenth century. It would be in vain to ask what was
+the original of the tradition. The choice between the horn and sword,
+may perhaps, include as a moral that it is foolhardy to awaken danger
+before we have arms in our hands to resist it.
+
+Although admitting of much poetical ornament, it is clear that this
+legend would have formed but an unhappy foundation for a prose story,
+and must have degenerated into a mere fairy tale. Doctor John Leyden
+has beautifully introduced the tradition in his Scenes of Infancy:--
+
+    Mysterious Rhymer, doom'd by fate's decree,
+    Still to revisit Eildon's fated tree;
+    Where oft the swain, at dawn of Hallow-day,
+    Hears thy fleet barb with wild impatience neigh;
+    Say who is he, with summons long and high.
+    Shall bid the charmed sleep of ages fly,
+    Roll the long sound through Eildon's caverns vast,
+    While each dark warrior kindles at the blast:
+    The horn, the falchion grasp with mighty hand,
+    And peal proud Arthur's march from Fairy-land?
+
+    Scenes of Infancy, Part I.
+
+In the same cabinet with the preceding fragment, the following occurred
+among other disjecta membra. It seems to be an attempt at a tale of a
+different description from the last, but was almost instantly
+abandoned. The introduction points out the time of the composition to
+have been about the end of the eighteenth century.
+
+THE LORD OF ENNERDALE
+
+A FRAGMENT OF A LETTER FROM JOHN B----, ESQ., OF THAT ILK, TO WILLIAM
+G----, F.R.S.E.
+
+'FILL a bumper,' said the Knight; 'the ladies may spare us a little
+longer. Fill a bumper to the Archduke Charles.'
+
+The company did due honour to the toast of their landlord.
+
+'The success of the Archduke,' said the muddy Vicar, 'will tend to
+further our negotiation at Paris; and if--'
+
+'Pardon the interruption, Doctor,' quoth a thin emaciated figure, with
+somewhat of a foreign accent; 'but why should you connect those events,
+unless to hope that the bravery and victories of our allies may
+supersede the necessity of a degrading treaty?'
+
+'We begin to feel, Monsieur L'Abbe,' answered the Vicar, with some
+asperity, 'that a Continental war entered into for the defence of an
+ally who was unwilling to defend himself, and for the restoration of a
+royal family, nobility, and priesthood who tamely abandoned their own
+rights, is a burden too much even for the resources of this country.'
+
+'And was the war then on the part of Great Britain,' rejoined the Abbe,
+'a gratuitous exertion of generosity? Was there no fear of the
+wide-wasting spirit of innovation which had gone abroad? Did not the
+laity tremble for their property, the clergy for their religion, and
+every loyal heart for the Constitution? Was it not thought necessary to
+destroy the building which was on fire, ere the conflagration spread
+around the vicinity?'
+
+'Yet, if upon trial,' said the Doctor,' the walls were found to resist
+our utmost efforts, I see no great prudence in persevering in our
+labour amid the smouldering ruins.'
+
+'What, Doctor,' said the Baronet,'must I call to your recollection your
+own sermon on the late general fast? Did you not encourage us to hope
+that the Lord of Hosts would go forth with our armies, and that our
+enemies, who blasphemed him, should be put to shame?'
+
+'It may please a kind father to chasten even his beloved children,'
+answered the Vicar.
+
+'I think,' said a gentleman near the foot of the table,'that the
+Covenanters made some apology of the same kind for the failure of their
+prophecies at the battle of Dunbar, when their mutinous preachers
+compelled the prudent Lesley to go down against the Philistines in
+Gilgal.'
+
+The Vicar fixed a scrutinizing and not a very complacent eye upon this
+intruder. He was a young man, of mean stature, and rather a reserved
+appearance. Early and severe study had quenched in his features the
+gaiety peculiar to his age, and impressed upon them a premature cast of
+thoughtfulness. His eye had, however, retained its fire, and his
+gesture its animation. Had he remained silent, he would have been long
+unnoticed; but when he spoke there was something in his manner which
+arrested attention.
+
+'Who is this young man?' said the Vicar in a low voice to his neighbour.
+
+'A Scotchman called Maxwell, on a visit to Sir Henry,' was the answer.
+
+'I thought so, from his accent and his manners,' said the Vicar.
+
+It may be here observed that the northern English retain rather more of
+the ancient hereditary aversion to their neighbours than their
+countrymen of the south. The interference of other disputants, each of
+whom urged his opinion with all the vehemence of wine and politics,
+rendered the summons to the drawing-room agreeable to the more sober
+part of the company.
+
+The company dispersed by degrees, and at length the Vicar and the young
+Scotchman alone remained, besides the Baronet, his lady, daughters, and
+myself. The clergyman had not, it would seem, forgot the observation
+which ranked him with the false prophets of Dunbar, for he addressed
+Mr. Maxwell upon the first opportunity.
+
+'Hem! I think, sir, you mentioned something about the civil wars of
+last century? You must be deeply skilled in them, indeed, if you can
+draw any parallel betwixt those and the present evil days--days which
+I am ready to maintain are the most gloomy that ever darkened the
+prospects of Britain.'
+
+'God forbid, Doctor, that I should draw a comparison between the
+present times and those you mention. I am too sensible of the
+advantages we enjoy over our ancestors. Faction and ambition have
+introduced division among us; but we are still free from the guilt of
+civil bloodshed, and from all the evils which flow from it. Our foes,
+sir, are not those of our own household; and while we continue united
+and firm, from the attacks of a foreign enemy, however artful, or
+however inveterate, we have, I hope, little to dread.'
+
+'Have you found anything curious, Mr. Maxwell, among the dusty papers?'
+said Sir Henry, who seemed to dread a revival of political discussion.
+
+'My investigation amongst them led to reflections at which I have just
+now hinted,' said Maxwell; 'and I think they are pretty strongly
+exemplified by a story which I have been endeavouring to arrange from
+some of your family manuscripts.'
+
+'You are welcome to make what use of them you please,' said Sir Henry;'
+they have been undisturbed for many a day, and I have often wished for
+some person as well skilled as you in these old pot-hooks to tell me
+their meaning.'
+
+'Those I just mentioned,' answered Maxwell, 'relate to a piece of
+private history, savouring not a little of the marvellous, and
+intimately connected with your family; if it is agreeable, I can read
+to you the anecdotes in the modern shape into which I have been
+endeavouring to throw them, and you can then judge of the value of the
+originals.'
+
+There was something in this proposal agreeable to all parties. Sir
+Henry had family pride, which prepared him to take an interest in
+whatever related to his ancestors. The ladies had dipped deeply into
+the fashionable reading of the present day. Lady Ratcliff and her fair
+daughters had climbed every pass, viewed every pine-shrouded ruin,
+heard every groan, and lifted every trap-door in company with the noted
+heroine of Udolpho. They had been heard, however, to observe that the
+famous incident of the Black Veil singularly resembled the ancient
+apologue of the mountain in labour, so that they were unquestionably
+critics as well as admirers. Besides all this, they had valorously
+mounted en croupe behind the ghostly horseman of Prague, through all
+his seven translators, and followed the footsteps of Moor through the
+forest of Bohemia. Moreover, it was even hinted (but this was a greater
+mystery than all the rest) that a certain performance called the
+'Monk,' in three neat volumes, had been seen by a prying eye in the
+right hand drawer of the Indian cabinet of Lady Ratcliff's
+dressing-room. Thus predisposed for wonders and signs, Lady Ratcliff
+and her nymphs drew their chairs round a large blazing wood-fire and
+arranged themselves to listen to the tale. To that fire I also
+approached, moved thereunto partly by the inclemency of the season, and
+partly that my deafness, which you know, cousin, I acquired during my
+campaign under Prince Charles Edward, might be no obstacle to the
+gratification of my curiosity, which was awakened by what had any
+reference to the fate of such faithful followers of royalty as you well
+know the house of Ratcliff have ever been. To this wood-fire the Vicar
+likewise drew near, and reclined himself conveniently in his chair,
+seemingly disposed to testify his disrespect for the narration and
+narrator by falling asleep as soon as he conveniently could. By the
+side of Maxwell (by the way, I cannot learn that he is in the least
+related to the Nithsdale family) was placed a small table and a couple
+of lights, by the assistance of which he read as follows:--
+
+'Journal of Jan Van Eulen
+
+'On the 6th November 1645, I, Jan Van Eulen, merchant in Rotterdam,
+embarked with my only daughter on board of the good vessel Vryheid of
+Amsterdam, in order to pass into the unhappy and disturbed kingdom of
+England. 7th November--a brisk gale--daughter sea-sick--myself unable
+to complete the calculation which I have begun of the inheritance left
+by Jane Lansache of Carlisle, my late dear wife's sister, the
+collection of which is the object of my voyage. 8th November--wind
+still stormy and adverse--a horrid disaster nearly happened--my dear
+child washed overboard as the vessel lurched to leeward. Memorandum--to
+reward the young sailor who saved her out of the first moneys which I
+can recover from the inheritance of her aunt Lansache. 9th
+November--calm--P.M. light breezes from N. N. W. I talked with the
+captain about the inheritance of my sister-in-law, Jane Lansache. He
+says he knows the principal subject, which will not exceed L1000 in
+value. N. B. He is a cousin to a family of Petersons, which was the
+name of the husband of my sister-in-law; so there is room to hope it
+may be worth more than he reports. 10th November, 10 A.M. May God
+pardon all our sins!--An English frigate, bearing the Parliament flag,
+has appeared in the offing, and gives chase.--11 A.M. She nears us
+every moment, and the captain of our vessel prepares to clear for
+action.--May God again have mercy upon us!'
+
+'Here,' said Maxwell, 'the journal with which I have opened the
+narration ends somewhat abruptly.'
+
+'I am glad of it,' said Lady Ratcliff.
+
+'But, Mr. Maxwell,' said young Frank, Sir Henry's grandchild, 'shall we
+not hear how the battle ended?'
+
+I do not know, cousin, whether I have not formerly made you acquainted
+with the abilities of Frank Ratcliff. There is not a battle fought
+between the troops of the Prince and of the Government during the years
+1745-46, of which he is not able to give an account. It is true, I have
+taken particular pains to fix the events of this important period upon
+his memory by frequent repetition.
+
+'No, my dear,' said Maxwell, in answer to young Frank Ratcliff--'No, my
+dear, I cannot tell you the exact particulars of the engagement, but
+its consequences appear from the following letter, despatched by
+Garbonete Von Eulen, daughter of our journalist, to a relation in
+England, from whom she implored assistance. After some general account
+of the purpose of the voyage and of the engagement her narrative
+proceeds thus:--
+
+'The noise of the cannon had hardly ceased before the sounds of a
+language to me but half known, and the confusion on board our vessel,
+informed me that the captors had boarded us and taken possession of our
+vessel. I went on deck, where the first spectacle that met my eyes was
+a young man, mate of our vessel, who, though disfigured and covered
+with blood, was loaded with irons, and whom they were forcing over the
+side of the vessel into a boat. The two principal persons among our
+enemies appeared to be a man of a tall thin figure, with a high-crowned
+hat and long neckband, and short-cropped head of hair, accompanied by a
+bluff, open-looking elderly man in a naval uniform. "Yarely! yarely!
+pull away, my hearts," said the latter, and the boat bearing the
+unlucky young man soon carried him on board the frigate. Perhaps you
+will blame me for mentioning this circumstance; but consider, my dear
+cousin, this man saved my life, and his fate, even when my own and my
+father's were in the balance, could not but affect me nearly.
+
+'"In the name of Him who is jealous, even to slaying," said the first--'
+
+CETERA DESUNT
+
+
+
+
+
+NO. II
+
+CONCLUSION OF MR. STRUTT'S ROMANCE OF QUEENHOO-HALL
+
+BY THE AUTHOR OF WAVERLEY
+
+CHAPTER IV
+
+A HUNTING PARTY--AN ADVENTURE--A DELIVERANCE
+
+THE next morning the bugles were sounded by daybreak in the court of
+Lord Boteler's mansion, to call the inhabitants from their slumbers to
+assist in a splendid chase with which the Baron had resolved to
+entertain his neighbour Fitzallen and his noble visitor St. Clare.
+Peter Lanaret, the falconer, was in attendance, with falcons for the
+knights and teircelets for the ladies, if they should choose to vary
+their sport from hunting to hawking. Five stout yeomen keepers, with
+their attendants, called Ragged Robins, all meetly arrayed in Kendal
+green, with bugles and short hangers by their sides, and quarter-staffs
+in their hands, led the slow-hounds or brachets by which the deer were
+to be put up. Ten brace of gallant greyhounds, each of which was fit to
+pluck down, singly, the tallest red deer, were led in leashes, by as
+many of Lord Boteler's foresters. The pages, squires, and other
+attendants of feudal splendour well attired, in their best
+hunting-gear, upon horseback or foot, according to their rank, with
+their boar-spears, long bows, and cross-bows, were in seemly waiting.
+
+A numerous train of yeomen, called in the language of the times
+retainers, who yearly received a livery coat and a small pension for
+their attendance on such solemn occasions, appeared in cassocks of
+blue, bearing upon their arms the cognisance of the house of Boteler,
+as a badge of their adherence. They were the tallest men of their hands
+that the neighbouring villages could supply, with every man his good
+buckler on his shoulder, and a bright burnished broadsword dangling
+from his leathern belt. On this occasion they acted as rangers for
+beating up the thickets and rousing the game. These attendants filled
+up the court of the castle, spacious as it was.
+
+On the green without you might have seen the motley assemblage of
+peasantry convened by report of the splendid hunting, including most of
+our old acquaintances from Tewin, as well as the jolly partakers of
+good cheer at Hob Filcher's. Gregory the jester, it may well be
+guessed, had no great mind to exhibit himself in public after his
+recent disaster; but Oswald the steward, a great formalist in whatever
+concerned the public exhibition of his master's household state, had
+positively enjoined his attendance. 'What,' quoth he,'shall the house
+of the brave Lord Boteler, on such a brave day as this, be without a
+fool? Certes, the good Lord Saint Clere and his fair lady sister might
+think our housekeeping as niggardly as that of their churlish kinsman
+at Gay Bowers, who sent his father's jester to the hospital, sold the
+poor sot's bells for hawk-jesses, and made a nightcap of his long-eared
+bonnet. And, sirrah, let me see thee fool handsomely--speak squibs and
+crackers, instead of that dry, barren, musty gibing which thou hast
+used of late; or, by the bones! the porter shall have thee to his
+lodge, and cob thee with thine own wooden sword till thy skin is as
+motley as thy doublet.'
+
+To this stern injunction Gregory made no reply, any more than to the
+courteous offer of old Albert Drawslot, the chief parkkeeper, who
+proposed to blow vinegar in his nose to sharpen his wit, as he had done
+that blessed morning to Bragger, the old hound, whose scent was
+failing. There was, indeed, little time for reply, for the bugles,
+after a lively flourish, were now silent, and Peretto, with his two
+attendant minstrels, stepping beneath the windows of the strangers'
+apartments, joined in the following roundelay, the deep voices of the
+rangers and falconers making up a chorus that caused the very
+battlements to ring again:--
+
+    Waken, lords and ladies gay,
+    On the mountain dawns the day;
+    All the jolly chase is here,
+    With hawk and horse, and hunting spear;
+    Hounds are in their couples yelling,
+    Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling,
+    Merrily, merrily, mingle they,
+    'Waken, lords and ladies gay.'
+
+    Waken, lords and ladies gay,
+    The mist has left the mountain grey;
+    Springlets in the dawn are streaming,
+    Diamonds on the brake are gleaming,
+
+    And foresters have busy been,
+    To track the buck in thicket green;
+    Now we come to chant our lay,
+    'Waken, lords and ladies gay.'
+
+    Waken, lords and ladies gay,
+    To the green-wood haste away;
+    We can show you where he lies,
+    Fleet of foot and tall of size;
+    We can show the marks he made,
+    When 'gamst the oak his antlers frayed;
+    You shall see him brought to bay,
+    'Waken, lords and ladies gay.'
+
+    Louder, louder chant the lay,
+    Waken, lords and ladies gay;
+    Tell them youth, and mirth, and glee
+    Run a course as well as we;
+    Time, stern huntsman! who can baulk,
+    Stanch as hound and fleet as hawk?
+    Think of this and rise with day,
+    Gentle lords and ladies gay.
+
+By the time this lay was finished, Lord Boteler, with his daughter and
+kinsman, Fitzallen of Harden, and other noble guests, had mounted their
+palfreys, and the hunt set forward in due order. The huntsmen, having
+carefully observed the traces of a large stag on the preceding evening,
+were able, without loss of time, to conduct the company, by the marks
+which they had made upon the trees, to the side of the thicket in
+which, by the report of Drawslot, he had harboured all night. The
+horsemen, spreading themselves along the side of the cover, waited
+until the keeper entered, leading his ban-dog, a large blood-hound tied
+in a learn or band, from which he takes his name.
+
+But it befell thus. A hart of the second year, which was in the same
+cover with the proper object of their pursuit, chanced to be
+unharboured first, and broke cover very near where the Lady Emma and
+her brother were stationed. An inexperienced varlet, who was nearer to
+them, instantly unloosed two tall greyhounds, who sprung after the
+fugitive with all the fleetness of the north wind. Gregory, restored a
+little to spirits by the enlivening scene around him, followed,
+encouraging the hounds with a loud layout, for which he had the hearty
+curses of the huntsman, as well as of the Baron, who entered into the
+spirit of the chase with all the juvenile ardour of twenty. 'May the
+foul fiend, booted and spurred, ride down his bawling throat with a
+scythe at his girdle,' quoth Albert Drawslot; 'here have I been telling
+him that all the marks were those of a buck of the first head, and he
+has hallooed the hounds upon a velvet-headed knobbler! By Saint Hubert,
+if I break not his pate with my cross-bow, may I never cast off hound
+more! But to it, my lords and masters! the noble beast is here yet,
+and, thank the saints, we have enough of hounds.'
+
+The cover being now thoroughly beat by the attendants, the stag was
+compelled to abandon it and trust to his speed for his safety. Three
+greyhounds were slipped upon him, whom he threw out, after running a
+couple of miles, by entering an extensive furzy brake, which extended
+along the side of a hill. The horsemen soon came up, and casting off a
+sufficient number of slow-hounds, sent them with the prickers into the
+cover, in order to drive the game from his strength. This object being
+accomplished, afforded another severe chase of several miles, in a
+direction almost circular, during which the poor animal tried every
+wile to get rid of his persecutors. He crossed and traversed all such
+dusty paths as were likely to retain the least scent of his footsteps;
+he laid himself close to the ground, drawing his feet under his belly,
+and clapping his nose close to the earth, lest he should be betrayed to
+the hounds by his breath and hoofs. When all was in vain, and he found
+the hounds coming fast in upon him, his own strength failing, his mouth
+embossed with foam, and the tears dropping from his eyes, he turned in
+despair upon his pursuers, who then stood at gaze, making an hideous
+clamour, and awaiting their two-footed auxiliaries. Of these, it
+chanced that the Lady Eleanor, taking more pleasure in the sport than
+Matilda, and being a less burden to her palfrey than the Lord Boteler,
+was the first who arrived at the spot, and taking a cross-bow from an
+attendant, discharged a bolt at the stag. When the infuriated animal
+felt himself wounded, he pushed frantically towards her from whom he
+had received the shaft, and Lady Eleanor might have had occasion to
+repent of her enterprise, had not young Fitzallen, who had kept near
+her during the whole day, at that instant galloped briskly in, and, ere
+the stag could change his object of assault, despatched him with his
+short hunting-sword.
+
+Albert Drawslot, who had just come up in terror for the young lady's
+safety, broke out into loud encomiums upon Fitzallen's strength and
+gallantry. 'By 'r Lady,' said he, taking off his cap and wiping his
+sun-burnt face with his sleeve, 'well struck, and in good time! But
+now, boys, doff your bonnets and sound the mort.'
+
+The sportsmen then sounded a treble mort, and set up a general whoop,
+which, mingled with the yelping of the dogs, made the welkin ring
+again. The huntsman then offered his knife to Lord Boteler, that he
+might take the say of the deer, but the Baron courteously insisted upon
+Fitzallen going through that ceremony. The Lady Matilda was now come
+up, with most of the attendants; and the interest of the chase being
+ended, it excited some surprise that neither Saint Clere nor his sister
+made their appearance. The Lord Boteler commanded the horns again to
+sound the recheat, in hopes to call in the stragglers, and said to
+Fitzallen, 'Methinks Saint Clere so distinguished for service in war,
+should have been more forward in the chase.'
+
+'I trow,' said Peter Lanaret, 'I know the reason of the noble lord's
+absence; for, when that mooncalf Gregory hallooed the dogs upon the
+knobbler, and galloped like a green hilding, as he is, after them, I
+saw the Lady Emma's palfrey follow apace after that varlet, who should
+be thrashed for overrunning, and I think her noble brother has followed
+her, lest she should come to harm. But here, by the rood, is Gregory to
+answer for himself.'
+
+At this moment Gregory entered the circle which had been formed round
+the deer, out of breath, and his face covered with blood. He kept for
+some time uttering inarticulate cries of 'Harrow!' and 'Wellaway!' and
+other exclamations of distress and terror, pointing all the while to a
+thicket at some distance from the spot where the deer had been killed.
+
+'By my honour,' said the Baron, 'I would gladly know who has dared to
+array the poor knave thus; and I trust he should dearly abye his
+outrecuidance, were he the best, save one, in England.'
+
+Gregory, who had now found more breath, cried, 'Help, an ye be men!
+Save Lady Emma and her brother, whom they are murdering in Brokenhurst
+thicket.'
+
+This put all in motion. Lord Boteler hastily commanded a small party of
+his men to abide for the defence of the ladies, while he himself,
+Fitzallen, and the rest made what speed they could towards the thicket,
+guided by Gregory, who for that purpose was mounted behind Fabian.
+Pushing through a narrow path, the first object they encountered was a
+man of small stature lying on the ground, mastered and almost strangled
+by two dogs, which were instantly recognised to be those that had
+accompanied Gregory. A little farther was an open space, where lay
+three bodies of dead or wounded men; beside these was Lady Emma,
+apparently lifeless, her brother and a young forester bending over and
+endeavouring to recover her. By employing the usual remedies, this was
+soon accomplished; while Lord Boteler, astonished at such a scene,
+anxiously inquired at Saint Clere the meaning of what he saw, and
+whether more danger was to be expected.
+
+'For the present I trust not,' said the young warrior, who they now
+observed was slightly wounded; 'but I pray you, of your nobleness, let
+the woods here be searched; for we were assaulted by four of these base
+assassins, and I see three only on the sward.'
+
+The attendants now brought forwaid the person whom they had rescued
+from the dogs, and Henry, with disgust, shame, and astonishment,
+recognised his kinsman, Gaston Saint Clere. This discovery he
+communicated in a whisper to Lord Boteler, who commanded the prisoner
+to be conveyed to Queenhoo-Hall, and closely guarded; meanwhile he
+anxiously inquired of young Saint Clere about his wound.
+
+'A scratch, a trifle!' cried Henry. 'I am in less haste to bind it than
+to introduce to you one without whose aid that of the leech would have
+come too late. Where is he? where is my brave deliverer?'
+
+'Here, most noble lord,' said Gregory, sliding from his palfrey and
+stepping forward, 'ready to receive the guerdon which your bounty would
+heap on him.'
+
+'Truly, friend Gregory,' answered the young warrior,'thou shalt not be
+forgotten, for thou didst run speedily, and roar manfully for aid,
+without which, I think verily, we had not received it. But the brave
+forester, who came to my rescue when these three ruffians had nigh
+overpowered me, where is he?'
+
+Every one looked around, but though all had seen him on entering the
+thicket, he was not now to be found. They could only conjecture that he
+had retired during the confusion occasioned by the detention of Gaston.
+
+'Seek not for him,' said the Lady Emma, who had now in some degree
+recovered her composure, 'he will not be found of mortal, unless at his
+own season.'
+
+The Baron, convinced from this answer that her terror had for the time
+somewhat disturbed her reason, forbore to question her; and Matilda and
+Eleanor, to whom a message had been despatched with the result of this
+strange adventure, arriving, they took the Lady Emma between them, and
+all in a body returned to the castle.
+
+The distance was, however, considerable, and before reaching it they
+had another alarm. The prickers, who rode foremost in the troop, halted
+and announced to the Lord Boteler, that they perceived advancing
+towards them a body of armed men. The followers of the Baron were
+numerous, but they were arrayed for the chase, not for battle, and it
+was with great pleasure that he discerned, on the pennon of the
+advancing body of men-at-arms, instead of the cognisance of Gaston, as
+he had some reason to expect, the friendly bearings of Fitzosborne of
+Diggswell, the same young lord who was present at the May-games with
+Fitzallen of Harden. The knight himself advanced, sheathed in armour,
+and, without raising his visor, informed Lord Boteler that, having
+heard of a base attempt made upon a part of his train by ruffianly
+assassins, he had mounted and armed a small party of his retainers to
+escort them to Queenhoo-Hall. Having received and accepted an
+invitation to attend them thither, they prosecuted their journey in
+confidence and security, and arrived safe at home without any further
+accident.
+
+CHAPTER V
+
+INVESTIGATION OF THE ADVENTURE OF THE HUNTING--A DISCOVERY--GREGORY'S
+MANHOOD--PATE OF GASTON SAINT CLERE--CONCLUSION
+
+So soon as they arrived at the princely mansion of Boteler, the Lady
+Emma craved permission to retire to her chamber, that she might compose
+her spirits after the terror she had undergone. Henry Saint Clere, in a
+few words, proceeded to explain the adventure to the curious audience.
+'I had no sooner seen my sister's palfrey, in spite of her endeavours
+to the contrary, entering with spirit into the chase set on foot by the
+worshipful Gregory, than I rode after to give her assistance. So long
+was the chase that, when the greyhounds pulled down the knobbler, we
+were out of hearing of your bugles; and having rewarded and coupled the
+dogs, I gave them to be led by the jester, and we wandered in quest of
+our company, whom it would seem the sport had led in a different
+direction. At length, passing through the thicket where you found us, I
+was surprised by a cross-bow bolt whizzing past mine head. I drew my
+sword and rushed into the thicket, but was instantly assailed by two
+ruffians, while other two made towards my sister and Gregory. The poor
+knave fled, crying for help, pursued by my false kinsman, now your
+prisoner; and the designs of the other on my poor Emma (murderous no
+doubt) were prevented by the sudden apparition of a brave woodsman,
+who, after a short encounter, stretched the miscreant at his feet and
+came to my assistance. I was already slightly wounded, and nearly
+overlaid with odds. The combat lasted some time, for the caitiffs were
+both well armed, strong, and desperate; at length, however, we had each
+mastered our antagonist, when your retinue, my Lord Boteler, arrived to
+my relief. So ends my story; but, by my knighthood, I would give an
+earl's ransom for an opportunity of thanking the gallant forester by
+whose aid I live to tell it.'
+
+'Fear not,' said Lord Boteler, 'he shall be found, if this or the four
+adjacent counties hold him. And now Lord Fitzosborne will be pleased to
+doff the armour he has so kindly assumed for our sakes, and we will all
+bowne ourselves for the banquet.'
+
+When the hour of dinner approached, the Lady Matilda and her cousin
+visited the chamber of the fair Darcy. They found her in a composed but
+melancholy postmire. She turned the discourse upon the misfortunes of
+her life, and hinted, that having recovered her brother, and seeing him
+look forward to the society of one who would amply repay to him the
+loss of hers, she had thoughts of dedicating her remaining life to
+Heaven, by whose providential interference it had been so often
+preserved.
+
+Matilda coloured deeply at something in this speech, and her cousin
+inveighed loudly against Emma's resolution. 'Ah, my dear lady Eleanor,'
+replied she, 'I have to-day witnessed what I cannot but judge a
+supernatural visitation, and to what end can it call me but to give
+myself to the altar? That peasant who guided me to Baddow through the
+Park of Danbury, the same who appeared before me at different times and
+in different forms during that eventful journey--that youth, whose
+features are imprinted on my memory, is the very individual forester
+who this day rescued us in the forest. I cannot be mistaken; and,
+connecting these marvellous appearances with the spectre which I saw
+while at Gay Bowers, I cannot resist the conviction that Heaven has
+permitted my guardian angel to assume mortal shape for my relief and
+protection.'
+
+The fair cousins, after exchanging looks which implied a fear that her
+mind was wandering, answered her in soothing terms, and finally
+prevailed upon her to accompany them to the banqueting-hall. Here the
+first person they encountered was the Baron Fitzosborne of Diggswell,
+now divested of his armour, at the sight of whom the Lady Emma changed
+colour, and exclaiming, 'It is the same!' sunk senseless into the arms
+of Matilda.
+
+'She is bewildered by the terrors of the day,' said Eleanor;' and we
+have done ill in obliging her to descend.'
+
+'And I,'said Fitzosborne, 'have done madly in presenting before her one
+whose presence must recall moments the most alarming in her life.'
+
+While the ladies supported Emma from the hall, Lord Boteler and Saint
+Clere requested an explanation from Fitzosborne of the words he had
+used.
+
+'Trust me, gentle lords,' said the Baron of Diggswell, 'ye shall have
+what ye demand when I learn that Lady Emma Darcy has not suffered from
+my imprudence.'
+
+At this moment Lady Matilda, returning, said that her fair friend, on
+her recovery, had calmly and deliberately insisted that she had seen
+Fitzosborne before, in the most dangerous crisis of her life.
+
+'I dread,' said she, 'her disordered mind connects all that her eye
+beholds with the terrible passages that she has witnessed.'
+
+'Nay,' said Fitzosborne, 'if noble Saint Clere can pardon the
+unauthorized interest which, with the purest and most honourable
+intentions, I have taken in his sister's fate, it is easy for me to
+explain this mysterious impression.'
+
+He proceeded to say that, happening to be in the hostelry called the
+Griffin, near Baddow, while upon a journey in that country, he had met
+with the old nurse of the Lady Emma Darcy, who, being just expelled
+from Gay Bowers, was in the height of her grief and indignation, and
+made loud and public proclamation of Lady Emma's wrongs. From the
+description she gave of the beauty of her foster-child, as well as from
+the spirit of chivalry, Fitzosborne became interested in her fate. This
+interest was deeply enhanced when, by a bribe to old Gaunt the Reve, he
+procured a view of the Lady Emma as she walked near the castle of Gay
+Bowers. The aged churl refused to give him access to the castle; yet
+dropped some hints as if he thought the lady in danger, and wished she
+were well out of it. His master, he said, had heard she had a brother
+in life, and since that deprived him of all chance of gaining her
+domains by purchase, he--in short, Gaunt wished they were safely
+separated. 'If any injury,' quoth he, 'should happen to the damsel
+here, it were ill for us all. I tried by an innocent stratagem to
+frighten her from the castle, by introducing a figure through a
+trap-door, and warning her, as if by a voice from the dead, to retreat
+from thence; but the giglet is wilful, and is running upon her fate.'
+
+Finding Gaunt, although covetous and communicative, too faithful a
+servant to his wicked master to take any active steps against his
+commands, Fitzosborne applied himself to old Ursely, whom he found more
+tractable. Through her he learned the dreadful plot Gaston had laid to
+rid himself of his kinswoman, and resolved to effect her deliverance.
+But aware of the delicacy of Emma's situation, he charged Ursely to
+conceal from her the interest he took in her distress, resolving to
+watch over her in disguise until he saw her in a place of safety. Hence
+the appearance he made before her in various dresses during her
+journey, in the course of which he was never far distant; and he had
+always four stout yeomen within hearing of his bugle, had assistance
+been necessary. When she was placed in safety at the lodge, it was
+Fitzosborne's intention to have prevailed upon his sisters to visit and
+take her under their protection; but he found them absent from
+Diggswell, having gone to attend an aged relation who lay dangerously
+ill in a distant county. They did not return until the day before the
+May-games; and the other events followed too rapidly to permit
+Fitzosborne to lay any plan for introducing them to Lady Emma Darcy. On
+the day of the chase he resolved to preserve his romantic disguise, and
+attend the Lady Emma as a forester, partly to have the pleasure of
+being near her and partly to judge whether, according to an idle report
+in the country, she favoured his friend and comrade Fitzallen of
+Marden. This last motive, it may easily be believed, he did not declare
+to the company. After the skirmish with the ruffians, he waited till
+the Baron and the hunters arrived, and then, still doubting the farther
+designs of Gaston, hastened to his castle to arm the band which had
+escorted them to Queenhoo-Hall.
+
+Fitzosborne's story being finished, he received the thanks of all the
+company, particularly of Saint Clere, who felt deeply the respectful
+delicacy with which he had conducted himself towards his sister. The
+lady was carefully informed of her obligations to him; and it is left
+to the well-judging reader whether even the raillery of Lady Eleanor
+made her regret that Heaven had only employed natural means for her
+security, and that the guardian angel was converted into a handsome,
+gallant, and enamoured knight.
+
+The joy of the company in the hall extended itself to the buttery,
+where Gregory the jester narrated such feats of arms done by himself in
+the fray of the morning as might have shamed Bevis and Guy of Warwick.
+He was, according to his narrative, singled out for destruction by the
+gigantic Baron himself, while he abandoned to meaner hands the
+destruction of Saint Clere and Fitzosborne.
+
+'But certes,' said he, 'the foul paynim met his match; for, ever as he
+foined at me with his brand, I parried his blows with my bauble, and,
+closing with him upon the third veny, threw him to the ground, and made
+him cry recreant to an unarmed man.'
+
+'Tush, man,' said Drawslot, 'thou forgettest thy best auxiliaries, the
+good greyhounds, Help and Holdfast! I warrant thee, that when the
+hump-backed Baron caught thee by the cowl, which he hath almost torn
+off, thou hadst been in a fair plight had they not remembered an old
+friend, and come in to the rescue. Why, man, I found them fastened on
+him myself; and there was odd staving and stickling to make them "ware
+haunch!" Their mouths were full of the flex, for I pulled a piece of
+the garment from their jaws. I warrant thee, that when they brought him
+to ground thou fledst like a frighted pricket.'
+
+'And as for Gregory's gigantic paynim,' said Fabian, 'why, he lies
+yonder in the guard-room, the very size, shape, and colour of a spider
+in a yew-hedge.'
+
+'It is false!' said Gregory. 'Colbrand the Dane was a dwarf to him.'
+
+'It is as true,' returned Fabian, 'as that the Tasker is to be married
+on Tuesday to pretty Margery. Gregory, thy sheet hath brought them
+between a pair of blankets.'
+
+'I care no more for such a gillflirt,' said the jester,' than I do for
+thy leasings. Marry, thou hop-o'-my-thumb, happy wouldst thou be could
+thy head reach the captive Baron's girdle.'
+
+'By the mass,' said Peter Lanaret, 'I will have one peep at this burly
+gallant'; and, leaving the buttery, he went to the guard-room where
+Gaston Saint Clere was confined. A man-at-arms, who kept sentinel on
+the strong studded door of the apartment, said he believed he slept;
+for that, after raging, stamping, and uttering the most horrid
+imprecations, he had been of late perfectly still. The falconer gently
+drew back a sliding board of a foot square towards the top of the door,
+which covered a hole of the same size, strongly latticed, through which
+the warder, without opening the door, could look in upon his prisoner.
+From this aperture he beheld the wretched Gaston suspended by the neck
+by his own girdle to an iron ring in the side of his prison. He had
+clambered to it by means of the table on which his food had been
+placed; and, in the agonies of shame and disappointed malice, had
+adopted this mode of ridding himself of a wretched life. He was found
+yet warm, but totally lifeless. A proper account of the manner of his
+death was drawn up and certified. He was buried that evening in the
+chapel of the castle, out of respect to his high birth; and the
+chaplain of Fitzallen of Marden, who said the service upon the
+occasion, preached the next Sunday an excellent sermon upon the text,
+'Radix malorum est cupiditas,' which we have here transcribed.
+
+Here the manuscript, from which we have painfully transcribed, and
+frequently, as it were, translated, this tale for the reader's
+edification, is so indistinct and defaced, that, excepting certain
+howbeits, nathlesses, lo ye's! etc., we can pick out little that is
+intelligible, saving that avarice is defined 'a likourishness of heart
+after earthly things.' A little farther there seems to have been a gay
+account of Margery's wedding with Ralph the Tasker, the running at the
+quintain, and other rural games practised on the occasion. There are
+also fragments of a mock sermon preached by Gregory upon that occasion,
+as for example:--
+
+'My dear cursed caitiffs, there was once a king, and he wedded a young
+old queen, and she had a child; and this child was sent to Solomon the
+Sage, praying he would give it the same blessing which he got from the
+witch of Endor when she bit him by the heel. Hereof speaks the worthy
+Doctor Radigundus Potator; why should not mass be said for all the
+roasted shoe souls served up in the king's dish on Saturday; for true
+it is, that Saint Peter asked Father Adam, as they journeyed to
+Camelot, an high, great, and doubtful question, "Adam, Adam, why
+eated'st thou the apple without paring?"
+
+[Footnote: This tirade of gibberish is literally taken or selected from
+a mock discourse pronounced by a professed jester, which occurs in an
+ancient manuscript in the Advocates' Library, the same from which the
+late ingenious Mr. Weber published the curious comic romance of the
+Hunting of the Hare. It was introduced in compliance with Mr Strutt's
+plan of rendering his tale an illustration of ancient manners A similar
+burlesque sermon is pronounced by the fool in Sir David Lindesay's
+satire of the Three Estates. The nonsense and vulgar burlesque of that
+composition illustrate the ground of Sir Andrew Aguecheek's eulogy on
+the exploits of the jester in Twelfth Night, who, reserving his sharper
+jests for Sir Toby, had doubtless enough of the jargon of his calling
+to captivate the imbecility of his brother knight, who is made to
+exclaim--'In sooth, thou wast in very gracious fooling last night, when
+thou spokest of Pigrogremitus, and of the vapours passing the
+equinoctials of Quenbus; 't was very good, i' faith!' It is
+entertaining to find commentators seeking to discover some meaning in
+the professional jargon of such a passage as this.]
+
+With much goodly gibberish to the same effect; which display of
+Gregory's ready wit not only threw the whole company into convulsions
+of laughter, but made such an impression on Rose, the Potter's
+daughter, that it was thought it would be the Jester's own fault if
+Jack was long without his Jill. Much pithy matter, concerning the
+bringing the bride to bed, the loosing the bridegroom's points, the
+scramble which ensued for them, and the casting of the stocking, is
+also omitted from its obscurity.
+
+The following song which has been since borrowed by the worshipful
+author of the famous History of Fryar Bacon, has been with difficulty
+deciphered. It seems to have been sung on occasion of carrying home the
+bride
+
+    Bridal Song
+
+    To the tune of--'I have been a Fiddler,' etc,
+
+    And did you not hear of a mirth befell
+      The morrow after a wedding day,
+    And carrying a bride at home to dwell?
+      And away to Tewin, away, away!
+
+    The quintain was set, and the garlands were made,
+      'T is pity old customs should ever decay;
+    And woe be to him that was horsed on a jade,
+      For he carried no credit away, away.
+
+    We met a consort of fiddle-de-dees;
+      We set them a cockhorse, and made them play
+    The winning of Bullen and Upsey-frees,
+      And away to Tewin, away, away!
+
+    There was ne'er a lad in all the parish
+      That would go to the plough that day;
+    But on his fore-horse his wench he carries.
+      And away to Tewin, away, away!
+
+    The butler was quick, and the ale he did tap,
+      The maidens did make the chamber full gay;
+    The servants did give me a fuddling cup,
+      And I did carry't away, away.
+
+    The smith of the town his liquor so took,
+      That he was persuaded that the ground look'd blue;
+    And I dare boldly be sworn on a book,
+      Such smiths as he there's but a few.
+
+    A posset was made, and the women did sip,
+      And simpering said, they could eat no more;
+    Full many a maiden was laid on the lip,--
+      I'll say no more, but give o'er (give o'er).
+
+But what our fair readers will chiefly regret is the loss of three
+declarations of love; the first by Saint Clere to Matilda; which, with
+the lady's answer, occupies fifteen closely written pages of
+manuscript. That of Fitzosborne to Emma is not much shorter; but the
+amours of Fitzallen and Eleanor, being of a less romantic cast, are
+closed in three pages only. The three noble couples were married in
+Queenhoo-Hall upon the same day, being the twentieth Sunday after
+Easter. There is a prolix account of the marriage-feast, of which we
+can pick out the names of a few dishes, such as peterel, crane,
+sturgeon, swan, etc. etc., with a profusion of wild-fowl and venison.
+We also see that a suitable song was produced by Peretto on the
+occasion; and that the bishop who blessed the bridal beds which
+received the happy couples was no niggard of his holy water, bestowing
+half a gallon upon each of the couches. We regret we cannot give these
+curiosities to the reader in detail, but we hope to expose the
+manuscript to abler antiquaries so soon as it shall be framed and
+glazed by the ingenious artist who rendered that service to Mr.
+Ireland's Shakspeare MSS. And so (being unable to lay aside the style
+to which our pen is habituated), gentle reader, we bid thee heartily
+farewell.
+
+
+
+
+
+NO. III
+
+ANECDOTE OF SCHOOL DAYS
+
+UPON WHICH MR. THOMAS SCOTT PROPOSED TO FOUND A TALE OF FICTION
+
+It is well known in the South that there is little or no boxing at the
+Scottish schools. About forty or fifty years ago, however, a far more
+dangerous mode of fighting, in parties or factions, was permitted in
+the streets of Edinburgh, to the great disgrace of the police and
+danger of the parties concerned. These parties were generally formed
+from the quarters of the town in which the combatants resided, those of
+a particular square or district fighting against those of an adjoining
+one. Hence it happened that the children of the higher classes were
+often pitted against those of the lower, each taking their side
+according to the residence of their friends. So far as I recollect,
+however, it was unmingled either with feelings of democracy or
+aristocracy, or indeed with malice or ill-will of any kind towards the
+opposite party. In fact, it was only a rough mode of play. Such
+contests were, however, maintained with great vigour with stones and
+sticks and fisticuffs, when one party dared to charge and the other
+stood their ground. Of course mischief sometimes happened; boys are
+said to have been killed at these bickers, as they were called, and
+serious accidents certainly took place, as many contemporaries can bear
+witness.
+
+The author's father residing in George Square, in the southern side of
+Edinburgh, the boys belonging to that family, with others in the
+square, were arranged into a sort of company, to which a lady of
+distinction presented a handsome set of colours. Now this company or
+regiment, as a matter of course, was engaged in weekly warfare with the
+boys inhabiting the Crosscauseway, Bristo Street, the Potterrow--in
+short, the neighbouring suburbs. These last were chiefly of the lower
+rank, but hardy loons, who threw stones to a hair's-breadth and were
+very rugged antagonists at close quarters. The skirmish sometimes
+lasted for a whole evening, until one party or the other was
+victorious, when, if ours were successful, we drove the enemy to their
+quarters, and were usually chased back by the reinforcement of bigger
+lads who came to their assistance. If, on the contrary, we were
+pursued, as was often the case, into the precincts of our square, we
+were in our turn supported by our elder brothers, domestic servants,
+and similar auxiliaries.
+
+It followed, from our frequent opposition to each other, that, though
+not knowing the names of our enemies, we were yet well acquainted with
+their appearance, and had nicknames for the most remarkable of them.
+One very active and spirited boy might be considered as the principal
+leader in the cohort of the suburbs. He was, I suppose, thirteen or
+fourteen years old, finely made, tall, blue-eyed, with long fair hair,
+the very picture of a youthful Goth. This lad was always first in the
+charge and last in the retreat--the Achilles, at once, and Ajax of the
+Crosscauseway. He was too formidable to us not to have a cognomen, and,
+like that of a knight of old, it was taken from the most remarkable
+part of his dress, being a pair of old green livery breeches, which was
+the principal part of his clothing; for, like Pentapolin, according to
+Don Quixote's account, Green-Breeks, as we called him, always entered
+the battle with bare arms, legs, and feet.
+
+It fell, that once upon a time, when the combat was at the thickest,
+this plebeian champion headed a sudden charge, so rapid and furious
+that all fled before him. He was several paces before his comrades, and
+had actually laid his hands on the patrician standard, when one of our
+party, whom some misjudging friend had entrusted with a couleau de
+chasse, or hanger, inspired with a zeal for the honour of the corps
+worthy of Major Sturgeon himself, struck poor Green-Breeks over the
+head with strength sufficient to cut him down. When this was seen, the
+casualty was so far beyond what had ever taken place before, that both
+parties fled different ways, leaving poor Green-Breeks, with his bright
+hair plentifully dabbled in blood, to the care of the watchman, who
+(honest man) took care not to know who had done the mischief. The
+bloody hanger was flung into one of the Meadow ditches, and solemn
+secrecy was sworn on all hands; but the remorse and terror of the actor
+were beyond all bounds, and his apprehensions of the most dreadful
+character. The wounded hero was for a few days in the Infirmary, the
+case being only a trifling one. But, though inquiry was strongly
+pressed on him, no argument could make him indicate the person from
+whom he had received the wound, though he must have been perfectly well
+known to him. When he recovered and was dismissed, the author and his
+brothers opened a communication with him, through the medium of a
+popular ginger-bread baker, of whom both parties were customers, in
+order to tender a subsidy in name of smart-money. The sum would excite
+ridicule were I to name it; but sure I am that the pockets of the noted
+Green-Breeks never held as much money of his own. He declined the
+remittance, saying that he would not sell his blood; but at the same
+time reprobated the idea of being an informer, which he said was clam,
+i.e. base or mean. With much urgency he accepted a pound of snuff for
+the use of some old woman--aunt, grandmother, or the like--with whom he
+lived. We did not become friends, for the bickers were more agreeable
+to both parties than any more pacific amusement; but we conducted them
+ever after under mutual assurances of the highest consideration for
+each other.
+
+Such was the hero whom Mr. Thomas Scott proposed to carry to Canada,
+and involve in adventures with the natives and colonists of that
+country. Perhaps the youthful generosity of the lad will not seem so
+great in the eyes of others as to those whom it was the means of
+screening from severe rebuke and punishment. But it seemed to those
+concerned to argue a nobleness of sentiment far beyond the pitch of
+most minds; and however obscurely the lad who showed such a frame of
+noble spirit may have lived or died, I cannot help being of opinion
+that, if fortune had placed him in circumstances calling for gallantry
+or generosity, the man would have fulfilled the promise of the boy.
+Long afterwards, when the story was told to my father, he censured us
+severely for not telling the truth at the time, that he might have
+attempted to be of use to the young man in entering on life. But our
+alarms for the consequences of the drawn sword, and the wound inflicted
+with such a weapon, were far too predominant at the time for such a
+pitch of generosity.
+
+Perhaps I ought not to have inserted this schoolboy tale; but, besides
+the strong impression made by the incident at the time, the whole
+accompaniments of the story are matters to me of solemn and sad
+recollection. Of all the little band who were concerned in those
+juvenile sports or brawls, I can scarce recollect a single survivor.
+Some left the ranks of mimic war to die in the active service of their
+country. Many sought distant lands to return no more. Others, dispersed
+in different paths of life,'my dim eyes now seek for in vain.' Of five
+brothers, all healthy and promising in a degree far beyond one whose
+infancy was visited by personal infirmity, and whose health after this
+period seemed long very precarious, I am, nevertheless, the only
+survivor. The best loved, and the best deserving to be loved, who had
+destined this incident to be the foundation of literary composition,
+died 'before his day' in a distant and foreign land; and trifles assume
+an importance not their own when connected with those who have been
+loved and lost.
+
+
+
+
+
+NOTES
+
+
+NOTE I
+
+LONG the oracle of the country gentlemen of the high Tory party. The
+ancient News-Letter was written in manuscript and copied by clerks, who
+addressed the copies to the subscribers. The politician by whom they
+were compiled picked up his intelligence at coffee-houses, and often
+pleaded for an additional gratuity in consideration of the extra
+expense attached to frequenting such places of fashionable resort.
+
+NOTE 2
+
+There is a family legend to this purpose, belonging to the knightly
+family of Bradshaigh, the proprietors of Haigh Hall, in Lancashire,
+where, I have been told, the event is recorded on a painted glass
+window. The German ballad of the Noble Moringer turns upon a similar
+topic. But undoubtedly many such incidents may have taken place, where,
+the distance being great and the intercourse infrequent, false reports
+concerning the fate of the absent Crusaders must have been commonly
+circulated, and sometimes perhaps rather hastily credited at home.
+
+NOTE 3
+
+The attachment to this classic was, it is said, actually displayed in
+the manner mentioned in the text by an unfortunate Jacobite in that
+unhappy period. He escaped from the jail in which he was confined for a
+hasty trial and certain condemnation, and was retaken as he hovered
+around the place in which he had been imprisoned, for which he could
+give no better reason than the hope of recovering his favourite Titus
+Livius. I am sorry to add that the simplicity of such a character was
+found to form no apology for his guilt as a rebel, and that he was
+condemned and executed.
+
+NOTE 4
+
+Nicholas Amhurst, a noted political writer, who conducted for many
+years a paper called the Craftsman, under the assumed name of Caleb
+D'Anvers. He was devoted to the Tory interest, and seconded with much
+ability the attacks of Pulteney on Sir Robert Walpole. He died in 1742,
+neglected by his great patrons and in the most miserable circumstances.
+
+'Amhurst survived the downfall of Walpole's power, and had reason to
+expect a reward for his labours. If we excuse Bolingbroke, who had only
+saved the shipwreck of his fortunes, we shall be at a loss to justify
+Pulteney, who could with ease have given this man a considerable
+income. The utmost of his generosity to Amhurst that I ever heard of
+was a hogshead of claret! He died, it is supposed, of a broken heart;
+and was buried at the charge of his honest printer, Richard
+Francklin.'--Lord Chesterfield's Characters Reviewed, p. 42.
+
+NOTE 5
+
+I have now given in the text the full name of this gallant and
+excellent man, and proceed to copy the account of his remarkable
+conversion, as related by Doctor Doddridge.
+
+'This memorable event,' says the pious writer, 'happened towards the
+middle of July 1719. The major had spent the evening (and, if I mistake
+not, it was the Sabbath) in some gay company, and had an unhappy
+assignation with a married woman, whom he was to attend exactly at
+twelve. The company broke up about eleven, and, not judging it
+convenient to anticipate the time appointed, he went into his chamber
+to kill the tedious hour, perhaps with some amusing book, or some other
+way. But it very accidentally happened that he took up a religious
+book, which his good mother or aunt had, without his knowledge, slipped
+into his portmanteau. It was called, if I remember the title exactly,
+The Christian Soldier, or Heaven taken by Storm, and it was written by
+Mr. Thomas Watson. Guessing by the title of it that he would find some
+phrases of his own profession spiritualised in a manner which he
+thought might afford him some diversion, he resolved to dip into it,
+but he took no serious notice of anything it had in it; and yet, while
+this book was in his hand, an impression was made upon his mind
+(perhaps God only knows how) which drew after it a train of the most
+important and happy consequences. He thought he saw an unusual blaze of
+light fall upon the book which he was reading, which he at first
+imagined might happen by some accident in the candle, but, lifting up
+his eyes, he apprehended to his extreme amazement that there was before
+him, as it were suspended in the air, a visible representation of the
+Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory;
+and was impressed as if a voice, or something equivalent to a voice,
+had come to him, to this effect (for he was not confident as to the
+words), "Oh, sinner! did I suffer this for thee, and are these thy
+returns?" Struck with so amazing a phenomenon as this, there remained
+hardly any life in him, so that he sunk down in the arm-chair in which
+he sat, and continued, he knew not how long, insensible.'
+
+'With regard to this vision,' says the ingenious Dr. Hibbert, 'the
+appearance of our Saviour on the cross, and the awful words repeated,
+can be considered in no other light than as so many recollected images
+of the mind, which probably had their origin in the language of some
+urgent appeal to repentance that the colonel might have casually read
+or heard delivered. From what cause, however, such ideas were rendered
+as vivid as actual impressions, we have no information to be depended
+upon. This vision was certainly attended with one of the most important
+of consequences connected with the Christian dispensation--the
+conversion of a sinner. And hence no single narrative has, perhaps,
+done more to confirm the superstitious opinion that apparitions of this
+awful kind cannot arise without a divine fiat.' Doctor Hibbert adds in
+a note--'A short time before the vision, Colonel Gardiner had received
+a severe fall from his horse. Did the brain receive some slight degree
+of injury from the accident, so as to predispose him to this spiritual
+illusion?'--Hibbert's Philosophy of Apparitions, Edinburgh, 1824, p.
+190.
+
+NOTE 6
+
+The courtesy of an invitation to partake a traveller's meal, or at
+least that of being invited to share whatever liquor the guest called
+for, was expected by certain old landlords in Scotland even in the
+youth of the author. In requital mine host was always furnished with
+the news of the country, and was probably a little of a humorist to
+boot. The devolution of the whole actual business and drudgery of the
+inn upon the poor gudewife was very common among the Scottish
+Bonifaces. There was in ancient times, in the city of Edinburgh, a
+gentleman of good family who condescended, in order to gain a
+livelihood, to become the nominal keeper of a coffee-house, one of the
+first places of the kind which had been opened in the Scottish
+metropolis. As usual, it was entirely managed by the careful and
+industrious Mrs. B--; while her husband amused himself with field
+sports, without troubling his head about the matter. Once upon a time,
+the premises having taken fire, the husband was met walking up the High
+Street loaded with his guns and fishing-rods, and replied calmly to
+someone who inquired after his wife, 'that the poor woman was trying to
+save a parcel of crockery and some trumpery books'; the last being
+those which served her to conduct the business of the house.
+
+There were many elderly gentlemen in the author's younger days who
+still held it part of the amusement of a journey 'to parley with mine
+host,' who often resembled, in his quaint humour, mine Host of the
+Garter in the Merry Wives of Windsor; or Blague of the George in the
+Merry Devil of Edmonton. Sometimes the landlady took her share of
+entertaining the company. In either case the omitting to pay them due
+attention gave displeasure, and perhaps brought down a smart jest, as
+on the following occasion:
+
+A jolly dame who, not 'Sixty Years Since,' kept the principal
+caravansary at Greenlaw, in Berwickshire, had the honour to receive
+under her roof a very worthy clergyman, with three sons of the same
+profession, each having a cure of souls; be it said in passing, none of
+the reverend party were reckoned powerful in the pulpit. After dinner
+was over, the worthy senior, in the pride of his heart, asked Mrs.
+Buchan whether she ever had had such a party in her house before. 'Here
+sit I,' he said, 'a placed minister of the Kirk of Scotland, and here
+sit my three sons, each a placed minister of the same kirk. Confess,
+Luckie Buchan, you never had such a party in your house before.' The
+question was not premised by any invitation to sit down and take a
+glass of wine or the like, so Mrs. B. answered drily, 'Indeed, sir, I
+cannot just say that ever I had such a party in my house before, except
+once in the forty-five, when I had a Highland piper here, with his
+three sons, all Highland pipers; and deil a spring they could play
+amang them.'
+
+NOTE 7
+
+There is no particular mansion described under the name of
+Tully-Veolan; but the peculiarities of the description occur in various
+old Scottish seats. The House of Warrender upon Bruntsfield Links and
+that of Old Ravelston, belonging, the former to Sir George Warrender,
+the latter to Sir Alexander Keith, have both contributed several hints
+to the description in the text. The House of Dean, near Edinburgh, has
+also some points of resemblance with Tully-Veolan. The author has,
+however, been informed that the House of Grandtully resembles that of
+the Baron of Bradwardine still more than any of the above.
+
+NOTE 8
+
+I am ignorant how long the ancient and established custom of keeping
+fools has been disused in England. Swift writes an epitaph on the Earl
+of Suffolk's fool--
+
+Whose name was Dickie Pearce
+
+In Scotland, the custom subsisted till late in the last century; at
+Glamis Castle is preserved the dress of one of the jesters, very
+handsome, and ornamented with many bells. It is not above thirty years
+since such a character stood by the sideboard of a nobleman of the
+first rank in Scotland, and occasionally mixed in the conversation,
+till he carried the joke rather too far, in making proposals to one of
+the young ladies of the family, and publishing the bans betwixt her and
+himself in the public church.
+
+NOTE 9
+
+After the Revolution of 1688, and on some occasions when the spirit of
+the Presbyterians had been unusually animated against their opponents,
+the Episcopal clergymen, who were chiefly nonjurors, were exposed to be
+mobbed, as we should now say, or rabbled, as the phrase then went, to
+expiate their political heresies. But notwithstanding that the
+Presbyterians had the persecution in Charles II and his brother's time
+to exasperate them, there was little mischief done beyond the kind of
+petty violence mentioned in the text.
+
+NOTE 10
+
+I may here mention that the fashion of compotation described in the
+text was still occasionally practised in Scotland in the author's
+youth. A company, after having taken leave of their host, often went to
+finish the evening at the clachan or village, in 'womb of tavern.'
+Their entertainer always accompanied them to take the stirrup-cup,
+which often occasioned a long and late revel.
+
+The poculum potatorium of the valiant Baron, his blessed Bear, has a
+prototype at the fine old Castle of Glamis, so rich in memorials of
+ancient times; it is a massive beaker of silver, double gilt, moulded
+into the shape of a lion, and holding about an English pint of wine.
+The form alludes to the family name of Strathmore, which is Lyon, and,
+when exhibited, the cup must necessarily be emptied to the Earl's
+health. The author ought perhaps to be ashamed of recording that he has
+had the honour of swallowing the contents of the Lion; and the
+recollection of the feat served to suggest the story of the Bear of
+Bradwardine. In the family of Scott of Thirlestane (not Thirlestane in
+the Forest, but the place of the same name in Roxburghshire) was long
+preserved a cup of the same kind, in the form of a jack-boot. Each
+guest was obliged to empty this at his departure. If the guest's name
+was Scott, the necessity was doubly imperative.
+
+When the landlord of an inn presented his guests with deoch an doruis,
+that is, the drink at the door, or the stirrup-cup, the draught was not
+charged in the reckoning. On this point a learned bailie of the town of
+Forfar pronounced a very sound judgment.
+
+A., an ale-wife in Forfar, had brewed her 'peck of malt' and set the
+liquor out of doors to cool; the cow of B., a neighbour of A., chanced
+to come by, and seeing the good beverage, was allured to taste it, and
+finally to drink it up. When A. came to take in her liquor, she found
+her tub empty, and from the cow's staggering and staring, so as to
+betray her intemperance, she easily divined the mode in which her
+'browst' had disappeared. To take vengeance on Crummie's ribs with a
+stick was her first effort. The roaring of the cow brought B., her
+master, who remonstrated with his angry neighbour, and received in
+reply a demand for the value of the ale which Crummie had drunk up. B.
+refused payment, and was conveyed before C., the bailie, or sitting
+magistrate. He heard the case patiently; and then demanded of the
+plaintiff A. whether the cow had sat down to her potation or taken it
+standing. The plaintiff answered, she had not seen the deed committed,
+but she supposed the cow drank the ale while standing on her feet,
+adding, that had she been near she would have made her use them to some
+purpose. The bailie, on this admission, solemnly adjudged the cow's
+drink to be deoch an doruis, a stirrup-cup, for which no charge could
+be made without violating the ancient hospitality of Scotland.
+
+NOTE 11
+
+The story last told was said to have happened in the south of Scotland;
+but cedant arma togae and let the gown have its dues. It was an old
+clergyman, who had wisdom and firmness enough to resist the panic which
+seized his brethren, who was the means of rescuing a poor insane
+creature from the cruel fate which would otherwise have overtaken her.
+The accounts of the trials for witchcraft form one of the most
+deplorable chapters in Scottish story.
+
+NOTE 12
+
+Although canting heraldry is generally reprobated, it seems
+nevertheless to have been adopted in the arms and mottos of many
+honourable families. Thus the motto of the Vernons, Ver non semper
+viret, is a perfect pun, and so is that of the Onslows, Festina lente.
+The Periissem ni per-iissem of the Anstruthers is liable to a similar
+objection. One of that ancient race, finding that an antagonist, with
+whom he had fixed a friendly meeting, was determined to take the
+opportunity of assassinating him, prevented the hazard by dashing out
+his brains with a battle-axe. Two sturdy arms, brandishing such a
+weapon, form the usual crest of the family, with the above motto,
+Periissem ni per-iissem--I had died, unless I had gone through with it.
+
+NOTE 13
+
+Mac-Donald of Barrisdale, one of the very last Highland gentlemen who
+carried on the plundering system to any great extent, was a scholar and
+a well-bred gentleman. He engraved on his broad-swords the well-known
+lines--
+
+    Hae tibi erunt artes pacisque imponere morem,
+    Parcere subjectis, et debellare superbos.
+
+Indeed, the levying of black-mail was, before 1745, practised by
+several chiefs of very high rank, who, in doing so, contended that they
+were lending the laws the assistance of their arms and swords, and
+affording a protection which could not be obtained from the magistracy
+in the disturbed state of the country. The author has seen a Memoir of
+Mac-Pherson of Cluny, chief of that ancient clan, from which it appears
+that he levied protection-money to a very large amount, which was
+willingly paid even by some of his most powerful neighbours. A
+gentleman of this clan, hearing a clergyman hold forth to his
+congregation on the crime of theft, interrupted the preacher to assure
+him, he might leave the enforcement of such doctrines to Cluny
+Mac-Pherson, whose broadsword would put a stop to theft sooner than all
+the sermons of all the ministers of the synod.
+
+NOTE 14
+
+The Town-guard of Edinburgh were, till a late period, armed with this
+weapon when on their police-duty. There was a hook at the back of the
+axe, which the ancient Highlanders used to assist them to climb over
+walls, fixing the hook upon it and raising themselves by the handle.
+The axe, which was also much used by the natives of Ireland, is
+supposed to have been introduced into both countries from Scandinavia.
+
+NOTE 15
+
+An adventure very similar to what is here stated actually befell the
+late Mr. Abercromby of Tullibody, grandfather of the present Lord
+Abercromby, and father of the celebrated Sir Ralph. When this
+gentleman, who lived to a very advanced period of life, first settled
+in Stirlingshire, his cattle were repeatedly driven off by the
+celebrated Rob Roy, or some of his gang; and at length he was obliged,
+after obtaining a proper safe-conduct, to make the cateran such a visit
+as that of Waverley to Bean Lean in the text. Rob received him with
+much courtesy, and made many apologies for the accident, which must
+have happened, he said, through some mistake. Mr. Abercromby was
+regaled with collops from two of his own cattle, which were hung up by
+the heels in the cavern, and was dismissed in perfect safety, after
+having agreed to pay in future a small sum of black-mail, in
+consideration of which Rob Roy not only undertook to forbear his herds
+in future, but to replace any that should be stolen from him by other
+freebooters. Mr. Abercromby said Rob Roy affected to consider him as a
+friend to the Jacobite interest and a sincere enemy to the Union.
+Neither of these circumstances were true; but the laird thought it
+quite unnecessary to undeceive his Highland host at the risk of
+bringing on a political dispute in such a situation. This anecdote I
+received many years since (about 1792) from the mouth of the venerable
+gentleman who was concerned in it.
+
+NOTE 16
+
+This celebrated gibbet was, in the memory of the last generation, still
+standing at the western end of the town of Crieff, in Perthshire. Why
+it was called the kind gallows we are unable to inform the reader with
+certainty; but it is alleged that the Highlanders used to touch their
+bonnets as they passed a place which had been fatal to many of their
+countrymen, with the ejaculation 'God bless her nain sell, and the Teil
+tamn you!' It may therefore have been called kind, as being a sort of
+native or kindred place of doom to those who suffered there, as in
+fulfilment of a natural destiny.
+
+NOTE 17
+
+The story of the bridegroom carried off by caterans on his bridal-day
+is taken from one which was told to the author by the late Laird of
+Mac-Nab many years since. To carry off persons from the Lowlands, and
+to put them to ransom, was a common practice with the wild Highlanders,
+as it is said to be at the present day with the banditti in the south
+of Italy. Upon the occasion alluded to, a party of caterans carried off
+the bridegroom and secreted him in some cave near the mountain of
+Schiehallion. The young man caught the small-pox before his ransom
+could be agreed on; and whether it was the fine cool air of the place,
+or the want of medical attendance, Mac-Nab did not pretend to be
+positive; but so it was, that the prisoner recovered, his ransom was
+paid, and he was restored to his friends and bride, but always
+considered the Highland robbers as having saved his life by their
+treatment of his malady.
+
+NOTE 18
+
+This happened on many occasions. Indeed, it was not till after the
+total destruction of the clan influence, after 1745, that purchasers
+could be found who offered a fair price for the estates forfeited in
+1715, which were then brought to sale by the creditors of the York
+Buildings Company, who had purchased the whole, or greater part, from
+government at a very small price. Even so late as the period first
+mentioned, the prejudices of the public in favour of the heirs of the
+forfeited families threw various impediments in the way of intending
+purchasers of such property.
+
+NOTE 19
+
+This sort of political game ascribed to Mac-Ivor was in reality played
+by several Highland chiefs, the celebrated Lord Lovat in particular,
+who used that kind of finesse to the uttermost. The Laird of Mac---was
+also captain of an independent company, but valued the sweets of
+present pay too well to incur the risk of losing them in the Jacobite
+cause. His martial consort raised his clan and headed it in 1745. But
+the chief himself would have nothing to do with king-making, declaring
+himself for that monarch, and no other, who gave the Laird of Mac ----
+'half-a-guinea the day and half-a-guinea the morn.'
+
+NOTE 20
+
+In explanation of the military exercise observed at the Castle of
+Glennaquoich, the author begs to remark that the Highlanders were not
+only well practised in the use of the broadsword, firelock, and most of
+the manly sports and trials of strength common throughout Scotland, but
+also used a peculiar sort of drill, suited to their own dress and mode
+of warfare. There were, for instance, different modes of disposing the
+plaid, one when on a peaceful journey, another when danger was
+apprehended; one way of enveloping themselves in it when expecting
+undisturbed repose, and another which enabled them to start up with
+sword and pistol in hand on the slightest alarm.
+
+Previous to 1720 or thereabouts, the belted plaid was universally worn,
+in which the portion which surrounded the middle of the wearer and that
+which was flung around his shoulders were all of the same piece of
+tartan. In a desperate onset all was thrown away, and the clan charged
+bare beneath the doublet, save for an artificial arrangement of the
+shirt, which, like that of the Irish, was always ample, and for the
+sporran-mollach, or goat's-skin purse.
+
+The manner of handling the pistol and dirk was also part of the
+Highland manual exercise, which the author has seen gone through by men
+who had learned it in their youth.
+
+NOTE 21
+
+Pork or swine's flesh, in any shape, was, till of late years, much
+abominated by the Scotch, nor is it yet a favourite food amongst them.
+King Jamie carried this prejudice to England, and is known to have
+abhorred pork almost as much as he did tobacco. Ben Jonson has recorded
+this peculiarity, where the gipsy in a masque, examining the king's
+hand, says--
+
+You should, by this line,
+
+Love a horse and a hound, but no part of a swine.
+
+The Gipsies Metamorphosed.
+
+James's own proposed banquet for the Devil was a loin of pork and a
+poll of ling, with a pipe of tobacco for digestion.
+
+NOTE 22
+
+In the number of persons of all ranks who assembled at the same table,
+though by no means to discuss the same fare, the Highland chiefs only
+retained a custom which had been formerly universally observed
+throughout Scotland. 'I myself,' says the traveller, Fynes Morrison, in
+the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the scene being the Lowlands of
+Scotland, 'was at a knight's house, who had many servants to attend
+him, that brought in his meat with their heads covered with blue caps,
+the table being more than half furnished with great platters of
+porridge, each having a little piece of sodden meat. And when the table
+was served, the servants did sit down with us; but the upper mess,
+instead of porridge, had a pullet, with some prunes in the
+broth.'--Travels, p. 155.
+
+Till within this last century the farmers, even of a respectable
+condition, dined with their work-people. The difference betwixt those
+of high degree was ascertained by the place of the party above or below
+the salt, or sometimes by a line drawn with chalk on the dining-table.
+Lord Lovat, who knew well how to feed the vanity and restrain the
+appetites of his clansmen, allowed each sturdy Fraser who had the
+slightest pretensions to be a Duinhewassel the full honour of the
+sitting, but at the same time took care that his young kinsmen did not
+acquire at his table any taste for outlandish luxuries. His lordship
+was always ready with some honourable apology why foreign wines and
+French brandy, delicacies which he conceived might sap the hardy habits
+of his cousins, should not circulate past an assigned point on the
+table.
+
+NOTE 23
+
+In the Irish ballads relating to Fion (the Fingal of Mac-Pherson) there
+occurs, as in the primitive poetry of most nations, a cycle of heroes,
+each of whom has some distinguishing attribute; upon these qualities,
+and the adventures of those possessing them, many proverbs are formed,
+which are still current in the Highlands. Among other characters, Conan
+is distinguished as in some respects a kind of Thersites, but brave and
+daring even to rashness. He had made a vow that he would never take a
+blow without returning it; and having, like other heroes of antiquity,
+descended to the infernal regions, he received a cuff from the
+Arch-fiend who presided there, which he instantly returned, using the
+expression in the text. Sometimes the proverb is worded thus--'Claw for
+claw, and the devil take the shortest nails, as Conan said to the
+devil.'
+
+NOTE 24
+
+The description of the waterfall mentioned in this chapter is taken
+from that of Ledeard, at the farm so called, on the northern side of
+Lochard, and near the head of the lake, four or five miles from
+Aberfoyle. It is upon a small scale, but otherwise one of the most
+exquisite cascades it is possible to behold. The appearance of Flora
+with the harp, as described, has been justly censured as too theatrical
+and affected for the lady-like simplicity of her character. But
+something may be allowed to her French education, in which point and
+striking effect always make a considerable object.
+
+NOTE 25
+
+The author has been sometimes accused of confounding fiction with
+reality. He therefore thinks it necessary to state that the
+circumstance of the hunting described in the text as preparatory to the
+insurrection of 1745 is, so far as he knows, entirely imaginary. But it
+is well known such a great hunting was held in the Forest of Brae-Mar,
+under the auspices of the Earl of Mar, as preparatory to the Rebellion
+of 1715; and most of the Highland chieftains who afterwards engaged in
+that civil commotion were present on this occasion.
+
+
+
+
+
+GLOSSARY
+
+
+A', all.
+
+ABOON, abune, above.
+
+ABY, abye, endure, suffer.
+
+ACCOLADE, the salutation marking the bestowal of knighthood.
+
+AIN, own.
+
+ALANE, alone.
+
+AN, if.
+
+ANE, one.
+
+ARRAY, annoy, trouble.
+
+AULD, old.
+
+AWEEL, well.
+
+AYE, always.
+
+BAILIE, a city magistrate in Scotland.
+
+BAN, curse.
+
+BAWTY, sly, cunning.
+
+BAXTER, a baker.
+
+BEES, in the, stupefied, bewildered.
+
+BELIVE, belyve, by and by.
+
+BEN, in, inside.
+
+BENT, an open field.
+
+BHAIRD, a bard.
+
+BLACK-FISHING, fishing by torchlight poaching.
+
+BLINKED, glanced.
+
+BLUDE, braid, blood.
+
+BLYTHE, gay, glad.
+
+BODLE, a copper coin worth a third of an English penny.
+
+BOLE, a bowl.
+
+BOOT-KETCH, a boot-jack.
+
+BRAE, the side of a hill.
+
+BRISSEL-COCK, a turkey cock.
+
+BREEKS, breeches.
+
+BROGUES, Highland shoes.
+
+BROKEN MEN, outlaws.
+
+BROUGHT FAR BEN, held in special favor
+
+BROWST, a brewing.
+
+BRUIK, enjoy.
+
+BUCKIE, a perverse or refractory person.
+
+BULLSEGG, a gelded bull.
+
+BURD, bird, a term of familiarity.
+
+BURN, a brook.
+
+BUSKING, dress, decoration.
+
+BUTTOCK-MAIL, a fine for fornication.
+
+BYDAND, awaiting.
+
+CAILLIACHS, old women on whom devolved the duty of lamenting for the
+dead, which the Irish call keening.
+
+CALLANT, a young lad, a fine fellow.
+
+CANNY, prudent, skillful, lucky.
+
+CANTER, a canting, whining beggar.
+
+CANTRIP, a trick.
+
+CARLE, a churl, an old man.
+
+CATERAN, a Highland irregular soldier, a freebooter.
+
+CHAP, a customer.
+
+CLACHAN, a hamlet.
+
+CLAW FAVOUR, curry favour.
+
+CLAYMORE, a broad sword.
+
+CLEEK, a hook.
+
+CLEIK the cunzie, steal the silver.
+
+COB, beat.
+
+COBLE, a small fishing boat.
+
+COGS, wooden vessels.
+
+COGUE, a round wooden vessel.
+
+CONCUSSED, violently shaken, disturbed, forced.
+
+CORONACH, a dirge.
+
+CORRIE, a mountain hollow.
+
+COVE, a cave.
+
+CRAME, a booth, a merchant's shop.
+
+CREAGH, an incursion for plunder, termed on the Borders a raid.
+
+CROUSE, bold, courageous.
+
+CRUMMY, a cow with crooked horns.
+
+CUITTLE, tickle.
+
+CURRAGH, a Highland boat.
+
+DAFT, mad, foolish.
+
+DEBINDED, bound down.
+
+DECREET, an order of decree.
+
+DEOCH AN DORUIS, the stirrup-cup or parting drink.
+
+DERN, concealed, secret.
+
+DINMONTS, wethers in the second year.
+
+DOER, an agent, a manager.
+
+DOON, doun, down.
+
+DOVERING, dozing.
+
+DUINHE-WASSEL, dunniewassal, a Highland gentleman, usually the cadet of
+a family of rank.
+
+EANARUICH, the regalia presented by Rob Roy to the Laird of Tullibody.
+
+ENEUGH, eneuch, enough.
+
+ERGASTULO, in a penitentiary.
+
+EXEEMED, exempt.
+
+FACTORY, stewardship.
+
+FEAL AND DIVOT, turf and thatch.
+
+FECK, a quantity.
+
+FEIFTEEN, the Jacobite rebellion of 1715.
+
+FENDY, good at making a shift.
+
+FIRE-RAISING, setting an incendiary fire.
+
+FLEMIT, frightened,
+
+FRAE, from.
+
+FU, full.
+
+FULE, fool.
+
+GABERLUNZIE, a kind of professional beggar.
+
+GANE, gone.
+
+GANG, go.
+
+GAR, make.
+
+GATE, gait, way.
+
+GAUN, going.
+
+GAY, gey, very.
+
+GEAR, goods, property.
+
+GILLFLIRT, a flirty girl.
+
+GILLIE, a servant, an attendant.
+
+GILLIE-WET-FOOT, a barefooted Highland lad.
+
+GIMMER, a ewe from one to two years old.
+
+GLISKED, glimpsed.
+
+GRIPPLE, rapacious, niggardly.
+
+GULPIN, a simpleton.
+
+HA', hall.
+
+HAG, a portion of copse marked off for cutting.
+
+HAIL, whole.
+
+HALLAN, a partition, a screen.
+
+HAME, home.
+
+HANTLE, a great deal.
+
+HARST, harvest.
+
+HERSHIPS, plunder.
+
+HILDING, a coward.
+
+HIRSTS, knolls.
+
+HORNING, charge of, a summons to pay a debt, on pain of being
+pronounced a rebel, to the sound of a horn.
+
+HOWE, a hollow.
+
+HOULERYING AND POULERYING, hustling and pulling.
+
+HURLEY-HOUSE, a brokendown manor house.
+
+ILK, same; of that ilk, of the same name or place.
+
+ILKA, each, every.
+
+IN THE BEES, stupefied.
+
+INTROMIT, meddle with.
+
+KEN, know.
+
+KITTLE, tickle, ticklish.
+
+KNOBBLER, a male deer in its second year.
+
+KYLOE, a small Highland cow.
+
+LAIRD, squire, lord of the manor.
+
+LANG-LEGGIT, long-legged.
+
+LAWING, a tavern reckoning.
+
+LEE LAND, pasture land.
+
+LIE, a word used in old Scottish legal documents to call attention to
+the following word or phrase.
+
+LIFT, capture, carry off by theft.
+
+LIMMER, a jade.
+
+LOCH, a lake.
+
+LOON, an idle fellow, a lout, a rogue.
+
+LUCKIE, an elderly woman.
+
+LUG, an ear, a handle.
+
+LUNZIE, the loins, the waist.
+
+MAE, mair, more.
+
+MAINS, the chief farm of an estate.
+
+MALT ABUNE THE MEAL, the drink above the food, half-seas over.
+
+MAUN, must.
+
+MEAL ARK, a meal chest.
+
+MERK, 13 1/3 pence in English money.
+
+MICKLE, much, great.
+
+MISGUGGLED, mangled, rumpled.
+
+MONY, many.
+
+MORN, the morn, tomorrow.
+
+MORNING, a morning dram.
+
+MUCKLE, much, great.
+
+MUIR, moor.
+
+NA, nae, no, not.
+
+NAINSELL, own self.
+
+NICE, simple.
+
+NOLT, black cattle. ony, any.
+
+ORRA, odd, unemployed.
+
+ORRA-TIME, occasionally.
+
+OWER, over.
+
+PEEL-HOUSE, a fortified tower.
+
+PENDICLE, a small piece of ground.
+
+PINGLE, a fuss, trouble.
+
+PLENISHING, furnishings.
+
+PLOY, sport, entertainment.
+
+PRETTY MEN, stout, warlike fellows.
+
+REIFS, robberies.
+
+REIVERS, robbers.
+
+RIGGS, ridges, ploughed ground.
+
+ROKELAY, a short cloak.
+
+RUDAS, coarse, hag-like.
+
+SAIN, mark with the sign of the cross, bless.
+
+SAIR, sore, very.
+
+SAUMON, salmon.
+
+SAUT, salt.
+
+SAY, a sample.
+
+SCHELLUM, a rascal.
+
+SCOUPING, scowping, skipping, leaping, running.
+
+SEANNACHIE, a Highland antiquary.
+
+SHEARING, reaping, harvest.
+
+SHILPIT, weak, sickly.
+
+SHOON, shoes.
+
+SIC, siccan, such.
+
+SIDIER DHU, black soldiers, independent companies raised to keep peace
+in the Highlands; named from the tartans they wore.
+
+SIDIER ROY, red soldiers, King George's men.
+
+SIKES, small brooks.
+
+SILLER, silver, money.
+
+SIMMER, summer.
+
+SLIVER, slice, slit.
+
+SMOKY, suspicious.
+
+SNECK, cut.
+
+SNOOD, a fillet worn by young women.
+
+SOPITE, quiet a brawl.
+
+SORNERS, sornars, sojourners, sturdy beggars, especially those
+unwelcome visitors who exact lodgings and victuals by force.
+
+SORTED, arranged, adjusted.
+
+SPEIR, ask, investigate.
+
+SPORRAN-MOLLACH, a Highland purse of goatskin.
+
+SPRACK, animated, lively.
+
+SPRING, a cheerful tune.
+
+SPURRZIE, spoil.
+
+STIEVE, stiff, firm.
+
+STIRK, a young steer or heifer.
+
+STOT, a bullock.
+
+STOUP, a jug, a pitcher.
+
+STOUTHREEF, robbery.
+
+STRAE, straw.
+
+STRATH, a valley through which a river runs.
+
+SYBOES, onions.
+
+TA, the. TAIGLIT, harassed, loitered.
+
+TAILZIE, taillie, a deed of entail.
+
+TAPPIT-HEN, a pewter pot that holds three English quarts.
+
+TAYOUT, tailliers-hors; in modern phrase, Tally-ho!
+
+TEIL, the devil.
+
+TEINDS, tithes.
+
+TELT, told.
+
+TILL, to. TOUN, a hamlet, a farm.
+
+TREWS, trousers.
+
+TROW, believe, suppose.
+
+TWA, two.
+
+TYKE, a dog, a snarling fellow.
+
+UNCO, strange, very.
+
+UNKENN'D, unknown.
+
+USQUEBAUGH, whiskey.
+
+WA', wall.
+
+WARE, spend.
+
+WEEL, well.
+
+WHA, who.
+
+WHAR, where.
+
+WHAT FOR, why.
+
+WHILK, which.
+
+WISKE, whisk, brandish.
+
+
+
+
+
+END OF VOLUME I WAVERLEY
+
+BY SIR WALTER SCOTT
+
+VOLUME II
+
+
+
+
+
+WAVERLEY
+
+OR 'TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVI
+
+AN INCIDENT
+
+
+The dinner hour of Scotland Sixty Years Since was two o'clock. It was
+therefore about four o'clock of a delightful autumn afternoon that Mr.
+Gilfillan commenced his march, in hopes, although Stirling was eighteen
+miles distant, he might be able, by becoming a borrower of the night
+for an hour or two, to reach it that evening. He therefore put forth
+his strength, and marched stoutly along at the head of his followers,
+eyeing our hero from time to time, as if he longed to enter into
+controversy with him. At length, unable to resist the temptation, he
+slackened his pace till he was alongside of his prisoner's horse, and
+after marching a few steps in silence abreast of him, he suddenly
+asked--'Can ye say wha the carle was wi' the black coat and the mousted
+head, that was wi' the Laird of Cairnvreckan?'
+
+'A Presbyterian clergyman,' answered Waverley.
+
+'Presbyterian!' answered Gilfillan contemptuously; 'a wretched
+Erastian, or rather an obscure Prelatist, a favourer of the black
+indulgence, ane of thae dumb dogs that canna bark; they tell ower a
+clash o' terror and a clatter o' comfort in their sermons, without ony
+sense, or savour, or life. Ye've been fed in siccan a fauld, belike?'
+
+'No; I am of the Church of England,' said Waverley.
+
+'And they're just neighbour-like,' replied the Covenanter; 'and nae
+wonder they gree sae weel. Wha wad hae thought the goodly structure of
+the Kirk of Scotland, built up by our fathers in 1642, wad hae been
+defaced by carnal ends and the corruptions of the time;--ay, wha wad
+hae thought the carved work of the sanctuary would hae been sae soon
+cut down!'
+
+To this lamentation, which one or two of the assistants chorussed with
+a deep groan, our hero thought it unnecessary to make any reply.
+Whereupon Mr. Gilfillan, resolving that he should be a hearer at least,
+if not a disputant, proceeded in his Jeremiade.
+
+'And now is it wonderful, when, for lack of exercise anent the call to
+the service of the altar and the duty of the day, ministers fall into
+sinful compliances with patronage, and indemnities, and oaths, and
+bonds, and other corruptions,--is it wonderful, I say, that you, sir,
+and other sic-like unhappy persons, should labour to build up your auld
+Babel of iniquity, as in the bluidy persecuting saint-killing times? I
+trow, gin ye werena blinded wi' the graces and favours, and services
+and enjoyments, and employments and inheritances, of this wicked world,
+I could prove to you, by the Scripture, in what a filthy rag ye put
+your trust; and that your surplices, and your copes and vestments, are
+but cast-off garments of the muckle harlot that sitteth upon seven
+hills and drinketh of the cup of abomination. But, I trow, ye are deaf
+as adders upon that side of the head; ay, ye are deceived with her
+enchantments, and ye traffic with her merchandise, and ye are drunk
+with the cup of her fornication!'
+
+How much longer this military theologist might have continued his
+invective, in which he spared nobody but the scattered remnant of
+HILL-FOLK, as he called them, is absolutely uncertain. His matter was
+copious, his voice powerful, and his memory strong; so that there was
+little chance of his ending his exhortation till the party had reached
+Stirling, had not his attention been attracted by a pedlar who had
+joined the march from a cross-road, and who sighed or groaned with
+great regularity at all fitting pauses of his homily.
+
+'And what may ye be, friend?' said the Gifted Gilfillan.
+
+'A puir pedlar, that's bound for Stirling, and craves the protection of
+your honour's party in these kittle times. Ah' your honour has a
+notable faculty in searching and explaining the secret,--ay, the secret
+and obscure and incomprehensible causes of the backslidings of the
+land; ay, your honour touches the root o' the matter.'
+
+'Friend,' said Gilfillan, with a more complacent voice than he had
+hitherto used, 'honour not me. I do not go out to park-dikes and to
+steadings and to market-towns to have herds and cottars and burghers
+pull off their bonnets to me as they do to Major Melville o'
+Cairnvreckan, and ca' me laird or captain or honour. No; my sma' means,
+whilk are not aboon twenty thousand merk, have had the blessing of
+increase, but the pride of my heart has not increased with them; nor do
+I delight to be called captain, though I have the subscribed commission
+of that gospel-searching nobleman, the Earl of Glencairn, fa whilk I am
+so designated. While I live I am and will be called Habakkuk Gilfillan,
+who will stand up for the standards of doctrine agreed on by the ance
+famous Kirk of Scotland, before she trafficked with the accursed Achan,
+while he has a plack in his purse or a drap o' bluid in his body.'
+
+'Ah,' said the pedlar, 'I have seen your land about Mauchlin. A fertile
+spot! your lines have fallen in pleasant places! And siccan a breed o'
+cattle is not in ony laird's land in Scotland.'
+
+'Ye say right,--ye say right, friend' retorted Gilfillan eagerly, for
+he was not inaccessible to flattery upon this subject,--'ye say right;
+they are the real Lancashire, and there's no the like o' them even at
+the mains of Kilmaurs'; and he then entered into a discussion of their
+excellences, to which our readers will probably be as indifferent as
+our hero. After this excursion the leader returned to his theological
+discussions, while the pedlar, less profound upon those mystic points,
+contented himself with groaning and expressing his edification at
+suitable intervals.
+
+'What a blessing it would be to the puir blinded popish nations among
+whom I hae sojourned, to have siccan a light to their paths! I hae been
+as far as Muscovia in my sma' trading way, as a travelling merchant,
+and I hae been through France, and the Low Countries, and a' Poland,
+and maist feck o' Germany, and O! it would grieve your honour's soul to
+see the murmuring and the singing and massing that's in the kirk, and
+the piping that's in the quire, and the heathenish dancing and dicing
+upon the Sabbath!'
+
+This set Gilfillan off upon the Book of Sports and the Covenant, and
+the Engagers, and the Protesters, and the Whiggamore's Raid, and the
+Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and the Longer and Shorter
+Catechism, and the Excommunication at Torwood, and the slaughter of
+Archbishop Sharp. This last topic, again, led him into the lawfulness
+of defensive arms, on which subject he uttered much more sense than
+could have been expected from some other parts of his harangue, and
+attracted even Waverley's attention, who had hitherto been lost in his
+own sad reflections. Mr. Gilfillan then considered the lawfulness of a
+private man's standing forth as the avenger of public oppression, and
+as he was labouring with great earnestness the cause of Mas James
+Mitchell, who fired at the Archbishop of Saint Andrews some years
+before the prelate's assassination on Magus Muir, an incident occurred
+which interrupted his harangue.
+
+The rays of the sun were lingering on the very verge of the horizon as
+the party ascended a hollow and somewhat steep path which led to the
+summit of a rising ground. The country was uninclosed, being part of a
+very extensive heath or common; but it was far from level, exhibiting
+in many places hollows filled with furze and broom; in others, little
+dingles of stunted brushwood. A thicket of the latter description
+crowned the hill up which the party ascended. The foremost of the band,
+being the stoutest and most active, had pushed on, and, having
+surmounted the ascent, were out of ken for the present. Gilfillan, with
+the pedlar and the small party who were Waverley's more immediate
+guard, were near the top of the ascent, and the remainder straggled
+after them at a considerable interval.
+
+Such was the situation of matters when the pedlar, missing, as he said,
+a little doggie which belonged to him, began to halt and whistle for
+the animal. This signal, repeated more than once, gave offence to the
+rigour of his companion, the rather because it appeared to indicate
+inattention to the treasures of theological and controversial knowledge
+which were pouring out for his edification. He therefore signified
+gruffly that he could not waste his time in waiting for an useless cur.
+
+'But if your honour wad consider the case of Tobit--'
+
+'Tobit!' exclaimed Gilffflan, with great heat; 'Tobit and his dog baith
+are altogether heathenish and apocryphal, and none but a prelatist or a
+papist would draw them into question. I doubt I hae been mista'en in
+you, friend.'
+
+'Very likely,' answered the pedlar, with great composure; 'but
+ne'ertheless, I shall take leave to whistle again upon puir Bawty.'
+
+This last signal was answered in an unexpected manner; for six or eight
+stout Highlanders, who lurked among the copse and brushwood, sprung
+into the hollow way and began to lay about them with their claymores.
+Gilfillan, unappalled at this undesirable apparition, cried out
+manfully, 'The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!' and, drawing his
+broadsword, would probably have done as much credit to the good old
+cause as any of its doughty champions at Drumclog, when, behold! the
+pedlar, snatching a musket from the person who was next him bestowed
+the butt of it with such emphasis on the head of his late instructor in
+the Cameronian creed that he was forthwith levelled to the ground. In
+the confusion which ensued the horse which bore our hero was shot by
+one of Gilfillan's party, as he discharged his firelock at random.
+Waverley fell with, and indeed under, the animal, and sustained some
+severe contusions. But he was almost instantly extricated from the
+fallen steed by two Highlanders, who, each seizing him by the arm,
+hurried him away from the scuffle and from the highroad. They ran with
+great speed, half supporting and half dragging our hero, who could,
+however, distinguish a few dropping shots fired about the spot which he
+had left. This, as he afterwards learned, proceeded from Gilfillan's
+party, who had now assembled, the stragglers in front and rear having
+joined the others. At their approach the Highlanders drew off, but not
+before they had rifled Gilfillan and two of his people, who remained on
+the spot grievously wounded. A few shots were exchanged betwixt them
+and the Westlanders; but the latter, now without a commander, and
+apprehensive of a second ambush, did not make any serious effort to
+recover their prisoner, judging it more wise to proceed on their
+journey to Stirling, carrying with them their wounded captain and
+comrades.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVII
+
+WAVERLEY IS STILL IN DISTRESS
+
+
+The velocity, and indeed violence, with which Waverley was hurried
+along nearly deprived him of sensation; for the injury he had received
+from his fall prevented him from aiding himself so effectually as he
+might otherwise have done. When this was observed by his conductors,
+they called to their aid two or three others of the party, and,
+swathing our hero's body in one of their plaids, divided his weight by
+that means among them, and transported him at the same rapid rate as
+before, without any exertion of his own. They spoke little, and that in
+Gaelic; and did not slacken their pace till they had run nearly two
+miles, when they abated their extreme rapidity, but continued still to
+walk very fast, relieving each other occasionally.
+
+Our hero now endeavoured to address them, but was only answered with
+'Cha n'eil Beurl agam' i.e. 'I have no English,' being, as Waverley
+well knew, the constant reply of a Highlander when he either does not
+understand or does not choose to reply to an Englishman or Lowlander.
+He then mentioned the name of Vich lan Vohr, concluding that he was
+indebted to his friendship for his rescue from the clutches of Gifted
+Gilfillan, but neither did this produce any mark of recognition from
+his escort.
+
+The twilight had given place to moonshine when the party halted upon
+the brink of a precipitous glen, which, as partly enlightened by the
+moonbeams, seemed full of trees and tangled brushwood. Two of the
+Highlanders dived into it by a small foot-path, as if to explore its
+recesses, and one of them returning in a few minutes, said something to
+his companions, who instantly raised their burden and bore him, with
+great attention and care, down the narrow and abrupt descent.
+Notwithstanding their precautions, however, Waverley's person came more
+than once into contact, rudely enough, with the projecting stumps and
+branches which overhung the pathway.
+
+At the bottom of the descent, and, as it seemed, by the side of a brook
+(for Waverley heard the rushing of a considerable body of water,
+although its stream was invisible in the darkness), the party again
+stopped before a small and rudely-constructed hovel. The door was open,
+and the inside of the premises appeared as uncomfortable and rude as
+its situation and exterior foreboded. There was no appearance of a
+floor of any kind; the roof seemed rent in several places; the walls
+were composed of loose stones and turf, and the thatch of branches of
+trees. The fire was in the centre, and filled the whole wigwam with
+smoke, which escaped as much through the door as by means of a circular
+aperture in the roof. An old Highland sibyl, the only inhabitant of
+this forlorn mansion, appeared busy in the preparation of some food. By
+the light which the fire afforded Waverley could discover that his
+attendants were not of the clan of Ivor, for Fergus was particularly
+strict in requiring from his followers that they should wear the tartan
+striped in the mode peculiar to their race; a mark of distinction
+anciently general through the Highlands, and still maintained by those
+Chiefs who were proud of their lineage or jealous of their separate and
+exclusive authority.
+
+Edward had lived at Glennaquoich long enough to be aware of a
+distinction which he had repeatedly heard noticed, and now satisfied
+that he had no interest with, his attendants, he glanced a disconsolate
+eye around the interior of the cabin. The only furniture, excepting a
+washing-tub and a wooden press, called in Scotland an ambry, sorely
+decayed, was a large wooden bed, planked, as is usual, all around, and
+opening by a sliding panel. In this recess the Highlanders deposited
+Waverley, after he had by signs declined any refreshment. His slumbers
+were broken and unrefreshing; strange visions passed before his eyes,
+and it required constant and reiterated efforts of mind to dispel them.
+Shivering, violent headache, and shooting pains in his limbs succeeded
+these symptoms; and in the morning it was evident to his Highland
+attendants or guard, for he knew not in which light to consider them,
+that Waverley was quite unfit to travel.
+
+After a long consultation among themselves, six of the party left the
+hut with their arms, leaving behind an old and a young man. The former
+addressed Waverley, and bathed the contusions, which swelling and livid
+colour now made conspicuous. His own portmanteau, which the Highlanders
+had not failed to bring off, supplied him with linen, and to his great
+surprise was, with all its undiminished contents, freely resigned to
+his use. The bedding of his couch seemed clean and comfortable, and his
+aged attendant closed the door of the bed, for it had no curtain, after
+a few words of Gaelic, from which Waverley gathered that he exhorted
+him to repose. So behold our hero for a second time the patient of a
+Highland Esculapius, but in a situation much more uncomfortable than
+when he was the guest of the worthy Tomanrait.
+
+The symptomatic fever which accompanied the injuries he had sustained
+did not abate till the third day, when it gave way to the care of his
+attendants and the strength of his constitution, and he could now raise
+himself in his bed, though not without pain. He observed, however, that
+there was a great disinclination on the part of the old woman who acted
+as his nurse, as well as on that of the elderly Highlander, to permit
+the door of the bed to be left open, so that he might amuse himself
+with observing their motions; and at length, after Waverley had
+repeatedly drawn open and they had as frequently shut the hatchway of
+his cage, the old gentleman put an end to the contest by securing it on
+the outside with a nail so effectually that the door could not be drawn
+till this exterior impediment was removed.
+
+While musing upon the cause of this contradictory spirit in persons
+whose conduct intimated no purpose of plunder, and who, in all other
+points, appeared to consult his welfare and his wishes, it occurred to
+our hero that, during the worst crisis of his illness, a female figure,
+younger than his old Highland nurse, had appeared to flit around his
+couch. Of this, indeed, he had but a very indistinct recollection, but
+his suspicions were confirmed when, attentively listening, he often
+heard, in the course of the day, the voice of another female conversing
+in whispers with his attendant. Who could it be? And why should she
+apparently desire concealment? Fancy immediately aroused herself and
+turned to Flora Mac-Ivor. But after a short conflict between his eager
+desire to believe she was in his neighbourhood, guarding, like an angel
+of mercy, the couch of his sickness, Waverley was compelled to conclude
+that his conjecture was altogether improbable; since, to suppose she
+had left her comparatively safe situation at Glennaquoich to descend
+into the Low Country, now the seat of civil war, and to inhabit such a
+lurking-place as this, was a thing hardly to be imagined. Yet his heart
+bounded as he sometimes could distinctly hear the trip of a light
+female step glide to or from the door of the hut, or the suppressed
+sounds of a female voice, of softness and delicacy, hold dialogue with
+the hoarse inward croak of old Janet, for so he understood his
+antiquated attendant was denominated.
+
+Having nothing else to amuse his solitude, he employed himself in
+contriving some plan to gratify his curiosity, in despite of the
+sedulous caution of Janet and the old Highland janizary, for he had
+never seen the young fellow since the first morning. At length, upon
+accurate examination, the infirm state of his wooden prison-house
+appeared to supply the means of gratifying his curiosity, for out of a
+spot which was somewhat decayed he was able to extract a nail. Through
+this minute aperture he could perceive a female form, wrapped in a
+plaid, in the act of conversing with Janet. But, since the days of our
+grandmother Eve, the gratification of inordinate curiosity has
+generally borne its penalty in disappointment. The form was not that of
+Flora, nor was the face visible; and, to crown his vexation, while he
+laboured with the nail to enlarge the hole, that he might obtain a more
+complete view, a slight noise betrayed his purpose, and the object of
+his curiosity instantly disappeared, nor, so far as he could observe,
+did she again revisit the cottage.
+
+All precautions to blockade his view were from that time abandoned, and
+he was not only permitted but assisted to rise, and quit what had been,
+in a literal sense, his couch of confinement. But he was not allowed to
+leave the hut; for the young Highlander had now rejoined his senior,
+and one or other was constantly on the watch. Whenever Waverley
+approached the cottage dooi the sentinel upon duty civilly, but
+resolutely, placed himself against it and opposed his exit,
+accompanying his action with signs which seemed to imply there was
+danger in the attempt and an enemy in the neighbourhood. Old Janet
+appeared anxious and upon the watch; and Waverley, who had not yet
+recovered strength enough to attempt to take his departure in spite of
+the opposition of his hosts, was under the necessity of remaining
+patient His fare was, in every point of view, better than he could have
+conceived, for poultry, and even wine, were no strangers to his table.
+The Highlanders never presumed to eat with him, and, unless in the
+circumstance of watching him, treated him with great respect. His sole
+amusement was gazing from the window, or rather the shapeless aperture
+which was meant to answer the purpose of a window, upon a large and
+rough brook, which raged and foamed through a rocky channel, closely
+canopied with trees and bushes, about ten feet beneath the site of his
+house of captivity.
+
+Upon the sixth day of his confinement Waverley found himself so well
+that he began to meditate his escape from this dull and miserable
+prison-house, thinking any risk which he might incur in the attempt
+preferable to the stupefying and intolerable uniformity of Janet's
+retirement. The question indeed occurred, whither he was to direct his
+course when again at his own disposal. Two schemes seemed practicable,
+yet both attended with danger and difficulty. One was to go back to
+Glennaquoich and join Fergus Mac-Ivor, by whom he was sure to be kindly
+received; and in the present state of his mind, the rigour with which
+he had been treated fully absolved him, in his own eyes, from his
+allegiance to the existing government. The other project was to
+endeavour to attain a Scottish seaport, and thence to take shipping for
+England. His mind wavered between these plans, and probably, if he had
+effected his escape in the manner he proposed, he would have been
+finally determined by the comparative facility by which either might
+have been executed. But his fortune had settled that he was not to be
+left to his option.
+
+Upon the evening of the seventh day the door of the hut suddenly
+opened, and two Highlanders entered, whom Waverley recognised as having
+been a part of his original escort to this cottage. They conversed for
+a short time with the old man and his companion, and then made Waverley
+understand, by very significant signs, that he was to prepare to
+accompany them. This was a joyful communication. What had already
+passed during his confinement made it evident that no personal injury
+was designed to him; and his romantic spirit, having recovered during
+his repose much of that elasticity which anxiety, resentment,
+disappointment, and the mixture of unpleasant feelings excited by his
+late adventures had for a time subjugated, was now wearied with
+inaction. His passion for the wonderful, although it is the nature of
+such dispositions to be excited by that degree of danger which merely
+gives dignity to the feeling of the individual exposed to it, had sunk
+under the extraordinary and apparently insurmountable evils by which he
+appeared environed at Cairnvreckan. In fact, this compound of intense
+curiosity and exalted imagination forms a peculiar species of courage,
+which somewhat resembles the light usually carried by a
+miner--sufficiently competent, indeed, to afford him guidance and
+comfort during the ordinary perils of his labour, but certain to be
+extinguished should he encounter the more formidable hazard of earth
+damps or pestiferous vapours. It was now, however, once more rekindled,
+and with a throbbing mixture of hope, awe, and anxiety, Waverley
+watched the group before him, as those who were just arrived snatched a
+hasty meal, and the others assumed their arms and made brief
+preparations for their departure.
+
+As he sat in the smoky hut, at some distance from the fire, around
+which the others were crowded, he felt a gentle pressure upon his arm.
+He looked round; it was Alice, the daughter of Donald Bean Lean. She
+showed him a packet of papers in such a manner that the motion was
+remarked by no one else, put her finger for a second to her lips, and
+passed on, as if to assist old Janet in packing Waverley's clothes in
+his portmanteau. It was obviously her wish that he should not seem to
+recognise her, yet she repeatedly looked back at him, as an opportunity
+occurred of doing so unobserved, and when she saw that he remarked what
+she did, she folded the packet with great address and speed in one of
+his shirts, which she deposited in the portmanteau.
+
+Here then was fresh food for conjecture. Was Alice his unknown warden,
+and was this maiden of the cavern the tutelar genius that watched his
+bed during his sickness? Was he in the hands of her father? and if so,
+what was his purpose? Spoil, his usual object, seemed in this case
+neglected; for not only Waverley's property was restored, but his
+purse, which might have tempted this professional plunderer, had been
+all along suffered to remain in his possession. All this perhaps the
+packet might explain; but it was plain from Alice's manner that she
+desired he should consult it in secret. Nor did she again seek his eye
+after she had satisfied herself that her manoeuvre was observed and
+understood. On the contrary, she shortly afterwards left the hut, and
+it was only as she tript out from the door, that, favoured by the
+obscurity, she gave Waverley a parting smile and nod of significance
+ere she vanished in the dark glen.
+
+The young Highlander was repeatedly despatched by his comrades as if to
+collect intelligence. At length, when he had returned for the third or
+fourth time, the whole party arose and made signs to our hero to
+accompany them. Before his departure, however, he shook hands with old
+Janet, who had been so sedulous in his behalf, and added substantial
+marks of his gratitude for her attendance.
+
+'God bless you! God prosper you, Captain Waverley!' said Janet, in good
+Lowland Scotch, though he had never hithero heard her utter a syllable,
+save in Gaelic. But the impatience of his attendants prohibited his
+asking any explanation.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVIII
+
+A NOCTURNAL ADVENTURE
+
+
+There was a moment's pause when the whole party had got out of the hut;
+and the Highlander who assumed the command, and who, in Waverley's
+awakened recollection, seemed to be the same tall figure who had acted
+as Donald Bean Lean's lieutenant, by whispers and signs imposed the
+strictest silence. He delivered to Edward a sword and steel pistol,
+and, pointing up the track, laid his hand on the hilt of his own
+claymore, as if to make him sensible they might have occasion to use
+force to make good their passage. He then placed himself at the head of
+the party, who moved up the pathway in single or Indian file, Waverley
+being placed nearest to their leader. He moved with great precaution,
+as if to avoid giving any alarm, and halted as soon as he came to the
+verge of the ascent. Waverley was soon sensible of the reason, for he
+heard at no great distance an English sentinel call out 'All's well.'
+The heavy sound sunk on the night-wind down the woody glen, and was
+answered by the echoes of its banks. A second, third, and fourth time
+the signal was repeated fainter and fainter, as if at a greater and
+greater distance. It was obvious that a party of soldiers were near,
+and upon their guard, though not sufficiently so to detect men skilful
+in every art of predatory warfare, like those with whom he now watched
+their ineffectual precautions.
+
+When these sounds had died upon the silence of the night, the
+Highlanders began their march swiftly, yet with the most cautious
+silence. Waverley had little time, or indeed disposition, for
+observation, and could only discern that they passed at some distance
+from a large building, in the windows of which a light or two yet
+seemed to twinkle. A little farther on the leading Highlander snuffed
+the wind like a setting spaniel, and then made a signal to his party
+again to halt. He stooped down upon all fours, wrapped up in his plaid,
+so as to be scarce distinguishable from the heathy ground on which he
+moved, and advanced in this posture to reconnoitre. In a short time he
+returned, and dismissed his attendants excepting one; and, intimating
+to Waverley that he must imitate his cautious mode of proceeding, all
+three crept forward on hands and knees.
+
+After proceeding a greater way in this inconvenient manner than was at
+all comfortable to his knees and shins, Waverley perceived the smell of
+smoke, which probably had been much sooner distinguished by the more
+acute nasal organs of his guide. It proceeded from the corner of a low
+and ruinous sheep-fold, the walls of which were made of loose stones,
+as is usual in Scotland. Close by this low wall the Highlander guided
+Waverley, and, in order probably to make him sensible of his danger, or
+perhaps to obtain the full credit of his own dexterity, he intimated to
+him, by sign and example, that he might raise his head so as to peep
+into the sheep-fold. Waverley did so, and beheld an outpost of four or
+five soldiers lying by their watch-fire. They were all asleep except
+the sentinel, who paced backwards and forwards with his firelock on his
+shoulder, which glanced red in the light of the fire as he crossed and
+re-crossed before it in his short walk, casting his eye frequently to
+that part of the heavens from which the moon, hitherto obscured by
+mist, seemed now about to make her appearance.
+
+In the course of a minute or two, by one of those sudden changes of
+atmosphere incident to a mountainous country, a breeze arose and swept
+before it the clouds which had covered the horizon, and the night
+planet poured her full effulgence upon a wide and blighted heath,
+skirted indeed with copse-wood and stunted trees in the quarter from
+which they had come, but open and bare to the observation of the
+sentinel in that to which their course tended. The wall of the
+sheep-fold indeed concealed them as they lay, but any advance beyond
+its shelter seemed impossible without certain discovery.
+
+The Highlander eyed the blue vault, but far from blessing the useful
+light with Homer's, or rather Pope's benighted peasant, he muttered a
+Gaelic curse upon the unseasonable splendour of Mac-Farlane's buat
+(i.e. lantern) [Footnote: See Note 1]. He looked anxiously around for a
+few minutes, and then apparently took his resolution. Leaving his
+attendant with Waverley, after motioning to Edward to remain quiet, and
+giving his comrade directions in a brief whisper, he retreated,
+favoured by the irregularity of the ground, in the same direction and
+in the same manner as they had advanced. Edward, turning his head after
+him, could perceive him crawling on all fours with the dexterity of an
+Indian, availing himself of every bush and inequality to escape
+observation, and never passing over the more exposed parts of his track
+until the sentinel's back was turned from him. At length he reached the
+thickets and underwood which partly covered the moor in that direction,
+and probably extended to the verge of the glen where Waverley had been
+so long an inhabitant. The Highlander disappeared, but it was only for
+a few minutes, for he suddenly issued forth from a different part of
+the thicket, and, advancing boldly upon the open heath as if to invite
+discovery, he levelled his piece and fired at the sentinel. A wound in
+the arm proved a disagreeable interruption to the poor fellow's
+meteorological observations, as well as to the tune of 'Nancy Dawson,'
+which he was whistling. He returned the fire ineffectually, and his
+comrades, starting up at the alarm, advanced alertly towards the spot
+from which the first shot had issued. The Highlander, after giving them
+a full view of his person, dived among the thickets, for his ruse de
+guerre had now perfectly succeeded.
+
+While the soldiers pursued the cause of their disturbance in one
+direction, Waverley, adopting the hint of his remaining attendant, made
+the best of his speed in that which his guide originally intended to
+pursue, and which now (the attention of the soldiers being drawn to a
+different quarter) was unobserved and unguarded. When they had run
+about a quarter of a mile, the brow of a rising ground which they had
+surmounted concealed them from further risk of observation. They still
+heard, however, at a distance the shouts of the soldiers as they
+hallooed to each other upon the heath, and they could also hear the
+distant roll of a drum beating to arms in the same direction. But these
+hostile sounds were now far in their rear, and died away upon the
+breeze as they rapidly proceeded.
+
+When they had walked about half an hour, still along open and waste
+ground of the same description, they came to the stump of an ancient
+oak, which, from its relics, appeared to have been at one time a tree
+of very large size. In an adjacent hollow they found several
+Highlanders, with a horse or two. They had not joined them above a few
+minutes, which Waverley's attendant employed, in all probability, in
+communicating the cause of their delay (for the words 'Duncan Duroch'
+were often repeated), when Duncan himself appeared, out of breath
+indeed, and with all the symptoms of having run for his life, but
+laughing, and in high spirits at the success of the stratagem by which
+he had baffled his pursuers. This indeed Waverley could easily conceive
+might be a matter of no great difficulty to the active mountaineer, who
+was perfectly acquainted with the ground, and traced his course with a
+firmness and confidence to which his pursuers must have been strangers.
+The alarm which he excited seemed still to continue, for a dropping
+shot or two were heard at a great distance, which seemed to serve as an
+addition to the mirth of Duncan and his comrades.
+
+The mountaineer now resumed the arms with which he had entrusted our
+hero, giving him to understand that the dangers of the journey were
+happily surmounted. Waverley was then mounted upon one of the horses, a
+change which the fatigue of the night and his recent illness rendered
+exceedingly acceptable. His portmanteau was placed on another pony,
+Duncan mounted a third, and they set forward at a round pace,
+accompanied by their escort. No other incident marked the course of
+that night's journey, and at the dawn of morning they attained the
+banks of a rapid river. The country around was at once fertile and
+romantic. Steep banks of wood were broken by corn-fields, which this
+year presented an abundant harvest, already in a great measure cut down.
+
+On the opposite bank of the river, and partly surrounded by a winding
+of its stream, stood a large and massive castle, the half-ruined
+turrets of which were already glittering in the first rays of the sun.
+[Footnote: See Note 2.] It was in form an oblong square, of size
+sufficient to contain a large court in the centre. The towers at each
+angle of the square rose higher than the walls of the building, and
+were in their turn surmounted by turrets, differing in height and
+irregular in shape. Upon one of these a sentinel watched, whose bonnet
+and plaid, streaming in the wind, declared him to be a Highlander, as a
+broad white ensign, which floated from another tower, announced that
+the garrison was held by the insurgent adherents of the House of Stuart.
+
+Passing hastily through a small and mean town, where their appearance
+excited neither surprise nor curiosity in the few peasants whom the
+labours of the harvest began to summon from their repose, the party
+crossed an ancient and narrow bridge of several arches, and, turning to
+the left up an avenue of huge old sycamores, Waverley found himself in
+front of the gloomy yet picturesque structure which he had admired at a
+distance. A huge iron-grated door, which formed the exterior defence of
+the gateway, was already thrown back to receive them; and a second,
+heavily constructed of oak and studded thickly with iron nails, being
+next opened, admitted them into the interior court-yard. A gentleman,
+dressed in the Highland garb and having a white cockade in his bonnet,
+assisted Waverley to dismount from his horse, and with much courtesy
+bid him welcome to the castle.
+
+The governor, for so we must term him, having conducted Waverley to a
+half-ruinous apartment, where, however, there was a small camp-bed, and
+having offered him any refreshment which he desired, was then about to
+leave him.
+
+'Will you not add to your civilities,' said Waverley, after having made
+the usual acknowledgment, 'by having the kindness to inform me where I
+am, and whether or not I am to consider myself as a prisoner?'
+
+'I am not at liberty to be so explicit upon this subject as I could
+wish. Briefly, however, you are in the Castle of Doune, in the district
+of Menteith, and in no danger whatever.'
+
+'And how am I assured of that?'
+
+'By the honour of Donald Stewart, governor of the garrison, and
+lieutenant-colonel in the service of his Royal Highness Prince Charles
+Edward.' So saying, he hastily left the apartment, as if to avoid
+further discussion.
+
+Exhausted by the fatigues of the night, our hero now threw himself upon
+the bed, and was in a few minutes fast asleep.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXIX
+
+THE JOURNEY IS CONTINUED
+
+
+Before Waverley awakened from his repose, the day was far advanced, and
+he began to feel that he had passed many hours without food. This was
+soon supplied in form of a copious breakfast, but Colonel Stewart, as
+if wishing to avoid the queries of his guest, did not again present
+himself. His compliments were, however, delivered by a servant, with an
+offer to provide anything in his power that could be useful to Captain
+Waverley on his journey, which he intimated would be continued that
+evening. To Waverley's further inquiries, the servant opposed the
+impenetrable barrier of real or affected ignorance and stupidity. He
+removed the table and provisions, and Waverley was again consigned to
+his own meditations.
+
+As he contemplated the strangeness of his fortune, which seemed to
+delight in placing him at the disposal of others, without the power of
+directing his own motions, Edward's eye suddenly rested upon his
+portmanteau, which had been deposited in his apartment during his
+sleep. The mysterious appearance of Alice in the cottage of the glen
+immediately rushed upon his mind, and he was about to secure and
+examine the packet which she had deposited among his clothes, when the
+servant of Colonel Stewart again made his appearance, and took up the
+portmanteau upon his shoulders.
+
+'May I not take out a change of linen, my friend?'
+
+'Your honour sall get ane o' the Colonel's ain ruffled sarks, but this
+maun gang in the baggage-cart.'
+
+And so saying, he very coolly carried off the portmanteau, without
+waiting further remonstrance, leaving our hero in a state where
+disappointment and indignation struggled for the mastery. In a few
+minutes he heard a cart rumble out of the rugged court-yard, and made
+no doubt that he was now dispossessed, for a space at least, if not for
+ever, of the only documents which seemed to promise some light upon the
+dubious events which had of late influenced his destiny. With such
+melancholy thoughts he had to beguile about four or five hours of
+solitude.
+
+When this space was elapsed, the trampling of horse was heard in the
+court-yard, and Colonel Stewart soon after made his appearance to
+request his guest to take some further refreshment before his
+departure. The offer was accepted, for a late breakfast had by no means
+left our hero incapable of doing honour to dinner, which was now
+presented. The conversation of his host was that of a plain country
+gentleman, mixed with some soldier-like sentiments and expressions. He
+cautiously avoided any reference to the military operations or civil
+politics of the time; and to Waverley's direct inquiries concerning
+some of these points replied, that he was not at liberty to speak upon
+such topics.
+
+When dinner was finished the governor arose, and, wishing Edward a good
+journey, said that, having been informed by Waverley's servant that his
+baggage had been sent forward, he had taken the freedom to supply him
+with such changes of linen as he might find necessary till he was again
+possessed of his own. With this compliment he disappeared. A servant
+acquainted Waverley an instant afterwards that his horse was ready.
+
+Upon this hint he descended into the court-yard, and found a trooper
+holding a saddled horse, on which he mounted and sallied from the
+portal of Doune Castle, attended by about a score of armed men on
+horseback. These had less the appearance of regular soldiers than of
+individuals who had suddenly assumed arms from some pressing motive of
+unexpected emergency. Their uniform, which was blue and red, an
+affected imitation of that of French chasseurs, was in many respects
+incomplete, and sate awkwardly upon those who wore it. Waverley's eye,
+accustomed to look at a well-disciplined regiment, could easily
+discover that the motions and habits of his escort were not those of
+trained soldiers, and that, although expert enough in the management of
+their horses, their skill was that of huntsmen or grooms rather than of
+troopers. The horses were not trained to the regular pace so necessary
+to execute simultaneous and combined movements and formations; nor did
+they seem bitted (as it is technically expressed) for the use of the
+sword. The men, however, were stout, hardy-looking fellows, and might
+be individually formidable as irregular cavalry. The commander of this
+small party was mounted upon an excellent hunter, and, although dressed
+in uniform, his change of apparel did not prevent Waverley from
+recognising his old acquaintance, Mr. Falconer of Balmawhapple.
+
+Now, although the terms upon which Edward had parted with this
+gentleman were none of the most friendly, he would have sacrificed
+every recollection of their foolish quarrel for the pleasure of
+enjoying once more the social intercourse of question and answer, from
+which he had been so long secluded. But apparently the remembrance of
+his defeat by the Baron of Bradwardine, of which Edward had been the
+unwilling cause, still rankled in the mind of the low-bred and yet
+proud laird. He carefully avoided giving the least sign of recognition,
+riding doggedly at the head of his men, who, though scarce equal in
+numbers to a sergeant's party, were denominated Captain Falconer's
+troop, being preceded by a trumpet, which sounded from time to time,
+and a standard, borne by Cornet Falconer, the laird's younger brother.
+The lieutenant, an elderly man, had much the air of a low sportsman and
+boon companion; an expression of dry humour predominated in his
+countenance over features of a vulgar cast, which indicated habitual
+intemperance. His cocked hat was set knowingly upon one side of his
+head, and while he whistled the 'Bob of Dumblain,' under the influence
+of half a mutchkin of brandy, he seemed to trot merrily forward, with a
+happy indifference to the state of the country, the conduct of the
+party, the end of the journey, and all other sublunary matters whatever.
+
+From this wight, who now and then dropped alongside of his horse,
+Waverley hoped to acquire some information, or at least to beguile the
+way with talk.
+
+'A fine evening, sir,' was Edward's salutation.
+
+'Ow, ay, sir! a bra' night,' replied the lieutenant, in broad Scotch of
+the most vulgar description.
+
+'And a fine harvest, apparently,' continued Waverley, following up his
+first attack.
+
+'Ay, the aits will be got bravely in; but the farmers, deil burst them,
+and the corn-mongers will make the auld price gude against them as has
+horses till keep.'
+
+'You perhaps act as quartermaster, sir?'
+
+'Ay, quartermaster, riding-master, and lieutenant,' answered this
+officer of all work. 'And, to be sure, wha's fitter to look after the
+breaking and the keeping of the poor beasts than mysell, that bought
+and sold every ane o' them?'
+
+'And pray, sir, if it be not too great a freedom, may I beg to know
+where we are going just now?'
+
+'A fule's errand, I fear,' answered this communicative personage.
+
+'In that case,' said Waverley, determined not to spare civility, 'I
+should have thought a person of your appearance would not have been
+found on the road.'
+
+'Vera true, vera true, sir,' replied the officer, 'but every why has
+its wherefore. Ye maun ken, the laird there bought a' thir beasts frae
+me to munt his troop, and agreed to pay for them according to the
+necessities and prices of the time. But then he hadna the ready penny,
+and I hae been advised his bond will not be worth a boddle against the
+estate, and then I had a' my dealers to settle wi' at Martinmas; and
+so, as he very kindly offered me this commission, and as the auld
+Fifteen [Footnote: The Judges of the Supreme Court of Session in
+Scotland are proverbially termed among the country people, The
+Fifteen.] wad never help me to my siller for sending out naigs against
+the government, why, conscience! sir, I thought my best chance for
+payment was e'en to GAE OUT [Footnote: See Note 3.] mysell; and ye may
+judge, sir, as I hae dealt a' my life in halters, I think na mickle o'
+putting my craig in peril of a Saint John-stone's tippet.'
+
+'You are not, then, by profession a soldier?' said Waverley.
+
+'Na, na; thank God,' answered this doughty partizan, 'I wasna bred at
+sae short a tether, I was brought up to hack and manger. I was bred a
+horse-couper, sir; and if I might live to see you at Whitson-tryst, or
+at Stagshawbank, or the winter fair at Hawick, and ye wanted a spanker
+that would lead the field, I'se be caution I would serve ye easy; for
+Jamie Jinker was ne'er the lad to impose upon a gentleman. Ye're a
+gentleman, sir, and should ken a horse's points; ye see that
+through--ganging thing that Balmawhapple's on; I selled her till him.
+She was bred out of Lick-the-ladle, that wan the king's plate at
+Caverton-Edge, by Duke Hamilton's White-Foot,' etc., etc., etc.
+
+But as Jinker was entered full sail upon the pedigree of Balmawhapple's
+mare, having already got as far as great-grandsire and great-grand-dam,
+and while Waverley was watching for an opportunity to obtain from him
+intelligence of more interest, the noble captain checked his horse
+until they came up, and then, without directly appearing to notice
+Edward, said sternly to the genealogist, 'I thought, lieutenant, my
+orders were preceese, that no one should speak to the prisoner?'
+
+The metamorphosed horse-dealer was silenced of course, and slunk to the
+rear, where he consoled himself by entering into a vehement dispute
+upon the price of hay with a farmer who had reluctantly followed his
+laird to the field rather than give up his farm, whereof the lease had
+just expired. Waverley was therefore once more consigned to silence,
+foreseeing that further attempts at conversation with any of the party
+would only give Balmawhapple a wished-for opportunity to display the
+insolence of authority, and the sulky spite of a temper naturally
+dogged, and rendered more so by habits of low indulgence and the
+incense of servile adulation.
+
+In about two hours' time the party were near the Castle of Stirling,
+over whose battlements the union flag was brightened as it waved in the
+evening sun. To shorten his journey, or perhaps to display his
+importance and insult the English garrison, Balmawhapple, inclining to
+the right, took his route through the royal park, which reaches to and
+surrounds the rock upon which the fortress is situated.
+
+With a mind more at ease Waverley could not have failed to admire the
+mixture of romance and beauty which renders interesting the scene
+through which he was now passing--the field which had been the scene of
+the tournaments of old--the rock from which the ladies beheld the
+contest, while each made vows for the success of some favourite
+knight--the towers of the Gothic church, where these vows might be
+paid--and, surmounting all, the fortress itself, at once a castle and
+palace, where valour received the prize from royalty, and knights and
+dames closed the evening amid the revelry of the dance, the song, and
+the feast. All these were objects fitted to arouse and interest a
+romantic imagination.
+
+But Waverley had other objects of meditation, and an incident soon
+occurred of a nature to disturb meditation of any kind. Balmawhapple,
+in the pride of his heart, as he wheeled his little body of cavalry
+round the base of the Castle, commanded his trumpet to sound a flourish
+and his standard to be displayed. This insult produced apparently some
+sensation; for when the cavalcade was at such distance from the
+southern battery as to admit of a gun being depressed so as to bear
+upon them, a flash of fire issued from one of the embrazures upon the
+rock; and ere the report with which it was attended could be heard, the
+rushing sound of a cannon-ball passed over Balmawhapple's head, and the
+bullet, burying itself in the ground at a few yards' distance, covered
+him with the earth which it drove up. There was no need to bid the
+party trudge. In fact, every man, acting upon the impulse of the
+moment, soon brought Mr. Jinker's steeds to show their mettle, and the
+cavaliers, retreating with more speed than regularity, never took to a
+trot, as the lieutenant afterwards observed, until an intervening
+eminence had secured them from any repetition of so undesirable a
+compliment on the part of Stirling Castle. I must do Balmawhapple,
+however, the justice to say that he not only kept the rear of his
+troop, and laboured to maintain some order among them, but, in the
+height of his gallantry, answered the fire of the Castle by discharging
+one of his horse-pistols at the battlements; although, the distance
+being nearly half a mile, I could never learn that this measure of
+retaliation was attended with any particular effect.
+
+The travellers now passed the memorable field of Bannockburn and
+reached the Torwood, a place glorious or terrible to the recollections
+of the Scottish peasant, as the feats of Wallace or the cruelties of
+Wude Willie Grime predominate in his recollection. At Falkirk, a town
+formerly famous in Scottish history, and soon to be again distinguished
+as the scene of military events of importance, Balmawhapple proposed to
+halt and repose for the evening. This was performed with very little
+regard to military discipline, his worthy quarter-master being chiefly
+solicitous to discover where the best brandy might be come at.
+Sentinels were deemed unnecessary, and the only vigils performed were
+those of such of the party as could procure liquor. A few resolute men
+might easily have cut off the detachment; but of the inhabitants some
+were favourable, many indifferent, and the rest overawed. So nothing
+memorable occurred in the course of the evening, except that Waverley's
+rest was sorely interrupted by the revellers hallooing forth their
+Jacobite songs, without remorse or mitigation of voice.
+
+Early in the morning they were again mounted and on the road to
+Edinburgh, though the pallid visages of some of the troop betrayed that
+they had spent a night of sleepless debauchery. They halted at
+Linlithgow, distinguished by its ancient palace, which Sixty Years
+Since was entire and habitable, and whose venerable ruins, NOT QUITE
+SIXTY YEARS SINCE, very narrowly escaped the unworthy fate of being
+converted into a barrack for French prisoners. May repose and blessings
+attend the ashes of the patriotic statesman who, amongst his last
+services to Scotland, interposed to prevent this profanation!
+
+As they approached the metropolis of Scotland, through a champaign and
+cultivated country, the sounds of war began to be heard. The distant
+yet distinct report of heavy cannon, fired at intervals, apprized
+Waverley that the work of destruction was going forward. Even
+Balmawhapple seemed moved to take some precautions, by sending an
+advanced party in front of his troop, keeping the main body in
+tolerable order, and moving steadily forward.
+
+Marching in this manner they speedily reached an eminence, from which
+they could view Edinburgh stretching along the ridgy hill which slopes
+eastward from the Castle. The latter, being in a state of siege, or
+rather of blockade, by the northern insurgents, who had already
+occupied the town for two or three days, fired at intervals upon such
+parties of Highlanders as exposed themselves, either on the main street
+or elsewhere in the vicinity of the fortress. The morning being calm
+and fair, the effect of this dropping fire was to invest the Castle in
+wreaths of smoke, the edges of which dissipated slowly in the air,
+while the central veil was darkened ever and anon by fresh clouds
+poured forth from the battlements; the whole giving, by the partial
+concealment, an appearance of grandeur and gloom, rendered more
+terrific when Waverley reflected on the cause by which it was produced,
+and that each explosion might ring some brave man's knell.
+
+Ere they approached the city the partial cannonade had wholly ceased.
+Balmawhapple, however, having in his recollection the unfriendly
+greeting which his troop had received from the battery at Stirling, had
+apparently no wish to tempt the forbearance of the artillery of the
+Castle. He therefore left the direct road, and, sweeping considerably
+to the southward so as to keep out of the range of the cannon,
+approached the ancient palace of Holyrood without having entered the
+walls of the city. He then drew up his men in front of that venerable
+pile, and delivered Waverley to the custody of a guard of Highlanders,
+whose officer conducted him into the interior of the building.
+
+A long, low, and ill-proportioned gallery, hung with pictures, affirmed
+to be the portraits of kings, who, if they ever flourished at all,
+lived several hundred years before the invention of painting in oil
+colours, served as a sort of guard chamber or vestibule to the
+apartments which the adventurous Charles Edward now occupied in the
+palace of his ancestors. Officers, both in the Highland and Lowland
+garb, passed and repassed in haste, or loitered in the hall as if
+waiting for orders. Secretaries were engaged in making out passes,
+musters, and returns. All seemed busy, and earnestly intent upon
+something of importance; but Waverley was suffered to remain seated in
+the recess of a window, unnoticed by any one, in anxious reflection
+upon the crisis of his fate, which seemed now rapidly approaching.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XL
+
+AN OLD AND A NEW ACQUAINTANCE
+
+
+While he was deep sunk in his reverie, the rustle of tartans was heard
+behind him, a friendly arm clasped his shoulders, and a friendly voice
+exclaimed,
+
+'Said the Highland prophet sooth? Or must second-sight go for nothing?'
+
+Waverley turned, and was warmly embraced by Fergus Mac-Ivor. 'A
+thousand welcomes to Holyrood, once more possessed by her legitimate
+sovereign! Did I not say we should prosper, and that you would fall
+into the hands of the Philistines if you parted from us?'
+
+'Dear Fergus!' said Waverley, eagerly returning his greeting. 'It is
+long since I have heard a friend's voice. Where is Flora?'
+
+'Safe, and a triumphant spectator of our success.'
+
+'In this place?' said Waverley.
+
+'Ay, in this city at least,' answered his friend, 'and you shall see
+her; but first you must meet a friend whom you little think of, who has
+been frequent in his inquiries after you.'
+
+Thus saying, he dragged Waverley by the arm out of the guard chamber,
+and, ere he knew where he was conducted, Edward found himself in a
+presence room, fitted up with some attempt at royal state.
+
+A young man, wearing his own fair hair, distinguished by the dignity of
+his mien and the noble expression of his well-formed and regular
+features, advanced out of a circle of military gentlemen and Highland
+chiefs by whom he was surrounded. In his easy and graceful manners
+Waverley afterwards thought he could have discovered his high birth and
+rank, although the star on his breast and the embroidered garter at his
+knee had not appeared as its indications.
+
+'Let me present to your Royal Highness,' said Fergus, bowing
+profoundly--
+
+'The descendant of one of the most ancient and loyal families in
+England,' said the young Chevalier, interrupting him. 'I beg your
+pardon for interrupting you, my dear Mac-Ivor; but no master of
+ceremonies is necessary to present a Waverley to a Stuart.'
+
+Thus saying, he extended his hand to Edward with the utmost courtesy,
+who could not, had he desired it, have avoided rendering him the homage
+which seemed due to his rank, and was certainly the right of his birth.
+'I am sorry to understand, Mr. Waverley, that, owing to circumstances
+which have been as yet but ill explained, you have suffered some
+restraint among my followers in Perthshire and on your march here; but
+we are in such a situation that we hardly know our friends, and I am
+even at this moment uncertain whether I can have the pleasure of
+considering Mr. Waverley as among mine.'
+
+He then paused for an instant; but before Edward could adjust a
+suitable reply, or even arrange his ideas as to its purport, the Prince
+took out a paper and then proceeded:--'I should indeed have no doubts
+upon this subject if I could trust to this proclamation, set forth by
+the friends of the Elector of Hanover, in which they rank Mr. Waverley
+among the nobility and gentry who are menaced with the pains of
+high-treason for loyalty to their legitimate sovereign. But I desire to
+gain no adherents save from affection and conviction; and if Mr.
+Waverley inclines to prosecute his journey to the south, or to join the
+forces of the Elector, he shall have my passport and free permission to
+do so; and I can only regret that my present power will not extend to
+protect him against the probable consequences of such a measure. But,'
+continued Charles Edward, after another short pause, 'if Mr. Waverley
+should, like his ancestor, Sir Nigel, determine to embrace a cause
+which has little to recommend it but its justice, and follow a prince
+who throws himself upon the affections of his people to recover the
+throne of his ancestors or perish in the attempt, I can only say, that
+among these nobles and gentlemen he will find worthy associates in a
+gallant enterprise, and will follow a master who may be unfortunate,
+but, I trust, will never be ungrateful.'
+
+The politic Chieftain of the race of Ivor knew his advantage in
+introducing Waverley to this personal interview with the royal
+adventurer. Unaccustomed to the address and manners of a polished
+court, in which Charles was eminently skilful, his words and his
+kindness penetrated the heart of our hero, and easily outweighed all
+prudential motives. To be thus personally solicited for assistance by a
+prince whose form and manners, as well as the spirit which he displayed
+in this singular enterprise, answered his ideas of a hero of romance;
+to be courted by him in the ancient halls of his paternal palace,
+recovered by the sword which he was already bending towards other
+conquests, gave Edward, in his own eyes, the dignity and importance
+which he had ceased to consider as his attributes. Rejected, slandered,
+and threatened upon the one side, he was irresistibly attracted to the
+cause which the prejudices of education and the political principles of
+his family had already recommended as the most just. These thoughts
+rushed through his mind like a torrent, sweeping before them every
+consideration of an opposite tendency,--the time, besides, admitted of
+no deliberation,--and Waverley, kneeling to Charles Edward, devoted his
+heart and sword to the vindication of his rights!
+
+The Prince (for, although unfortunate in the faults and follies of his
+forefathers, we shall here and elsewhere give him the title due to his
+birth) raised Waverley from the ground and embraced him with an
+expression of thanks too warm not to be genuine. He also thanked Fergus
+Mac-Ivor repeatedly for having brought him such an adherent, and
+presented Waverley to the various noblemen, chieftains, and officers
+who were about his person as a young gentleman of the highest hopes and
+prospects, in whose bold and enthusiastic avowal of his cause they
+might see an evidence of the sentiments of the English families of rank
+at this important crisis. [Footnote: See Note 4.] Indeed, this was a
+point much doubted among the adherents of the house of Stuart; and as a
+well-founded disbelief in the cooperation of the English Jacobites kept
+many Scottish men of rank from his standard, and diminished the courage
+of those who had joined it, nothing could be more seasonable for the
+Chevalier than the open declaration in his favour of the representative
+of the house of Waverley-Honour, so long known as Cavaliers and
+Royalists. This Fergus had foreseen from the beginning. He really loved
+Waverley, because their feelings and projects never thwarted each
+other; he hoped to see him united with Flora, and he rejoiced that they
+were effectually engaged in the same cause. But, as we before hinted,
+he also exulted as a politician in beholding secured to his party a
+partizan of such consequence; and he was far from being insensible to
+the personal importance which he himself gained with the Prince from
+having so materially assisted in making the acquisition.
+
+Charles Edward, on his part, seemed eager to show his attendants the
+value which he attached to his new adherent, by entering immediately,
+as in confidence, upon the circumstances of his situation. 'You have
+been secluded so much from intelligence, Mr. Waverley, from causes of
+which I am but indistinctly informed, that I presume you are even yet
+unacquainted with the important particulars of my present situation.
+You have, however, heard of my landing in the remote district of
+Moidart, with only seven attendants, and of the numerous chiefs and
+clans whose loyal enthusiasm at once placed a solitary adventurer at
+the head of a gallant army. You must also, I think, have learned that
+the commander-in-chief of the Hanoverian Elector, Sir John Cope,
+marched into the Highlands at the head of a numerous and well-appointed
+military force with the intention of giving us battle, but that his
+courage failed him when we were within three hours' march of each
+other, so that he fairly gave us the slip and marched northward to
+Aberdeen, leaving the Low Country open and undefended. Not to lose so
+favourable an opportunity, I marched on to this metropolis, driving
+before me two regiments of horse, Gardiner's and Hamilton's, who had
+threatened to cut to pieces every Highlander that should venture to
+pass Stirling; and while discussions were carrying forward among the
+magistracy and citizens of Edinburgh whether they should defend
+themselves or surrender, my good friend Lochiel (laying his hand on the
+shoulder of that gallant and accomplished chieftain) saved them the
+trouble of farther deliberation by entering the gates with five hundred
+Camerons. Thus far, therefore, we have done well; but, in the
+meanwhile, this doughty general's nerves being braced by the keen air
+of Aberdeen, he has taken shipping for Dunbar, and I have just received
+certain information that he landed there yesterday. His purpose must
+unquestionably be to march towards us to recover possession of the
+capital. Now there are two opinions in my council of war: one, that
+being inferior probably in numbers, and certainly in discipline and
+military appointments, not to mention our total want of artillery and
+the weakness of our cavalry, it will be safest to fall back towards the
+mountains, and there protract the war until fresh succours arrive from
+France, and the whole body of the Highland clans shall have taken arms
+in our favour. The opposite opinion maintains, that a retrograde
+movement, in our circumstances, is certain to throw utter discredit on
+our arms and undertaking; and, far from gaining us new partizans, will
+be the means of disheartening those who have joined our standard. The
+officers who use these last arguments, among whom is your friend Fergus
+Mac-Ivor, maintain that, if the Highlanders are strangers to the usual
+military discipline of Europe, the soldiers whom they are to encounter
+are no less strangers to their peculiar and formidable mode of attack;
+that the attachment and courage of the chiefs and gentlemen are not to
+be doubted; and that, as they will be in the midst of the enemy, their
+clansmen will as surely follow them; in fine, that having drawn the
+sword we should throw away the scabbard, and trust our cause to battle
+and to the God of battles. Will Mr. Waverley favour us with his opinion
+in these arduous circumstances?'
+
+Waverley coloured high betwixt pleasure and modesty at the distinction
+implied in this question, and answered, with equal spirit and
+readiness, that he could not venture to offer an opinion as derived
+from military skill, but that the counsel would be far the most
+acceptable to him which should first afford him an opportunity to
+evince his zeal in his Royal Highness's service.
+
+'Spoken like a Waverley!' answered Charles Edward; 'and that you may
+hold a rank in some degree corresponding to your name, allow me,
+instead of the captain's commission which you have lost, to offer you
+the brevet rank of major in my service, with the advantage of acting as
+one of my aides-de-camp until you can be attached to a regiment, of
+which I hope several will be speedily embodied.'
+
+'Your Royal Highness will forgive me,' answered Waverley (for his
+recollection turned to Balmawhapple and his scanty troop), 'if I
+decline accepting any rank until the time and place where I may have
+interest enough to raise a sufficient body of men to make my command
+useful to your Royal Highness's service. In the meanwhile, I hope for
+your permission to serve as a volunteer under my friend Fergus
+Mac-Ivor.'
+
+'At least,' said the Prince, who was obviously pleased with this
+proposal, 'allow me the pleasure of arming you after the Highland
+fashion.' With these words, he unbuckled the broadsword which he wore,
+the belt of which was plaited with silver, and the steel basket-hilt
+richly and curiously inlaid. 'The blade,' said the Prince, 'is a
+genuine Andrea Ferrara; it has been a sort of heir-loom in our family;
+but I am convinced I put it into better hands than my own, and will add
+to it pistols of the same workmanship. Colonel Mac-Ivor, you must have
+much to say to your friend; I will detain you no longer from your
+private conversation; but remember we expect you both to attend us in
+the evening. It may be perhaps the last night we may enjoy in these
+halls, and as we go to the field with a clear conscience, we will spend
+the eve of battle merrily.'
+
+Thus licensed, the Chief and Waverley left the presence-chamber.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLI
+
+THE MYSTERY BEGINS TO BE CLEARED UP
+
+
+'How do you like him?' was Fergus's first question, as they descended
+the large stone staircase.
+
+'A prince to live and die under' was Waverley's enthusiastic answer.
+
+'I knew you would think so when you saw him, and I intended you should
+have met earlier, but was prevented by your sprain. And yet he has his
+foibles, or rather he has difficult cards to play, and his Irish
+officers, [Footnote: See Note 5.] who are much about him, are but sorry
+advisers: they cannot discriminate among the numerous pretensions that
+are set up. Would you think it--I have been obliged for the present to
+suppress an earl's patent, granted for services rendered ten years ago,
+for fear of exciting the jealousy, forsooth, of C---- and M----? But
+you were very right, Edward, to refuse the situation of aide-de-camp.
+There are two vacant, indeed, but Clanronald and Lochiel, and almost
+all of us, have requested one for young Aberchallader, and the
+Lowlanders and the Irish party are equally desirous to have the other
+for the master of F--. Now, if either of these candidates were to be
+superseded in your favour, you would make enemies. And then I am
+surprised that the Prince should have offered you a majority, when he
+knows very well that nothing short of lieutenant-colonel will satisfy
+others, who cannot bring one hundred and fifty men to the field. "But
+patience, cousin, and shuffle the cards!" It is all very well for the
+present, and we must have you properly equipped for the evening in your
+new costume; for, to say truth, your outward man is scarce fit for a
+court.'
+
+'Why,' said Waverley, looking at his soiled dress,'my shooting jacket
+has seen service since we parted; but that probably you, my friend,
+know as well or better than I.'
+
+'You do my second-sight too much honour,' said Fergus. 'We were so
+busy, first with the scheme of giving battle to Cope, and afterwards
+with our operations in the Lowlands, that I could only give general
+directions to such of our people as were left in Perthshire to respect
+and protect you, should you come in their way. But let me hear the full
+story of your adventures, for they have reached us in a very partial
+and mutilated manner.'
+
+Waverley then detailed at length the circumstances with which the
+reader is already acquainted, to which Fergus listened with great
+attention. By this time they had reached the door of his quarters,
+which he had taken up in a small paved court, retiring from the street
+called the Canongate, at the house of a buxom widow of forty, who
+seemed to smile very graciously upon the handsome young Chief, she
+being a person with whom good looks and good-humour were sure to secure
+an interest, whatever might be the party's "political opinions". Here
+Callum Beg received them with a smile of recognition. 'Callum,' said
+the Chief, 'call Shemus an Snachad' (James of the Needle). This was the
+hereditary tailor of Vich lan Vohr. 'Shemus, Mr. Waverley is to wear
+the cath dath (battle colour, or tartan); his trews must be ready in
+four hours. You know the measure of a well-made man--two double nails
+to the small of the leg--'
+
+'Eleven from haunch to heel, seven round the waist. I give your honour
+leave to hang Shemus, if there's a pair of sheers in the Highlands that
+has a baulder sneck than her's ain at the cumadh an truais' (shape of
+the trews).
+
+'Get a plaid of Mac-Ivor tartan and sash,' continued the Chieftain,
+'and a blue bonnet of the Prince's pattern, at Mr. Mouat's in the
+Crames. My short green coat, with silver lace and silver buttons, will
+fit him exactly, and I have never worn it. Tell Ensign Maccombich to
+pick out a handsome target from among mine. The Prince has given Mr.
+Waverley broadsword and pistols, I will furnish him with a dirk and
+purse; add but a pair of low-heeled shoes, and then, my dear Edward
+(turning to him), you will be a complete son of Ivor.'
+
+These necessary directions given, the Chieftain resumed the subject of
+Waverley's adventures. 'It is plain,' he said,'that you have been in
+the custody of Donald Bean Lean. You must know that, when I marched
+away my clan to join the Prince, I laid my injunctions on that worthy
+member of society to perform a certain piece of service, which done, he
+was to join me with all the force he could muster. But, instead of
+doing so, the gentleman, finding the coast clear, thought it better to
+make war on his own account, and has scoured the country, plundering, I
+believe, both friend and foe, under pretence of levying blackmail,
+sometimes as if by my authority, and sometimes (and be cursed to his
+consummate impudence) in his own great name! Upon my honour, if I live
+to see the cairn of Benmore again, I shall be tempted to hang that
+fellow! I recognise his hand particularly in the mode of your rescue
+from that canting rascal Gilfillan, and I have little doubt that Donald
+himself played the part of the pedlar on that occasion; but how he
+should not have plundered you, or put you to ransom, or availed himself
+in some way or other of your captivity for his own advantage, passes my
+judgment.'
+
+'When and how did you hear the intelligence of my confinement?' asked
+Waverley.
+
+'The Prince himself told me,' said Fergus, 'and inquired very minutely
+into your history. He then mentioned your being at that moment in the
+power of one of our northern parties--you know I could not ask him to
+explain particulars--and requested my opinion about disposing of you. I
+recommended that you should be brought here as a prisoner, because I
+did not wish to prejudice you farther with the English government, in
+case you pursued your purpose of going southward. I knew nothing, you
+must recollect, of the charge brought against you of aiding and
+abetting high treason, which, I presume, had some share in changing
+your original plan. That sullen, good-for-nothing brute, Balmawhapple,
+was sent to escort you from Doune, with what he calls his troop of
+horse. As to his behaviour, in addition to his natural antipathy to
+everything that resembles a gentleman, I presume his adventure with
+Bradwardine rankles in his recollection, the rather that I daresay his
+mode of telling that story contributed to the evil reports which
+reached your quondam regiment.'
+
+'Very likely,' said Waverley; 'but now surely, my dear Fergus, you may
+find time to tell me something of Flora.'
+
+'Why,' replied Fergus, 'I can only tell you that she is well, and
+residing for the present with a relation in this city. I thought it
+better she should come here, as since our success a good many ladies of
+rank attend our military court; and I assure you that there is a sort
+of consequence annexed to the near relative of such a person as Flora
+Mac-Ivor, and where there is such a justling of claims and requests, a
+man must use every fair means to enhance his importance.'
+
+There was something in this last sentence which grated on Waverley's
+feelings. He could not bear that Flora should be considered as
+conducing to her brother's preferment by the admiration which she must
+unquestionably attract; and although it was in strict correspondence
+with many points of Fergus's character, it shocked him as selfish, and
+unworthy of his sister's high mind and his own independent pride.
+Fergus, to whom such manoeuvres were familiar, as to one brought up at
+the French court, did not observe the unfavourable impression which he
+had unwarily made upon his friend's mind, and concluded by saying,'
+that they could hardly see Flora before the evening, when she would be
+at the concert and ball with which the Prince's party were to be
+entertained. She and I had a quarrel about her not appearing to take
+leave of you. I am unwilling to renew it by soliciting her to receive
+you this morning; and perhaps my doing so might not only be
+ineffectual, but prevent your meeting this evening.'
+
+While thus conversing, Waverley heard in the court, before the windows
+of the parlour, a well-known voice. 'I aver to you, my worthy friend,'
+said the speaker, 'that it is a total dereliction of military
+discipline; and were you not as it were a tyro, your purpose would
+deserve strong reprobation. For a prisoner of war is on no account to
+be coerced with fetters, or debinded in ergastulo, as would have been
+the case had you put this gentleman into the pit of the peel-house at
+Balmawhapple. I grant, indeed, that such a prisoner may for security be
+coerced in carcere, that is, in a public prison.'
+
+The growling voice of Balmawhapple was heard as taking leave in
+displeasure, but the word 'land-louper' alone was distinctly audible.
+He had disappeared before Waverley reached the house in order to greet
+the worthy Baron of Bradwardine. The uniform in which he was now
+attired, a blue coat, namely, with gold lace, a scarlet waistcoat and
+breeches, and immense jack-boots, seemed to have added fresh stiffness
+and rigidity to his tall, perpendicular figure; and the consciousness
+of military command and authority had increased, in the same
+proportion, the self-importance of his demeanour and the dogmatism of
+his conversation.
+
+He received Waverley with his usual kindness, and expressed immediate
+anxiety to hear an explanation of the circumstances attending the loss
+of his commission in Gardiner's dragoons; 'not,' he said, 'that he had
+the least apprehension of his young friend having done aught which
+could merit such ungenerous treatment as he had received from
+government, but because it was right and seemly that the Baron of
+Bradwardine should be, in point of trust and in point of power, fully
+able to refute all calumnies against the heir of Waverley-Honour, whom
+he had so much right to regard as his own son.'
+
+Fergus Mac-Ivor, who had now joined them, went hastily over the
+circumstances of Waverley's story, and concluded with the flattering
+reception he had met from the young Chevalier. The Baron listened in
+silence, and at the conclusion shook Waverley heartily by the hand and
+congratulated him upon entering the service of his lawful Prince.
+'For,' continued he, 'although it has been justly held in all nations a
+matter of scandal and dishonour to infringe the sacramentum militare,
+and that whether it was taken by each soldier singly, whilk the Romans
+denominated per conjurationem, or by one soldier in name of the rest,
+yet no one ever doubted that the allegiance so sworn was discharged by
+the dimissio, or discharging of a soldier, whose case would be as hard
+as that of colliers, salters, and other adscripti glebes, or slaves of
+the soil, were it to be accounted otherwise. This is something like the
+brocard expressed by the learned Sanchez in his work "De Jure-jurando"
+which you have questionless consulted upon this occasion. As for those
+who have calumniated you by leasing-making, I protest to Heaven I think
+they have justly incurred the penalty of the "Memnonia Lex," also
+called "Lex Rhemnia," which is prelected upon by Tullius in his oration
+"In Verrem." I should have deemed, however, Mr. Waverley, that before
+destining yourself to any special service in the army of the Prince, ye
+might have inquired what rank the old Bradwardine held there, and
+whether he would not have been peculiarly happy to have had your
+services in the regiment of horse which he is now about to levy.'
+Edward eluded this reproach by pleading the necessity of giving an
+immediate answer to the Prince's proposal, and his uncertainty at the
+moment whether his friend the Baron was with the army or engaged upon
+service elsewhere.
+
+This punctilio being settled, Waverley made inquiry after Miss
+Bradwardine, and was informed she had come to Edinburgh with Flora
+Mac-Ivor, under guard of a party of the Chieftain's men. This step was
+indeed necessary, Tully-Veolan having become a very unpleasant, and
+even dangerous, place of residence for an unprotected young lady, on
+account of its vicinity to the Highlands, and also to one or two large
+villages which, from aversion as much to the caterans as zeal for
+presbytery, had declared themselves on the side of government, and
+formed irregular bodies of partizans, who had frequent skirmishes with
+the mountaineers, and sometimes attacked the houses of the Jacobite
+gentry in the braes, or frontier betwixt the mountain and plain.
+
+'I would propose to you,' continued the Baron,'to walk as far as my
+quarters in the Luckenbooths, and to admire in your passage the High
+Street, whilk is, beyond a shadow of dubitation, finer than any street
+whether in London or Paris. But Rose, poor thing, is sorely discomposed
+with the firing of the Castle, though I have proved to her from Blondel
+and Coehorn, that it is impossible a bullet can reach these buildings;
+and, besides, I have it in charge from his Royal Highness to go to the
+camp, or leaguer of our army, to see that the men do condamare vasa,
+that is, truss up their bag and baggage for tomorrow's march.'
+
+'That will be easily done by most of us,' said Mac-Ivor, laughing.
+
+'Craving your pardon, Colonel Mac-Ivor, not quite so easily as ye seem
+to opine. I grant most of your folk left the Highlands expedited as it
+were, and free from the incumbrance of baggage; but it is unspeakable
+the quantity of useless sprechery which they have collected on their
+march. I saw one fellow of yours (craving your pardon once more) with a
+pier-glass upon his back.'
+
+'Ay,' said Fergus, still in good-humour, 'he would have told you, if
+you had questioned him, "a ganging foot is aye getting." But come, my
+dear Baron, you know as well as I that a hundred Uhlans, or a single
+troop of Schmirschitz's Pandours, would make more havoc in a country
+than the knight of the mirror and all the rest of our clans put
+together.'
+
+'And that is very true likewise,' replied the Baron; 'they are, as the
+heathen author says, ferociores in aspectu, mitiores in actu, of a
+horrid and grim visage, but more benign in demeanour than their
+physiognomy or aspect might infer. But I stand here talking to you two
+youngsters when I should be in the King's Park.'
+
+'But you will dine with Waverley and me on your return? I assure you,
+Baron, though I can live like a Highlander when needs must, I remember
+my Paris education, and understand perfectly faire la meilleure chere.'
+
+'And wha the deil doubts it,' quoth the Baron, laughing, 'when ye bring
+only the cookery and the gude toun must furnish the materials? Weel, I
+have some business in the toun too; but I'll join you at three, if the
+vivers can tarry so long.'
+
+So saying, he took leave of his friends and went to look after the
+charge which had been assigned him.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLII
+
+A SOLDIER'S DINNER
+
+
+James of the Needle was a man of his word when whisky was no party to
+the contract; and upon this occasion Callum Beg, who still thought
+himself in Waverley's debt, since he had declined accepting
+compensation at the expense of mine host of the Candlestick's person,
+took the opportunity of discharging the obligation, by mounting guard
+over the hereditary tailor of Sliochd nan Ivor; and, as he expressed
+himself, 'targed him tightly' till the finishing of the job. To rid
+himself of this restraint, Shemus's needle flew through the tartan like
+lightning; and as the artist kept chanting some dreadful skirmish of
+Fin Macoul, he accomplished at least three stitches to the death of
+every hero. The dress was, therefore, soon ready, for the short coat
+fitted the wearer, and the rest of the apparel required little
+adjustment.
+
+Our hero having now fairly assumed the 'garb of old Gaul,' well
+calculated as it was to give an appearance of strength to a figure
+which, though tall and well-made, was rather elegant than robust, I
+hope my fair readers will excuse him if he looked at himself in the
+mirror more than once, and could not help acknowledging that the
+reflection seemed that of a very handsome young fellow. In fact, there
+was no disguising it. His light-brown hair--for he wore no periwig,
+notwithstanding the universal fashion of the time--became the bonnet
+which surmounted it. His person promised firmness and agility, to which
+the ample folds of the tartan added an air of dignity. His blue eye
+seemed of that kind,
+
+    Which melted in love, and which kindled in war;
+
+and an air of bashfulness, which was in reality the effect of want of
+habitual intercourse with the world, gave interest to his features,
+without injuring their grace or intelligence.
+
+'He's a pratty man, a very pratty man,' said Evan Dhu (now Ensign
+Maccombich) to Fergus's buxom landlady.
+
+'He's vera weel,' said the Widow Flockhart, 'but no naething sae
+weel-far'd as your colonel, ensign.'
+
+'I wasna comparing them,' quoth Evan, 'nor was I speaking about his
+being weel-favoured; but only that Mr. Waverley looks clean-made and
+deliver, and like a proper lad o' his quarters, that will not cry
+barley in a brulzie. And, indeed, he's gleg aneuch at the broadsword
+and target. I hae played wi' him mysell at Glennaquoich, and sae has
+Vich lan Vohr, often of a Sunday afternoon.'
+
+'Lord forgie ye, Ensign Maccombich,' said the alarmed Presbyterian;
+'I'm sure the colonel wad never do the like o' that!'
+
+'Hout! hout! Mrs. Flockhart,' replied the ensign, 'we're young blude,
+ye ken; and young saints, auld deils.'
+
+'But will ye fight wi' Sir John Cope the morn, Ensign Maccombich?'
+demanded Mrs. Flockhart of her guest.
+
+'Troth I'se ensure him, an he'll bide us, Mrs. Flockhart,' replied the
+Gael.
+
+'And will ye face thae tearing chields, the dragoons, Ensign
+Maccombich?' again inquired the landlady.
+
+'Claw for claw, as Conan said to Satan, Mrs. Flockhart, and the deevil
+tak the shortest nails.'
+
+'And will the colonel venture on the bagganets himsell?'
+
+'Ye may swear it, Mrs. Flockhart; the very first man will he be, by
+Saint Phedar.'
+
+'Merciful goodness! and if he's killed amang the redcoats!' exclaimed
+the soft-hearted widow.
+
+'Troth, if it should sae befall, Mrs. Flockhart, I ken ane that will no
+be living to weep for him. But we maun a' live the day, and have our
+dinner; and there's Vich lan Vohr has packed his dorlach, and Mr.
+Waverley's wearied wi' majoring yonder afore the muckle pier-glass; and
+that grey auld stoor carle, the Baron o' Bradwardine that shot young
+Ronald of Ballenkeiroch, he's coming down the close wi' that droghling
+coghling bailie body they ca' Macwhupple, just like the Laird o'
+Kittlegab's French cook, wi' his turnspit doggie trindling ahint him,
+and I am as hungry as a gled, my bonny dow; sae bid Kate set on the
+broo', and do ye put on your pinners, for ye ken Vich lan Vohr winna
+sit down till ye be at the head o' the table;--and dinna forget the
+pint bottle o' brandy, my woman.'
+
+This hint produced dinner. Mrs. Flockhart, smiling in her weeds like
+the sun through a mist, took the head of the table, thinking within
+herself, perhaps, that she cared not how long the rebellion lasted that
+brought her into company so much above her usual associates. She was
+supported by Waverley and the Baron, with the advantage of the
+Chieftain vis-a-vis. The men of peace and of war, that is, Bailie
+Macwheeble and Ensign Maccombich, after many profound conges to their
+superiors and each other, took their places on each side of the
+Chieftain. Their fare was excellent, time, place, and circumstances
+considered, and Fergus's spirits were extravagantly high. Regardless of
+danger, and sanguine from temper, youth, and ambition, he saw in
+imagination all his prospects crowned with success, and was totally
+indifferent to the probable alternative of a soldier's grave. The Baron
+apologized slightly for bringing Macwheeble. They had been providing,
+he said, for the expenses of the campaign. 'And, by my faith,' said the
+old man, 'as I think this will be my last, so I just end where I began:
+I hae evermore found the sinews of war, as a learned author calls the
+caisse mttitaire, mair difficult to come by than either its flesh,
+blood, or bones.'
+
+'What! have you raised our only efficient body of cavalry and got ye
+none of the louis-d'or out of the Doutelle [Footnote: The Doutelle was
+an armed vessel which brought a small supply of money and arms from
+France for the use of the insurgents.] to help you?'
+
+'No, Glennaquoich; cleverer fellows have been before me.'
+
+'That's a scandal,' said the young Highlander; 'but you will share what
+is left of my subsidy; it will save you an anxious thought tonight, and
+will be all one tomorrow, for we shall all be provided for, one way or
+other, before the sun sets.' Waverley, blushing deeply, but with great
+earnestness, pressed the same request.
+
+'I thank ye baith, my good lads,' said the Baron, 'but I will not
+infringe upon your peculium. Bailie Macwheeble has provided the sum
+which is necessary.'
+
+Here the Bailie shifted and fidgeted about in his seat, and appeared
+extremely uneasy. At length, after several preliminary hems, and much
+tautological expression of his devotion to his honour's service, by
+night or day, living or dead, he began to insinuate, 'that the banks
+had removed a' their ready cash into the Castle; that, nae doubt,
+Sandie Goldie, the silversmith, would do mickle for his honour; but
+there was little time to get the wadset made out; and, doubtless, if
+his honour Glennaquoich or Mr. Wauverley could accommodate--'
+
+'Let me hear of no such nonsense, sir,' said the Baron, in a tone which
+rendered Macwheeble mute, 'but proceed as we accorded before dinner, if
+it be your wish to remain in my service.'
+
+To this peremptory order the Bailie, though he felt as if condemned to
+suffer a transfusion of blood from his own veins into those of the
+Baron, did not presume to make any reply. After fidgeting a little
+while longer, however, he addressed himself to Glennaquoich, and told
+him, if his honour had mair ready siller than was sufficient for his
+occasions in the field, he could put it out at use for his honour in
+safe hands and at great profit at this time.
+
+At this proposal Fergus laughed heartily, and answered, when he had
+recovered his breath--'Many thanks, Bailie; but you must know, it is a
+general custom among us soldiers to make our landlady our banker. Here,
+Mrs. Flockhart,' said he, taking four or five broad pieces out of a
+well-filled purse and tossing the purse itself, with its remaining
+contents, into her apron, 'these will serve my occasions; do you take
+the rest. Be my banker if I live, and my executor if I die; but take
+care to give something to the Highland cailliachs [Footnote: Old women,
+on whom devolved the duty of lamenting for the dead, which the Irish
+call keening.] that shall cry the coronach loudest for the last Vich
+lan Vohr.'
+
+'It is the testamentum militare,' quoth the Baron, 'whilk, amang the
+Romans, was privilegiate to be nuncupative.' But the soft heart of Mrs.
+Flockhart was melted within her at the Chieftain's speech; she set up a
+lamentable blubbering, and positively refused to touch the bequest,
+which Fergus was therefore obliged to resume.
+
+'Well, then,' said the Chief, 'if I fall, it will go to the grenadier
+that knocks my brains out, and I shall take care he works hard for it.'
+
+Bailie Macwheeble was again tempted to put in his oar; for where cash
+was concerned he did not willingly remain silent. 'Perhaps he had
+better carry the gowd to Miss Mac-Ivor, in case of mortality or
+accidents of war. It might tak the form of a mortis causa donation in
+the young leddie's favour, and--wad cost but the scrape of a pen to mak
+it out.'
+
+'The young lady,' said Fergus,'should such an event happen, will have
+other matters to think of than these wretched louis-d'or.'
+
+'True--undeniable--there's nae doubt o' that; but your honour kens that
+a full sorrow--'
+
+'Is endurable by most folk more easily than a hungry one? True, Bailie,
+very true; and I believe there may even be some who would be consoled
+by such a reflection for the loss of the whole existing generation. But
+there is a sorrow which knows neither hunger nor thirst; and poor
+Flora--' He paused, and the whole company sympathised in his emotion.
+
+The Baron's thoughts naturally reverted to the unprotected state of his
+daughter, and the big tear came to the veteran's eye. 'If I fall,
+Macwheeble, you have all my papers and know all my affairs; be just to
+Rose.'
+
+The Bailie was a man of earthly mould, after all; a good deal of dirt
+and dross about him, undoubtedly, but some kindly and just feelings he
+had, especially where the Baron or his young mistress were concerned.
+He set up a lamentable howl. 'If that doleful day should come, while
+Duncan Macwheeble had a boddle it should be Miss Rose's. He wald scroll
+for a plack the sheet or she kenn'd what it was to want; if indeed a'
+the bonnie baronie o' Bradwardine and Tully-Veolan, with the fortalice
+and manor-place thereof (he kept sobbing and whining at every pause),
+tofts, crofts, mosses, muirs--outfield,
+infield--buildings--orchards--dove-cots--with the right of net and
+coble in the water and loch of Veolan--teinds, parsonage and
+vicarage--annexis, connexis--rights of pasturage--feul, feal and
+divot--parts, pendicles, and pertinents whatsoever--(here he had
+recourse to the end of his long cravat to wipe his eyes, which
+overflowed, in spite of him, at the ideas which this technical jargon
+conjured up)--all as more fully described in the proper evidents and
+titles thereof--and lying within the parish of Bradwardine and the
+shire of Perth--if, as aforesaid, they must a' pass from my master's
+child to Inch-Grabbit, wha's a Whig and a Hanoverian, and be managed by
+his doer, Jamie Howie, wha's no fit to be a birlieman, let be a
+bailie--'
+
+The beginning of this lamentation really had something affecting, but
+the conclusion rendered laughter irresistible. 'Never mind, Bailie,'
+said Ensign Maccombich, 'for the gude auld times of rugging and riving
+(pulling and tearing) are come back again, an' Sneckus Mac-Snackus
+(meaning, probably, annexis, connexis), and a' the rest of your
+friends, maun gie place to the langest claymore.'
+
+'And that claymore shall be ours, Bailie,' said the Chieftain, who saw
+that Macwheeble looked very blank at this intimation.
+
+    'We'll give them the metal our mountain affords,
+        Lillibulero, bullen a la,
+    And in place of broad-pieces, we'll pay with broadswords,
+        Lero, lero, etc.
+    With duns and with debts we will soon clear our score,
+        Lillibulero, etc.
+    For the man that's thus paid will crave payment no more,
+        Lero, lero, etc.
+
+[Footnote: These lines, or something like them, occur in an old
+magazine of the period.]
+
+But come, Bailie, be not cast down; drink your wine with a joyous
+heart; the Baron shall return safe and victorious to Tully-Veolan, and
+unite Killancureit's lairdship with his own, since the cowardly
+half-bred swine will not turn out for the Prince like a gentleman.'
+
+'To be sure, they lie maist ewest,' said the Bailie, wiping his eyes,
+'and should naturally fa' under the same factory.'
+
+'And I,' proceeded the Chieftain,'shall take care of myself, too; for
+you must know, I have to complete a good work here, by bringing Mrs.
+Flockhart into the bosom of the Catholic church, or at least half way,
+and that is to your Episcopal meeting-house. O Baron! if you heard her
+fine counter-tenor admonishing Kate and Matty in the morning, you, who
+understand music, would tremble at the idea of hearing her shriek in
+the psalmody of Haddo's Hole.'
+
+'Lord forgie you, colonel, how ye rin on! But I hope your honours will
+tak tea before ye gang to the palace, and I maun gang and mask it for
+you.'
+
+So saying, Mrs. Flockhart left the gentlemen to their own conversation,
+which, as might be supposed, turned chiefly upon the approaching events
+of the campaign.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIII
+
+THE BALL
+
+
+Ensign MacCombich having gone to the Highland camp upon duty, and
+Bailie Macwheeble having retired to digest his dinner and Evan Dhu's
+intimation of martial law in some blind change-house, Waverley, with
+the Baron and the Chieftain, proceeded to Holyrood House. The two last
+were in full tide of spirits, and the Baron rallied in his way our hero
+upon the handsome figure which his new dress displayed to advantage.
+'If you have any design upon the heart of a bonny Scotch lassie, I
+would premonish you, when you address her, to remember and quote the
+words of Virgilius:--
+
+    Nunc insanus amor duri me Martis in armis,
+    Tela inter media atque adversos detinet hostes;
+
+whilk verses Robertson of Struan, Chief of the Clan Donnochy (unless
+the claims of Lude ought to be preferred primo loco), has thus
+elegantly rendered:--
+
+    For cruel love had gartan'd low my leg,
+    And clad my hurdies in a philabeg.
+
+Although, indeed, ye wear the trews, a garment whilk I approve maist of
+the twa, as mair ancient and seemly.' 'Or rather,' said Fergus, 'hear
+my song:--
+
+    She wadna hae a Lowland laird,
+      Nor be an English lady;
+    But she's away with Duncan Grame,
+      And he's row'd her in his plaidy.'
+
+By this time they reached the palace of Holyrood, and were announced
+respectively as they entered the apartments.
+
+It is but too well known how many gentlemen of rank, education, and
+fortune took a concern in the ill-fated and desperate undertaking of
+1745. The ladies, also, of Scotland very generally espoused the cause
+of the gallant and handsome young Prince, who threw himself upon the
+mercy of his countrymen rather like a hero of romance than a
+calculating politician. It is not, therefore, to be wondered that
+Edward, who had spent the greater part of his life in the solemn
+seclusion of Waverley-Honour, should have been dazzled at the
+liveliness and elegance of the scene now exhibited in the long deserted
+halls of the Scottish palace. The accompaniments, indeed, fell short of
+splendour, being such as the confusion and hurry of the time admitted;
+still, however, the general effect was striking, and, the rank of the
+company considered, might well be called brilliant.
+
+It was not long before the lover's eye discovered the object of his
+attachment. Flora Mac-Ivor was in the act of returning to her seat,
+near the top of the room, with Rose Bradwardine by her side. Among much
+elegance and beauty, they had attracted a great degree of the public
+attention, being certainly two of the handsomest women present. The
+Prince took much notice of both, particularly of Flora, with whom he
+danced, a preference which she probably owed to her foreign education
+and command of the French and Italian languages.
+
+When the bustle attending the conclusion of the dance permitted, Edward
+almost intuitively followed Fergus to the place where Miss Mac-Ivor was
+seated. The sensation of hope with which he had nursed his affection in
+absence of the beloved object seemed to vanish in her presence, and,
+like one striving to recover the particulars of a forgotten dream, he
+would have given the world at that moment to have recollected the
+grounds on which he had founded expectations which now seemed so
+delusive. He accompanied Fergus with downcast eyes, tingling ears, and
+the feelings of the criminal who, while the melancholy cart moves
+slowly through the crowds that have assembled to behold his execution,
+receives no clear sensation either from the noise which fills his ears
+or the tumult on which he casts his wandering look. Flora seemed a
+little--a very little--affected and discomposed at his approach. 'I
+bring you an adopted son of Ivor,' said Fergus.
+
+'And I receive him as a second brother,' replied Flora.
+
+There was a slight emphasis on the word, which would have escaped every
+ear but one that was feverish with apprehension. It was, however,
+distinctly marked, and, combined with her whole tone and manner,
+plainly intimated, 'I will never think of Mr. Waverley as a more
+intimate connexion.' Edward stopped, bowed, and looked at Fergus, who
+bit his lip, a movement of anger which proved that he also had put a
+sinister interpretation on the reception which his sister had given his
+friend. 'This, then, is an end of my day-dream!' Such was Waverley's
+first thought, and it was so exquisitely painful as to banish from his
+cheek every drop of blood.
+
+'Good God!' said Rose Bradwardine, 'he is not yet recovered!'
+
+These words, which she uttered with great emotion, were overheard by
+the Chevalier himself, who stepped hastily forward, and, taking
+Waverley by the hand, inquired kindly after his health, and added that
+he wished to speak with him. By a strong and sudden effort; which the
+circumstances rendered indispensable, Waverley recovered himself so far
+as to follow the Chevalier in silence to a recess in the apartment.
+
+Here the Prince detained him some time, asking various questions about
+the great Tory and Catholic families of England, their connexions,
+their influence, and the state of their affections towards the house of
+Stuart. To these queries Edward could not at any time have given more
+than general answers, and it may be supposed that, in the present state
+of his feelings, his responses were indistinct even to confusion. The
+Chevalier smiled once or twice at the incongruity of his replies, but
+continued the same style of conversation, although he found himself
+obliged to occupy the principal share of it, until he perceived that
+Waverley had recovered his presence of mind. It is probable that this
+long audience was partly meant to further the idea which the Prince
+desired should be entertained among his followers, that Waverley was a
+character of political influence. But it appeared, from his concluding
+expressions, that he had a different and good-natured motive, personal
+to our hero, for prolonging the conference. 'I cannot resist the
+temptation,' he said, 'of boasting of my own discretion as a lady's
+confidant. You see, Mr. Waverley, that I know all, and I assure you I
+am deeply interested in the affair. But, my good young friend, you must
+put a more severe restraint upon your feelings. There are many here
+whose eyes can see as clearly as mine, but the prudence of whose
+tongues may not be equally trusted,'
+
+So saying, he turned easily away and joined a circle of officers at a
+few paces' distance, leaving Waverley to meditate upon his parting
+expression, which, though not intelligible to him in its whole purport,
+was sufficiently so in the caution which the last word recommended.
+Making, therefore, an effort to show himself worthy of the interest
+which his new master had expressed, by instant obedience to his
+recommendation, he walked up to the spot where Flora and Miss
+Bradwardine were still seated, and having made his compliments to the
+latter, he succeeded, even beyond his own expectation, in entering into
+conversation upon general topics.
+
+If, my dear reader, thou hast ever happened to take post-horses at ----
+or at ----(one at least of which blanks, or more probably both, you
+will be able to fill up from an inn near your own residence), you must
+have observed, and doubtless with sympathetic pain, the reluctant agony
+with which the poor jades at first apply their galled necks to the
+collars of the harness. But when the irresistible arguments of the
+post-boy have prevailed upon them to proceed a mile or two, they will
+become callous to the first sensation; and being warm in the harness,
+as the said post-boy may term it, proceed as if their withers were
+altogether unwrung. This simile so much corresponds with the state of
+Waverley's feelings in the course of this memorable evening, that I
+prefer it (especially as being, I trust, wholly original) to any more
+splendid illustration with which Byshe's 'Art of Poetry' might supply
+me.
+
+Exertion, like virtue, is its own reward; and our hero had, moreover,
+other stimulating motives for persevering in a display of affected
+composure and indifference to Flora's obvious unkindness. Pride, which
+supplies its caustic as an useful, though severe, remedy for the wounds
+of affection, came rapidly to his aid. Distinguished by the favour of a
+prince; destined, he had room to hope, to play a conspicuous part in
+the revolution which awaited a mighty kingdom; excelling, probably, in
+mental acquirements, and equalling at least in personal
+accomplishments, most of the noble and distinguished persons with whom
+he was now ranked; young, wealthy, and high-born,--could he, or ought
+he, to droop beneath the frown of a capricious beauty?
+
+    O nymph, unrelenting and cold as thou art,
+    My bosom is proud as thine own.
+
+With the feeling expressed in these beautiful lines (which, however,
+were not then written), [Footnote: They occur in Miss Seward's fine
+verses, beginning--'To thy rocks, stormy Lannow, adieu.'] Waverley
+determined upon convincing Flora that he was not to be depressed by a
+rejection in which his vanity whispered that perhaps she did her own
+prospects as much injustice as his. And, to aid this change of feeling,
+there lurked the secret and unacknowledged hope that she might learn to
+prize his affection more highly, when she did not conceive it to be
+altogether within her own choice to attract or repulse it. There was a
+mystic tone of encouragement, also, in the Chevalier's words, though he
+feared they only referred to the wishes of Fergus in favour of an union
+between him and his sister. But the whole circumstances of time, place,
+and incident combined at once to awaken his imagination and to call
+upon him for a manly and decisive tone of conduct, leaving to fate to
+dispose of the issue. Should he appear to be the only one sad and
+disheartened on the eve of battle, how greedily would the tale be
+commented upon by the slander which had been already but too busy with
+his fame! Never, never, he internally resolved, shall my unprovoked
+enemies possess such an advantage over my reputation.
+
+Under the influence of these mixed sensations, and cheered at times by
+a smile of intelligence and approbation from the Prince as he passed
+the group, Waverley exerted his powers of fancy, animation, and
+eloquence, and attracted the general admiration of the company. The
+conversation gradually assumed the tone best qualified for the display
+of his talents and acquisitions. The gaiety of the evening was exalted
+in character, rather than checked, by the approaching dangers of the
+morrow. All nerves were strung for the future, and prepared to enjoy
+the present. This mood of mind is highly favourable for the exercise of
+the powers of imagination, for poetry, and for that eloquence which is
+allied to poetry. Waverley, as we have elsewhere observed, possessed at
+times a wonderful flow of rhetoric; and on the present occasion, he
+touched more than once the higher notes of feeling, and then again ran
+off in a wild voluntary of fanciful mirth. He was supported and excited
+by kindred spirits, who felt the same impulse of mood and time; and
+even those of more cold and calculating habits were hurried along by
+the torrent. Many ladies declined the dance, which still went forward,
+and under various pretences joined the party to which the 'handsome
+young Englishman' seemed to have attached himself. He was presented to
+several of the first rank, and his manners, which for the present were
+altogether free from the bashful restraint by which, in a moment of
+less excitation, they were usually clouded, gave universal delight.
+
+Flora Mac-Ivor appeared to be the only female present who regarded him
+with a degree of coldness and reserve; yet even she could not suppress
+a sort of wonder at talents which, in the course of their acquaintance,
+she had never seen displayed with equal brilliancy and impressive
+effect. I do not know whether she might not feel a momentary regret at
+having taken so decisive a resolution upon the addresses of a lover who
+seemed fitted so well to fill a high place in the highest stations of
+society. Certainly she had hitherto accounted among the incurable
+deficiencies of Edward's disposition the mauvaise honte which, as she
+had been educated in the first foreign circles, and was little
+acquainted with the shyness of English manners, was in her opinion too
+nearly related to timidity and imbecility of disposition. But if a
+passing wish occurred that Waverley could have rendered himself
+uniformly thus amiable and attractive, its influence was momentary; for
+circumstances had arisen since they met which rendered in her eyes the
+resolution she had formed respecting him final and irrevocable.
+
+With opposite feelings Rose Bradwardine bent her whole soul to listen.
+She felt a secret triumph at the public tribute paid to one whose merit
+she had learned to prize too early and too fondly. Without a thought of
+jealousy, without a feeling of fear, pain, or doubt, and undisturbed by
+a single selfish consideration, she resigned herself to the pleasure of
+observing the general murmur of applause. When Waverley spoke, her ear
+was exclusively filled with his voice, when others answered, her eye
+took its turn of observation, and seemed to watch his reply. Perhaps
+the delight which she experienced in the course of that evening, though
+transient, and followed by much sorrow, was in its nature the most pure
+and disinterested which the human mind is capable of enjoying.
+
+'Baron,' said the Chevalier, 'I would not trust my mistress in the
+company of your young friend. He is really, though perhaps somewhat
+romantic, one of the most fascinating young men whom I have ever seen.'
+
+'And by my honour, sir,' replied the Baron,'the lad can sometimes be as
+dowff as a sexagenary like myself. If your Royal Highness had seen him
+dreaming and dozing about the banks of Tully-Veolan like an
+hypochondriac person, or, as Burton's "Anatomia" hath it, a phrenesiac
+or lethargic patient, you would wonder where he hath sae suddenly
+acquired all this fine sprack festivity and jocularity.'
+
+'Truly,' said Fergus Mac-Ivor, 'I think it can only be the inspiration
+of the tartans; for, though Waverley be always a young fellow of sense
+and honour, I have hitherto often found him a very absent and
+inattentive companion.'
+
+'We are the more obliged to him,' said the Prince, 'for having reserved
+for this evening qualities which even such intimate friends had not
+discovered. But come, gentlemen, the night advances, and the business
+of tomorrow must be early thought upon. Each take charge of his fair
+partner, and honour a small refreshment with your company.'
+
+He led the way to another suite of apartments, and assumed the seat and
+canopy at the head of a long range of tables with an air of dignity,
+mingled with courtesy, which well became his high birth and lofty
+pretensions. An hour had hardly flown away when the musicians played
+the signal for parting so well known in Scotland. [Footnote: Which is,
+or was wont to be, the old air of 'Good-night and joy be wi' you a'.]
+
+'Good-night, then,' said the Chevalier, rising; 'goodnight, and joy be
+with you! Good-night, fair ladies, who have so highly honoured a
+proscribed and banished Prince! Good-night, my brave friends; may the
+happiness we have this evening experienced be an omen of our return to
+these our paternal halls, speedily and in triumph, and of many and many
+future meetings of mirth and pleasure in the palace of Holyrood!'
+
+When the Baron of Bradwardine afterwards mentioned this adieu of the
+Chevalier, he never failed to repeat, in a melancholy tone,
+
+    'Audiit, et voti Phoebus succedere partem
+    Mente dedit; partem volucres dispersit in auras;
+
+which,' as he added, 'is weel rendered into English metre by my friend
+Bangour:--
+
+    Ae half the prayer wi' Phoebus grace did find,
+    The t'other half he whistled down the wind.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIV
+
+THE MARCH
+
+
+The conflicting passions and exhausted feelings of Waverley had
+resigned him to late but sound repose. He was dreaming of Glennaquoich,
+and had transferred to the halls of lan nan Chaistel the festal train
+which so lately graced those of Holyrood. The pibroch too was
+distinctly heard; and this at least was no delusion, for the 'proud
+step of the chief piper' of the 'chlain MacIvor' was perambulating the
+court before the door of his Chieftain's quarters, and as Mrs.
+Flockhart, apparently no friend to his minstrelsy, was pleased to
+observe, 'garring the very stane-and-lime wa's dingle wi' his
+screeching.' Of course it soon became too powerful for Waverley's
+dream, with which it had at first rather harmonised.
+
+The sound of Callum's brogues in his apartment (for Mac-Ivor had again
+assigned Waverley to his care) was the next note of parting. 'Winna yer
+honour bang up? Vich lan Vohr and ta Prince are awa to the lang green
+glen ahint the clachan, tat they ca' the King's Park, [Footnote: The
+main body of the Highland army encamped, or rather bivouacked, in that
+part of the King's Park which lies towards the village of Duddingston.]
+and mony ane's on his ain shanks the day that will be carried on ither
+folk's ere night.'
+
+Waverley sprung up, and, with Callum's assistance and instructions,
+adjusted his tartans in proper costume. Callum told him also,' tat his
+leather dorlach wi' the lock on her was come frae Doune, and she was
+awa again in the wain wi' Vich Ian Vohr's walise.'
+
+By this periphrasis Waverley readily apprehended his portmanteau was
+intended. He thought upon the mysterious packet of the maid of the
+cavern, which seemed always to escape him when within his very grasp.
+But this was no time for indulgence of curiosity; and having declined
+Mrs. Flockhart's compliment of a MORNING, i.e. a matutinal dram, being
+probably the only man in the Chevalier's army by whom such a courtesy
+would have been rejected, he made his adieus and departed with Callum.
+
+'Callum,' said he, as they proceeded down a dirty close to gain the
+southern skirts of the Canongate, 'what shall I do for a horse?'
+
+'Ta deil ane ye maun think o',' said Callum. 'Vich Ian Vohr's marching
+on foot at the head o' his kin (not to say ta Prince, wha does the
+like), wi' his target on his shoulder; and ye maun e'en be
+neighbour-like.'
+
+'And so I will, Callum, give me my target; so, there we are fixed. How
+does it look?'
+
+'Like the bra' Highlander tat's painted on the board afore the mickle
+change-house they ca' Luckie Middlemass's,' answered Callum; meaning, I
+must observe, a high compliment, for in his opinion Luckie Middlemass's
+sign was an exquisite specimen of art. Waverley, however, not feeling
+the full force of this polite simile, asked him no further questions.
+
+Upon extricating themselves from the mean and dirty suburbs of the
+metropolis, and emerging into the open air, Waverley felt a renewal of
+both health and spirits, and turned his recollection with firmness upon
+the events of the preceding evening, and with hope and resolution
+towards those of the approaching day.
+
+When he had surmounted a small craggy eminence called St. Leonard's
+Hill, the King's Park, or the hollow between the mountain of Arthur's
+Seat and the rising grounds on which the southern part of Edinburgh is
+now built, lay beneath him, and displayed a singular and animating
+prospect. It was occupied by the army of the Highlanders, now in the
+act of preparing for their march. Waverley had already seen something
+of the kind at the hunting-match which he attended with Fergus MacIvor;
+but this was on a scale of much greater magnitude, and incomparably
+deeper interest. The rocks, which formed the background of the scene,
+and the very sky itself, rang with the clang of the bagpipers,
+summoning forth, each with his appropriate pibroch, his chieftain and
+clan. The mountaineers, rousing themselves from their couch under the
+canopy of heaven with the hum and bustle of a confused and irregular
+multitude, like bees alarmed and arming in their hives, seemed to
+possess all the pliability of movement fitted to execute military
+manoeuvres. Their motions appeared spontaneous and confused, but the
+result was order and regularity; so that a general must have praised
+the conclusion, though a martinet might have ridiculed the method by
+which it was attained.
+
+The sort of complicated medley created by the hasty arrangements of the
+various clans under their respective banners, for the purpose of
+getting into the order of march, was in itself a gay and lively
+spectacle. They had no tents to striket having generally, and by
+choice, slept upon the open field, although the autumn was now waning
+and the nights began to be frosty. For a little space, while they were
+getting into order, there was exhibited a changing, fluctuating, and
+confused appearance of waving tartans and floating plumes, and of
+banners displaying the proud gathering word of Clanronald, Ganion
+Coheriga (Gainsay who dares), Loch-Sloy, the watchword of the
+MacFarlanes; Forth, fortune, and fill the fetters, the motto of the
+Marquis of Tullibardine; Bydand, that of Lord Lewis Gordon, and the
+appropriate signal words and emblems of many other chieftains and clans.
+
+At length the mixed and wavering multitude arranged themselves into a
+narrow and dusky column of great length, stretching through the whole
+extent of the valley. In the front of the column the standard of the
+Chevalier was displayed, bearing a red cross upon a white ground, with
+the motto Tandem Triumphans. The few cavalry, being chiefly Lowland
+gentry, with their domestic servants and retainers, formed the advanced
+guard of the army; and their standards, of which they had rather too
+many in respect of their numbers, were seen waving upon the extreme
+verge of the horizon. Many horsemen of this body, among whom Waverley
+accidentally remarked Balmawhapple and his lieutenant, Jinker (which
+last, however, had been reduced, with several others, by the advice of
+the Baron of Bradwardine, to the situation of what he called reformed
+officers, or reformadoes), added to the liveliness, though by no means
+to the regularity, of the scene, by galloping their horses as fast
+forward as the press would permit, to join their proper station in the
+van. The fascinations of the Circes of the High Street, and the
+potations of strength with which they had been drenched over night, had
+probably detained these heroes within the walls of Edinburgh somewhat
+later than was consistent with their morning duty. Of such loiterers,
+the prudent took the longer and circuitous, but more open, route to
+attain their place in the march, by keeping at some distance from the
+infantry, and making their way through the inclosures to the right, at
+the expense of leaping over or pulling down the drystone fences. The
+irregular appearance and vanishing of these small parties of horsemen,
+as well as the confusion occasioned by those who endeavoured, though
+generally without effect, to press to the front through the crowd of
+Highlanders, maugre their curses, oaths, and opposition, added to the
+picturesque wildness what it took from the military regularity of the
+scene.
+
+While Waverley gazed upon this remarkable spectacle, rendered yet more
+impressive by the occasional discharge of cannon-shot from the Castle
+at the Highland guards as they were withdrawn from its vicinity to join
+their main body, Callum, with his usual freedom of interference,
+reminded him that Vich lan Vohr's folk were nearly at the head of the
+column of march which was still distant, and that 'they would gang very
+fast after the cannon fired.' Thus admonished, Waverley walked briskly
+forward, yet often casting a glance upon the darksome clouds of
+warriors who were collected before and beneath him. A nearer view,
+indeed, rather diminished the effect impressed on the mind by the more
+distant appearance of the army. The leading men of each clan were well
+armed with broad-sword, target, and fusee, to which all added the dirk,
+and most the steel pistol. But these consisted of gentlemen, that is,
+relations of the chief, however distant, and who had an immediate title
+to his countenance and protection. Finer and hardier men could not have
+been selected out of any army in Christendom; while the free and
+independent habits which each possessed, and which each was yet so well
+taught to subject to the command of his chief, and the peculiar mode of
+discipline adopted in Highland warfare, rendered them equally
+formidable by their individual courage and high spirit, and from their
+rational conviction of the necessity of acting in unison, and of giving
+their national mode of attack the fullest opportunity of success.
+
+But, in a lower rank to these, there were found individuals of an
+inferior description, the common peasantry of the Highland country,
+who, although they did not allow themselves to be so called, and
+claimed often, with apparent truth, to be of more ancient descent than
+the masters whom they served, bore, nevertheless, the livery of extreme
+penury, being indifferently accoutred, and worse armed, half naked,
+stinted in growth, and miserable in aspect. Each important clan had
+some of those Helots attached to them: thus, the MacCouls, though
+tracing their descent from Comhal, the father of Finn or Fingal, were a
+sort of Gibeonites, or hereditary servants to the Stewarts of Appin;
+the Macbeths, descended from the unhappy monarch of that name, were
+subjects to the Morays and clan Donnochy, or Robertsons of Athole; and
+many other examples might be given, were it not for the risk of hurting
+any pride of clanship which may yet be left, and thereby drawing a
+Highland tempest into the shop of my publisher. Now these same Helots,
+though forced into the field by the arbitrary authority of the
+chieftains under whom they hewed wood and drew water, were in general
+very sparingly fed, ill dressed, and worse armed. The latter
+circumstance was indeed owing chiefly to the general disarming act,
+which had been carried into effect ostensibly through the whole
+Highlands, although most of the chieftains contrived to elude its
+influence by retaining the weapons of their own immediate clansmen, and
+delivering up those of less value, which they collected from these
+inferior satellites. It followed, as a matter of course, that, as we
+have already hinted, many of these poor fellows were brought to the
+field in a very wretched condition.
+
+From this it happened that, in bodies, the van of which were admirably
+well armed in their own fashion, the rear resembled actual banditti.
+Here was a pole-axe, there a sword without a scabbard; here a gun
+without a lock, there a scythe set straight upon a pole; and some had
+only their dirks, and bludgeons or stakes pulled out of hedges. The
+grim, uncombed, and wild appearance of these men, most of whom gazed
+with all the admiration of ignorance upon the most ordinary productions
+of domestic art, created surprise in the Lowlands, but it also created
+terror. So little was the condition of the Highlands known at that late
+period that the character and appearance of their population, while
+thus sallying forth as military adventurers, conveyed to the
+South-Country Lowlanders as much surprise as if an invasion of African
+Negroes or Esquimaux Indians had issued forth from the northern
+mountains of their own native country. It cannot therefore be wondered
+if Waverley, who had hitherto judged of the Highlanders generally from
+the samples which the policy of Fergus had from time to time exhibited,
+should have felt damped and astonished at the daring attempt of a body
+not then exceeding four thousand men, and of whom not above half the
+number, at the utmost, were armed, to change the fate and alter the
+dynasty of the British kingdoms.
+
+As he moved along the column, which still remained stationary, an iron
+gun, the only piece of artillery possessed by the army which meditated
+so important a revolution, was fired as the signal of march. The
+Chevalier had expressed a wish to leave this useless piece of ordnance
+behind him; but, to his surprise, the Highland chiefs interposed to
+solicit that it might accompany their march, pleading the prejudices of
+their followers, who, little accustomed to artillery, attached a degree
+of absurd importance to this field-piece, and expected it would
+contribute essentially to a victory which they could only owe to their
+own muskets and broadswords. Two or three French artillerymen were
+therefore appointed to the management of this military engine, which
+was drawn along by a string of Highland ponies, and was, after all,
+only used for the purpose of firing signals. [Footnote: See Note 6.]
+
+No sooner was its voice heard upon the present occasion than the whole
+line was in motion. A wild cry of joy from the advancing batallions
+rent the air, and was then lost in the shrill clangour of the bagpipes,
+as the sound of these, in their turn, was partially drowned by the
+heavy tread of so many men put at once into motion. The banners
+glittered and shook as they moved forward, and the horse hastened to
+occupy their station as the advanced guard, and to push on
+reconnoitring parties to ascertain and report the motions of the enemy.
+They vanished from Waverley's eye as they wheeled round the base of
+Arthur's Seat, under the remarkable ridge of basaltic rocks which
+fronts the little lake of Duddingston.
+
+The infantry followed in the same direction, regulating their pace by
+another body which occupied a road more to the southward. It cost
+Edward some exertion of activity to attain the place which Fergus's
+followers occupied in the line of march.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLV
+
+AN INCIDENT GIVES RISE TO UNAVAILING REFLECTIONS
+
+
+When Waverley reached that part of the column which was filled by the
+clan of Mac-Ivor, they halted, formed, and received him with a
+triumphant flourish upon the bagpipes and a loud shout of the men, most
+of whom knew him personally, and were delighted to see him in the dress
+of their country and of their sept. 'You shout,' said a Highlander of a
+neighbouring clan to Evan Dhu, 'as if the Chieftain were just come to
+your head.'
+
+'_Mar e Bran is e a brathair_, If it be not Bran, it is Bran's
+brother,' was the proverbial reply of Maccombich. [Footnote: Bran, the
+well-known dog of Fingal. is often the theme of Highland proverb as
+well as song.]
+
+'O, then, it is the handsome Sassenach duinhe-wassel that is to be
+married to Lady Flora?'
+
+'That may be, or it may not be; and it is neither your matter nor mine,
+Gregor.'
+
+Fergus advanced to embrace the volunteer, and afford him a warm and
+hearty welcome; but he thought it necessary to apologize for the
+diminished numbers of his battalion (which did not exceed three hundred
+men) by observing he had sent a good many out upon parties.
+
+The real fact, however, was, that the defection of Donald Bean Lean had
+deprived him of at least thirty hardy fellows, whose services he had
+fully reckoned upon, and that many of his occasional adherents had been
+recalled by their several chiefs to the standards to which they most
+properly owed their allegiance. The rival chief of the great northern
+branch, also, of his own clan had mustered his people, although he had
+not yet declared either for the government or for the Chevalier, and by
+his intrigues had in some degree diminished the force with which Fergus
+took the field. To make amends for these disappointments, it was
+universally admitted that the followers of Vich Ian Vohr, in point of
+appearance, equipment, arms, and dexterity in using them, equalled the
+most choice troops which followed the standard of Charles Edward. Old
+Ballenkeiroch acted as his major; and, with the other officers who had
+known Waverley when at Glennaquoich, gave our hero a cordial reception,
+as the sharer of their future dangers and expected honours.
+
+The route pursued by the Highland army, after leaving the village of
+Duddingston, was for some time the common post-road betwixt Edinburgh
+and Haddington, until they crossed the Esk at Musselburgh, when,
+instead of keeping the low grounds towards the sea, they turned more
+inland, and occupied the brow of the eminence called Carberry Hill, a
+place already distinguished in Scottish history as the spot where the
+lovely Mary surrendered herself to her insurgent subjects. This
+direction was chosen because the Chevalier had received notice that the
+army of the government, arriving by sea from Aberdeen, had landed at
+Dunbar, and quartered the night before to the west of Haddington, with
+the intention of falling down towards the sea-side, and approaching
+Edinburgh by the lower coast-road. By keeping the height, which
+overhung that road in many places, it was hoped the Highlanders might
+find an opportunity of attacking them to advantage. The army therefore
+halted upon the ridge of Carberry Hill, both to refresh the soldiers
+and as a central situation from which their march could be directed to
+any point that the motions of the enemy might render most advisable.
+While they remained in this position a messenger arrived in haste to
+desire Mac-Ivor to come to the Prince, adding that their advanced post
+had had a skirmish with some of the enemy's cavalry, and that the Baron
+of Bradwardine had sent in a few prisoners.
+
+Waverley walked forward out of the line to satisfy his curiosity, and
+soon observed five or six of the troopers who, covered with dust, had
+galloped in to announce that the enemy were in full march westward
+along the coast. Passing still a little farther on, he was struck with
+a groan which issued from a hovel. He approached the spot, and heard a
+voice, in the provincial English of his native county, which
+endeavoured, though frequently interrupted by pain, to repeat the
+Lord's Prayer. The voice of distress always found a ready answer in our
+hero's bosom. He entered the hovel, which seemed to be intended for
+what is called, in the pastoral counties of Scotland, a smearing-house;
+and in its obscurity Edward could only at first discern a sort of red
+bundle; for those who had stripped the wounded man of his arms and part
+of his clothes had left him the dragoon-cloak in which he was enveloped.
+
+'For the love of God,' said the wounded man, as he heard Waverley's
+step, 'give me a single drop of water!'
+
+'You shall have it,' answered Waverley, at the same time raising him in
+his arms, bearing him to the door of the hut, and giving him some drink
+from his flask.
+
+'I should know that voice,' said the man; but looking on Waverley's
+dress with a bewildered look--'no, this is not the young squire!'
+
+This was the common phrase by which Edward was distinguished on the
+estate of Waverley-Honour, and the sound now thrilled to his heart with
+the thousand recollections which the well-known accents of his native
+country had already contributed to awaken. 'Houghton!' he said, gazing
+on the ghastly features which death was fast disfiguring, 'can this be
+you?'
+
+'I never thought to hear an English voice again,' said the wounded
+man;'they left me to live or die here as I could, when they found I
+would say nothing about the strength of the regiment. But, O squire!
+how could you stay from us so long, and let us be tempted by that fiend
+of the pit, Rufinn? we should have followed you through flood and fire,
+to be sure.'
+
+'Rufin! I assure you, Houghton, you have been vilely imposed upon.'
+
+'I often thought so,' said Houghton,'though they showed us your very
+seal; and so Tims was shot and I was reduced to the ranks.'
+
+'Do not exhaust your strength in speaking,' said Edward; 'I will get
+you a surgeon presently.'
+
+He saw Mac-Ivor approaching, who was now returning from headquarters,
+where he had attended a council of war, and hastened to meet him.
+'Brave news!'shouted the Chief; 'we shall be at it in less than two
+hours. The Prince has put himself at the head of the advance, and, as
+he drew his sword, called out, "My friends, I have thrown away the
+scabbard." Come, Waverley, we move instantly.'
+
+'A moment--a moment; this poor prisoner is dying; where shall I find a
+surgeon?'
+
+'Why, where should you? We have none, you know, but two or three French
+fellows, who, I believe, are little better than _garqons apothecaires_.'
+
+'But the man will bleed to death.'
+
+'Poor fellow!' said Fergus, in a momentary fit of compassion; then
+instantly added, 'But it will be a thousand men's fate before night; so
+come along.'
+
+'I cannot; I tell you he is a son of a tenant of my uncle's.'
+
+'O, if he's a follower of yours he must be looked to; I'll send Callum
+to you; but _diaoul! ceade millia mottigheart_,' continued the
+impatient Chieftain, 'what made an old soldier like Bradwardine send
+dying men here to cumber us?'
+
+Callum came with his usual alertness; and, indeed, Waverley rather
+gained than lost in the opinion of the Highlanders by his anxiety about
+the wounded man. They would not have understood the general
+philanthropy which rendered it almost impossible for Waverley to have
+passed any person in such distress; but, as apprehending that the
+sufferer was one of his _following_ they unanimously allowed that
+Waverley's conduct was thatof akind and considerate chieftain, who
+merited the attachment of his people. In about a quarter of an hour
+poor Humphrey breathed his last, praying his young master, when he
+returned to Waverley-Honour, to be kind to old Job Houghton and his
+dame, and conjuring him not to fight with these wild petticoat-men
+against old England.
+
+When his last breath was drawn, Waverley, who had beheld with sincere
+sorrow, and no slight tinge of remorse, the final agonies of mortality,
+now witnessed for the first time, commanded Callum to remove the body
+into the hut. This the young Highlander performed, not without
+examining the pockets of the defunct, which, however, he remarked had
+been pretty well spunged. He took the cloak, however, and proceeding
+with the provident caution of a spaniel hiding a bone, concealed it
+among some furze and carefully marked the spot, observing that, if he
+chanced to return that way, it would be an excellent rokelay for his
+auld mother Elspat.
+
+It was by a considerable exertion that they regained their place in the
+marching column, which was now moving rapidly forward to occupy the
+high grounds above the village of Tranent, between which and the sea
+lay the purposed march of the opposite army.
+
+This melancholy interview with his late sergeant forced many unavailing
+and painful reflections upon Waverley's mind. It was clear from the
+confession of the man that Colonel Gardiner's proceedings had been
+strictly warranted, and even rendered indispensable, by the steps taken
+in Edward's name to induce the soldiers of his troop to mutiny. The
+circumstance of the seal he now, for the first time, recollected, and
+that he had lost it in the cavern of the robber, Bean Lean. That the
+artful villain had secured it, and used it as the means of carrying on
+an intrigue in the regiment for his own purposes, was sufficiently
+evident; and Edward had now little doubt that in the packet placed in
+his portmanteau by his daughter he should find farther light upon his
+proceedings. In the meanwhile the repeated expostulation of
+Houghton--'Ah, squire, why did you leave us?' rung like a knell in his
+ears.
+
+'Yes,' he said, 'I have indeed acted towards you with thoughtless
+cruelty. I brought you from your paternal fields, and the protection of
+a generous and kind landlord, and when I had subjected you to all the
+rigour of military discipline, I shunned to bear my own share of the
+burden, and wandered from the duties I had undertaken, leaving alike
+those whom it was my business to protect, and my own reputation, to
+suffer under the artifices of villainy. O, indolence and indecision of
+mind, if not in yourselves vices--to how much exquisite misery and
+mischief do you frequently prepare the way!'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVI
+
+THE EVE OF BATTLE
+
+
+Although the Highlanders marched on very fast, the sun was declining
+when they arrived upon the brow of those high grounds which command an
+open and extensive plain stretching northward to the sea, on which are
+situated, but at a considerable distance from each other, the small
+villages of Seaton and Cockenzie, and the larger one of Preston. One of
+the low coastroads to Edinburgh passed through this plain, issuing upon
+it from the enclosures of Seaton House, and at the town or village of
+Preston again entering the denies of an enclosed country. By this way
+the English general had chosen to approach the metropolis, both as most
+commodious for his cavalry, and being probably of opinion that by doing
+so he would meet in front with the Highlanders advancing from Edinburgh
+in the opposite direction. In this he was mistaken; for the sound
+judgment of the Chevalier, or of those to whose advice he listened,
+left the direct passage free, but occupied the strong ground by which
+it was overlooked and commanded.
+
+When the Highlanders reached the heights above the plain described,
+they were immediately formed in array of battle along the brow of the
+hill. Almost at the same instant the van of the English appeared
+issuing from among the trees and enclosures of Seaton, with the purpose
+of occupying the level plain between the high ground and the sea; the
+space which divided the armies being only about half a mile in breadth.
+Waverley could plainly see the squadrons of dragoons issue, one after
+another, from the defiles, with their videttes in front, and form upon
+the plain, with their front opposed to that of the Prince's army. They
+were followed by a train of field-pieces, which, when they reached the
+flank of the dragoons, were also brought into line and pointed against
+the heights. The march was continued by three or four regiments of
+infantry marching in open column, their fixed bayonets showing like
+successive hedges of steel, and their arms glancing like lightning, as,
+at a signal given, they also at once wheeled up, and were placed in
+direct opposition to the Highlanders. A second train of artillery, with
+another regiment of horse, closed the long march, and formed on the
+left flank of the infantry, the whole line facing southward.
+
+While the English army went through these evolutions, the Highlanders
+showed equal promptitude and zeal for battle. As fast as the clans came
+upon the ridge which fronted their enemy, they were formed into line,
+so that both armies got into complete order of battle at the same
+moment. When this was accomplished, the Highlanders set up a tremendous
+yell, which was re-echoed by the heights behind them. The regulars, who
+were in high spirits, returned a loud shout of defiance, and fired one
+or two of their cannon upon an advanced post of the Highlanders. The
+latter displayed great earnestness to proceed instantly to the attack,
+Evan Dhu urging to Fergus, by way of argument, that 'the SIDIER ROY was
+tottering like an egg upon a staff, and that they had a' the vantage of
+the onset, for even a haggis (God bless her!) could charge down hill.'
+
+But the ground through which the mountaineers must have descended,
+although not of great extent, was impracticable in its character, being
+not only marshy but intersected with walls of dry stone, and traversed
+in its whole length by a very broad and deep ditch, circumstances which
+must have given the musketry of the regulars dreadful advantages before
+the mountaineers could have used their swords, on which they were
+taught to rely. The authority of the commanders was therefore
+interposed to curb the impetuosity of the Highlanders, and only a few
+marksmen were sent down the descent to skirmish with the enemy's
+advanced posts and to reconnoitre the ground.
+
+Here, then, was a military spectacle of no ordinary interest or usual
+occurrence. The two armies, so different in aspect and discipline, yet
+each admirably trained in its own peculiar mode of war, upon whose
+conflict the temporary fate at least of Scotland appeared to depend,
+now faced each other like two gladiators in the arena, each meditating
+upon the mode of attacking their enemy. The leading officers and the
+general's staff of each army could be distinguished in front of their
+lines, busied with spy-glasses to watch each other's motions, and
+occupied in despatching the orders and receiving the intelligence
+conveyed by the aides-de-camp and orderly men, who gave life to the
+scene by galloping along in different directions, as if the fate of the
+day depended upon the speed of their horses. The space between the
+armies was at times occupied by the partial and irregular contest of
+individual sharp-shooters, and a hat or bonnet was occasionally seen to
+fall, as a wounded man was borne off by his comrades. These, however,
+were but trifling skirmishes, for it suited the views of neither party
+to advance in that direction. From the neighbouring hamlets the
+peasantry cautiously showed themselves, as if watching the issue of the
+expected engagement; and at no great distance in the bay were two
+square-rigged vessels, bearing the English flag, whose tops and yards
+were crowded with less timid spectators.
+
+When this awful pause had lasted for a short time, Fergus, with another
+chieftain, received orders to detach their clans towards the village of
+Preston, in order to threaten the right flank of Cope's army and compel
+him to a change of position. To enable him to execute these orders, the
+Chief of Glennaquoich occupied the church-yard of Tranent, a commanding
+situation, and a convenient place, as Evan Dhu remarked, 'for any
+gentleman who might have the misfortune to be killed, and chanced to be
+curious about Christian burial.' To check or dislodge this party, the
+English general detached two guns, escorted by a strong party of
+cavalry. They approached so near that Waverley could plainly recognise
+the standard of the troop he had formerly commanded, and hear the
+trumpets and kettle-drums sound the signal of advance which he had so
+often obeyed. He could hear, too, the well-known word given in the
+English dialect by the equally well-distinguished voice of the
+commanding officer, for whom he had once felt so much respect. It was
+at that instant, that, looking around him, he saw the wild dress and
+appearance of his Highland associates, heard their whispers in an
+uncouth and unknown language, looked upon his own dress, so unlike that
+which he had worn from his infancy, and wished to awake from what
+seemed at the moment a dream, strange, horrible, and unnatural. 'Good
+God!' he muttered, 'am I then a traitor to my country, a renegade to my
+standard, and a foe, as that poor dying wretch expressed himself, to my
+native England!'
+
+Ere he could digest or smother the recollection, the tall military form
+of his late commander came full in view, for the purpose of
+reconnoitring. 'I can hit him now,' said Callum, cautiously raising his
+fusee over the wall under which he lay couched, at scarce sixty yards'
+distance.
+
+Edward felt as if he was about to see a parricide committed in his
+presence; for the venerable grey hair and striking countenance of the
+veteran recalled the almost paternal respect with which his officers
+universally regarded him. But ere he could say 'Hold!' an aged
+Highlander who lay beside Callum Beg stopped his arm. 'Spare your
+shot,' said the seer, 'his hour is not yet come. But let him beware of
+to-morrow; I see his winding-sheet high upon his breast.'
+
+Callum, flint to other considerations, was penetrable to superstition.
+He turned pale at the words of the _taishatr_, and recovered his piece.
+Colonel Gardiner, unconscious of the danger he had escaped, turned his
+horse round and rode slowly back to the front of his regiment.
+
+By this time the regular army had assumed a new line, with one flank
+inclined towards the sea and the other resting upon the village of
+Preston; and, as similar difficulties occurred in attacking their new
+position, Fergus and the rest of the detachment were recalled to their
+former post. This alteration created the necessity of a corresponding
+change in General Cope's army, which was again brought into a line
+parallel with that of the Highlanders. In these manoeuvres on both
+sides the daylight was nearly consumed, and both armies prepared to
+rest upon their arms for the night in the lines which they respectively
+occupied.
+
+'There will be nothing done to-night,' said Fergus to his friend
+Waverley; 'ere we wrap ourselves in our plaids, let us go see what the
+Baron is doing in the rear of the line.'
+
+When they approached his post, they found the good old careful officer,
+after having sent out his night patrols and posted his sentinels,
+engaged in reading the Evening Service of the Episcopal Church to the
+remainder of his troop. His voice was loud and sonorous, and though his
+spectacles upon his nose, and the appearance of Saunders Saunderson, in
+military array, performing the functions of clerk, had something
+ludicrous, yet the circumstances of danger in which they stood, the
+military costume of the audience, and the appearance of their horses
+saddled and picqueted behind them, gave an impressive and solemn effect
+to the office of devotion.
+
+'I have confessed to-day, ere you were awake,' whispered Fergus to
+Waverley; 'yet I am not so strict a Catholic as to refuse to join in
+this good man's prayers.'
+
+Edward assented, and they remained till the Baron had concluded the
+service.
+
+As he shut the book, 'Now, lads,' said he, 'have at them in the morning
+with heavy hands and light consciences.' He then kindly greeted
+Mac-Ivor and Waverley, who requested to know his opinion of their
+situation. Why, you know Tacitus saith, "In rebus bellicis maxime
+dominalur Fortuna," which is equiponderate with our vernacular adage,
+"Luck can maist in the mellee." But credit me, gentlemen, yon man is
+not a deacon o' his craft. He damps the spirits of the poor lads he
+commands by keeping them on the defensive, whilk of itself implies
+inferiority or fear. Now will they lie on their arms yonder as anxious
+and as ill at ease as a toad under a harrow, while our men will be
+quite fresh and blithe for action in the morning. Well, good-night. One
+thing troubles me, but if to-morrow goes well off, I will consult you
+about it, Glennaquoich.'
+
+'I could almost apply to Mr. Bradwardine the character which Henry
+gives of Fluellen,' said Waverley, as his friend and he walked towards
+their bivouac:
+
+    'Though it appears a little out of fashion,
+    There is much care and valour in this "Scotchman."'
+
+'He has seen much service,' answered Fergus, 'and one is sometimes
+astonished to find how much nonsense and reason are mingled in his
+composition. I wonder what can be troubling his mind; probably
+something about Rose. Hark! the English are setting their watch.'
+
+The roll of the drum and shrill accompaniment of the fifes swelled up
+the hill--died away--resumed its thunder--and was at length hushed. The
+trumpets and kettle-drums of the cavalry were next heard to perform the
+beautiful and wild point of war appropriated as a signal for that piece
+of nocturnal duty, and then finally sunk upon the wind with a shrill
+and mournful cadence.
+
+The friends, who had now reached their post, stood and looked round
+them ere they lay down to rest. The western sky twinkled with stars,
+but a frost-mist, rising from the ocean, covered the eastern horizon,
+and rolled in white wreaths along the plain where the adverse army lay
+couched upon their arms. Their advanced posts were pushed as far as the
+side of the great ditch at the bottom of the descent, and had kindled
+large fires at different intervals, gleaming with obscure and hazy
+lustre through the heavy fog which encircled them with a doubtful halo.
+
+The Highlanders,'thick as leaves in Vallombrosa,' lay stretched upon
+the ridge of the hill, buried (excepting their sentinels) in the most
+profound repose. 'How many of these brave fellows will sleep more
+soundly before to-morrow night, Fergus!' said Waverley, with an
+involuntary sigh.
+
+'You must notthink of that,' answered Fergus, whose ideas were entirely
+military. 'You must only think of your sword, and by whom it was given.
+All other reflections are now TOO LATE.'
+
+With the opiate contained in this undeniable remark Edward endeavoured
+to lull the tumult of his conflicting feelings. The Chieftain and he,
+combining their plaids, made a comfortable and warm couch. Callum,
+sitting down at their head (for it was his duty to watch upon the
+immediate person of the Chief), began a long mournful song in Gaelic,
+to a low and uniform tune, which, like the sound of the wind at a
+distance, soon lulled them to sleep.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVII
+
+THE CONFLICT
+
+
+When Fergus Mac-Ivor and his friend had slept for a few hours, they
+were awakened and summoned to attend the Prince. The distant village
+clock was heard to toll three as they hastened to the place where he
+lay. He was already surrounded by his principal officers and the chiefs
+of clans. A bundle of pease-straw, which had been lately his couch, now
+served for his seat. Just as Fergus reached the circle, the
+consultation had broken up. 'Courage, my brave friends!' said the
+Chevalier, 'and each one put himself instantly at the head of his
+command; a faithful friend [Footnote: See Note 7.] has offered to guide
+us by a practicable, though narrow and circuitous, route, which,
+sweeping to our right, traverses the broken ground and morass, and
+enables us to gain the firm and open plain upon which the enemy are
+lying. This difficulty surmounted, Heaven and your good swords must do
+the rest.'
+
+The proposal spread unanimous joy, and each leader hastened to get his
+men into order with as little noise as possible. The army, moving by
+its right from off the ground on which they had rested, soon entered
+the path through the morass, conducting their march with astonishing
+silence and great rapidity. The mist had not risen to the higher
+grounds, so that for some time they had the advantage of star-light.
+But this was lost as the stars faded before approaching day, and the
+head of the marching column, continuing its descent, plunged as it were
+into the heavy ocean of fog, which rolled its white waves over the
+whole plain, and over the sea by which it was bounded. Some
+difficulties were now to be encountered, inseparable from darkness, a
+narrow, broken, and marshy path, and the necessity of preserving union
+in the march. These, however, were less inconvenient to Highlanders,
+from their habits of life, than they would have been to any other
+troops, and they continued a steady and swift movement.
+
+As the clan of Ivor approached the firm ground, following the track of
+those who preceded them, the challenge of a patrol was heard through
+the mist, though they could not see the dragoon by whom it was
+made--'Who goes there?'
+
+'Hush!' cried Fergus, 'hush! let none answer, as he values his life;
+press forward'; and they continued their march with silence and
+rapidity.
+
+The patrol fired his carabine upon the body, and the report was
+instantly followed by the clang of his horse's feet as he galloped off.
+'Hylax in limine latrat,' said the Baron of Bradwardine, who heard the
+shot;'that loon will give the alarm.'
+
+The clan of Fergus had now gained the firm plain, which had lately
+borne a large crop of corn. But the harvest was gathered in, and the
+expanse was unbroken by tree, bush, or interruption of any kind. The
+rest of the army were following fast, when they heard the drums of the
+enemy beat the general. Surprise, however, had made no part of their
+plan, so they were not disconcerted by this intimation that the foe was
+upon his guard and prepared to receive them. It only hastened their
+dispositions for the combat, which were very simple.
+
+The Highland army, which now occupied the eastern end of the wide
+plain, or stubble field, so often referred to, was drawn up in two
+lines, extending from the morass towards the sea. The first was
+destined to charge the enemy, the second to act as a reserve. The few
+horse, whom the Prince headed in person, remained between the two
+lines. The adventurer had intimated a resolution to charge in person at
+the head of his first line; but his purpose was deprecated by all
+around him, and he was with difficulty induced to abandon it.
+
+Both lines were now moving forward, the first prepared for instant
+combat. The clans of which it was composed formed each a sort of
+separate phalanx, narrow in front, and in depth ten, twelve, or fifteen
+files, according to the strength of the following. The best-armed and
+best-born, for the words were synonymous, were placed in front of each
+of these irregular subdivisions. The others in the rear shouldered
+forward the front, and by their pressure added both physical impulse
+and additional ardour and confidence to those who were first to
+encounter the danger.
+
+'Down with your plaid, Waverley,' cried Fergus, throwing off his own;
+'we'll win silks for our tartans before the sun is above the sea.'
+
+The clansmen on every side stript their plaids, prepared their arms,
+and there was an awful pause of about three minutes, during which the
+men, pulling off their bonnets, raised their faces to heaven and
+uttered a short prayer; then pulled their bonnets over their brows and
+began to move forward, at first slowly. Waverley felt his heart at that
+moment throb as it would have burst from his bosom. It was not fear, it
+was not ardour: it was a compound of both, a new and deeply energetic
+impulse that with its first emotion chilled and astounded, then fevered
+and maddened his mind. The sounds around him combined to exalt his
+enthusiasm; the pipes played, and the clans rushed forward, each in its
+own dark column. As they advanced they mended their pace, and the
+muttering sounds of the men to each other began to swell into a wild
+cry.
+
+At this moment the sun, which was now risen above the horizon,
+dispelled the mist. The vapours rose like a curtain, and showed the two
+armies in the act of closing. The line of the regulars was formed
+directly fronting the attack of the Highlanders; it glittered with the
+appointments of a complete army, and was flanked by cavalry and
+artillery. But the sight impressed no terror on the assailants.
+
+'Forward, sons of Ivor,' cried their Chief, 'or the Camerons will draw
+the first blood!' They rushed on with a tremendous yell.
+
+The rest is well known. The horse, who were commanded to charge the
+advancing Highlanders in the flank, received an irregular fire from
+their fusees as they ran on and, seized with a disgraceful panic,
+wavered, halted, disbanded, and galloped from the field. The artillery
+men, deserted by the cavalry, fled after discharging their pieces, and
+the Highlanders, who dropped their guns when fired and drew their
+broadswords, rushed with headlong fury against the infantry.
+
+It was at this moment of confusion and terror that Waverley remarked an
+English officer, apparently of high rank, standing, alone and
+unsupported, by a fieldpiece, which, after the flight of the men by
+whom it was wrought, he had himself levelled and discharged against the
+clan of Mac-Ivor, the nearest group of Highlanders within his aim.
+Struck with his tall, martial figure, and eager to save him from
+inevitable destruction, Waverley outstripped for an instant even the
+speediest of the warriors, and, reaching the spot first, called to him
+to surrender. The officer replied by a thrust with his sword, which
+Waverley received in his target, and in turning it aside the
+Englishman's weapon broke. At the same time the battle-axe of Dugald
+Mahony was in the act of descending upon the officer's head. Waverley
+intercepted and prevented the blow, and the officer, perceiving further
+resistance unavailing, and struck with Edward's generous anxiety for
+his safety, resigned the fragment of his sword, and was committed by
+Waverley to Dugald, with strict charge to use him well, and not to
+pillage his person, promising him, at the same time, full
+indemnification for the spoil.
+
+On Edward's right the battle for a few minutes raged fierce and thick.
+The English infantry, trained in the wars in Flanders, stood their
+ground with great courage. But their extended files were pierced and
+broken in many places by the close masses of the clans; and in the
+personal struggle which ensued the nature of the Highlanders' weapons,
+and their extraordinary fierceness and activity, gave them a decided
+superiority over those who had been accustomed to trust much to their
+array and discipline, and felt that the one was broken and the other
+useless. Waverley, as he cast his eyes towards this scene of smoke and
+slaughter, observed Colonel Gardiner, deserted by his own soldiers in
+spite of all his attempts to rally them, yet spurring his horse through
+the field to take the command of a small body of infantry, who, with
+their backs arranged against the wall of his own park (for his house
+was close by the field of battle), continued a desperate and unavailing
+resistance. Waverley could perceive that he had already received many
+wounds, his clothes and saddle being marked with blood. To save this
+good and brave man became the instant object of his most anxious
+exertions. But he could only witness his fall. Ere Edward could make
+his way among the Highlanders, who, furious and eager for spoil, now
+thronged upon each other, he saw his former commander brought from his
+horse by the blow of a scythe, and beheld him receive, while on the
+ground, more wounds than would have let out twenty lives. When Waverley
+came up, however, perception had not entirely fled. The dying warrior
+seemed to recognize Edward, for he fixed his eye upon him with an
+upbraiding, yet sorrowful, look, and appeared to struggle, for
+utterance. But he felt that death was dealing closely with him, and
+resigning his purpose, and folding his hands as if in devotion, he gave
+up his soul to his Creator. The look with which he regarded Waverley in
+his dying moments did not strike him so deeply at that crisis of hurry
+and confusion as when it recurred to his imagination at the distance of
+some time. [Footnote: See Note 8.]
+
+Loud shouts of triumph now echoed over the whole field. The battle was
+fought and won, and the whole baggage, artillery, and military stores
+of the regular army remained in possession of the victors. Never was a
+victory more complete. Scarce any escaped from the battle, excepting
+the cavalry, who had left it at the very onset, and even these were
+broken into different parties and scattered all over the country. So
+far as our tale is concerned, we have only to relate the fate of
+Balmawhapple, who, mounted on a horse as headstrong and stiff-necked as
+his rider, pursued the flight of the dragoons above four miles from the
+field of battle, when some dozen of the fugitives took heart of grace,
+turned round, and cleaving his skull with their broadswords, satisfied
+the world that the unfortunate gentleman had actually brains, the end
+of his life thus giving proof of a fact greatly doubted during its
+progress. His death was lamented by few. Most of those who knew him
+agreed in the pithy observation of Ensign Maccombich, that there 'was
+mair tint (lost) at Sheriff-Muir.' His friend, Lieutenant Jinker, bent
+his eloquence only to exculpate his favourite mare from any share in
+contributing to the catastrophe. 'He had tauld the laird a thousand
+times,' he said,'that it was a burning shame to put a martingale upon
+the puir thing, when he would needs ride her wi' a curb of half a yard
+lang; and that he could na but bring himsell (not to say her) to some
+mischief, by flinging her down, or otherwise; whereas, if he had had a
+wee bit rinnin ring on the snaffle, she wad ha' rein'd as cannily as a
+cadger's pownie.'
+
+Such was the elegy of the Laird of Balmawhapple. [Footnote: See Note 9.]
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVIII
+
+AN UNEXPECTED EMBARRASSMENT
+
+
+When the battle was over, and all things coming into order, the Baron
+of Bradwardine, returning from the duty of the day, and having disposed
+those under his command in their proper stations, sought the Chieftain
+of Glennaquoich and his friend Edward Waverley. He found the former
+busied in determining disputes among his clansmen about points of
+precedence and deeds of valour, besides sundry high and doubtful
+questions concerning plunder. The most important of the last respected
+the property of a gold watch, which had once belonged to some
+unfortunate English officer. The party against whom judgment was
+awarded consoled himself by observing, 'She (i.e. the watch, which he
+took for a living animal) died the very night Vich lan Vohr gave her to
+Murdoch'; the machine, having, in fact, stopped for want of winding up.
+
+It was just when this important question was decided that the Baron of
+Bradwardine, with a careful and yet important expression of
+countenance, joined the two young men. He descended from his reeking
+charger, the care of which he recommended to one of his grooms. 'I
+seldom ban, sir,' said he to the man; 'but if you play any of your
+hound's-foot tricks, and leave puir Berwick before he's sorted, to rin
+after spuilzie, deil be wi' me if I do not give your craig a thraw.' He
+then stroked with great complacency the animal which had borne him
+through the fatigues of the day, and having taken a tender leave of
+him--' Weel, my good young friends, a glorious and decisive victory,'
+said he; 'but these loons of troopers fled ower soon. I should have
+liked to have shown you the true points of the pralium equestre, or
+equestrian combat, whilk their cowardice has postponed, and which I
+hold to be the pride and terror of warfare. Weel--I have fought once
+more in this old quarrel, though I admit I could not be so far BEN as
+you lads, being that it was my point of duty to keep together our
+handful of horse. And no cavalier ought in any wise to begrudge honour
+that befalls his companions, even though they are ordered upon thrice
+his danger, whilk, another time, by the blessing of God, may be his own
+case. But, Glennaquoich, and you, Mr. Waverley, I pray ye to give me
+your best advice on a matter of mickle weight, and which deeply affects
+the honour of the house of Bradwardine. I crave your pardon, Ensign
+Maccombich, and yours, Inveraughlin, and yours, Edderalshendrach, and
+yours, sir.'
+
+The last person he addressed was Ballenkeiroch, who, remembering the
+death of his son, loured on him with a look of savage defiance. The
+Baron, quick as lightning at taking umbrage, had already bent his brow
+when Glennaquoich dragged his major from the spot, and remonstrated
+with him, in the authoritative tone of a chieftain, on the madness of
+reviving a quarrel in such a moment.
+
+'The ground is cumbered with carcasses,' said the old mountaineer,
+turning sullenly away; 'ONE MORE would hardly have been kenn'dupon it;
+and if it wasna for yoursell, Vich lan Vohr, that one should be
+Bradwardine's or mine.'
+
+The Chief soothed while he hurried him away; and then returned to the
+Baron. 'It is Ballenkeiroch,' he said, in an under and confidential
+voice, 'father of the young man who fell eight years since in the
+unlucky affair at the mains.'
+
+'Ah!' said the Baron, instantly relaxing the doubtful sternness of his
+features, 'I can take naickle frae a man to whom I have unhappily
+rendered sic a displeasure as that. Ye were right to apprise me,
+Glennaquoich; he may look as black as midnight at Martinmas ere Cosmo
+Comyne Bradwardine shall say he does him wrang. Ah! I have nae male
+lineage, and I should bear with one I have made childless, though you
+are aware the blood-wit was made up to your ain satisfaction by
+assythment, and that I have since expedited letters of slains. Weel, as
+I have said, I have no male issue, and yet it is needful that I
+maintain the honour of my house; and it is on that score I prayed ye
+for your peculiar and private attention.'
+
+The two young men awaited to hear him, in anxious curiosity.
+
+'I doubt na, lads,' he proceeded, 'but your education has been sae seen
+to that ye understand the true nature of the feudal tenures?'
+
+Fergus, afraid of an endless dissertation, answered, 'Intimately,
+Baron,' and touched Waverley as a signal to express no ignorance.
+
+'And ye are aware, I doubt not, that the holding of the barony of
+Bradwardine is of a nature alike honourable and peculiar, being blanch
+(which Craig opines ought to be Latinated blancum, or rather francum, a
+free holding) pro sermtio detrahendi, seu exuendi, caligas regis post
+battalliam.' Here Fergus turned his falcon eye upon Edward, with an
+almost imperceptible rise of his eyebrow, to which his shoulders
+corresponded in the same degree of elevation. 'Now, twa points of
+dubitation occur to me upon this topic. First, whether this service, or
+feudal homage, be at any event due to the person of the Prince, the
+words being, per expressum, caligas REGIS, the boots of the king
+himself; and I pray your opinion anent that particular before we
+proceed farther.'
+
+'Why, he is Prince Regent,' answered Mac-Ivor, with laudable composure
+of countenance; 'and in the court of France all the honours are
+rendered to the person of the Regent which are due to that of the King.
+Besides, were I to pull off either of their boots, I would render that
+service to the young Chevalier ten times more willingly than to his
+father.'
+
+' Ay, but I talk not of personal predilections. However, your authority
+is of great weight as to the usages of the court of France; and
+doubtless the Prince, as alter ego, may have a right to claim the
+homagium of the great tenants of the crown, since all faithful subjects
+are commanded, in the commission of regency, to respect him as the
+King's own person. Far, therefore, be it from me to diminish the lustre
+of his authority by withholding this act of homage, so peculiarly
+calculated to give it splendour; for I question if the Emperor of
+Germany hath his boots taken off by a free baron of the empire. But
+here lieth the second difficulty--the Prince wears no boots, but simply
+brogues and trews.'
+
+This last dilemma had almost disturbed Fergus's gravity.
+
+'Why,' said he, 'you know, Baron, the proverb tells us, "It's ill
+taking the breeks off a Highlandman," and the boots are here in the
+same predicament.'
+
+'The word caligce, however,' continued the Baron, 'though I admit that,
+by family tradition, and even in our ancient evidents, it is explained
+"lie-boots," means, in its primitive sense, rather sandals; and Caius
+Caesar, the nephew and successor of Caius Tiberius, received the
+agnomen of Caligula, a caligulis sine caligis levioribus, quibus
+adolescentior usus fuerat in exercitu Germanici patris sui. And the
+caligce were also proper to the monastic bodies; for we read in an
+ancient glossarium upon the rule of Saint Benedict, in the Abbey of
+Saint Amand, that caligae were tied with latchets.'
+
+'That will apply to the brogues,' said Fergus.
+
+'It will so, my dear Glennaquoich, and the words are express: Caligae,
+dicta sunt quia ligantur; nam socci non ligantur, sed tantum
+intromittuntur; that is, caligae are denominated from the ligatures
+wherewith they are bound; whereas socci, which may be analogous to our
+mules, whilk the English denominate slippers, are only slipped upon the
+feet. The words of the charter are also alternative, exuere seu
+detrahere; that is, to undo, as in the case of sandals or brogues, and
+to pull of, as we say vernacularly concerning boots. Yet I would we had
+more light; but I fear there is little chance of finding hereabout any
+erudite author de re vestiaria.'
+
+'I should doubt it very much,' said the Chieftain, looking around on
+the straggling Highlanders, who were returning loaded with spoils of
+the slain,'though the res vestiaria itself seems to be in some request
+at present.'
+
+This remark coming within the Baron's idea of jocularity, he honoured
+it with a smile, but immediately resumed what to him appeared very
+serious business.
+
+'Bailie Macwheeble indeed holds an opinion that this honorary service
+is due, from its very nature, si petatur tantum; only if his Royal
+Highness shall require of the great tenant of the crown to perform that
+personal duty; and indeed he pointed out the case in Dirleton's Doubts
+and Queries, Grippit versus Spicer, anent the eviction of an estate ob
+non solutum canonem; that is, for non-payment of a feu-duty of three
+pepper-corns a year, whilk were taxt to be worth seven-eighths of a
+penny Scots, in whilk the defender was assoilzied. But I deem it
+safest, wi' your good favour, to place myself in the way of rendering
+the Prince this service, and to proffer performance thereof; and I
+shall cause the Bailie to attend with a schedule of a protest, whilk he
+has here prepared (taking out a paper), intimating, that if it shall be
+his Royal Highness's pleasure to accept of other assistance at pulling
+off his caligae (whether the same shall be rendered boots or brogues)
+save that of the said Baron of Bradwardine, who is in presence ready
+and willing to perform the same, it shall in no wise impinge upon or
+prejudice the right of the said Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine to perform the
+said service in future; nor shall it give any esquire, valet of the
+chamber, squire, or page, whose assistance it may please his Royal
+Highness to employ, any right, title, or ground for evicting from the
+said Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine the estate and barony of Bradwardine, and
+others held as aforesaid, by the due and faithful performance thereof.'
+
+Fergus highly applauded this arrangement; and the Baron took a friendly
+leave of them, with a smile of contented importance upon his visage.
+
+'Long live our dear friend the Baron,' exclaimed the Chief, as soon as
+he was out of hearing, 'for the most absurd original that exists north
+of the Tweed! I wish to heaven I had recommended him to attend the
+circle this evening with a boot-ketch under his arm. I think he might
+have adopted the suggestion if it had been made with suitable gravity.'
+
+'And how can you take pleasure in making a man of his worth so
+ridiculous?'
+
+'Begging pardon, my dear Waverley, you are as ridiculous as he. Why, do
+you not see that the man's whole mind is wrapped up in this ceremony?
+He has heard and thought of it since infancy as the most august
+privilege and ceremony in the world; and I doubt not but the expected
+pleasure of performing it was a principal motive with him for taking up
+arms. Depend upon it, had I endeavoured to divert him from exposing
+himself he would have treated me as an ignorant, conceited coxcomb, or
+perhaps might have taken a fancy to cut my throat; a pleasure which he
+once proposed to himself upon some point of etiquette not half so
+important, in his eyes, as this matter of boots or brogues, or whatever
+the caliga shall finally be pronounced by the learned. But I must go to
+headquarters, to prepare the Prince for this extraordinary scene. My
+information will be well taken, for it will give him a hearty laugh at
+present, and put him on his guard against laughing when it might be
+very mal-a-propos. So, au revoir, my dear Waverley.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIX
+
+THE ENGLISH PRISONER
+
+
+The first occupation of Waverley, after he departed from the Chieftain,
+was to go in quest of the officer whose life he had saved. He was
+guarded, along with his companions in misfortune, who were very
+numerous, in a gentleman's house near the field of battle.
+
+On entering the room where they stood crowded together, Waverley easily
+recognised the object of his visit, not only by the peculiar dignity of
+his appearance, but by the appendage of Dugald Mahony, with his
+battleaxe, who had stuck to him from the moment of his captivity as if
+he had been skewered to his side. This close attendance was perhaps for
+the purpose of securing his promised reward from Edward, but it also
+operated to save the English gentleman from being plundered in the
+scene of general confusion; for Dugald sagaciously argued that the
+amount of the salvage which he might be allowed would be regulated by
+the state of the prisoner when he should deliver him over to Waverley.
+He hastened to assure Waverley, therefore, with more words than he
+usually employed, that he had 'keepit ta sidier roy haill, and that he
+wasna a plack the waur since the fery moment when his honour forbad her
+to gie him a bit clamhewit wi' her Lochaber-axe.'
+
+Waverley assured Dugald of a liberal recompense, and, approaching the
+English officer, expressed his anxiety to do anything which might
+contribute to his convenience under his present unpleasant
+circumstances.
+
+'I am not so inexperienced a soldier, sir,' answered the Englishman,
+'as to complain of the fortune of war. I am only grieved to see those
+scenes acted in our own island which I have often witnessed elsewhere
+with comparative indifference.'
+
+'Another such day as this,' said Waverley, 'and I trust the cause of
+your regrets will be removed, and all will again return to peace and
+order.'
+
+The officer smiled and shook his head. 'I must not forget my situation
+so far as to attempt a formal confutation of that opinion; but,
+notwithstanding your success and the valour which achieved it, you have
+undertaken a task to which your strength appears wholly inadequate.'
+
+At this moment Fergus pushed into the press.
+
+'Come, Edward, come along; the Prince has gone to Pinkie House for the
+night; and we must follow, or lose the whole ceremony of the caligae.
+Your friend, the Baron, has been guilty of a great piece of cruelty; he
+has insisted upon dragging Bailie Macwheeble out to the field of
+battle. Now, you must know, the Bailie's greatest horror is an armed
+Highlander or a loaded gun; and there he stands, listening to the
+Baron's instructions concerning the protest, ducking his head like a
+sea-gull at the report of every gun and pistol that our idle boys are
+firing upon the fields, and undergoing, by way of penance, at every
+symptom of flinching a severe rebuke from his patron, who would not
+admit the discharge of a whole battery of cannon, within point-blank
+distance, as an apology for neglecting a discourse in which the honour
+of his family is interested.'
+
+'But how has Mr. Bradwardine got him to venture so far?' said Edward.
+
+'Why, he had come as far as Musselburgh, I fancy, in hopes of making
+some of our wills; and the peremptory commands of the Baron dragged him
+forward to Preston after the battle was over. He complains of one or
+two of our ragamuffins having put him in peril of his life by
+presenting their pieces at him; but as they limited his ransom to an
+English penny, I don't think we need trouble the provost-marshal upon
+that subject. So come along, Waverley.'
+
+'Waverley!' said the English officer, with great emotion;' the nephew
+of Sir Everard Waverley, of ----shire?'
+
+'The same, sir,' replied our hero, somewhat surprised at the tone in
+which he was addressed.
+
+'I am at once happy and grieved,' said the prisoner, 'to have met with
+you.'
+
+'I am ignorant, sir,' answered Waverley, 'how I have deserved so much
+interest.'
+
+'Did your uncle never mention a friend called Talbot?'
+
+'I have heard him talk with great regard of such a person,' replied
+Edward; 'a colonel, I believe, in the army, and the husband of Lady
+Emily Blandeville; but I thought Colonel Talbot had been abroad.'
+
+'I am just returned,' answered the officer; 'and being in Scotland,
+thought it my duty to act where my services promised to be useful. Yes,
+Mr. Waverley, I am that Colonel Talbot, the husband of the lady you
+have named; and I am proud to acknowledge that I owe alike my
+professional rank and my domestic happiness to your generous and
+noble-minded relative. Good God! that I should find his nephew in such
+a dress, and engaged in such a cause!'
+
+'Sir,' said Fergus, haughtily, 'the dress and cause are those of men of
+birth and honour.'
+
+'My situation forbids me to dispute your assertion,' said Colonel
+Talbot; 'otherwise it were no difficult matter to show that neither
+courage nor pride of lineage can gild a bad cause. But, with Mr.
+Waverley's permission and yours, sir, if yours also must be asked, I
+would willingly speak a few words with him on affairs connected with
+his own family.'
+
+'Mr. Waverley, sir, regulates his own motions. You will follow me, I
+suppose, to Pinkie,' said Fergus, turning to Edward, 'when you have
+finished your discourse with this new acquaintance?' So saying, the
+Chief of Glennaquoich adjusted his plaid with rather more than his
+usual air of haughty assumption and left the apartment.
+
+The interest of Waverley readily procured for Colonel Talbot the
+freedom of adjourning to a large garden belonging to his place of
+confinement. They walked a few paces in silence, Colonel Talbot
+apparently studying how to open what he had to say; at length he
+addressed Edward.
+
+'Mr. Waverley, you have this day saved my life; and yet I would to God
+that I had lost it, ere I had found you wearing the uniform and cockade
+of these men.'
+
+'I forgive your reproach, Colonel Talbot; it is well meant, and your
+education and prejudices render it natural. But there is nothing
+extraordinary in finding a man whose honour has been publicly and
+unjustly assailed in the situation which promised most fair to afford
+him satisfaction on his calumniators.'
+
+'I should rather say, in the situation most likely to confirm the
+reports which they have circulated,' said Colonel Talbot, 'by following
+the very line of conduct ascribed to you. Are you aware, Mr. Waverley,
+of the infinite distress, and even danger, which your present conduct
+has occasioned to your nearest relatives?'
+
+'Danger!'
+
+'Yes, sir, danger. When I left England your uncle and father had been
+obliged to find bail to answer a charge of treason, to which they were
+only admitted by the exertion of the most powerful interest. I came
+down to Scotland with the sole purpose of rescuing you from the gulf
+into which you have precipitated yourself; nor can I estimate the
+consequences to your family of your having openly joined the rebellion,
+since the very suspicion of your intention was so perilous to them.
+Most deeply do I regret that I did not meet you before this last and
+fatal error.'
+
+'I am really ignorant,' said Waverley, in a tone of reserve, 'why
+Colonel Talbot should have taken so much trouble on my account.'
+
+'Mr. Waverley,' answered Talbot, 'I am dull at apprehending irony; and
+therefore I shall answer your words according to their plain meaning. I
+am indebted to your uncle for benefits greater than those which a son
+owes to a father. I acknowledge to him the duty of a son; and as I know
+there is no manner in which I can requite his kindness so well as by
+serving you, I will serve you, if possible, whether you will permit me
+or no. The personal obligation which you have this day laid me under
+(although, in common estimation, as great as one human being can bestow
+on another) adds nothing to my zeal on your behalf; nor can that zeal
+be abated by any coolness with which you may please to receive it.'
+
+'Your intentions may be kind, sir,' said Waverley, drily; 'but your
+language is harsh, or at least peremptory.'
+
+'On my return to England,' continued Colonel Talbot, 'after long
+absence, I found your uncle, Sir Everard Waverley, in the custody of a
+king's messenger, in consequence of the suspicion brought upon him by
+your conduct. He is my oldest friend--how often shall I repeat it?--my
+best benefactor! he sacrificed his own views of happiness to mine; he
+never uttered a word, he never harboured a thought, that benevolence
+itself might not have thought or spoken. I found this man in
+confinement, rendered harsher to him by his habits of life, his natural
+dignity of feeling, and--forgive me, Mr. Waverley--by the cause through
+which this calamity had come upon him. I cannot disguise from you my
+feelings upon this occasion; they were most painfully unfavorable to
+you. Having by my family interest, which you probably know is not
+inconsiderable, succeeded in obtaining Sir Everard's release, I set out
+for Scotland. I saw Colonel Gardiner, a man whose fate alone is
+sufficient to render this insurrection for ever execrable. In the
+course of conversation with him I found that, from late circumstances,
+from a reexamination of the persons engaged in the mutiny, and from his
+original good opinion of your character, he was much softened towards
+you; and I doubted not that, if I could be so fortunate as to discover
+you, all might yet be well. But this unnatural rebellion has ruined
+all. I have, for the first time in a long and active military life,
+seen Britons disgrace themselves by a panic flight, and that before a
+foe without either arms or discipline. And now I find the heir of my
+dearest friend--the son, I may say, of his' affections--sharing a
+triumph for which he ought the first to have blushed. Why should I
+lament Gardiner? his lot was happy compared to mine!'
+
+There was so much dignity in Colonel Talbot's manner, such a mixture of
+military pride and manly sorrow, and the news of Sir Everard's
+imprisonment was told in so deep a tone of feeling, that Edward stood
+mortified, abashed, and distressed in presence of the prisoner who owed
+to him his life not many hours before. He was not sorry when Fergus
+interrupted their conference a second time.
+
+'His Royal Highness commands Mr. Waverley's attendance.' Colonel Talbot
+threw upon Edward a reproachful glance, which did not escape the quick
+eye of the Highland Chief. 'His immediate attendance,' he repeated,
+with considerable emphasis. Waverley turned again towards the Colonel.
+
+'We shall meet again,' he said; 'in the meanwhile, every possible
+accommodation--'
+
+'I desire none,' said the Colonel; 'let me fare like the meanest of
+those brave men who, on this day of calamity, have preferred wounds and
+captivity to flight; I would almost exchange places with one of those
+who have fallen to know that my words have made a suitable impression
+on your mind.'
+
+'Let Colonel Talbot be carefully secured,' said Fergus to the Highland
+officer who commanded the guard over the prisoners; 'it is the Prince's
+particular command; he is a prisoner of the utmost importance.'
+
+'But let him want no accommodation suitable to his rank,' said
+Waverley. 'Consistent always with secure custody,' reiterated Fergus.
+The officer signified his acquiescence in both commands, and Edward
+followed Fergus to the garden-gate, where Callum Beg, with three
+saddle-horses, awaited them. Turning his head, he saw Colonel Talbot
+reconducted to his place of confinement by a file of Highlanders; he
+lingered on the threshold of the door and made a signal with his hand
+towards Waverley, as if enforcing the language he had held towards him.
+
+'Horses,' said Fergus, as he mounted, 'are now as plenty as
+blackberries; every man may have them for the catching. Come, let
+Callum adjust your stirrups and let us to Pinkie House [Footnote:
+Charles Edward took up his quarters after the battle at Pinkie House,
+adjoining to Musselburgh.] as fast as these ci-devant dragoon-horses
+choose to carry us.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER L
+
+RATHER UNIMPORTANT
+
+
+'I was turned back,' said Fergus to Edward, as they galloped from
+Preston to Pinkie House, 'by a message from the Prince. But I suppose
+you know the value of this most noble Colonel Talbot as a prisoner. He
+is held one of the best officers among the red-coats, a special friend
+and favourite of the Elector himself, and of that dreadful hero, the
+Duke of Cumberland, who has been summoned from his triumphs at Fontenoy
+to come over and devour us poor Highlanders alive. Has he been telling
+you how the bells of St. James's ring? Not "turn again, Whittington,"
+like those of Bow, in the days of yore?'
+
+'Fergus!' said Waverley, with a reproachful look.
+
+'Nay, I cannot tell what to make of you,' answered the Chief of
+Mac-Ivor, 'you are blown about with every wind of doctrine. Here have
+we gained a victory unparalleled in history, and your behaviour is
+praised by every living mortal to the skies, and the Prince is eager to
+thank you in person, and all our beauties of the White Rose are pulling
+caps for you;--and you, the preux chevalier of the day, are stooping on
+your horse's neck like a butter-woman riding to market, and looking as
+black as a funeral!'
+
+'I am sorry for poer Colonel Gardiner's death; he was once very kind to
+me.'
+
+'Why, then, be sorry for five minutes, and then be glad again; his
+chance to-day may be ours to-morrow; and what does it signify? The next
+best thing to victory is honourable death; but it is a PIS-ALLER, and
+one would rather a foe had it than one's self.'
+
+'But Colonel Talbot has informed me that my father and uncle are both
+imprisoned by government on my account.'
+
+'We'll put in bail, my boy; old Andrew Ferrara [Footnote: See Note 10]
+shall lodge his security; and I should like to see him put to justify
+it in Westminster Hall!'
+
+'Nay, they are already at liberty, upon bail of a more civic
+disposition.'
+
+'Then why is thy noble spirit cast down, Edward? Dost think that the
+Elector's ministers are such doves as to set their enemies at liberty
+at this critical moment if they could or durst confine and punish them?
+Assure thyself that either they have no charge against your relations
+on which they can continue their imprisonment, or else they are afraid
+of our friends, the jolly Cavaliers of old England. At any rate, you
+need not be apprehensive upon their account; and we will find some
+means of conveying to them assurances of your safety.'
+
+Edward was silenced but not satisfied with these reasons. He had now
+been more than once shocked at the small degree of sympathy which
+Fergus exhibited for the feelings even of those whom he loved, if they
+did not correspond with his own mood at the time, and more especially
+if they thwarted him while earnest in a favourite pursuit. Fergus
+sometimes indeed observed that he had offended Waverley, but, always
+intent upon some favourite plan or project of his own, he was never
+sufficiently aware of the extent or duration of his displeasure, so
+that the reiteration of these petty offences somewhat cooled the
+volunteer's extreme attachment to his officer.
+
+The Chevalier received Waverley with his usual favour, and paid him
+many compliments on his distinguished bravery. He then took him apart,
+made many inquiries concerning Colonel Talbot, and when he had received
+all the information which Edward was able to give concerning him and
+his connexions, he proceeded--'I cannot but think, Mr. Waverley, that
+since this gentleman is so particularly connected with our worthy and
+excellent friend, Sir Everard Waverley, and since his lady is of the
+house of Blandeville, whose devotion to the true and loyal principles
+of the Church of England is so generally known, the Colonel's own
+private sentiments cannot be unfavorable to us, whatever mask he may
+have assumed to accommodate himself to the times.'
+
+'If I am to judge from the language he this day held to me, I am under
+the necessity of differing widely from your Royal Highness.'
+
+'Well, it is worth making a trial at least. I therefore entrust you
+with the charge of Colonel Talbot, with power to act concerning him as
+you think most advisable; and I hope you will find means of
+ascertaining what are his real dispositions towards our Royal Father's
+restoration.'
+
+'I am convinced,' said Waverley, bowing,'that if Colonel Talbot chooses
+to grant his parole, it may be securely depended upon; but if he
+refuses it, I trust your Royal Highness will devolve on some other
+person than the nephew of his friend the task of laying him under the
+necessary restraint.'
+
+'I will trust him with no person but you,' said the Prince, smiling,
+but peremptorily repeating his mandate; 'it is of importance to my
+service that there should appear to be a good intelligence between you,
+even if you are unable to gain his confidence in earnest. You will
+therefore receive him into your quarters, and in case he declines
+giving his parole, you must apply for a proper guard. I beg you will go
+about this directly. We return to Edinburgh tomorrow.'
+
+Being thus remanded to the vicinity of Preston, Waverley lost the Baron
+of Bradwardine's solemn act of homage. So little, however, was he at
+this time in love with vanity, that he had quite forgotten the ceremony
+in which Fergus had laboured to engage his curiosity. But next day a
+formal 'Gazette' was circulated, containing a detailed account of the
+battle of Gladsmuir, as the Highlanders chose to denominate their
+victory. It concluded with an account of the court afterwards held by
+the Chevalier at Pinkie House, which contained this among other
+high-flown descriptive paragraphs:--
+
+'Since that fatal treaty which annihilates Scotland as an independent
+nation, it has not been our happiness to see her princes receive, and
+her nobles discharge, those acts of feudal homage which, founded upon
+the splendid actions of Scottish valour, recall the memory of her early
+history, with the manly and chivalrous simplicity of the ties which
+united to the Crown the homage of the warriors by whom it was
+repeatedly upheld and defended. But on the evening of the 20th our
+memories were refreshed with one of those ceremonies which belong to
+the ancient days of Scotland's glory. After the circle was formed,
+Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine of that ilk, colonel in the service, etc.,
+etc., etc., came before the Prince, attended by Mr. D. Macwheeble, the
+Bailie of his ancient barony of Bradwardine (who, we understand, has
+been lately named a commissary), and, under form of instrument, claimed
+permission to perform to the person of his Royal Highness, as
+representing his father, the service used and wont, for which, under a
+charter of Robert Bruce (of which the original was produced and
+inspected by the Masters of his Royal Highness's Chancery for the time
+being), the claimant held the barony of Bradwardine and lands of
+Tully-Veolan. His claim being admitted and registered, his Royal
+Highness having placed his foot upon a cushion, the Baron of
+Bradwardine, kneeling upon his right knee, proceeded to undo the
+latchet of the brogue, or low-heeled Highland shoe, which our gallant
+young hero wears in compliment to his brave followers. When this was
+performed, his Royal Highness declared the ceremony completed; and,
+embracing the gallant veteran, protested that nothing but compliance
+with an ordinance of Robert Bruce could have induced him to receive
+even the symbolical performance of a menial office from hands which had
+fought so bravely to put the crown upon the head of his father. The
+Baron of Bradwardine then took instruments in the hands of Mr.
+Commissary Macwheeble, bearing that all points and circumstances of the
+act of homage had been rite et solenniter acta et peracta; and a
+corresponding entry was made in the protocol of the Lord High
+Chamberlain and in the record of Chancery. We understand that it is in
+contemplation of his Royal Highness, when his Majesty's pleasure can be
+known, to raise Colonel Bradwardine to the peerage, by the title of
+Viscount Bradwardine of Bradwardine and Tully-Veolan, and that, in the
+meanwhile, his Royal Highness, in his father's name and authority, has
+been pleased to grant him an honourable augmentation to his paternal
+coat of arms, being a budget or boot-jack, disposed saltier-wise with a
+naked broadsword, to be borne in the dexter cantle of the shield; and,
+as an additional motto, on a scroll beneath, the words, "Draw and draw
+off."'
+
+'Were it not for the recollection of Fergus's raillery,' thought
+Waverley to himself, when he had perused this long and grave document,'
+how very tolerably would all this sound, and how little should I have
+thought of connecting it with any ludicrous idea! Well, after all,
+everything has its fair as well as its seamy side; and truly I do not
+see why the Baron's boot-jack may not stand as fair in heraldry as the
+water-buckets, waggons, cart-wheels, plough-socks, shuttles,
+candlesticks, and other ordinaries, conveying ideas of anything save
+chivalry, which appear in the arms of some of our most ancient gentry.'
+
+This, however, is an episode in respect to the principal story.
+
+When Waverley returned to Preston and rejoined Colonel Talbot, he found
+him recovered from the strong and obvious emotions with which a
+concurrence of unpleasing events had affected him. He had regained his
+natural manner, which was that of an English gentleman and soldier,
+manly, open and generous, but not unsusceptible of prejudice against
+those of a different country, or who opposed him in political tenets.
+When Waverley acquainted Colonel Talbot with the Chevalier's purpose to
+commit him to his charge, 'I did not think to have owed so much
+obligation to that young gentleman,' he said, 'as is implied in this
+destination. I can at least cheerfully join in the prayer of the honest
+Presbyterian clergyman, that, as he has come among us seeking an
+earthly crown, his labours may be speedily rewarded with a heavenly
+one. [Footnote: The clergyman's name was Mac-Vicar. Protected by the
+cannon of the Castle, he preached every Sunday in the West Kirk while
+the Highlanders were in possession of Edinburgh, and it was in presence
+of some of the Jacobites that he prayed for Prince Charles Edward in
+the terms quoted in the text.] I shall willingly give my parole not to
+attempt an escape without your knowledge, since, in fact, it was to
+meet you that I came to Scotland; and I am glad it has happened even
+under this predicament. But I suppose we shall be but a short time
+together. Your Chevalier (that is a name we may both give to him), with
+his plaids and blue caps, will, I presume, be continuing his crusade
+southward?'
+
+'Not as I hear; I believe the army makes some stay in Edinburgh to
+collect reinforcements.'
+
+'And to besiege the Castle?' said Talbot, smiling sarcastically. 'Well,
+unless my old commander, General Preston, turn false metal, or the
+Castle sink into the North Loch, events which I deem equally probable,
+I think we shall have some time to make up our acquaintance. I have a
+guess that this gallant Chevalier has a design that I should be your
+proselyte; and, as I wish you to be mine, there cannot be a more fair
+proposal than to afford us fair conference together. But, as I spoke
+today under the influence of feelings I rarely give way to, I hope you
+will excuse my entering again upon controversy till we are somewhat
+better acquainted.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LI
+
+INTRIGUES OF LOVE AND POLITICS
+
+
+It is not necessary to record in these pages the triumphant entrance of
+the Chevalier into Edinburgh after the decisive affair at Preston. One
+circumstance, however, may be noticed, because it illustrates the high
+spirit of Flora Mac-Ivor. The Highlanders by whom the Prince was
+surrounded, in the license and extravagance of this joyful moment,
+fired their pieces repeatedly, and one of these having been
+accidentally loaded with ball, the bullet grazed the young lady's
+temple as she waved her handkerchief from a balcony. [Footnote: See
+Note II.] Fergus, who beheld the accident, was at her side in an
+instant; and, on seeing that the wound was trifling, he drew his
+broadsword with the purpose of rushing down upon the man by whose
+carelessness she had incurred so much danger, when, holding him by the
+plaid, 'Do not harm the poor fellow,' she cried; 'for Heaven's sake, do
+not harm him! but thank God with me that the accident happened to Flora
+Mac-Ivor; for had it befallen a Whig, they would have pretended that
+the shot was fired on purpose.'
+
+Waverley escaped the alarm which this accident would have occasioned to
+him, as he was unavoidably delayed by the necessity of accompanying
+Colonel Talbot to Edinburgh.
+
+They performed the journey together on horseback, and for some time, as
+if to sound each other's feelings and sentiments, they conversed upon
+general and ordinary topics.
+
+When Waverley again entered upon the subject which he had most at
+heart, the situation, namely, of his father and his uncle, Colonel
+Talbot seemed now rather desirous to alleviate than to aggravate his
+anxiety. This appeared particularly to be the case when he heard
+Waverley's history, which he did not scruple to confide to him.
+
+'And so,' said the Colonel,'there has been no malice prepense, as
+lawyers, I think, term it, in this rash step of yours; and you have
+been trepanned into the service of this Italian knight-errant by a few
+civil speeches from him and one or two of his Highland recruiting
+sergeants? It is sadly foolish, to be sure, but not nearly so bad as I
+was led to expect. However, you cannot desert, even from the Pretender,
+at the present moment; that seems impossible. But I have little doubt
+that, in the dissensions incident to this heterogeneous mass of wild
+and desperate men, some opportunity may arise, by availing yourself of
+which you may extricate yourself honourably from your rash engagement
+before the bubble burst. If this can be managed, I would have you go to
+a place of safety in Flanders which I shall point out. And I think I
+can secure your pardon from government after a few months' residence
+abroad.'
+
+'I cannot permit you, Colonel Talbot,' answered Waverley, 'to speak of
+any plan which turns on my deserting an enterprise in which I may have
+engaged hastily, but certainly voluntarily, and with the purpose of
+abiding the issue.'
+
+'Well,' said Colonel Talbot, smiling, 'leave me my thoughts and hopes
+at least at liberty, if not my speech. But have you never examined your
+mysterious packet?'
+
+'It is in my baggage,' replied Edward; 'we shall find it in Edinburgh.'
+
+In Edinburgh they soon arrived. Waverley's quarters had been assigned
+to him, by the Prince's express orders, in a handsome lodging, where
+there was accommodation for Colonel Talbot. His first business was to
+examine his portmanteau, and, after a very short search, out tumbled
+the expected packet. Waverley opened it eagerly. Under a blank cover,
+simply addressed to E. Waverley, Esq., he found a number of open
+letters. The uppermost were two from Colonel Gardiner addressed to
+himself. The earliest in date was a kind and gentle remonstrance for
+neglect of the writer's advice respecting the disposal of his time
+during his leave of absence, the renewal of which, he reminded Captain
+Waverley, would speedily expire. 'Indeed,' the letter proceeded, 'had
+it been otherwise, the news from abroad and my instructions from the
+War Office must have compelled me to recall it, as there is great
+danger, since the disaster in Flanders, both of foreign invasion and
+insurrection among the disaffected at home. I therefore entreat you
+will repair as soon as possible to the headquarters of the regiment;
+and I am concerned to add that this is still the more necessary as
+there is some discontent in your troop, and I postpone inquiry into
+particulars until I can have the advantage of your assistance.'
+
+The second letter, dated eight days later, was in such a style as might
+have been expected from the Colonel's receiving no answer to the first.
+It reminded Waverley of his duty as a man of honour, an officer, and a
+Briton; took notice of the increasing dissatisfaction of his men, and
+that some of them had been heard to hint that their Captain encouraged
+and approved of their mutinous behaviour; and, finally, the writer
+expressed the utmost regret and surprise that he had not obeyed his
+commands by repairing to headquarters, reminded him that his leave of
+absence had been recalled, and conjured him, in a style in which
+paternal remonstrance was mingled with military authority, to redeem
+his error by immediately joining his regiment. 'That I may be certain,'
+concluded the letter, 'that this actually reaches you, I despatch it by
+Corporal Tims of your troop, with orders to deliver it into your own
+hand.'
+
+Upon reading these letters Waverley, with great bitterness of feeling,
+was compelled to make the amende honorable to the memory of the brave
+and excellent writer; for surely, as Colonel Gardiner must have had
+every reason to conclude they had come safely to hand, less could not
+follow, on their being neglected, than that third and final summons,
+which Waverley actually received at Glennaquoich, though too late to
+obey it. And his being superseded, in consequence of his apparent
+neglect of this last command, was so far from being a harsh or severe
+proceeding, that it was plainly inevitable. The next letter he unfolded
+was from the major of the regiment, acquainting him that a report to
+the disadvantage of his reputation was public in the country, stating,
+that one Mr. Falconer of Ballihopple, or some such name, had proposed
+in his presence a treasonable toast, which he permitted to pass in
+silence, although it was so gross an affront to the royal family that a
+gentleman in company, not remarkable for his zeal for government, had
+never theless taken the matter up, and that, supposing the account
+true, Captain Waverley had thus suffered another, comparatively
+unconcerned, to resent an affront directed against him personally as an
+officer, and to go out with the person by whom it was offered. The
+major concluded that no one of Captain Waverley's brother officers
+could believe this scandalous story, but that it was necessarily their
+joint opinion that his own honour, equally with that of the regiment,
+depended upon its being instantly contradicted by his authority, etc.
+etc. etc.
+
+'What do you think of all this?' said Colonel Talbot, to whom Waverley
+handed the letters after he had perused them.
+
+'Think! it renders thought impossible. It is enough to drive me mad.'
+
+'Be calm, my young friend; let us see what are these dirty scrawls that
+follow.'
+
+The first was addressed,--
+
+'For Master W. Ruffin, These.'--
+
+'Dear sur, sum of our yong gulpins will not bite, thof I tuold them you
+shoed me the squoire's own seel. But Tims will deliver you the lettrs
+as desired, and tell ould Addem he gave them to squoir's bond, as to be
+sure yours is the same, and shall be ready for signal, and hoy for Hoy
+Church and Sachefrel, as fadur sings at harvestwhome. Yours, deer Sur,
+
+'H. H.
+
+'Poscriff.--Do'e tell squoire we longs to heer from him, and has
+dootings about his not writing himself, and Lifetenant Bottler is
+smoky.'
+
+'This Ruffin, I suppose, then, is your Donald of the Cavern, who has
+intercepted your letters, and carried on a correspondence with the poor
+devil Houghton, as if under your authority?'
+
+'It seems too true. But who can Addem be?'
+
+'Possibly Adam, for poor Gardiner, a sort of pun on his name.'
+
+The other letters were to the same purpose; and they soon received yet
+more complete light upon Donald Bean's machinations.
+
+John Hodges, one of Waverley's servants, who had remained with the
+regiment and had been taken at Preston, now made his appearance. He had
+sought out his master with the purpose of again entering his service.
+From this fellow they learned that some time after Waverley had gone
+from the headquarters of the regiment, a pedlar, called Ruthven, Rufnn,
+or Rivane, known among the soldiers by the name of Wily Will, had made
+frequent visits to the town of Dundee. He appeared to possess plenty of
+money, sold his commodities very cheap, seemed always willing to treat
+his friends at the ale-house, and easily ingratiated himself with many
+of Waverley's troop, particularly Sergeant Houghton and one Tims, also
+a non-commissioned officer. To these he unfolded, in Waverley's name, a
+plan for leaving the regiment and joining him in the Highlands, where
+report said the clans had already taken arms in great numbers. The men,
+who had been educated as Jacobites, so far as they had any opinion at
+all, and who knew their landlord, Sir Everard, had always been supposed
+to hold such tenets, easily fell into the snare. That Waverley was at a
+distance in the Highlands was received as a sufficient excuse for
+transmitting his letters through the medium of the pedlar; and the
+sight of his well-known seal seemed to authenticate the negotiations in
+his name, where writing might have been dangerous. The cabal, however,
+began to take air, from the premature mutinous language of those
+concerned. Wily Will justified his appellative; for, after suspicion
+arose, he was seen no more. When the 'Gazette' appeared in which
+Waverley was superseded, great part of his troop broke out into actual
+mutiny, but were surrounded and disarmed by the rest of the regiment In
+consequence of the sentence of a court-martial, Houghton and Tims were
+condemned to be shot, but afterwards permitted to cast lots for life.
+Houghton, the survivor, showed much penitence, being convinced, from
+the rebukes and explanations of Colonel Gardiner, that he had really
+engaged in a very heinous crime. It is remarkable that, as soon as the
+poor fellow was satisfied of this, he became also convinced that the
+instigator had acted without authority from Edward, saying, 'If it was
+dishonourable and against Old England, the squire could know nought
+about it; he never did, or thought to do, anything dishonourable, no
+more didn't Sir Everard, nor none of them afore him, and in that belief
+he would live and die that Ruffin had done it all of his own head.'
+
+The strength of conviction with which he expressed himself upon this
+subject, as well as his assurances that the letters intended for
+Waverley had been delivered to Ruthven, made that revolution in Colonel
+Gardiner's opinion which he expressed to Talbot.
+
+The reader has long since understood that Donald Bean Lean played the
+part of tempter on this occasion. His motives were shortly these. Of an
+active and intriguing spirit, he had been long employed as a subaltern
+agent and spy by those in the confidence of the Chevalier, to an extent
+beyond what was suspected even by Fergus Mac-Ivor, whom, though obliged
+to him for protection, he regarded with fear and dislike. To success in
+this political department he naturally looked for raising himself by
+some bold stroke above his present hazardous and precarious trade of
+rapine. He was particularly employed in learning the strength of the
+regiments in Scotland, the character of the officers, etc., and had
+long had his eye upon Waverley's troop as open to temptation. Donald
+even believed that Waverley himself was at bottom in the Stuart
+interest, which seemed confirmed by his long visit to the Jacobite
+Baron of Bradwardine. When, therefore, he came to his cave with one of
+Glennaquoich's attendants, the robber, who could never appreciate his
+real motive, which was mere curiosity, was so sanguine as to hope that
+his own talents were to be employed in some intrigue of consequence,
+under the auspices of this wealthy young Englishman. Nor was he
+undeceived by Waverley's neglecting all hints and openings afforded for
+explanation. His conduct passed for prudent reserve, and somewhat
+piqued Donald Bean, who, supposing himself left out of a secret where
+confidence promised to be advantageous, determined to have his share in
+the drama, whether a regular part were assigned him or not. For this
+purpose during Waverley's sleep he possessed himself of his seal, as a
+token to be used to any of the troopers whom he might discover to be
+possessed of the captain's confidence. His first journey to Dundee, the
+town where the regiment was quartered, undeceived him in his original
+supposition, but opened to him a new field of action. He knew there
+would be no service so well rewarded by the friends of the Chevalier as
+seducing a part of the regular army to his standard. For this purpose
+he opened the machinations with which the reader is already acquainted,
+and which form a clue to all the intricacies and obscurities of the
+narrative previous to Waverley's leaving Glennaquoich.
+
+By Colonel Talbot's advice, Waverley declined detaining in his service
+the lad whose evidence had thrown additional light on these intrigues.
+He represented to him, that it would be doing the man an injury to
+engage him in a desperate undertaking, and that, whatever should
+happen, his evidence would go some length at least in explaining the
+circumstances under which Waverley himself had embarked in it. Waverley
+therefore wrote a short state of what had happened to his uncle and his
+father, cautioning them, however, in the present circumstances, not to
+attempt to answer his letter. Talbot then gave the young man a letter
+to the commander of one of the English vessels of war cruising in the
+frith, requesting him to put the bearer ashore at Berwick, with a pass
+to proceed to ----shire. He was then furnished with money to make an
+expeditious journey, and directed to get on board the ship by means of
+bribing a fishing-boat, which, as they afterwards learned, he easily
+effected.
+
+Tired of the attendance of Callum Beg, who, he thought, had some
+disposition to act as a spy on his motions, Waverley hired as a servant
+a simple Edinburgh swain, who had mounted the white cockade in a fit of
+spleen and jealousy, because Jenny Jop had danced a whole night with
+Corporal Bullock of the Fusileers.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LII
+
+INTRIGUES OF SOCIETY AND LOVE
+
+
+Colonel Talbot became more kindly in his demeanour towards Waverley
+after the confidence he had reposed in him, and, as they were
+necessarily much together, the character of the Colonel rose in
+Waverley's estimation. There seemed at first something harsh in his
+strong expressions of dislike and censure, although no one was in the
+general case more open to conviction. The habit of authority had also
+given his manners some peremptory hardness, notwithstanding the polish
+which they had received from his intimate acquaintance with the higher
+circles. As a specimen of the military character, he differed from all
+whom Waverley had as yet seen. The soldiership of the Baron of
+Bradwardine was marked by pedantry; that of Major Melville by a sort of
+martinet attention to the minutiae and technicalities of discipline,
+rather suitable to one who was to manoeuvre a battalion than to him who
+was to command an army; the military spirit of Fergus was so much
+warped and blended with his plans and political views, that it was less
+that of a soldier than of a petty sovereign. But Colonel Talbot was in
+every point the English soldier. His whole soul was devoted to the
+service of his king and country, without feeling any pride in knowing
+the theory of his art with the Baron, or its practical minutiae with
+the Major, or in applying his science to his own particular plans of
+ambition, like the Chieftain of Glennaquoich. Added to this, he was a
+man of extended knowledge and cultivated taste, although strongly
+tinged, as we have already observed, with those prejudices which are
+peculiarly English.
+
+The character of Colonel Talbot dawned upon Edward by degrees; for the
+delay of the Highlanders in the fruitless siege of Edinburgh Castle
+occupied several weeks, during which Waverley had little to do
+excepting to seek such amusement as society afforded. He would
+willingly have persuaded his new friend to become acquainted with some
+of his former intimates. But the Colonel, after one or two visits,
+shook his head, and declined farther experiment. Indeed he went
+farther, and characterised the Baron as the most intolerable formal
+pedant he had ever had the misfortune to meet with, and the Chief of
+Glennaquoich as a Frenchified Scotchman, possessing all the cunning and
+plausibility of the nation where he was educated, with the proud,
+vindictive, and turbulent humour of that of his birth. 'If the devil,'
+he said, 'had sought out an agent expressly for the purpose of
+embroiling this miserable country, I do not think he could find a
+better than such a fellow as this, whose temper seems equally active,
+supple, and mischievous, and who is followed, and implicitly obeyed, by
+a gang of such cut-throats as those whom you are pleased to admire so
+much.'
+
+The ladies of the party did not escape his censure. He allowed that
+Flora Mac-Ivor was a fine woman, and Rose Bradwardine a pretty girl.
+But he alleged that the former destroyed the effect of her beauty by an
+affectation of the grand airs which she had probably seen practised in
+the mock court of St. Germains. As for Rose Bradwardine, he said it was
+impossible for any mortal to admire such a little uninformed thing,
+whose small portion of education was as ill adapted to her sex or youth
+as if she had appeared with one of her father's old campaign-coats upon
+her person for her sole garment. Now much of this was mere spleen and
+prejudice in the excellent Colonel, with whom the white cockade on the
+breast, the white rose in the hair, and the Mac at the beginning of a
+name would have made a devil out of an angel; and indeed he himself
+jocularly allowed that he could not have endured Venus herself if she
+had been announced in a drawing-room by the name of Miss Mac-Jupiter.
+
+Waverley, it may easily be believed, looked upon these young ladies
+with very different eyes. During the period of the siege he paid them
+almost daily visits, although he observed with regret that his suit
+made as little progress in the affections of the former as the arms of
+the Chevalier in subduing the fortress. She maintained with rigour the
+rule she had laid down of treating him with indifference, without
+either affecting to avoid him or to shun intercourse with him. Every
+word, every look, was strictly regulated to accord with her system, and
+neither the dejection of Waverley nor the anger which Fergus scarcely
+suppressed could extend Flora's attention to Edward beyond that which
+the most ordinary politeness demanded. On the other hand, Rose
+Bradwardine gradually rose in Waverley's opinion. He had several
+opportunities of remarking that, as her extreme timidity wore off, her
+manners assumed a higher character; that the agitating circumstances of
+the stormy time seemed to call forth a certain dignity of feeling and
+expression which he had not formerly observed; and that she omitted no
+opportunity within her reach to extend her knowledge and refine her
+taste.
+
+Flora Mac-Ivor called Rose her pupil, and was attentive to assist her
+in her studies, and to fashion both her taste and understanding. It
+might have been remarked by a very close observer that in the presence
+of Waverley she was much more desirous to exhibit her friend's
+excellences than her own. But I must request of the reader to suppose
+that this kind and disinterested purpose was concealed by the most
+cautious delicacy, studiously shunning the most distant approach to
+affectation. So that it was as unlike the usual exhibition of one
+pretty woman affecting to proner another as the friendship of David and
+Jonathan might be to the intimacy of two Bond Street loungers. The fact
+is that, though the effect was felt, the cause could hardly be
+observed. Each of the ladies, like two excellent actresses, were
+perfect in their parts, and performed them to the delight of the
+audience; and such being the case, it was almost impossible to discover
+that the elder constantly ceded to her friend that which was most
+suitable to her talents.
+
+But to Waverley Rose Bradwardine possessed an attraction which few men
+can resist, from the marked interest which she took in everything that
+affected him. She was too young and too inexperienced to estimate the
+full force of the constant attention which she paid to him. Her father
+was too abstractedly immersed in learned and military discussions to
+observe her partiality, and Flora Mac-Ivor did not alarm her by
+remonstrance, because she saw in this line of conduct the most probable
+chance of her friend securing at length a return of affection.
+
+The truth is, that in her first conversation after their meeting Rose
+had discovered the state of her mind to that acute and intelligent
+friend, although she was not herself aware of it. From that time Flora
+was not only determined upon the final rejection of Waverley's
+addresses, but became anxious that they should, if possible, be
+transferred to her friend. Nor was she less interested in this plan,
+though her brother had from time to time talked, as between jest and
+earnest, of paying his suit to Miss Bradwardine. She knew that Fergus
+had the true continental latitude of opinion respecting the institution
+of marriage, and would not have given his hand to an angel unless for
+the purpose of strengthening his alliances and increasing his influence
+and wealth. The Baron's whim of transferring his estate to the distant
+heir-male, instead of his own daughter, was therefore likely to be an
+insurmountable obstacle to his entertaining any serious thoughts of
+Rose Bradwardine. Indeed, Fergus's brain was a perpetual workshop of
+scheme and intrigue, of every possible kind and description; while,
+like many a mechanic of more ingenuity than steadiness, he would often
+unexpectedly, and without any apparent motive, abandon one plan and go
+earnestly to work upon another, which was either fresh from the forge
+of his imagination or had at some former period been flung aside half
+finished. It was therefore often difficult to guess what line of
+conduct he might finally adopt upon any given occasion.
+
+Although Flora was sincerely attached to her brother, whose high
+energies might indeed have commanded her admiration even without the
+ties which bound them together, she was by no means blind to his
+faults, which she considered as dangerous to the hopes of any woman who
+should found her ideas of a happy marriage in the peaceful enjoyment of
+domestic society and the exchange of mutual and engrossing affection.
+The real disposition of Waverley, on the other hand, notwithstanding
+his dreams of tented fields and military honour, seemed exclusively
+domestic. He asked and received no share in the busy scenes which were
+constantly going on around him, and was rather annoyed than interested
+by the discussion of contending claims, rights, and interests which
+often passed in his presence. All this pointed him out as the person
+formed to make happy a spirit like that of Rose, which corresponded
+with his own.
+
+She remarked this point in Waverley's character one day while she sat
+with Miss Bradwardine. 'His genius and elegant taste,' answered Rose,
+'cannot be interested in such trifling discussions. What is it to him,
+for example, whether the Chief of the Macindallaghers, who has brought
+out only fifty men, should be a colonel or a captain? and how could Mr.
+Waverley be supposed to interest himself in the violent altercation
+between your brother and young Corrinaschian whether the post of honour
+is due to the eldest cadet of a clan or the youngest?'
+
+'My dear Rose, if he were the hero you suppose him he would interest
+himself in these matters, not indeed as important in themselves, but
+for the purpose of mediating between the ardent spirits who actually do
+make them the subject of discord. You saw when Corrinaschian raised his
+voice in great passion, and laid his hand upon his sword, Waverley
+lifted his head as if he had just awaked from a dream, and asked with
+great composure what the matter was.'
+
+'Well, and did not the laughter they fell into at his absence of mind
+serve better to break off the dispute than anything he could have said
+to them?'
+
+'True, my dear,' answered Flora; 'but not quite so creditably for
+Waverley as if he had brought them to their senses by force of reason.'
+
+'Would you have him peacemaker general between all the gunpowder
+Highlanders in the army? I beg your pardon, Flora, your brother, you
+know, is out of the question; he has more sense than half of them. But
+can you think the fierce, hot, furious spirits of whose brawls we see
+much and hear more, and who terrify me out of my life every day in the
+world, are at all to be compared to Waverley?'
+
+'I do not compare him with those uneducated men, my dear Rose. I only
+lament that, with his talents and genius, he does not assume that place
+in society for which they eminently fit him, and that he does not lend
+their full impulse to the noble cause in which he has enlisted. Are
+there not Lochiel, and P--, and M--, and G--, all men of the highest
+education as well as the first talents,--why will he not stoop like
+them to be alive and useful? I often believe his zeal is frozen by that
+proud cold-blooded Englishman whom he now lives with so much.'
+
+'Colonel Talbot? he is a very disagreeable person, to be sure. He looks
+as if he thought no Scottish woman worth the trouble of handing her a
+cup of tea. But Waverley is so gentle, so well informed--'
+
+'Yes,' said Flora, smiling, 'he can admire the moon and quote a stanza
+from Tasso.'
+
+'Besides, you know how he fought,' added Miss Bradwardine.
+
+'For mere fighting,' answered Flora,' I believe all men (that is, who
+deserve the name) are pretty much alike; there is generally more
+courage required to run away. They have besides, when confronted with
+each other, a certain instinct for strife, as we see in other male
+animals, such as dogs, bulls, and so forth. But high and perilous
+enterprise is not Waverley's forte. He would never have been his
+celebrated ancestor Sir Nigel, but only Sir Nigel's eulogist and poet.
+I will tell you where he will be at home, my dear, and in his place--in
+the quiet circle of domestic happiness, lettered indolence, and elegant
+enjoyments of Waverley-Honour. And he will refit the old library in the
+most exquisite Gothic taste, and garnish its shelves with the rarest
+and most valuable volumes; and he will draw plans and landscapes, and
+write verses, and rear temples, and dig grottoes; and he will stand in
+a clear summer night in the colonnade before the hall, and gaze on the
+deer as they stray in the moonlight, or lie shadowed by the boughs of
+the huge old fantastic oaks; and he will repeat verses to his beautiful
+wife, who will hang upon his arm;--and he will be a happy man.'
+
+And she will be a happy woman, thought poor Rose. But she only sighed
+and dropped the conversation.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LIII
+
+FERGUS A SUITOR
+
+
+Waverley had, indeed, as he looked closer into the state of the
+Chevalier's court, less reason to be satisfied with it. It contained,
+as they say an acorn includes all the ramifications of the future oak,
+as many seeds of tracasserie and intrigue as might have done honour to
+the court of a large empire. Every person of consequence had some
+separate object, which he pursued with a fury that Waverley considered
+as altogether disproportioned to its importance. Almost all had their
+reasons for discontent, although the most legitimate was that of the
+worthy old Baron, who was only distressed on account of the common
+cause.
+
+'We shall hardly,' said he one morning to Waverley when they had been
+viewing the Castle--'we shall hardly gain the obsidional crown, which
+you wot well was made of the roots or grain which takes root within the
+place besieged, or it may be of the herb woodbind, parietaria, or
+pellitory; we shall not, I say, gain it by this same blockade or
+leaguer of Edinburgh Castle.' For this opinion he gave most learned and
+satisfactory reasons, that the reader may not care to hear repeated.
+
+Having escaped from the old gentleman, Waverley went to Fergus's
+lodgings by appointment, to await his return from Holyrood House. 'I am
+to have a particular audience to-morrow,' said Fergus to Waverley
+overnight, 'and you must meet me to wish me joy of the success which I
+securely anticipate.'
+
+The morrow came, and in the Chief's apartment he found Ensign
+Maccombich waiting to make report of his turn of duty in a sort of
+ditch which they had dug across the Castle-hill and called a trench. In
+a short time the Chief's voice was heard on the stair in a tone of
+impatient fury: 'Callum! why, Callum Beg! Diaoul!' He entered the room
+with all the marks of a man agitated by a towering passion; and there
+were few upon whose features rage produced a more violent effect. The
+veins of his forehead swelled when he was in such agitation; his
+nostril became dilated; his cheek and eye inflamed; and hislook that of
+a demoniac. These appearances of half-suppressed rage were the more
+frightful because they were obviously caused by a strong effort to
+temper with discretion an almost ungovernable paroxysm of passion, and
+resulted from an internal conflict of the most dreadful kind, which
+agitated his whole frame of mortality.
+
+As he entered the apartment he unbuckled his broadsword, and throwing
+it down with such violence that the weapon rolled to the other end of
+the room, 'I know not what,' he exclaimed, 'withholds me from taking a
+solemn oath that I will never more draw it in his cause. Load my
+pistols, Callum, and bring them hither instantly--instantly!' Callum,
+whom nothing ever startled, dismayed, or disconcerted, obeyed very
+coolly. Evan Dhu, upon whose brow the suspicion that his Chief had been
+insulted called up a corresponding storm, swelled in sullen silence,
+awaiting to learn where or upon whom vengeance was to descend.
+
+'So, Waverley, you are there,' said the Chief, after a moment's
+recollection. 'Yes, I remember I asked you to share my triumph, and you
+have come to witness my disappointment we shall call it.' Evan now
+presented the written report he had in his hand, which Fergus threw
+from him with great passion. 'I wish to God,' he said, 'the old den
+would tumble down upon the heads of the fools who attack and the knaves
+who defend it! I see, Waverley, you think I am mad. Leave us, Evan, but
+be within call.'
+
+'The Colonel's in an unco kippage,' said Mrs. Flockhart to Evan as he
+descended; 'I wish he may be weel,--the very veins on his brent brow
+are swelled like whipcord; wad he no tak something?'
+
+'He usually lets blood for these fits,' answered the Highland ancient
+with great composure.
+
+When this officer left the room, the Chieftain gradually reassumed some
+degree of composure. 'I know, Waverley,' he said, 'that Colonel Talbot
+has persuaded you to curse ten times a day your engagement with us;
+nay, never deny it, for I am at this moment tempted to curse my own.
+Would you believe it, I made this very morning two suits to the Prince,
+and he has rejected them both; what do you think of it?'
+
+'What can I think,' answered Waverley,'till I know what your requests
+were?' 'Why, what signifies what they were, man? I tell you it was I
+that made them--I to whom he owes more than to any three who have
+joined the standard; for I negotiated the whole business, and brought
+in all the Perthshire men when not one would have stirred. I am not
+likely, I think, to ask anything very unreasonable, and if I did, they
+might have stretched a point. Well, but you shall know all, now that I
+can draw my breath again with some freedom. You remember my earl's
+patent; it is dated some years back, for services then rendered; and
+certainly my merit has not been diminished, to say the least, by my
+subsequent behaviour. Now, sir, I value this bauble of a coronet as
+little as you can, or any philosopher on earth; for I hold that the
+chief of such a clan as the Sliochd nan Ivor is superior in rank to any
+earl in Scotland. But I had a particular reason for assuming this
+cursed title at this time. You must know that I learned accidentally
+that the Prince has been pressing that old foolish Baron of Bradwardine
+to disinherit his male heir, or nineteenth or twentieth cousin, who has
+taken a command in the Elector of Hanover's militia, and to settle his
+estate upon your pretty little friend Rose; and this, as being the
+command of his king and overlord, who may alter the destination of a
+fief at pleasure, the old gentleman seems well reconciled to.'
+
+'And what becomes of the homage?'
+
+'Curse the homage! I believe Rose is to pull off the queen's slipper on
+her coronation-day, or some such trash. Well, sir, as Rose Bradwardine
+would always have made a suitable match for me but for this idiotical
+predilection of her father for the heir-male, it occurred to me there
+now remained no obstacle unless that the Baron might expect his
+daughter's husband to take the name of Bradwardine (which you know
+would be impossible in my case), and that this might be evaded by my
+assuming the title to which I had so good a right, and which, of
+course, would supersede that difficulty. If she was to be also
+Viscountess Bradwardine in her own right after her father's demise, so
+much the better; I could have no objection.'
+
+'But, Fergus,' said Waverley, 'I had no idea that you had any affection
+for Miss Bradwardine, and you are always sneering at her father.'
+
+'I have as much affection for Miss Bradwardine, my good friend, as I
+think it necessary to have for the future mistress of my family and the
+mother of my children. She is a very pretty, intelligent girl, and is
+certainly of one of the very first Lowland families; and, with a little
+of Flora's instructions and forming, will make a very good figure. As
+to her father, he is an original, it is true, and an absurd one enough;
+but he has given such severe lessons to Sir Hew Halbert, that dear
+defunct the Laird of Balmawhapple, and others, that nobody dare laugh
+at him, so his absurdity goes for nothing. I tell you there could have
+been no earthly objection--none. I had settled the thing entirely in my
+own mind.'
+
+'But had you asked the Baron's consent,' said Waverley, 'or Rose's?'
+
+'To what purpose? To have spoke to the Baron before I had assumed my
+title would have only provoked a premature and irritating discussion on
+the subject of the change of name, when, as Earl of Glennaquoich, I had
+only to propose to him to carry his d--d bear and bootjack party per
+pale, or in a scutcheon of pretence, or in a separate shield
+perhaps--any way that would not blemish my own coat of arms. And as to
+Rose, I don't see what objection she could have made if her father was
+satisfied.'
+
+'Perhaps the same that your sister makes to me, you being satisfied.'
+
+Fergus gave a broad stare at the comparison which this supposition
+implied, but cautiously suppressed the answer which rose to his tongue.
+'O, we should easily have arranged all that. So, sir, I craved a
+private interview, and this morning was assigned; and I asked you to
+meet me here, thinking, like a fool, that I should want your
+countenance as bride's-man. Well, I state my pretension--they are not
+denied; the promises so repeatedly made and the patent granted--they
+are acknowledged. But I propose, as a natural consequence, to assume
+the rank which the patent bestowed. I have the old story of the
+jealousy of C---- and M---- trumped up against me. I resist this
+pretext, and offer to procure their written acquiescence, in virtue of
+the date of my patent as prior to their silly claims; I assure you I
+would have had such a consent from them, if it had been at the point of
+the sword. And then out comes the real truth; and he dares to tell me
+to my face that my patent must be suppressed for the present, for fear
+of disgusting that rascally coward and faineant (naming the rival chief
+of his own clan), who has no better title to be a chieftain than I to
+be Emperor of China, and who is pleased to shelter his dastardly
+reluctance to come out, agreeable to his promise twenty times pledged,
+under a pretended jealousy of the Prince's partiality to me. And, to
+leave this miserable driveller without a pretence for his cowardice,
+the Prince asks it as a personal favour of me, forsooth, not to press
+my just and reasonable request at this moment. After this, put your
+faith in princes!'
+
+'And did your audience end here?'
+
+'End? O no! I was determined to leave him no pretence for his
+ingratitude, and I therefore stated, with all the composure I could
+muster,--for I promise you I trembled with passion,--the particular
+reasons I had for wishing that his Royal Highness would impose upon me
+any other mode of exhibiting my duty and devotion, as my views in life
+made what at any other time would have been a mere trifle at this
+crisis a severe sacrifice; and then I explained to him my full plan.'
+
+'And what did the Prince answer?'
+
+'Answer? why--it is well it is written, "Curse not the king, no, not in
+thy thought!"--why, he answered that truly he was glad I had made him
+my confidant, to prevent more grievous disappointment, for he could
+assure me, upon the word of a prince, that Miss Bradwardine's
+affections were engaged, and he was under a particular promise to
+favour them. "So, my dear Fergus," said he, with his most gracious cast
+of smile, "as the marriage is utterly out of question, there need be no
+hurry, you know, about the earldom." And so he glided off and left me
+plante la.'
+
+'And what did you do?'
+
+'I'll tell you what I COULD have done at that moment--sold myself to
+the devil or the Elector, whichever offered the dearest revenge.
+However, I am now cool. I know he intends to marry her to some of his
+rascally Frenchmen or his Irish officers, but I will watch them close;
+and let the man that would supplant me look well to himself. Bisogna
+coprirsi, Signor.'
+
+After some further conversation, unnecessary to be detailed, Waverley
+took leave of the Chieftain, whose fury had now subsided into a deep
+and strong desire of vengeance, and returned home, scarce able to
+analyse the mixture of feelings which the narrative had awakened in his
+own bosom.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LIV
+
+'TO ONE THING CONSTANT NEVER'
+
+
+'I am the very child of caprice,'said Waverley to himself, as he bolted
+the door of his apartment and paced it with hasty steps. 'What is it to
+me that Fergus Mac-Ivor should wish to marry Rose Bradwardine? I love
+her not; I might have been loved by her perhaps; but rejected her
+simple, natural, and affecting attachment, instead of cherishing it
+into tenderness, and dedicated myself to one who will never love mortal
+man, unless old Warwick, the King-maker, should arise from the dead The
+Baron too--I would not have cared about his estate, and so the name
+would have been no stumbling-block. The devil might have taken the
+barren moors and drawn off the royal caligae for anything I would have
+minded. But, framed as she is for domestic affection and tenderness,
+for giving and receiving all those kind and quiet attentions which
+sweeten life to those who pass it together, she is sought by Fergus
+Mac-Ivor. He will not use her ill, to be sure; of that he is incapable.
+But he will neglect her after the first month; he will be too intent on
+subduing some rival chieftain or circumventing some favourite at court,
+on gaining some heathy hill and lake or adding to his bands some new
+troop of caterans, to inquire what she does, or how she amuses herself.
+
+    And then will canker sorrow eat her bud,
+    And chase the native beauty from her cheek;
+    And she will look as hollow as a ghost,
+    And dim and meagre as an ague fit,
+    And so she'll die.
+
+And such a catastrophe of the most gentle creature on earth might have
+been prevented if Mr. Edward Waverley had had his eyes! Upon my word, I
+cannot understand how I thought Flora so much, that is, so very much,
+handsomer than Rose. She is taller indeed, and her manner more formed;
+but many people think Miss Bradwardine's more natural; and she is
+certainly much younger. I should think Flora is two years older than I
+am. I will look at them particularly this evening.'
+
+And with this resolution Waverley went to drink tea (as the fashion was
+Sixty Years Since) at the house of a lady of quality attached to the
+cause of the Chevalier, where he found, as he expected, both the
+ladies. All rose as he entered, but Flora immediately resumed her place
+and the conversation in which she was engaged. Rose, on the contrary,
+almost imperceptibly made a little way in the crowded circle for his
+advancing the corner of a chair. 'Her manner, upon the whole, is most
+engaging,' said Waverley to himself.
+
+A dispute occurred whether the Gaelic or Italian language was most
+liquid, and best adapted for poetry; the opinion for the Gaelic, which
+probably might not have found supporters elsewhere, was here fiercely
+defended by seven Highland ladies, who talked at the top of their
+lungs, and screamed the company deaf with examples of Celtic euphonia.
+Flora, observing the Lowland ladies sneer at the comparison, produced
+some reasons to show that it was not altogether so absurd; but Rose,
+when asked for her opinion, gave it with animation in praise of
+Italian, which she had studied with Waverley's assistance. "She has a
+more correct ear than Flora, though a less accomplished musician," said
+Waverley to himself. 'I suppose Miss Mac-Ivor will next compare
+Mac-Murrough nan Fonn to Ariosto!'
+
+Lastly, it so befell that the company differed whether Fergus should be
+asked to perform on the flute, at which he was an adept, or Waverley
+invited to read a play of Shakspeare; and the lady of the house
+good-humouredly undertook to collect the votes of the company for
+poetry or music, under the condition that the gentleman whose talents
+were not laid under contribution that evening should contribute them to
+enliven the next. It chanced that Rose had the casting vote. Now Flora,
+who seemed to impose it as a rule upon herself never to countenance any
+proposal which might seem to encourage Waverley, had voted for music,
+providing the Baron would take his violin to accompany Fergus. 'I wish
+you joy of your taste, Miss Mac-Ivor,' thought Edward, as they sought
+for his book. 'I thought it better when we were at Glennaquoich; but
+certainly the Baron is no great performer, and Shakspeare is worth
+listening to.'
+
+'Romeo and Juliet' was selected, and Edward read with taste, feeling,
+and spirit several scenes from that play. All the company applauded
+with their hands, and many with their tears. Flora, to whom the drama
+was well known, was among the former; Rose, to whom it was altogether
+new, belonged to the latter class of admirers. 'She has more feeling
+too,' said Waverley, internally.
+
+The conversation turning upon the incidents of the play and upon the
+characters, Fergus declared that the only one worth naming, as a man of
+fashion and spirit, was Mercutio. 'I could not,' he said, 'quite follow
+all his old-fashioned wit, but he must have been a very pretty fellow,
+according to the ideas of his time.'
+
+'And it was a shame,' said Ensign Maccombich, who usually followed his
+Colonel everywhere, 'for that Tibbert, or Taggart, or whatever was his
+name, to stick him under the other gentleman's arm while he was redding
+the fray.'
+
+The ladies, of course, declared loudly in favour of Romeo, but this
+opinion did not go undisputed. The mistress of the house and several
+other ladies severely reprobated the levity with which the hero
+transfers his affections from Rosalind to Juliet. Flora remained silent
+until her opinion was repeatedly requested, and then answered, she
+thought the circumstance objected to not only reconcilable to nature,
+but such as in the highest degree evinced the art of the poet. 'Romeo
+is described,' said she, 'as a young man peculiarly susceptible of the
+softer passions; his love is at first fixed upon a woman who could
+afford it no return; this he repeatedly tells you,--
+
+    From love's weak, childish bow she lives unharmed,
+
+and again--
+
+    She hath forsworn to love.
+
+Now, as it was impossible that Romeo's love, supposing him a reasonable
+being, could continue to subsist without hope, the poet has, with great
+art, seized the moment when he was reduced actually to despair to throw
+in his way an object more accomplished than her by whom he had been
+rejected, and who is disposed to repay his attachment. I can scarce
+conceive a situation more calculated to enhance the ardour of Romeo's
+affection for Juliet than his being at once raised by her from the
+state of drooping melancholy in which he appears first upon the scene
+to the ecstatic state in which he exclaims--
+
+    --come what sorrow can,
+    It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
+    That one short moment gives me in her sight.'
+
+'Good now, Miss Mac-Ivor,' said a young lady of quality, 'do you mean
+to cheat us out of our prerogative? will you persuade us love cannot
+subsist without hope, or that the lover must become fickle if the lady
+is cruel? O fie! I did not expect such an unsentimental conclusion.'
+
+'A lover, my dear Lady Betty,' said Flora, 'may, I conceive, persevere
+in his suit under very discouraging circumstances. Affection can (now
+and then) withstand very severe storms of rigour, but not a long polar
+frost of downright indifference. Don't, even with YOUR attractions, try
+the experiment upon any lover whose faith you value. Love will subsist
+on wonderfully little hope, but not altogether without it.'
+
+'It will be just like Duncan Mac-Girdie's mare,' said Evan, 'if your
+ladyships please, he wanted to use her by degrees to live without meat,
+and just as he had put her on a straw a day the poor thing died!'
+
+Evan's illustration set the company a-laughing, and the discourse took
+a different turn. Shortly afterwards the party broke up, and Edward
+returned home, musing on what Flora had said. 'I will love my Rosalind
+no more,' said he; 'she has given me a broad enough hint for that; and
+I will speak to her brother and resign my suit. But for a Juliet--would
+it be handsome to interfere with Fergus's pretensions? though it is
+impossible they can ever succeed; and should they miscarry, what then?
+why then alors comme alors.' And with this resolution of being guided
+by circumstances did our hero commit himself to repose.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LV
+
+A BRAVE MAN IN SORROW
+
+
+Ifmy fair readers should be of opinion that my hero's levity in love is
+altogether unpardonable, I must remind them that all his griefs and
+difficulties did not arise from that sentimental source. Even the lyric
+poet who complains so feelingly of the pains of love could not forget,
+that at the same time he was 'in debt and in drink,' which, doubtless,
+were great aggravations of his distress. There were, indeed, whole days
+in which Waverley thought neither of Flora nor Rose Bradwardine, but
+which were spent in melancholy conjectures on the probable state of
+matters at Waverley-Honour, and the dubious issue of the civil contest
+in which he was pledged. Colonel Talbot often engaged him in
+discussions upon the justice of the cause he had espoused. 'Not,' he
+said, 'that it is possible for you to quit it at this present moment,
+for, come what will, you must stand by your rash engagement. But I wish
+you to be aware that the right is not with you; that you are fighting
+against the real interests of your country; and that you ought, as an
+Englishman and a patriot, to take the first opportunity to leave this
+unhappy expedition before the snowball melts.'
+
+In such political disputes Waverley usually opposed the common
+arguments of his party, with which it is unnecessary to trouble the
+reader. But he had little to say when the Colonel urged him to compare
+the strength by which they had undertaken to overthrow the government
+with that which was now assembling very rapidly for its support. To
+this statement Waverley had but one answer: 'If the cause I have
+undertaken be perilous, there would be the greater disgrace in
+abandoning it.' And in his turn he generally silenced Colonel Talbot,
+and succeeded in changing the subject.
+
+One night, when, after a long dispute of this nature, the friends had
+separated and our hero had retired to bed, he was awakened about
+midnight by a suppressed groan. He started up and listened; it came
+from the apartment of Colonel Talbot, which was divided from his own by
+a wainscotted partition, with a door of communication. Waverley
+approached this door and distinctly heard one or two deep-drawn sighs.
+What could be the matter? The Colonel had parted from him apparently in
+his usual state of spirits. He must have been taken suddenly ill. Under
+this impression he opened the door of communication very gently, and
+perceived the Colonel, in his night-gown, seated by a table, on which
+lay a letter and a picture. He raised his head hastily, as Edward stood
+uncertain whether to advance or retire, and Waverley perceived that his
+cheeks were stained with tears.
+
+As if ashamed at being found giving way to such emotion, Colonel Talbot
+rose with apparent displeasure and said, with some sternness, 'I think,
+Mr. Waverley, my own apartment and the hour might have secured even a
+prisoner against--'
+
+'Do not say INTRUSION, Colonel Talbot; I heard you breathe hard and
+feared you were ill; that alone could have induced me to break in upon
+you.'
+
+'I am well,' said the Colonel, 'perfectly well.'
+
+'But you are distressed,' said Edward; 'is there anything can be done?'
+
+'Nothing, Mr. Waverley; I was only thinking of home, and some
+unpleasant occurrences there.'
+
+'Good God, my uncle!' exclaimed Waverley.
+
+'No, it is a grief entirely my own. I am ashamed you should have seen
+it disarm me so much; but it must have its course at times, that it may
+be at others more decently supported. I would have kept it secret from
+you; for I think it will grieve you, and yet you can administer no
+consolation. But you have surprised me,--I see you are surprised
+yourself,--and I hate mystery. Read that letter.'
+
+The letter was from Colonel Talbot's sister, and in these words:--
+
+'I received yours, my dearest brother, by Hodges. Sir E. W. and Mr. R.
+are still at large, but are not permitted to leave London. I wish to
+Heaven I could give you as good an account of matters in the square.
+But the news of the unhappy affair at Preston came upon us, with the
+dreadful addition that you were among the fallen. You know Lady Emily's
+state of health, when your friendship for Sir E. induced you to leave
+her. She was much harassed with the sad accounts from Scotland of the
+rebellion having broken out; but kept up her spirits, as, she said, it
+became your wife, and for the sake of the future heir, so long hoped
+for in vain. Alas, my dear brother, these hopes are now ended!
+Notwithstanding all my watchful care, this unhappy rumour reached her
+without preparation. She was taken ill immediately; and the poor infant
+scarce survived its birth. Would to God this were all! But although the
+contradiction of the horrible report by your own letter has greatly
+revived her spirits, yet Dr. ---- apprehends, I grieve to say, serious,
+and even dangerous, consequences to her health, especially from the
+uncertainty in which she must necessarily remain for some time,
+aggravated by the ideas she has formed of the ferocity of those with
+whom you are a prisoner.
+
+'Do therefore, my dear brother, as soon as this reaches you, endeavour
+to gain your release, by parole, by ransom, or any way that is
+practicable. I do not exaggerate Lady Emily's state of health; but I
+must not--dare not--suppress the truth. Ever, my dear Philip, your most
+affectionate sister,
+
+'Lucy TALBOT.'
+
+Edward stood motionless when he had perused this letter; for the
+conclusion was inevitable, that, by the Colonel's journey in quest of
+him, he had incurred this heavy calamity. It was severe enough, even in
+its irremediable part; for Colonel Talbot and Lady Emily, long without
+a family, had fondly exulted in the hopes which were now blasted. But
+this disappointment was nothing to the extent of the threatened evil;
+and Edward, with horror, regarded himself as the original cause of both.
+
+Ere he could collect himself sufficiently to speak, Colonel Talbot had
+recovered his usual composure of manner, though his troubled eye
+denoted his mental agony.
+
+'She is a woman, my young friend, who may justify even a soldier's
+tears.' He reached him the miniature, exhibiting features which fully
+justified the eulogium; 'and yet, God knows, what you see of her there
+is the least of the charms she possesses--possessed, I should perhaps
+say--but God's will be done.'
+
+' You must fly--you must fly instantly to her relief. It is not--it
+shall not be too late.'
+
+'Fly? how is it possible? I am a prisoner, upon parole.'
+
+'I am your keeper; I restore your parole; I am to answer for you.'
+
+'You cannot do so consistently with your duty; nor can I accept a
+discharge from you, with due regard to my own honour; you would be made
+responsible.'
+
+'I will answer it with my head, if necessary,' said Waverley
+impetuously. 'I have been the unhappy cause of the loss of your child,
+make me not the murderer of your wife.'
+
+'No, my dear Edward,' said Talbot, taking him kindly by the hand, 'you
+are in no respect to blame; and if I concealed this domestic distress
+for two days, it was lest your sensibility should view it in that
+light. You could not think of me, hardly knew of my existence, when I
+left England in quest of you. It is a responsibility, Heaven knows,
+sufficiently heavy for mortality, that we must answer for the foreseen
+and direct result of our actions; for their indirect and consequential
+operation the great and good Being, who alone can foresee the
+dependence of human events on each other, hath not pronounced his frail
+creatures liable.'
+
+'But that you should have left Lady Emily,' said Waverley, with much
+emotion, 'in the situation of all others the most interesting to a
+husband, to seek a--'
+
+'I only did my duty,' answered Colonel Talbot, calmly, 'and I do not,
+ought not, to regret it. If the path of gratitude and honour were
+always smooth and easy, there would be little merit in following it;
+but it moves often in contradiction to our interest and passions, and
+sometimes to our better affections. These are the trials of life, and
+this, though not the least bitter' (the tears came unbidden to his
+eyes), 'is not the first which it has been my fate to encounter. But we
+will talk of this to-morrow,' he said, wringing Waverley's hands.
+'Good-night; strive to forget it for a few hours. It will dawn, I
+think, by six, and it is now past two. Good-night.'
+
+Edward retired, without trusting his voice with a reply.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LVI
+
+EXERTION
+
+
+When Colonel Talbot entered the breakfast-parlour next morning, he
+learned from Waverley's servant that our hero had been abroad at an
+early hour and was not yet returned. The morning was well advanced
+before he again appeared. He arrived out of breath, but with an air of
+joy that astonished Colonel Talbot.
+
+'There,' said he, throwing a paper on the table, 'there is my morning's
+work. Alick, pack up the Colonel's clothes. Make haste, make haste.'
+
+The Colonel examined the paper with astonishment. It was a pass from
+the Chevalier to Colonel Talbot, to repair to Leith, or any other port
+in possession of his Royal Highness's troops, and there to embark for
+England or elsewhere, at his free pleasure; he only giving his parole
+of honour not to bear arms against the house of Stuart for the space of
+a twelve-month.
+
+'In the name of God,' said the Colonel, his eyes sparkling with
+eagerness, 'how did you obtain this?'
+
+'I was at the Chevalier's levee as soon as he usually rises. He was
+gone to the camp at Duddingston. I pursued him thither, asked and
+obtained an audience--but I will tell you not a word more, unless I see
+you begin to pack.'
+
+'Before I know whether I can avail myself of this passport, or how it
+was obtained?'
+
+'O, you can take out the things again, you know. Now I see you busy, I
+will go on. When I first mentioned your name, his eyes sparkled almost
+as bright as yours did two minutes since. "Had you," he earnestly
+asked, "shown any sentiments favourable to his cause?" "Not in the
+least, nor was there any hope you would do so." His countenance fell. I
+requested your freedom. "Impossible," he said; "your importance as a
+friend and confidant of such and such personages made my request
+altogether extravagant." I told him my own story and yours; and asked
+him to judge what my feelings must be by his own. He has a heart, and a
+kind one, Colonel Talbot, you may say what you please. He took a sheet
+of paper and wrote the pass with his own hand. "I will not trust myself
+with my council," he said; "they will argue me out of what is right. I
+will not endure that a friend, valued as I value you, should be loaded
+with the painful reflections which must afflict you in case of further
+misfortune in Colonel Talbot's family; nor will I keep a brave enemy a
+prisoner under such circumstances. Besides," said he, "I think I can
+justify myself to my prudent advisers by pleading the good effect such
+lenity will produce on the minds of the great English families with
+whom Colonel Talbot is connected."'
+
+'There the politician peeped out,' said the Colonel.
+
+'Well, at least he concluded like a king's son: "Take the passport; I
+have added a condition for form's sake; but if the Colonel objects to
+it, let him depart without giving any parole whatever. I come here to
+war with men, but not to distress or endanger women."'
+
+'Well, I never thought to have been so much indebted to the Pretend--'
+
+'To the Prince,' said Waverley, smiling.
+
+'To the Chevalier,' said the Colonel; 'it is a good travelling name,
+and which we may both freely use. Did he say anything more?'
+
+'Only asked if there was anything else he could oblige me in; and when
+I replied in the negative, he shook me by the hand, and wished all his
+followers were as considerate, since some friends of mine not only
+asked all he had to bestow, but many things which were entirely out of
+his power, or that of the greatest sovereign upon earth. Indeed, he
+said, no prince seemed, in the eyes of his followers, so like the Deity
+as himself, if you were to judge from the extravagant requests which
+they daily preferred to him.'
+
+'Poor young gentleman,' said the Colonel, 'I suppose he begins to feel
+the difficulties of his situation. Well, dear Waverley, this is more
+than kind, and shall not be forgotten while Philip Talbot can remember
+anything. My life--pshaw--let Emily thank you for that; this is a
+favour worth fifty lives. I cannot hesitate on giving my parole in the
+circumstances; there it is (he wrote it out in form). And now, how am I
+to get off?'
+
+'All that is settled: your baggage is packed, my horses wait, and a
+boat has been engaged, by the Prince's permission, to put you on board
+the Fox frigate. I sent a messenger down to Leith on purpose.'
+
+'That will do excellently well. Captain Beaver is my particular friend;
+he will put me ashore at Berwick or Shields, from whence I can ride
+post to London; and you must entrust me with the packet of papers which
+you recovered by means of your Miss Bean Lean. I may have an
+opportunity of using them to your advantage. But I see your Highland
+friend, Glen ---- what do you call his barbarous name? and his orderly
+with him; I must not call him his orderly cut-throat any more, I
+suppose. See how he walks as if the world were his own, with the bonnet
+on one side of his head and his plaid puffed out across his breast! I
+should like now to meet that youth where my hands were not tied: I
+would tame his pride, or he should tame mine.'
+
+'For shame, Colonel Talbot! you swell at sight of tartan as the bull is
+said to do at scarlet. You and Mac-Ivor have some points not much
+unlike, so far as national prejudice is concerned.'
+
+The latter part of this discourse took place in the street. They passed
+the Chief, the Colonel and he sternly and punctiliously greeting each
+other, like two duellists before they take their ground. It was evident
+the dislike was mutual. 'I never see that surly fellow that dogs his
+heels,' said the Colonel, after he had mounted his horse, 'but he
+reminds me of lines I have somewhere heard--upon the stage, I think:--
+
+    Close behind him
+    Stalks sullen Bertram, like a sorcerer's fiend,
+    Pressing to be employed.
+
+'I assure you, Colonel,' said Waverley,'that you judge too harshly of
+the Highlanders.'
+
+'Not a whit, not a whit; I cannot spare them a jot; I cannot bate them
+an ace. Let them stay in their own barren mountains, and puff and
+swell, and hang their bonnets on the horns of the moon, if they have a
+mind; but what business have they to come where people wear breeches,
+and speak an intelligible language? I mean intelligible in comparison
+to their gibberish, for even the Lowlanders talk a kind of English
+little better than the Negroes in Jamaica. I could pity the Pr----, I
+mean the, Chevalier himself, for having so many desperadoes about him.
+And they learn their trade so early. There is a kind of subaltern imp,
+for example, a sort of sucking devil, whom your friend
+Glena----Glenamuck there, has sometimes in his train. To look at him,
+he is about fifteen years; but he is a century old in mischief and
+villainy. He was playing at quoits the other day in the court; a
+gentleman, a decent-looking person enough, came past, and as a quoit
+hit his shin, he lifted his cane; but my young bravo whips out his
+pistol, like Beau Clincher in the "Trip to the Jubilee," and had not a
+scream of Gardez l'eau from an upper window set all parties
+a-scampering for fear of the inevitable consequences, the poor
+gentleman would have lost his life by the hands of that little
+cockatrice.'
+
+'A fine character you'll give of Scotland upon your return, Colonel
+Talbot.'
+
+'O, Justice Shallow,' said the Colonel, 'will save me the trouble
+--"Barren, barren, beggars all, beggars all. Marry, good air,"--and
+that only when you are fairly out of Edinburgh, and not yet come to
+Leith, as is our case at present.'
+
+In a short time they arrived at the seaport.
+
+    The boat rock'd at the pier of Leith,
+    Full loud the wind blew down the ferry;
+    The ship rode at the Berwick Law.
+
+'Farewell, Colonel; may you find all as you would wish it! Perhaps we
+may meet sooner than you expect; they talk of an immediate route to
+England.'
+
+'Tell me nothing of that,' said Talbot; 'I wish to carry no news of
+your motions.'
+
+'Simply, then, adieu. Say, with a thousand kind greetings, all that is
+dutiful and affectionate to Sir Everard and Aunt Rachel. Think of me as
+kindly as you can, speak of me as indulgently as your conscience will
+permit, and once more adieu.'
+
+'And adieu, my dear Waverley; many, many thanks for your kindness.
+Unplaid yourself on the first opportunity. I shall ever think on you
+with gratitude, and the worst of my censure shall be, Que diable
+alloit--il faire dans cette galere?'
+
+And thus they parted, Colonel Talbot going on board of the boat and
+Waverley returning to Edinburgh.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LVII
+
+THE MARCH
+
+
+It is not our purpose to intrude upon the province of history. We shall
+therefore only remind our readers that about the beginning of November
+the Young Chevalier, at the head of about six thousand men at the
+utmost, resolved to peril his cause on an attempt to penetrate into the
+centre of England, although aware of the mighty preparations which were
+made for his reception. They set forward on this crusade in weather
+which would have rendered any other troops incapable of marching, but
+which in reality gave these active mountaineers advantages over a less
+hardy enemy. In defiance of a superior army lying upon the Borders,
+under Field-Marshal Wade, they besieged and took Carlisle, and soon
+afterwards prosecuted their daring march to the southward.
+
+As Colonel Mac-Ivor's regiment marched in the van of the clans, he and
+Waverley, who now equalled any Highlander in the endurance of fatigue,
+and was become somewhat acquainted with their language, were
+perpetually at its head. They marked the progress of the army, however,
+with very different eyes. Fergus, all air and fire, and confident
+against the world in arms, measured nothing but that every step was a
+yard nearer London. He neither asked, expected, nor desired any aid
+except that of the clans to place the Stuarts once more on the throne;
+and when by chance a few adherents joined the standard, he always
+considered them in the light of new claimants upon the favours of the
+future monarch, who, he concluded, must therefore subtract for their
+gratification so much of the bounty which ought to be shared among his
+Highland followers.
+
+Edward's views were very different. He could not but observe that in
+those towns in which they proclaimed James the Third, 'no man cried,
+God bless him.' The mob stared and listened, heartless, stupefied, and
+dull, but gave few signs even of that boisterous spirit which induces
+them to shout upon all occasions for the mere exercise of their most
+sweet voices. The Jacobites had been taught to believe that the
+north-western counties abounded with wealthy squires and hardy yeomen,
+devoted to the cause of the White Rose. But of the wealthier Tories
+they saw little. Some fled from their houses, some feigned themselves
+sick, some surrendered themselves to the government as suspected
+persons. Of such as remained, the ignorant gazed with astonishment,
+mixed with horror and aversion, at the wild appearance, unknown
+language, and singular garb of the Scottish clans. And to the more
+prudent their scanty numbers, apparent deficiency in discipline, and
+poverty of equipment seemed certain tokens of the calamitous
+termination of their rash undertaking. Thus the few who joined them
+were such as bigotry of political principle blinded to consequences, or
+whose broken fortunes induced them to hazard all on a risk so desperate.
+
+The Baron of Bradwardine, being asked what he thought of these
+recruits, took a long pinch of snuff, and answered drily,'that he could
+not but have an excellent opinion of them, since they resembled
+precisely the followers who attached themselves to the good King David
+at the cave of Adullam--videlicet, every one that was in distress, and
+every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, which
+the vulgate renders bitter of soul; and doubtless,' he said, 'they will
+prove mighty men of their hands, and there is much need that they
+should, for I have seen many a sour look cast upon us.'
+
+But none of these considerations moved Fergus. He admired the luxuriant
+beauty of the country, and the situation of many of the seats which
+they passed. 'Is Waverley-Honour like that house, Edward?'
+
+'It is one-half larger.'
+
+'Is your uncle's park as fine a one as that?'
+
+'It is three times as extensive, and rather resembles a forest than a
+mere park.'
+
+'Flora will be a happy woman.'
+
+'I hope Miss Mac-Ivor will have much reason for happiness unconnected
+with Waverley-Honour.'
+
+'I hope so too; but to be mistress of such a place will be a pretty
+addition to the sum total.'
+
+'An addition, the want of which, I trust, will be amply supplied by
+some other means.'
+
+'How,' said Fergus, stopping short and turning upon Waverley--'how am I
+to understand that, Mr. Waverley? Had I the pleasure to hear you
+aright?'
+
+'Perfectly right, Fergus.'
+
+'And am I to understand that you no longer desire my alliance and my
+sister's hand?'
+
+'Your sister has refused mine,' said Waverley, 'both directly and by
+all the usual means by which ladies repress undesired attentions.'
+
+'I have no idea,' answered the Chieftain, 'of a lady dismissing or a
+gentleman withdrawing his suit, after it has been approved of by her
+legal guardian, without giving him an opportunity of talking the matter
+over with the lady. You did not, I suppose, expect my sister to drop
+into your mouth like a ripe plum the first moment you chose to open it?'
+
+'As to the lady's title to dismiss her lover, Colonel,' replied Edward,
+'it is a point which you must argue with her, as I am ignorant of the
+customs of the Highlands in that particular. But as to my title to
+acquiesce in a rejection from her without an appeal to your interest, I
+will tell you plainly, without meaning to undervalue Miss Mac-Ivor's
+admitted beauty and accomplishments, that I would not take the hand of
+an angel, with an empire for her dowry, if her consent were extorted by
+the importunity of friends and guardians, and did not flow from her own
+free inclination.'
+
+'An angel, with the dowry of an empire,' repeated Fergus, in a tone of
+bitter irony, 'is not very likely to be pressed upon a ----shire
+squire. But, sir,' changing his tone, 'if Flora Mac-Ivor have not the
+dowry of an empire, she is MY sister; and that is sufficient at least
+to secure her against being treated with anything approaching to
+levity.'
+
+'She is Flora Mac-Ivor, sir,' said Waverley, with firmness, 'which to
+me, were I capable of treating ANY woman with levity, would be a more
+effectual protection.'
+
+The brow of the Chieftain was now fully clouded; but Edward felt too
+indignant at the unreasonable tone which he had adopted to avert the
+storm by the least concession. They both stood still while this short
+dialogue passed, and Fergus seemed half disposed to say something more
+violent, but, by a strong effort, suppressed his passion, and, turning
+his face forward, walked sullenly on. As they had always hitherto
+walked together, and almost constantly side by side, Waverley pursued
+his course silently in the same direction, determined to let the Chief
+take his own time in recovering the good-humour which he had so
+unreasonably discarded, and firm in his resolution not to bate him an
+inch of dignity.
+
+After they had marched on in this sullen manner about a mile, Fergus
+resumed the discourse in a different tone. 'I believe I was warm, my
+dear Edward, but you provoke me with your want of knowledge of the
+world. You have taken pet at some of Flora's prudery, or high-flying
+notions of loyalty, and now, like a child, you quarrel with the
+plaything you have been crying for, and beat me, your faithful keeper,
+because my arm cannot reach to Edinburgh to hand it to you. I am sure,
+if I was passionate, the mortification of losing the alliance of such a
+friend, after your arrangement had been the talk of both Highlands and
+Lowlands, and that without so much as knowing why or wherefore, might
+well provoke calmer blood than mine. I shall write to Edinburgh and put
+all to rights; that is, if you desire I should do so; as indeed I
+cannot suppose that your good opinion of Flora, it being such as you
+have often expressed to me, can be at once laid aside.'
+
+'Colonel Mac-Ivor,' said Edward, who had no mind to be hurried farther
+or faster than he chose in a matter which he had already considered as
+broken off, 'I am fully sensible of the value of your good offices; and
+certainly, by your zeal on my behalf in such an affair, you do me no
+small honour. But as Miss Mac-Ivor has made her election freely and
+voluntarily, and as all my attentions in Edinburgh were received with
+more than coldness, I cannot, in justice either to her or myself,
+consent that she should again be harassed upon this topic. I would have
+mentioned this to you some time since, but you saw the footing upon
+which we stood together, and must have understood it. Had I thought
+otherwise I would have earlier spoken; but I had a natural reluctance
+to enter upon a subject so painful to us both.'
+
+'O, very well, Mr. Waverley,' said Fergus, haughtily, 'the thing is at
+an end. I have no occasion to press my sister upon any man.'
+
+'Nor have I any occasion to court repeated rejection from the same
+young lady,' answered Edward, in the same tone.
+
+'I shall make due inquiry, however,' said the Chieftain, without
+noticing the interruption, 'and learn what my sister thinks of all
+this, we will then see whether it is to end here.'
+
+'Respecting such inquiries, you will of course be guided by your own
+judgment,' said Waverley. 'It is, I am aware, impossible Miss Mac-Ivor
+can change her mind; and were such an unsupposable case to happen, it
+is certain I will not change mine. I only mention this to prevent any
+possibility of future misconstruction.'
+
+Gladly at this moment would Mac-Ivor have put their quarrel to a
+personal arbitrement, his eye flashed fire, and he measured Edward as
+if to choose where he might best plant a mortal wound. But although we
+do not now quarrel according to the modes and figures of Caranza or
+Vincent Saviola, no one knew better than Fergus that there must be some
+decent pretext for a mortal duel. For instance, you may challenge a man
+for treading on your corn in a crowd, or for pushing you up to the
+wall, or for taking your seat in the theatre; but the modern code of
+honour will not permit you to found a quarrel upon your right of
+compelling a man to continue addresses to a female relative which the
+fair lady has already refused. So that Fergus was compelled to stomach
+this supposed affront until the whirligig of time, whose motion he
+promised himself he would watch most sedulously, should bring about an
+opportunity of revenge.
+
+Waverley's servant always led a saddle-horse for him in the rear of the
+battalion to which he was attached, though his master seldom rode. But
+now, incensed at the domineering and unreasonable conduct of his late
+friend, he fell behind the column and mounted his horse, resolving to
+seek the Baron of Bradwardine, and request permission to volunteer in
+his troop instead of the Mac-Ivor regiment.
+
+'A happy time of it I should have had,' thought he, after he was
+mounted, 'to have been so closely allied to this superb specimen of
+pride and self-opinion and passion. A colonel! why, he should have been
+a generalissimo. A petty chief of three or four hundred men! his pride
+might suffice for the Cham of Tartary--the Grand Seignior--the Great
+Mogul! I am well free of him. Were Flora an angel, she would bring with
+her a second Lucifer of ambition and wrath for a brother-in-law.'
+
+The Baron, whose learning (like Sancho's jests while in the Sierra
+Morena) seemed to grow mouldy for want of exercise, joyfully embraced
+the opportunity of Waverley's offering his service in his regiment, to
+bring it into some exertion. The good-natured old gentleman, however,
+laboured to effect a reconciliation between the two quondam friends.
+Fergus turned a cold ear to his remonstrances, though he gave them a
+respectful hearing; and as for Waverley, he saw no reason why he should
+be the first in courting a renewal of the intimacy which the Chieftain
+had so unreasonably disturbed. The Baron then mentioned the matter to
+the Prince, who, anxious to prevent quarrels in his little army,
+declared he would himself remonstrate with Colonel Mac-Ivor on the
+unreasonableness of his conduct. But, in the hurry of their march, it
+was a day or two before he had an opportunity to exert his influence in
+the manner proposed.
+
+In the meanwhile Waverley turned the instructions he had received while
+in Gardiner's dragoons to some account, and assisted the Baron in his
+command as a sort of adjutant. 'Parmi les aveugles un borgne est roi,'
+says the French proverb; and the cavalry, which consisted chiefly of
+Lowland gentlemen, their tenants and servants, formed a high opinion of
+Waverley's skill and a great attachment to his person. This was indeed
+partly owing to the satisfaction which they felt at the distinguished
+English volunteer's leaving the Highlanders to rank among them; for
+there was a latent grudge between the horse and foot, not only owing to
+the difference of the services, but because most of the gentlemen,
+living near the Highlands, had at one time or other had quarrels with
+the tribes in their vicinity, and all of them looked with a jealous eye
+on the Highlanders' avowed pretensions to superior valour and utility
+in the Prince's service.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LVIII
+
+THE CONFUSION OF KING AGRAMANT'S CAMP
+
+
+Itwas Waverley's custom sometimes to ride a little apart from the main
+body, to look at any object of curiosity which occurred on the march.
+They were now in Lancashire, when, attracted by a castellated old hall,
+he left the squadron for half an hour to take a survey and slight
+sketch of it. As he returned down the avenue he was met by Ensign
+Maccombich. This man had contracted a sort of regard for Edward since
+the day of his first seeing him at Tully-Veolan and introducing him to
+the Highlands. He seemed to loiter, as if on purpose to meet with our
+hero. Yet, as he passed him, he only approached his stirrup and
+pronounced the single word 'Beware!' and then walked swiftly on,
+shunning all further communication.
+
+Edward, somewhat surprised at this hint, followed with his eyes the
+course of Evan, who speedily disappeared among the trees. His servant,
+Alick Polwarth, who was in attendance, also looked after the
+Highlander, and then riding up close to his master, said,--
+
+'The ne'er be in me, sir, if I think you're safe amang thae Highland
+rinthereouts.'
+
+'What do you mean, Alick?' said Waverley.
+
+'The Mac-Ivors, sir, hae gotten it into their heads that ye hae
+affronted their young leddy, Miss Flora; and I hae heard mae than ane
+say, they wadna tak muckle to mak a black-cock o' ye; and ye ken weel
+eneugh there's mony o' them wadna mind a bawbee the weising a ball
+through the Prince himsell, an the Chief gae them the wink, or whether
+he did or no, if they thought it a thing that would please him when it
+was dune.'
+
+Waverley, though confident that Fergus Mac-Ivor was incapable of such
+treachery, was by no means equally sure of the forbearance of his
+followers. He knew that, where the honour of the Chief or his family
+was supposed to be touched, the happiest man would be he that could
+first avenge the stigma; and he had often heard them quote a proverb,
+'That the best revenge was the most speedy and most safe.' Coupling
+this with the hint of Evan, he judged it most prudent to set spurs to
+his horse and ride briskly back to the squadron. Ere he reached the end
+of the long avenue, however, a ball whistled past him, and the report
+of a pistol was heard.
+
+'It was that deevil's buckle, Callum Beg,' said Alick; 'I saw him whisk
+away through amang the reises.'
+
+Edward, justly incensed at this act of treachery, galloped out of the
+avenue, and observed the battalion of Mac-Ivor at some distance moving
+along the common in which it terminated. He also saw an individual
+running very fast to join the party; this he concluded was the intended
+assassin, who, by leaping an enclosure, might easily make a much
+shorter path to the main body than he could find on horseback. Unable
+to contain himself, he commanded Alick to go to the Baron of
+Bradwardine, who was at the head of his regiment about half a mile in
+front, and acquaint him with what had happened. He himself immediately
+rode up to Fergus's regiment. The Chief himself was in the act of
+joining them. He was on horseback, having returned from waiting on the
+Prince. On perceiving Edward approaching, he put his horse in motion
+towards him.
+
+'Colonel Mac-Ivor,' said Waverley, without any farther salutation, 'I
+have to inform you that one of your people has this instant fired at me
+from a lurking-place.'
+
+'As that,' answered Mac-Ivor, 'excepting the circumstance of a
+lurking-place, is a pleasure which I presently propose to myself, I
+should be glad to know which of my clansmen dared to anticipate me.'
+
+'I shall certainly be at your command whenever you please; the
+gentleman who took your office upon himself is your page there, Callum
+Beg.'
+
+'Stand forth from the ranks, Callum! Did you fire at Mr. Waverley?'
+
+'No,' answered the unblushing Callum.
+
+'You did,' said Alick Polwarth, who was already returned, having met a
+trooper by whom he despatched an account of what was going forward to
+the Baron of Bradwardine, while he himself returned to his master at
+full gallop, neither sparing the rowels of his spurs nor the sides of
+his horse. 'You did; I saw you as plainly as I ever saw the auld kirk
+at Coudingham.'
+
+'You lie,' replied Callum, with his usual impenetrable obstinacy. The
+combat between the knights would certainly, as in the days of chivalry,
+have been preceded by an encounter between the squires (for Alick was a
+stout-hearted Merseman, and feared the bow of Cupid far more than a
+Highlander's dirk or claymore), but Fergus, with his usual tone of
+decision, demanded Callum's pistol. The cock was down, the pan and
+muzzle were black with the smoke; it had been that instant fired.
+
+'Take that,' said Fergus, striking the boy upon the head with the heavy
+pistol-butt with his whole force--'take that for acting without orders,
+and lying to disguise it.' Callum received the blow without appearing
+to flinch from it, and fell without sign of life. 'Stand still, upon
+your lives!' said Fergus to the rest of the clan; 'I blow out the
+brains of the first man who interferes between Mr. Waverley and me.'
+They stood motionless; Evan Dhu alone showed symptoms of vexation and
+anxiety. Callum lay on the ground bleeding copiously, but no one
+ventured to give him any assistance. It seemed as if he had gotten his
+death-blow.
+
+'And now for you, Mr. Waverley; please to turn your horse twenty yards
+with me upon the common.' Waverley complied; and Fergus, confronting
+him when they were a little way from the line of march, said, with
+great affected coolness, 'I could not but wonder, sir, at the
+fickleness of taste which you were pleased to express the other day.
+But it was not an angel, as you justly observed, who had charms for
+you, unless she brought an empire for her fortune. I have now an
+excellent commentary upon that obscure text.'
+
+'I am at a loss even to guess at your meaning, Colonel Mac-Ivor, unless
+it seems plain that you intend to fasten a quarrel upon me.'
+
+'Your affected ignorance shall not serve you, sir. The Prince--the
+Prince himself has acquainted me with your manoeuvres. I little thought
+that your engagements with Miss Bradwardine were the reason of your
+breaking off your intended match with my sister. I suppose the
+information that the Baron had altered the destination of his estate
+was quite a sufficient reason for slighting your friend's sister and
+carrying off your friend's mistress.'
+
+'Did the Prince tell you I was engaged to Miss Bradwardine?' said
+Waverley. 'Impossible.'
+
+'He did, sir,' answered Mac-Ivor; 'so, either draw and defend yourself
+or resign your pretensions to the lady.' 'This is absolute madness,'
+exclaimed Waverley, 'or some strange mistake!'
+
+'O! no evasion! draw your sword!' said the infuriated Chieftain, his
+own already unsheathed.
+
+'Must I fight in a madman's quarrel?'
+
+'Then give up now, and forever, all pretensions to Miss Bradwardine's
+hand.'
+
+'What title have you,' cried Waverley, utterly losing command of
+himself--'what title have you, or any man living, to dictate such terms
+to me?' And he also drew his sword.
+
+At this moment the Baron of Bradwardine, followed by several of his
+troop, came up on the spur, some from curiosity, others to take part in
+the quarrel which they indistinctly understood had broken out between
+the Mac-Ivors and their corps. The clan, seeing them approach, put
+themselves in motion to support their Chieftain, and a scene of
+confusion commenced which seamed likely to terminate in bloodshed. A
+hundred tongues were in motion at once. The Baron lectured, the
+Chieftain stormed, the Highlanders screamed in Gaelic, the horsemen
+cursed and swore in Lowland Scotch. At length matters came to such a
+pass that the Baron threatened to charge the Mac-Ivors unless they
+resumed their ranks, and many of them, in return, presented their
+firearms at him and the other troopers. The confusion was privately
+fostered by old Ballenkeiroch, who made no doubt that his own day of
+vengeance was arrived, when, behold! a cry arose of 'Room! make way!
+place a Monseigneur! place a Monseigneur!' This announced the approach
+of the Prince, who came up with a party of Fitz-James's foreign
+dragoons that acted as his body-guard. His arrival produced some degree
+of order. The Highlanders reassumed their ranks, the cavalry fell in
+and formed squadron, and the Baron and Chieftain were silent.
+
+The Prince called them and Waverley before him. Having heard the
+original cause of the quarrel through the villainy of Callum Beg, he
+ordered him into custody of the provost-marshal for immediate
+execution, in the event of his surviving the chastisement inflicted by
+his Chieftain. Fergus, however, in a tone betwixt claiming a right and
+asking a favour, requested he might be left to his disposal, and
+promised his punishment should be exemplary. To deny this might have
+seemed to encroach on the patriarchal authority of the Chieftains, of
+which they were very jealous, and they were not persons to be
+disobliged. Callum was therefore left to the justice of his own tribe.
+
+The Prince next demanded to know the new cause of quarrel between
+Colonel Mac-Ivor and Waverley. There was a pause. Both gentlemen found
+the presence of the Baron of Bradwardine (for by this time all three
+had approached the Chevalier by his command) an insurmountable barrier
+against entering upon a subject where the name of his daughter must
+unavoidably be mentioned. They turned their eyes on the ground, with
+looks in which shame and embarrassment were mingled with displeasure.
+The Prince, who had been educated amongst the discontented and mutinous
+spirits of the court of St. Germains, where feuds of every kind were
+the daily subject of solicitude to the dethroned sovereign, had served
+his apprenticeship, as old Frederick of Prussia would have said, to the
+trade of royalty. To promote or restore concord among his followers was
+indispensable. Accordingly he took his measures.
+
+'Monsieur de Beaujeu!'
+
+'Monseigneur!' said a very handsome French cavalry officer who was in
+attendance.
+
+'Ayez la bonte d'aligner ces montagnards la, ainsi que la cavalerie,
+s'il vous plait, et de les remettre a la marche. Vous parlez si bien
+l'Anglois, cela ne vous donneroit pas beaucoup de peine.'
+
+'Ah! pas du tout, Monseigneur,' replied Mons. le Comte de Beaujeu, his
+head bending down to the neck of his little prancing highly-managed
+charger. Accordingly he piaffed away, in high spirits and confidence,
+to the head of Fergus's regiment, although understanding not a word of
+Gaelic and very little English.
+
+'Messieurs les sauvages Ecossois--dat is, gentilmans savages, have the
+goodness d'arranger vous.'
+
+The clan, comprehending the order more from the gesture than the words,
+and seeing the Prince himself present, hastened to dress their ranks.
+
+'Ah! ver well! dat is fort bien!' said the Count de Beaujeu.
+'Gentilmans sauvages! mais, tres bien. Eh bien! Qu'est ce que vous
+appelez visage, Monsieur?' (to a lounging trooper who stood by him).
+'Ah, oui! face. Je vous remercie, Monsieur. Gentilshommes, have de
+goodness to make de face to de right par file, dat is, by files. Marsh!
+Mais, tres bien; encore, Messieurs; il faut vous mettre a la marche.
+... Marchez done, au nom de Dieu, parceque j'ai oublie le mot Anglois;
+mais vous etes des braves gens, et me comprenez tres bien.'
+
+The Count next hastened to put the cavalry in motion. 'Gentilmans
+cavalry, you must fall in. Ah! par ma foi, I did not say fall off! I am
+a fear de little gross fat gentilman is moche hurt. Ah, mon Dieu! c'est
+le Commissaire qui nous a apporte les premieres nouvelles de ce maudit
+fracas. Je suis trop fache, Monsieur!'
+
+But poor Macwheeble, who, with a sword stuck across him, and a white
+cockade as large as a pancake, now figured in the character of a
+commissary, being overturned in the bustle occasioned by the troopers
+hastening to get themselves in order in the Prince's presence, before
+he could rally his galloway, slunk to the rear amid the unrestrained
+laughter of the spectators.
+
+'Eh bien, Messieurs, wheel to de right. Ah! dat is it! Eh, Monsieur de
+Bradwardine, ayez la bonte de vous mettre a la tete de votre regiment,
+car, par Dieu, je n'en puis plus!'
+
+The Baron of Bradwardine was obliged to go to the assistance of
+Monsieur de Beaujeu, after he had fairly expended his few English
+military phrases. One purpose of the Chevalier was thus answered. The
+other he proposed was, that in the eagerness to hear and comprehend
+commands issued through such an indistinct medium in his own presence,
+the thoughts of the soldiers in both corps might get a current
+different from the angry channel in which they were flowing at the time.
+
+Charles Edward was no sooner left with the Chieftain and Waverley, the
+rest of his attendants being at some distance, than he said, 'If I owed
+less to your disinterested friendship, I could be most seriously angry
+with both of you for this very extraordinary and causeless broil, at a
+moment when my father's service so decidedly demands the most perfect
+unanimity. But the worst of my situation is, that my very best friends
+hold they have liberty to ruin themselves, as well as the cause they
+are engaged in, upon the slightest caprice.'
+
+Both the young men protested their resolution to submit every
+difference to his arbitration. 'Indeed,' said Edward, 'I hardly know of
+what I am accused. I sought Colonel Mac-Ivor merely to mention to him
+that I had narrowly escaped assassination at the hand of his immediate
+dependent, a dastardly revenge which I knew him to be incapable of
+authorising. As to the cause for which he is disposed to fasten a
+quarrel upon me, I am ignorant of it, unless it be that he accuses me,
+most unjustly, of having engaged the affections of a young lady in
+prejudice of his pretensions.'
+
+'If there is an error,' said the Chieftain, 'it arises from a
+conversation which I held this morning with his Royal Highness himself.'
+
+'With me?' said the Chevalier; 'how can Colonel Mac-Ivor have so far
+misunderstood me?'
+
+He then led Fergus aside, and, after five minutes' earnest
+conversation, spurred his horse towards Edward. 'Is it possible--nay,
+ride up, Colonel, for I desire no secrets--is it possible, Mr.
+Waverley, that I am mistaken in supposing that you are an accepted
+lover of Miss Bradwardine? a fact of which I was by circumstances,
+though not by communication from you, so absolutely convinced that I
+alleged it to Vich Ian Vohr this morning as a reason why, without
+offence to him, you might not continue to be ambitious of an alliance
+which, to an unengaged person, even though once repulsed, holds out too
+many charms to be lightly laid aside.'
+
+'Your Royal Highness,' said Waverley,'must have founded on
+circumstances altogether unknown to me, when you did me the
+distinguished honour of supposing me an accepted lover of Miss
+Bradwardine. I feel the distinction implied in the supposition, but I
+have no title to it. For the rest, my confidence in my own merit is too
+justly slight to admit of my hoping for success in any quarter after
+positive rejection.'
+
+The Chevalier was silent for a moment, looking steadily at them both,
+and then said, 'Upon my word, Mr. Waverley, you are a less happy man
+than I conceived I had very good reason to believe you. But now,
+gentlemen, allow me to be umpire in this matter, not as Prince Regent
+but as Charles Stuart, a brother adventurer with you in the same
+gallant cause. Lay my pretensions to be obeyed by you entirely out of
+view, and consider your own honour, and how far it is well or becoming
+to give our enemies the advantage and our friends the scandal of
+showing that, few as we are, we are not united. And forgive me if I
+add, that the names of the ladies who have been mentioned crave more
+respect from us all than to be made themes of discord.'
+
+He took Fergus a little apart and spoke to him very earnestly for two
+or three minutes, and then returning to Waverley, said, 'I believe I
+have satisfied Colonel Mac-Ivor that his resentment was founded upon a
+misconception, to which, indeed, I myself gave rise; and I trust Mr.
+Waverley is too generous to harbour any recollection of what is past
+when I assure him that such is the case. You must state this matter
+properly to your clan, Vich Ian Vohr, to prevent a recurrence of their
+precipitate violence.' Fergus bowed. 'And now, gentlemen, let me have
+the pleasure to see you shake hands.'
+
+They advanced coldly, and with measured steps, each apparently
+reluctant to appear most forward in concession. They did, however,
+shake hands, and parted, taking a respectful leave of the Chevalier.
+
+Charles Edward [Footnote: See Note 12.] then rode to the head of the
+MacIvors, threw himself from his horse, begged a drink out of old
+Ballenkeiroch's cantine, and marched about half a mile along with them,
+inquiring into the history and connexions of Sliochd nan Ivor, adroitly
+using the few words of Gaelic he possessed, and affecting a great
+desire to learn it more thoroughly. He then mounted his horse once
+more, and galloped to the Baron's cavalry, which was in front, halted
+them, and examined their accoutrements and state of discipline; took
+notice of the principal gentlemen, and even of the cadets; inquired
+after their ladies, and commended their horses; rode about an hour with
+the Baron of Bradwardine, and endured three long stories about
+Field-Marshal the Duke of Berwick.
+
+'Ah, Beaujeu, mon cher ami,' said he, as he returned to his usual place
+in the line of march, 'que mon metier de prince errant est ennuyant,
+par fois. Mais, courage! c'est le grand jeu, apres tout.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LIX
+
+A SKIRMISH
+
+
+Theeader need hardly be reminded that, after a council of war held at
+Derby on the 5th of December, the Highlanders relinquished their
+desperate attempt to penetrate farther into England, and, greatly to
+the dissatisfaction of their young and daring leader, positively
+determined to return northward. They commenced their retreat
+accordingly, and, by the extreme celerity of their movements,
+outstripped the motions of the Duke of Cumberland, who now pursued them
+with a very large body of cavalry.
+
+This retreat was a virtual resignation of their towering hopes. None
+had been so sanguine as Fergus MacIvor; none, consequently, was so
+cruelly mortified at the change of measures. He argued, or rather
+remonstrated, with the utmost vehemence at the council of war; and,
+when his opinion was rejected, shed tears of grief and indignation.
+From that moment his whole manner was so much altered that he could
+scarcely have been recognised for the same soaring and ardent spirit,
+for whom the whole earth seemed too narrow but a week before. The
+retreat had continued for several days, when Edward, to his surprise,
+early on the 12th of December, received a visit from the Chieftain in
+his quarters, in a hamlet about half-way between Shap and Penrith.
+
+Having had no intercourse with the Chieftain since their rupture,
+Edward waited with some anxiety an explanation of this unexpected
+visit; nor could he help being surprised, and somewhat shocked, with
+the change in his appearance. His eye had lost much of its fire; his
+cheek was hollow, his voice was languid, even his gait seemed less firm
+and elastic than it was wont; and his dress, to which he used to be
+particularly attentive, was now carelessly flung about him. He invited
+Edward to walk out with him by the little river in the vicinity; and
+smiled in a melancholy manner when he observed him take down and buckle
+on his sword.
+
+As soon as they were in a wild sequestered path by the side of the
+stream, the Chief broke out--'Our fine adventure is now totally ruined,
+Waverley, and I wish to know what you intend to do;--nay, never stare
+at me, man. I tell you I received a packet from my sister yesterday,
+and, had I got the information it contains sooner, it would have
+prevented a quarrel which I am always vexed when I think of. In a
+letter written after our dispute, I acquainted her with the cause of
+it; and she now replies to me that she never had, nor could have, any
+purpose of giving you encouragement; so that it seems I have acted like
+a madman. Poor Flora! she writes in high spirits; what a change will
+the news of this unhappy retreat make in her state of mind!'
+
+Waverley, who was really much affected by the deep tone of melancholy
+with which Fergus spoke, affectionately entreated him to banish from
+his remembrance any unkindness which had arisen between them, and they
+once more shook hands, but now with sincere cordiality. Fergus again
+inquired of Waverley what he intended to do. 'Had you not better leave
+this luckless army, and get down before us into Scotland, and embark
+for the Continent from some of the eastern ports that are still in our
+possession? When you are out of the kingdom, your friends will easily
+negotiate your pardon; and, to tell you the truth, I wish you would
+carry Rose Bradwardine with you as your wife, and take Flora also under
+your joint protection.'--Edward looked surprised.--'She loves you, and
+I believe you love her, though, perhaps, you have not found it out, for
+you are not celebrated for knowing your own mind very pointedly.' He
+said this with a sort of smile.
+
+'How,' answered Edward, 'can you advise me to desert the expedition in
+which we are all embarked?'
+
+'Embarked?' said Fergus; 'the vessel is going to pieces, and it is full
+time for all who can to get into the long-boat and leave her.'
+
+'Why, what will other gentlemen do?' answered Waverley, 'and why did
+the Highland Chiefs consent to this retreat if it is so ruinous?'
+
+'O,' replied Mac-Ivor, 'they think that, as on former occasions, the
+heading, hanging, and forfeiting will chiefly fall to the lot of the
+Lowland gentry; that they will be left secure in their poverty and
+their fastnesses, there, according to their proverb, "to listen to the
+wind upon the hill till the waters abate." But they will be
+disappointed; they have been too often troublesome to be so repeatedly
+passed over, and this time John Bull has been too heartily frightened
+to recover his good-humour for some time. The Hanoverian ministers
+always deserved to be hanged for rascals; but now, if they get the
+power in their hands,--as, sooner or later, they must, since there is
+neither rising in England nor assistance from France,--they will
+deserve the gallows as fools if they leave a single clan in the
+Highlands in a situation to be again troublesome to government. Ay,
+they will make root-and-branch-work, I warrant them.'
+
+'And while you recommend flight to me,' said Edward,--'a counsel which
+I would rather die than embrace,--what are your own views?'
+
+'O,' answered Fergus, with a melancholy air, 'my fate is settled. Dead
+or captive I must be before tomorrow.'
+
+'What do you mean by that, my friend?' said Edward. 'The enemy is still
+a day's march in our rear, and if he comes up, we are still strong
+enough to keep him in check. Remember Gladsmuir.'
+
+'What I tell you is true notwithstanding, so far as I am individually
+concerned.'
+
+'Upon what authority can you found so melancholy a prediction?' asked
+Waverley.
+
+'On one which never failed a person of my house. I have seen,' he said,
+lowering his voice, 'I have seen the Bodach Glas.'
+
+'Bodach Glas?'
+
+'Yes; have you been so long at Glennaquoich, and never heard of the
+Grey Spectre? though indeed there is a certain reluctance among us to
+mention him.'
+
+'No, never.'
+
+'Ah! it would have been a tale for poor Flora to have told you. Or, if
+that hill were Benmore, and that long blue lake, which you see just
+winding towards yon mountainous country, were Loch Tay, or my own Loch
+an Ri, the tale would be better suited with scenery. However, let us
+sit down on this knoll; even Saddleback and Ulswater will suit what I
+have to say better than the English hedgerows, enclosures, and
+farmhouses. You must know, then, that when my ancestor, Ian nan
+Chaistel, wasted Northumberland, there was associated with him in the
+expedition a sort of Southland Chief, or captain of a band of
+Lowlanders, called Halbert Hall. In their return through the Cheviots
+they quarrelled about the division of the great booty they had
+acquired, and came from words to blows. The Lowlanders were cut off to
+a man, and their chief fell the last, covered with wounds by the sword
+of my ancestor. Since that time his spirit has crossed the Vich Ian
+Vohr of the day when any great disaster was impending, but especially
+before approaching death. My father saw him twice, once before he was
+made prisoner at Sheriff-Muir, another time on the morning of the day
+on which he died.'
+
+'How can you, my dear Fergus, tell such nonsense with a grave face?'
+
+' I do not ask you to believe it; but I tell you the truth, ascertained
+by three hundred years' experience at least, and last night by my own
+eyes.'
+
+'The particulars, for heaven's sake!' said Waverley, with eagerness.
+
+'I will, on condition you will not attempt a jest on the subject. Since
+this unhappy retreat commenced I have scarce ever been able to sleep
+for thinking of my clan, and of this poor Prince, whom they are leading
+back like a dog in a string, whether he will or no, and of the downfall
+of my family. Last night I felt so feverish that I left my quarters and
+walked out, in hopes the keen frosty air would brace my nerves--I
+cannot tell how much I dislike going on, for I know you will hardly
+believe me. However--I crossed a small footbridge, and kept walking
+backwards and forwards, when I observed with surprise by the clear
+moonlight a tall figure in a grey plaid, such as shepherds wear in the
+south of Scotland, which, move at what pace I would, kept regularly
+about four yards before me.'
+
+'You saw a Cumberland peasant in his ordinary dress, probably.'
+
+'No; I thought so at first, and was astonished at the man's audacity in
+daring to dog me. I called to him, but received no answer. I felt an
+anxious throbbing at my heart, and to ascertain what I dreaded, I stood
+still and turned myself on the same spot successively to the four
+points of the compass. By Heaven, Edward, turn where I would, the
+figure was instantly before my eyes, at precisely the same distance! I
+was then convinced it was the Bodach Glas. My hair bristled and my
+knees shook. I manned myself, however, and determined to return to my
+quarters. My ghastly visitant glided before me (for I cannot say he
+walked) until he reached the footbridge; there he stopped and turned
+full round. I must either wade the river or pass him as close as I am
+to you. A desperate courage, founded on the belief that my death was
+near, made me resolve to make my way in despite of him. I made the sign
+of the cross, drew my sword, and uttered, "In the name of God, Evil
+Spirit, give place!" "Vich Ian Vohr," it said, in a voice that made my
+very blood curdle, "beware of to-morrow!" It seemed at that moment not
+half a yard from my sword's point; but the words were no sooner spoken
+than it was gone, and nothing appeared further to obstruct my passage.
+I got home and threw myself on my bed, where I spent a few hours
+heavily enough; and this morning, as no enemy was reported to be near
+us, I took my horse and rode forward to make up matters with you. I
+would not willingly fall until I am in charity with a wronged friend.'
+
+Edward had little doubt that this phantom was the operation of an
+exhausted frame and depressed spirits, working on the belief common to
+all Highlanders in such superstitions. He did not the less pity Fergus,
+for whom, in his present distress, he felt all his former regard
+revive. With the view of diverting his mind from these gloomy images,
+he offered, with the Baron's permission, which he knew he could readily
+obtain, to remain in his quarters till Fergus's corps should come up,
+and then to march with them as usual. The Chief seemed much pleased,
+yet hesitated to accept the offer.
+
+'We are, you know, in the rear, the post of danger in a retreat.'
+
+'And therefore the post of honour.'
+
+'Well,' replied the Chieftain, 'let Alick have your horse in readiness,
+in case we should be overmatched, and I shall be delighted to have your
+company once more.'
+
+The rear-guard were late in making their appearance, having been
+delayed by various accidents and by the badness of the roads. At length
+they entered the hamlet. When Waverley joined the clan Mac-Ivor,
+arm-in-arm with their Chieftain, all the resentment they had
+entertained against him seemed blown off at once. Evan Dhu received him
+with a grin of congratulation; and even Callum, who was running about
+as active as ever, pale indeed, and with a great patch on his head,
+appeared delighted to see him.
+
+'That gallows-bird's skull,' said Fergus, 'must be harder than marble;
+the lock of the pistol was actually broken.'
+
+'How could you strike so young a lad so hard?' said Waverley, with some
+interest.
+
+'Why, if I did not strike hard sometimes, the rascals would forget
+themselves.'
+
+They were now in full march, every caution being taken to prevent
+surprise. Fergus's people, and a fine clan regiment from Badenoch,
+commanded by Cluny Mac-Pherson, had the rear. They had passed a large
+open moor, and were entering into the enclosures which surround a small
+village called Clifton. The winter sun had set, and Edward began to
+rally Fergus upon the false predictions of the Grey Spirit. 'The ides
+of March are not past,' said Mac-Ivor, with a smile; when, suddenly
+casting his eyes back on the moor, a large body of cavalry was
+indistinctly seen to hover upon its brown and dark surface. To line the
+enclosures facing the open ground and the road by which the enemy must
+move from it upon the village was the work of a short time. While these
+manoeuvres were accomplishing, night sunk down, dark and gloomy, though
+the moon was at full. Sometimes, however, she gleamed forth a dubious
+light upon the scene of action.
+
+The Highlanders did not long remain undisturbed in the defensive
+position they had adopted. Favoured by the night, one large body of
+dismounted dragoons attempted to force the enclosures, while another,
+equally strong, strove to penetrate by the highroad. Both were received
+by such a heavy fire as disconcerted their ranks and effectually
+checked their progress. Unsatisfied with the advantage thus gained,
+Fergus, to whose ardent spirit the approach of danger seemed to restore
+all its elasticity, drawing his sword and calling out 'Claymore!'
+encouraged his men, by voice and example, to break through the hedge
+which divided them and rush down upon the enemy. Mingling with the
+dismounted dragoons, they forced them, at the sword-point, to fly to
+the open moor, where a considerable number were cut to pieces. But the
+moon, which suddenly shone out, showed to the English the small number
+of assailants, disordered by their own success. Two squadrons of horse
+moving to the support of their companions, the Highlanders endeavoured
+to recover the enclosures. But several of them, amongst others their
+brave Chieftain, were cut off and surrounded before they could effect
+their purpose. Waverley, looking eagerly for Fergus, from whom, as well
+as from the retreating body of his followers, he had been separated in
+the darkness and tumult, saw him, with Evan Dhu and Callum, defending
+themselves desperately against a dozen of horsemen, who were hewing at
+them with their long broadswords. The moon was again at that moment
+totally overclouded, and Edward, in the obscurity, could neither bring
+aid to his friends nor discover which way lay his own road to rejoin
+the rear-guard. After once or twice narrowly escaping being slain or
+made prisoner by parties of the cavalry whom he encountered in the
+darkness, he at length reached an enclosure, and, clambering over it,
+concluded himself in safety and on the way to the Highland forces,
+whose pipes he heard at some distance. For Fergus hardly a hope
+remained, unless that he might be made prisoner Revolving his fate with
+sorrow and anxiety, the superstition of the Bodach Glas recurred to
+Edward's recollection, and he said to himself, with internal surprise
+'What, can the devil speak truth?' [Footnote: See Note 13.]
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LX
+
+CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS
+
+
+Edward was in a most unpleasant and dangerous situation. He soon lost
+the sound of the bagpipes; and, what was yet more unpleasant, when,
+after searching long in vain and scrambling through many enclosures, he
+at length approached the highroad, he learned, from the unwelcome noise
+of kettledrums and trumpets, that the English cavalry now occupied it,
+and consequently were between him and the Highlanders. Precluded,
+therefore, from advancing in a straight direction, he resolved to avoid
+the English military and endeavour to join his friends by making a
+circuit to the left, for which a beaten path, deviating from the main
+road in that direction, seemed to afford facilities. The path was muddy
+and the night dark and cold; but even these inconveniences were hardly
+felt amidst the apprehensions which falling into the hands of the
+King's forces reasonably excited in his bosom.
+
+After walking about three miles, he at length reached a hamlet.
+Conscious that the common people were in general unfavourable to the
+cause he had espoused, yet desirous, if possible, to procure a horse
+and guide to Penrith, where he hoped to find the rear, if not the main
+body, of the Chevalier's army, he approached the alehouse of the place.
+There was a great noise within; he paused to listen. A round English
+oath or two, and the burden of a campaign song, convinced him the
+hamlet also was occupied by the Duke of Cumberland's soldiers.
+Endeavouring to retire from it as softly as possible, and blessing the
+obscurity which hitherto he had murmured against, Waverley groped his
+way the best he could along a small paling, which seemed the boundary
+of some cottage garden. As he reached the gate of this little
+enclosure, his outstretched hand was grasped by that of a female, whose
+voice at the same time uttered, 'Edward, is't thou, man?'
+
+'Here is some unlucky mistake,' thought Edward, struggling, but gently,
+to disengage himself.
+
+'Naen o' thy foun, now, man, or the red cwoats will hear thee; they hae
+been houlerying and poulerying every ane that past alehouse door this
+noight to make them drive their waggons and sick loike. Come into
+feyther's, or they'll do ho a mischief.'
+
+'A good hint,' thought Waverley, following the girl through the little
+garden into a brick-paved kitchen, where she set herself to kindle a
+match at an expiring fire, and with the match to light a candle. She
+had no sooner looked on Edward than she dropped the light, with a
+shrill scream of 'O feyther, feyther!'
+
+The father, thus invoked, speedily appeared--a sturdy old farmer, in a
+pair of leather breeches, and boots pulled on without stockings, having
+just started from his bed; the rest of his dress was only a
+Westmoreland statesman's robe-de-chambre--that is, his shirt. His
+figure was displayed to advantage by a candle which he bore in his left
+hand; in his right he brandished a poker.
+
+'What hast ho here, wench?'
+
+'O!' cried the poor girl, almost going off in hysterics, 'I thought it
+was Ned Williams, and it is one of the plaid-men.'
+
+'And what was thee ganging to do wi' Ned Williams at this time o'
+noight?' To this, which was, perhaps, one of the numerous class of
+questions more easily asked than answered, the rosy-cheeked damsel made
+no reply, but continued sobbing and wringing her hands.
+
+'And thee, lad, dost ho know that the dragoons be a town? dost ho know
+that, mon? ad, they'll sliver thee loike a turnip, mon.'
+
+'I know my life is in great danger,' said Waverley, 'but if you can
+assist me, I will reward you handsomely. I am no Scotchman, but an
+unfortunate English gentleman.'
+
+'Be ho Scot or no,' said the honest farmer, 'I wish thou hadst kept the
+other side of the hallan. But since thou art here, Jacob Jopson will
+betray no man's bluid; and the plaids were gay canny, and did not do so
+much mischief when they were here yesterday.' Accordingly, he set
+seriously about sheltering and refreshing our hero for the night. The
+fire was speedily rekindled, but with precaution against its light
+being seen from without. The jolly yeoman cut a rasher of bacon, which
+Cicely soon broiled, and her father added a swingeing tankard of his
+best ale. It was settled that Edward should remain there till the
+troops marched in the morning, then hire or buy a horse from the
+farmer, and, with the best directions that could be obtained, endeavour
+to overtake his friends. A clean, though coarse, bed received him after
+the fatigues of this unhappy day.
+
+With the morning arrived the news that the Highlanders had evacuated
+Penrith, and marched off towards Carlisle; that the Duke of Cumberland
+was in possession of Penrith, and that detachments of his army covered
+the roads in every direction. To attempt to get through undiscovered
+would be an act of the most frantic temerity. Ned Williams (the right
+Edward) was now called to council by Cicely and her father. Ned, who
+perhaps did not care that his handsome namesake should remain too long
+in the same house with his sweetheart, for fear of fresh mistakes,
+proposed that Waverley, exchanging his uniform and plaid for the dress
+of the country, should go with him to his father's farm near Ullswater,
+and remain in that undisturbed retirement until the military movements
+in the country should have ceased to render his departure hazardous. A
+price was also agreed upon, at which the stranger might board with
+Farmer Williams if he thought proper, till he could depart with safety.
+It was of moderate amount; the distress of his situation, among this
+honest and simple-hearted race, being considered as no reason for
+increasing their demand.
+
+The necessary articles of dress were accordingly procured, and, by
+following by-paths known to the young farmer, they hoped to escape any
+unpleasant rencontre. A recompense for their hospitality was refused
+peremptorily by old Jopson and his cherry-cheeked daughter; a kiss paid
+the one and a hearty shake of the hand the other. Both seemed anxious
+for their guest's safety, and took leave of him with kind wishes.
+
+In the course of their route Edward, with his guide, traversed those
+fields which the night before had been the scene of action. A brief
+gleam of December's sun shone sadly on the broad heath, which, towards
+the spot where the great north-west road entered the enclosures of Lord
+Lonsdale's property, exhibited dead bodies of men and horses, and the
+usual companions of war, a number of carrion-crows, hawks, and ravens.
+
+'And this, then, was thy last field,' said Waverley to himself, his eye
+filling at the recollection of the many splendid points of Fergus's
+character, and of their former intimacy, all his passions and
+imperfections forgotten--'here fell the last Vich Ian Vohr, on a
+nameless heath; and in an obscure night-skirmish was quenched that
+ardent spirit, who thought it little to cut a way for his master to the
+British throne! Ambition, policy, bravery, all far beyond their sphere,
+here learned the fate of mortals. The sole support, too, of a sister
+whose spirit, as proud and unbending, was even more exalted than thine
+own; here ended all thy hopes for Flora, and the long and valued line
+which it was thy boast to raise yet more highly by thy adventurous
+valour!'
+
+As these ideas pressed on Waverley's mind, he resolved to go upon the
+open heath and search if, among the slain, he could discover the body
+of his friend, with the pious intention of procuring for him the last
+rites of sepulture. The timorous young man who accompanied him
+remonstrated upon the danger of the attempt, but Edward was determined.
+The followers of the camp had already stripped the dead of all they
+could carry away; but the country people, unused to scenes of blood,
+had not yet approached the field of action, though some stood fearfully
+gazing at a distance. About sixty or seventy dragoons lay slain within
+the first enclosure, upon the highroad, and on the open moor. Of the
+Highlanders, not above a dozen had fallen, chiefly those who, venturing
+too far on the moor, could not regain the strong ground. He could not
+find the body of Fergus among the slain. On a little knoll, separated
+from the others, lay the carcasses of three English dragoons, two
+horses, and the page Callum Beg, whose hard skull a trooper's
+broadsword had, at length, effectually cloven. It was possible his clan
+had carried off the body of Fergus; but it was also possible he had
+escaped, especially as Evan Dhu, who would never leave his Chief, was
+not found among the dead; or he might be prisoner, and the less
+formidable denunciation inferred from the appearance of the Bodach Glas
+might have proved the true one. The approach of a party sent for the
+purpose of compelling the country people to bury the dead, and who had
+already assembled several peasants for that purpose, now obliged Edward
+to rejoin his guide, who awaited him in great anxiety and fear under
+shade of the plantations.
+
+After leaving this field of death, the rest of their journey was
+happily accomplished. At the house of Farmer Williams, Edward passed
+for a young kinsman, educated for the church, who was come to reside
+there till the civil tumults permitted him to pass through the country.
+This silenced suspicion among the kind and simple yeomanry of
+Cumberland, and accounted sufficiently for the grave manners and
+retired habits of the new guest. The precaution became more necessary
+than Waverley had anticipated, as a variety of incidents prolonged his
+stay at Fasthwaite, as the farm was called.
+
+A tremendous fall of snow rendered his departure impossible for more
+than ten days. When the roads began to become a little practicable,
+they successively received news of the retreat of the Chevalier into
+Scotland; then, that he had abandoned the frontiers, retiring upon
+Glasgow; and that the Duke of Cumberland had formed the siege of
+Carlisle. His army, therefore, cut off all possibility of Waverley's
+escaping into Scotland in that direction. On the eastern border Marshal
+Wade, with a large force, was advancing upon Edinburgh; and all along
+the frontier, parties of militia, volunteers, and partizans were in
+arms to suppress insurrection, and apprehend such stragglers from the
+Highland army as had been left in England. The surrender of Carlisle,
+and the severity with which the rebel garrison were threatened, soon
+formed an additional reason against venturing upon a solitary and
+hopeless journey through a hostile country and a large army, to carry
+the assistance of a single sword to a cause which seemed altogether
+desperate. In this lonely and secluded situation, without the advantage
+of company or conversation with men of cultivated minds, the arguments
+of Colonel Talbot often recurred to the mind of our hero. A still more
+anxious recollection haunted his slumbers--it was the dying look and
+gesture of Colonel Gardiner. Most devoutly did he hope, as the rarely
+occurring post brought news of skirmishes with various success, that it
+might never again be his lot to draw his sword in civil conflict. Then
+his mind turned to the supposed death of Fergus, to the desolate
+situation of Flora, and, with yet more tender recollection, to that of
+Rose Bradwardine, who was destitute of the devoted enthusiasm of
+loyalty, which to her friend hallowed and exalted misfortune. These
+reveries he was permitted to enjoy, undisturbed by queries or
+interruption; and it was in many a winter walk by the shores of
+Ullswater that he acquired a more complete mastery of a spirit tamed by
+adversity than his former experience had given him; and that he felt
+himself entitled to say firmly, though perhaps with a sigh, that the
+romance of his life was ended, and that its real history had now
+commenced. He was soon called upon to justify his pretensions by reason
+and philosophy.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXI
+
+A JOURNEY TO LONDON
+
+
+Theamily at Fasthwaite were soon attached to Edward. He had, indeed,
+that gentleness and urbanity which almost universally attracts
+corresponding kindness; and to their simple ideas his learning gave him
+consequence, and his sorrows interest. The last he ascribed, evasively,
+to the loss of a brother in the skirmish near Clifton; and in that
+primitive state of society, where the ties of affection were highly
+deemed of, his continued depression excited sympathy, but not surprise.
+
+In the end of January his more lively powers were called out by the
+happy union of Edward Williams, the son of his host, with Cicely
+Jopson. Our hero would not cloud with sorrow the festivity attending
+the wedding of two persons to whom he was so highly obliged. He
+therefore exerted himself, danced, sung, played at the various games of
+the day, and was the blithest of the company. The next morning,
+however, he had more serious matters to think of.
+
+The clergyman who had married the young couple was so much pleased with
+the supposed student of divinity, that he came next day from Penrith on
+purpose to pay him a visit. This might have been a puzzling chapter had
+he entered into any examination of our hero's supposed theological
+studies; but fortunately he loved better to hear and communicate the
+news of the day. He brought with him two or three old newspapers, in
+one of which Edward found a piece of intelligence that soon rendered
+him deaf to every word which the Reverend Mr. Twigtythe was saying upon
+the news from the north, and the prospect of the Duke's speedily
+overtaking and crushing the rebels. This was an article in these, or
+nearly these words:--
+
+'Died at his house, in Hill Street, Berkeley Square, upon the 10th
+inst., Richard Waverley, Esq., second son of Sir Giles Waverley of
+Waverley-Honour, etc. etc. He died of a lingering disorder, augmented
+by the unpleasant predicament of suspicion in which he stood, having
+been obliged to find bail to a high amount to meet an impending
+accusation of high-treason. An accusation of the same grave crime hangs
+over his elder brother, Sir Everard Waverley, the representative of
+that ancient family; and we understand the day of his trial will be
+fixed early in the next month, unless Edward Waverley, son of the
+deceased Richard, and heir to the Baronet, shall surrender himself to
+justice. In that case we are assured it is his Majesty's gracious
+purpose to drop further proceedings upon the charge against Sir
+Everard. This unfortunate young gentleman is ascertained to have been
+in arms in the Pretender's service, and to have marched along with the
+Highland troops into England. But he has not been heard of since the
+skirmish at Clifton, on the 18th December last.'
+
+Such was this distracting paragraph. 'Good God!' exclaimed Waverley,
+'am I then a parricide? Impossible! My father, who never showed the
+affection of a father while he lived, cannot have been so much affected
+by my supposed death as to hasten his own; no, I will not believe it,
+it were distraction to entertain for a moment such a horrible idea. But
+it were, if possible, worse than parricide to suffer any danger to hang
+over my noble and generous uncle, who has ever been more to me than a
+father, if such evil can be averted by any sacrifice on my part!'
+
+While these reflections passed like the stings of scorpions through
+Waverley's sensorium, the worthy divine was startled in a long
+disquisition on the battle of Falkirk by the ghastliness which they
+communicated to his looks, and asked him if he was ill? Fortunately the
+bride, all smirk and blush, had just entered the room. Mrs. Williams
+was none of the brightest of women, but she was good-natured, and
+readily concluding that Edward had been shocked by disagreeable news in
+the papers, interfered so judiciously, that, without exciting
+suspicion, she drew off Mr. Twigtythe's attention, and engaged it until
+he soon after took his leave. Waverley then explained to his friends
+that he was under the necessity of going to London with as little delay
+as possible.
+
+One cause of delay, however, did occur, to which Waverley had been very
+little accustomed. His purse, though well stocked when he first went to
+Tully-Veolan, had not been reinforced since that period; and although
+his life since had not been of a nature to exhaust it hastily, for he
+had lived chiefly with his friends or with the army, yet he found that,
+after settling with his kind landlord, he should be too poor to
+encounter the expense of travelling post. The best course, therefore,
+seemed to be to get into the great north road about Boroughbridge, and
+there take a place in the northern diligence, a huge old-fashioned tub,
+drawn by three horses, which completed the journey from Edinburgh to
+London (God willing, as the advertisement expressed it) in three weeks.
+Our hero, therefore, took an affectionate farewell of his Cumberland
+friends, whose kindness he promised never to forget, and tacitly hoped
+ene day to acknowledge by substantial proofs of gratitude. After some
+petty difficulties and vexatious delays, and after putting his dress
+into a shape better befitting his rank, though perfectly plain and
+simple, he accomplished crossing the country, and found himself in the
+desired vehicle vis-a-vis to Mrs. Nosebag, the lady of Lieutenant
+Nosebag, adjutant and riding-master of the--dragoons, a jolly woman of
+about fifty, wearing a blue habit, faced with scarlet, and grasping a
+silver-mounted horse-whip.
+
+This lady was one of those active members of society who take upon them
+faire lefrais de la conversation. She had just returned from the north,
+and informed Edward how nearly her regiment had cut the petticoat
+people into ribands at Falkirk, 'only somehow there was one of those
+nasty, awkward marshes, that they are never without in Scotland, I
+think, and so our poor dear little regiment suffered something, as my
+Nosebag says, in that unsatisfactory affair. You, sir, have served in
+the dragoons?' Waverley was taken so much at unawares that he
+acquiesced.
+
+'O, I knew it at once; I saw you were military from your air, and I was
+sure you could be none of the foot-wobblers, as my Nosebag calls them.
+What regiment, pray?' Here was a delightful question. Waverley,
+however, justly concluded that this good lady had the whole army-list
+by heart; and, to avoid detection by adhering to truth, answered,
+'Gardiner's dragoons, ma'am; but I have retired some time.'
+
+'O aye, those as won the race at the battle of Preston, as my Nosebag
+says. Pray, sir, were you there?'
+
+'I was so unfortunate, madam,' he replied, 'as to witness that
+engagement.'
+
+'And that was a misfortune that few of Gardiner's stood to witness, I
+believe, sir--ha! ha! ha! I beg your pardon; but a soldier's wife loves
+a joke.'
+
+'Devil confound you,' thought Waverley: 'what infernal luck has penned
+me up with this inquisitive hag!'
+
+Fortunately the good lady did not stick long to one subject. 'We are
+coming to Ferrybridge now,' she said, 'where there was a party of OURS
+left to support the beadles, and constables, and justices, and these
+sort of creatures that are examining papers and stopping rebels, and
+all that.' They were hardly in the inn before she dragged Waverley to
+the window, exclaiming, 'Yonder comes Corporal Bridoon, of our poor
+dear troop; he's coming with the constable man. Bridoon's one of my
+lambs, as Nosebag calls 'ern. Come, Mr.--a--a--pray, what's your name,
+sir?'
+
+'Butler, ma'am,' said Waverley, resolved rather to make free with the
+name of a former fellow-officer than run the risk of detection by
+inventing one not to be found in the regiment.
+
+'O, you got a troop lately, when that shabby fellow, Waverley, went
+over to the rebels? Lord, I wish our old cross Captain Crump would go
+over to the rebels, that Nosebag might get the troop! Lord, what can
+Bridoon be standing swinging on the bridge for? I'll be hanged if he
+a'nt hazy, as Nosebag says. Come, sir, as you and I belong to the
+service, we'll go put the rascal in mind of his duty.'
+
+Waverley, with feelings more easily conceived than described, saw
+himself obliged to follow this doughty female commander. The gallant
+trooper was as like a lamb as a drunk corporal of dragoons, about six
+feet high, with very broad shoulders, and very thin legs, not to
+mention a great scar across his nose, could well be. Mrs. Nosebag
+addressed him with something which, if not an oath, sounded very like
+one, and commanded him to attend to his duty. 'You be d--d for a ----,'
+commenced the gallant cavalier; but, looking up in order to suit the
+action to the words, and also to enforce the epithet which he meditated
+with an adjective applicable to the party, he recognised the speaker,
+made his military salaam, and altered his tone. 'Lord love your
+handsome face, Madam Nosebag, is it you? Why, if a poor fellow does
+happen to fire a slug of a morning, I am sure you were never the lady
+to bring him to harm.'
+
+'Well, you rascallion, go, mind your duty; this gentleman and I belong
+to the service; but be sure you look after that shy cock in the
+slouched hat that sits in the corner of the coach. I believe he's one
+of the rebels in disguise.'
+
+'D--n her gooseberry wig,' said the corporal, when she was out of
+hearing, 'that gimlet-eyed jade--mother adjutant, as we call her--is a
+greater plague to the regiment than provost-marshal, sergeant-major,
+and old Hubble-de-Shuff, the colonel, into the bargain. Come, Master
+Constable, let's see if this shy cock, as she calls him (who, by the
+way, was a Quaker from Leeds, with whom Mrs. Nosebag had had some tart
+argument on the legality of bearing arms), will stand godfather to a
+sup of brandy, for your Yorkshire ale is cold on my stomach.'
+
+The vivacity of this good lady, as it helped Edward out of this scrape,
+was like to have drawn him into one or two others. In every town where
+they stopped she wished to examine the corps de garde, if there was
+one, and once very narrowly missed introducing Waverley to a
+recruiting-sergeant of his own regiment. Then she Captain'd and
+Butler'd him till he was almost mad with vexation and anxiety; and
+never was he more rejoiced in his life at the termination of a journey
+than when the arrival of the coach in London freed him from the
+attentions of Madam Nosebag.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXII
+
+WHAT'S TO BE DONE NEXT?
+
+
+Itwas twilight when they arrived in town; and having shaken off his
+companions, and walked through a good many streets to avoid the
+possibility of being traced by them, Edward took a hackney-coach and
+drove to Colonel Talbot's house, in one of the principal squares at the
+west end of the town. That gentleman, by the death of relations, had
+succeeded since his marriage to a large fortune, possessed considerable
+political interest, and lived in what is called great style.
+
+When Waverley knocked at his door he found it at first difficult to
+procure admittance, but at length was shown into an apartment where the
+Colonel was at table. Lady Emily, whose very beautiful features were
+still pallid from indisposition, sate opposite to him. The instant he
+heard Waverley's voice, he started up and embraced him. 'Frank Stanley,
+my dear boy, how d'ye do? Emily, my love, this is young Stanley.'
+
+The blood started to the lady's cheek as she gave Waverley a reception
+in which courtesy was mingled with kindness, while her trembling hand
+and faltering voice showed how much she was startled and discomposed.
+Dinner was hastily replaced, and while Waverley was engaged in
+refreshing himself, the Colonel proceeded--'I wonder you have come
+here, Frank; the Doctors tell me the air of London is very bad for your
+complaints. You should not have risked it. But I am delighted to see
+you, and so is Emily, though I fear we must not reckon upon your
+staying long.'
+
+'Some particular business brought me up,' muttered Waverley.
+
+'I supposed so, but I shan't allow you to stay long. Spontoon' (to an
+elderly military-looking servant out of livery),'take away these
+things, and answer the bell yourself, if I ring. Don't let any of the
+other fellows disturb us. My nephew and I have business to talk of.'
+
+When the servants had retired, 'In the name of God, Waverley, what has
+brought you here? It may be as much as your life is worth.'
+
+'Dear Mr. Waverley,' said Lady Emily, 'to whom I owe so much more than
+acknowledgments can ever pay, how could you be so rash?'
+
+'My father--my uncle--this paragraph,'--he handed the paper to Colonel
+Talbot.
+
+'I wish to Heaven these scoundrels were condemned to be squeezed to
+death in their own presses,' said Talbot. 'I am told there are not less
+than a dozen of their papers now published in town, and no wonder that
+they are obliged to invent lies to find sale for their journals. It is
+true, however, my dear Edward, that you have lost your father; but as
+to this flourish of his unpleasant situation having grated upon his
+spirits and hurt his health--the truth is--for though it is harsh to
+say so now, yet it will relieve your mind from the idea of weighty
+responsibility--the truth then is, that Mr. Richard Waverley, through
+this whole business, showed great want of sensibility, both to your
+situation and that of your uncle; and the last time I saw him, he told
+me, with great glee, that, as I was so good as to take charge of your
+interests, he had thought it best to patch up a separate negotiation
+for himself, and make his peace with government through some channels
+which former connexions left still open to him.'
+
+'And my uncle, my dear uncle?'
+
+'Is in no danger whatever. It is true (looking at the date of the
+paper) there was a foolish report some time ago to the purport here
+quoted, but it is entirely false. Sir Everard is gone down to
+Waverley-Honour, freed from all uneasiness, unless upon your own
+account. But you are in peril yourself; your name is in every
+proclamation; warrants are out to apprehend you. How and when did you
+come here?'
+
+Edward told his story at length, suppressing his quarrel with Fergus;
+for, being himself partial to Highlanders, he did not wish to give any
+advantage to the Colonel's national prejudice against them.
+
+'Are you sure it was your friend Glen's foot-boy you saw dead in
+Clifton Moor?'
+
+'Quite positive.'
+
+'Then that little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows, for
+cut-throat was written in his face; though (turning to Lady Emily) it
+was a very handsome face too. But for you, Edward, I wish you would go
+down again to Cumberland, or rather I wish you had never stirred from
+thence, for there is an embargo in all the seaports, and a strict
+search for the adherents of the Pretender; and the tongue of that
+confounded woman will wag in her head like the clack of a mill, till
+somehow or other she will detect Captain Butler to be a feigned
+personage.'
+
+'Do you know anything,' asked Waverley, 'of my fellow-traveller?'
+
+'Her husband was my sergeant-major for six years; she was a buxom
+widow, with a little money; he married her, was steady, and got on by
+being a good drill. I must send Spontoon to see what she is about; he
+will find her out among the old regimental connections. To-morrow you
+must be indisposed, and keep your room from fatigue. Lady Emily is to
+be your nurse, and Spontoon and I your attendants. You bear the name of
+a near relation of mine, whom none of my present people ever saw,
+except Spontoon, so there will be no immediate danger. So pray feel
+your head ache and your eyes grow heavy as soon as possible, that you
+may be put upon the sick-list; and, Emily, do you order an apartment
+for Frank Stanley, with all the attentions which an invalid may
+require.'
+
+In the morning the Colonel visited his guest. 'Now,' said he, 'I have
+some good news for you. Your reputation as a gentleman and officer is
+effectually cleared of neglect of duty and accession to the mutiny in
+Gardiner's regiment. I have had a correspondence on this subject with a
+very zealous friend of yours, your Scottish parson, Morton; his first
+letter was addressed to Sir Everard; but I relieved the good Baronet of
+the trouble of answering it. You must know, that your free-booting
+acquaintance, Donald of the Cave, has at length fallen into the hands
+of the Philistines. He was driving off the cattle of a certain
+proprietor, called Killan--something or other--'
+
+'Killancureit?'
+
+'The same. Now the gentleman being, it seems, a great farmer, and
+having a special value for his breed of cattle, being, moreover, rather
+of a timid disposition, had got a party of soldiers to protect his
+property. So Donald ran his head unawares into the lion's mouth, and
+was defeated and made prisoner. Being ordered for execution, his
+conscience was assailed on the one hand by a Catholic priest, on the
+other by your friend Morton. He repulsed the Catholic chiefly on
+account of the doctrine of extreme unction, which this economical
+gentleman considered as an excessive waste of oil. So his conversion
+from a state of impenitence fell to Mr. Morton's share, who, I daresay,
+acquitted himself excellently, though I suppose Donald made but a queer
+kind of Christian after all. He confessed, however, before a
+magistrate, one Major Melville, who seems to have been a correct,
+friendly sort of person, his full intrigue with Houghton, explaining
+particularly how it was carried on, and fully acquitting you of the
+least accession to it. He also mentioned his rescuing you from the
+hands of the volunteer officer, and sending you, by orders of the
+Pret--Chevalier, I mean--as a prisoner to Doune, from whence he
+understood you were carried prisoner to Edinburgh. These are
+particulars which cannot but tell in your favour. He hinted that he had
+been employed to deliver and protect you, and rewarded for doing so;
+but he would not confess by whom, alleging that, though he would not
+have minded breaking any ordinary oath to satisfy the curiosity of Mr.
+Morton, to whose pious admonitions he owed so much, yet, in the present
+case he had been sworn to silence upon the edge of his dirk, [Footnote:
+See Note 14.] which, it seems, constituted, in his opinion, an
+inviolable obligation.'
+
+'And what is become of him?'
+
+'Oh, he was hanged at Stirling after the rebels raised the siege, with
+his lieutenant and four plaids besides; he having the advantage of a
+gallows more lofty than his friends.'
+
+'Well, I have little cause either to regret or rejoice at his death;
+and yet he has done me both good and harm to a very considerable
+extent.'
+
+'His confession, at least, will serve you materially, since it wipes
+from your character all those suspicions which gave the accusation
+against you a complexion of a nature different from that with which so
+many unfortunate gentlemen, now or lately in arms against the
+government, may be justly charged. Their treason--I must give it its
+name, though you participate in its guilt--is an action arising from
+mistaken virtue, and therefore cannot be classed as a disgrace, though
+it be doubtless highly criminal. Where the guilty are so numerous,
+clemency must be extended to far the greater number; and I have little
+doubt of procuring a remission for you, providing we can keep you out
+of the claws of justice till she has selected and gorged upon her
+victims; for in this, as in other cases, it will be according to the
+vulgar proverb, "First come, first served." Besides, government are
+desirous at present to intimidate the English Jacobites, among whom
+they can find few examples for punishment. This is a vindictive and
+timid feeling which will soon wear off, for of all nations the English
+are least blood-thirsty by nature. But it exists at present, and you
+must therefore be kept out of the way in the mean-time.'
+
+Now entered Spontoon with an anxious countenance. By his regimental
+acquaintances he had traced out Madam Nosebag, and found her full of
+ire, fuss, and fidget at discovery of an impostor who had travelled
+from the north with her under the assumed name of Captain Butler of
+Gardiner's dragoons. She was going to lodge an information on the
+subject, to have him sought for as an emissary of the Pretender; but
+Spontoon (an old soldier), while he pretended to approve, contrived to
+make her delay her intention. No time, however, was to be lost: the
+accuracy of this good dame's description might probably lead to the
+discovery that Waverley was the pretended Captain Butler, an
+identification fraught with danger to Edward, perhaps to his uncle, and
+even to Colonel Talbot. Which way to direct his course was now,
+therefore, the question.
+
+'To Scotland,' said Waverley.
+
+'To Scotland?' said the Colonel; 'with what purpose? not to engage
+again with the rebels, I hope?'
+
+'No; I considered my campaign ended when, after all my efforts, I could
+not rejoin them; and now, by all accounts, they are gone to make a
+winter campaign in the Highlands, where such adherents as I am would
+rather be burdensome than useful. Indeed, it seems likely that they
+only prolong the war to place the Chevalier's person out of danger, and
+then to make some terms for themselves. To burden them with my presence
+would merely add another party, whom they would not give up and could
+not defend. I understand they left almost all their English adherents
+in garrison at Carlisle, for that very reason. And on a more general
+view, Colonel, to confess the truth, though it may lower me in your
+opinion, I am heartly tired of the trade of war, and am, as Fletcher's
+Humorous Lieutenant says, "even as weary of this fighting-'"
+
+'Fighting! pooh, what have you seen but a skirmish or two? Ah! if you
+saw war on the grand scale--sixty or a hundred thousand men in the
+field on each side!'
+
+'I am not at all curious, Colonel. "Enough," says our homely proverb,
+"is as good as a feast." The plumed troops and the big war used to
+enchant me in poetry, but the night marches, vigils, couches under the
+wintry sky, and such accompaniments of the glorious trade, are not at
+all to my taste in practice; then for dry blows, I had MY fill of
+fighting at Clifton, where I escaped by a hair's-breadth half a dozen
+times; and you, I should think--' He stopped.
+
+'Had enough of it at Preston? you mean to say,' answered the Colonel,
+laughing; 'but 'tis my vocation, Hal.'
+
+'It is not mine, though,' said Waverley; 'and having honourably got rid
+of the sword, which I drew only as a volunteer, I am quite satisfied
+with my military experience, and shall be in no hurry to take it up
+again.'
+
+'I am very glad you are of that mind; but then what would you do in the
+north?'
+
+'In the first place, there are some seaports on the eastern coast of
+Scotland still in the hands of the Chevalier's friends; should I gain
+any of them, I can easily embark for the Continent.'
+
+'Good, your second reason?'
+
+'Why, to speak the very truth, there is a person in Scotland upon whom
+I now find my happiness depends more than I was always aware, and about
+whose situation I am very anxious.'
+
+'Then Emily was right, and there is a love affair in the case after
+all? And which of these two pretty Scotchwomen, whom you insisted upon
+my admiring, is the distinguished fair? not Miss Glen--I hope.'
+
+'No.'
+
+'Ah, pass for the other; simplicity may be improved, but pride and
+conceit never. Well, I don't discourage you; I think it will please Sir
+Everard, from what he said when I jested with him about it; only I hope
+that intolerable papa, with his brogue, and his snuff, and his Latin,
+and his insufferable long stories about the Duke of Berwick, will find
+it necessary hereafter to be an inhabitant of foreign parts. But as to
+the daughter, though I think you might find as fitting a match in
+England, yet if your heart be really set upon this Scotch rosebud, why
+the Baronet has a great opinion of her father and of his family, and he
+wishes much to see you married and settled, both for your own sake and
+for that of the three ermines passant, which may otherwise pass away
+altogether. But I will bring you his mind fully upon the subject, since
+you are debarred correspondence for the present, for I think you will
+not be long in Scotland before me.'
+
+'Indeed! and what can induce you to think of returning to Scotland? No
+relenting longings towards the land of mountains and floods, I am
+afraid.'
+
+'None, on my word; but Emily's health is now, thank God, reestablished,
+and, to tell you the truth, I have little hopes of concluding the
+business which I have at present most at heart until I can have a
+personal interview with his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief; for,
+as Fluellen says, "the duke doth love me well, and I thank heaven I
+have deserved some love at his hands." I am now going out for an hour
+or two to arrange matters for your departure; your liberty extends to
+the next room, Lady Emily's parlour, where you will find her when you
+are disposed for music, reading, or conversation. We have taken
+measures to exclude all servants but Spontoon, who is as true as steel.'
+
+In about two hours Colonel Talbot returned, and found his young friend
+conversing with his lady; she pleased with his manners and information,
+and he delighted at being restored, though but for a moment, to the
+society of his own rank, from which he had been for some time excluded.
+
+'And now,' said the Colonel, 'hear my arrangements, for there is little
+time to lose. This youngster, Edward Waverley, alias Williams, alias
+Captain Butler, must continue to pass by his fourth ALIAS of Francis
+Stanley, my nephew; he shall set out to-morrow for the North, and the
+chariot shall take him the first two stages. Spontoon shall then attend
+him; and they shall ride post as far as Huntingdon; and the presence of
+Spontoon, well known on the road as my servant, will check all
+disposition to inquiry. At Huntingdon you will meet the real Frank
+Stanley. He is studying at Cambridge; but, a little while ago, doubtful
+if Emily's health would permit me to go down to the North myself, I
+procured him a passport from the secretary of state's office to go in
+my stead. As he went chiefly to look after you, his journey is now
+unnecessary. He knows your story; you will dine together at Huntingdon;
+and perhaps your wise heads may hit upon some plan for removing or
+diminishing the danger of your farther progress north-ward. And now
+(taking out a morocco case), let me put you in funds for the campaign.'
+
+'I am ashamed, my dear Colonel--'
+
+'Nay,' said Colonel Talbot, 'you should command my purse in any event;
+but this money is your own. Your father, considering the chance of your
+being attainted, left me his trustee for your advantage. So that you
+are worth above L15,000, besides Brere-Wood Lodge--a very independent
+person, I promise you. There are bills here for L200; any larger sum
+you may have, or credit abroad, as soon as your motions require it.'
+
+The first use which occurred to Waverley of his newly acquired wealth
+was to write to honest Farmer Jopson, requesting his acceptance of a
+silver tankard on the part of his friend Williams, who had not
+forgotten the night of the eighteenth December last. He begged him at
+the same time carefully to preserve for him his Highland garb and
+accoutrements, particularly the arms, curious in themselves, and to
+which the friendship of the donors gave additional value. Lady Emily
+undertook to find some suitable token of remembrance likely to flatter
+the vanity and please the taste of Mrs. Williams; and the Colonel, who
+was a kind of farmer, promised to send the Ullswater patriarch an
+excellent team of horses for cart and plough.
+
+One happy day Waverley spent in London; and, travelling in the manner
+projected, he met with Frank Stanley at Huntingdon. The two young men
+were acquainted in a minute.
+
+'I can read my uncle's riddle,' said Stanley;'the cautious old soldier
+did not care to hint to me that I might hand over to you this passport,
+which I have no occasion for; but if it should afterwards come out as
+the rattle-pated trick of a young Cantab, cela ne tire a rien. You are
+therefore to be Francis Stanley, with this passport.' This proposal
+appeared in effect to alleviate a great part of the difficulties which
+Edward must otherwise have encountered at every turn; and accordingly
+he scrupled not to avail himself of it, the more especially as he had
+discarded all political purposes from his present journey, and could
+not be accused of furthering machinations against the government while
+travelling under protection of the secretary's passport.
+
+The day passed merrily away. The young student was inquisitive about
+Waverley's campaigns, and the manners of the Highlands, and Edward was
+obliged to satisfy his curiosity by whistling a pibroch, dancing a
+strathspey, and singing a Highland song. The next morning Stanley rode
+a stage northward with his new friend, and parted from him with great
+reluctance, upon the remonstrances of Spontoon, who, accustomed to
+submit to discipline, was rigid in enforcing it.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXIII
+
+DESOLATION
+
+
+Waverley riding post, as was the usual fashion of the period, without
+any adventure save one or two queries, which the talisman of his
+passport sufficiently answered, reached the borders of Scotland. Here
+he heard the tidings of the decisive battle of Culloden. It was no more
+than he had long expected, though the success at Falkirk had thrown a
+faint and setting gleam over the arms of the Chevalier. Yet it came
+upon him like a shock, by which he was for a time altogether unmanned.
+The generous, the courteous, the noble-minded adventurer was then a
+fugitive, with a price upon his head; his adherents, so brave, so
+enthusiastic, so faithful, were dead, imprisoned, or exiled. Where,
+now, was the exalted and high-souled Fergus, if, indeed, he had
+survived the night at Clifton? Where the pure-hearted and primitive
+Baron of Bradwardine, whose foibles seemed foils to set off the
+disinterestedness of his disposition, the genuine goodness of his
+heart, and his unshaken courage? Those who clung for support to these
+fallen columns, Rose and Flora, where were they to be sought, and in
+what distress must not the loss of their natural protectors have
+involved them? Of Flora he thought with the regard of a brother for a
+sister; of Rose with a sensation yet more deep and tender. It might be
+still his fate to supply the want of those guardians they had lost.
+Agitated by these thoughts he precipitated his journey.
+
+When he arrived in Edinburgh, where his inquiries must necessarily
+commence, he felt the full difficulty of his situation. Many
+inhabitants of that city had seen and known him as Edward Waverley;
+how, then, could he avail himself of a passport as Francis Stanley? He
+resolved, therefore, to avoid all company, and to move northward as
+soon as possible. He was, however, obliged to wait a day or two in
+expectation of a letter from Colonel Talbot, and he was also to leave
+his own address, under his feigned character, at a place agreed upon.
+With this latter purpose he sallied out in the dusk through the
+well-known streets, carefully shunning observation, but in vain: one of
+the first persons whom he met at once recognised him. It was Mrs.
+Flockhart, Fergus Mac-Ivor's good-humoured landlady.
+
+'Gude guide us, Mr. Waverley, is this you? na, ye needna be feared for
+me. I wad betray nae gentleman in your circumstances. Eh, lack-a-day!
+lack-a-day! here's a change o' markets; how merry Colonel MacIvor and
+you used to be in our house!' And the good-natured widow shed a few
+natural tears. As there was no resisting her claim of acquaintance,
+Waverley acknowledged it with a good grace, as well as the danger of
+his own situation. 'As it's near the darkening, sir, wad ye just step
+in by to our house and tak a dish o' tea? and I am sure if ye like to
+sleep in the little room, I wad tak care ye are no disturbed, and
+naebody wad ken ye; for Kate and Matty, the limmers, gaed aff wi' twa
+o' Hawley's dragoons, and I hae twa new queans instead o' them.'
+
+Waverley accepted her invitation, and engaged her lodging for a night
+or two, satisfied he should be safer in the house of this simple
+creature than anywhere else. When he entered the parlour his heart
+swelled to see Fergus's bonnet, with the white cockade, hanging beside
+the little mirror.
+
+'Ay,' said Mrs. Flockhart, sighing, as she observed the direction of
+his eyes, 'the puir Colonel bought a new ane just the day before they
+marched, and I winna let them tak that ane doun, but just to brush it
+ilka day mysell; and whiles I look at it till I just think I hear him
+cry to Callum to bring him his bonnet, as he used to do when he was
+ganging out. It's unco silly--the neighbours ca' me a Jacobite, but
+they may say their say--I am sure it's no for that--but he was as
+kind-hearted a gentleman as ever lived, and as weel-fa'rd too. Oh, d'ye
+ken, sir, when he is to suffer?'
+
+'Suffer! Good heaven! Why, where is he?'
+
+'Eh, Lord's sake! d'ye no ken? The poor Hieland body, Dugald Mahony,
+cam here a while syne, wi' ane o' his arms cuttit off, and a sair clour
+in the head--ye'll mind Dugald, he carried aye an axe on his
+shouther--and he cam here just begging, as I may say, for something to
+eat. Aweel, he tauld us the Chief, as they ca'd him (but I aye ca' him
+the Colonel), and Ensign Maccombich, that ye mind weel, were ta'en
+somewhere beside the English border, when it was sae dark that his folk
+never missed him till it was ower late, and they were like to gang
+clean daft. And he said that little Callum Beg (he was a bauld
+mischievous callant that) and your honour were killed that same night
+in the tuilzie, and mony mae braw men. But he grat when he spak o' the
+Colonel, ye never saw the like. And now the word gangs the Colonel is
+to be tried, and to suffer wi' them that were ta'en at Carlisle.'
+
+'And his sister?'
+
+'Ay, that they ca'd the Lady Flora--weel, she's away up to Carlisle to
+him, and lives wi' some grand Papist lady thereabouts to be near him.'
+
+'And,' said Edward,'the other young lady?'
+
+'Whilk other? I ken only of ae sister the Colonel had.'
+
+'I mean Miss Bradwardine,' said Edward.
+
+'Ou, ay; the laird's daughter' said his landlady. 'She was a very bonny
+lassie, poor thing, but far shyer than Lady Flora.'
+
+'Where is she, for God's sake?'
+
+'Ou, wha kens where ony o' them is now? puir things, they're sair ta'en
+doun for their white cockades and their white roses; but she gaed north
+to her father's in Perthshire, when the government troops cam back to
+Edinbro'. There was some prettymen amang them, and ane Major Whacker
+was quartered on me, a very ceevil gentleman,--but O, Mr. Waverley, he
+was naething sae weel fa'rd as the puir Colonel.'
+
+'Do you know what is become of Miss Bradwardine's father?'
+
+'The auld laird? na, naebody kens that. But they say he fought very
+hard in that bluidy battle at Inverness; and Deacon Clank, the
+whit-iron smith, says that the government folk are sair agane him for
+having been out twice; and troth he might hae ta'en warning, but
+there's nae Me like an auld fule. The puir Colonel was only out ance.'
+
+Such conversation contained almost all the good-natured widow knew of
+the fate of her late lodgers and acquaintances; but it was enough to
+determine Edward, at all hazards, to proceed instantly to Tully-Veolan,
+where he concluded he should see, or at least hear, something of Rose.
+He therefore left a letter for Colonel Talbot at the place agreed upon,
+signed by his assumed name, and giving for his address the post-town
+next to the Baron's residence.
+
+From Edinburgh to Perth he took post-horses, resolving to make the rest
+of his journey on foot; a mode of travelling to which he was partial,
+and which had the advantage of permitting a deviation from the road
+when he saw parties of military at a distance. His campaign had
+considerably strengthened his constitution and improved his habits of
+enduring fatigue. His baggage he sent before him as opportunity
+occurred.
+
+As he advanced northward, the traces of war became visible. Broken
+carriages, dead horses, unroofed cottages, trees felled for palisades,
+and bridges destroyed or only partially repaired--all indicated the
+movements of hostile armies. In those places where the gentry were
+attached to the Stuart cause, their houses seemed dismantled or
+deserted, the usual course of what may be called ornamental labour was
+totally interrupted, and the inhabitants were seen gliding about, with
+fear, sorrow, and dejection on their faces.
+
+It was evening when he approached the village of Tully-Veolan, with
+feelings and sentiments--how different from those which attended his
+first entrance! Then, life was so new to him that a dull or
+disagreeable day was one of the greatest misfortunes which his
+imagination anticipated, and it seemed to him that his time ought only
+to be consecrated to elegant or amusing study, and relieved by social
+or youthful frolic. Now, how changed! how saddened, yet how elevated
+was his character, within the course of a very few months! Danger and
+misfortune are rapid, though severe teachers. 'A sadder and a wiser
+man,' he felt in internal confidence and mental dignity a compensation
+for the gay dreams which in his case experience had so rapidly
+dissolved.
+
+As he approached the village he saw, with surprise and anxiety, that a
+party of soldiers were quartered near it, and, what was worse, that
+they seemed stationary there. This he conjectured from a few tents
+which he beheld glimmering upon what was called the Common Moor. To
+avoid the risk of being stopped and questioned in a place where he was
+so likely to be recognised, he made a large circuit, altogether
+avoiding the hamlet, and approaching the upper gate of the avenue by a
+by-path well known to him. A single glance announced that great changes
+had taken place. One half of the gate, entirely destroyed and split up
+for firewood, lay in piles, ready to be taken away; the other swung
+uselessly about upon its loosened hinges. The battlements above the
+gate were broken and thrown down, and the carved bears, which were said
+to have done sentinel's duty upon the top for centuries, now, hurled
+from their posts, lay among the rubbish. The avenue was cruelly wasted.
+Several large trees were felled and left lying across the path; and the
+cattle of the villagers, and the more rude hoofs of dragoon horses, had
+poached into black mud the verdant turf which Waverley had so much
+admired.
+
+Upon entering the court-yard, Edward saw the fears realised which these
+circumstances had excited. The place had been sacked by the King's
+troops, who, in wanton mischief, had even attempted to burn it; and
+though the thickness of the walls had resisted the fire, unless to a
+partial extent, the stables and out-houses were totally consumed. The
+towers and pinnacles of the main building were scorched and blackened;
+the pavement of the court broken and shattered, the doors torn down
+entirely, or hanging by a single hinge, the windows dashed in and
+demolished, and the court strewed with articles of furniture broken
+into fragments. The accessaries of ancient distinction, to which the
+Baron, in the pride of his heart, had attached so much importance and
+veneration, were treated with peculiar contumely. The fountain was
+demolished, and the spring which had supplied it now flooded the
+court-yard. The stone basin seemed to be destined for a drinking-trough
+for cattle, from the manner in which it was arranged upon the ground.
+The whole tribe of bears, large and small, had experienced as little
+favour as those at the head of the avenue, and one or two of the family
+pictures, which seemed to have served as targets for the soldiers, lay
+on the ground in tatters. With an aching heart, as may well be
+imagined, Edward viewed this wreck of a mansion so respected. But his
+anxiety to learn the fate of the proprietors, and his fears as to what
+that fate might be, increased with every step. When he entered upon the
+terrace new scenes of desolation were visible. The balustrade was
+broken down, the walls destroyed, the borders overgrown with weeds, and
+the fruit-trees cut down or grubbed up. In one compartment of this
+old-fashioned garden were two immense horse-chestnut trees, of whose
+size the Baron was particularly vain; too lazy, perhaps, to cut them
+down, the spoilers, with malevolent ingenuity, had mined them and
+placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity. One had been shivered to
+pieces by the explosion, and the fragments lay scattered around,
+encumbering the ground it had so long shadowed. The other mine had been
+more partial in its effect. About one-fourth of the trunk of the tree
+was torn from the mass, which, mutilated and defaced on the one side,
+still spread on the other its ample and undiminished boughs. [Footnote:
+A pair of chestnut trees, destroyed, the one entirely and the other in
+part, by such a mischievous and wanton act of revenge, grew at
+Invergarry Castle, the fastness of MacDonald of Glengarry.]
+
+Amid these general marks of ravage, there were some which more
+particularly addressed the feelings of Waverley. Viewing the front of
+the building thus wasted and defaced, his eyes naturally sought the
+little balcony which more properly belonged to Rose's apartment, her
+troisieme, or rather cinquieme, etage. It was easily discovered, for
+beneath it lay the stage-flowers and shrubs with which it was her pride
+to decorate it, and which had been hurled from the bartizan; several of
+her books were mingled with broken flower-pots and other remnants.
+Among these Waverley distinguished one of his own, a small copy of
+Ariosto, and gathered it as a treasure, though wasted by the wind and
+rain.
+
+While, plunged in the sad reflections which the scene excited, he was
+looking around for some one who might explain the fate of the
+inhabitants, he heard a voice from the interior of the building
+singing, in well-remembered accents, an old Scottish song:--
+
+    They came upon us in the night,
+    And brake my bower and slew my knight;
+    My servants a' for life did flee,
+    And left us in extremitie.
+
+    They slew my knight, to me sae dear;
+    They slew my knight, and drave his gear;
+    The moon may set, the sun may rise,
+    But a deadly sleep has closed his eyes.
+
+[Footnote: The first three couplets are from an old ballad, called the
+Border Widow's Lament.]
+
+'Alas,' thought Edward, 'is it thou? Poor helpless being, art thou
+alone left, to gibber and moan, and fill with thy wild and unconnected
+scraps of minstrelsy the halls that protected thee?' He then called,
+first low, and then louder, 'Davie--Davie Gellatley!'
+
+The poor simpleton showed himself from among the ruins of a sort of
+greenhouse, that once terminated what was called the terrace-walk, but
+at first sight of a stranger retreated, as if in terror. Waverley,
+remembering his habits, began to whistle a tune to which he was
+partial, which Davie had expressed great pleasure in listening to, and
+had picked up from him by the ear. Our hero's minstrelsy no more
+equalled that of Blondel than poor Davie resembled Coeur de Lion; but
+the melody had the same effect of producing recognition. Davie again
+stole from his lurking-place, but timidly, while Waverley, afraid of
+frightening him, stood making the most encouraging signals he could
+devise. 'It's his ghaist,' muttered Davie; yet, coming nearer, he
+seemed to acknowledge his living acquaintance. The poor fool himself
+appeared the ghost of what he had been. The peculiar dress in which he
+had been attired in better days showed only miserable rags of its
+whimsical finery, the lack of which was oddly supplied by the remnants
+of tapestried hangings, window-curtains, and shreds of pictures with
+which he had bedizened his tatters. His face, too, had lost its vacant
+and careless air, and the poor creature looked hollow-eyed, meagre,
+half-starved, and nervous to a pitiable degree. After long hesitation,
+he at length approached Waverley with some confidence, stared him sadly
+in the face, and said, 'A' dead and gane--a' dead and gane.'
+
+'Who are dead?' said Waverley, forgetting the incapacity of Davie to
+hold any connected discourse.
+
+'Baron, and Bailie, and Saunders Saunderson, and Lady Rose that sang
+sae sweet--a' dead and gane--dead and gane;
+
+    But follow, follow me,
+    While glowworms light the lea,
+    I'll show ye where the dead should be--
+      Each in his shroud,
+      While winds pipe loud,
+      And the red moon peeps dim through the cloud.
+    Follow, follow me;
+    Brave should he be
+    That treads by night the dead man's lea.'
+
+With these words, chanted in a wild and earnest tone, he made a sign to
+Waverley to follow him, and walked rapidly towards the bottom of the
+garden, tracing the bank of the stream which, it may be remembered, was
+its eastern boundary. Edward, over whom an involuntary shuddering stole
+at the import of his words, followed him in some hope of an
+explanation. As the house was evidently deserted, he could not expect
+to find among the ruins any more rational informer.
+
+Davie, walking very fast, soon reached the extremity of the garden, and
+scrambled over the ruins of the wall that once had divided it from the
+wooded glen in which the old tower of Tully-Veolan was situated. He
+then jumped down into the bed of the stream, and, followed by Waverley,
+proceeded at a great pace, climbing over some fragments of rock and
+turning with difficulty round others. They passed beneath the ruins of
+the castle; Waverley followed, keeping up with his guide with
+difficulty, for the twilight began to fall. Following the descent of
+the stream a little lower, he totally lost him, but a twinkling light
+which he now discovered among the tangled copse-wood and bushes seemed
+a surer guide. He soon pursued a very uncouth path; and by its guidance
+at length reached the door of a wretched hut. A fierce barking of dogs
+was at first heard, but it stilled at his approach. A voice sounded
+from within, and he held it most prudent to listen before he advanced.
+
+'Wha hast thou brought here, thou unsonsy villain, thou?' said an old
+woman, apparently in great indignation. He heard Davie Gellatley in
+answer whistle a part of the tune by which he had recalled himself to
+the simpleton's memory, and had now no hesitation to knock at the door.
+There was a dead silence instantly within, except the deep growling of
+the dogs; and he next heard the mistress of the hut approach the door,
+not probably for the sake of undoing a latch, but of fastening a bolt.
+To prevent this Waverley lifted the latch himself.
+
+In front was an old wretched-looking woman, exclaiming, 'Wha comes into
+folk's houses in this gate, at this time o' the night?' On one side,
+two grim and half-starved deer greyhounds laid aside their ferocity at
+his appearance, and seemed to recognise him. On the other side, half
+concealed by the open door, yet apparently seeking that concealment
+reluctantly, with a cocked pistol in his right hand and his left in the
+act of drawing another from his belt, stood a tall bony gaunt figure in
+the remnants of a faded uniform and a beard of three weeks' growth. It
+was the Baron of Bradwardine. It is unnecessary to add, that he threw
+aside his weapon and greeted Waverley with a hearty embrace.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXIV
+
+COMPARING OF NOTES
+
+
+Thearon's story was short, when divested of the adages and
+commonplaces, Latin, English, and Scotch, with which his erudition
+garnished it. He insisted much upon his grief at the loss of Edward and
+of Glennaquoich, fought the fields of Falkirk and Culloden, and related
+how, after all was lost in the last battle, he had returned home, under
+the idea of more easily finding shelter among his own tenants and on
+his own estate than elsewhere. A party of soldiers had been sent to lay
+waste his property, for clemency was not the order of the day. Their
+proceedings, however, were checked by an order from the civil court.
+The estate, it was found, might not be forfeited to the crown to the
+prejudice of Malcolm Bradwardine of Inch-Grabbit, the heir-male, whose
+claim could not be prejudiced by the Baron's attainder, as deriving no
+right through him, and who, therefore, like other heirs of entail in
+the same situation, entered upon possession. But, unlike many in
+similar circumstances, the new laird speedily showed that he intended
+utterly to exclude his predecessor from all benefit or advantage in the
+estate, and that it was his purpose to avail himself of the old Baron's
+evil fortune to the full extent. This was the more ungenerous, as it
+was generally known that, from a romantic idea of not prejudicing this
+young man's right as heir-male, the Baron had refrained from settling
+his estate on his daughter.
+
+This selfish injustice was resented by the country people, who were
+partial to their old master, and irritated against his successor. In
+the Baron's own words, 'The matter did not coincide with the feelings
+of the commons of Bradwardine, Mr. Waverley; and the tenants were slack
+and repugnant in payment of their mails and duties; and when my kinsman
+came to the village wi' the new factor, Mr. James Howie, to lift the
+rents, some wanchancy person--I suspect John Heatherblutter, the auld
+gamekeeper, that was out wi' me in the year fifteen--fired a shot at
+him in the gloaming, whereby he was so affrighted, that I may say with
+Tullius In Catilinam, "Abiit, evasit, erupit, effugit." He fled, sir,
+as one may say, incontinent to Stirling. And now he hath advertised the
+estate for sale, being himself the last substitute in the entail. And
+if I were to lament about sic matters, this would grieve me mair than
+its passing from my immediate possession, whilk, by the course of
+nature, must have happened in a few years; whereas now it passes from
+the lineage that should have possessed it in scecula saculorum. But
+God's will be done, humana perpessi sumus. Sir John of
+Bradwardine--Black Sir John, as he is called--who was the common
+ancestor of our house and the Inch-Grabbits, little thought such a
+person would have sprung from his loins. Mean time, he has accused me
+to some of the primates, the rulers for the time, as if I were a
+cut-throat, and an abettor of bravoes and assassinates and
+coupe-jarrets. And they have sent soldiers here to abide on the estate,
+and hunt me like a partridge upon the mountains, as Scripture says of
+good King David, or like our valiant Sir William Wallace--not that I
+bring myself into comparison with either. I thought, when I heard you
+at the door, they had driven the auld deer to his den at last; and so I
+e'en proposed to die at bay, like a buck of the first head. But now,
+Janet, canna ye gie us something for supper?' 'Ou ay, sir, I'll brander
+the moor-fowl that John Heatherblutter brought in this morning; and ye
+see puir Davie's roasting the black hen's eggs. I daur say, Mr.
+Wauverley, ye never kend that a' the eggs that were sae weel roasted at
+supper in the Ha'-house were aye turned by our Davie? there's no the
+like o' him ony gate for powtering wi' his fingers amang the het
+peat-ashes and roasting eggs.' Davie all this while lay with his nose
+almost in the fire, nuzzling among the ashes, kicking his heels,
+mumbling to himself, turning the eggs as they lay in the hot embers, as
+if to confute the proverb, that 'there goes reason to roasting of
+eggs,' and justify the eulogium which poor Janet poured out upon
+
+    Him whom she loved, her idiot boy.
+
+'Davie's no sae silly as folk tak him for, Mr. Wauverley; he wadna hae
+brought you here unless he had kend ye was a friend to his Honour;
+indeed the very dogs kend ye, Mr. Wauverley, for ye was aye kind to
+beast and body. I can tell you a story o' Davie, wi' his Honour's
+leave. His Honour, ye see, being under hiding in thae sair times--the
+mair's the pity--he lies a' day, and whiles a' night, in the cove in
+the dern hag; but though it's a bieldy eneugh bit, and the auld gudeman
+o' Corse-Cleugh has panged it wi' a kemple o' strae amaist, yet when
+the country's quiet, and the night very cauld, his Honour whiles creeps
+doun here to get a warm at the ingle and a sleep amang the blankets,
+and gangs awa in the morning. And so, ae morning, siccan a fright as I
+got! Twa unlucky red-coats were up for black-fishing, or some siccan
+ploy--for the neb o' them's never out o' mischief--and they just got a
+glisk o' his Honour as he gaed into the wood, and banged aff a gun at
+him. I out like a jer-falcon, and cried--"Wad they shoot an honest
+woman's poor innocent bairn?" And I fleyt at them, and threepit it was
+my son; and they damned and swuir at me that it was the auld rebel, as
+the villains ca'd his Honour; and Davie was in the wood, and heard the
+tuilzie, and he, just out o' his ain head, got up the auld grey mantle
+that his Honour had flung off him to gang the faster, and he cam out o'
+the very same bit o' the wood, majoring and looking about sae like his
+Honour, that they were clean beguiled, and thought they had letten aff
+their gun at crack-brained Sawney, as they ca' him; and they gae me
+saxpence, and twa saumon fish, to say naething about it. Na, na,
+Davie's no just like other folk, puir fallow; but he's no sae silly as
+folk tak him for. But, to be sure, how can we do eneugh for his Honour,
+when we and ours have lived on his ground this twa hundred years; and
+when he keepit my puir Jamie at school and college, and even at the
+Ha'-house, till he gaed to a better place; and when he saved me frae
+being ta'en to Perth as a witch--Lord forgi'e them that would touch sic
+a puir silly auld body!--and has maintained puir Davie at heck and
+manger maist feck o' his life?'
+
+Waverley at length found an opportunity to interrupt Janet's narrative
+by an inquiry after Miss Bradwardine.
+
+'She's weel and safe, thank God! at the Duchran,' answered the Baron;
+'the laird's distantly related to us, and more nearly to my chaplain,
+Mr. Rubrick; and, though he be of Whig principles, yet he's not
+forgetful of auld friendship at this time. The Bailie's doing what he
+can to save something out of the wreck for puir Rose; but I doubt, I
+doubt, I shall never see her again, for I maun lay my banes in some far
+country.'
+
+'Hout na, your Honour,' said old Janet, 'ye were just as ill aff in the
+feifteen, and got the bonnie baronie back, an' a'. And now the eggs is
+ready, and the muir-cock's brandered, and there's ilk ane a trencher
+and some saut, and the heel o' the white loaf that cam frae the
+Bailie's, and there's plenty o' brandy in the greybeard that Luckie
+Maclearie sent doun, and winna ye be suppered like princes?'
+
+'I wish one Prince, at least, of our acquaintance may be no worse off,'
+said the Baron to Waverley, who joined him in cordial hopes for the
+safety of the unfortunate Chevalier.
+
+They then began to talk of their future prospects. The Baron's plan was
+very simple. It was, to escape to France, where, by the interest of his
+old friends, he hoped to get some military employment, of which he
+still conceived himself capable. He invited Waverley to go with him, a
+proposal in which he acquiesced, providing the interest of Colonel
+Talbot should fail in procuring his pardon. Tacitly he hoped the Baron
+would sanction his addresses to Rose, and give him a right to assist
+him in his exile; but he forbore to speak on this subject until his own
+fate should be decided. They then talked of Glennaquoich, for whom the
+Baron expressed great anxiety, although, he observed, he was 'the very
+Achilles of Horatius Flaccus,--
+
+Impiger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer; which,' he continued, 'has been
+thus rendered (vernacularly) by Struan Robertson:--
+
+    A fiery etter-cap, a fractious chiel,
+    As het as ginger, and as stieve as steel.'
+
+Flora had a large and unqualified share of the good old man's sympathy.
+
+It was now wearing late. Old Janet got into some kind of kennel behind
+the hallan; Davie had been long asleep and snoring between Ban and
+Buscar. These dogs had followed him to the hut after the mansion-house
+was deserted, and there constantly resided; and their ferocity, with
+the old woman's reputation of being a witch, contributed a good deal to
+keep visitors from the glen. With this view, Bailie Macwheeble provided
+Janet underhand with meal for their maintenance, and also with little
+articles of luxury for his patron's use, in supplying which much
+precaution was necessarily used. After some compliments, the Baron
+occupied his usual couch, and Waverley reclined in an easy chair of
+tattered velvet, which had once garnished the state bed-room of
+Tully-Veolan (for the furniture of this mansion was now scattered
+through all the cottages in the vicinity), and went to sleep as
+comfortably as if he had been in a bed of down.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXV
+
+MORE EXPLANATION
+
+
+With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the house to
+wake the Baron, who usually slept sound and heavily.
+
+'I must go back,' he said to Waverley,'to my cove; will you walk down
+the glen wi' me?' They went out together, and followed a narrow and
+entangled foot-path, which the occasional passage of anglers or
+wood-cutters had traced by the side of the stream. On their way the
+Baron explained to Waverley that he would be under no danger in
+remaining a day or two at Tully-Veolan, and even in being seen walking
+about, if he used the precaution of pretending that he was looking at
+the estate as agent or surveyor for an English gentleman who designed
+to be purchaser. With this view he recommended to him to visit the
+Bailie, who still lived at the factor's house, called Little Veolan,
+about a mile from the village, though he was to remove at next term.
+Stanley's passport would be an answer to the officer who commanded the
+military; and as to any of the country people who might recognise
+Waverley, the Baron assured him he was in no danger of being betrayed
+by them.
+
+'I believe,' said the old man, 'half the people of the barony know that
+their poor auld laird is somewhere hereabout; for I see they do not
+suffer a single bairn to come here a bird-nesting; a practice whilk,
+when I was in full possession of my power as baron, I was unable
+totally to inhibit. Nay, I often find bits of things in my way, that
+the poor bodies, God help them! leave there, because they think they
+may be useful to me. I hope they will get a wiser master, and as kind a
+one as I was.'
+
+A natural sigh closed the sentence; but the quiet equanimity with which
+the Baron endured his misfortunes had something in it venerable and
+even sublime. There was no fruitless repining, no turbid melancholy; he
+bore his lot, and the hardships which it involved, with a good-humored,
+though serious composure, and used no violent language against the
+prevailing party.
+
+'I did what I thought my duty,' said the good old man, 'and
+questionless they are doing what they think theirs. It grieves me
+sometimes to look upon these blackened walls of the house of my
+ancestors; but doubtless officers cannot always keep the soldier's hand
+from depredation and spuilzie, and Gustavus Adolphus himself, as ye may
+read in Colonel Munro his "Expedition with the Worthy Scotch Regiment
+called Mackay's Regiment" did often permit it. Indeed I have myself
+seen as sad sights as Tully-Veolan now is when I served with the
+Marechal Duke of Berwick. To be sure we may say with Virgilius Maro,
+Fuimus Troes--and there's the end of an auld sang. But houses and
+families and men have a' stood lang eneugh when they have stood till
+they fall with honour; and now I hae gotten a house that is not unlike
+a domus ultima'--they were now standing below a steep rock. 'We poor
+Jacobites,' continued the Baron, looking up, 'are now like the conies
+in Holy Scripture (which the great traveller Pococke calleth Jerboa), a
+feeble people, that make our abode in the rocks. So, fare you well, my
+good lad, till we meet at Janet's in the even; for I must get into my
+Patmos, which is no easy matter for my auld stiff limbs.'
+
+With that he began to ascend the rock, striding, with the help of his
+hands, from one precarious footstep to another, till he got about
+half-way up, where two or three bushes concealed the mouth of a hole,
+resembling an oven, into which the Baron insinuated, first his head and
+shoulders, and then, by slow gradation, the rest of his l ong body; his
+legs and feet finally disappearing, coiled up like a huge snake
+entering his retreat, or a long pedigree introduced with care and
+difficulty into the narrow pigeon-hole of an old cabinet. Waverley had
+the curiosity to clamber up and look in upon him in his den, as the
+lurking-place might well be termed. Upon the whole, he looked not
+unlike that ingenious puzzle called 'a reel in a bottle,' the marvel of
+children (and of some grown people too, myself for one), who can
+neither comprehend the mysteryhowit has got in or how it is to be taken
+out. The cave was very narrow, too low in the roof to admit of his
+standing, or almost of his sitting up, though he made some awkward
+attempts at the latter posture. His sole amusement was the perusal of
+his old friend Titus Livius, varied by occasionally scratching Latin
+proverbs and texts of Scripture with his knife on the roof and walls of
+his fortalice, which were of sandstone. As the cave was dry, and filled
+with clean straw and withered fern, 'it made,' as he said, coiling
+himself up with an air of snugness and comfort which contrasted
+strangely with his situation, 'unless when the wind was due north, a
+very passable gite for an old soldier.' Neither, as he observed, was he
+without sentries for the purpose of reconnoitring. Davie and his mother
+were constantly on the watch to discover and avert danger; and it was
+singular what instances of address seemed dictated by the instinctive
+attachment of the poor simpleton when his patron's safety was concerned.
+
+With Janet, Edward now sought an interview. He had recognised her at
+first sight as the old woman who had nursed him during his sickness
+after his delivery from Gifted Gilfillan. The hut also, although a
+little repaired and somewhat better furnished, was certainly the place
+of his confinement; and he now recollected on the common moor of
+Tully-Veolan the trunk of a large decayed tree, called the try
+sting-tree, which he had no doubt was the same at which the Highlanders
+rendezvoused on that memorable night. All this he had combined in his
+imagination the night before; but reasons which may probably occur to
+the reader prevented him from catechising Janet in the presence of the
+Baron.
+
+He now commenced the task in good earnest; and the first question was,
+Who was the young lady that visited the hut during his illness? Janet
+paused for a little; and then observed, that to keep the secret now
+would neither do good nor ill to anybody.
+
+' It was just a leddy that hasna her equal in the world--Miss Rose
+Bradwardine!'
+
+'Then Miss Rose was probably also the author of my deliverance,'
+inferred Waverley, delighted at the confirmation of an idea which local
+circumstances had already induced him to entertain.
+
+'I wot weel, Mr. Wauverley, and that was she e'en; but sair, sair angry
+and affronted wad she hae been, puir thing, if she had thought ye had
+been ever to ken a word about the matter; for she gar'd me speak aye
+Gaelic when ye was in hearing, to mak ye trow we were in the Hielands.
+I can speak it weil eneugh, for my mother was a Hieland woman.'
+
+A few more questions now brought out the whole mystery respecting
+Waverley's deliverance from the bondage in which he left Cairnvreckan.
+Never did music sound sweeter to an amateur than the drowsy tautology
+with which old Janet detailed every circumstance thrilled upon the ears
+of Waverley. But my reader is not a lover and I must spare his
+patience, by attempting to condense within reasonable compass the
+narrative which old Janet spread through a harangue of nearly two hours.
+
+When Waverley communicated to Fergus the letter he had received from
+Rose Bradwardine by Davie Gellatley, giving an account of Tully-Veolan
+being occupied by a small party of soldiers, that circumstance had
+struck upon the busy and active mind of the Chieftain. Eager to
+distress and narrow the posts of the enemy, desirous to prevent their
+establishing a garrison so near him, and willing also to oblige the
+Baron--for he often had the idea of marriage with Rose floating through
+his brain--he resolved to send some of his people to drive out the
+red-coats and to bring Rose to Glennaquoich. But just as he had ordered
+Evan with a small party on this duty, the news of Cope's having marched
+into the Highlands, to meet and disperse the forces of the Chevalier
+ere they came to a head, obliged him to join the standard with his
+whole forces.
+
+He sent to order Donald Bean to attend him; but that cautious
+freebooter, who well understood the value of a separate command,
+instead of joining, sent various apologies which the pressure of the
+times compelled Fergus to admit as current, though not without the
+internal resolution of being revenged on him for his procrastination,
+time and place convenient. However, as he could not amend the matter,
+he issued orders to Donald to descend into the Low Country, drive the
+soldiers from Tully-Veolan, and, paying all respect to the mansion of
+the Baron, to take his abode somewhere near it, for protection of his
+daughter and family, and to harass and drive away any of the armed
+volunteers or small parties of military which he might find moving
+about the vicinity. As this charge formed a sort of roving commission,
+which Donald proposed to interpret in the way most advantageous to
+himself, as he was relieved from the immediate terrors of Fergus, and
+as he had, from former secret services, some interest in the councils
+of the Chevalier, he resolved to make hay while the sun shone. He
+achieved without difficulty the task of driving the soldiers from
+Tully-Veolan; but, although he did not venture to encroach upon the
+interior of the family, or to disturb Miss Rose, being unwilling to
+make himself a powerful enemy in the Chevalier's army,
+
+    For well he knew the Baron's wrath was deadly;
+
+yet he set about to raise contributions and exactions upon the
+tenantry, and otherwise to turn the war to his own advantage. Meanwhile
+he mounted the white cockade, and waited upon Rose with a pretext of
+great devotion for the service in which her father was engaged, and
+many apologies for the freedom he must necessarily use for the support
+of his people. It was at this moment that Rose learned, by open-mouthed
+fame, with all sorts of exaggeration, that Waverley had killed the
+smith at Cairnvreckan, in an attempt to arrest him; had been cast into
+a dungeon by Major Melville of Cairnvreckan, and was to be executed by
+martial law within three days. In the agony which these tidings excited
+she proposed to Donald Bean the rescue of the prisoner. It was the very
+sort of service which he was desirous to undertake, judging it might
+constitute a merit of such a nature as would make amends for any
+peccadilloes which he might be guilty of in the country. He had the
+art, however, pleading all the while duty and discipline, to hold off,
+until poor Rose, in the extremity of her distress, offered to bribe him
+to the enterprise with some valuable jewels which had been her mother's.
+
+Donald Bean, who had served in France, knew, and perhaps
+over-estimated, the value of these trinkets. But he also perceived
+Rose's apprehensions of its being discovered that she had parted with
+her jewels for Waverley's liberation. Resolved this scruple should not
+part him and the treasure, he voluntarily offered to take an oath that
+he would never mention Miss Rose's share in the transaction; and,
+foreseeing convenience in keeping the oath and no probable advantage in
+breaking it, he took the engagement--in order, as he told his
+lieutenant, to deal handsomely by the young lady--in the only mode and
+form which, by a mental paction with himself, he considered as binding:
+he swore secrecy upon his drawn dirk. He was the more especially moved
+to this act of good faith by some attentions that Miss Bradwardine
+showed to his daughter Alice, which, while they gained the heart of the
+mountain damsel, highly gratified the pride of her father. Alice, who
+could now speak a little English, was very communicative in return for
+Rose's kindness, readily confided to her the whole papers respecting
+the intrigue with Gardiner's regiment, of which she was the depositary,
+and as readily undertook, at her instance, to restore them to Waverley
+without her father's knowledge. For 'they may oblige the bonnie young
+lady and the handsome young gentleman,' said Alice, 'and what use has
+my father for a whin bits o' scarted paper?'
+
+The reader is aware that she took an opportunity of executing this
+purpose on the eve of Waverley's leaving the glen.
+
+How Donald executed his enterprise the reader is aware. But the
+expulsion of the military from Tully-Veolan had given alarm, and while
+he was lying in wait for Gilfillan, a strong party, such as Donald did
+not care to face, was sent to drive back the insurgents in their turn,
+to encamp there, and to protect the country. The officer, a gentleman
+and a disciplinarian, neither intruded himself on Miss Bradwardine,
+whose unprotected situation he respected, nor permitted his soldiers to
+commit any breach of discipline. He formed a little camp upon an
+eminence near the house of Tully-Veolan, and placed proper guards at
+the passes in the vicinity. This unwelcome news reached Donald Bean
+Lean as he was returning to Tully-Veolan. Determined, however, to
+obtain the guerdon of his labour, he resolved, since approach to
+Tully-Veolan was impossible, to deposit his prisoner in Janet's
+cottage, a place the very existence of which could hardly have been
+suspected even by those who had long lived in the vicinity, unless they
+had been guided thither, and which was utterly unknown to Waverley
+himself. This effected, he claimed and received his reward. Waverley's
+illness was an event which deranged all their calculations. Donald was
+obliged to leave the neighbourhood with his people, and to seek more
+free course for his adventures elsewhere. At Rose's entreaty, he left
+an old man, a herbalist, who was supposed to understand a little of
+medicine, to attend Waverley during his illness.
+
+In the meanwhile, new and fearful doubts started in Rose's mind. They
+were suggested by old Janet, who insisted that, a reward having been
+offered for the apprehension of Waverley, and his own personal effects
+being so valuable, there was no saying to what breach of faith Donald
+might be tempted. In an agony of grief and terror, Rose took the daring
+resolution of explaining to the Prince himself the danger in which Mr.
+Waverley stood, judging that, both as a politician and a man of honour
+and humanity, Charles Edward would interest himself to prevent his
+falling into the hands of the opposite party. This letter she at first
+thought of sending anonymously, but naturally feared it would not in
+that case be credited. She therefore subscribed her name, though with
+reluctance and terror, and consigned it in charge to a young man, who
+at leaving his farm to join the Chevalier's army, made it his petition
+to her to have some sort of credentials to the adventurer, from whom he
+hoped to obtain a commission.
+
+The letter reached Charles Edward on his descent to the Lowlands, and,
+aware of the political importance of having it supposed that he was in
+correspondence with the English Jacobites, he caused the most positive
+orders to be transmitted to Donald Bean Lean to transmit Waverley, safe
+and uninjured, in person or effects, to the governor of Doune Castle.
+The freebooter durst not disobey, for the army of the Prince was now so
+near him that punishment might have followed; besides, he was a
+politician as well as a robber, and was unwilling to cancel the
+interest created through former secret services by being refractory on
+this occasion. He therefore made a virtue of necessity, and transmitted
+orders to his lieutenant to convey Edward to Doune, which was safely
+accomplished in the mode mentioned in a former chapter. The governor of
+Doune was directed to send him to Edinburgh as a prisoner, because the
+Prince was apprehensive that Waverley, if set at liberty, might have
+resumed his purpose of returning to England, without affording him an
+opportunity of a personal interview. In this, indeed, he acted by the
+advice of the Chieftain of Glennaquoich, with whom it may be remembered
+the Chevalier communicated upon the mode of disposing of Edward, though
+without telling him how he came to learn the place of his confinement.
+
+This, indeed, Charles Edward considered as a lady's secret; for
+although Rose's letter was couched in the most cautious and general
+terms, and professed to be written merely from motives of humanity and
+zeal for the Prince's service, yet she expressed so anxious a wish that
+she should not be known to have interfered, that the Chevalier was
+induced to suspect the deep interest which she took in Waverley's
+safety. This conjecture, which was well founded, led, however, to false
+inferences. For the emotion which Edward displayed on approaching Flora
+and Rose at the ball of Holyrood was placed by the Chevalier to the
+account of the latter; and he concluded that the Baron's views about
+the settlement of his property, or some such obstacle, thwarted their
+mutual inclinations. Common fame, it is true, frequently gave Waverley
+to Miss Mac-Ivor; but the Prince knew that common fame is very prodigal
+in such gifts; and, watching attentively the behaviour of the ladies
+towards Waverley, he had no doubt that the young Englishman had no
+interest with Flora, and was beloved by Rose Bradwardine. Desirous to
+bind Waverley to his service, and wishing also to do a kind and
+friendly action, the Prince next assailed the Baron on the subject of
+settling his estate upon his daughter. Mr. Bradwardine acquiesced; but
+the consequence was that Fergus was immediately induced to prefer his
+double suit for a wife and an earldom, which the Prince rejected in the
+manner we have seen. The Chevalier, constantly engaged in his own
+multiplied affairs, had not hitherto sought any explanation with
+Waverley, though often meaning to do so. But after Fergus's declaration
+he saw the necessity of appearing neutral between the rivals, devoutly
+hoping that the matter, which now seemed fraught with the seeds of
+strife, might be permitted to lie over till the termination of the
+expedition. When, on the march to Derby, Fergus, being questioned
+concerning his quarrel with Waverley, alleged as the cause that Edward
+was desirous of retracting the suit he had made to his sister, the
+Chevalier plainly told him that he had himself observed Miss Mac-Ivor's
+behaviour to Waverley, and that he was convinced Fergus was under the
+influence of a mistake in judging of Waverley's conduct, who, he had
+every reason to believe, was engaged to Miss Bradwardine. The quarrel
+which ensued between Edward and the Chieftain is, I hope, still in the
+remembrance of the reader. These circumstances will serve to explain
+such points of our narrative as, according to the custom of
+story-tellers, we deemed it fit to leave unexplained, for the purpose
+of exciting the reader's curiosity.
+
+When Janet had once finished the leading facts of this narrative,
+Waverley was easily enabled to apply the clue which they afforded to
+other mazes of the labyrinth in which he had been engaged. To Rose
+Bradwardine, then, he owed the life which he now thought he could
+willingly have laid down to serve her. A little reflection convinced
+him, however, that to live for her sake was more convenient and
+agreeable, and that, being possessed of independence, she might share
+it with him either in foreign countries or in his own. The pleasure of
+being allied to a man of the Baron's high worth, and who was so much
+valued by his uncle Sir Everard, was also an agreeable consideration,
+had anything been wanting to recommend the match. His absurdities,
+which had appeared grotesquely ludicrous during his prosperity, seemed,
+in the sunset of his fortune, to be harmonised and assimilated with the
+noble features of his character, so as to add peculiarity without
+exciting ridicule. His mind occupied with such projects of future
+happiness, Edward sought Little Veolan, the habitation of Mr. Duncan
+Macwheeble.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXVI
+
+    Now is Cupid a child of conscience--he makes restitution.
+
+    SHAKSPEARE
+
+
+Mr. Duncan MacWheeble, no longer Commissary or Bailie, though still
+enjoying the empty name of the latter dignity, had escaped proscription
+by an early secession from the insurgent party and by his
+insignificance.
+
+Edward found him in his office, immersed among papers and accounts.
+Before him was a large bicker of oatmeal porridge, and at the side
+thereof a horn spoon and a bottle of two-penny. Eagerly running his eye
+over a voluminous law-paper, he from time to time shovelled an immense
+spoonful of these nutritive viands into his capacious mouth. A
+pot-bellied Dutch bottle of brandy which stood by intimated either that
+this honest limb of the law had taken his morning already, or that he
+meant to season his porridge with such digestive; or perhaps both
+circumstances might reasonably be inferred. His night-cap and
+morning-gown, had whilome been of tartan, but, equally cautious and
+frugal, the honest Bailie had got them dyed black, lest their original
+ill-omened colour might remind his visitors of his unlucky excursion to
+Derby. To sum up the picture, his face was daubed with snuff up to the
+eyes, and his fingers with ink up to the knuckles. He looked dubiously
+at Waverley as he approached the little green rail which fenced his
+desk and stool from the approach of the vulgar. Nothing could give the
+Bailie more annoyance than the idea of his acquaintance being claimed
+by any of the unfortunate gentlemen who were now so much more likely to
+need assistance than to afford profit. But this was the rich young
+Englishman; who knew what might be his situation? He was the Baron's
+friend too; what was to be done?
+
+While these reflections gave an air of absurd perplexity to the poor
+man's visage, Waverley, reflecting on the communication he was about to
+make to him, of a nature so ridiculously contrasted with the appearance
+of the individual, could not help bursting out a-laughing, as he
+checked the propensity to exclaim with Syphax--
+
+    Cato's a proper person to intrust
+    A love-tale with.
+
+As Mr. Macwheeble had no idea of any person laughing heartily who was
+either encircled by peril or oppressed by poverty, the hilarity of
+Edward's countenance greatly relieved the embarrassment of his own,
+and, giving him a tolerably hearty welcome to Little Veolan, he asked
+what he would choose for breakfast. His visitor had, in the first
+place, something for his private ear, and begged leave to bolt the
+door. Duncan by no means liked this precaution, which savoured of
+danger to be apprehended; but he could not now draw back.
+
+Convinced he might trust this man, as he could make it his interest to
+be faithful, Edward communicated his present situation and future
+schemes to Macwheeble. The wily agent listened with apprehension when
+he found Waverley was still in a state of proscription; was somewhat
+comforted by learning that he had a passport; rubbed his hands with
+glee when he mentioned the amount of his present fortune; opened huge
+eyes when he heard the brilliancy of his future expectations; but when
+he expressed his intention to share them with Miss Rose Bradwardine,
+ecstasy had almost deprived the honest man of his senses. The Bailie
+started from his three-footed stool like the Pythoness from her tripod;
+flung his best wig out of the window, because the block on which it was
+placed stood in the way of his career; chucked his cap to the ceiling,
+caught it as it fell; whistled 'Tullochgorum'; danced a Highland fling
+with inimitable grace and agility, and then threw himself exhausted
+into a chair, exclaiming, 'Lady Wauverley! ten thousand a year the
+least penny! Lord preserve my poor understanding!'
+
+'Amen with all my heart,' said Waverley; 'but now, Mr. Macwheeble, let
+us proceed to business.' This word had somewhat a sedative effect, but
+the Bailie's head, as he expressed himself, was still 'in the bees.' He
+mended his pen, however, marked half a dozen sheets of paper with an
+ample marginal fold, whipped down Dallas of St. Martin's 'Styles' from
+a shelf, where that venerable work roosted with Stair's 'Institutions,'
+Dirleton's 'Doubts,' Balfour's 'Practiques,' and a parcel of old
+account-books, opened the volume at the article Contract of Marriage,
+and prepared to make what he called a'sma' minute to prevent parties
+frae resiling.'
+
+With some difficulty Waverley made him comprehend that he was going a
+little too fast. He explained to him that he should want his
+assistance, in the first place, to make his residence safe for the
+time, by writing to the officer at Tully-Veolan that Mr. Stanley, an
+English gentleman nearly related to Colonel Talbot, was upon a visit of
+business at Mr. Macwheeble's, and, knowing the state of the country,
+had sent his passport for Captain Foster's inspection. This produced a
+polite answer from the officer, with an invitation to Mr. Stanley to
+dine with him, which was declined (as may easily be supposed) under
+pretence of business.
+
+Waverley's next request was, that Mr. Macwheeble would despatch a man
+and horse to ----, the post-town at which Colonel Talbot was to address
+him, with directions to wait there until the post should bring a letter
+for Mr. Stanley, and then to forward it to Little Veolan with all
+speed. In a moment the Bailie was in search of his apprentice (or
+servitor, as he was called Sixty Years Since), Jock Scriever, and in
+not much greater space of time Jock was on the back of the white pony.
+'Tak care ye guide him weel, sir, for he's aye been short in the wind
+since--ahem--Lord be gude to me! (in a low voice), I was gaun to come
+out wi'--since I rode whip and spur to fetch the Chevalier to redd Mr.
+Wauverley and Vich lan Vohr; and an uncanny coup I gat for my pains.
+Lord forgie your honour! I might hae broken my neck; but troth it was
+in a venture, mae ways nor ane; but this maks amends for a'. Lady
+Wauverley! ten thousand a year! Lord be gude unto me!'
+
+'But you forget, Mr. Macwheeble, we want the Baron's consent--the
+lady's--'
+
+'Never fear, I'se be caution for them; I'se gie you my personal
+warrandice. Ten thousand a year! it dings Balmawhapple out and out--a
+year's rent's worth a' Balmawhapple, fee and life-rent! Lord make us
+thankful!'
+
+To turn the current of his feelings, Edward inquired if he had heard
+anything lately of the Chieftain of Glennaquoich.
+
+'Not one word,' answered Macwheeble, 'but that he was still in Carlisle
+Castle, and was soon to be panelled for his life. I dinna wish the
+young gentleman ill,' he said, 'but I hope that they that hae got him
+will keep him, and no let him back to this Hieland border to plague us
+wi' black-mail and a' manner o' violent, wrongous, and masterfu'
+oppression and spoliation, both by himself and others of his causing,
+sending, and hounding out; and he couldna tak care o' the siller when
+he had gotten it neither, but flung it a' into yon idle quean's lap at
+Edinburgh; but light come light gane. For my part, I never wish to see
+a kilt in the country again, nor a red-coat, nor a gun, for that
+matter, unless it were to shoot a paitrick; they're a' tarr'd wi' ae
+stick. And when they have done ye wrang, even when ye hae gotten
+decreet of spuilzie, oppression, and violent profits against them, what
+better are ye? They hae na a plack to pay ye; ye need never extract it.'
+
+With such discourse, and the intervening topics of business, the time
+passed until dinner, Macwheeble meanwhile promising to devise some mode
+of introducing Edward at the Duchran, where Rose at present resided,
+without risk of danger or suspicion; which seemed no very easy task,
+since the laird was a very zealous friend to government. The
+poultry-yard had been laid under requisition, and cockyleeky and Scotch
+collops soon reeked in the Bailie's little parlour. The landlord's
+cork-screw was just introduced into the muzzle of a pint bottle of
+claret (cribbed possibly from the cellars of Tully-Veolan), when the
+sight of the grey pony passing the window at full trot induced the
+Bailie, but with due precaution, to place it aside for the moment.
+Enter Jock Scriever with a packet for Mr. Stanley; it is Colonel
+Talbot's seal, and Edward's ringers tremble as he undoes it. Two
+official papers, folded, signed, and sealed in all formality, drop out.
+They were hastily picked up by the Bailie, who had a natural respect
+for everything resembling a deed, and, glancing slily on their titles,
+his eyes, or rather spectacles, are greeted with 'Protection by his
+Royal Highness to the person of Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine, Esq., of that
+ilk, commonly called Baron of Bradwardine, forfeited for his accession
+to the late rebellion.' The other proves to be a protection of the same
+tenor in favour of Edward Waverley, Esq. Colonel Talbot's letter was in
+these words:--
+
+'My DEAR EDWARD,
+
+'I am just arrived here, and yet I have finished my business; it has
+cost me some trouble though, as you shall hear. I waited upon his Royal
+Highness immediately on my arrival, and found him in no very good
+humour for my purpose. Three or four Scotch gentlemen were just leaving
+his levee. After he had expressed himself to me very courteously;
+"Would you think it," he said, "Talbot, here have been half a dozen of
+the most respectable gentlemen and best friends to government north of
+the Forth, Major Melville of Cairnvreckan, Rubrick of Duchran, and
+others, who have fairly wrung from me, by their downright importunity,
+a present protection and the promise of a future pardon for that
+stubborn old rebel whom they call Baron of Bradwardine. They allege
+that his high personal character, and the clemency which he showed to
+such of our people as fell into the rebels' hands, should weigh in his
+favour, especially as the loss of his estate is likely to be a severe
+enough punishment. Rubrick has undertaken to keep him at his own house
+till things are settled in the country; but it's a little hard to be
+forced in a manner to pardon such a mortal enemy to the House of
+Brunswick." This was no favourable moment for opening my business;
+however, I said I was rejoiced to learn that his Royal Highness was in
+the course of granting such requests, as it emboldened me to present
+one of the like nature in my own name. He was very angry, but I
+persisted; I mentioned the uniform support of our three votes in, the
+house, touched modestly on services abroad, though valuable only in his
+Royal Highness's having been pleased kindly to accept them, and founded
+pretty strongly on his own expressions of friendship and good-will. He
+was embarrassed, but obstinate. I hinted the policy of detaching, on
+all future occasions, the heir of such a fortune as your uncle's from
+the machinations of the disaffected. But I made no impression. I
+mentioned the obligations which I lay under to Sir Everard and to you
+personally, and claimed, as the sole reward of my services, that he
+would be pleased to afford me the means of evincing my gratitude. I
+perceived that he still meditated a refusal, and, taking my commission
+from my pocket, I said (as a last resource) that, as his Royal Highness
+did not, under these pressing circumstances, think me worthy of a
+favour which he had not scrupled to grant to other gentlemen whose
+services I could hardly judge more important than my own, I must beg
+leave to deposit, with all humility, my commission in his Royal
+Highness's hands, and to retire from the service. He was not prepared
+for this; he told me to take up my commission, said some handsome
+things of my services, and granted my request. You are therefore once
+more a free man, and I have promised for you that you will be a good
+boy in future, and remember what you owe to the lenity of government.
+Thus you see my prince can be as generous as yours. I do not pretend,
+indeed, that he confers a favour with all the foreign graces and
+compliments of your Chevalier errant; but he has a plain English
+manner, and the evident reluctance with which he grants your request
+indicates the sacrifice which he makes of his own inclination to your
+wishes. My friend, the adjutant-general, has procured me a duplicate of
+the Baron's protection (the original being in Major Melville's
+possession), which I send to you, as I know that if you can find him
+you will have pleasure in being the first to communicate the joyful
+intelligence. He will of course repair to the Duchran without loss of
+time, there to ride quarantine for a few weeks. As for you, I give you
+leave to escort him thither, and to stay a week there, as I understand
+a certain fair lady is in that quarter. And I have the pleasure to tell
+you that whatever progress you can make in her good graces will be
+highly agreeable to Sir Everard and Mrs. Rachel, who will never believe
+your views and prospects settled, and the three ermines passant in
+actual safety, until you present them with a Mrs. Edward Waverley. Now,
+certain love-affairs of my own--a good many years since--interrupted
+some measures which were then proposed in favour of the three ermines
+passant; so I am bound in honour to make them amends. Therefore make
+good use of your time, for, when your week is expired, it will be
+necessary that you go to London to plead your pardon in the law courts.
+
+'Ever, dear Waverley, yours most truly, 'PHILIP TALBOT.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXVII
+
+    Happy's the wooing
+    That's not long a doing
+
+
+When the first rapturous sensation occasioned by these excellent
+tidings had somewhat subsided, Edward proposed instantly to go down to
+the glen to acquaint the Baron with their import. But the cautious
+Bailie justly observed that, if the Baron were to appear instantly in
+public, the tenantry and villagers might become riotous in expressing
+their joy, and give offence to 'the powers that be,' a sort of persons
+for whom the Bailie always had unlimited respect. He therefore proposed
+that Mr. Waverley should go to Janet Gellatley's and bring the Baron up
+under cloud of night to Little Veolan, where he might once more enjoy
+the luxury of a good bed. In the meanwhile, he said, he himself would
+go to Captain Foster and show him the Baron's protection, and obtain
+his countenance for harbouring him that night, and he would have horses
+ready on the morrow to set him on his way to the Duchran along with Mr.
+Stanley, 'whilk denomination, I apprehend, your honour will for the
+present retain,' said the Bailie.
+
+'Certainly, Mr. Macwheeble; but will you not go down to the glen
+yourself in the evening to meet your patron?'
+
+'That I wad wi' a' my heart; and mickle obliged to your honour for
+putting me in mind o' mybounden duty. But it will be past sunset afore
+I get back frae the Captain's, and at these unsonsy hours the glen has
+a bad name; there's something no that canny about auld Janet Gellatley.
+The Laird he'll no believe thae things, but he was aye ower rash and
+venturesome, and feared neither man nor deevil, an sae's seen o't. But
+right sure am I Sir George Mackenyie says, that no divine can doubt
+there are witches, since the Bible says thou shalt not suffer them to
+live; and that no lawyer in Scotland can doubt it, since it is
+punishable with death by our law. So there's baith law and gospel for
+it. An his honour winna believe the Leviticus, he might aye believe the
+Statute-book; but he may tak his ain way o't; it's a' ane to Duncan
+Macwheeble. However, I shall send to ask up auld Janet this e'en; it's
+best no to lightly them that have that character; and we'll want Davie
+to turn the spit, for I'll gar Eppie put down a fat goose to the fire
+for your honours to your supper.'
+
+When it was near sunset Waverley hastened to the hut; and he could not
+but allow that superstition had chosen no improper locality, or unfit
+object, for the foundation of her fantastic terrors. It resembled
+exactly the description of Spenser:--
+
+    There, in a gloomy hollow glen, she found
+    A little cottage built of sticks and reeds,
+    In homely wise, and wall'd with sods around,
+    In which a witch did dwell in loathly weeds,
+    And wilful want, all careless of her needs,
+    So choosing solitary to abide
+    Far from all neighbours, that her devilish deeds,
+    And hellish arts, from people she might hide,
+    And hurt far off, unknown, whomsoever she espied.
+
+He entered the cottage with these verses in his memory. Poor old Janet,
+bent double with age and bleared with peat-smoke, was tottering about
+the hut with a birch broom, muttering to herself as she endeavoured to
+make her hearth and floor a little clean for the reception of her
+expected guests. Waverley's step made her start, look up, and fall
+a-trembling, so much had her nerves been on the rack for her patron's
+safety. With difficulty Waverley made her comprehend that the Baron was
+now safe from personal danger; and when her mind had admitted that
+joyful news, it was equally hard to make her believe that he was not to
+enter again upon possession of his estate. 'It behoved to be,' she
+said, 'he wad get it back again; naebody wad be sae gripple as to tak
+his gear after they had gi'en him a pardon: and for that Inch-Grabbit,
+I could whiles wish mysell a witch for his sake, if I werena feared the
+Enemy wad tak me at my word.' Waverley then gave her some money, and
+promised that her fidelity should be rewarded. 'How can I be rewarded,
+sir, sae weel as just to see my auld maister and Miss Rose come back
+and bruik their ain?'
+
+Waverley now took leave of Janet, and soon stood beneath the Baron's
+Patmos. At a low whistle he observed the veteran peeping out to
+reconnoitre, like an old badger with his head out of his hole. 'Ye hae
+come rather early, my good lad,' said he, descending; 'I question if
+the red-coats hae beat the tattoo yet, and we're not safe till then.'
+
+'Good news cannot be told too soon,' said Waverley; and with infinite
+joy communicated to him the happy tidings. The old man stood for a
+moment in silent devotion, then exclaimed, 'Praise be to God! I shall
+see my bairn again.'
+
+'And never, I hope, to part with her more,' said Waverley.
+
+'I trust in God not, unless it be to win the means of supporting her;
+for my things are but in a bruckle state;--but what signifies warld's
+gear?'
+
+'And if,' said Waverley modestly, 'there were a situation in life which
+would put Miss Bradwardine beyond the uncertainty of fortune, and in
+the rank to which she was born, would you object to it, my dear Baron,
+because it would make one of your friends the happiest man in the
+world?' The Baron turned and looked at him with great earnestness.
+'Yes,' continued Edward, 'I shall not consider my sentence of
+banishment as repealed unless you will give me permission to accompany
+you to the Duchran, and--'
+
+The Baron seemed collecting all his dignity to make a suitable reply to
+what, at another time, he would have treated as the propounding a
+treaty of alliance between the houses of Bradwardine and Waverley. But
+his efforts were in vain; the father was too mighty for the Baron; the
+pride of birth and rank were swept away; in the joyful surprise a
+slight convulsion passed rapidly over his features, as he gave way to
+the feelings of nature, threw his arms around Waverley's neck, and
+sobbed out--'My son, my son! if I had been to search the world, I would
+have made my choice here.' Edward returned the embrace with great
+sympathy of feeling, and for a little while they both kept silence. At
+length it was broken by Edward. 'But Miss Bradwardine?'
+
+'She had never a will but her old father's; besides, you are a likely
+youth, of honest principles and high birth; no, she never had any other
+will than mine, and in my proudest days I could not have wished a mair
+eligible espousal for her than the nephew of my excellent old friend,
+Sir Everard. But I hope, young man, ye deal na rashly in this matter? I
+hope ye hae secured the approbation of your ain friends and allies,
+particularly of your uncle, who is in loco parentis? Ah! we maun tak
+heed o' that.' Edward assured him that Sir Everard would think himself
+highly honoured in the flattering reception his proposal had met with,
+and that it had his entire approbation; in evidence of which he put
+Colonel Talbot's letter into the Baron's hand. The Baron read it with
+great attention. 'Sir Everard,' he said, 'always despised wealth in
+comparison of honour and birth; and indeed he hath no occasion to court
+the Diva Pecunia. Yet I now wish, since this Malcolm turns out such a
+parricide, for I can call him no better, as to think of alienating the
+family inheritance--I now wish (his eyes fixed on a part of the roof
+which was visible above the trees) that I could have left Rose the auld
+hurley-house and the riggs belanging to it. And yet,' said he, resuming
+more cheerfully, 'it's maybe as weel as it is; for, as Baron of
+Bradwardine, I might have thought it my duty to insist upon certain
+compliances respecting name and bearings, whilk now, as a landless
+laird wi' a tocherless daughter, no one can blame me for departing
+from.'
+
+'Now, Heaven be praised!' thought Edward,'that Sir Everard does not
+hear these scruples! The three ermines passant and rampant bear would
+certainly have gone together by the ears.' He then, with all the ardour
+of a young lover, assured the Baron that he sought for his happiness
+only in Rose's heart and hand, and thought himself as happy in her
+father's simple approbation as if he had settled an earldom upon his
+daughter.
+
+They now reached Little Veolan. The goose was smoking on the table, and
+the Bailie brandished his knife and fork. A joyous greeting took place
+between him and his patron. The kitchen, too, had its company. Auld
+Janet was established at the ingle-nook; Davie had turned the spit to
+his immortal honour; and even Ban and Buscar, in the liberality of
+Macwheeble's joy, had been stuffed to the throat with food, and now lay
+snoring on the floor.
+
+The next day conducted the Baron and his young friend to the Duchran,
+where the former was expected, in consequence of the success of the
+nearly unanimous application of the Scottish friends of government in
+his favour. This had been so general and so powerful that it was almost
+thought his estate might have been saved, had it not passed into the
+rapacious hands of his unworthy kinsman, whose right, arising out of
+the Baron's attainder, could not be affected by a pardon from the
+crown. The old gentleman, however, said, with his usual spirit, he was
+more gratified by the hold he possessed in the good opinion of his
+neighbours than he would have been in being rehabilitated and restored
+in integrum, had it been found practicable.'
+
+We shall not attempt to describe the meeting of the father and
+daughter, loving each other so affectionately, and separated under such
+perilous circumstances. Still less shall we attempt to analyse the deep
+blush of Rose at receiving the compliments of Waverley, or stop to
+inquire whether she had any curiosity respecting the particular cause
+of his journey to Scotland at that period. We shall not even trouble
+the reader with the humdrum details of a courtship Sixty Years Since.
+It is enough to say that, under so strict a martinet as the Baron, all
+things were conducted in due form. He took upon himself, the morning
+after their arrival, the task of announcing the proposal of Waverley to
+Rose, which she heard with a proper degree of maiden timidity. Fame
+does, however, say that Waverley had the evening before found five
+minutes to apprise her of what was coming, while the rest of the
+company were looking at three twisted serpents which formed a, jet
+d'eau in the garden.
+
+My fair readers will judge for themselves; but, for my part, I cannot
+conceive how so important an affair could be communicated in so short a
+space of time; at least, it certainly took a full hour in the Baron's
+mode of conveying it.
+
+Waverley was now considered as a received lover in all the forms. He
+was made, by dint of smirking and nodding on the part of the lady of
+the house, to sit next Miss Bradwardine at dinner, to be Miss
+Bradwardine's partner at cards. If he came into the room, she of the
+four Miss Rubricks who chanced to be next Rose was sure to recollect
+that her thimble or her scissors were at the other end of the room, in
+order to leave the seat nearest to Miss Bradwardine vacant for his
+occupation. And sometimes, if papa and mamma were not in the way to
+keep them on their good behaviour, the misses would titter a little.
+The old Laird of Duchran would also have his occasional jest, and the
+old lady her remark. Even the Baron could not refrain; but here Rose
+escaped every embarrassment but that of conjecture, for his wit was
+usually couched in a Latin quotation. The very footmen sometimes
+grinned too broadly, the maidservants giggled mayhap too loud, and a
+provoking air of intelligence seemed to pervade the whole family. Alice
+Bean, the pretty maid of the cavern, who, after her father's
+misfortune, as she called it, had attended Rose as fille-de-chambre,
+smiled and smirked with the best of them. Rose and Edward, however,
+endured all these little vexatious circumstances as other folks have
+done before and since, and probably contrived to obtain some
+indemnification, since they are not supposed, on the whole, to have
+been particularly unhappy during Waverley's six days' stay at the
+Duchran.
+
+It was finally arranged that Edward should go to Waverley-Honour to
+make the necessary arrangements for his marriage, thence to London to
+take the proper measures for pleading his pardon, and return as soon as
+possible to claim the hand of his plighted bride. He also intended in
+his journey to visit Colonel Talbot; but, above all, it was his most
+important object to learn the fate of the unfortunate Chief of
+Glennaquoich; to visit him at Carlisle, and to try whether anything
+could be done for procuring, if not a pardon, a commutation at least,
+or alleviation, of the punishment to which he was almost certain of
+being condemned; and, in case of the worst, to offer the miserable
+Flora an asylum with Rose, or otherwise to assist her views in any mode
+which might seem possible. The fate of Fergus seemed hard to be
+averted. Edward had already striven to interest his friend, Colonel
+Talbot, in his behalf; but had been given distinctly to understand by
+his reply that his credit in matters of that nature was totally
+exhausted.
+
+The Colonel was still in Edinburgh, and proposed to wait there for some
+months upon business confided to him by the Duke of Cumberland. He was
+to be joined by Lady Emily, to whom easy travelling and goat's whey
+were recommended, and who was to journey northward under the escort of
+Francis Stanley. Edward, therefore, met the Colonel at Edinburgh, who
+wished him joy in the kindest manner on his approaching happiness, and
+cheerfully undertook many commissions which our hero was necessarily
+obliged to delegate to his charge. But on the subject of Fergus he was
+inexorable. He satisfied Edward, indeed, that his interference would be
+unavailing; but, besides, Colonel Talbot owned that he could not
+conscientiously use any influence in favour of that unfortunate
+gentleman. 'Justice,' he said, 'which demanded some penalty of those
+who had wrapped the whole nation in fear and in mourning, could not
+perhaps have selected a fitter victim. He came to the field with the
+fullest light upon the nature of his attempt. He had studied and
+understood the subject. His father's fate could not intimidate him; the
+lenity of the laws which had restored to him his father's property and
+rights could not melt him. That he was brave, generous, and possessed
+many good qualities only rendered him the more dangerous; that he was
+enlightened and accomplished made his crime the less excusable; that he
+was an enthusiast in a wrong cause only made him the more fit to be its
+martyr. Above all, he had been the means of bringing many hundreds of
+men into the field who, without him, would never have broken the peace
+of the country.
+
+'I repeat it,' said the Colonel,'though Heaven knows with a heart
+distressed for him as an individual, that this young gentleman has
+studied and fully understood the desperate game which he has played. He
+threw for life or death, a coronet or a coffin; and he cannot now be
+permitted, with justice to the country, to draw stakes because the dice
+have gone against him.'
+
+Such was the reasoning of those times, held even by brave and humane
+men towards a vanquished enemy. Let us devoutly hope that, in this
+respect at least, we shall never see the scenes or hold the sentiments
+that were general in Britain Sixty Years Since.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXVIII
+
+    To morrow? O that's sudden!--Spare him, spare him'
+
+    SHAKSPEARE
+
+
+Edward, attended by his former servant Alick Polwarth, who had
+reentered his service at Edinburgh, reached Carlisle while the
+commission of Oyer and Terminer on his unfortunate associates was yet
+sitting. He had pushed forward in haste, not, alas! with the most
+distant hope of saving Fergus, but to see him for the last time. I
+ought to have mentioned that he had furnished funds for the defence of
+the prisoners in the most liberal manner, as soon as he heard that the
+day of trial was fixed. A solicitor and the first counsel accordingly
+attended; but it was upon the same footing on which the first
+physicians are usually summoned to the bedside of some dying man of
+rank--the doctors to take the advantage of some incalculable chance of
+an exertion of nature, the lawyers to avail themselves of the barely
+possible occurrence of some legal flaw. Edward pressed into the court,
+which was extremely crowded; but by his arriving from the north, and
+his extreme eagerness and agitation, it was supposed he was a relation
+of the prisoners, and people made way for him. It was the third sitting
+of the court, and there were two men at the bar. The verdict of GUILTY
+was already pronounced. Edward just glanced at the bar during the
+momentous pause which ensued. There was no mistaking the stately form
+and noble features of Fergus Mac-Ivor, although his dress was squalid
+and his countenance tinged with the sickly yellow hue of long and close
+imprisonment. By his side was Evan Maccombich. Edward felt sick and
+dizzy as he gazed on them; but he was recalled to himself as the Clerk
+of Arraigns pronounced the solemn words: 'Fergus Mac-Ivor of
+Glennaquoich, otherwise called Vich Ian Vohr, and Evan Mac-Ivor, in the
+Dhu of Tarrascleugh, otherwise called Evan Dhu, otherwise called Evan
+Maccombich, or Evan Dhu MacCombich--you, and each of you, stand
+attainted of high treason. What have you to say for yourselves why the
+Court should not pronounce judgment against you, that you die according
+to law?'
+
+Fergus, as the presiding Judge was putting on the fatal cap of
+judgment, placed his own bonnet upon his head, regarded him with a
+steadfast and stern look, and replied in a firm voice, 'I cannot let
+this numerous audience suppose that to such an appeal I have no answer
+to make. But what I have to say you would not bear to hear, for my
+defence would be your condemnation. Proceed, then, in the name of God,
+to do what is permitted to you. Yesterday and the day before you have
+condemned loyal and honourable blood to be poured forth like water.
+Spare not mine. Were that of all my ancestors in my veins, I would have
+perilled it in this quarrel.' He resumed his seat and refused again to
+rise.
+
+Evan Maccombich looked at him with great earnestness, and, rising up,
+seemed anxious to speak; but the confusion of the court, and the
+perplexity arising from thinking in a language different from that in
+which he was to express himself, kept him silent. There was a murmur of
+compassion among the spectators, from the idea that the poor fellow
+intended to plead the influence of his superior as an excuse for his
+crime. The Judge commanded silence, and encouraged Evan to proceed. 'I
+was only ganging to say, my lord,' said Evan, in what he meant to be an
+insinuating manner, 'that if your excellent honour and the honourable
+Court would let Vich Ian Vohr go free just this once, and let him gae
+back to France, and no to trouble King George's government again, that
+ony six o' the very best of his clan will be willing to be justified in
+his stead; and if you'll just let me gae down to Glennaquoich, I'll
+fetch them up to ye mysell, to head or hang, and you may begin wi' me
+the very first man.'
+
+Notwithstanding the solemnity of the occasion, a sort of laugh was
+heard in the court at the extraordinary nature of the proposal. The
+Judge checked this indecency, and Evan, looking sternly around, when
+the murmur abated, 'If the Saxon gentlemen are laughing,' he said,
+'because a poor man, such as me, thinks my life, or the life of six of
+my degree, is worth that of Vich Ian Vohr, it's like enough they may be
+very right; but if they laugh because they think I would not keep my
+word and come back to redeem him, I can tell them they ken neither the
+heart of a Hielandman nor the honour of a gentleman.'
+
+There was no farther inclination to laugh among the audience, and a
+dead silence ensued.
+
+The Judge then pronounced upon both prisoners the sentence of the law
+of high treason, with all its horrible accompaniments. The execution
+was appointed for the ensuing day. 'For you, Fergus Mac-Ivor,'
+continued the Judge, 'I can hold out no hope of mercy. You must prepare
+against to-morrow for your last sufferings here, and your great audit
+hereafter.'
+
+'I desire nothing else, my lord,' answered Fergus, in the same manly
+and firm tone.
+
+The hard eyes of Evan, which had been perpetually bent on his Chief,
+were moistened with a tear. 'For you, poor ignorant man,' continued the
+Judge, 'who, following the ideas in which you have been educated, have
+this day given us a striking example how the loyalty due to the king
+and state alone is, from your unhappy ideas of clanship, transferred to
+some ambitious individual who ends by making you the tool of his
+crimes--for you, I say, I feel so much compassion that, if you can make
+up your mind to petition for grace, I will endeavour to procure it for
+you. Otherwise--'
+
+'Grace me no grace,' said Evan; 'since you are to shed Vich Ian Vohr's
+blood, the only favour I would accept from you is to bid them loose my
+hands and gie me my claymore, and bide you just a minute sitting where
+you are!'
+
+'Remove the prisoners,' said the Judge; 'his blood be upon his own
+head.'
+
+Almost stupefied with his feelings, Edward found that the rush of the
+crowd had conveyed him out into the street ere he knew what he was
+doing. His immediate wish was to see and speak with Fergus once more.
+He applied at the Castle where his unfortunate friend was confined, but
+was refused admittance. 'The High Sheriff,' a non-commissioned officer
+said, 'had requested of the governor that none should be admitted to
+see the prisoner excepting his confessor and his sister.'
+
+'And where was Miss Mac-Ivor?' They gave him the direction. It was the
+house of a respectable Catholic family near Carlisle.
+
+Repulsed from the gate of the Castle, and not venturing to make
+application to the High Sheriff or Judges in his own unpopular name, he
+had recourse to the solicitor who came down in Fergus's behalf. This
+gentleman told him that it was thought the public mind was in danger of
+being debauched by the account of the last moments of these persons, as
+given by the friends of the Pretender; that there had been a
+resolution, therefore, to exclude all such persons as had not the plea
+of near kindred for attending upon them. Yet he promised (to oblige the
+heir of Waverley-Honour) to get him an order for admittance to the
+prisoner the next morning, before his irons were knocked off for
+execution.
+
+'Is it of Fergus Mac-Ivor they speak thus,' thought Waverley, 'or do I
+dream? Of Fergus, the bold, the chivalrous, the free-minded, the lofty
+chieftain of a tribe devoted to him? Is it he, that I have seen lead
+the chase and head the attack, the brave, the active, the young, the
+noble, the love of ladies, and the theme of song,--is it he who is
+ironed like a malefactor, who is to be dragged on a hurdle to the
+common gallows, to die a lingering and cruel death, and to be mangled
+by the hand of the most outcast of wretches? Evil indeed was the
+spectre that boded such a fate as this to the brave Chief of
+Glennaquoich!'
+
+With a faltering voice he requested the solicitor to find means to warn
+Fergus of his intended visit, should he obtain permission to make it.
+He then turned away from him, and, returning to the inn, wrote a
+scarcely intelligible note to Flora Mac-Ivor, intimating his purpose to
+wait upon her that evening. The messenger brought back a letter in
+Flora's beautiful Italian hand, which seemed scarce to tremble even
+under this load of misery. 'Miss Flora Mac-Ivor,' the letter bore,
+'could not refuse to see the dearest friend of her dear brother, even
+in her present circumstances of unparalleled distress.'
+
+When Edward reached Miss Mac-Ivor's present place of abode he was
+instantly admitted. In a large and gloomy tapestried apartment Flora
+was seated by a latticed window, sewing what seemed to be a garment of
+white flannel. At a little distance sat an elderly woman, apparently a
+foreigner, and of a religious order. She was reading in a book of
+Catholic devotion, but when Waverley entered laid it on the table and
+left the room. Flora rose to receive him, and stretched out her hand,
+but neither ventured to attempt speech. Her fine complexion was totally
+gone; her person considerably emaciated; and her face and hands as
+white as the purest statuary marble, forming a strong contrast with her
+sable dress and jet-black hair. Yet, amid these marks of distress there
+was nothing negligent or ill-arranged about her attire; even her hair,
+though totally without ornament, was disposed with her usual attention
+to neatness. The first words she uttered were, 'Have you seen him?'
+
+'Alas, no,' answered Waverley, 'I have been refused admittance.'
+
+'It accords with the rest,' she said; 'but we must submit. Shall you
+obtain leave, do you suppose?'
+
+'For--for--tomorrow,' said Waverley; but muttering the last word so
+faintly that it was almost unintelligible.
+
+'Ay, then or never,' said Flora, 'until'--she added, looking
+upward--'the time when, I trust, we shall all meet. But I hope you will
+see him while earth yet bears him. He always loved you at his heart,
+though--but it is vain to talk of the past.'
+
+'Vain indeed!' echoed Waverley.
+
+'Or even of the future, my good friend,' said Flora,'so far as earthly
+events are concerned; for how often have I pictured to myself the
+strong possibility of this horrid issue, and tasked myself to consider
+how I could support my part; and yet how far has all my anticipation
+fallen short of the unimaginable bitterness of this hour!'
+
+'Dear Flora, if your strength of mind--'
+
+'Ay, there it is,' she answered, somewhat wildly; 'there is, Mr.
+Waverley, there is a busy devil at my heart that whispers--but it were
+madness to listen to it--that the strength of mind on which Flora
+prided herself has murdered her brother!'
+
+'Good God! how can you give utterance to a thought so shocking?'
+
+'Ay, is it not so? but yet it haunts me like a phantom; I know it is
+unsubstantial and vain; but it will be present; will intrude its
+horrors on my mind; will whisper that my brother, as volatile as
+ardent, would have divided his energies amid a hundred objects. It was
+I who taught him to concentrate them and to gage all on this dreadful
+and desperate cast. Oh that I could recollect that I had but once said
+to him, "He that striketh with the sword shall die by the sword"; that
+I had but once said, "Remain at home; reserve yourself, your vassals,
+your life, for enterprises within the reach of man." But O, Mr.
+Waverley, I spurred his fiery temper, and half of his ruin at least
+lies with his sister!'
+
+The horrid idea which she had intimated, Edward endeavoured to combat
+by every incoherent argument that occurred to him. He recalled to her
+the principles on which both thought it their duty to act, and in which
+they had been educated.
+
+'Do not think I have forgotten them,' she said, looking up with eager
+quickness; 'I do not regret his attempt because it was wrong!--O no! on
+that point I am armed--but because it was impossible it could end
+otherwise than thus.'
+
+'Yet it did not always seem so desperate and hazardous as it was; and
+it would have been chosen by the bold spirit of Fergus whether you had
+approved it or no; your counsels only served to give unity and
+consistence to his conduct; to dignify, but not to precipitate, his
+resolution.' Flora had soon ceased to listen to Edward, and was again
+intent upon her needlework.
+
+'Do you remember,' she said, looking up with a ghastly smile, 'you once
+found me making Fergus's bride-favours, and now I am sewing his bridal
+garment. Our friends here,' she continued, with suppressed emotion,
+'are to give hallowed earth in their chapel to the bloody relics of the
+last Vich Ian Vohr. But they will not all rest together; no--his
+head!--I shall not have the last miserable consolation of kissing the
+cold lips of my dear, dear Fergus!'
+
+The unfortunate Flora here, after one or two hysterical sobs, fainted
+in her chair. The lady, who had been attending in the ante-room, now
+entered hastily, and begged Edward to leave the room, but not the house.
+
+When he was recalled, after the space of nearly half an hour, he found
+that, by a strong effort, Miss Mac-Ivor had greatly composed herself.
+It was then he ventured to urge Miss Bradwardine's claim to be
+considered as an adopted sister, and empowered to assist her plans for
+the future.
+
+'I have had a letter from my dear Rose,' she replied, 'to the same
+purpose. Sorrow is selfish and engrossing, or I would have written to
+express that, even in my own despair, I felt a gleam of pleasure at
+learning her happy prospects, and at hearing that the good old Baron
+has escaped the general wreck. Give this to my dearest Rose; it is her
+poor Flora's only ornament of value, and was the gift of a princess.'
+She put into his hands a case containing the chain of diamonds with
+which she used to decorate her hair. 'To me it is in future useless.
+The kindness of my friends has secured me a retreat in the convent of
+the Scottish Benedictine nuns in Paris. Tomorrow--if indeed I can
+survive tomorrow--I set forward on my journey with this venerable
+sister. And now, Mr. Waverley, adieu! May you be as happy with Rose as
+your amiable dispositions deserve; and think sometimes on the friends
+you have lost. Do not attempt to see me again; it would be mistaken
+kindness.'
+
+She gave him her hand, on which Edward shed a torrent of tears, and
+with a faltering step withdrew from the apartment, and returned to the
+town of Carlisle. At the inn he found a letter from his law friend
+intimating that he would be admitted to Fergus next morning as soon as
+the Castle gates were opened, and permitted to remain with him till the
+arrival of the Sheriff gave signal for the fatal procession.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXIX
+
+    A darker departure is near,
+    The death drum is muffled, and sable the bier
+
+    CAMPBELL
+
+
+After a sleepless night, the first dawn of morning found Waverley on
+the esplanade in front of the old Gothic gate of Carlisle Castle. But
+he paced it long in every direction before the hour when, according to
+the rules of the garrison, the gates were opened and the draw-bridge
+lowered. He produced his order to the sergeant of the guard and was
+admitted.
+
+The place of Fergus's confinement was a gloomy and vaulted apartment in
+the central part of the Castle; a huge old tower, supposed to be of
+great antiquity, and surrounded by outworks, seemingly of Henry VIII's
+time, or somewhat later. The grating of the large old-fashioned bars
+and bolts, withdrawn for the purpose of admitting Edward, was answered
+by the clash of chains, as the unfortunate Chieftain, strongly and
+heavily fettered, shuffled along the stone floor of his prison to fling
+himself into his friend's arms.
+
+'My dear Edward,' he said, in a firm and even cheerful voice,'this is
+truly kind. I heard of your approaching happiness with the highest
+pleasure. And how does Rose? and how is our old whimsical friend the
+Baron? Well, I trust, since I see you at freedom. And how will you
+settle precedence between the three ermines passant and the bear and
+boot-jack?'
+
+'How, O how, my dear Fergus, can you talk of such things at such a
+moment!'
+
+'Why, we have entered Carlisle with happier auspices, to be sure; on
+the 16th of November last, for example, when we marched in side by
+side, and hoisted the white flag on these ancient towers. But I am no
+boy, to sit down and weep because the luck has gone against me. I knew
+the stake which I risked; we played the game boldly and the forfeit
+shall be paid manfully. And now, since my time is short, let me come to
+the questions that interest me most--the Prince? has he escaped the
+bloodhounds?'
+
+'He has, and is in safety.'
+
+'Praised be God for that! Tell me the particulars of his escape.'
+
+Waverley communicated that remarkable history, so far as it had then
+transpired, to which Fergus listened with deep interest. He then asked
+after several other friends; and made many minute inquiries concerning
+the fate of his own clansmen. They had suffered less than other tribes
+who had been engaged in the affair; for, having in a great measure
+dispersed and returned home after the captivity of their Chieftain,
+according to the universal custom of the Highlanders, they were not in
+arms when the insurrection was finally suppressed, and consequently
+were treated with less rigour. This Fergus heard with great
+satisfaction.
+
+'You are rich,' he said, 'Waverley, and you are generous. When you hear
+of these poor Mac-Ivors being distressed about their miserable
+possessions by some harsh overseer or agent of government, remember you
+have worn their tartan and are an adopted son of their race, The Baron,
+who knows our manners and lives near our country, will apprise you of
+the time and means to be their protector. Will you promise this to the
+last Vich Ian Vohr?'
+
+Edward, as may well be believed, pledged his word; which he afterwards
+so amply redeemed that his memory still lives in these glens by the
+name of the Friend of the Sons of Ivor.
+
+'Would to God,' continued the Chieftain, 'I could bequeath to you my
+rights to the love and obedience of this primitive and brave race; or
+at least, as I have striven to do, persuade poor Evan to accept of his
+life upon their terms, and be to you what he has been to me, the
+kindest, the bravest, the most devoted--'
+
+The tears which his own fate could not draw forth fell fast for that of
+his foster-brother.
+
+'But,' said he, drying them,'that cannot be. You cannot be to them Vich
+Ian Vohr; and these three magic words,' said he, half smiling, 'are the
+only Open Sesame to their feelings and sympathies, and poor Evan must
+attend his foster-brother in death, as he has done through his whole
+life.'
+
+'And I am sure,' said Maccombich, raising himself from the floor, on
+which, for fear of interrupting their conversation, he had lain so
+still that, in the obscurity of the apartment, Edward was not aware of
+his presence--'I am sure Evan never desired or deserved a better end
+than just to die with his Chieftain.'
+
+'And now,' said Fergus, 'while we are upon the subject of
+clanship--what think you now of the prediction of the Bodach Glas?'
+Then, before Edward could answer, 'I saw him again last night: he stood
+in the slip of moonshine which fell from that high and narrow window
+towards my bed. "Why should I fear him?" I thought; "to-morrow, long
+ere this time, I shall be as immaterial as he." "False spirit," I said,
+"art thou come to close thy walks on earth and to enjoy thy triumph in
+the fall of the last descendant of thine enemy?" The spectre seemed to
+beckon and to smile as he faded from my sight. What do you think of it?
+I asked the same question of the priest, who is a good and sensible
+man; he admitted that the church allowed that such apparitions were
+possible, but urged me not to permit my mind to dwell upon it, as
+imagination plays us such strange tricks. What do you think of it?'
+
+'Much as your confessor,' said Waverley, willing to avoid dispute upon
+such a point at such a moment. A tap at the door now announced that
+good man, and Edward retired while he administered to both prisoners
+the last rites of religion, in the mode which the Church of Rome
+prescribes.
+
+In about an hour he was re-admitted; soon after, a file of soldiers
+entered with a blacksmith, who struck the fetters from the legs of the
+prisoners.
+
+'You see the compliment they pay to our Highland strength and courage;
+we have lain chained here like wild beasts, till our legs are cramped
+into palsy, and when they free us they send six soldiers with loaded
+muskets to prevent our taking the castle by storm!'
+
+Edward afterwards learned that these severe precautions had been taken
+in consequence of a desperate attempt of the prisoners to escape, in
+which they had very nearly succeeded.
+
+Shortly afterwards the drums of the garrison beat to arms. 'This is the
+last turn-out,' said Fergus, 'that I shall hear and obey. And now, my
+dear, dear Edward, ere we part let us speak of Flora--a subject which
+awakes the tenderest feeling that yet thrills within me'
+
+'We part not here!' said Waverley.
+
+'O yes, we do; you must come no farther. Not that I fear what is to
+follow for myself,' he said proudly. 'Nature has her tortures as well
+as art, and how happy should we think the man who escapes from the
+throes of a mortal and painful disorder in the space of a short half
+hour? And this matter, spin it out as they will, cannot last longer.
+But what a dying man can suffer firmly may kill a living friend to look
+upon. This same law of high treason,' he continued, with astonishing
+firmness and composure, 'is one of the blessings, Edward, with which
+your free country has accommodated poor old Scotland; her own
+jurisprudence, as I have heard, was much milder. But I suppose one day
+or other--when there are no longer any wild Highlanders to benefit by
+its tender mercies--they will blot it from their records as levelling
+them with a nation of cannibals. The mummery, too, of exposing the
+senseless head--they have not the wit to grace mine with a paper
+coronet; there would be some satire in that, Edward. I hope they will
+set it on the Scotch gate though, that I may look, even after death, to
+the blue hills of my own country, which I love so dearly. The Baron
+would have added,
+
+    Moritur, et moriens dukes reminiscitur Argos.'
+
+A bustle, and the sound of wheels and horses' feet, was now heard in
+the court-yard of the Castle. 'As I have told you why you must not
+follow me, and these sounds admonish me that my time flies fast, tell
+me how you found poor Flora.'
+
+Waverley, with a voice interrupted by suffocating sensations, gave some
+account of the state of her mind.
+
+'Poor Flora!' answered the Chief, 'she could have borne her own
+sentence of death, but not mine. You, Waverley, will soon know the
+happiness of mutual affection in the married state--long, long may Rose
+and you enjoy it!--but you can never know the purity of feeling which
+combines two orphans like Flora and me, left alone as it were in the
+world, and being all in all to each other from our very infancy. But
+her strong sense of duty and predominant feeling of loyalty will give
+new nerve to her mind after the immediate and acute sensation of this
+parting has passed away. She will then think of Fergus as of the heroes
+of our race, upon whose deeds she loved to dwell.'
+
+'Shall she not see you then?' asked Waverley. 'She seemed to expect it.'
+
+'A necessary deceit will spare her the last dreadful parting. I could
+not part with her without tears, and I cannot bear that these men
+should think they have power to extort them. She was made to believe
+she would see me at a later hour, and this letter, which my confessor
+will deliver, will apprise her that all is over.'
+
+An officer now appeared and intimated that the High Sheriff and his
+attendants waited before the gate of the Castle to claim the bodies of
+Fergus Mac-Ivor and Evan Maccombich. 'I come,' said Fergus.
+Accordingly, supporting Edward by the arm and followed by Evan Dhu and
+the priest, he moved down the stairs of the tower, the soldiers
+bringing up the rear. The court was occupied by a squadron of dragoons
+and a battalion of infantry, drawn up in hollow square. Within their
+ranks was the sledge or hurdle on which the prisoners were to be drawn
+to the place of execution, about a mile distant from Carlisle. It was
+painted black, and drawn by a white horse. At one end of the vehicle
+sat the executioner, a horrid-looking fellow, as beseemed his trade,
+with the broad axe in his hand; at the other end, next the horse, was
+an empty seat for two persons. Through the deep and dark Gothic archway
+that opened on the drawbridge were seen on horseback the High Sheriff
+and his attendants, whom the etiquette betwixt the civil and military
+powers did not permit to come farther. 'This is well GOT UP for a
+closing scene,' said Fergus, smiling disdainfully as he gazed around
+upon the apparatus of terror. Evan Dhu exclaimed with some eagerness,
+after looking at the dragoons,' These are the very chields that
+galloped off at Gladsmuir, before we could kill a dozen o' them. They
+look bold enough now, however.' The priest entreated him to be silent.
+
+The sledge now approached, and Fergus, turning round, embraced
+Waverley, kissed him on each side of the face, and stepped nimbly into
+his place. Evan sat down by his side. The priest was to follow in a
+carriage belonging to his patron, the Catholic gentleman at whose house
+Flora resided. As Fergus waved his hand to Edward the ranks closed
+around the sledge, and the whole procession began to move forward.
+There was a momentary stop at the gateway, while the governor of the
+Castle and the High Sheriff went through a short ceremony, the military
+officer there delivering over the persons of the criminals to the civil
+power. 'God save King George!' said the High Sheriff. When the
+formality concluded, Fergus stood erect in the sledge, and, with a firm
+and steady voice, replied,' God save King JAMES!' These were the last
+words which Waverley heard him speak.
+
+The procession resumed its march, and the sledge vanished from beneath
+the portal, under which it had stopped for an instant. The dead march
+was then heard, and its melancholy sounds were mingled with those of a
+muffled peal tolled from the neighbouring cathedral. The sound of
+military music died away as the procession moved on; the sullen clang
+of the bells was soon heard to sound alone.
+
+The last of the soldiers had now disappeared from under the vaulted
+archway through which they had been filing for several minutes; the
+court-yard was now totally empty, but Waverley still stood there as if
+stupefied, his eyes fixed upon the dark pass where he had so lately
+seen the last glimpse of his friend. At length a female servant of the
+governor's, struck with compassion, at the stupefied misery which his
+countenance expressed, asked him if he would not walk into her master's
+house and sit down? She was obliged to repeat her question twice ere he
+comprehended her, but at length it recalled him to himself. Declining
+the courtesy by a hasty gesture, he pulled his hat over his eyes, and,
+leaving the Castle, walked as swiftly as he could through the empty
+streets till he regained his inn, then rushed into an apartment and
+bolted the door.
+
+In about an hour and a half, which seemed an age of unutterable
+suspense, the sound of the drums and fifes performing a lively air, and
+the confused murmur of the crowd which now filled the streets, so
+lately deserted, apprised him that all was finished, and that the
+military and populace were returning from the dreadful scene. I will
+not attempt to describe his sensations.
+
+In the evening the priest made him a visit, and informed him that he
+did so by directions of his deceased friend, to assure him that Fergus
+Mac-Ivor had died as he lived, and remembered his friendship to the
+last. He added, he had also seen Flora, whose state of mind seemed more
+composed since all was over. With her and sister Theresa the priest
+proposed next day to leave Carlisle for the nearest seaport from which
+they could embark for France. Waverley forced on this good man a ring
+of some value and a sum of money to be employed (as he thought might
+gratify Flora) in the services of the Catholic church for the memory of
+his friend. 'Fun-garque inani munere,' he repeated, as the ecclesiastic
+retired. 'Yet why not class these acts of remembrance with other
+honours, with which affection in all sects pursues the memory of the
+dead?'
+
+The next morning ere daylight he took leave of the town of Carlisle,
+promising to himself never again to enter its walls. He dared hardly
+look back towards the Gothic battlements of the fortified gate under
+which he passed, for the place is surrounded with an old wall. 'They're
+no there,' said Alick Polwarth, who guessed the cause of the dubious
+look which Waverley cast backward, and who, with the vulgar appetite
+for the horrible, was master of each detail of the butchery--'the heads
+are ower the Scotch yate, as they ca' it. It's a great pity of Evan
+Dhu, who was a very weel-meaning, good-natured man, to be a Hielandman;
+and indeed so was the Laird o' Glennaquoich too, for that matter, when
+he wasna in ane o' his tirrivies.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXX
+
+DULCE DOMUM
+
+
+The impression of horror with which Waverley left Carlisle softened by
+degrees into melancholy, a gradation which was accelerated by the
+painful yet soothing task of writing to Rose; and, while he could not
+suppress his own feelings of the calamity, he endeavoured to place it
+in a light which might grieve her without shocking her imagination. The
+picture which he drew for her benefit he gradually familiarised to his
+own mind, and his next letters were more cheerful, and referred to the
+prospects of peace and happiness which lay before them. Yet, though his
+first horrible sensations had sunk into melancholy, Edward had reached
+his native country before he could, as usual on former occasions, look
+round for enjoyment upon the face of nature.
+
+He then, for the first time since leaving Edinburgh, began to
+experience that pleasure which almost all feel who return to a verdant,
+populous, and highly cultivated country from scenes of waste desolation
+or of solitary and melancholy grandeur. But how were those feelings
+enhanced when he entered on the domain so long possessed by his
+forefathers; recognised the old oaks of Waverley-Chace; thought with
+what delight he should introduce Rose to all his favourite haunts;
+beheld at length the towers of the venerable hall arise above the woods
+which embowered it, and finally threw himself into the arms of the
+venerable relations to whom he owed so much duty and affection!
+
+The happiness of their meeting was not tarnished by a single word of
+reproach. On the contrary, whatever pain Sir Everard and Mrs. Rachel
+had felt during Waverley's perilous engagement with the young
+Chevalier, it assorted too well with the principles in which they had
+been brought up to incur reprobation, or even censure. Colonel Talbot
+also had smoothed the way with great address for Edward's favourable
+reception by dwelling upon his gallant behaviour in the military
+character, particularly his bravery and generosity at Preston; until,
+warmed at the idea of their nephew's engaging in single combat, making
+prisoner, and saving from slaughter so distinguished an officer as the
+Colonel himself, the imagination of the Baronet and his sister ranked
+the exploits of Edward with those of Wilibert, Hildebrand, and Nigel,
+the vaunted heroes of their line.
+
+The appearance of Waverley, embrowned by exercise and dignified by the
+habits of military discipline, had acquired an athletic and hardy
+character, which not only verified the Colonel's narration, but
+surprised and delighted all the inhabitants of Waverley-Honour. They
+crowded to see, to hear him, and to sing his praises. Mr. Pembroke, who
+secretly extolled his spirit and courage in embracing the genuine cause
+of the Church of England, censured his pupil gently, nevertheless, for
+being so careless of his manuscripts, which indeed, he said, had
+occasioned him some personal inconvenience, as, upon the Baronet's
+being arrested by a king's messenger, he had deemed it prudent to
+retire to a concealment called 'The Priest's Hole,' from the use it had
+been put to in former days; where, he assured our hero, the butler had
+thought it safe to venture with food only once in the day, so that he
+had been repeatedly compelled to dine upon victuals either absolutely
+cold or, what was worse, only half warm, not to mention that sometimes
+his bed had not been arranged for two days together. Waverley's mind
+involuntarily turned to the Patmos of the Baron of Bradwardine, who was
+well pleased with Janet's fare and a few bunches of straw stowed in a
+cleft in the front of a sand-cliff; but he made no remarks upon a
+contrast which could only mortify his worthy tutor.
+
+All was now in a bustle to prepare for the nuptials of Edward, an event
+to which the good old Baronet and Mrs. Rachel looked forward as if to
+the renewal of their own youth. The match, as Colonel Talbot had
+intimated, had seemed to them in the highest degree eligible, having
+every recommendation but wealth, of which they themselves had more than
+enough. Mr. Clippurse was therefore summoned to Waverley-Honour, under
+better auspices than at the commencement of our story. But Mr.
+Clippurse came not alone; for, being now stricken in years, he had
+associated with him a nephew, a younger vulture (as our English
+Juvenal, who tells the tale of Swallow the attorney, might have called
+him), and they now carried on business as Messrs. Clippurse and Hookem.
+These worthy gentlemen had directions to make the necessary settlements
+on the most splendid scale of liberality, as if Edward were to wed a
+peeress in her own right, with her paternal estate tacked to the fringe
+of her ermine.
+
+But before entering upon a subject of proverbial delay, I must remind
+my reader of the progress of a stone rolled downhill by an idle truant
+boy (a pastime at which I was myself expert in my more juvenile years),
+it moves at first slowly, avoiding by inflection every obstacle of the
+least importance; but when it has attained its full impulse, and draws
+near the conclusion of its career, it smokes and thunders down, taking
+a rood at every spring, clearing hedge and ditch like a Yorkshire
+huntsman, and becoming most furiously rapid in its course when it is
+nearest to being consigned to rest for ever. Even such is the course of
+a narrative like that which you are perusing. The earlier events are
+studiously dwelt upon, that you, kind reader, may be introduced to the
+character rather by narrative than by the duller medium of direct
+description; but when the story draws near its close, we hurry over the
+circumstances, however important, which your imagination must have
+forestalled, and leave you to suppose those things which it would be
+abusing your patience to relate at length.
+
+We are, therefore, so far from attempting to trace the dull progress of
+Messrs. Clippurse and Hookem, or that of their worthy official brethren
+who had the charge of suing out the pardons of Edward Waverley and his
+intended father-in-law, that we can but touch upon matters more
+attractive. The mutual epistles, for example, which were exchanged
+between Sir Everard and the Baron upon this occasion, though matchless
+specimens of eloquence in their way, must be consigned to merciless
+oblivion. Nor can I tell you at length how worthy Aunt Rachel, not
+without a delicate and affectionate allusion to the circumstances which
+had transferred Rose's maternal diamonds to the hands of Donald Bean
+Lean, stocked her casket with a set of jewels that a duchess might have
+envied. Moreover, the reader will have the goodness to imagine that Job
+Houghton and his dame were suitably provided for, although they could
+never be persuaded that their son fell otherwise than fighting by the
+young squire's side; so that Alick, who, as a lover of truth, had made
+many needless attempts to expound the real circumstances to them, was
+finally ordered to say not a word more upon the subject. He indemnified
+himself, however, by the liberal allowance of desperate battles, grisly
+executions, and raw-head and bloody-bone stories with which he
+astonished the servants' hall.
+
+But although these important matters may be briefly told in narrative,
+like a newspaper report of a Chancery suit, yet, with all the urgency
+which Waverley could use, the real time which the law proceedings
+occupied, joined to the delay occasioned by the mode of travelling at
+that period, rendered it considerably more than two months ere
+Waverley, having left England, alighted once more at the mansion of the
+Laird of Duchran to claim the hand of his plighted bride.
+
+The day of his marriage was fixed for the sixth after his arrival. The
+Baron of Bradwardine, with whom bridals, christenings, and funerals
+were festivals of high and solemn import, felt a little hurt that,
+including the family of the Duchran and all the immediate vicinity who
+had title to be present on such an occasion, there could not be above
+thirty persons collected. 'When he was married,' he observed,'three
+hundred horse of gentlemen born, besides servants, and some score or
+two of Highland lairds, who never got on horseback, were present on the
+occasion.'
+
+But his pride found some consolation in reflecting that, he and his
+son-in-law having been so lately in arms against government, it might
+give matter of reasonable fear and offence to the ruling powers if they
+were to collect together the kith, kin, and allies of their houses,
+arrayed in effeir of war, as was the ancient custom of Scotland on
+these occasions--'And, without dubitation,' he concluded with a sigh,
+'many of those who would have rejoiced most freely upon these joyful
+espousals are either gone to a better place or are now exiles from
+their native land.'
+
+The marriage took place on the appointed day. The Reverend Mr. Rubrick,
+kinsman to the proprietor of the hospitable mansion where it was
+solemnised, and chaplain to the Baron of Bradwardine, had the
+satisfaction to unite their hands; and Frank Stanley acted as
+bridesman, having joined Edward with that view soon after his arrival.
+Lady Emily and Colonel Talbot had proposed being present; but Lady
+Emily's health, when the day approached, was found inadequate to the
+journey. In amends it was arranged that Edward Waverley and his lady,
+who, with the Baron, proposed an immediate journey to Waverley-Honour,
+should in their way spend a few days at an estate which Colonel Talbot
+had been tempted to purchase in Scotland as a very great bargain, and
+at which he proposed to reside for some time.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXXI
+
+    This is no mine ain house, I ken by the bigging o't
+
+    Old Song.
+
+
+The nuptial party travelled in great style. There was a coach and six
+after the newest pattern, which Sir Everard had presented to his
+nephew, that dazzled with its splendour the eyes of one half of
+Scotland; there was the family coach of Mr. Rubrick;--both these were
+crowded with ladies,--and there were gentlemen on horseback, with their
+servants, to the number of a round score. Nevertheless, without having
+the fear of famine before his eyes, Bailie Macwheeble met them in the
+road to entreat that they would pass by his house at Little Veolan. The
+Baron stared, and said his son and he would certainly ride by Little
+Veolan and pay their compliments to the Bailie, but could not think of
+bringing with them the 'haill comitatus nuptialis, or matrimonial
+procession.' He added, 'that, as he understood that the barony had been
+sold by its unworthy possessor, he was glad to see his old friend
+Duncan had regained his situation under the new Dominus, or
+proprietor.' The Bailie ducked, bowed, and fidgeted, and then again
+insisted upon his invitation; until the Baron, though rather piqued at
+the pertinacity of his instances, could not nevertheless refuse to
+consent without making evident sensations which he was anxious to
+conceal.
+
+He fell into a deep study as they approached the top of the avenue, and
+was only startled from it by observing that the battlements were
+replaced, the ruins cleared away, and (most wonderful of all) that the
+two great stone bears, those mutilated Dagons of his idolatry, had
+resumed their posts over the gateway. 'Now this new proprietor,' said
+he to Edward, 'has shown mair gusto, as the Italians call it, in the
+short time he has had this domain, than that hound Malcolm, though I
+bred him here mysell, has acquired vita adhuc durante. And now I talk
+of hounds, is not yon Ban and Buscar who come scouping up the avenue
+with Davie Gellatley?'
+
+'I vote we should go to meet them, sir,' said Waverley, 'for I believe
+the present master of the house is Colonel Talbot, who will expect to
+see us. We hesitated to mention to you at first that he had purchased
+your ancient patrimonial property, and even yet, if you do not incline
+to visit him, we can pass on to the Bailie's.'
+
+The Baron had occasion for all his magnanimity. However, he drew a long
+breath, took a long snuff, and observed, since they had brought him so
+far, he could not pass the Colonel's gate, and he would be happy to see
+the new master of his old tenants. He alighted accordingly, as did the
+other gentlemen and ladies; he gave his arm to his daughter, and as
+they descended the avenue pointed out to her how speedily the 'Diva
+Pecunia of the Southron--their tutelary deity, he might call her--had
+removed the marks of spoliation.'
+
+In truth, not only had the felled trees been removed, but, their stumps
+being grubbed up and the earth round them levelled and sown with grass,
+every mark of devastation, unless to an eye intimately acquainted with
+the spot, was already totally obliterated. There was a similar
+reformation in the outward man of Davie Gellatley, who met them, every
+now and then stopping to admire the new suit which graced his person,
+in the same colours as formerly, but bedizened fine enough to have
+served Touchstone himself. He danced up with his usual ungainly
+frolics, first to the Baron and then to Rose, passing his hands over
+his clothes, crying, 'Bra', bra' Davie,' and scarce able to sing a bar
+to an end of his thousand-and-one songs for the breathless extravagance
+of his joy. The dogs also acknowledged their old master with a thousand
+gambols. 'Upon my conscience, Rose,' ejaculated the Baron, 'the
+gratitude o' thae dumb brutes and of that puir innocent brings the
+tears into my auld een, while that schellum Malcolm--but I'm obliged to
+Colonel Talbot for putting my hounds into such good condition, and
+likewise for puir Davie. But, Rose, my dear, we must not permit them to
+be a life-rent burden upon the estate.'
+
+As he spoke, Lady Emily, leaning upon the arm of her husband, met the
+party at the lower gate with a thousand welcomes. After the ceremony of
+introduction had been gone through, much abridged by the ease and
+excellent breeding of Lady Emily, she apologised for having used a
+little art to wile them back to a place which might awaken some painful
+reflections--'But as it was to change masters, we were very desirous
+that the Baron--'
+
+'Mr. Bradwardine, madam, if you please,' said the old gentleman.
+
+'--Mr. Bradwardine, then, and Mr. Waverley should see what we have done
+towards restoring the mansion of your fathers to its former state.'
+
+The Baron answered with a low bow. Indeed, when he entered the court,
+excepting that the heavy stables, which had been burnt down, were
+replaced by buildings of a lighter and more picturesque appearance, all
+seemed as much as possible restored to the state in which he had left
+it when he assumed arms some months before. The pigeon-house was
+replenished; the fountain played with its usual activity, and not only
+the bear who predominated over its basin, but all the other bears
+whatsoever, were replaced on their several stations, and renewed or
+repaired with so much care that they bore no tokens of the violence
+which had so lately descended upon them. While these minutiae had been
+so needfully attended to, it is scarce necessary to add that the house
+itself had been thoroughly repaired, as well as the gardens, with the
+strictest attention to maintain the original character of both, and to
+remove as far as possible all appearance of the ravage they had
+sustained. The Baron gazed in silent wonder; at length he addressed
+Colonel Talbot--
+
+'While I acknowledge my obligation to you, sir, for the restoration of
+the badge of our family, I cannot but marvel that you have nowhere
+established your own crest, whilk is, I believe, a mastiff, anciently
+called a talbot; as the poet has it,
+
+    A talbot strong, a sturdy tyke.
+
+At least such a dog is the crest of the martial and renowned Earls of
+Shrewsbury, to whom your family are probably blood-relations.'
+
+'I believe,' said the Colonel, smiling, 'our dogs are whelps of the
+same litter; for my part, if crests were to dispute precedence, I
+should be apt to let them, as the proverb says, "fight dog, fight
+bear."'
+
+As he made this speech, at which the Baron took another long pinch of
+snuff, they had entered the house, that is, the Baron, Rose, and Lady
+Emily, with young Stanley and the Bailie, for Edward and the rest of
+the party remained on the terrace to examine a new greenhouse stocked
+with the finest plants. The Baron resumed his favourite topic--'However
+it may please you to derogate from the honour of your burgonet, Colonel
+Talbot, which is doubtless your humour, as I have seen in other
+gentlemen of birth and honour in your country, I must again repeat it
+as a most ancient and distinguished bearing, as well as that of my
+young friend Francis Stanley, which is the eagle and child.'
+
+'The bird and bantling they call it in Derbyshire, sir,' said Stanley.
+
+'Ye're a daft callant, sir,' said the Baron, who had a great liking to
+this young man, perhaps because he sometimes teased him--'Ye're a daft
+callant, and I must correct you some of these days,' shaking his great
+brown fist at him. 'But what I meant to say, Colonel Talbot, is, that
+yours is an ancient prosapia, or descent, and since you have lawfully
+and justly acquired the estate for you and yours which I have lost for
+me and mine, I wish it may remain in your name as many centuries as it
+has done in that of the late proprietor's.'
+
+'That,' answered the Colonel, 'is very handsome, Mr. Bradwardine,
+indeed.'
+
+'And yet, sir, I cannot but marvel that you, Colonel, whom I noted to
+have so much of the amor patritz when we met in Edinburgh as even to
+vilipend other countries, should have chosen to establish your Lares,
+or household gods, procul a patrice finibus, and in a manner to
+expatriate yourself.'
+
+'Why really, Baron, I do not see why, to keep the secret of these
+foolish boys, Waverley and Stanley, and of my wife, who is no wiser,
+one old soldier should continue to impose upon another. You must know,
+then, that I have so much of that same prejudice in favour of my native
+country, that the sum of money which I advanced to the seller of this
+extensive barony has only purchased for me a box in ----shire, called
+Brere-wood Lodge, with about two hundred and fifty acres of land, the
+chief merit of which is, that it is within a very few miles of
+Waverley-Honour.'
+
+'And who, then, in the name of Heaven, has bought this property?'
+
+'That,' said the Colonel, 'it is this gentleman's profession to
+explain.'
+
+The Bailie, whom this reference regarded, and who had all this while
+shifted from one foot to another with great impatience, 'like a hen,'
+as he afterwards said, 'upon a het girdle'; and chuckling, he might
+have added, like the said hen in all the glory of laying an egg, now
+pushed forward. 'That I can, that I can, your honour,' drawing from his
+pocket a budget of papers, and untying the red tape with a hand
+trembling with eagerness. 'Here is the disposition and assignation by
+Malcolm Bradwardine of Inch-Grabbit, regularly signed and tested in
+terms of the statute, whereby, for a certain sum of sterling money
+presently contented and paid to him, he has disponed, alienated, and
+conveyed the whole estate and barony of Bradwardine, Tully-Veolan, and
+others, with the fortalice and manor-place--'
+
+'For God's sake, to the point, sir; I have all that by heart,' said the
+Colonel.
+
+'--To Cosmo Comyne Bradwardme, Esq.,' pursued the Bailie, 'his heirs
+and assignees, simply and irredeemably, to be held either a me vel de
+me--'
+
+'Pray read short, sir.'
+
+'On the conscience of an honest man, Colonel, I read as short as is
+consistent with style--under the burden and reservation always--'
+
+'Mr. Macwheeble, this would outlast a Russian winter; give me leave. In
+short, Mr. Bradwardine, your family estate is your own once more in
+full property, and at your absolute disposal, but only burdened with
+the sum advanced to re-purchase it, which I understand is utterly
+disproportioned to its value.'
+
+'An auld sang--an auld sang, if it please your honours,' cried the
+Bailie, rubbing his hands; 'look at the rental book.'
+
+'--Which sum being advanced, by Mr. Edward Waverley, chiefly from the
+price of his father's property which I bought from him, is secured to
+his lady your daughter and her family by this marriage.'
+
+'It is a catholic security,' shouted the Bailie,' to Rose Comyne
+Bradwardine, alias Wauverley, in life-rent, and the children of the
+said marriage in fee; and I made up a wee bit minute of an antenuptial
+contract, intuitu matrimonij, so it cannot be subject to reduction
+hereafter, as a donation inter virum et uxorem.'
+
+It is difficult to say whether the worthy Baron was most delighted with
+the restitution of his family property or with the delicacy and
+generosity that left him unfettered to pursue his purpose in disposing
+of it after his death, and which avoided as much as possible even the
+appearance of laying him under pecuniary obligation. When his first
+pause of joy and astonishment was over, his thoughts turned to the
+unworthy heir-male, who, he pronounced, had sold his birthright, like
+Esau, for a mess o' pottage.
+
+'But wha cookit the parritch for him?' exclaimed the Bailie; 'I wad
+like to ken that;--wha but your honour's to command, Duncan Macwheeble?
+His honour, young Mr. Wauverley, put it a' into my hand frae the
+beginning--frae the first calling o' the summons, as I may say. I
+circumvented them--I played at bogle about the bush wi' them--I
+cajolled them; and if I havena gien Inch-Grabbit and Jamie Howie a
+bonnie begunk, they ken themselves. Him a writer! I didna gae slapdash
+to them wi' our young bra' bridegroom, to gar them baud up the market.
+Na, na; I scared them wi' our wild tenantry, and the Mac-Ivors, that
+are but ill settled yet, till they durstna on ony errand whatsoever
+gang ower the doorstane after gloaming, for fear John Heatherblutter,
+or some siccan dare-the-deil, should tak a baff at them; then, on the
+other hand, I beflummed them wi' Colonel Talbot; wad they offer to keep
+up the price again' the Duke's friend? did they na ken wha was master?
+had they na seen eneugh, by the sad example of mony a puir misguided
+unhappy body--'
+
+'Who went to Derby, for example, Mr. Macwheeble?' said the Colonel to
+him aside.
+
+'O whisht, Colonel, for the love o' God! let that flee stick i' the
+wa'. There were mony good folk at Derby; and it's ill speaking of
+halters'--with a sly cast of his eye toward the Baron, who was in a
+deep reverie.
+
+Starting out of it at once, he took Macwheeble by the button and led
+him into one of the deep window recesses, whence only fragments of
+their conversation reached the rest of the party. It certainly related
+to stamp-paper and parchment; for no other subject, even from the mouth
+of his patron, and he once more an efficient one, could have arrested
+so deeply the Bailie's reverent and absorbed attention.
+
+'I understand your honour perfectly; it can be dune as easy as taking
+out a decreet in absence.'
+
+'To her and him, after my demise, and to their heirs-male, but
+preferring the second son, if God shall bless them with two, who is to
+carry the name and arms of Bradwardine of that ilk, without any other
+name or armorial bearings whatsoever.'
+
+'Tut, your honour!' whispered the Bailie, 'I'll mak a slight jotting
+the morn; it will cost but a charter of resignation in favorem; and
+I'll hae it ready for the next term in Exchequer.'
+
+Their private conversation ended, the Baron was now summoned to do the
+honours of Tully-Veolan to new guests. These were Major Melville of
+Cairnvreckan and the Reverend Mr. Morton, followed by two or three
+others of the Baron's acquaintances, who had been made privy to his
+having again acquired the estate of his fathers. The shouts of the
+villagers were also heard beneath in the court-yard; for Saunders
+Saunderson, who had kept the secret for several days with laudable
+prudence, had unloosed his tongue upon beholding the arrival of the
+carriages.
+
+But, while Edward received Major Melville with politeness and the
+clergyman with the most affectionate and grateful kindness, his
+father-in-law looked a little awkward, as uncertain how he should
+answer the necessary claims of hospitality to his guests, and forward
+the festivity of his tenants. Lady Emily relieved him by intimating
+that, though she must be an indifferent representative of Mrs. Edward
+Waverley in many respects, she hoped the Baron would approve of the
+entertainment she had ordered in expectation of so many guests; and
+that they would find such other accommodations provided as might in
+some degree support the ancient hospitality of Tully-Veolan. It is
+impossible to describe the pleasure which this assurance gave the
+Baron, who, with an air of gallantry half appertaining to the stiff
+Scottish laird and half to the officer in the French service, offered
+his arm to the fair speaker, and led the way, in something between a
+stride and a minuet step, into the large dining parlour, followed by
+all the rest of the good company.
+
+By dint of Saunderson's directions and exertions, all here, as well as
+in the other apartments, had been disposed as much as possible
+according to the old arrangement; and where new movables had been
+necessary, they had been selected in the same character with the old
+furniture. There was one addition to this fine old apartment, however,
+which drew tears into the Baron's eyes. It was a large and spirited
+painting, representing Fergus Mac-Ivor and Waverley in their Highland
+dress, the scene a wild, rocky, and mountainous pass, down which the
+clan were descending in the background. It was taken from a spirited
+sketch, drawn while they were in Edinburgh by a young man of high
+genius, and had been painted on a full-length scale by an eminent
+London artist. Raeburn himself (whose 'Highland Chiefs' do all but walk
+out of the canvas) could not have done more justice to the subject; and
+the ardent, fiery, and impetuous character of the unfortunate Chief of
+Glennaquoich was finely contrasted with the contemplative, fanciful,
+and enthusiastic expression of his happier friend. Beside this painting
+hung the arms which Waverley had borne in the unfortunate civil war.
+The whole piece was beheld with admiration and deeper feelings.
+
+Men must, however, eat, in spite both of sentiment and vertu; and the
+Baron, while he assumed the lower end of the table, insisted that Lady
+Emily should do the honours of the head, that they might, he said, set
+a meet example to the YOUNG FOLK. After a pause of deliberation,
+employed in adjusting in his own brain the precedence between the
+Presbyterian kirk and Episcopal church of Scotland, he requested Mr.
+Morton, as the stranger, would crave a blessing, observing that Mr.
+Rubrick, who was at HOME, would return thanks for the distinguished
+mercies it had been his lot to experience. The dinner was excellent.
+Saunderson attended in full costume, with all the former domestics, who
+had been collected, excepting one or two, that had not been heard of
+since the affair of Culloden. The cellars were stocked with wine which
+was pronounced to be superb, and it had been contrived that the Bear of
+the Fountain, in the courtyard, should (for that night only) play
+excellent brandy punch for the benefit of the lower orders.
+
+When the dinner was over the Baron, about to propose a toast, cast a
+somewhat sorrowful look upon the sideboard, which, however, exhibited
+much of his plate, that had either been secreted or purchased by
+neighbouring gentlemen from the soldiery, and by them gladly restored
+to the original owner.
+
+"In the late times," he said, "those must be thankful who have saved
+life and land; yet when I am about to pronounce this toast, I cannot
+but regret an old heirloom, Lady Emily, a POCULUM POTATORIUM, Colonel
+Talbot--"
+
+Here the Baron's elbow was gently touched by his major-domo, and,
+turning round, he beheld in the hands of Alexander ab Alexandro the
+celebrated cup of Saint Duthac, the Blessed Bear of Bradwardine! I
+question if the recovery of his estate afforded him more rapture. "By
+my honour," he said, "one might almost believe in brownies and fairies,
+Lady Emily, when your ladyship is in presence!"
+
+"I am truly happy," said Colonel Talbot, "that, by the recovery of this
+piece of family antiquity, it has fallen within my power to give you
+some token of my deep interest in all that concerns my young friend
+Edward. But that you may not suspect Lady Emily for a sorceress, or me
+for a conjuror, which is no joke in Scotland, I must tell you that
+Frank Stanley, your friend, who has been seized with a tartan fever
+ever since he heard Edward's tales of old Scottish manners, happened to
+describe to us at second-hand this remarkable cup. My servant,
+Spontoon, who, like a true old soldier, observes everything and says
+little, gave me afterwards to understand that he thought he had seen
+the piece of plate Mr. Stanley mentioned in the possession of a certain
+Mrs. Nosebag, who, having been originally the helpmate of a pawnbroker,
+had found opportunity during the late unpleasant scenes in Scotland to
+trade a little in her old line, and so became the depositary of the
+more valuable part of the spoil of half the army. You may believe the
+cup was speedily recovered; and it will give me very great pleasure if
+you allow me to suppose that its value is not diminished by having been
+restored through my means."
+
+A tear mingled with the wine which the Baron filled, as he proposed a
+cup of gratitude to Colonel Talbot, and 'The Prosperity of the united
+Houses of Waverley-Honour and Bradwardine!'
+
+It only remains for me to say that, as no wish was ever uttered with
+more affectionate sincerity, there are few which, allowing for the
+necessary mutability of human events, have been upon the whole more
+happily fulfilled.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXXII
+
+A POSTSCRIPT WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN A PREFACE
+
+
+Our journey is now finished, gentle reader; and if your patience has
+accompanied me through these sheets, the contract is, on your part,
+strictly fulfilled. Yet, like the driver who has received his full
+hire, I still linger near you, and make, with becoming diffidence, a
+trifling additional claim upon your bounty and good nature. You are as
+free, however, to shut the volume of the one petitioner as to close
+your door in the face of the other.
+
+This should have been a prefatory chapter, but for two reasons: First,
+that most novel readers, as my own conscience reminds me, are apt to be
+guilty of the sin of omission respecting that same matter of prefaces;
+Secondly, that it is a general custom with that class of students to
+begin with the last chapter of a work; so that, after all, these
+remarks, being introduced last in order, have still the best chance to
+be read in their proper place.
+
+There is no European nation which, within the course of half a century
+or little more, has undergone so complete a change as this kingdom of
+Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of 1745,--the destruction of
+the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs,--the abolition of the
+heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons,--the total
+eradication of the Jacobite party, which, averse to intermingle with
+the English, or adopt their customs, long continued to pride themselves
+upon maintaining ancient Scottish manners and customs,--commenced this
+innovation. The gradual influx of wealth and extension of commerce have
+since united to render the present people of Scotland a class of beings
+as different from their grandfathers as the existing English are from
+those of Queen Elizabeth's time.
+
+The political and economical effects of these changes have been traced
+by Lord Selkirk with great precision and accuracy. But the change,
+though steadily and rapidly progressive, has nevertheless been gradual;
+and, like those who drift down the stream of a deep and smooth river,
+we are not aware of the progress we have made until we fix our eye on
+the now distant point from which we have been drifted. Such of the
+present generation as can recollect the last twenty or twenty-five
+years of the eighteenth century will be fully sensible of the truth of
+this statement; especially if their acquaintance and connexions lay
+among those who in my younger time were facetiously called 'folks of
+the old leaven,' who still cherished a lingering, though hopeless,
+attachment to the house of Stuart.
+
+This race has now almost entirely vanished from the land, and with it,
+doubtless, much absurd political prejudice; but also many living
+examples of singular and disinterested attachment to the principles of
+loyalty which they received from their fathers, and of old Scottish
+faith, hospitality, worth, and honour.
+
+It was my accidental lot, though not born a Highlander (which may be an
+apology for much bad Gaelic), to reside during my childhood and youth
+among persons of the above description; and now, for the purpose of
+preserving some idea of the ancient manners of which I have witnessed
+the almost total extinction, I have embodied in imaginary scenes, and
+ascribed to fictitious characters, a part of the incidents which I then
+received from those who were actors in them. Indeed, the most romantic
+parts of this narrative are precisely those which have a foundation in
+fact.
+
+The exchange of mutual protection between a Highland gentleman and an
+officer of rank in the king's service, together with the spirited
+manner in which the latter asserted his right to return the favour he
+had received, is literally true. The accident by a musket shot, and the
+heroic reply imputed to Flora, relate to a lady of rank not long
+deceased. And scarce a gentleman who was 'in hiding' after the battle
+of Culloden but could tell a tale of strange concealments and of wild
+and hair'sbreadth'scapes as extraordinary as any which I have ascribed
+to my heroes. Of this, the escape of Charles Edward himself, as the
+most prominent, is the most striking example. The accounts of the
+battle of Preston and skirmish at Clifton are taken from the narrative
+of intelligent eye-witnesses, and corrected from the 'History of the
+Rebellion' by the late venerable author of 'Douglas.' The Lowland
+Scottish gentlemen and the subordinate characters are not given as
+individual portraits, but are drawn from the general habits of the
+period, of which I have witnessed some remnants in my younger days, and
+partly gathered from tradition.
+
+It has been my object to describe these persons, not by a caricatured
+and exaggerated use of the national dialect, but by their habits,
+manners, and feelings, so as in some distant degree to emulate the
+admirable Irish portraits drawn by Miss Edgeworth, so different from
+the 'Teagues' and 'dear joys' who so long, with the most perfect family
+resemblance to each other, occupied the drama and the novel.
+
+I feel no confidence, however, in the manner in which I have executed
+my purpose. Indeed, so little was I satisfied with my production, that
+I laid it aside in an unfinished state, and only found it again by mere
+accident among other waste papers in an old cabinet, the drawers of
+which I was rummaging in order to accommodate a friend with some
+fishing-tackle, after it had been mislaid for several years.
+
+Two works upon similar subjects, by female authors whose genius is
+highly creditable to their country, have appeared in the interval; I
+mean Mrs. Hamilton's 'Glenburnie' and the late account of 'Highland
+Superstitions.' But the first is confined to the rural habits of
+Scotland, of which it has given a picture with striking and impressive
+fidelity; and the traditional records of the respectable and ingenious
+Mrs. Grant of Laggan are of a nature distinct from the fictitious
+narrative which I have here attempted.
+
+I would willingly persuade myself that the preceding work will not be
+found altogether uninteresting. To elder persons it will recall scenes
+and characters familiar to their youth; and to the rising generation
+the tale may present some idea of the manners of their forefathers.
+
+Yet I heartily wish that the task of tracing the evanescent manners of
+his own country had employed the pen of the only man in Scotland who
+could have done it justice--of him so eminently distinguished in
+elegant literature, and whose sketches of Colonel Caustic and
+Umphraville are perfectly blended with the finer traits of national
+character. I should in that case have had more pleasure as a reader
+than I shall ever feel in the pride of a successful author, should
+these sheets confer upon me that envied distinction. And, as I have
+inverted the usual arrangement, placing these remarks at the end of the
+work to which they refer, I will venture on a second violation of form,
+by closing the whole with a Dedication--
+
+THESE VOLUMES BEING RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED TO OUR SCOTTISH ADDISON,
+HENRY MACKENZIE, BY AN UNKNOWN ADMIRER OF HIS GENIUS.
+
+
+
+
+
+THE END
+
+
+
+
+
+NOTES
+
+
+NOTE I, p. 19
+
+The clan of Mac-Farlane, occupying the fastnesses of the western side
+of Loch Lomond, were great depredators on the Low Country, and as their
+excursions were made usually by night, the moon was proverbially called
+their lantern. Their celebrated pibroch of Hoggil nam Bo, which is the
+name of their gathering tune, intimates similar practices, the sense
+being:--
+
+     We are bound to drive the bullocks,
+     All by hollows, hirsts, and hillocks,
+     Through the sleet, and through the rain.
+     When the moon is beaming low
+     On frozen lake and hills of snow,
+     Bold and heartily we go;
+     And all for little gain.
+
+NOTE 2, p. 22
+
+This noble ruin is dear to my recollection, from associations which
+have been long and painfully broken. It holds a commanding station on
+the banks of the river Teith, and has been one of the largest castles
+in Scotland. Murdoch, Duke of Albany, the founder of this stately pile,
+was beheaded on the Castle-hill of Stirling, from which he might see
+the towers of Doune, the monument of his fallen greatness.
+
+In 1745-46, as stated in the text, a garrison on the part of the
+Chevalier was put into the castle, then less ruinous than at present.
+It was commanded by Mr. Stewart of Balloch, as governor for Prince
+Charles; he was a man of property near Callander. This castle became at
+that time the actual scene of a romantic escape made by John Home, the
+author of Douglas, and some other prisoners, who, having been taken at
+the battle of Falkirk, were confined there by the insurgents. The poet,
+who had in his own mind a large stock of that romantic and enthusiastic
+spirit of adventure which he has described as animating the youthful
+hero of his drama, devised and undertook the perilous enterprise of
+escaping from his prison. He inspired his companions with his
+sentiments, and when every attempt at open force was deemed hopeless,
+they resolved to twist their bed-clothes into ropes and thus to
+descend. Four persons, with Home himself, reached the ground in safety.
+But the rope broke with the fifth, who was a tall, lusty man. The sixth
+was Thomas Barrow, a brave young Englishman, a particular friend of
+Home's. Determined to take the risk, even in such unfavourable
+circumstances, Barrow committed himself to the broken rope, slid down
+on it as far as it could assist him, and then let himself drop. His
+friends beneath succeeded in breaking his fall. Nevertheless, he
+dislocated his ankle and had several of his ribs broken. His
+companions, however, were able to bear him off in safety.
+
+The Highlanders next morning sought for their prisoners with great
+activity. An old gentleman told the author he remembered seeing the
+commandant Stewart
+
+    Bloody with spurring, fiery red with haste,
+
+riding furiously through the country in quest of the fugitives.
+
+NOTE 3, p. 28
+
+To go out, or to have been out, in Scotland was a conventional phrase
+similar to that of the Irish respecting a man having been up, both
+having reference to an individual who had been engaged in insurrection.
+It was accounted ill-breeding in Scotland about forty years since to
+use the phrase rebellion or rebel, which might be interpreted by some
+of the parties present as a personal insult. It was also esteemed more
+polite, even for stanch Whigs, to denominate Charles Edward the
+Chevalier than to speak of him as the Pretender; and this kind of
+accommodating courtesy was usually observed in society where
+individuals of each party mixed on friendly terms.
+
+NOTE 4, p. 38
+
+The Jacobite sentiments were general among the western counties and in
+Wales. But although the great families of the Wynnes, the Wyndhams, and
+others had come under an actual obligation to join Prince Charles if he
+should land, they had done so under the express stipulation that he
+should be assisted by an auxiliary army of French, without which they
+foresaw the enterprise would be desperate. Wishing well to his cause,
+therefore, and watching an opportunity to join him, they did not,
+nevertheless, think themselves bound in honour to do so, as he was only
+supported by a body of wild mountaineers, speaking an uncouth dialect,
+and wearing a singular dress. The race up to Derby struck them with
+more dread than admiration. But it is difficult to say what the effect
+might have been had either the battle of Preston or Falkirk been fought
+and won during the advance into England.
+
+NOTE 5, p. 43
+
+Divisions early showed themselves in the Chevalier's little army, not
+only amongst the independent chieftains, who were far too proud to
+brook subjection to each other, but betwixt the Scotch and Charles's
+governor O'Sullivan, an Irishman by birth, who, with some of his
+countrymen bred in the Irish Brigade in the service of the King of
+France, had an influence with the Adventurer much resented by the
+Highlanders, who were sensible that their own clans made the chief or
+rather the only strength of his enterprise. There was a feud, also,
+between Lord George Murray and John Murray of Broughton, the Prince's
+secretary, whose disunion greatly embarrassed the affairs of the
+Adventurer. In general, a thousand different pretensions divided their
+little army, and finally contributed in no small degree to its
+overthrow.
+
+NOTE 6, p. 78
+
+This circumstance, which is historical, as well as the description that
+precedes it, will remind the reader of the war of La Vendee, in which
+the royalists, consisting chiefly of insurgent peasantry, attached a
+prodigious and even superstitious interest to the possession of a piece
+of brass ordnance, which they called Marie Jeanne.
+
+The Highlanders of an early period were afraid of cannon, with the
+noise and effect of which they were totally unacquainted. It was by
+means of three or four small pieces of artillery that the Earls of
+Huntly and Errol, in James VI's time, gained a great victory at
+Glenlivat, over a numerous Highland army, commanded by the Earl of
+Argyle. At the battle of the Bridge of Dee, General Middleton obtained
+by his artillery a similar success, the Highlanders not being able to
+stand the discharge of Musket's Mother, which was the name they
+bestowed on great guns. In an old ballad on the battle of the Bridge of
+Dee these verses occur:--
+
+       The Highlandmen are pretty men
+         For handling sword and shield,
+       But yet they are but simple men
+         To stand a stricken field.
+
+        The Highlandmen are pretty men
+          For target and claymore,
+        But yet they are but naked men
+          To face the cannon's roar.
+
+        For the cannons roar on a summer night
+          Like thunder in the air;
+        Was never man in Highland garb
+          Would face the cannon fair
+
+But the Highlanders of 1745 had got far beyond the simplicity of their
+forefathers, and showed throughout the whole war how little they
+dreaded artillery, although the common people still attached some
+consequence to the possession of the field-piece which led to this
+disquisition.
+
+NOTE 7, p. 93
+
+The faithful friend who pointed out the pass by which the Highlanders
+moved from Tranent to Seaton was Robert Anderson, junior, of Whitburgh,
+a gentleman of property in East Lothian. He had been interrogated by
+the Lord George Murray concerning the possibility of crossing the
+uncouth and marshy piece of ground which divided the armies, and which
+he described as impracticable. When dismissed, he recollected that
+there was a circuitous path leading eastward through the marsh into the
+plain, by which the Highlanders might turn the flank of Sir John Cope's
+position without being exposed to the enemy's fire. Having mentioned
+his opinion to Mr. Hepburn of Keith, who instantly saw its importance,
+he was encouraged by that gentleman to awake Lord George Murray and
+communicate the idea to him. Lord George received the information with
+grateful thanks, and instantly awakened Prince Charles, who was
+sleeping in the field with a bunch of pease under his head. The
+Adventurer received with alacrity the news that there was a possibility
+of bringing an excellently provided army to a decisive battle with his
+own irregular forces. His joy on the occasion was not very consistent
+with the charge of cowardice brought against him by Chevalier
+Johnstone, a discontented follower, whose Memoirs possess at least as
+much of a romantic as a historical character. Even by the account of
+the Chevalier himself, the Prince was at the head of the second line of
+the Highland army during the battle, of which he says, 'It was gained
+with such rapidity that in the second line, where I was still by the
+side of the Prince, we saw no other enemy than those who were lying on
+the ground killed and wounded, though we were not more than fifty paces
+behind our first line, running always as fast as we could to overtake
+them.'
+
+This passage in the Chevalier's Memoirs places the Prince within fifty
+paces of the heat of the battle, a position which would never have been
+the choice of one unwilling to take a share of its dangers. Indeed,
+unless the chiefs had complied with the young Adventurer's proposal to
+lead the van in person, it does not appear that he could have been
+deeper in the action.
+
+NOTE 8, p. 100
+
+The death of this good Christian and gallant man is thus given by his
+affectionate biographer, Doctor Doddridge, from the evidence of
+eye-witnesses:--
+
+'He continued all night under arms, wrapped up in his cloak, and
+generally sheltered under a rick of barley which happened to be in the
+field. About three in the morning he called his domestic servants to
+him, of which there were four in waiting. He dismissed three of them
+with most affectionate Christian advice, and such solemn charges
+relating to the performance of their duty, and the care of their souls,
+as seemed plainly to intimate that he apprehended it was at least very
+probable he was taking his last farewell of them. There is great reason
+to believe that he spent the little remainder of the time, which could
+not be much above an hour, in those devout exercises of soul which had
+been so long habitual to him, and to which so many circumstances did
+then concur to call him. The army was alarmed by break of day by the
+noise of the rebels' approach, and the attack was made before sunrise,
+yet when it was light enough to discern what passed. As soon as the
+enemy came within gun-shot they made a furious fire; and it is said
+that the dragoons which constituted the left wing immediately fled. The
+Colonel at the beginning of the onset, which in the whole lasted but a
+few minutes, received a wound by a bullet in his left breast, which
+made him give a sudden spring in his saddle; upon which his servant,
+who led the horse, would have persuaded him to retreat, but he said it
+was only a wound in the flesh, and fought on, though he presently after
+received a shot in his right thigh. In the mean time, it was discerned
+that some of the enemy fell by him, and particularly one man who had
+made him a treacherous visit but a few days before, with great
+professions of zeal for the present establishment.
+
+'Events of this kind pass in less time than the description of them can
+be written, or than it can be read. The Colonel was for a few moments
+supported by his men, and particularly by that worthy person
+Lieutenant-Colonel Whitney, who was shot through the arm here, and a
+few months after fell nobly at the battle of Falkirk, and by Lieutenant
+West, a man of distinguished bravery, as also by about fifteen
+dragoons, who stood by him to the last. But after a faint fire, the
+regiment in general was seized with a panic; and though their Colonel
+and some other gallant officers did what they could to rally them once
+or twice, they at last took a precipitate flight. And just in the
+moment when Colonel Gardiner seemed to be making a pause to deliberate
+what duty required him to do in such circumstances, an accident
+happened, which must, I think, in the judgment of every worthy and
+generous man, be allowed a sufficient apology for exposing his life to
+so great hazard, when his regiment had left him. He saw a party of the
+foot, who were then bravely fighting near him, and whom he was ordered
+to support, had no officer to head them; upon which he said eagerly, in
+the hearing of the person from whom I had this account, "These brave
+fellows will be cut to pieces for want of a commander," or words to
+that effect; which while he was speaking he rode up to them and cried
+out, "Fire on, my lads, and fear nothing." But just as the words were
+out of his mouth, a Highlander advanced towards him with a scythe
+fastened to a long pole, with which he gave him so dreadful a wound on
+his right arm, that his sword dropped out of his hand; and at the same
+time several others coming about him while he was thus dreadfully
+entangled with that cruel weapon, he was dragged off from his horse.
+The moment he fell, another Highlander, who, if the king's evidence at
+Carlisle may be credited (as I know not why they should not, though the
+unhappy creature died denying it), was one Mac-Naught, who was executed
+about a year after, gave him a stroke either with a broadsword or a
+Lochaber-axe (for my informant could not exactly distinguish) on the
+hinder part of his head, which was the mortal blow. All that his
+faithful attendant saw farther at this time was that, as his hat was
+fallen off, he took it in his left hand and waved it as a signal to him
+to retreat, and added, what were the last words he ever heard him
+speak, "Take care of yourself"; upon which the servant retired.'--Some
+Remarkable Passages in the Life of Colonel James Gardiner. By P.
+Doddridge, D.D. London, 1747, P.187.
+
+I may remark on this extract, that it confirms the account given in the
+text of the resistance offered by some of the English infantry.
+Surprised by a force of a peculiar and unusual description, their
+opposition could not be long or formidable, especially as they were
+deserted by the cavalry, and those who undertook to manage the
+artillery. But, although the affair was soon decided, I have always
+understood that many of the infantry showed an inclination to do their
+duty.
+
+NOTE 9, p. 101
+
+It is scarcely necessary to say that the character of this brutal young
+Laird is entirely imaginary. A gentleman, however, who resembled
+Balmawhapple in the article of courage only, fell at Preston in the
+manner described. A Perthshire gentleman of high honour and
+respectability, one of the handful of cavalry who followed the fortunes
+of Charles Edward, pursued the fugitive dragoons almost alone till near
+Saint Clement's Wells, where the efforts of some of the officers had
+prevailed on a few of them to make a momentary stand. Perceiving at
+this moment that they were pursued by only one man and a couple of
+servants, they turned upon him and cut him down with their swords. I
+remember when a child, sitting on his grave, where the grass long grew
+rank and green, distinguishing it from the rest of the field. A female
+of the family then residing at Saint Clement's Wells used to tell me
+the tragedy, of which she had been an eye-witness, and showed me in
+evidence one of the silver clasps of the unfortunate gentleman's
+waistcoat.
+
+NOTE 10, p. 118
+
+The name of Andrea de Ferrara is inscribed on all the Scottish
+broadswords which are accounted of peculiar excellence. Who this artist
+was, what were his fortunes, and when he flourished, have hitherto
+defied the research of antiquaries; only it is in general believed that
+Andrea de Ferrara was a Spanish or Italian artificer, brought over by
+James IV or V to instruct the Scots in the manufacture of sword blades.
+Most barbarous nations excel in the fabrication of arms; and the Scots
+had attained great proficiency in forging swords so early as the field
+of Pinkie; at which period the historian Patten describes them as 'all
+notably broad and thin, universally made to slice, and of such
+exceeding good temper that, as I never saw any so good, so I think it
+hard to devise better.'--Account of Somerset's Expedition.
+
+It may be observed that the best and most genuine Andrea Ferraras have
+a crown marked on the blade.
+
+NOTE 11, p. 124
+
+The incident here said to have happened to Flora Mac-Ivor actually
+befell Miss Nairne, a lady with whom the author had the pleasure of
+being acquainted. As the Highland army rushed into Edinburgh, Miss
+Nairne, like other ladies who approved of their cause, stood waving her
+handkerchief from a balcony, when a ball from a Highlander's musket,
+which was discharged by accident, grazed her forehead. 'Thank God,'
+said she, the instant she recovered,'that the accident happened to me,
+whose principles are known. Had it befallen a Whig, they would have
+said it was done on purpose.'
+
+NOTE 12, p. 185
+
+The Author of Waverley has been charged with painting the young
+Adventurer in colours more amiable than his character deserved. But
+having known many individuals who were near his person, he has been
+described according to the light in which those eye-witnesses saw his
+temper and qualifications. Something must be allowed, no doubt, to the
+natural exaggerations of those who remembered him as the bold and
+adventurous Prince in whose cause they had braved death and ruin; but
+is their evidence to give place entirely to that of a single malcontent?
+
+I have already noticed the imputations thrown by the Chevalier
+Johnstone on the Prince's courage. But some part at least of that
+gentleman's tale is purely romantic. It would not, for instance, be
+supposed that at the time he is favouring us with the highly wrought
+account of his amour with the adorable Peggie, the Chevalier Johnstone
+was a married man, whose grandchild is now alive; or that the whole
+circumstantial story concerning the outrageous vengeance taken by
+Gordon of Abbachie on a Presbyterian clergyman is entirely apocryphal.
+At the same time it may be admitted that the Prince, like others of his
+family, did not esteem the services done him by his adherents so highly
+as he ought. Educated in high ideas of his hereditary right, he has
+been supposed to have held every exertion and sacrifice made in his
+cause as too much the duty of the person making it to merit extravagant
+gratitude on his part. Dr. King's evidence (which his leaving the
+Jacobite interest renders somewhat doubtful) goes to strengthen this
+opinion.
+
+The ingenious editor of Johnstone's Memoirs has quoted a story said to
+be told by Helvetius, stating that Prince Charles Edward, far from
+voluntarily embarking on his daring expedition, was, literally bound
+hand and foot, and to which he seems disposed to yield credit. Now, it
+being a fact as well known as any in his history, and, so far as I
+know, entirely undisputed, that the Prince's personal entreaties and
+urgency positively forced Boisdale and Lochiel into insurrection, when
+they were earnestly desirous that he would put off his attempt until he
+could obtain a sufficient force from France, it will be very difficult
+to reconcile his alleged reluctance to undertake the expedition with
+his desperately insisting upon carrying the rising into effect against
+the advice and entreaty of his most powerful and most sage partizans.
+Surely a man who had been carried bound on board the vessel which
+brought him to so desperate an enterprise would have taken the
+opportunity afforded by the reluctance of his partizans to return to
+France in safety.
+
+It is averred in Johnstone's Memoirs that Charles Edward left the field
+of Culloden without doing the utmost to dispute the victory; and, to
+give the evidence on both sides, there is in existence the more
+trustworthy testimony of Lord Elcho, who states that he himself
+earnestly exhorted the Prince to charge at the head of the left wing,
+which was entire, and retrieve the day or die with honour. And on his
+counsel being declined, Lord Elcho took leave of him with a bitter
+execration, swearing he would never look on his face again, and kept
+his word.
+
+On the other hand, it seems to have been the opinion of almost all the
+other officers that the day was irretrievably lost, one wing of the
+Highlanders being entirely routed, the rest of the army outnumbered,
+outflanked, and in a condition totally hopeless. In this situation of
+things the Irish officers who surrounded Charles's person interfered to
+force him off the field. A cornet who was close to the Prince left a
+strong attestation that he had seen Sir Thomas Sheridan seize the
+bridle of his horse and turn him round. There is some discrepancy of
+evidence; but the opinion of Lord Elcho, a man of fiery temper and
+desperate at the ruin which he beheld impending, cannot fairly be taken
+in prejudice of a character for courage which is intimated by the
+nature of the enterprise itself, by the Prince's eagerness to fight on
+all occasions, by his determination to advance from Derby to London,
+and by the presence of mind which he manifested during the romantic
+perils of his escape. The author is far from claiming for this
+unfortunate person the praise due to splendid talents; but he continues
+to be of opinion that at the period of his enterprise he had a mind
+capable of facing danger and aspiring to fame.
+
+That Charles Edward had the advantages of a graceful presence,
+courtesy, and an address and manner becoming his station, the author
+never heard disputed by any who approached his person, nor does he
+conceive that these qualities are overcharged in the present attempt to
+sketch his portrait.
+
+The following extracts corroborative of the general opinion respecting
+the Prince's amiable disposition are taken from a manuscript account of
+his romantic expedition, by James Maxwell of Kirkconnell, of which I
+possess a copy, by the friendship of J. Menzies, Esq., of Pitfoddells.
+The author, though partial to the Prince, whom he faithfully followed,
+seems to have been a fair and candid man, and well acquainted with the
+intrigues among the adventurer's council:--
+
+'Everybody was mightily taken with the Prince's figure and personal
+behaviour. There was but one voice about them. Those whom interest or
+prejudice made a runaway to his cause could not help acknowledging that
+they wished him well in all other respects, and could hardly blame him
+for his present undertaking. Sundry things had concurred to raise his
+character to the highest pitch, besides the greatness of the enterprise
+and the conduct that had hitherto appeared in the execution of it.
+
+'There were several instances of good nature and humanity that had made
+a great impression on people's minds. I shall confine myself to two or
+three.
+
+'Immediately after the battle, as the Prince was riding along the
+ground that Cope's army had occupied a few minutes before, one of the
+officers came up to congratulate him, and said, pointing to the killed,
+"Sir, there are your enemies at your feet." The Prince, far from
+exulting, expressed a great deal of compassion for his father's deluded
+subjects, whom he declared he was heartily sorry to see in that posture.
+
+'Next day, while the Prince was at Pinkie House, a citizen of Edinburgh
+came to make some representation to Secretary Murray about the tents
+that city was ordered to furnish against a certain day. Murray happened
+to be out of the way, which the Prince hearing of called to have the
+gentleman brought to him, saying, he would rather despatch the
+business, whatever it was, himself than have the gentleman wait, which
+he did, by granting everything that was asked. So much affability in a
+young prince flushed with victory drew encomiums even from his enemies.
+
+'But what gave the people the highest idea of him was the negative he
+gave to a thing that very nearly concerned his interest, and upon which
+the success of his enterprise perhaps depended. It was proposed to send
+one of the prisoners to London to demand of that court a cartel for the
+exchange of prisoners taken, and to be taken, during this war, and to
+intimate that a refusal would be looked upon as a resolution on their
+part to give no quarter. It was visible a cartel would be of great
+advantage to the Prince's affairs; his friends would be more ready to
+declare for him if they had nothing to fear but the chance of war in
+the field; and if the court of London refused to settle a cartel, the
+Prince was authorised to treat his prisoners in the same manner the
+Elector of Hanover was determined to treat such of the Prince's friends
+as might fall into his hands; it was urged that a few examples would
+compel the court of London to comply. It was to be presumed that the
+officers of the English army would make a point of it. They had never
+engaged in the service but upon such terms as are in use among all
+civilised nations, and it could be no stain upon their honour to lay
+down their commissions if these terms were not observed, and that owing
+to the obstinacy of their own Prince. Though this scheme was plausible,
+and represented as very important, the Prince could never be brought
+into it, it was below him, he said, to make empty threats, and he would
+never put such as those into execution; he would never in cold blood
+take away lives which he had saved in heat of action at the peril of
+his own. These were not the only proofs of good nature the Prince gave
+about this time. Every day produced something new of this kind. These
+things softened the rigour of a military government which was only
+imputed to the necessity of his affairs, and which he endeavoured to
+make as gentle and easy as possible.'
+
+It has been said that the Prince sometimes exacted more state and
+ceremonial than seemed to suit his condition; but, on the other hand,
+some strictness of etiquette was altogether indispensable where he must
+otherwise have been exposed to general intrusion. He could also endure,
+with a good grace, the retorts which his affectation of ceremony
+sometimes exposed him to. It is said, for example, that Grant of
+Glenmoriston having made a hasty march to join Charles, at the head of
+his clan, rushed into the Prince's presence at Holyrood with
+unceremonious haste, without having attended to the duties of the
+toilet. The Prince received him kindly, but not without a hint that a
+previous interview with the barber might not have been wholly
+unnecessary. 'It is not beardless boys,' answered the displeased Chief,
+'who are to do your Royal Highness's turn.' The Chevalier took the
+rebuke in good part.
+
+On the whole, if Prince Charles had concluded his life soon after his
+miraculous escape, his character in history must have stood very high.
+As it was, his station is amongst those a certain brilliant portion of
+whose life forms a remarkable contrast to all which precedes and all
+which follows it.
+
+NOTE 13, p. 195
+
+The following account of the skirmish at Clifton is extracted from the
+manuscript Memoirs of Evan Macpherson of Cluny, Chief of the clan
+Macpherson, who had the merit of supporting the principal brunt of that
+spirited affair. The Memoirs appear to have been composed about 1755,
+only ten years after the action had taken place. They were written in
+France, where that gallant chief resided in exile, which accounts for
+some Gallicisms which occur in the narrative.
+
+'In the Prince's return from Derby back towards Scotland, my Lord
+George Murray, Lieutenant-General, cheerfully charg'd himself with the
+command of the rear, a post which, altho' honourable, was attended with
+great danger, many difficulties, and no small fatigue; for the Prince,
+being apprehensive that his retreat to Scotland might be cut off by
+Marischall Wade, who lay to the northward of him with an armie much
+supperior to what H.R.H. had, while the Duke of Comberland with his
+whole cavalrie followed hard in the rear, was obliged to hasten his
+marches. It was not, therefore, possible for the artilirie to march so
+fast as the Prince's army, in the depth of winter, extremely bad
+weather, and the worst roads in England; so Lord George Murray was
+obliged often to continue his marches long after it was dark almost
+every night, while at the same time he had frequent allarms and
+disturbances from the Duke of Comberland's advanc'd parties.
+
+'Towards the evening of the twentie-eight December 1745 the Prince
+entered the town of Penrith, in the Province of Comberland. But as Lord
+George Murray could not bring up the artilirie so fast as he wou'd have
+wish'd, he was oblig'd to pass the night six miles short of that town,
+together with the regiment of MacDonel of Glengarrie, which that day
+happened to have the arrear guard. The Prince, in order to refresh his
+armie, and to give My Lord George and the artilirie time to come up,
+resolved to sejour the 29th at Penrith; so ordered his little army to
+appear in the morning under arms, in order to be reviewed, and to know
+in what manner the numbers stood from his haveing entered England. It
+did not at that time amount to 5000 foot in all, with about 400
+cavalrie, compos'd of the noblesse who serv'd as volunteers, part of
+whom form'd a first troop of guards for the Prince, under the command
+of My Lord Elchoe, now Comte de Weems, who, being proscribed, is
+presently in France. Another part formed a second troup of guards under
+the command of My Lord Balmirino, who was beheaded at the Tower of
+London. A third part serv'd under My Lord le Comte de Kilmarnock, who
+was likewise beheaded at the Tower. A fourth part serv'd under My Lord
+Pitsligow, who is also proscribed; which cavalrie, tho' very few in
+numbers, being all noblesse, were very brave, and of infinite advantage
+to the foot, not only in the day of battle, but in serving as advanced
+guards on the several marches, and in patroling dureing the night on
+the different roads which led towards the towns where the army happened
+to quarter.
+
+'While this small army was out in a body on the 2Qth December, upon a
+riseing ground to the northward of Penrith, passing review, Mons. de
+Cluny, with his tribe, was ordered to the Bridge of Clifton, about a
+mile to southward of Penrith, after having pass'd in review before
+Mons. Pattullo, who was charged with the inspection of the troops, and
+was likeways Quarter-Master-General of the army, and is now in France.
+They remained under arms at the bridge, waiting the arrival of My Lord
+George Murray with the artilirie, whom Mons. de Cluny had orders to
+cover in passing the bridge. They arrived about sunsett closly pursued
+by the Duke of Comberland with the whole body of his cavalrie, reckoned
+upwards of 3000 strong, about a thousand of whom, as near as might be
+computed, dismounted, in order to cut off the passage of the artilirie
+towards the bridge, while the Duke and the others remained on horseback
+in order to attack the rear.
+
+'My Lord George Murray advanced, and although he found Mons. de Cluny
+and his tribe in good spirits under arms, yet the circumstance appear'd
+extremely delicate. The numbers were vastly unequall, and the attack
+seem'd very dangerous; so My Lord George declin'd giving orders to such
+time as he ask'd Mons. de Cluny's oppinion. "I will attack them with
+all my heart," says Mons. de Cluny, "if you order me." "I do order it
+then," answered My Lord George, and immediately went on himself along
+with Mons. de Cluny, and fought sword in hand on foot at the head of
+the single tribe of Macphersons. They in a moment made their way
+through a strong hedge of thorns, under the cover whereof the cavalrie
+had taken their station, in the strugle of passing which hedge My Lord
+George Murray, being dressed en montagnard, as all the army were, lost
+his bonet and wig; so continued to fight bare-headed during the action.
+They at first made a brisk discharge of their firearms on the enemy,
+then attacked them with their sabres, and made a great slaughter a
+considerable time, which obliged Comberland and his cavalrie to fly
+with precipitation and in great confusion; in so much that, if the
+Prince had been provided in a sufficient number of cavalrie to have
+taken advantage of the disorder, it is beyond question that the Duke of
+Comberland and the bulk of his cavalrie had been taken prisoners.
+
+'By this time it was so dark that it was not possible to view or number
+the slain who filled all the ditches which happened to be on the ground
+where they stood. But it was computed that, besides those who went off
+wounded, upwards of a hundred at least were left on the spot, among
+whom was Colonel Honywood, who commanded the dismounted cavalrie, whose
+sabre of considerable value Mons. de Cluny brought off and still
+preserves; and his tribe lykeways brought off many arms;--the Colonel
+was afterwards taken up, and, his wounds being dress'd, with great
+difficultie recovered. Mons. de Cluny lost only in the action twelve
+men, of whom some haveing been only wounded, fell afterwards into the
+hands of the enemy, and were sent as slaves to America, whence several
+of them returned, and one of them is now in France, a sergeant in the
+Regiment of Royal Scots. How soon the accounts of the enemies approach
+had reached the Prince, H.R.H. had immediately ordered Mi-Lord le Comte
+de Nairne, Brigadier, who, being proscribed, is now in France, with the
+three batalions of the Duke of Athol, the batalion of the Duke of
+Perth, and some other troups under his command, in order to support
+Cluny, and to bring off the artilirie. But the action was entirely over
+before the Comte de Nairne, with his command, cou'd reach nigh to the
+place. They therefore return'd all to Penrith, and the artilirie
+marched up in good order.
+
+'Nor did the Duke of Comberland ever afterwards dare to come within a
+day's march of the Prince and his army dureing the course of all that
+retreat, which was conducted with great prudence and safety when in
+some manner surrounded by enemies.'
+
+NOTE 14, p. 215
+
+As the heathen deities contracted an indelible obligation if they swore
+by Styx, the Scottish Highlanders had usually some peculiar solemnity
+attached to an oath which they intended should be binding on them. Very
+frequently it consisted in laying their hand, as they swore, on their
+own drawn dirk; which dagger, becoming a party to the transaction, was
+invoked to punish any breach of faith. But by whatever ritual the oath
+was sanctioned, the party was extremely desirous to keep secret what
+the especial oath was which he considered as irrevocable. This was a
+matter of great convenience, as he felt no scruple in breaking his
+asseveration when made in any other form than that which he accounted
+as peculiarly solemn; and therefore readily granted any engagement
+which bound him no longer than he inclined. Whereas, if the oath which
+he accounted inviolable was once publicly known, no party with whom he
+might have occasion to contract would have rested satisfied with any
+other.
+
+Louis XI of France practised the same sophistry, for he also had a
+peculiar species of oath, the only one which he was ever known to
+respect, and which, therefore, he was very unwilling to pledge. The
+only engagement which that wily tyrant accounted binding upon him was
+an oath by the Holy Cross of Saint Lo d'Angers, which contained a
+portion of the True Cross. If he prevaricated after taking this oath
+Louis believed he should die within the year. The Constable Saint Paul,
+being invited to a personal conference with Louis, refused to meet the
+king unless he would agree to ensure him safe conduct under sanction of
+this oath. But, says Comines, the king replied, he would never again
+pledge that engagement to mortal man, though he was willing to take any
+other oath which could be devised. The treaty broke oft, therefore,
+after much chaffering concerning the nature of the vow which Louis was
+to take. Such is the difference between the dictates of superstition
+and those of conscience.
+
+
+
+
+
+GLOSSARY
+
+
+A', all.
+
+ABOON, abune, above.
+
+AE, one.
+
+AFF, off.
+
+AFORE, before.
+
+AHINT, behind.
+
+AIN, own.
+
+AITS, oats.
+
+AMAIST, almost.
+
+AMBRY, a cupboard, a pantry.
+
+AN, if.
+
+ANE, one.
+
+ANEUCH, enough.
+
+ARRAY, annoy, trouble.
+
+ASSOILZIED, absolved, acquitted.
+
+ASSYTHMENT, satisfaction,
+
+AULD, old.
+
+BAFF, a blow.
+
+BAGGANET, a bayonet.
+
+BAILIE, a city magistrate in Scotland.
+
+BAIRN, a child.
+
+BAITH, both.
+
+BANES, bones.
+
+BANG-UP, get up quickly, bounce.
+
+BARLEY, a parley, a truce.
+
+BAULD, bold.
+
+BAULDER, bolder.
+
+BAWBEE, a halfpenny.
+
+BAWTY, sly, cunning.
+
+BEES, in the, bewildered, stupefied.
+
+BEFLUMM'D, flattered, cajoled.
+
+BEGUNK, a trick, a cheat.
+
+BEN, within, inside.
+
+BENEMPT, named.
+
+BICKER, a wooden dish.
+
+BIDE, stay, endure.
+
+BIELDY, affording shelter.
+
+BIGGING, building.
+
+BIRLIEMAN, a peace officer.
+
+BLACK-COCK, the black grouse.
+
+BLACK-FISHING, ashing by torchlight, poaching.
+
+BLUDE, bluid, blood.
+
+BODDLE, bodle, a copper coin, worth one third of an English penny.
+
+BOGLE ABOUT THE BUSH, beat about the bush, a children's game.
+
+BONNIE, beautiful, comely, fine,
+
+BOUNE, prepared.
+
+BRA', fine, handsome, showy.
+
+BRANDER, broil.
+
+BREEKS, breeches.
+
+BRENT, smooth, unwrinkled.
+
+BROGUES, Highland shoes.
+
+BROO, brew, broth.
+
+BRUCKLE, brittle, infirm.
+
+BRUIK, enjoy.
+
+BRULZIE, bruilzie, a broil, a fray.
+
+BUCKIE, a perverse or refractory person.
+
+BUTTOCK-MAIL, a fine for fornication.
+
+BYDAND, awaiting.
+
+CA', call.
+
+CADGER, a country carrier.
+
+CAILLIACHS, old women on whom devolved the duty of lamenting for the
+dead, which the Irish call keening.
+
+CALLANT, a stripling, a fine fellow.
+
+CANNILY, prudently.
+
+CANNY, cautious, lucky.
+
+CARLE, a churl, an old man.
+
+CATERAN, a freebooter.
+
+CHIEL, a young man.
+
+CLACHAN, a village, a hamlet.
+
+CLAMYHEWIT, a blow, a drubbing.
+
+CLASH, chatter, gossip.
+
+CLATTER, tattle, noisy talk.
+
+CLOSE, a narrow passage.
+
+CLOUR, a bump, a bruise.
+
+COCKY-LEEKY, a soup made of a cock, seasoned with leeks.
+
+COGHLING AND DROGHLING, wheezing and blowing.
+
+CORONACH, a dirge.
+
+CORRIE, a mountain hollow.
+
+COUP, fall.
+
+COW YER CRACKS, cut short your talk, hold your tongues.
+
+CRACK, boast.
+
+CRAIG, the neck, the throat.
+
+CRAMES, merchants' shops, booths.
+
+CUT-LUGGED, crop-eared.
+
+DAFT, foolish, mad, crazy.
+
+DAUR, dare.
+
+DEAVING, deafening.
+
+DECREET, an order of decree.
+
+DELIVER, light, agile.
+
+DERN, hidden, concealed, secret.
+
+DING, knock, beat, surpass.
+
+DINGLE, dinnle, tingle, vibrate with sound.
+
+DOER, an agent, a manager.
+
+DOG-HEAD, the hammer of a gun.
+
+DOILED, crazed, silly.
+
+DOITED, having the faculties impaired.
+
+DORLACH, a bundle.
+
+DOW, a dove.
+
+DOWF, dowff, dull, spiritless.
+
+DRAPPIE, a little drop, a small quantity of drink.
+
+EFFEIR, what is becoming.
+
+ENEUGH, enough.
+
+ETTER-CAP, a spider, an ill-natured person.
+
+EVITE, avoid, escape.
+
+EWEST, ewast, contiguous.
+
+FALLOW, a fellow.
+
+FAULD, fold.
+
+FEARED, afraid.
+
+FECK, a quantity.
+
+FLEYT, frightened, shy.
+
+FRAE, from.
+
+GAD, a goad, a rod.
+
+GANE, gone; gang, go.
+
+GAR, make.
+
+GATE, way.
+
+GAUN, going.
+
+GEAR, goods.
+
+GHAIST, a ghost.
+
+GIN, if.
+
+GITE, crazy, a noodle,
+
+GLED, a kite.
+
+GLEG, quick, clever.
+
+GLISK, a glimpse.
+
+GOWD, gold.
+
+GRANING, groaning.
+
+GRAT, wept.
+
+GREE, agree.
+
+GREYBEARD, a stone bottle or jug.
+
+GRICE, gryce, gris, a pig.
+
+GRIPPLE, griping, niggardly.
+
+GUDE, guid, good.
+
+GULPIN, a simpleton.
+
+HA', hall.
+
+HAG, a portion of copse marked off for cutting.
+
+HAGGIS, a pudding peculiar to Scotland, containing oatmeal, suet,
+minced sheep's liver, heart, etc., seasoned with onions, pepper, and
+salt, the whole mixture boiled in a sheep's stomach.
+
+HAIL, whole.
+
+HECK, a hay rack; at heck and manger, in plenty.
+
+HET, hot.
+
+HOG, a young sheep before its first shearing.
+
+HORSE-COUPER, horse-cowper, a horse-dealer.
+
+HURDLES, the buttocks.
+
+HURLEY-HOUSE, a large house fallen into disrepair.
+
+ ILK, same; of that ilk, of the same name or place,
+
+ILKA, every.
+
+INGLE, a fire burning upon the hearth.
+
+IN THE BEES, stupefied.
+
+KEEPIT, kept.
+
+KEMPLE, a Scotch measure of straw or hay.
+
+KEN, know.
+
+KIPPAGE, disorder, confusion.
+
+KIRK, church.
+
+KITTLE, tickle, ticklish.
+
+LAIRD, lord of the manor.
+
+LANDLOUPER, a wanderer, a vagabond.
+
+LEDDY, a lady.
+
+LIGHTLY, make light of, disparage.
+
+LIMMER, a hussy, a jade.
+
+LOON, a worthless fellow, a lout.
+
+LOUP, leap, start.
+
+LUG, an ear.
+
+LUNZIE, the loins, the waist.
+
+MAE, more.
+
+MAINS, the chief farm of an estate.
+
+MAIR, more.
+
+MAIST, most, almost. MART, beef salted down for winter.
+
+MASK, mash, infuse.
+
+MAUN, must.
+
+MERK, an old silver coin worth 13 1/3 pence, English.
+
+MICKLE, large, much.
+
+MORN, tomorrow.
+
+MOUSTED, powdered.
+
+MUCKLE, great, much.
+
+MUNT, mount.
+
+MUTCHKIN, a measure equal to about three quarters of an imperial pint.
+
+NA, nae, no, not.
+
+NAIGS, horses.
+
+NAIL, the sixteenth part of a yard.
+
+NATHELESS, nevertheless.
+
+NEB, nose, tip.
+
+NE'ER BE IN ME, devil be in me.
+
+OLD TO DO, great doings.
+
+OWER, over.
+
+PAITRICK, a partridge.
+
+PANGED, crammed.
+
+PARRITCH, oatmeal porridge.
+
+PAUNIE, a peacock.
+
+PECULIUM, private property.
+
+PINNERS, a headdress for women.
+
+PLACK, a copper coin worth one third of a penny.
+
+PLAIDY, an outer covering for the body.
+
+PLENISH, furnish.
+
+PLOY, an entertainment, a pastime.
+
+POTTINGER, an apothecary.
+
+POWNIE, a pony.
+
+POWTERING, poking, stirring.
+
+PRETTY MAN, a stout, warlike fellow.
+
+QUEAN, a young woman.
+
+REDD, part, separate.
+
+REISES, twigs, branches.
+
+RESILING, retracting, withdrawing.
+
+RIGGS, ridges, ploughed ground.
+
+RINTHEROUT, a roving person, a vagabond.
+
+ROW, roll.
+
+ROWED, rolled.
+
+ROWT, cried out, bellowed,
+
+ROYNISH, scurvy, coarse.
+
+SAE, so.
+
+ST. JOHNSTONE'S TIPPET, a rope or halter for hanging.
+
+SAIR, sore, very.
+
+SALL, shall.
+
+SARK, a shirt.
+
+SAUMON, a salmon.
+
+SAUT, salt.
+
+SCARTED, scratched, scribbled over.
+
+SCHELLUM, a rascal.
+
+SCROLL, engross, copy.
+
+SHANKS, legs.
+
+SHEERS, shears.
+
+SHOUTHER, the shoulder.
+
+SICCAN, sic, such.
+
+SILLER, money.
+
+SILLY, weak.
+
+SKIG, the least quantity of anything.
+
+SMA', small.
+
+SMOKY, suspicious.
+
+SNECK, cut.
+
+SORTED, put in proper order, adjusted.
+
+SOWENS, the seeds of oatmeal soured.
+
+SPEER, ask, investigate.
+
+SPENCE, the place where provisions are kept.
+
+SPRACK, lively.
+
+SPRECHERY, movables of an unimportant sort.
+
+SPUILZIE, spoil.
+
+SPUNG, pick one's pocket.
+
+STIEVE, firm.
+
+STOOR, rough, harsh.
+
+STRAE, straw.
+
+STREEKS, stretches, lies.
+
+SWAIR, swore.
+
+SYNE, before, now, ago.
+
+TAIGLIT, harassed, encumbered, loitered.
+
+TAULD, told.
+
+THAE, those.
+
+THIR, these.
+
+THOLE, bear, suffer.
+
+THRAW, twist, wrench.
+
+THREEPIT, maintained obstinately.
+
+THROSTLE, the thrush.
+
+TILL, to.
+
+TIRRIVIES, hasty fits of passion,
+
+TOCHERLESS, without dowry.
+
+TOUN, a town, a hamlet, a farm.
+
+TOY, an old-fashioned cap for women.
+
+TREWS, trousers.
+
+TRINDLING, rolling.
+
+TROW, believe.
+
+TUILZIE, a quarrel
+
+TUME, toom, empty.
+
+TURNSPIT DOGGIE, a kind of dog, long-bodied and short-legged, formerly
+used in turning a treadmill.
+
+TYKE, a dog, a rough fellow.
+
+UMQUHILE, formerly, late.
+
+UNCO, strange, very,
+
+UNSONSY, unlucky.
+
+USQUEBAUGH, whiskey.
+
+VENY, venue, a bout.
+
+VIVERS, victuals.
+
+WA', wall
+
+WAD, would.
+
+WADSET, a deed conveying property to a creditor
+
+WAIN, a wagon; to remove.
+
+WALISE, a portmanteau, saddlebags.
+
+WAN, won.
+
+WANCHANCY, unlucky.
+
+WARE, spend.
+
+WEEL-FARD, weel-faur'd, having a good appearance.
+
+WEISING, inclining, directing.
+
+WHA, who.
+
+WHAR, where,
+
+WHAT FOR, why.
+
+WHEEN, a few.
+
+WHILE SYNE, a while ago.
+
+WHILES, sometimes.
+
+WHILK, which.
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+WHIN, a few.
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+WHINGEING, whining.
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+WINNA, will not.
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+WISKE, whisk.
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+YATE, gate.
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+Title: Waverley
+       Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence
+
+Author: Sir Walter Scott
+
+Release Date: January, 2004 [EBook #4966]
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+[Transcriber's Note:
+I feel that it is important to note that this book is part
+of the Caledonian series. The Caledonian series is a group
+of 50 books comprising all of Sir Walter Scott's works.]
+
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+
+WAVERLEY
+
+OR 'T IS SIXTY YEARS SINCE
+
+BY SIR WALTER SCOTT
+
+VOLUME I
+
+
+
+
+
+PUBLISHERS' NOTE
+
+
+It has long been the ambition of the present publishers to offer
+to the public an ideal edition of the writings of Sir Walter
+Scott, the great poet and novelist of whom William Hazlitt said,
+'His works are almost like a new edition of human nature.' Secure
+in the belief not only that his writings have achieved a permanent
+place in the literature of the world, but that succeeding
+generations will prize them still more highly, we have, after the
+most careful planning and study, undertaken the publication of
+this edition of the Waverley Novels and the complete poetical
+writings.
+
+It is evident that the ideal edition of a great classic must be
+distinguished in typography, must present the best available text,
+and must be illustrated in such a way as at once to be beautiful
+in itself and to add to the reader's pleasure and his
+understanding of the book. As to the typography and text, little
+need be said here. The format of the edition has been most
+carefully studied, and represents the use of the best resources of
+The Riverside Press. The text has been carefully edited in the
+light of Scott's own revisions; all of his own latest notes have
+been included, glossaries have been added, and full descriptive
+notes to the illustrations have been prepared which will, we hope,
+add greatly to the reader's interest and instruction in the
+reading of the novels and poems.
+
+Of the illustrations, which make the special feature of this
+edition, something more may be said. In the case of an author like
+Sir Walter Scott, the ideal edition requires that the beautiful
+and romantic scenery amid which he lived and of which he wrote
+shall be adequately presented to the reader. No other author ever
+used more charming backgrounds or employed them to better
+advantage. To see Scotland, and to visit in person all the scenes
+of the novels and poems, would enable the reader fully to
+understand these backgrounds and thereby add materially to his
+appreciation of the author.
+
+Before beginning the preparation of this edition, the head of the
+department having it in charge made a visit in person to the
+scenes of the novels and poems, determined to explore all the
+localities referred to by the author, so far as they could be
+identified. The field proved even more productive than had been at
+first supposed, and photographs were obtained in sufficient
+quantity to illustrate all the volumes. These pictures represent
+the scenes very much as Scott saw them. The natural scenery--
+mountains, woods, lakes, rivers, seashore, and the like--is nearly
+the same as in his day. The ruins of ancient castles and abbeys
+were found to correspond very closely with his descriptions,
+though in many instances he had in imagination rebuilt these ruins
+and filled them with the children of his fancy. The scenes of the
+stories extend into nearly every county in Scotland and through a
+large part of England and Wales. All of these were thoroughly
+investigated, and photographs were made of everything of interest.
+One of the novels has to do with France and Belgium, one with
+Switzerland, one with the Holy Land, one with Constantinople, and
+one with India. For all of these lands, which Scott did not visit
+in person, and therefore did not describe with the same attention
+to detail as in the case of his own country, interesting pictures
+of characteristic scenery were secured. By this method the
+publishers have hoped to bring before the reader a series of
+photographs which will not only please the eye and give a
+satisfactory artistic effect to the volumes, but also increase the
+reader's knowledge of the country described and add a new charm to
+the delightful work of the author. In addition to the photographs,
+old engravings and paintings have been reproduced for the
+illustration of novels having to do with old buildings, streets,
+etc., which have long since disappeared. For this material a
+careful search was made in the British Museum, the Advocates'
+Library and City Museum, Edinburgh, the Library at Abbotsford, the
+Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, and other collections.
+
+It has been thought, too, that the ideal edition of Scott's works
+would not be complete without an adequate portrayal of his more
+memorable characters. This has been accomplished in a series of
+frontispieces specially painted for this edition by twenty of the
+most distinguished illustrators of England.
+
+4 PARK STREET, BOSTON.
+
+
+
+
+
+ADVERTISEMENT TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS
+
+
+IT has been the occasional occupation of the Author of Waverley,
+for several years past, to revise and correct the voluminous
+series of Novels which pass under that name, in order that, if
+they should ever appear as his avowed productions, he might render
+them in some degree deserving of a continuance of the public
+favour with which they have been honoured ever since their first
+appearance. For a long period, however, it seemed likely that the
+improved and illustrated edition which he meditated would be a
+posthumous publication. But the course of the events which
+occasioned the disclosure of the Author's name having, in a great
+measure, restored to him a sort of parental control over these
+Works, he is naturally induced to give them to the press in a
+corrected, and, he hopes, an improved form, while life and health
+permit the task of revising and illustrating them. Such being his
+purpose, it is necessary to say a few words on the plan of the
+proposed Edition.
+
+In stating it to be revised and corrected, it is not to be
+inferred that any attempt is made to alter the tenor of the
+stories, the character of the actors, or the spirit of the
+dialogue. There is no doubt ample room for emendation in all these
+points,--but where the tree falls it must lie. Any attempt to
+obviate criticism, however just, by altering a work already in the
+hands of the public is generally unsuccessful. In the most
+improbable fiction, the reader still desires some air of
+vraisemblance, and does not relish that the incidents of a tale
+familiar to him should be altered to suit the taste of critics, or
+the caprice of the Author himself. This process of feeling is so
+natural, that it may be observed even in children, who cannot
+endure that a nursery story should be repeated to them differently
+from the manner in which it was first told.
+
+But without altering, in the slightest degree, either the story or
+the mode of telling it, the Author has taken this opportunity to
+correct errors of the press and slips of the pen. That such should
+exist cannot be wondered at, when it is considered that the
+Publishers found it their interest to hurry through the press a
+succession of the early editions of the various Novels, and that
+the Author had not the usual opportunity of revision. It is hoped
+that the present edition will be found free from errors of that
+accidental kind.
+
+The Author has also ventured to make some emendations of a
+different character, which, without being such apparent deviations
+from the original stories as to disturb the reader's old
+associations, will, he thinks, add something to the spirit of the
+dialogue, narrative, or description. These consist in occasional
+pruning where the language is redundant, compression where the
+style is loose, infusion of vigour where it is languid, the
+exchange of less forcible for more appropriate epithets--slight
+alterations in short, like the last touches of an artist, which
+contribute to heighten and finish the picture, though an
+inexperienced eye can hardly detect in what they consist.
+
+The General Preface to the new Edition, and the Introductory
+Notices to each separate work, will contain an account of such
+circumstances attending the first publication of the Novels and
+Tales as may appear interesting in themselves, or proper to be
+communicated to the public. The Author also proposes to publish,
+on this occasion, the various legends, family traditions, or
+obscure historical facts which have formed the ground-work of
+these Novels, and to give some account of the places where the
+scenes are laid, when these are altogether, or in part, real; as
+well as a statement of particular incidents founded on fact;
+together with a more copious Glossary, and Notes explanatory of
+the ancient customs and popular superstitions referred to in the
+Romances.
+
+Upon the whole, it is hoped that the Waverley Novels, in their new
+dress, will not be found to have lost any part of their
+attractions in consequence of receiving illustrations by the
+Author, and undergoing his careful revision.
+
+ABBOTSFORD, January, 1829.
+
+
+
+
+
+GENERAL PREFACE TO THE WAVERLEY NOVELS
+
+    ---And must I ravel out
+    My weaved-up follies?
+
+    Richard II, Act IV.
+
+Having undertaken to give an Introductory Account of the
+compositions which are here offered to the public, with Notes and
+Illustrations, the Author, under whose name they are now for the
+first time collected, feels that he has the delicate task of
+speaking more of himself and his personal concerns than may
+perhaps be either graceful or prudent. In this particular he runs
+the risk of presenting himself to the public in the relation that
+the dumb wife in the jest-book held to her husband, when, having
+spent half of his fortune to obtain the cure of her imperfection,
+he was willing to have bestowed the other half to restore her to
+her former condition. But this is a risk inseparable from the task
+which the Author has undertaken, and he can only promise to be as
+little of an egotist as the situation will permit. It is perhaps
+an indifferent sign of a disposition to keep his word, that,
+having introduced himself in the third person singular, he
+proceeds in the second paragraph to make use of the first. But it
+appears to him that the seeming modesty connected with the former
+mode of writing is overbalanced by the inconvenience of stiffness
+and affectation which attends it during a narrative of some
+length, and which may be observed less or more in every work in
+which the third person is used, from the Commentaries of Caesar to
+the Autobiography of Alexander the Corrector.
+
+I must refer to a very early period of my life, were I to point
+out my first achievements as a tale-teller; but I believe some of
+my old schoolfellows can still bear witness that I had a
+distinguished character for that talent, at a time when the
+applause of my companions was my recompense for the disgraces and
+punishments which the future romance-writer incurred for being
+idle himself, and keeping others idle, during hours that should
+have been employed on our tasks. The chief enjoyment of my
+holidays was to escape with a chosen friend, who had the same
+taste with myself, and alternately to recite to each other such
+wild adventures as we were able to devise. We told, each in turn,
+interminable tales of knight-errantry and battles and
+enchantments, which were continued from one day to another as
+opportunity offered, without our ever thinking of bringing them to
+a conclusion. As we observed a strict secrecy on the subject of
+this intercourse, it acquired all the character of a concealed
+pleasure, and we used to select for the scenes of our indulgence
+long walks through the solitary and romantic environs of Arthur's
+Seat, Salisbury Crags, Braid Hills, and similar places in the
+vicinity of Edinburgh; and the recollection of those holidays
+still forms an oasis in the pilgrimage which I have to look back
+upon. I have only to add, that my friend still lives, a prosperous
+gentleman, but too much occupied with graver business to thank me
+for indicating him more plainly as a confidant of my childish
+mystery.
+
+When boyhood advancing into youth required more serious studies
+and graver cares, a long illness threw me back on the kingdom of
+fiction, as if it were by a species of fatality. My indisposition
+arose, in part at least, from my having broken a blood-vessel; and
+motion and speech were for a long time pronounced positively
+dangerous. For several weeks I was confined strictly to my bed,
+during which time I was not allowed to speak above a whisper, to
+eat more than a spoonful or two of boiled rice, or to have more
+covering than one thin counterpane. When the reader is informed
+that I was at this time a growing youth, with the spirits,
+appetite, and impatience of fifteen, and suffered, of course,
+greatly under this severe regimen, which the repeated return of my
+disorder rendered indispensable, he will not be surprised that I
+was abandoned to my own discretion, so far as reading (my almost
+sole amusement) was concerned, and still less so, that I abused
+the indulgence which left my time so much at my own disposal.
+
+There was at this time a circulating library in Edinburgh,
+founded, I believe, by the celebrated Allan Ramsay, which, besides
+containing a most respectable collection of books of every
+description, was, as might have been expected, peculiarly rich in
+works of fiction. It exhibited specimens of every kind, from the
+romances of chivalry and the ponderous folios of Cyrus and
+Cassandra, down to the most approved works of later times. I was
+plunged into this great ocean of reading without compass or pilot;
+and, unless when some one had the charity to play at chess with
+me, I was allowed to do nothing save read from morning to night. I
+was, in kindness and pity, which was perhaps erroneous, however
+natural, permitted to select my subjects of study at my own
+pleasure, upon the same principle that the humours of children are
+indulged to keep them out of mischief. As my taste and appetite
+were gratified in nothing else, I indemnified myself by becoming a
+glutton of books. Accordingly, I believe I read almost all the
+romances, old plays, and epic poetry in that formidable
+collection, and no doubt was unconsciously amassing materials for
+the task in which it has been my lot to be so much employed.
+
+At the same time I did not in all respects abuse the license
+permitted me. Familiar acquaintance with the specious miracles of
+fiction brought with it some degree of satiety, and I began by
+degrees to seek in histories, memoirs, voyages and travels, and
+the like, events nearly as wonderful as those which were the work
+of imagination, with the additional advantage that they were at
+least in a great measure true. The lapse of nearly two years,
+during which I was left to the exercise of my own free will, was
+followed by a temporary residence in the country, where I was
+again very lonely but for the amusement which I derived from a
+good though old-fashioned library. The vague and wild use which I
+made of this advantage I cannot describe better than by referring
+my reader to the desultory studies of Waverley in a similar
+situation, the passages concerning whose course of reading were
+imitated from recollections of my own. It must be understood that
+the resemblance extends no farther.
+
+Time, as it glided on, brought the blessings of confirmed health
+and personal strength, to a degree which had never been expected
+or hoped for. The severe studies necessary to render me fit for my
+profession occupied the greater part of my time; and the society
+of my friends and companions, who were about to enter life along
+with, me, filled up the interval with the usual amusements of
+young men. I was in a situation which rendered serious labour
+indispensable; for, neither possessing, on the one hand, any of
+those peculiar advantages which are supposed to favour a hasty
+advance in the profession of the law, nor being, on the other
+hand, exposed to unusual obstacles to interrupt my progress, I
+might reasonably expect to succeed according to the greater or
+less degree of trouble which I should take to qualify myself as a
+pleader.
+
+It makes no part of the present story to detail how the success of
+a few ballads had the effect of changing all the purpose and tenor
+of my life, and of converting a painstaking lawyer of some years'
+standing into a follower of literature. It is enough to say, that
+I had assumed the latter character for several years before I
+seriously thought of attempting a work of imagination in prose,
+although one or two of my poetical attempts did not differ from
+romances otherwise than by being written in verse. But yet I may
+observe, that about this time (now, alas! thirty years since) I
+had nourished the ambitious desire of composing a tale of
+chivalry, which was to be in the style of the Castle of Otranto,
+with plenty of Border characters and supernatural incident. Having
+found unexpectedly a chapter of this intended work among some old
+papers, I have subjoined it to this introductory essay, thinking
+some readers may account as curious the first attempts at romantic
+composition by an author who has since written so much in that
+department. [Footnote: See Appendix No I.] And those who complain,
+not unreasonably, of the profusion of the Tales which have
+followed Waverley, may bless their stars at the narrow escape they
+have made, by the commencement of the inundation, which had so
+nearly taken place in the first year of the century, being
+postponed for fifteen years later.
+
+This particular subject was never resumed, but I did not abandon
+the idea of fictitious composition in prose, though I determined
+to give another turn to the style of the work.
+
+My early recollections of the Highland scenery and customs made so
+favourable an impression in the poem called the Lady of the Lake,
+that I was induced to think of attempting something of the same
+kind in prose. I had been a good deal in the Highlands at a time
+when they were much less accessible and much less visited than
+they have been of late years, and was acquainted with many of the
+old warriors of 1745, who were, like most veterans, easily induced
+to fight their battles over again for the benefit of a willing
+listener like myself. It naturally occurred to me that the ancient
+traditions and high spirit of a people who, living in a civilised
+age and country, retained so strong a tincture of manners
+belonging to an early period of society, must afford a subject
+favourable for romance, if it should not prove a curious tale
+marred in the telling.
+
+It was with some idea of this kind that, about the year 1805, I
+threw together about one-third part of the first volume of
+Waverley. It was advertised to be published by the late Mr. John
+Ballantyne, bookseller in Edinburgh, under the name of Waverley;
+or, 'Tis Fifty Years Since--a title afterwards altered to 'Tis
+Sixty Years Since, that the actual date of publication might be
+made to correspond with the period in which the scene was laid.
+Having proceeded as far, I think, as the seventh chapter, I showed
+my work to a critical friend, whose opinion was unfavourable; and
+having then some poetical reputation, I was unwilling to risk the
+loss of it by attempting a new style of composition. I therefore
+threw aside the work I had commenced, without either reluctance or
+remonstrance. I ought to add that, though my ingenious friend's
+sentence was afterwards reversed on an appeal to the public, it
+cannot be considered as any imputation on his good taste; for the
+specimen subjected to his criticism did not extend beyond the
+departure of the hero for Scotland, and consequently had not
+entered upon the part of the story which was finally found most
+interesting.
+
+Be that as it may, this portion of the manuscript was laid aside
+in the drawers of an old writing-desk, which, on my first coming
+to reside at Abbotsford in 1811, was placed in a lumber garret and
+entirely forgotten. Thus, though I sometimes, among other literary
+avocations, turned my thoughts to the continuation of the romance
+which I had commenced, yet, as I could not find what I had already
+written, after searching such repositories as were within my
+reach, and was too indolent to attempt to write it anew from
+memory, I as often laid aside all thoughts of that nature.
+
+Two circumstances in particular recalled my recollection of the
+mislaid manuscript. The first was the extended and well-merited
+fame of Miss Edgeworth, whose Irish characters have gone so far to
+make the English familiar with the character of their gay and
+kind-hearted neighbours of Ireland, that she may be truly said to
+have done more towards completing the Union than perhaps all the
+legislative enactments by which it has been followed up.
+
+Without being so presumptuous as to hope to emulate the rich
+humour, pathetic tenderness, and admirable tact which pervade the
+works of my accomplished friend, I felt that something might be
+attempted for my own country, of the same kind with that which
+Miss Edgeworth so fortunately achieved for Ireland--something
+which might introduce her natives to those of the sister kingdom
+in a more favourable light than they had been placed hitherto, and
+tend to procure sympathy for their virtues and indulgence for
+their foibles. I thought also, that much of what I wanted in
+talent might be made up by the intimate acquaintance with the
+subject which I could lay claim to possess, as having travelled
+through most parts of Scotland, both Highland and Lowland, having
+been familiar with the elder as well as more modern race, and
+having had from my infancy free and unrestrained communication
+with all ranks of my countrymen, from the Scottish peer to the
+Scottish plough-man. Such ideas often occurred to me, and
+constituted an ambitious branch of my theory, however far short I
+may have fallen of it in practice.
+
+But it was not only the triumphs of Miss Edgeworth which worked in
+me emulation, and disturbed my indolence. I chanced actually to
+engage in a work which formed a sort of essay piece, and gave me
+hope that I might in time become free of the craft of romance-
+writing, and be esteemed a tolerable workman.
+
+In the year 1807-08 I undertook, at the request of John Murray,
+Esq., of Albemarle Street, to arrange for publication some
+posthumous productions of the late Mr. Joseph Strutt,
+distinguished as an artist and an antiquary, amongst which was an
+unfinished romance, entitled Queenhoo Hall. The scene of the tale
+was laid in the reign of Henry VI, and the work was written to
+illustrate the manners, customs, and language of the people of
+England during that period. The extensive acquaintance which Mr.
+Strutt had acquired with such subjects in compiling his laborious
+Horda Angel-Cynnan, his Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities, and
+his Essay on the Sports and Pastimes of the People of England had
+rendered him familiar with all the antiquarian lore necessary for
+the purpose of composing the projected romance; and although the
+manuscript bore the marks of hurry and incoherence natural to the
+first rough draught of the author, it evinced (in my opinion)
+considerable powers of imagination.
+
+As the work was unfinished, I deemed it my duty, as editor, to
+supply such a hasty and inartificial conclusion as could be shaped
+out from the story, of which Mr. Strutt had laid the foundation.
+This concluding chapter [Footnote: See Appendix No. II.] is also
+added to the present Introduction, for the reason already
+mentioned regarding the preceding fragment. It was a step in my
+advance towards romantic composition; and to preserve the traces
+of these is in a great measure the object of this Essay.
+
+Queenhoo Hall was not, however, very successful. I thought I was
+aware of the reason, and supposed that, by rendering his language
+too ancient, and displaying his antiquarian knowledge too
+liberally, the ingenious author had raised up an obstacle to his
+own success. Every work designed for mere amusement must be
+expressed in language easily comprehended; and when, as is
+sometimes the case in QUEENHOO HALL, the author addresses himself
+exclusively to the antiquary, he must be content to be dismissed
+by the general reader with the criticism of Mungo, in the PADLOCK,
+on the Mauritanian music, 'What signifies me hear, if me no
+understand?'
+
+I conceived it possible to avoid this error; and, by rendering a
+similar work more light and obvious to general comprehension, to
+escape the rock on which my predecessor was shipwrecked.
+
+But I was, on the other hand, so far discouraged by the
+indifferent reception of Mr. Strutt's romance as to become
+satisfied that the manners of the middle ages did not possess the
+interest which I had conceived; and was led to form the opinion
+that a romance founded on a Highland story and more modern events
+would have a better chance of popularity than a tale of chivalry.
+
+My thoughts, therefore, returned more than once to the tale which
+I had actually commenced, and accident at length threw the lost
+sheets in my way.
+
+I happened to want some fishing-tackle for the use of a guest,
+when it occurred to me to search the old writing-desk already
+mentioned, in which I used to keep articles of that nature.
+
+I got access to it with some difficulty; and, in looking for lines
+and flies, the long-lost manuscript presented itself.
+
+I immediately set to work to complete it according to my original
+purpose.
+
+And here I must frankly confess that the mode in which I conducted
+the story scarcely deserved the success which the romance
+afterwards attained.
+
+The tale of WAVERLEY was put together with so little care that I
+cannot boast of having sketched any distinct plan of the work. The
+whole adventures of Waverley, in his movements up and down the
+country with the Highland cateran Bean Lean, are managed without
+much skill. It suited best, however, the road I wanted to travel,
+and permitted me to introduce some descriptions of scenery and
+manners, to which the reality gave an interest which the powers of
+the Author might have otherwise failed to attain for them. And
+though I have been in other instances a sinner in this sort, I do
+not recollect any of these novels in which I have transgressed so
+widely as in the first of the series.
+
+Among other unfounded reports, it has been said that the copyright
+of Waverley was, during the book's progress through the press,
+offered for sale to various book-sellers in London at a very
+inconsiderable price. This was not the case. Messrs. Constable and
+Cadell, who published the work, were the only persons acquainted
+with the contents of the publication, and they offered a large sum
+for it while in the course of printing, which, however, was
+declined, the Author not choosing to part with the copyright.
+
+The origin of the story of Waverley, and the particular facts on
+which it is founded, are given in the separate introduction
+prefixed to that romance in this edition, and require no notice in
+this place.
+
+Waverley was published in 1814, and, as the title-page was
+without the name of the Author, the work was left to win its way
+in the world without any of the usual recommendations. Its
+progress was for some time slow; but after the first two or three
+months its popularity had increased in a degree which must have
+satisfied the expectations of the Author, had these been far more
+sanguine than he ever entertained.
+
+Great anxiety was expressed to learn the name of the Author, but
+on this no authentic information could be attained. My original
+motive for publishing the work anonymously was the consciousness
+that it was an experiment on the public taste which might very
+probably fail, and therefore there was no occasion to take on
+myself the personal risk of discomfiture. For this purpose
+considerable precautions were used to preserve secrecy. My old
+friend and schoolfellow, Mr. James Ballantyne, who printed these
+Novels, had the exclusive task of corresponding with the Author,
+who thus had not only the advantage of his professional talents,
+but also of his critical abilities. The original manuscript, or,
+as it is technically called, copy, was transcribed under Mr.
+Ballantyne's eye by confidential persons; nor was there an
+instance of treachery during the many years in which these
+precautions were resorted to, although various individuals were
+employed at different times. Double proof-sheets were regularly
+printed off. One was forwarded to the Author by Mr. Ballantyne,
+and the alterations which it received were, by his own hand,
+copied upon the other proof-sheet for the use of the printers, so
+that even the corrected proofs of the Author were never seen in
+the printing office; and thus the curiosity of such eager
+inquirers as made the most minute investigation was entirely at
+fault.
+
+But although the cause of concealing the Author's name in the
+first instance, when the reception of Waverley was doubtful, was
+natural enough, it is more difficult, it may be thought, to
+account for the same desire for secrecy during the subsequent
+editions, to the amount of betwixt eleven and twelve thousand
+copies, which followed each other close, and proved the success of
+the work. I am sorry I can give little satisfaction to queries on
+this subject. I have already stated elsewhere that I can render
+little better reason for choosing to remain anonymous than by
+saying with Shylock, that such was my humour. It will be observed
+that I had not the usual stimulus for desiring personal
+reputation, the desire, namely, to float amidst the conversation
+of men. Of literary fame, whether merited or undeserved, I had
+already as much as might have contented a mind more ambitious than
+mine; and in entering into this new contest for reputation I might
+be said rather to endanger what I had than to have any
+considerable chance of acquiring more. I was affected, too, by
+none of those motives which, at an earlier period of life, would
+doubtless have operated upon me. My friendships were formed, my
+place in society fixed, my life had attained its middle course. My
+condition in society was higher perhaps than I deserved, certainly
+as high as I wished, and there was scarce any degree of literary
+success which could have greatly altered or improved my personal
+condition.
+
+I was not, therefore, touched by the spur of ambition, usually
+stimulating on such occasions; and yet I ought to stand exculpated
+from the charge of ungracious or unbecoming indifference to public
+applause. I did not the less feel gratitude for the public favour,
+although I did not proclaim it; as the lover who wears his
+mistress's favour in his bosom is as proud, though not so vain, of
+possessing it as another who displays the token of her grace upon
+his bonnet. Far from such an ungracious state of mind, I have
+seldom felt more satisfaction than when, returning from a pleasure
+voyage, I found Waverley in the zenith of popularity, and public
+curiosity in full cry after the name of the Author. The knowledge
+that I had the public approbation was like having the property of
+a hidden treasure, not less gratifying to the owner than if all
+the world knew that it was his own. Another advantage was
+connected with the secrecy which I observed. I could appear or
+retreat from the stage at pleasure, without attracting any
+personal notice or attention, other than what might be founded on
+suspicion only. In my own person also, as a successful author in
+another department of literature, I might have been charged with
+too frequent intrusions on the public patience; but the Author of
+Waverley was in this respect as impassible to the critic as the
+Ghost of Hamlet to the partisan of Marcellus. Perhaps the
+curiosity of the public, irritated by the existence of a secret,
+and kept afloat by the discussions which took place on the subject
+from time to time, went a good way to maintain an unabated
+interest in these frequent publications. There was a mystery
+concerning the Author which each new novel was expected to assist
+in unravelling, although it might in other respects rank lower
+than its predecessors.
+
+I may perhaps be thought guilty of affectation, should I allege as
+one reason of my silence a secret dislike to enter on personal
+discussions concerning my own literary labours. It is in every
+case a dangerous intercourse for an author to be dwelling
+continually among those who make his writings a frequent and
+familiar subject of conversation, but who must necessarily be
+partial judges of works composed in their own society. The habits
+of self-importance which are thus acquired by authors are highly
+injurious to a well-regulated mind; for the cup of flattery, if it
+does not, like that of Circe, reduce men to the level of beasts,
+is sure, if eagerly drained, to bring the best and the ablest down
+to that of fools. This risk was in some degree prevented by the
+mask which I wore; and my own stores of self-conceit were left to
+their natural course, without being enhanced by the partiality of
+friends or adulation of flatterers.
+
+If I am asked further reasons for the conduct I have long
+observed, I can only resort to the explanation supplied by a
+critic as friendly as he is intelligent; namely, that the mental
+organisation of the novelist must be characterised, to speak
+craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion
+for delitescency! I the rather suspect some natural disposition of
+this kind; for, from the instant I perceived the extreme curiosity
+manifested on the subject, I felt a secret satisfaction in
+baffling it, for which, when its unimportance is considered, I do
+not well know how to account.
+
+My desire to remain concealed, in the character of the Author of
+these Novels, subjected me occasionally to awkward embarrassments,
+as it sometimes happened that those who were sufficiently intimate
+with me would put the question in direct terms. In this case, only
+one of three courses could be followed. Either I must have
+surrendered my secret, or have returned an equivocating answer,
+or, finally, must have stoutly and boldly denied the fact. The
+first was a sacrifice which I conceive no one had a right to force
+from me, since I alone was concerned in the matter. The
+alternative of rendering a doubtful answer must have left me open
+to the degrading suspicion that I was not unwilling to assume the
+merit (if there was any) which I dared not absolutely lay claim
+to; or those who might think more justly of me must have received
+such an equivocal answer as an indirect avowal. I therefore
+considered myself entitled, like an accused person put upon trial,
+to refuse giving my own evidence to my own conviction, and flatly
+to deny all that could not be proved against me. At the same time
+I usually qualified my denial by stating that, had I been the
+Author of these works, I would have felt myself quite entitled to
+protect my secret by refusing my own evidence, when it was asked
+for to accomplish a discovery of what I desired to conceal.
+
+The real truth is, that I never expected or hoped to disguise my
+connection with these Novels from any one who lived on terms of
+intimacy with me. The number of coincidences which necessarily
+existed between narratives recounted, modes of expression, and
+opinions broached in these Tales and such as were used by their
+Author in the intercourse of private life must have been far too
+great to permit any of my familiar acquaintances to doubt the
+identity betwixt their friend and the Author of Waverley; and I
+believe they were all morally convinced of it. But while I was
+myself silent, their belief could not weigh much more with the
+world than that of others; their opinions and reasoning were
+liable to be taxed with partiality, or confronted with opposing
+arguments and opinions; and the question was not so much whether I
+should be generally acknowledged to be the Author, in spite of my
+own denial, as whether even my own avowal of the works, if such
+should be made, would be sufficient to put me in undisputed
+possession of that character.
+
+I have been often asked concerning supposed cases, in which I was
+said to have been placed on the verge of discovery; but, as I
+maintained my point with the composure of a lawyer of thirty
+years' standing, I never recollect being in pain or confusion on
+the subject. In Captain Medwyn's Conversations of Lord Byron the
+reporter states himself to have asked my noble and highly gifted
+friend,' If he was certain about these Novels being Sir Walter
+Scott's?' To which Lord Byron replied, 'Scott as much as owned
+himself the Author of Waverley to me in Murray's shop. I was
+talking to him about that Novel, and lamented that its Author had
+not carried back the story nearer to the time of the Revolution.
+Scott, entirely off his guard, replied, "Ay, I might have done so;
+but--" there he stopped. It was in vain to attempt to correct
+himself; he looked confused, and relieved his embarrassment by a
+precipitate retreat.' I have no recollection whatever of this
+scene taking place, and I should have thought that I was more
+likely to have laughed than to appear confused, for I certainly
+never hoped to impose upon Lord Byron in a case of the kind; and
+from the manner in which he uniformly expressed himself, I knew
+his opinion was entirely formed, and that any disclamations of
+mine would only have savoured of affectation. I do not mean to
+insinuate that the incident did not happen, but only that it could
+hardly have occurred exactly under the circumstances narrated,
+without my recollecting something positive on the subject. In
+another part of the same volume Lord Byron is reported to have
+expressed a supposition that the cause of my not avowing myself
+the Author of Waverley may have been some surmise that the
+reigning family would have been displeased with the work. I can
+only say, it is the last apprehension I should have entertained,
+as indeed the inscription to these volumes sufficiently proves.
+The sufferers of that melancholy period have, during the last and
+present reign, been honoured both with the sympathy and protection
+of the reigning family, whose magnanimity can well pardon a sigh
+from others, and bestow one themselves, to the memory of brave
+opponents, who did nothing in hate, but all in honour.
+
+While those who were in habitual intercourse with the real author
+had little hesitation in assigning the literary property to him,
+others, and those critics of no mean rank, employed themselves in
+investigating with persevering patience any characteristic
+features which might seem to betray the origin of these Novels.
+Amongst these, one gentleman, equally remarkable for the kind and
+liberal tone of his criticism, the acuteness of his reasoning, and
+the very gentlemanlike manner in which he conducted his inquiries,
+displayed not only powers of accurate investigation, but a temper
+of mind deserving to be employed on a subject of much greater
+importance; and I have no doubt made converts to his opinion of
+almost all who thought the point worthy of consideration.
+[Footnote: Letters on the Author of Waverly; Rodwell and Martin,
+London, 1822.] Of those letters, and other attempts of the same
+kind, the Author could not complain, though his incognito was
+endangered. He had challenged the public to a game at bo-peep, and
+if he was discovered in his 'hiding-hole,' he must submit to the
+shame of detection.
+
+Various reports were of course circulated in various ways; some
+founded on an inaccurate rehearsal of what may have been partly
+real, some on circumstances having no concern whatever with the
+subject, and others on the invention of some importunate persons,
+who might perhaps imagine that the readiest mode of forcing the
+Author to disclose himself was to assign some dishonourable and
+discreditable cause for his silence.
+
+It may be easily supposed that this sort of inquisition was
+treated with contempt by the person whom it principally regarded;
+as, among all the rumours that were current, there was only one,
+and that as unfounded as the others, which had nevertheless some
+alliance to probability, and indeed might have proved in some
+degree true.
+
+I allude to a report which ascribed a great part, or the whole, of
+these Novels to the late Thomas Scott, Esq., of the 70th Regiment,
+then stationed in Canada. Those who remember that gentleman will
+readily grant that, with general talents at least equal to those
+of his elder brother, he added a power of social humour and a deep
+insight into human character which rendered him an universally
+delightful member of society, and that the habit of composition
+alone was wanting to render him equally successful as a writer.
+The Author of Waverley was so persuaded of the truth of this, that
+he warmly pressed his brother to make such an experiment, and
+willingly undertook all the trouble of correcting and
+superintending the press. Mr. Thomas Scott seemed at first very
+well disposed to embrace the proposal, and had even fixed on a
+subject and a hero. The latter was a person well known to both of
+us in our boyish years, from having displayed some strong traits
+of character. Mr. T. Scott had determined to represent his
+youthful acquaintance as emigrating to America, and encountering
+the dangers and hardships of the New World, with the same
+dauntless spirit which he had displayed when a boy in his native
+country. Mr. Scott would probably have been highly successful,
+being familiarly acquainted with the manners of the native
+Indians, of the old French settlers in Canada, and of the Brules
+or Woodsmen, and having the power of observing with accuracy what
+I have no doubt he could have sketched with force and expression.
+In short, the Author believes his brother would have made himself
+distinguished in that striking field in which, since that period,
+Mr. Cooper has achieved so many triumphs. But Mr. T. Scott was
+already affected by bad health, which wholly unfitted him for
+literary labour, even if he could have reconciled his patience to
+the task. He never, I believe, wrote a single line of the
+projected work; and I only have the melancholy pleasure of
+preserving in the Appendix [Footnote: See Appendix No. III.] the
+simple anecdote on which he proposed to found it.
+
+To this I may add, I can easily conceive that there may have been
+circumstances which gave a colour to the general report of my
+brother being interested in these works; and in particular that it
+might derive strength from my having occasion to remit to him, in
+consequence of certain family transactions, some considerable sums
+of money about that period. To which it is to be added that if any
+person chanced to evince particular curiosity on such a subject,
+my brother was likely enough to divert himself with practising on
+their credulity.
+
+It may be mentioned that, while the paternity of these Novels was
+from time to time warmly disputed in Britain, the foreign
+booksellers expressed no hesitation on the matter, but affixed my
+name to the whole of the Novels, and to some besides to which I
+had no claim.
+
+The volumes, therefore, to which the present pages form a Preface
+are entirely the composition of the Author by whom they are now
+acknowledged, with the exception, always, of avowed quotations,
+and such unpremeditated and involuntary plagiarisms as can scarce
+be guarded against by any one who has read and written a great
+deal. The original manuscripts are all in existence, and entirely
+written (horresco referens) in the Author's own hand, excepting
+during the years 1818 and 1819, when, being affected with severe
+illness, he was obliged to employ the assistance of a friendly
+amanuensis.
+
+The number of persons to whom the secret was necessarily
+entrusted, or communicated by chance, amounted, I should think, to
+twenty at least, to whom I am greatly obliged for the fidelity
+with which they observed their trust, until the derangement of the
+affairs of my publishers, Messrs. Constable and Co., and the
+exposure of their account books, which was the necessary
+consequence, rendered secrecy no longer possible. The particulars
+attending the avowal have been laid before the public in the
+Introduction to the Chronicles of the Canongate.
+
+The preliminary advertisement has given a sketch of the purpose of
+this edition. I have some reason to fear that the notes which
+accompany the tales, as now published, may be thought too
+miscellaneous and too egotistical. It maybe some apology for this,
+that the publication was intended to be posthumous, and still
+more, that old men may be permitted to speak long, because they
+cannot in the course of nature have long time to speak. In
+preparing the present edition, I have done all that I can do to
+explain the nature of my materials, and the use I have made of
+them; nor is it probable that I shall again revise or even read
+these tales. I was therefore desirous rather to exceed in the
+portion of new and explanatory matter which is added to this
+edition than that the reader should have reason to complain that
+the information communicated was of a general and merely nominal
+character. It remains to be tried whether the public (like a child
+to whom a watch is shown) will, after having been satiated with
+looking at the outside, acquire some new interest in the object
+when it is opened and the internal machinery displayed to them.
+
+That Waverly and its successors have had their day of favour and
+popularity must be admitted with sincere gratitude; and the Author
+has studied (with the prudence of a beauty whose reign has been
+rather long) to supply, by the assistance of art, the charms which
+novelty no longer affords. The publishers have endeavoured to
+gratify the honourable partiality of the public for the
+encouragement of British art, by illustrating this edition with
+designs by the most eminent living artists. [Footnote: The
+illustrations here referred to were made for the edition of 1829]
+
+To my distinguished countryman, David Wilkie, to Edwin Landseer,
+who has exercised his talents so much on Scottish subjects and
+scenery, to Messrs. Leslie and Newton, my thanks are due, from a
+friend as well as an author. Nor am I less obliged to Messrs.
+Cooper, Kidd, and other artists of distinction to whom I am less
+personally known, for the ready zeal with which they have devoted
+their talents to the same purpose.
+
+Farther explanation respecting the Edition is the business of the
+publishers, not of the Author; and here, therefore, the latter has
+accomplished his task of introduction and explanation. If, like a
+spoiled child, he has sometimes abused or trifled with the
+indulgence of the public, he feels himself entitled to full belief
+when he exculpates himself from the charge of having been at any
+time insensible of their kindness.
+
+ABBOTSFORD, 1st January, 1829.
+
+
+
+
+
+WAVERLEY
+
+OR 'T IS SIXTY YEARS SINCE
+
+    Under which King, Bezonian? speak, or die!
+
+    Henry IV, Part II.
+
+VOLUME II
+
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+
+
+The plan of this edition leads me to insert in this place some
+account of the incidents on which the Novel of Waverley is
+founded. They have been already given to the public by my late
+lamented friend, William Erskine, Esq. (afterwards Lord Kinneder),
+when reviewing the Tales of My Landlord for the Quarterly Review
+in 1817. The particulars were derived by the critic from the
+Author's information. Afterwards they were published in the
+Preface to the Chronicles of the Canongate. They are now inserted
+in their proper place.
+
+The mutual protection afforded by Waverley and Talbot to each
+other, upon which the whole plot depends, is founded upon one of
+those anecdotes which soften the features even of civil war; and,
+as it is equally honourable to the memory of both parties, we have
+no hesitation to give their names at length. When the Highlanders,
+on the morning of the battle of Preston, 1745, made their
+memorable attack on Sir John Cope's army, a battery of four field-
+pieces was stormed and carried by the Camerons and the Stewarts of
+Appine. The late Alexander Stewart of Invernahylewas one of the
+foremost in the charge, and observing an officer of the King's
+forces, who, scorning to join the flight of all around, remained
+with his sword in his hand, as if determined to the very last to
+defend the post assigned to him, the Highland gentleman commanded
+him to surrender, and received for reply a thrust, which he caught
+in his target. The officer was now defenceless, and the battle-axe
+of a gigantic Highlander (the miller of Invernahyle's mill) was
+uplifted to dash his brains out, when Mr. Stewart with difficulty
+prevailed on him to yield. He took charge of his enemy's property,
+protected his person, and finally obtained him liberty on his
+parole. The officer proved to be Colonel Whitefoord, an Ayrshire
+gentleman of high character and influence, and warmly attached to
+the House of Hanover; yet such was the confidence existing between
+these two honourable men, though of different political
+principles, that, while the civil war was raging, and straggling
+officers from the Highland army were executed without mercy,
+Invernahyle hesitated not to pay his late captive a visit, as he
+returned to the Highlands to raise fresh recruits, on which
+occasion he spent a day or two in Ayrshire among Colonel
+Whitefoord's Whig friends, as pleasantly and as good-humouredly as
+if all had been at peace around him.
+
+After the battle of Culloden had ruined the hopes of Charles
+Edward and dispersed his proscribed adherents, it was Colonel
+Whitefoord's turn to strain every nerve to obtain Mr. Stewart's
+pardon. He went to the Lord Justice Clerk to the Lord Advocate,
+and to all the officers of state, and each application was
+answered by the production of a list in which Invernahyle (as the
+good old gentleman was wont to express it) appeared 'marked with
+the sign of the beast!' as a subject unfit for favour or pardon.
+
+At length Colonel Whitefoord applied to the Duke of Cumberland in
+person. From him, also, he received a positive refusal. He then
+limited his request, for the present, to a protection for
+Stewart's house, wife, children, and property. This was also
+refused by the Duke; on which Colonel Whitefoord, taking his
+commission from his bosom, laid it on the table before his Royal
+Highness with much emotion, and asked permission to retire from
+the service of a sovereign who did not know how to spare a
+vanquished enemy. The Duke was struck, and even affected. He bade
+the Colonel take up his commission, and granted the protection he
+required. It was issued just in time to save the house, corn, and
+cattle at Invernahyle from the troops, who were engaged in laying
+waste what it was the fashion to call 'the country of the enemy.'
+A small encampment of soldiers was formed on Invernahyle's
+property, which they spared while plundering the country around,
+and searching in every direction for the leaders of the
+insurrection, and for Stewart in particular. He was much nearer
+them than they suspected; for, hidden in a cave (like the Baron of
+Bradwardine), he lay for many days so near the English sentinels
+that he could hear their muster-roll called. His food was brought
+to him by one of his daughters, a child of eight years old, whom
+Mrs. Stewart was under the necessity of entrusting with this
+commission; for her own motions, and those of all her elder
+inmates, were closely watched. With ingenuity beyond her years,
+the child used to stray about among the soldiers, who were rather
+kind to her, and thus seize the moment when she was unobserved and
+steal into the thicket, when she deposited whatever small store of
+provisions she had in charge at some marked spot, where her father
+might find it. Invernahyle supported life for several weeks by
+means of these precarious supplies; and, as he had been wounded in
+the battle of Culloden, the hardships which he endured were
+aggravated by great bodily pain. After the soldiers had removed
+their quarters he had another remarkable escape.
+
+As he now ventured to his own house at night and left it in the
+morning, he was espied during the dawn by a party of the enemy,
+who fired at and pursued him. The fugitive being fortunate enough
+to escape their search, they returned to the house and charged the
+family with harbouring one of the proscribed traitors. An old
+woman had presence of mind enough to maintain that the man they
+had seen was the shepherd. 'Why did he not stop when we called to
+him?' said the soldier. 'He is as deaf, poor man, as a peat-
+stack,' answered the ready-witted domestic. 'Let him be sent for
+directly.' The real shepherd accordingly was brought from the
+hill, and, as there was time to tutor him by the way, he was as
+deaf when he made his appearance as was necessary to sustain his
+character. Invernahyle was afterwards pardoned under the Act of
+Indemnity.
+
+The Author knew him well, and has often heard these circumstances
+from his own mouth. He was a noble specimen of the old Highlander,
+far descended, gallant, courteous, and brave, even to chivalry. He
+had been out, I believe, in 1715 and 1745, was an active partaker
+in all the stirring scenes which passed in the Highlands betwixt
+these memorable eras; and, I have heard, was remarkable, among
+other exploits, for having fought a duel with the broadsword with
+the celebrated Rob Roy MacGregor at the clachan of Balquidder.
+
+Invernahyle chanced to be in Edinburgh when Paul Jones came into
+the Firth of Forth, and though then an old man, I saw him in arms,
+and heard him exult (to use his own words) in the prospect
+of drawing his claymore once more before he died.' In fact, on
+that memorable occasion, when the capital of Scotland was menaced
+by three trifling sloops or brigs, scarce fit to have sacked a
+fishing village, he was the only man who seemed to propose a plan
+of resistance. He offered to the magistrates, if broadswords and
+dirks could be obtained, to find as many Highlanders among the
+lower classes as would cut off any boat's crew who might be sent
+into a town full of narrow and winding passages, in which they
+were like to disperse in quest of plunder. I know not if his plan
+was attended to, I rather think it seemed too hazardous to the
+constituted authorities, who might not, even at that time, desire
+to see arms in Highland hands. A steady and powerful west wind
+settled the matter by sweeping Paul Jones and his vessels out of
+the Firth.
+
+If there is something degrading in this recollection, it is not
+unpleasant to compare it with those of the last war, when
+Edinburgh, besides regular forces and militia, furnished a
+volunteer brigade of cavalry, infantry, and artillery to the
+amount of six thousand men and upwards, which was in readiness to
+meet and repel a force of a far more formidable description than
+was commanded by the adventurous American. Time and circumstances
+change the character of nations and the fate of cities; and it is
+some pride to a Scotchman to reflect that the independent and
+manly character of a country, willing to entrust its own
+protection to the arms of its children, after having been obscured
+for half a century, has, during the course of his own lifetime,
+recovered its lustre.
+
+Other illustrations of Waverley will be found in the Notes at the
+foot of the pages to which they belong. Those which appeared too
+long to be so placed are given at the end of the chapters to which
+they severally relate. [Footnote: In this edition at the end of
+the several volumes.]
+
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
+
+
+To this slight attempt at a sketch of ancient Scottish manners the
+public have been more favourable than the Author durst have hoped
+or expected. He has heard, with a mixture of satisfaction and
+humility, his work ascribed to more than one respectable name.
+Considerations, which seem weighty in his particular situation,
+prevent his releasing those gentlemen from suspicion by placing
+his own name in the title-page; so that, for the present at least,
+it must remain uncertain whether Waverley be the work of a poet or
+a critic, a lawyer or a clergyman, or whether the writer, to use
+Mrs. Malaprop's phrase, be, 'like Cerberus, three gentlemen at
+once.' The Author, as he is unconscious of anything in the work
+itself (except perhaps its frivolity) which prevents its finding
+an acknowledged father, leaves it to the candour of the public to
+choose among the many circumstances peculiar to different
+situations in life such as may induce him to suppress his name on
+the present occasion. He may be a writer new to publication, and
+unwilling to avow a character to which he is unaccustomed; or he
+may be a hackneyed author, who is ashamed of too frequent
+appearance, and employs this mystery, as the heroine of the old
+comedy used her mask, to attract the attention of those to whom
+her face had become too familiar. He may be a man of a grave
+profession, to whom the reputation of being a novel-writer might
+be prejudicial; or he may be a man of fashion, to whom writing of
+any kind might appear pedantic. He may be too young to assume the
+character of an author, or so old as to make it advisable to lay
+it aside.
+
+The Author of Waverley has heard it objected to this novel, that,
+in the character of Callum Beg and in the account given by the
+Baron of Bradwardine of the petty trespasses of the Highlanders
+upon trifling articles of property, he has borne hard, and
+unjustly so, upon their national character. Nothing could be
+farther from his wish or intention. The character of Callum Beg is
+that of a spirit naturally turned to daring evil, and determined,
+by the circumstances of his situation, to a particular species of
+mischief. Those who have perused the curious Letters from the
+Highlands, published about 1726, will find instances of such
+atrocious characters which fell under the writer's own
+observation, though it would be most unjust to consider such
+villains as representatives of the Highlanders of that period, any
+more than the murderers of Marr and Williamson can be supposed to
+represent the English of the present day. As for the plunder
+supposed to have been picked up by some of the insurgents in 1745,
+it must be remembered that, although the way of that unfortunate
+little army was neither marked by devastation nor bloodshed, but,
+on the contrary, was orderly and quiet in a most wonderful degree,
+yet no army marches through a country in a hostile manner without
+committing some depredations; and several, to the extent and of
+the nature jocularly imputed to them by the Baron, were really
+laid to the charge of the Highland insurgents; for which many
+traditions, and particularly one respecting the Knight of the
+Mirror, may be quoted as good evidence. [Footnote: A homely
+metrical narrative of the events of the period, which contains
+some striking particulars, and is still a great favourite with the
+lower classes, gives a very correct statement of the behaviour of
+the mountaineers respecting this same military license; and, as
+the verses are little known, and contain some good sense, we
+venture to insert them.]
+
+
+
+
+
+THE AUTHOR'S ADDRESS TO ALL IN GENERAL
+
+
+    Now, gentle readers, I have let you ken
+    My very thoughts, from heart and pen,
+    'Tis needless for to conten'
+                  Or yet controule,
+    For there's not a word o't I can men';
+                  So ye must thole.
+
+    For on both sides some were not good;
+    I saw them murd'ring in cold blood,
+    Not the gentlemen, but wild and rude,
+                  The baser sort,
+    Who to the wounded had no mood
+                  But murd'ring sport!
+
+    Ev'n both at Preston and Falkirk,
+    That fatal night ere it grew mirk,
+    Piercing the wounded with their durk,
+                  Caused many cry!
+    Such pity's shown from Savage and Turk
+                  As peace to die.
+
+    A woe be to such hot zeal,
+    To smite the wounded on the fiell!
+    It's just they got such groats in kail,
+                  Who do the same.
+    It only teaches crueltys real
+                  To them again.
+
+    I've seen the men call'd Highland rogues,
+    With Lowland men make shangs a brogs,
+    Sup kail and brose, and fling the cogs
+                  Out at the door,
+    Take cocks, hens, sheep, and hogs,
+                  And pay nought for.
+
+    I saw a Highlander,'t was right drole,
+    With a string of puddings hung on a pole,
+    Whip'd o'er his shoulder, skipped like a fole,
+                        Caus'd Maggy bann,
+    Lap o'er the midden and midden-hole,
+                        And aff he ran.
+
+    When check'd for this, they'd often tell ye,
+    'Indeed her nainsell's a tume belly;
+    You'll no gie't wanting bought, nor sell me;
+                        Hersell will hae't;
+    Go tell King Shorge, and Shordy's Willie,
+                        I'll hae a meat.'
+
+    I saw the soldiers at Linton-brig,
+    Because the man was not a Whig,
+    Of meat and drink leave not a skig,
+                        Within his door;
+    They burnt his very hat and wig,
+                        And thump'd him sore.
+
+    And through the Highlands they were so rude,
+    As leave them neither clothes nor food,
+    Then burnt their houses to conclude;
+                        'T was tit for tat.
+    How can her nainsell e'er be good,
+                        To think on that?
+
+    And after all, O, shame and grief!
+    To use some worse than murd'ring thief,
+    Their very gentleman and chief,
+                        Unhumanly!
+    Like Popish tortures, I believe,
+                        Such cruelty.
+
+    Ev'n what was act on open stage
+    At Carlisle, in the hottest rage,
+    When mercy was clapt in a cage,
+                        And pity dead,
+    Such cruelty approv'd by every age,
+                        I shook my head.
+
+    So many to curse, so few to pray,
+    And some aloud huzza did cry;
+    They cursed the rebel Scots that day,
+                        As they'd been nowt
+    Brought up for slaughter, as that way
+                        Too many rowt.
+
+    Therefore, alas! dear countrymen,
+    O never do the like again,
+    To thirst for vengeance, never ben'
+                        Your gun nor pa',
+    But with the English e'en borrow and len',
+                        Let anger fa'.
+
+    Their boasts and bullying, not worth a louse,
+    As our King's the best about the house.
+    'T is ay good to be sober and douce,
+                        To live in peace;
+    For many, I see, for being o'er crouse,
+                        Gets broken face.
+
+
+
+
+
+WAVERLEY
+
+OR 'TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I
+
+INTRODUCTORY
+
+
+The title of this work has not been chosen without the grave and
+solid deliberation which matters of importance demand from the
+prudent. Even its first, or general denomination, was the result
+of no common research or selection, although, according to the
+example of my predecessors, I had only to seize upon the most
+sounding and euphonic surname that English history or topography
+affords, and elect it at once as the title of my work and the name
+of my hero. But, alas! what could my readers have expected from
+the chivalrous epithets of Howard, Mordaunt, Mortimer, or Stanley,
+or from the softer and more sentimental sounds of Belmour,
+Belville, Belfield, and Belgrave, but pages of inanity, similar to
+those which have been so christened for half a century past? I
+must modestly admit I am too diffident of my own merit to place it
+in unnecessary opposition to preconceived associations; I have,
+therefore, like a maiden knight with his white shield, assumed for
+my hero, WAVERLEY, an uncontaminated name, bearing with its sound
+little of good or evil, excepting what the reader shall hereafter
+be pleased to affix to it. But my second or supplemental title was
+a matter of much more difficult election, since that, short as it
+is, may be held as pledging the author to some special mode of
+laying his scene, drawing his characters, and managing his
+adventures. Had I, for example, announced in my frontispiece,
+'Waverley, a Tale of other Days,' must not every novel-reader have
+anticipated a castle scarce less than that of Udolpho, of which
+the eastern wing had long been uninhabited, and the keys either
+lost, or consigned to the care of some aged butler or housekeeper,
+whose trembling steps, about the middle of the second volume, were
+doomed to guide the hero, or heroine, to the ruinous precincts?
+Would not the owl have shrieked and the cricket cried in my very
+title-page? and could it have been possible for me, with a
+moderate attention to decorum, to introduce any scene more lively
+than might be produced by the jocularity of a clownish but
+faithful valet, or the garrulous narrative of the heroine's fille-
+de-chambre, when rehearsing the stories of blood and horror which
+she had heard in the servants' hall? Again, had my title borne,
+'Waverley, a Romance from the German,' what head so obtuse as not
+to image forth a profligate abbot, an oppressive duke, a secret
+and mysterious association of Rosycrucians and Illuminati, with
+all their properties of black cowls, caverns, daggers, electrical
+machines, trap-doors, and dark-lanterns? Or if I had rather chosen
+to call my work a 'Sentimental Tale,' would it not have been a
+sufficient presage of a heroine with a profusion of auburn hair,
+and a harp, the soft solace of her solitary hours, which she
+fortunately finds always the means of transporting from castle to
+cottage, although she herself be sometimes obliged to jump out of
+a two-pair-of-stairs window, and is more than once bewildered on
+her journey, alone and on foot, without any guide but a blowzy
+peasant girl, whose jargon she hardly can understand? Or, again,
+if my Waverley had been entitled 'A Tale of the Times,' wouldst
+thou not, gentle reader, have demanded from me a dashing sketch of
+the fashionable world, a few anecdotes of private scandal thinly
+veiled, and if lusciously painted, so much the better? a heroine
+from Grosvenor Square, and a hero from the Barouche Club or the
+Four-in-Hand, with a set of subordinate characters from the
+elegantes of Queen Anne Street East, or the dashing heroes of the
+Bow-Street Office? I could proceed in proving the importance of a
+title-page, and displaying at the same time my own intimate
+knowledge of the particular ingredients necessary to the
+composition of romances and novels of various descriptions;--but
+it is enough, and I scorn to tyrannise longer over the impatience
+of my reader, who is doubtless already anxious to know the choice
+made by an author so profoundly versed in the different branches
+of his art.
+
+By fixing, then, the date of my story Sixty Years before this
+present 1st November, 1805, I would have my readers understand,
+that they will meet in the following pages neither a romance of
+chivalry nor a tale of modern manners; that my hero will neither
+have iron on his. shoulders, as of yore, nor on the heels of his
+boots, as is the present fashion of Bond Street; and that my
+damsels will neither be clothed 'in purple and in pall,' like the
+Lady Alice of an old ballad, nor reduced to the primitive
+nakedness of a modern fashionable at a rout. From this my choice
+of an era the understanding critic may farther presage that the
+object of my tale is more a description of men than manners. A
+tale of manners, to be interesting, must either refer to antiquity
+so great as to have become venerable, or it must bear a vivid
+reflection of those scenes which are passing daily before our
+eyes, and are interesting from their novelty. Thus the coat-of-
+mail of our ancestors, and the triple-furred pelisse of our modern
+beaux, may, though for very different reasons, be equally fit for
+the array of a fictitious character; but who, meaning the costume
+of his hero to be impressive, would willingly attire him in the
+court dress of George the Second's reign, with its no collar,
+large sleeves, and low pocket-holes? The same may be urged, with
+equal truth, of the Gothic hall, which, with its darkened and
+tinted windows, its elevated and gloomy roof, and massive oaken
+table garnished with boar's-head and rosemary, pheasants and
+peacocks, cranes and cygnets, has an excellent effect in
+fictitious description. Much may also be gained by a lively
+display of a modern fete, such as we have daily recorded in that
+part of a newspaper entitled the Mirror of Fashion, if we contrast
+these, or either of them, with the splendid formality of an
+entertainment given Sixty Years Since; and thus it will be readily
+seen how much the painter of antique or of fashionable manners
+gains over him who delineates those of the last generation.
+
+Considering the disadvantages inseparable from this part of my
+subject, I must be understood to have resolved to avoid them as
+much as possible, by throwing the force of my narrative upon the
+characters and passions of the actors;--those passions common to
+men in all stages of society, and which have alike agitated the
+human heart, whether it throbbed under the steel corslet of the
+fifteenth century, the brocaded coat of the eighteenth, or the
+blue frock and white dimity waistcoat of the present day.
+[Footnote: Alas' that attire, respectable and gentlemanlike in
+1805, or thereabouts, is now as antiquated as the Author of
+Waverley has himself become since that period! The reader of
+fashion will please to fill up the costume with an embroidered
+waistcoat of purple velvet or silk, and a coat of whatever colour
+he pleases.] Upon these passions it is no doubt true that the
+state of manners and laws casts a necessary colouring; but the
+bearings, to use the language of heraldry, remain the same, though
+the tincture may be not only different, but opposed in strong
+contradistinction. The wrath of our ancestors, for example, was
+coloured gules; it broke forth in acts of open and sanguinary
+violence against the objects of its fury. Our malignant feelings,
+which must seek gratification through more indirect channels, and
+undermine the obstacles which they cannot openly bear down, may be
+rather said to be tinctured sable. But the deep-ruling impulse is
+the same in both cases; and the proud peer, who can now only ruin
+his neighbour according to law, by protracted suits, is the
+genuine descendant of the baron who wrapped the castle of his
+competitor in flames, and knocked him on the head as he
+endeavoured to escape from the conflagration. It is from the great
+book of Nature, the same through a thousand editions, whether of
+black-letter, or wire-wove and hot-pressed, that I have
+venturously essayed to read a chapter to the public. Some
+favourable opportunities of contrast have been afforded me by the
+state of society in the northern part of the island at the period
+of my history, and may serve at once to vary and to illustrate the
+moral lessons, which I would willingly consider as the most
+important part of my plan; although I am sensible how short these
+will fall of their aim if I shall be found unable to mix them with
+amusement--a task not quite so easy in this critical generation as
+it was 'Sixty Years Since.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II
+
+WAVERLEY-HONOUR--A RETROSPECT
+
+
+It is, then, sixty years since Edward Waverley, the hero of the
+following pages, took leave of his family, to join the regiment of
+dragoons in which he had lately obtained a commission. It was a
+melancholy day at Waverley-Honour when the young officer parted
+with Sir Everard, the affectionate old uncle to whose title and
+estate he was presumptive heir.
+
+A difference in political opinions had early separated the Baronet
+from his younger brother Richard Waverley, the father of our hero.
+Sir Everard had inherited from his sires the whole train of Tory
+or High-Church predilections and prejudices which had
+distinguished the house of Waverley since the Great Civil War.
+Richard, on the contrary, who was ten years younger, beheld
+himself born to the fortune of a second brother, and anticipated
+neither dignity nor entertainment in sustaining the character of
+Will Wimble. He saw early that, to succeed in the race of life, it
+was necessary he should carry as little weight as possible.
+Painters talk of the difficulty of expressing the existence of
+compound passions in the same features at the same moment; it
+would be no less difficult for the moralist to analyse the mixed
+motives which unite to form the impulse of our actions. Richard
+Waverley read and satisfied himself from history and sound
+argument that, in the words of the old song,
+
+      Passive obedience was a jest,
+      And pshaw! was non-resistance;
+
+yet reason would have probably been unable to combat and remove
+hereditary prejudice could Richard have anticipated that his elder
+brother, Sir Everard, taking to heart an early disappointment,
+would have remained a bachelor at seventy-two. The prospect of
+succession, however remote, might in that case have led him to
+endure dragging through the greater part of his life as 'Master
+Richard at the Hall, the Baronet's brother,' in the hope that ere
+its conclusion he should be distinguished as Sir Richard Waverley
+of Waverley-Honour, successor to a princely estate, and to
+extended political connections as head of the county interest in
+the shire where it lay.
+
+But this was a consummation of things not to be expected at
+Richard's outset, when Sir Everard was in the prime of life, and
+certain to be an acceptable suitor in almost any family, whether
+wealth or beauty should be the object of his pursuit, and when,
+indeed, his speedy marriage was a report which regularly amused
+the neighbourhood once a year. His younger brother saw no
+practicable road to independence save that of relying upon his own
+exertions, and adopting a political creed more consonant both to
+reason and his own interest than the hereditary faith of Sir
+Everard in High-Church and in the house of Stuart. He therefore
+read his recantation at the beginning of his career, and entered
+life as an avowed Whig and friend of the Hanover succession.
+
+The ministry of George the First's time were prudently anxious to
+diminish the phalanx of opposition. The Tory nobility, depending
+for their reflected lustre upon the sunshine of a court, had for
+some time been gradually reconciling themselves to the new
+dynasty. But the wealthy country gentlemen of England, a rank
+which retained, with much of ancient manners and primitive
+integrity, a great proportion of obstinate and unyielding
+prejudice, stood aloof in haughty and sullen opposition, and cast
+many a look of mingled regret and hope to Bois le Due, Avignon,
+and Italy. [Footnote: Where the Chevalier St. George, or, as he was
+termed, the Old Pretender, held his exiled court, as his situation
+compelled him to shift his place of residence.] The accession of
+the near relation of one of those steady and inflexible opponents
+was considered as a means of bringing over more converts, and
+therefore Richard Waverley met with a share of ministerial favour
+more than proportioned to his talents or his political importance.
+It was, however, discovered that he had respectable talents for
+public business, and the first admittance to the minister's levee
+being negotiated, his success became rapid. Sir Everard learned
+from the public 'News-Letter,' first, that Richard Waverley,
+Esquire, was returned for the ministerial borough of Barterfaith;
+next, that Richard Waverley, Esquire, had taken a distinguished
+part in the debate upon the Excise Bill in the support of
+government; and, lastly, that Richard Waverley, Esquire, had been
+honoured with a seat at one of those boards where the pleasure of
+serving the country is combined with other important
+gratifications, which, to render them the more acceptable, occur
+regularly once a quarter.
+
+Although these events followed each other so closely that the
+sagacity of the editor of a modern newspaper would have presaged
+the two last even while he announced the first, yet they came upon
+Sir Everard gradually, and drop by drop, as it were, distilled
+through the cool and procrastinating alembic of Dyer's 'Weekly
+Letter.' [Footnote: See Note I. ] For it may be observed in
+passing, that instead of those mail-coaches, by means of which
+every mechanic at his six-penny club, may nightly learn from
+twenty contradictory channels the yesterday's news of the capital,
+a weekly post brought, in those days, to Waverley-Honour, a
+Weekly Intelligencer, which, after it had gratified Sir Everard's
+curiosity, his sister's, and that of his aged butler, was
+regularly transferred from the Hall to the Rectory, from the
+Rectory to Squire Stubbs's at the Grange, from the Squire to the
+Baronet's steward at his neat white house on the heath, from the
+steward to the bailiff, and from him through a huge circle of
+honest dames and gaffers, by whose hard and horny hands it was
+generally worn to pieces in about a month after its arrival.
+
+This slow succession of intelligence was of some advantage to
+Richard Waverley in the case before us; for, had the sum total of
+his enormities reached the ears of Sir Everard at once, there can
+be no doubt that the new commissioner would have had little reason
+to pique himself on the success of his politics. The Baronet,
+although the mildest of human beings, was not without sensitive
+points in his character; his brother's conduct had wounded these
+deeply; the Waverley estate was fettered by no entail (for it had
+never entered into the head of any of its former possessors that
+one of their progeny could be guilty of the atrocities laid by
+Dyer's 'Letter' to the door of Richard), and if it had, the
+marriage of the proprietor might have been fatal to a collateral
+heir. These various ideas floated through the brain of Sir Everard
+without, however, producing any determined conclusion.
+
+He examined the tree of his genealogy, which, emblazoned with many
+an emblematic mark of honour and heroic achievement, hung upon the
+well-varnished wainscot of his hall. The nearest descendants of
+Sir Hildebrand Waverley, failing those of his eldest son Wilfred,
+of whom Sir Everard and his brother were the only representatives,
+were, as this honoured register informed him (and, indeed, as he
+himself well knew), the Waverleys of Highley Park, com. Hants;
+with whom the main branch, or rather stock, of the house had
+renounced all connection since the great law-suit in 1670.
+
+This degenerate scion had committed a farther offence against the
+head and source of their gentility, by the intermarriage of their
+representative with Judith, heiress of Oliver Bradshawe, of
+Highley Park, whose arms, the same with those of Bradshawe the
+regicide, they had quartered with the ancient coat of Waverley.
+These offences, however, had vanished from Sir Everard's
+recollection in the heat of his resentment; and had Lawyer
+Clippurse, for whom his groom was despatched express, arrived but
+an hour earlier, he might have had the benefit of drawing a new
+settlement of the lordship and manor of Waverley-Honour, with all
+its dependencies. But an hour of cool reflection is a great matter
+when employed in weighing the comparative evil of two measures to
+neither of which we are internally partial. Lawyer Clippurse found
+his patron involved in a deep study, which he was too respectful
+to disturb, otherwise than by producing his paper and leathern
+ink-case, as prepared to minute his honour's commands. Even this
+slight manoeuvre was embarrassing to Sir Everard, who felt it as a
+reproach to his indecision. He looked at the attorney with some
+desire to issue his fiat, when the sun, emerging from behind a
+cloud, poured at once its chequered light through the stained
+window of the gloomy cabinet in which they were seated. The
+Baronet's eye, as he raised it to the splendour, fell right upon
+the central scutcheon, inpressed with the same device which his
+ancestor was said to have borne in the field of Hastings,--three
+ermines passant, argent, in a field azure, with its appropriate
+motto, Sans tache. 'May our name rather perish,' exclaimed Sir
+Everard, 'than that ancient and loyal symbol should be blended
+with the dishonoured insignia of a traitorous Roundhead!'
+
+All this was the effect of the glimpse of a sunbeam, just
+sufficient to light Lawyer Clippurse to mend his pen. The pen was
+mended in vain. The attorney was dismissed, with directions to
+hold himself in readiness on the first summons.
+
+The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse at the Hall occasioned much
+speculation in that portion of the world to which Waverley-Honour
+formed the centre. But the more judicious politicians of this
+microcosm augured yet worse consequences to Richard Waverley from
+a movement which shortly followed his apostasy. This was no less
+than an excursion of the Baronet in his coach-and-six, with four
+attendants in rich liveries, to make a visit of some duration to a
+noble peer on the confines of the shire, of untainted descent,
+steady Tory principles, and the happy father of six unmarried and
+accomplished daughters.
+
+Sir Everard's reception in this family was, as it may be easily
+conceived, sufficiently favourable; but of the six young ladies,
+his taste unfortunately determined him in favour of Lady Emily,
+the youngest, who received his attentions with an embarrassment
+which showed at once that she durst not decline them, and that
+they afforded her anything but pleasure.
+
+Sir Everard could not but perceive something uncommon in the
+restrained emotions which the young lady testified at the advances
+he hazarded; but, assured by the prudent Countess that they were
+the natural effects of a retired education, the sacrifice might
+have been completed, as doubtless has happened in many similar
+instances, had it not been for the courage of an elder sister, who
+revealed to the wealthy suitor that Lady Emily's affections were
+fixed upon a young soldier of fortune, a near relation of her own.
+
+Sir Everard manifested great emotion on receiving this
+intelligence, which was confirmed to him, in a private interview,
+by the young lady herself, although under the most dreadful
+apprehensions of her father's indignation.
+
+Honour and generosity were hereditary attributes of the house of
+Waverley. With a grace and delicacy worthy the hero of a romance,
+Sir Everard withdrew his claim to the hand of Lady Emily. He had
+even, before leaving Blandeville Castle, the address to extort
+from her father a consent to her union with the object of her
+choice. What arguments he used on this point cannot exactly be
+known, for Sir Everard was never supposed strong in the powers of
+persuasion; but the young officer, immediately after this
+transaction, rose in the army with a rapidity far surpassing the
+usual pace of unpatronised professional merit, although, to
+outward appearance, that was all he had to depend upon.
+
+The shock which Sir Everard encountered upon this occasion,
+although diminished by the consciousness of having acted
+virtuously and generously had its effect upon his future life. His
+resolution of marriage had been adopted in a fit of indignation;
+the labour of courtship did not quite suit the dignified indolence
+of his habits; he had but just escaped the risk of marrying a
+woman who could never love him, and his pride could not be greatly
+flattered by the termination of his amour, even if his heart had
+not suffered. The result of the whole matter was his return to
+Waverley-Honour without any transfer of his affections,
+notwithstanding the sighs and languishments of the fair tell-tale,
+who had revealed, in mere sisterly affection, the secret of Lady
+Emily's attachment, and in despite of the nods, winks, and
+innuendos of the officious lady mother, and the grave eulogiums
+which the Earl pronounced successively on the prudence, and good
+sense, and admirable dispositions, of his first, second, third,
+fourth, and fifth daughters.
+
+The memory of his unsuccessful amour was with Sir Everard, as with
+many more of his temper, at once shy, proud, sensitive, and
+indolent, a beacon against exposing himself to similar
+mortification, pain, and fruitless exertion for the time to come.
+He continued to live at Waverley-Honour in the style of an old
+English gentleman, of an ancient descent and opulent fortune. His
+sister, Miss Rachel Waverley, presided at his table; and they
+became, by degrees, an old bachelor and an ancient maiden lady,
+the gentlest and kindest of the votaries of celibacy.
+
+The vehemence of Sir Everard's resentment against his brother was
+but short-lived; yet his dislike to the Whig and the placeman,
+though unable to stimulate him to resume any active measures
+prejudicial to Richard's interest, in the succession to the family
+estate, continued to maintain the coldness between them. Richard
+knew enough of the world, and of his brother's temper, to believe
+that by any ill-considered or precipitate advances on his part, he
+might turn passive dislike into a more active principle. It was
+accident, therefore, which at length occasioned a renewal of their
+intercourse. Richard had married a young woman of rank, by whose
+family interest and private fortune he hoped to advance his
+career. In her right he became possessor of a manor of some value,
+at the distance of a few miles from Waverley-Honour.
+
+Little Edward, the hero of our tale, then in his fifth year, was
+their only child. It chanced that the infant with his maid had
+strayed one morning to a mile's distance from the avenue of
+Brerewood Lodge, his father's seat. Their attention was attracted
+by a carriage drawn by six stately long-tailed black horses, and
+with as much carving and gilding as would have done honour to my
+lord mayor's. It was waiting for the owner, who was at a little
+distance inspecting the progress of a half-built farm-house. I
+know not whether the boy's nurse had been a Welsh--or a Scotch-
+woman, or in what manner he associated a shield emblazoned with
+three ermines with the idea of personal property, but he no sooner
+beheld this family emblem than he stoutly determined on
+vindicating his right to the splendid vehicle on which it was
+displayed. The Baronet arrived while the boy's maid was in vain
+endeavouring to make him desist from his determination to
+appropriate the gilded coach-and-six. The rencontre was at a happy
+moment for Edward, as his uncle had been just eyeing wistfully,
+with something of a feeling like envy, the chubby boys of the
+stout yeoman whose mansion was building by his direction. In the
+round-faced rosy cherub before him, bearing his eye and his name,
+and vindicating a hereditary title to his family, affection, and
+patronage, by means of a tie which Sir Everard held as sacred as
+either Garter or Blue-mantle, Providence seemed to have granted to
+him the very object best calculated to fill up the void in his
+hopes and affections. Sir Everard returned to Waverley-Hall upon a
+led horse, which was kept in readiness for him, while the child
+and his attendant were sent home in the carriage to Brerewood
+Lodge, with such a message as opened to Richard Waverley a door of
+reconciliation with his elder brother.
+
+Their intercourse, however, though thus renewed, continued to be
+rather formal and civil than partaking of brotherly cordiality;
+yet it was sufficient to the wishes of both parties. Sir Everard
+obtained, in the frequent society of his little nephew, something
+on which his hereditary pride might found the anticipated pleasure
+of a continuation of his lineage, and where his kind and gentle
+affections could at the same time fully exercise themselves. For
+Richard Waverley, he beheld in the growing attachment between the
+uncle and nephew the means of securing his son's, if not his own,
+succession to the hereditary estate, which he felt would be rather
+endangered than promoted by any attempt on his own part towards a
+closer intimacy with a man of Sir Everard's habits and opinions.
+
+Thus, by a sort of tacit compromise, little Edward was permitted
+to pass the greater part of the year at the Hall, and appeared to
+stand in the same intimate relation to both families, although
+their mutual intercourse was otherwise limited to formal messages
+and more formal visits. The education of the youth was regulated
+alternately by the taste and opinions of his uncle and of his
+father. But more of this in a subsequent chapter.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III
+
+EDUCATION
+
+
+The education of our hero, Edward Waverley, was of a nature
+somewhat desultory. In infancy his health suffered, or was
+supposed to suffer (which is quite the same thing), by the air of
+London. As soon, therefore, as official duties, attendance on
+Parliament, or the prosecution of any of his plans of interest or
+ambition, called his father to town, which was his usual residence
+for eight months in the year, Edward was transferred to Waverley-
+Honour, and experienced a total change of instructors and of
+lessons, as well as of residence. This might have been remedied
+had his father placed him under the superintendence of a permanent
+tutor. But he considered that one of his choosing would probably
+have been unacceptable at Waverley-Honour, and that such a
+selection as Sir Everard might have made, were the matter left to
+him, would have burdened him with a disagreeable inmate, if not a
+political spy, in his family. He therefore prevailed upon his
+private secretary, a young man of taste and accomplishments, to
+bestow an hour or two on Edward's education while at Brerewood
+Lodge, and left his uncle answerable for his improvement in
+literature while an inmate at the Hall. This was in some degree
+respectably provided for. Sir Everard's chaplain, an Oxonian, who
+had lost his fellowship for declining to take the oaths at the
+accession of George I, was not only an excellent classical
+scholar, but reasonably skilled in science, and master of most
+modern languages. He was, however, old and indulgent, and the
+recurring interregnum, during which Edward was entirely freed from
+his discipline, occasioned such a relaxation of authority, that
+the youth was permitted, in a great measure, to learn as he
+pleased, what he pleased, and when he pleased. This slackness of
+rule might have been ruinous to a boy of slow understanding, who,
+feeling labour in the acquisition of knowledge, would have
+altogether neglected it, save for the command of a taskmaster; and
+it might have proved equally dangerous to a youth whose animal
+spirits were more powerful than his imagination or his feelings,
+and whom the irresistible influence of Alma would have engaged in
+field-sports from morning till night. But the character of Edward
+Waverley was remote from either of these. His powers of
+apprehension were so uncommonly quick as almost to resemble
+intuition, and the chief care of his preceptor was to prevent him,
+as a sportsman would phrase it, from over-running his game--that
+is, from acquiring his knowledge in a slight, flimsy, and
+inadequate manner. And here the instructor had to combat another
+propensity too often united with brilliancy of fancy and vivacity
+of talent--that indolence, namely, of disposition, which can only
+be stirred by some strong motive of gratification, and which
+renounces study as soon as curiosity is gratified, the pleasure of
+conquering the first difficulties exhausted, and the novelty of
+pursuit at an end. Edward would throw himself with spirit upon any
+classical author of which his preceptor proposed the perusal, make
+himself master of the style so far as to understand the story,
+and, if that pleased or interested him, he finished the volume.
+But it was in vain to attempt fixing his attention on critical
+distinctions of philology, upon the difference of idiom, the
+beauty of felicitous expression, or the artificial combinations of
+syntax. 'I can read and understand a Latin author,' said young
+Edward, with the self-confidence and rash reasoning of fifteen,
+'and Scaliger or Bentley could not do much more.' Alas! while he
+was thus permitted to read only for the gratification of his
+amusement, he foresaw not that he was losing for ever the
+opportunity of acquiring habits of firm and assiduous application,
+of gaining the art of controlling, directing, and concentrating
+the powers of his mind for earnest investigation--an art far more
+essential than even that intimate acquaintance with classical
+learning which is the primary object of study.
+
+I am aware I may be here reminded of the necessity of rendering
+instruction agreeable to youth, and of Tasso's infusion of honey
+into the medicine prepared for a child; but an age in which
+children are taught the driest doctrines by the insinuating method
+of instructive games, has little reason to dread the consequences
+of study being rendered too serious or severe. The history of
+England is now reduced to a game at cards, the problems of
+mathematics to puzzles and riddles, and the doctrines of
+arithmetic may, we are assured, be sufficiently acquired by
+spending a few hours a week at a new and complicated edition of
+the Royal Game of the Goose. There wants but one step further, and
+the Creed and Ten Commandments may be taught in the same manner,
+without the necessity of the grave face, deliberate tone of
+recital, and devout attention, hitherto exacted from the well-
+governed childhood of this realm. It may, in the meantime, be
+subject of serious consideration, whether those who are accustomed
+only to acquire instruction through the medium of amusement may
+not be brought to reject that which approaches under the aspect of
+study; whether those who learn history by the cards may not be led
+to prefer the means to the end; and whether, were we to teach
+religion in the way of sport, our pupils may not thereby be
+gradually induced to make sport of their religion. To our young
+hero, who was permitted to seek his instruction only according to
+the bent of his own mind, and who, of consequence, only sought it
+so long as it afforded him amusement, the indulgence of his tutors
+was attended with evil consequences, which long continued to
+influence his character, happiness, and utility.
+
+Edward's power of imagination and love of literature, although the
+former was vivid and the latter ardent, were so far from affording
+a remedy to this peculiar evil, that they rather inflamed and
+increased its violence. The library at Waverley-Honour, a large
+Gothic room, with double arches and a gallery, contained such a
+miscellaneous and extensive collection of volumes as had been
+assembled together, during the course of two hundred years, by a
+family which had been always wealthy, and inclined, of course, as
+a mark of splendour, to furnish their shelves with the current
+literature of the day, without much scrutiny or nicety of
+discrimination. Throughout this ample realm Edward was permitted
+to roam at large. His tutor had his own studies; and church
+politics and controversial divinity, together with a love of
+learned ease, though they did not withdraw his attention at stated
+times from the progress of his patron's presumptive heir, induced
+him readily to grasp at any apology for not extending a strict and
+regulated survey towards his general studies. Sir Everard had
+never been himself a student, and, like his sister, Miss Rachel
+Waverley, he held the common doctrine, that idleness is
+incompatible with reading of any kind, and that the mere tracing
+the alphabetical characters with the eye is in itself a useful and
+meritorious task, without scrupulously considering what ideas or
+doctrines they may happen to convey. With a desire of amusement,
+therefore, which better discipline might soon have converted into
+a thirst for knowledge, young Waverley drove through the sea of
+books like a vessel without a pilot or a rudder. Nothing perhaps
+increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading,
+especially under such opportunities of gratifying it. I believe
+one reason why such numerous instances of erudition occur among
+the lower ranks is, that, with the same powers of mind, the poor
+student is limited to a narrow circle for indulging his passion
+for books, and must necessarily make himself master of the few he
+possesses ere he can acquire more. Edward, on the contrary, like
+the epicure who only deigned to take a single morsel from the
+sunny side of a peach, read no volume a moment after it ceased to
+excite his curiosity or interest; and it necessarily happened,
+that the habit of seeking only this sort of gratification rendered
+it daily more difficult of attainment, till the passion for
+reading, like other strong appetites, produced by indulgence a
+sort of satiety.
+
+Ere he attained this indifference, however, he had read, and
+stored in a memory of uncommon tenacity, much curious, though ill-
+arranged and miscellaneous information. In English literature he
+was master of Shakespeare and Milton, of our earlier dramatic
+authors, of many picturesque and interesting passages from our old
+historical chronicles, and was particularly well acquainted with
+Spenser, Drayton, and other poets who have exercised themselves on
+romantic fiction, of all themes the most fascinating to a youthful
+imagination, before the passions have roused themselves and demand
+poetry of a more sentimental description. In this respect his
+acquaintance with Italian opened him yet a wider range. He had
+perused the numerous romantic poems, which, from the days of
+Pulci, have been a favourite exercise of the wits of Italy, and
+had sought gratification in the numerous collections of novelle,
+which were brought forth by the genius of that elegant though
+luxurious nation, in emulation of the 'Decameron.' In classical
+literature, Waverley had made the usual progress, and read the
+usual authors; and the French had afforded him an almost
+exhaustless collection of memoirs, scarcely more faithful than
+romances, and of romances so well written as hardly to be
+distinguished from memoirs. The splendid pages of Froissart, with
+his heart-stirring and eye-dazzling descriptions of war and of
+tournaments, were among his chief favourites; and from those of
+Brantome and De la Noue he learned to compare the wild and loose,
+yet superstitious, character of the nobles of the League with the
+stern, rigid, and sometimes turbulent disposition of the Huguenot
+party. The Spanish had contributed to his stock of chivalrous and
+romantic lore. The earlier literature of the northern nations did
+not escape the study of one who read rather to awaken the
+imagination than to benefit the understanding. And yet, knowing
+much that is known but to few, Edward Waverley might justly be
+considered as ignorant, since he knew little of what adds dignity
+to man, and qualifies him to support and adorn an elevated
+situation in society.
+
+The occasional attention of his parents might indeed have been of
+service to prevent the dissipation of mind incidental to such a
+desultory course of reading. But his mother died in the seventh
+year after the reconciliation between the brothers, and Richard
+Waverley himself, who, after this event, resided more constantly
+in London, was too much interested in his own plans of wealth and
+ambition to notice more respecting Edward than that he was of a
+very bookish turn, and probably destined to be a bishop. If he
+could have discovered and analysed his son's waking dreams, he
+would have formed a very different conclusion.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV
+
+CASTLE-BUILDING
+
+
+I have already hinted that the dainty, squeamish, and fastidious
+taste acquired by a surfeit of idle reading had not only rendered
+our hero unfit for serious and sober study, but had even disgusted
+him in some degree with that in which he had hitherto indulged.
+
+He was in his sixteenth year when his habits of abstraction and
+love of solitude became so much marked as to excite Sir Everard's
+affectionate apprehension. He tried to counterbalance these
+propensities by engaging his nephew in field-sports, which had
+been the chief pleasure of his own youthful days. But although
+Edward eagerly carried the gun for one season, yet when practice
+had given him some dexterity, the pastime ceased to afford him
+amusement.
+
+In the succeeding spring, the perusal of old Isaac Walton's
+fascinating volume determined Edward to become 'a brother of the
+angle.' But of all diversions which ingenuity ever devised for the
+relief of idleness, fishing is the worst qualified to amuse a man
+who is at once indolent and impatient; and our hero's rod was
+speedily flung aside. Society and example, which, more than any
+other motives, master and sway the natural bent of our passions,
+might have had their usual effect upon the youthful visionary. But
+the neighbourhood was thinly inhabited, and the home-bred young
+squires whom it afforded were not of a class fit to form Edward's
+usual companions, far less to excite him to emulation in the
+practice of those pastimes which composed the serious business of
+their lives.
+
+There were a few other youths of better education and a more
+liberal character, but from their society also our hero was in
+some degree excluded. Sir Everard had, upon the death of Queen
+Anne, resigned his seat in Parliament, and, as his age increased
+and the number of his contemporaries diminished, had gradually
+withdrawn himself from society; so that when, upon any particular
+occasion, Edward mingled with accomplished and well-educated
+young men of his own rank and expectations, he felt an inferiority
+in their company, not so much from deficiency of information, as
+from the want of the skill to command and to arrange that which he
+possessed. A deep and increasing sensibility added to this dislike
+of society. The idea of having committed the slightest solecism in
+politeness, whether real or imaginary, was agony to him; for
+perhaps even guilt itself does not impose upon some minds so keen
+a sense of shame and remorse, as a modest, sensitive, and
+inexperienced youth feels from the consciousness of having
+neglected etiquette or excited ridicule. Where we are not at ease,
+we cannot be happy; and therefore it is not surprising that Edward
+Waverley supposed that he disliked and was unfitted for society,
+merely because he had not yet acquired the habit of living in it
+with ease and comfort, and of reciprocally giving and receiving
+pleasure.
+
+The hours he spent with his uncle and aunt were exhausted in
+listening to the oft-repeated tale of narrative old age. Yet even
+there his imagination, the predominant faculty of his mind, was
+frequently excited. Family tradition and genealogical history,
+upon which much of Sir Everard's discourse turned, is the very
+reverse of amber, which, itself a valuable substance, usually
+includes flies, straws, and other trifles; whereas these studies,
+being themselves very insignificant and trifling, do nevertheless
+serve to perpetuate a great deal of what is rare and valuable in
+ancient manners, and to record many curious and minute facts which
+could have been preserved and conveyed through no other medium.
+If, therefore, Edward Waverley yawned at times over the dry
+deduction of his line of ancestors, with their various
+intermarriages, and inwardly deprecated the remorseless and
+protracted accuracy with which the worthy Sir Everard rehearsed
+the various degrees of propinquity between the house of Waverley-
+Honour and the doughty barons, knights, and squires to whom they
+stood allied; if (notwithstanding his obligations to the three
+ermines passant) he sometimes cursed in his heart the jargon of
+heraldry, its griffins, its moldwarps, its wyverns, and its
+dragons, with all the bitterness of Hotspur himself, there were
+moments when these communications interested his fancy and
+rewarded his attention.
+
+The deeds of Wilibert of Waverley in the Holy Land, his long
+absence and perilous adventures, his supposed death, and his
+return on the evening when the betrothed of his heart had wedded
+the hero who had protected her from insult and oppression during
+his absence; the generosity with which the Crusader relinquished
+his claims, and sought in a neighbouring cloister that peace which
+passeth not away; [Footnote: See Note 2.]--to these and similar
+tales he would hearken till his heart glowed and his eye
+glistened. Nor was he less affected when his aunt, Mrs. Rachel,
+narrated the sufferings and fortitude of Lady Alice Waverley
+during the Great Civil War. The benevolent features of the
+venerable spinster kindled into more majestic expression as she
+told how Charles had, after the field of Worcester, found a day's
+refuge at Waverley-Honour, and how, when a troop of cavalry were
+approaching to search the mansion, Lady Alice dismissed her
+youngest son with a handful of domestics, charging them to make
+good with their lives an hour's diversion, that the king might
+have that space for escape. 'And, God help her,' would Mrs. Rachel
+continue, fixing her eyes upon the heroine's portrait as she
+spoke, 'full dearly did she purchase the safety of her prince with
+the life of her darling child. They brought him here a prisoner,
+mortally wounded; and you may trace the drops of his blood from
+the great hall door along the little gallery, and up to the
+saloon, where they laid him down to die at his mother's feet. But
+there was comfort exchanged between them; for he knew, from the
+glance of his mother's eye, that the purpose of his desperate
+defence was attained. Ah! I remember,' she continued, 'I remember
+well to have seen one that knew and loved him. Miss Lucy Saint
+Aubin lived and died a maid for his sake, though one of the most
+beautiful and wealthy matches in this country; all the world ran
+after her, but she wore widow's mourning all her life for poor
+William, for they were betrothed though not married, and died in--
+I cannot think of the date; but I remember, in the November of
+that very year, when she found herself sinking, she desired to be
+brought to Waverley-Honour once more, and visited all the places
+where she had been with my grand-uncle, and caused the carpets to
+be raised that she might trace the impression of his blood, and if
+tears could have washed it out, it had not been there now; for
+there was not a dry eye in the house. You would have thought,
+Edward, that the very trees mourned for her, for their leaves
+dropt around her without a gust of wind, and, indeed, she looked
+like one that would never see them green again.'
+
+From such legends our hero would steal away to indulge the fancies
+they excited. In the corner of the large and sombre library, with
+no other light than was afforded by the decaying brands on its
+ponderous and ample hearth, he would exercise for hours that
+internal sorcery by which past or imaginary events are presented
+in action, as it were, to the eye of the muser. Then arose in long
+and fair array the splendour of the bridal feast at Waverley-
+Castle; the tall and emaciated form of its real lord, as he stood
+in his pilgrim's weeds, an unnoticed spectator of the festivities
+of his supposed heir and intended bride; the electrical shock
+occasioned by the discovery; the springing of the vassals to arms;
+the astonishment of the bridegroom; the terror and confusion of
+the bride; the agony with which Wilibert observed that her heart
+as well as consent was in these nuptials; the air of dignity, yet
+of deep feeling, with which he flung down the half-drawn sword,
+and turned away for ever from the house of his ancestors. Then
+would he change the scene, and fancy would at his wish represent
+Aunt Rachel's tragedy. He saw the Lady Waverley seated in her
+bower, her ear strained to every sound, her heart throbbing with
+double agony, now listening to the decaying echo of the hoofs of
+the king's horse, and when that had died away, hearing in every
+breeze that shook the trees of the park, the noise of the remote
+skirmish. A distant sound is heard like the rushing of a swoln
+stream; it comes nearer, and Edward can plainly distinguish the
+galloping of horses, the cries and shouts of men, with straggling
+pistol-shots between, rolling forwards to the Hall. The lady
+starts up--a terrified menial rushes in--but why pursue such a
+description?
+
+As living in this ideal world became daily more delectable to our
+hero, interruption was disagreeable in proportion. The extensive
+domain that surrounded the Hall, which, far exceeding the
+dimensions of a park, was usually termed Waverley-Chase, had
+originally been forest ground, and still, though broken by
+extensive glades, in which the young deer were sporting, retained
+its pristine and savage character. It was traversed by broad
+avenues, in many places half grown up with brush-wood, where the
+beauties of former days used to take their stand to see the stag
+coursed with greyhounds, or to gain an aim at him with the
+crossbow. In one spot, distinguished by a moss-grown Gothic
+monument, which retained the name of Queen's Standing, Elizabeth
+herself was said to have pierced seven bucks with her own arrows.
+This was a very favourite haunt of Waverley. At other times, with
+his gun and his spaniel, which served as an apology to others, and
+with a book in his pocket, which perhaps served as an apology to
+himself, he used to pursue one of these long avenues, which, after
+an ascending sweep of four miles, gradually narrowed into a rude
+and contracted path through the cliffy and woody pass called
+Mirkwood Dingle, and opened suddenly upon a deep, dark, and small
+lake, named, from the same cause, Mirkwood-Mere. There stood, in
+former times, a solitary tower upon a rock almost surrounded by
+the water, which had acquired the name of the Strength of
+Waverley, because in perilous times it had often been the refuge
+of the family. There, in the wars of York and Lancaster, the last
+adherents of the Red Rose who dared to maintain her cause carried
+on a harassing and predatory warfare, till the stronghold was
+reduced by the celebrated Richard of Gloucester. Here, too, a
+party of Cavaliers long maintained themselves under Nigel
+Waverley, elder brother of that William whose fate Aunt Rachel
+commemorated. Through these scenes it was that Edward loved to
+'chew the cud of sweet and bitter fancy,' and, like a child among
+his toys, culled and arranged, from the splendid yet useless
+imagery and emblems with which his imagination was stored, visions
+as brilliant and as fading as those of an evening sky. The effect
+of this indulgence upon his temper and character will appear in
+the next chapter.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V
+
+CHOICE OF A PROFESSION
+
+
+From the minuteness with which I have traced Waverley's pursuits,
+and the bias which these unavoidably communicated to his
+imagination, the reader may perhaps anticipate, in the following
+tale, an imitation of the romance of Cervantes. But he will do my
+prudence injustice in the supposition. My intention is not to
+follow the steps of that inimitable author, in describing such
+total perversion of intellect as misconstrues the objects actually
+presented to the senses, but that more common aberration from
+sound judgment, which apprehends occurrences indeed in their
+reality, but communicates to them a tincture of its own romantic
+tone and colouring. So far was Edward Waverley from expecting
+general sympathy with his own feelings, or concluding that the
+present state of things was calculated to exhibit the reality of
+those visions in which he loved to indulge, that he dreaded
+nothing more than the detection of such sentiments as were
+dictated by his musings. He neither had nor wished to have a
+confidant, with whom to communicate his reveries; and so sensible
+was he of the ridicule attached to them, that, had he been to
+choose between any punishment short of ignominy, and the necessity
+of giving a cold and composed account of the ideal world in which
+he lived the better part of his days, I think he would not have
+hesitated to prefer the former infliction. This secrecy became
+doubly precious as he felt in advancing life the influence of the
+awakening passions. Female forms of exquisite grace and beauty
+began to mingle in his mental adventures; nor was he long without
+looking abroad to compare the creatures of his own imagination
+with the females of actual life.
+
+The list of the beauties who displayed their hebdomadal finery at
+the parish church of Waverley was neither numerous nor select. By
+far the most passable was Miss Sissly, or, as she rather chose to
+be called, Miss Cecilia Stubbs, daughter of Squire Stubbs at the
+Grange. I know not whether it was by the 'merest accident in the
+world,' a phrase which, from female lips, does not always exclude
+malice prepense, or whether it was from a conformity of taste,
+that Miss Cecilia more than once crossed Edward in his favourite
+walks through Waverley-Chase. He had not as yet assumed courage to
+accost her on these occasions; but the meeting was not without its
+effect. A romantic lover is a strange idolater, who sometimes
+cares not out of what log he frames the object of his adoration;
+at least, if nature has given that object any passable proportion
+of personal charms, he can easily play the Jeweller and Dervise in
+the Oriental tale, [Footnote: See Hoppner's tale of The Seven
+Lovers.] and supply her richly, out of the stores of his own
+imagination, with supernatural beauty, and all the properties of
+intellectual wealth.
+
+But ere the charms of Miss Cecilia Stubbs had erected her into a
+positive goddess, or elevated her at least to a level with the
+saint her namesake, Mrs. Rachel Waverley gained some intimation
+which determined her to prevent the approaching apotheosis. Even
+the most simple and unsuspicious of the female sex have (God bless
+them!) an instinctive sharpness of perception in such matters,
+which sometimes goes the length of observing partialities that
+never existed, but rarely misses to detect such as pass actually
+under their observation. Mrs. Rachel applied herself with great
+prudence, not to combat, but to elude, the approaching danger, and
+suggested to her brother the necessity that the heir of his house
+should see something more of the world than was consistent with
+constant residence at Waverley-Honour.
+
+Sir Everard would not at first listen to a proposal which went to
+separate his nephew from him. Edward was a little bookish, he
+admitted, but youth, he had always heard, was the season for
+learning, and, no doubt, when his rage for letters was abated, and
+his head fully stocked with knowledge, his nephew would take to
+field-sports and country business. He had often, he said, himself
+regretted that he had not spent some time in study during his
+youth: he would neither have shot nor hunted with less skill, and
+he might have made the roof of Saint Stephen's echo to longer
+orations than were comprised in those zealous Noes, with which,
+when a member of the House during Godolphin's administration, he
+encountered every measure of government.
+
+Aunt Rachel's anxiety, however, lent her address to carry her
+point. Every representative of their house had visited foreign
+parts, or served his country in the army, before he settled for
+life at Waverley-Honour, and she appealed for the truth of her
+assertion to the genealogical pedigree, an authority which Sir
+Everard was never known to contradict. In short, a proposal was
+made to Mr. Richard Waverley, that his son should travel, under
+the direction of his present tutor Mr. Pembroke, with a suitable
+allowance from the Baronet's liberality. The father himself saw no
+objection to this overture; but upon mentioning it casually at the
+table of the minister, the great man looked grave. The reason was
+explained in private. The unhappy turn of Sir Everard's politics,
+the minister observed, was such as would render it highly improper
+that a young gentleman of such hopeful prospects should travel on
+the Continent with a tutor doubtless of his uncle's choosing, and
+directing his course by his instructions. What might Mr. Edward
+Waverley's society be at Paris, what at Rome, where all manner of
+snares were spread by the Pretender and his sons--these were
+points for Mr. Waverley to consider. This he could himself say,
+that he knew his Majesty had such a just sense of Mr. Richard
+Waverley's merits, that, if his son adopted the army for a few
+years, a troop, he believed, might be reckoned upon in one of the
+dragoon regiments lately returned from Flanders.
+
+A hint thus conveyed and enforced was not to be neglected with
+impunity; and Richard Waverley, though with great dread of
+shocking his brother's prejudices, deemed he could not avoid
+accepting the commission thus offered him for his son. The truth
+is, he calculated much, and justly, upon Sir Everard's fondness
+for Edward, which made him unlikely to resent any step that he
+might take in due submission to parental authority. Two letters
+announced this determination to the Baronet and his nephew. The
+latter barely communicated the fact, and pointed out the necessary
+preparations for joining his regiment. To his brother, Richard was
+more diffuse and circuitous. He coincided with him, in the most
+flattering manner, in the propriety of his son's seeing a little
+more of the world, and was even humble in expressions of gratitude
+for his proposed assistance; was, however, deeply concerned that
+it was now, unfortunately, not in Edward's power exactly to comply
+with the plan which had been chalked out by his best friend and
+benefactor. He himself had thought with pain on the boy's
+inactivity, at an age when all his ancestors had borne arms; even
+Royalty itself had deigned to inquire whether young Waverley was
+not now in Flanders, at an age when his grandfather was already
+bleeding for his king in the Great Civil War. This was accompanied
+by an offer of a troop of horse. What could he do? There was no
+time to consult his brother's inclinations, even if he could have
+conceived there might be objections on his part to his nephew's
+following the glorious career of his predecessors. And, in short,
+that Edward was now (the intermediate steps of cornet and
+lieutenant being overleapt with great agility) Captain Waverley,
+of Gardiner's regiment of dragoons, which he must join in their
+quarters at Dundee in Scotland, in the course of a month.
+
+Sir Everard Waverley received this intimation with a mixture of
+feelings. At the period of the Hanoverian succession he had
+withdrawn from parliament, and his conduct in the memorable year
+1715 had not been altogether unsuspected. There were reports of
+private musters of tenants and horses in Waverley-Chase by
+moonlight, and of cases of carbines and pistols purchased in
+Holland, and addressed to the Baronet, but intercepted by the
+vigilance of a riding officer of the excise, who was afterwards
+tossed in a blanket on a moonless night, by an association of
+stout yeomen, for his officiousness. Nay, it was even said, that
+at the arrest of Sir William Wyndham, the leader of the Tory
+party, a letter from Sir Everard was found in the pocket of his
+night-gown. But there was no overt act which an attainder could be
+founded on, and government, contented with suppressing the
+insurrection of 1715, felt it neither prudent nor safe to push
+their vengeance farther than against those unfortunate gentlemen
+who actually took up arms.
+
+Nor did Sir Everard's apprehensions of personal consequences seem
+to correspond with the reports spread among his Whig neighbours.
+It was well known that he had supplied with money several of the
+distressed Northumbrians and Scotchmen, who, after being made
+prisoners at Preston in Lancashire, were imprisoned in Newgate and
+the Marshalsea, and it was his solicitor and ordinary counsel who
+conducted the defence of some of these unfortunate gentlemen at
+their trial. It was generally supposed, however, that, had
+ministers possessed any real proof of Sir Everard's accession to
+the rebellion, he either would not have ventured thus to brave the
+existing government, or at least would not have done so with
+impunity. The feelings which then dictated his proceedings were
+those of a young man, and at an agitating period. Since that time
+Sir Everard's Jacobitism had been gradually decaying, like a fire
+which burns out for want of fuel. His Tory and High-Church
+principles were kept up by some occasional exercise at elections
+and quarter-sessions; but those respecting hereditary right were
+fallen into a sort of abeyance. Yet it jarred severely upon his
+feelings, that his nephew should go into the army under the
+Brunswick dynasty; and the more so, as, independent of his high
+and conscientious ideas of paternal authority, it was impossible,
+or at least highly imprudent, to interfere authoritatively to
+prevent it. This suppressed vexation gave rise to many poohs and
+pshaws which were placed to the account of an incipient fit of
+gout, until, having sent for the Army List, the worthy Baronet
+consoled himself with reckoning the descendants of the houses of
+genuine loyalty, Mordaunts, Granvilles, and Stanleys, whose names
+were to be found in that military record; and, calling up all his
+feelings of family grandeur and warlike glory, he concluded, with
+logic something like Falstaff's, that when war was at hand,
+although it were shame to be on any side but one, it were worse
+shame to be idle than to be on the worst side, though blacker than
+usurpation could make it. As for Aunt Rachel, her scheme had not
+exactly terminated according to her wishes, but she was under the
+necessity of submitting to circumstances; and her mortification
+was diverted by the employment she found in fitting out her nephew
+for the campaign, and greatly consoled by the prospect of
+beholding him blaze in complete uniform. Edward Waverley himself
+received with animated and undefined surprise this most unexpected
+intelligence. It was, as a fine old poem expresses it, 'like a
+fire to heather set,' that covers a solitary hill with smoke, and
+illumines it at the same time with dusky fire. His tutor, or, I
+should say, Mr. Pembroke, for he scarce assumed the name of tutor,
+picked up about Edward's room some fragments of irregular verse,
+which he appeared to have composed under the influence of the
+agitating feelings occasioned by this sudden page being turned up
+to him in the book of life. The doctor, who was a believer in all
+poetry which was composed by his friends, and written out in fair
+straight lines, with a capital at the beginning of each,
+communicated this treasure to Aunt Rachel, who, with her
+spectacles dimmed with tears, transferred them to her commonplace
+book, among choice receipts for cookery and medicine, favourite
+texts, and portions from High-Church divines, and a few songs,
+amatory and Jacobitical, which she had carolled in her younger
+days, from whence her nephew's poetical tentamina were extracted
+when the volume itself, with other authentic records of the
+Waverley family, were exposed to the inspection of the unworthy
+editor of this memorable history. If they afford the reader no
+higher amusement, they will serve, at least, better than narrative
+of any kind, to acquaint him with the wild and irregular spirit of
+our hero:--
+
+    Late, when the Autumn evening fell
+    On Mirkwood-Mere's romantic dell,
+    The lake return'd, in chasten'd gleam,
+    The purple cloud, the golden beam:
+    Reflected in the crystal pool,
+    Headland and bank lay fair and cool;
+    The weather-tinted rock and tower,
+    Each drooping tree, each fairy flower,
+    So true, so soft, the mirror gave,
+    As if there lay beneath the wave,
+    Secure from trouble, toil, and care,
+    A world than earthly world more fair.
+
+
+    But distant winds began to wake,
+    And roused the Genius of the Lake!
+    He heard the groaning of the oak,
+    And donn'd at once his sable cloak,
+    As warrior, at the battle-cry,
+    Invests him with his panoply:
+    Then, as the whirlwind nearer press'd
+    He 'gan to shake his foamy crest
+    O'er furrow'd brow and blacken'd cheek,
+    And bade his surge in thunder speak.
+    In wild and broken eddies whirl'd.
+    Flitted that fond ideal world,
+    And to the shore in tumult tost
+    The realms of fairy bliss were lost.
+
+    Yet, with a stern delight and strange,
+    I saw the spirit-stirring change,
+    As warr'd the wind with wave and wood,
+    Upon the ruin'd tower I stood,
+    And felt my heart more strongly bound,
+    Responsive to the lofty sound,
+    While, joying in the mighty roar,
+    I mourn'd that tranquil scene no more.
+
+    So, on the idle dreams of youth,
+    Breaks the loud trumpet-call of truth,
+    Bids each fair vision pass away,
+    Like landscape on the lake that lay,
+    As fair, as flitting, and as frail,
+    As that which fled the Autumn gale.--
+    For ever dead to fancy's eye
+    Be each gay form that glided by,
+    While dreams of love and lady's charms
+    Give place to honour and to arms!
+
+In sober prose, as perhaps these verses intimate less decidedly,
+the transient idea of Miss Cecilia Stubbs passed from Captain
+Waverley's heart amid the turmoil which his new destinies excited.
+She appeared, indeed, in full splendour in her father's pew upon
+the Sunday when he attended service for the last time at the old
+parish church, upon which occasion, at the request of his uncle
+and Aunt Rachel, he was induced (nothing both, if the truth must
+be told) to present himself in full uniform.
+
+There is no better antidote against entertaining too high an
+opinion of others than having an excellent one of ourselves at the
+very same time. Miss Stubbs had indeed summoned up every
+assistance which art could afford to beauty; but, alas! hoop,
+patches, frizzled locks, and a new mantua of genuine French silk,
+were lost upon a young officer of dragoons who wore for the first
+time his gold-laced hat, jack-boots, and broadsword. I know not
+whether, like the champion of an old ballad,--
+
+    His heart was all on honour bent,
+    He could not stoop to love;
+    No lady in the land had power
+    His frozen heart to move;
+
+or whether the deep and flaming bars of embroidered gold, which
+now fenced his breast, defied the artillery of Cecilia's eyes; but
+every arrow was launched at him in vain.
+
+    Yet did I mark where Cupid's shaft did light;
+    It lighted not on little western flower,
+    But on bold yeoman, flower of all the west,
+    Hight Jonas Culbertfield, the steward's son.
+
+Craving pardon for my heroics (which I am unable in certain cases
+to resist giving way to), it is a melancholy fact, that my history
+must here take leave of the fair Cecilia, who, like many a
+daughter of Eve, after the departure of Edward, and the
+dissipation of certain idle visions which she had adopted, quietly
+contented herself with a pisaller, and gave her hand, at the
+distance of six months, to the aforesaid Jonas, son of the
+Baronet's steward, and heir (no unfertile prospect) to a steward's
+fortune, besides the snug probability of succeeding to his
+father's office. All these advantages moved Squire Stubbs, as much
+as the ruddy brown and manly form of the suitor influenced his
+daughter, to abate somewhat in the article of their gentry; and so
+the match was concluded. None seemed more gratified than Aunt
+Rachel, who had hitherto looked rather askance upon the
+presumptuous damsel (as much so, peradventure, as her nature would
+permit), but who, on the first appearance of the new-married pair
+at church, honoured the bride with a smile and a profound curtsy,
+in presence of the rector, the curate, the clerk, and the whole
+congregation of the united parishes of Waverley cum Beverley.
+
+I beg pardon, once and for all, of those readers who take up
+novels merely for amusement, for plaguing them so long with old-
+fashioned politics, and Whig and Tory, and Hanoverians and
+Jacobites. The truth is, I cannot promise them that this story
+shall be intelligible, not to say probable, without it. My plan
+requires that I should explain the motives on which its action
+proceeded; and these motives necessarily arose from the feelings,
+prejudices, and parties of the times. I do not invite my fair
+readers, whose sex and impatience give them the greatest right to
+complain of these circumstances, into a flying chariot drawn by
+hippogriffs, or moved by enchantment. Mine is a humble English
+post-chaise, drawn upon four wheels, and keeping his Majesty's
+highway. Such as dislike the vehicle may leave it at the next
+halt, and wait for the conveyance of Prince Hussein's tapestry, or
+Malek the Weaver's flying sentrybox. Those who are contented to
+remain with me will be occasionally exposed to the dulness
+inseparable from heavy roads, steep hills, sloughs, and other
+terrestrial retardations; but with tolerable horses and a civil
+driver (as the advertisements have it), I engage to get as soon as
+possible into a more picturesque and romantic country, if my
+passengers incline to have some patience with me during my first
+stages. [Footnote: These Introductory Chapters have been a good
+deal censured as tedious and unnecessary. Yet there are
+circumstances recorded in them which the author has not been able
+to persuade himself to retrench or cancel.]
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI
+
+THE ADIEUS OF WAVERLEY
+
+
+It was upon the evening of this memorable Sunday that Sir Everard
+entered the library, where he narrowly missed surprising our young
+hero as he went through the guards of the broadsword with the
+ancient weapon of old Sir Hildebrand, which, being preserved as an
+heirloom, usually hung over the chimney in the library, beneath a
+picture of the knight and his horse, where the features were
+almost entirely hidden by the knight's profusion of curled hair,
+and the Bucephalus which he bestrode concealed by the voluminous
+robes of the Bath with which he was decorated. Sir Everard
+entered, and after a glance at the picture and another at his
+nephew, began a little speech, which, however, soon dropt into the
+natural simplicity of his common manner, agitated upon the present
+occasion by no common feeling. 'Nephew,' he said; and then, as
+mending his phrase, 'My dear Edward, it is God's will, and also
+the will of your father, whom, under God, it is your duty to obey,
+that you should leave us to take up the profession of arms, in
+which so many of your ancestors have been distinguished. I have
+made such arrangements as will enable you to take the field as
+their descendant, and as the probable heir of the house of
+Waverley; and, sir, in the field of battle you will remember what
+name you bear. And, Edward, my dear boy, remember also that you
+are the last of that race, and the only hope of its revival
+depends upon you; therefore, as far as duty and honour will
+permit, avoid danger--I mean unnecessary danger--and keep no
+company with rakes, gamblers, and Whigs, of whom, it is to be
+feared, there are but too many in the service into which you are
+going. Your colonel, as I am informed, is an excellent man--for a
+Presbyterian; but you will remember your duty to God, the Church
+of England, and the--' (this breach ought to have been supplied,
+according to the rubric, with the word KING; but as,
+unfortunately, that word conveyed a double and embarrassing sense,
+one meaning de facto and the other de jure, the knight filled up
+the blank otherwise)--'the Church of England, and all constituted
+authorities.' Then, not trusting himself with any further oratory,
+he carried his nephew to his stables to see the horses destined
+for his campaign. Two were black (the regimental colour), superb
+chargers both; the other three were stout active hacks, designed
+for the road, or for his domestics, of whom two were to attend him
+from the Hall; an additional groom, if necessary, might be picked
+up in Scotland.
+
+'You will depart with but a small retinue,' quoth the Baronet,
+'compared to Sir Hildebrand, when he mustered before the gate of
+the Hall a larger body of horse than your whole regiment consists
+of. I could have wished that these twenty young fellows from my
+estate, who have enlisted in your troop, had been to march with
+you on your journey to Scotland. It would have been something, at
+least; but I am told their attendance would be thought unusual in
+these days, when every new and foolish fashion is introduced to
+break the natural dependence of the people upon their landlords.'
+
+Sir Everard had done his best to correct this unnatural
+disposition of the times; for he had brightened the chain of
+attachment between the recruits and their young captain, not only
+by a copious repast of beef and ale, by way of parting feast, but
+by such a pecuniary donation to each individual as tended rather
+to improve the conviviality than the discipline of their march.
+After inspecting the cavalry, Sir Everard again conducted his
+nephew to the library, where he produced a letter, carefully
+folded, surrounded by a little stripe of flox-silk, according to
+ancient form, and sealed with an accurate impression of the
+Waverley coat-of-arms. It was addressed, with great formality, 'To
+Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine, Esq., of Bradwardine, at his principal
+mansion of Tully-Veolan, in Perthshire, North Britain. These--By
+the hands of Captain Edward Waverley, nephew of Sir Everard
+Waverley, of Waverley-Honour, Bart.'
+
+The gentleman to whom this enormous greeting was addressed, of
+whom we shall have more to say in the sequel, had been in arms for
+the exiled family of Stuart in the year 1715, and was made
+prisoner at Preston in Lancashire. He was of a very ancient
+family, and somewhat embarrassed fortune; a scholar, according to
+the scholarship of Scotchmen, that is, his learning was more
+diffuse than accurate, and he was rather a reader than a
+grammarian. Of his zeal for the classic authors he is said to have
+given an uncommon instance. On the road between Preston and
+London, he made his escape from his guards; but being afterwards
+found loitering near the place where they had lodged the former
+night, he was recognised, and again arrested. His companions, and
+even his escort, were surprised at his infatuation, and could not
+help inquiring, why, being once at liberty, he had not made the
+best of his way to a place of safety; to which he replied, that he
+had intended to do so, but, in good faith, he had returned to seek
+his Titus Livius, which he had forgot in the hurry of his escape.
+[Footnote: See Note 3.] The simplicity of this anecdote struck the
+gentleman, who, as we before observed, had managed the defence of
+some of those unfortunate persons, at the expense of Sir Everard,
+and perhaps some others of the party. He was, besides, himself a
+special admirer of the old Patavinian, and though probably his own
+zeal might not have carried him such extravagant lengths, even to
+recover the edition of Sweynheim and Pannartz (supposed to be the
+princeps), he did not the less estimate the devotion of the North
+Briton, and in consequence exerted himself to so much purpose to
+remove and soften evidence, detect legal flaws, et cetera, that he
+accomplished the final discharge and deliverance of Cosmo Comyne
+Bradwardine from certain very awkward consequences of a plea
+before our sovereign lord the king in Westminster.
+
+The Baron of Bradwardine, for he was generally so called in
+Scotland (although his intimates, from his place of residence,
+used to denominate him Tully-Veolan, or more familiarly, Tully),
+no sooner stood rectus in curia than he posted down to pay his
+respects and make his acknowledgments at Waverley-Honour. A
+congenial passion for field-sports, and a general coincidence in
+political opinions, cemented his friendship with Sir Everard,
+notwithstanding the difference of their habits and studies in
+other particulars; and, having spent several weeks at Waverley-
+Honour, the Baron departed with many expressions of regard, warmly
+pressing the Baronet to return his visit, and partake of the
+diversion of grouse-shooting, upon his moors in Perthshire next
+season. Shortly after, Mr. Bradwardine remitted from Scotland a
+sum in reimbursement of expenses incurred in the King's High Court
+of Westminster, which, although not quite so formidable when
+reduced to the English denomination, had, in its original form of
+Scotch pounds, shillings, and pence, such a formidable effect upon
+the frame of Duncan Macwheeble, the laird's confidential factor,
+baron-bailie, and man of resource, that he had a fit of the
+cholic, which lasted for five days, occasioned, he said, solely
+and utterly by becoming the unhappy instrument of conveying such a
+serious sum of money out of his native country into the hands of
+the false English. But patriotism, as it is the fairest, so it is
+often the most suspicious mask of other feelings; and many who
+knew Bailie Macwheeble concluded that his professions of regret
+were not altogether disinterested, and that he would have grudged
+the moneys paid to the LOONS at Westminster much less had they not
+come from Bradwardine estate, a fund which he considered as more
+particularly his own. But the Bailie protested he was absolutely
+disinterested--
+
+    'Woe, woe, for Scotland, not a whit for me!'
+
+The laird was only rejoiced that his worthy friend, Sir Everard
+Waverley of Waverley-Honour, was reimbursed of the expenditure
+which he had outlaid on account of the house of Bradwardine. It
+concerned, he said, the credit of his own family, and of the
+kingdom of Scotland at large, that these disbursements should be
+repaid forthwith, and, if delayed, it would be a matter of
+national reproach. Sir Everard, accustomed to treat much larger
+sums with indifference, received the remittance of L294, 13S. 6D.
+without being aware that the payment was an international concern,
+and, indeed, would probably have forgot the circumstance
+altogether, if Bailie Macwheeble had thought of comforting his
+cholic by intercepting the subsidy. A yearly intercourse took
+place, of a short letter and a hamper or a cask or two, between
+Waverley-Honour and Tully-Veolan, the English exports consisting
+of mighty cheeses and mightier ale, pheasants, and venison, and
+the Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled
+salmon, and usquebaugh; all which were meant, sent, and received
+as pledges of constant friendship and amity between two important
+houses. It followed as a matter of course, that the heir-apparent
+of Waverley-Honour could not with propriety visit Scotland without
+being furnished with credentials to the Baron of Bradwardine.
+
+When this matter was explained and settled, Mr. Pembroke expressed
+his wish to take a private and particular leave of his dear pupil.
+The good man's ex hortations to Edward to preserve an unblemished
+life and morals, to hold fast the principles of the Christian
+religion, and to eschew the profane company of scoffers and
+latitudinarians, too much abounding in the army, were not
+unmingled with his political prejudices. It had pleased Heaven, he
+said, to place Scotland (doubtless for the sins of their ancestors
+in 1642) in a more deplorable state of darkness than even this
+unhappy kingdom of England. Here, at least, although the
+candlestick of the Church of England had been in some degree
+removed from its place, it yet afforded a glimmering light; there
+was a hierarchy, though schismatical, and fallen from the
+principles maintained by those great fathers of the church,
+Sancroft and his brethren; there was a liturgy, though woefully
+perverted in some of the principal petitions. But in Scotland it
+was utter darkness; and, excepting a sorrowful, scattered, and
+persecuted remnant, the pulpits were abandoned to Presbyterians,
+and, he feared, to sectaries of every description. It should be
+his duty to fortify his dear pupil to resist such unhallowed and
+pernicious doctrines in church and state as must necessarily be
+forced at times upon his unwilling ears.
+
+Here he produced two immense folded packets, which appeared each
+to contain a whole ream of closely written manuscript. They had
+been the labour of the worthy man's whole life; and never were
+labour and zeal more absurdly wasted. He had at one time gone to
+London, with the intention of giving them to the world, by the
+medium of a bookseller in Little Britain, well known to deal in
+such commodities, and to whom he was instructed to address himself
+in a particular phrase and with a certain sign, which, it seems,
+passed at that time current among the initiated Jacobites. The
+moment Mr. Pembroke had uttered the Shibboleth, with the
+appropriate gesture, the bibliopolist greeted him, notwithstanding
+every disclamation, by the title of Doctor, and conveying him into
+his back shop, after inspecting every possible and impossible
+place of concealment, he commenced: 'Eh, Doctor!--Well--all under
+the rose--snug--I keep no holes here even for a Hanoverian rat to
+hide in. And, what--eh! any good news from our friends over the
+water?--and how does the worthy King of France?--Or perhaps you
+are more lately from Rome? it must be Rome will do it at last--the
+church must light its candle at the old lamp.--Eh--what, cautious?
+I like you the better; but no fear.' Here Mr. Pembroke with some
+difficulty stopt a torrent of interrogations, eked out with signs,
+nods, and winks; and, having at length convinced the bookseller
+that he did him too much honour in supposing him an emissary of
+exiled royalty, he explained his actual business.
+
+The man of books with a much more composed air proceeded to
+examine the manuscripts. The title of the first was 'A Dissent
+from Dissenters, or the Comprehension confuted; showing the
+Impossibility of any Composition between the Church and Puritans,
+Presbyterians, or Sectaries of any Description; illustrated from
+the Scriptures, the Fathers of the Church, and the soundest
+Controversial Divines.' To this work the bookseller positively
+demurred. 'Well meant,' he said, 'and learned, doubtless; but the
+time had gone by. Printed on small-pica it would run to eight
+hundred pages, and could never pay. Begged therefore to be
+excused. Loved and honoured the true church from his soul, and,
+had it been a sermon on the martyrdom, or any twelve-penny touch--
+why, I would venture something for the honour of the cloth. But
+come, let's see the other. "Right Hereditary righted!"--Ah!
+there's some sense in this. Hum--hum--hum--pages so many, paper so
+much, letter-press--Ah--I'll tell you, though, Doctor, you must
+knock out some of the Latin and Greek; heavy, Doctor, damn'd
+heavy--(beg your pardon) and if you throw in a few grains more
+pepper--I am he that never preached my author. I have published for
+Drake and Charlwood Lawton, and poor Amhurst [Footnote: See Note
+4.]--Ah, Caleb! Caleb! Well, it was a shame to let poor Caleb
+starve, and so many fat rectors and squires among us. I gave him a
+dinner once a week; but, Lord love you, what's once a week, when a
+man does not know where to go the other six days? Well, but I must
+show the manuscript to little Tom Alibi the solicitor, who manages
+all my law affairs--must keep on the windy side; the mob were very
+uncivil the last time I mounted in Old Palace Yard--all Whigs and
+Roundheads every man of them, Williamites and Hanover rats.'
+
+The next day Mr. Pembroke again called on the publisher, but found
+Tom Alibi's advice had determined him against undertaking the
+work. 'Not but what I would go to--(what was I going to say?) to
+the Plantations for the church with pleasure--but, dear Doctor, I
+have a wife and family; but, to show my zeal, I'll recommend the
+job to my neighbour Trimmel--he is a bachelor, and leaving off
+business, so a voyage in a western barge would not inconvenience
+him.' But Mr. Trimmel was also obdurate, and Mr. Pembroke,
+fortunately perchance for himself, was compelled to return to
+Waverley-Honour with his treatise in vindication of the real
+fundamental principles of church and state safely packed in his
+saddle-bags.
+
+As the public were thus likely to be deprived of the benefit
+arising from his lucubrations by the selfish cowardice of the
+trade, Mr. Pembroke resolved to make two copies of these
+tremendous manuscripts for the use of his pupil. He felt that he
+had been indolent as a tutor, and, besides, his conscience checked
+him for complying with the request of Mr. Richard Waverley, that
+he would impress no sentiments upon Edward's mind inconsistent
+with the present settlement in church and state. But now, thought
+he, I may, without breach of my word, since he is no longer under
+my tuition, afford the youth the means of judging for himself, and
+have only to dread his reproaches for so long concealing the light
+which the perusal will flash upon his mind. While he thus indulged
+the reveries of an author and a politician, his darling proselyte,
+seeing nothing very inviting in the title of the tracts, and
+appalled by the bulk and compact lines of the manuscript, quietly
+consigned them to a corner of his travelling trunk.
+
+Aunt Rachel's farewell was brief and affectionate. She only
+cautioned her dear Edward, whom she probably deemed somewhat
+susceptible, against the fascination of Scottish beauty. She
+allowed that the northern part of the island contained some
+ancient families, but they were all Whigs and Presbyterians except
+the Highlanders; and respecting them she must needs say, there
+could be no great delicacy among the ladies, where the gentlemen's
+usual attire was, as she had been assured, to say the least, very
+singular, and not at all decorous. She concluded her farewell with
+a kind and moving benediction, and gave the young officer, as a
+pledge of her regard, a valuable diamond ring (often worn by the
+male sex at that time), and a purse of broad gold-pieces, which
+also were more common Sixty Years Since than they have been of
+late.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII
+
+A HORSE-QUARTER IN SCOTLAND
+
+
+The next morning, amid varied feelings, the chief of which was a
+predominant, anxious, and even solemn impression, that he was now
+in a great measure abandoned to his own guidance and direction,
+Edward Waverley departed from the Hall amid the blessings and
+tears of all the old domestics and the inhabitants of the village,
+mingled with some sly petitions for sergeantcies and
+corporalships, and so forth, on the part of those who professed
+that 'they never thoft to ha' seen Jacob, and Giles, and Jonathan
+go off for soldiers, save to attend his honour, as in duty bound.'
+Edward, as in duty bound, extricated himself from the supplicants
+with the pledge of fewer promises than might have been expected
+from a young man so little accustomed to the world. After a short
+visit to London, he proceeded on horseback, then the general mode
+of travelling, to Edinburgh, and from thence to Dundee, a seaport
+on the eastern coast of Angus-shire, where his regiment was then
+quartered.
+
+He now entered upon a new world, where, for a time, all was
+beautiful because all was new. Colonel Gardiner, the commanding
+officer of the regiment, was himself a study for a romantic, and
+at the same time an inquisitive youth. In person he was tall,
+handsome, and active, though somewhat advanced in life. In his
+early years he had been what is called, by manner of palliative, a
+very gay young man, and strange stories were circulated about his
+sudden conversion from doubt, if not infidelity, to a serious and
+even enthusiastic turn of mind. It was whispered that a
+supernatural communication, of a nature obvious even to the
+exterior senses, had produced this wonderful change; and though
+some mentioned the proselyte as an enthusiast, none hinted at his
+being a hypocrite. This singular and mystical circumstance gave
+Colonel Gardiner a peculiar and solemn interest in the eyes of the
+young soldier. [Footnote: See Note 5.] It may be easily imagined
+that the officers, of a regiment commanded by so respectable a
+person composed a society more sedate and orderly than a military
+mess always exhibits; and that Waverley escaped some temptations
+to which he might otherwise have been exposed.
+
+Meanwhile his military education proceeded. Already a good
+horseman, he was now initiated into the arts of the manege, which,
+when carried to perfection, almost realise the fable of the
+Centaur, the guidance of the horse appearing to proceed from the
+rider's mere volition, rather than from the use of any external
+and apparent signal of motion. He received also instructions in
+his field duty; but I must own, that when his first ardour was
+past, his progress fell short in the latter particular of what he
+wished and expected. The duty of an officer, the most imposing of
+all others to the inexperienced mind, because accompanied with so
+much outward pomp and circumstance, is in its essence a very dry
+and abstract task, depending chiefly upon arithmetical
+combinations, requiring much attention, and a cool and reasoning
+head to bring them into action. Our hero was liable to fits of
+absence, in which his blunders excited some mirth, and called down
+some reproof. This circumstance impressed him with a painful sense
+of inferiority in those qualities which appeared most to deserve
+and obtain regard in his new profession. He asked himself in vain,
+why his eye could not judge of distance or space so well as those
+of his companions; why his head was not always successful in
+disentangling the various partial movements necessary to execute a
+particular evolution; and why his memory, so alert upon most
+occasions, did not correctly retain technical phrases and minute
+points of etiquette or field discipline. Waverley was naturally
+modest, and therefore did not fall into the egregious mistake of
+supposing such minuter rules of military duty beneath his notice,
+or conceiting himself to be born a general, because he made an
+indifferent subaltern. The truth was, that the vague and
+unsatisfactory course of reading which he had pursued, working
+upon a temper naturally retired and abstracted, had given him that
+wavering and unsettled habit of mind which is most averse to study
+and riveted attention. Time, in the mean while, hung heavy on his
+hands. The gentry of the neighbourhood were disaffected, and
+showed little hospitality to the military guests; and the people
+of the town, chiefly engaged in mercantile pursuits, were not such
+as Waverley chose to associate with. The arrival of summer, and a
+curiosity to know something more of Scotland than he could see in
+a ride from his quarters, determined him to request leave of
+absence for a few weeks. He resolved first to visit his uncle's
+ancient friend and correspondent, with the purpose of extending or
+shortening the time of his residence according to circumstances.
+He travelled of course on horse-back, and with a single
+attendant, and passed his first night at a miserable inn, where
+the landlady had neither shoes nor stockings, and the landlord,
+who called himself a gentleman, was disposed to be rude to his
+guest, because he had not bespoke the pleasure of his society to
+supper. [Footnote: See Note 6.] The next day, traversing an open
+and uninclosed country, Edward gradually approached the Highlands
+of Perthshire, which at first had appeared a blue outline in the
+horizon, but now swelled into huge gigantic masses, which frowned
+defiance over the more level country that lay beneath them. Near
+the bottom of this stupendous barrier, but still in the Lowland
+country, dwelt Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine of Bradwardine; and, if
+grey-haired eld can be in aught believed, there had dwelt his
+ancestors, with all their heritage, since the days of the gracious
+King Duncan.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII
+
+A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE
+
+
+It was about noon when Captain Waverley entered the straggling
+village, or rather hamlet, of Tully-Veolan, close to which was
+situated the mansion of the proprietor. The houses seemed
+miserable in the extreme, especially to an eye accustomed to the
+smiling neatness of English cottages. They stood, without any
+respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of
+unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of
+nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the
+first passing horse. Occasionally, indeed, when such a
+consummation seemed inevitable, a watchful old grandam, with her
+close cap, distaff, and spindle, rushed like a sibyl in frenzy out
+of one of these miserable cells, dashed into the middle of the
+path, and snatching up her own charge from among the sunburnt
+loiterers, saluted him with a sound cuff, and transported him back
+to his dungeon, the little white-headed varlet screaming all the
+while, from the very top of his lungs, a shrilly treble to the
+growling remonstrances of the enraged matron. Another part in this
+concert was sustained by the incessant yelping of a score of idle
+useless curs, which followed, snarling, barking, howling, and
+snapping at the horses' heels; a nuisance at that time so common
+in Scotland, that a French tourist, who, like other travellers,
+longed to find a good and rational reason for everything he saw,
+has recorded, as one of the memorabilia of Caledonia, that the
+state maintained, in each village a relay of curs, called collies,
+whose duty it was to chase the chevaux de poste (too starved and
+exhausted to move without such a stimulus) from one hamlet to
+another, till their annoying convoy drove them to the end of their
+stage. The evil and remedy (such as it is) still exist.--But this
+is remote from our present purpose, and is only thrown out for
+consideration of the collectors under Mr. Dent's Dog Bill.
+
+As Waverley moved on, here and there an old man, bent as much by
+toil as years, his eyes bleared with age and smoke, tottered to
+the door of his hut, to gaze on the dress of the stranger and the
+form and motions of the horses, and then assembled, with his
+neighbours, in a little group at the smithy, to discuss the
+probabilities of whence the stranger came and where he might be
+going. Three or four village girls, returning from the well or
+brook with pitchers and pails upon their heads, formed more
+pleasing objects, and, with their thin short-gowns and single
+petticoats, bare arms, legs, and feet, uncovered heads and braided
+hair, somewhat resembled Italian forms of landscape. Nor could a
+lover of the picturesque have challenged either the elegance of
+their costume or the symmetry of their shape; although, to say the
+truth, a mere Englishman in search of the COMFORTABLE, a word
+peculiar to his native tongue, might have wished the clothes less
+scanty, the feet and legs somewhat protected from the weather, the
+head and complexion shrouded from the sun, or perhaps might even
+have thought the whole person and dress considerably improved by a
+plentiful application of spring water, with a quantum sufficit of
+soap. The whole scene was depressing; for it argued, at the first
+glance, at least a stagnation of industry, and perhaps of
+intellect. Even curiosity, the busiest passion of the idle, seemed
+of a listless cast in the village of Tully-Veolan: the curs
+aforesaid alone showed any part of its activity; with the
+villagers it was passive. They stood, and gazed at the handsome
+young officer and his attendant, but without any of those quick
+motions and eager looks that indicate the earnestness with which
+those who live in monotonous ease at home look out for amusement
+abroad. Yet the physiognomy of the people, when more closely
+examined, was far from exhibiting the indifference of stupidity;
+their features were rough, but remarkably intelligent; grave, but
+the very reverse of stupid; and from among the young women an
+artist might have chosen more than one model whose features and
+form resembled those of Minerva. The children also, whose skins
+were burnt black, and whose hair was bleached white, by the
+influence of the sun, had a look and manner of life and interest.
+It seemed, upon the whole, as if poverty, and indolence, its too
+frequent companion, were combining to depress the natural genius
+and acquired information of a hardy, intelligent, and reflecting
+peasantry.
+
+Some such thoughts crossed Waverley's mind as he paced his horse
+slowly through the rugged and flinty street of Tully-Veolan,
+interrupted only in his meditations by the occasional caprioles
+which his charger exhibited at the reiterated assaults of those
+canine Cossacks, the collies before mentioned. The village was
+more than half a mile long, the cottages being irregularly divided
+from each other by gardens, or yards, as the inhabitants called
+them, of different sizes, where (for it is Sixty Years Since) the
+now universal potato was unknown, but which were stored with
+gigantic plants of kale or colewort, encircled with groves of
+nettles, and exhibited here and there a huge hemlock, or the
+national thistle, overshadowing a quarter of the petty inclosure.
+The broken ground on which the village was built had never been
+levelled; so that these inclosures presented declivities of every
+degree, here rising like terraces, there sinking like tan-pits.
+The dry-stone walls which fenced, or seemed to fence (for they
+were sorely breached), these hanging gardens of Tully-Veolan were
+intersected by a narrow lane leading to the common field, where
+the joint labour of the villagers cultivated alternate ridges and
+patches of rye, oats, barley, and pease, each of such minute
+extent that at a little distance the unprofitable variety of the
+surface resembled a tailor's book of patterns. In a few favoured
+instances, there appeared behind the cottages a miserable wigwam,
+compiled of earth, loose stones, and turf, where the wealthy might
+perhaps shelter a starved cow or sorely galled horse. But almost
+every hut was fenced in front by a huge black stack of turf on one
+side of the door, while on the other the family dunghill ascended
+in noble emulation.
+
+About a bowshot from the end of the village appeared the
+inclosures proudly denominated the Parks of Tully-Veolan, being
+certain square fields, surrounded and divided by stone walls five
+feet in height. In the centre of the exterior barrier was the
+upper gate of the avenue, opening under an archway, battlemented
+on the top, and adorned with two large weather-beaten mutilated
+masses of upright stone, which, if the tradition of the hamlet
+could be trusted, had once represented, at least had been once
+designed to represent, two rampant Bears, the supporters of the
+family of Bradwardine. This avenue was straight and of moderate
+length, running between a double row of very ancient horse-
+chestnuts, planted alternately with sycamores, which rose to such
+huge height, and nourished so luxuriantly, that their boughs
+completely over-arched the broad road beneath. Beyond these
+venerable ranks, and running parallel to them, were two high
+walls, of apparently the like antiquity, overgrown with ivy,
+honeysuckle, and other climbing plants. The avenue seemed very
+little trodden, and chiefly by foot-passengers; so that being very
+broad, and enjoying a constant shade, it was clothed with grass of
+a deep and rich verdure, excepting where a foot-path, worn by
+occasional passengers, tracked with a natural sweep the way from
+the upper to the lower gate. This nether portal, like the former,
+opened in front of a wall ornamented with some rude sculpture,
+with battlements on the top, over which were seen, half-hidden by
+the trees of the avenue, the high steep roofs and narrow gables of
+the mansion, with lines indented into steps, and corners decorated
+with small turrets. One of the folding leaves of the lower gate
+was open, and as the sun shone full into the court behind, a long
+line of brilliancy was flung upon the aperture up the dark and
+gloomy avenue. It was one of those effects which a painter loves
+to represent, and mingled well with the struggling light which
+found its way between the boughs of the shady arch that vaulted
+the broad green alley.
+
+The solitude and repose of the whole scene seemed almost monastic;
+and Waverley, who had given his horse to his servant on entering
+the first gate, walked slowly down the avenue, enjoying the
+grateful and cooling shade, and so much pleased with the placid
+ideas of rest and seclusion excited by this confined and quiet
+scene, that he forgot the misery and dirt of the hamlet he had
+left behind him. The opening into the paved court-yard
+corresponded with the rest of the scene. The house, which seemed
+to consist of two or three high, narrow, and steep-roofed
+buildings, projecting from each other at right angles, formed one
+side of the inclosure. It had been built at a period when castles
+were no longer necessary, and when the Scottish architects had not
+yet acquired the art of designing a domestic residence. The
+windows were numberless, but very small; the roof had some
+nondescript kind of projections, called bartizans, and displayed
+at each frequent angle a small turret, rather resembling a pepper-
+box than a Gothic watchtower. Neither did the front indicate
+absolute security from danger. There were loop-holes for musketry,
+and iron stanchions on the lower windows, probably to repel any
+roving band of gypsies, or resist a predatory visit from the
+caterans of the neighbouring Highlands. Stables and other offices
+occupied another side of the square. The former were low vaults,
+with narrow slits instead of windows, resembling, as Edward's
+groom observed, 'rather a prison for murderers, and larceners, and
+such like as are tried at 'sizes, than a place for any Christian
+cattle.' Above these dungeon-looking stables were granaries,
+called girnels, and other offices, to which there was access by
+outside stairs of heavy masonry. Two battlemented walls, one of
+which faced the avenue, and the other divided the court from the
+garden, completed the inclosure.
+
+Nor was the court without its ornaments. In one corner was a tun-
+bellied pigeon-house, of great size and rotundity, resembling in
+figure and proportion the curious edifice called Arthur's Oven,
+which would have turned the brains of all the antiquaries in
+England, had not the worthy proprietor pulled it down for the sake
+of mending a neighbouring dam-dyke. This dove-cot, or columbarium,
+as the owner called it, was no small resource to a Scottish laird
+of that period, whose scanty rents were eked out by the
+contributions levied upon the farms by these light foragers, and
+the conscriptions exacted from the latter for the benefit of the
+table.
+
+Another corner of the court displayed a fountain, where a huge
+bear, carved in stone, predominated over a large stone-basin, into
+which he disgorged the water. This work of art was the wonder of
+the country ten miles round. It must not be forgotten, that all
+sorts of bears, small and large, demi or in full proportion, were
+carved over the windows, upon the ends of the gables, terminated
+the spouts, and supported the turrets, with the ancient family
+motto, 'Beware the Bear', cut under each hyperborean form. The
+court was spacious, well paved, and perfectly clean, there being
+probably another entrance behind the stables for removing the
+litter. Everything around appeared solitary, and would have been
+silent, but for the continued plashing of the fountain; and the
+whole scene still maintained the monastic illusion which the fancy
+of Waverley had conjured up. And here we beg permission to close a
+chapter of still life. [Footnote: See Note 7.]
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX
+
+MORE OF THE MANOR-HOUSE AND ITS ENVIRONS
+
+
+After having satisfied his curiosity by gazing around him for a
+few minutes, Waverley applied himself to the massive knocker of
+the hall-door, the architrave of which bore the date 1594. But no
+answer was returned, though the peal resounded through a number of
+apartments, and was echoed from the court-yard walls without the
+house, startling the pigeons from the venerable rotunda which they
+occupied, and alarming anew even the distant village curs, which
+had retired to sleep upon their respective dunghills. Tired of the
+din which he created, and the unprofitable responses which it
+excited, Waverley began to think that he had reached the castle of
+Orgoglio as entered by the victorious Prince Arthur,--
+
+    When 'gan he loudly through the house to call,
+    But no man cared to answer to his cry;
+    There reign'd a solemn silence over all,
+    Nor voice was heard, nor wight was seen in bower or hall.
+
+Filled almost with expectation of beholding some 'old, old man,
+with beard as white as snow,' whom he might question concerning
+this deserted mansion, our hero turned to a little oaken wicket-
+door, well clenched with iron-nails, which opened in the court-
+yard wall at its angle with the house. It was only latched,
+notwithstanding its fortified appearance, and, when opened,
+admitted him into the garden, which presented a pleasant
+scene. [Footnote: Footnote: At Ravelston may be seen such a garden,
+which the taste of the proprietor, the author's friend and
+kinsman, Sir Alexander Keith, Knight Mareschal, has judiciously
+preserved. That, as well as the house is, however, of smaller
+dimensions than the Baron of Bradwardine's mansion and garden are
+presumed to have been.] The southern side of the house, clothed
+with fruit-trees, and having many evergreens trained upon its
+walls, extended its irregular yet venerable front along a terrace,
+partly paved, partly gravelled, partly bordered with flowers and
+choice shrubs. This elevation descended by three several flights
+of steps, placed in its centre and at the extremities, into what
+might be called the garden proper, and was fenced along the top by
+a stone parapet with a heavy balustrade, ornamented from space to
+space with huge grotesque figures of animals seated upon their
+haunches, among which the favourite bear was repeatedly
+introduced. Placed in the middle of the terrace between a sashed-
+door opening from the house and the central flight of steps, a
+huge animal of the same species supported on his head and fore-
+paws a sun-dial of large circumference, inscribed with more
+diagrams than Edward's mathematics enabled him to decipher.
+
+The garden, which seemed to be kept with great accuracy, abounded
+in fruit-trees, and exhibited a profusion of flowers and
+evergreens, cut into grotesque forms. It was laid out in terraces,
+which descended rank by rank from the western wall to a large
+brook, which had a tranquil and smooth appearance, where it served
+as a boundary to the garden; but, near the extremity, leapt in
+tumult over a strong dam, or wear-head, the cause of its temporary
+tranquillity, and there forming a cascade, was overlooked by an
+octangular summer-house, with a gilded bear on the top by way of
+vane. After this feat, the brook, assuming its natural rapid and
+fierce character, escaped from the eye down a deep and wooded
+dell, from the copse of which arose a massive, but ruinous tower,
+the former habitation of the Barons of Bradwardine. The margin of
+the brook, opposite to the garden, displayed a narrow meadow, or
+haugh, as it was called, which formed a small washing-green; the
+bank, which retired behind it, was covered by ancient trees.
+
+The scene, though pleasing, was not quite equal to the gardens of
+Alcina; yet wanted not the 'due donzellette garrule' of that
+enchanted paradise, for upon the green aforesaid two bare-legged
+damsels, each standing in a spacious tub, performed with their
+feet the office of a patent washing-machine. These did not,
+however, like the maidens of Armida, remain to greet with their
+harmony the approaching guest, but, alarmed at the appearance of a
+handsome stranger on the opposite side, dropped their garments (I
+should say garment, to be quite correct) over their limbs, which
+their occupation exposed somewhat too freely, and, with a shrill
+exclamation of 'Eh, sirs!' uttered with an accent between modesty
+and coquetry, sprung off like deer in different directions.
+
+Waverley began to despair of gaining entrance into this solitary
+and seemingly enchanted mansion, when a man advanced up one of the
+garden alleys, where he still retained his station. Trusting this
+might be a gardener, or some domestic belonging to the house,
+Edward descended the steps in order to meet him; but as the figure
+approached, and long before he could descry its features, he was
+struck with the oddity of its appearance and gestures. Sometimes
+this mister wight held his hands clasped over his head, like an
+Indian Jogue in the attitude of penance; sometimes he swung them
+perpendicularly, like a pendulum, on each side; and anon he
+slapped them swiftly and repeatedly across his breast, like the
+substitute used by a hackney-coachman for his usual flogging
+exercise, when his cattle are idle upon the stand, in a clear
+frosty day. His gait was as singular as his gestures, for at times
+he hopped with great perseverance on the right foot, then
+exchanged that supporter to advance in the same manner on the
+left, and then putting his feet close together he hopped upon both
+at once. His attire also was antiquated and extravagant. It
+consisted in a sort of grey jerkin, with scarlet cuffs and slashed
+sleeves, showing a scarlet lining; the other parts of the dress
+corresponded in colour, not forgetting a pair of scarlet
+stockings, and a scarlet bonnet, proudly surmounted with a
+turkey's feather. Edward, whom he did not seem to observe, now
+perceived confirmation in his features of what the mien and
+gestures had already announced. It was apparently neither idiocy
+nor insanity which gave that wild, unsettled, irregular expression
+to a face which naturally was rather handsome, but something that
+resembled a compound of both, where the simplicity of the fool was
+mixed with the extravagance of a crazed imagination. He sung with
+great earnestness, and not without some taste, a fragment of an
+old Scottish ditty:--
+
+    False love, and hast thou play'd me this
+    In summer among the flowers?
+    I will repay thee back again
+    In winter among the showers.
+    Unless again, again, my love,
+    Unless you turn again;
+    As you with other maidens rove,
+    I'll smile on other men.
+
+[Footnote: This is a genuine ancient fragment, with some
+alteration in the two last lines.]
+
+Here lifting up his eyes, which had hitherto been fixed in
+observing how his feet kept time to the tune, he beheld Waverley,
+and instantly doffed his cap, with many grotesque signals of
+surprise, respect, and salutation. Edward, though with little hope
+of receiving an answer to any constant question, requested to know
+whether Mr. Bradwardine were at home, or where he could find any
+of the domestics. The questioned party replied, and, like the
+witch of Thalaba, 'still his speech was song,'--
+
+    The Knight's to the mountain
+    His bugle to wind;
+    The Lady's to greenwood
+    Her garland to bind.
+    The bower of Burd Ellen
+    Has moss on the floor,
+    That the step of Lord William
+    Be silent and sure.
+
+This conveyed no information, and Edward, repeating his queries,
+received a rapid answer, in which, from the haste and peculiarity
+of the dialect, the word 'butler' was alone intelligible. Waverley
+then requested to see the butler; upon which the fellow, with a
+knowing look and nod of intelligence, made a signal to Edward to
+follow, and began to dance and caper down the alley up which he
+had made his approaches. A strange guide this, thought Edward, and
+not much unlike one of Shakespeare's roynish clowns. I am not over
+prudent to trust to his pilotage; but wiser men have been led by
+fools. By this time he reached the bottom of the alley, where,
+turning short on a little parterre of flowers, shrouded from the
+east and north by a close yew hedge, he found an old man at work
+without his coat, whose appearance hovered between that of an
+upper servant and gardener; his red nose and ruffled shirt
+belonging to the former profession; his hale and sunburnt visage,
+with his green apron, appearing to indicate
+
+    Old Adam's likeness, set to dress this garden.
+
+The major domo, for such he was, and indisputably the second
+officer of state in the barony (nay, as chief minister of the
+interior, superior even to Bailie Macwheeble in his own department
+of the kitchen and cellar)--the major domo laid down his spade,
+slipped on his coat in haste, and with a wrathful look at Edward's
+guide, probably excited by his having introduced a stranger while
+he was engaged in this laborious, and, as he might suppose it,
+degrading office, requested to know the gentleman's commands.
+Being informed that he wished to pay his respects to his master,
+that his name was Waverley, and so forth, the old man's
+countenance assumed a great deal of respectful importance. 'He
+could take it upon his conscience to say, his honour would have
+exceeding pleasure in seeing him. Would not Mr. Waverley choose
+some refreshment after his journey? His honour was with the folk
+who were getting doon the dark hag; the twa gardener lads (an
+emphasis on the word twa) had been ordered to attend him; and he
+had been just amusing himself in the mean time with dressing Miss
+Rose's flower-bed, that he might be near to receive his honour's
+orders, if need were; he was very fond of a garden, but had little
+time for such divertisements.'
+
+'He canna get it wrought in abune twa days in the week at no rate
+whatever,' said Edward's fantastic conductor.
+
+A grim look from the butler chastised his interference, and he
+commanded him, by the name of Davie Gellatley, in a tone which
+admitted no discussion, to look for his honour at the dark hag,
+and tell him there was a gentleman from the south had arrived at
+the Ha'.
+
+'Can this poor fellow deliver a letter?' asked Edward.
+
+'With all fidelity, sir, to any one whom he respects. I would
+hardly trust him with a long message by word of mouth--though he
+is more knave than fool.'
+
+Waverley delivered his credentials to Mr. Gellatley, who seemed to
+confirm the butler's last observation, by twisting his features at
+him, when he was looking another way, into the resemblance of the
+grotesque face on the bole of a German tobacco pipe; after which,
+with an odd conge to Waverley, he danced off to discharge his
+errand.
+
+'He is an innocent, sir,' said the butler; 'there is one such in
+almost every town in the country, but ours is brought far ben.
+[Footnote: See Note 8.] He used to work a day's turn weel
+enough; but he helped Miss Rose when she was flemit with the Laird
+of Killancureit's new English bull, and since that time we ca' him
+Davie Do-little; indeed we might ca' him Davie Do-naething, for
+since he got that gay clothing, to please his honour and my young
+mistress (great folks will have their fancies), he has done
+naething but dance up and down about the toun, without doing a
+single turn, unless trimming the laird's fishing-wand or busking
+his flies, or may be catching a dish of trouts at an orra time.
+But here comes Miss Rose, who, I take burden upon me for her, will
+be especial glad to see one of the house of Waverley at her
+father's mansion of Tully-Veolan.'
+
+But Rose Bradwardine deserves better of her unworthy historian
+than to be introduced at the end of a chapter.
+
+In the mean while it may be noticed, that Waverley learned two
+things from this colloquy: that in Scotland a single house was
+called a TOWN, and a natural fool an INNOCENT.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X
+
+ROSE BRADWARDINE AND HER FATHER
+
+
+Miss Bradwardine was but seventeen; yet, at the last races of the
+county town of----, upon her health being proposed among a round
+of beauties, the Laird of Bumperquaigh, permanent toast-master and
+croupier of the Bautherwhillery Club, not only said MORE to the
+pledge in a pint bumper of Bourdeaux, but, ere pouring forth the
+libation, denominated the divinity to whom it was dedicated, 'the
+Rose of Tully-Veolan'; upon which festive occasion three cheers
+were given by all the sitting members of that respectable society,
+whose throats the wine had left capable of such exertion. Nay, I
+am well assured, that the sleeping partners of the company snorted
+applause, and that although strong bumpers and weak brains had
+consigned two or three to the floor, yet even these, fallen as
+they were from their high estate, and weltering--I will carry the
+parody no farther--uttered divers inarticulate sounds, intimating
+their assent to the motion.
+
+Such unanimous applause could not be extorted but by acknowledged
+merit; and Rose Bradwardine not only deserved it, but also the
+approbation of much more rational persons than the Bautherwhillery
+Club could have mustered, even before discussion of the first
+magnum. She was indeed a very pretty girl of the Scotch cast of
+beauty, that is, with a profusion of hair of paley gold, and a
+skin like the snow of her own mountains in whiteness. Yet she had
+not a pallid or pensive cast of countenance; her features, as well
+as her temper, had a lively expression; her complexion, though not
+florid, was so pure as to seem transparent, and the slightest
+emotion sent her whole blood at once to her face and neck. Her
+form, though under the common size, was remarkably elegant, and
+her motions light, easy, and unembarrassed. She came from another
+part of the garden to receive Captain Waverley, with a manner that
+hovered between bashfulness and courtesy.
+
+The first greetings past, Edward learned from her that the dark
+hag, which had somewhat puzzled him in the butler's account of his
+master's avocations, had nothing to do either with a black cat or
+a broomstick, but was simply a portion of oak copse which was to
+be felled that day. She offered, with diffident civility, to show
+the stranger the way to the spot, which, it seems, was not far
+distant; but they were prevented by the appearance of the Baron of
+Bradwardine in person, who, summoned by David Gellatley, now
+appeared, 'on hospitable thoughts intent,' clearing the ground at
+a prodigious rate with swift and long strides, which reminded
+Waverley of the seven-league boots of the nursery fable. He was a
+tall, thin, athletic figure, old indeed and grey-haired, but with
+every muscle rendered as tough as whip-cord by constant exercise.
+He was dressed carelessly, and more like a Frenchman than an
+Englishman of the period, while, from his hard features and
+perpendicular rigidity of stature, he bore some resemblance to a
+Swiss officer of the guards, who had resided some time at Paris,
+and caught the costume, but not the ease or manner, of its
+inhabitants. The truth was, that his language and habits were as
+heterogeneous as his external appearance.
+
+Owing to his natural disposition to study, or perhaps to a very
+general Scottish fashion of giving young men of rank a legal
+education, he had been bred with a view to the bar. But the
+politics of his family precluding the hope of his rising in that
+profession, Mr. Bradwardine travelled with high reputation for
+several years, and made some campaigns in foreign service. After
+his demele with the law of high treason in 1715, he had lived in
+retirement, conversing almost entirely with those of his own
+principles in the vicinage. The pedantry of the lawyer,
+superinduced upon the military pride of the soldier, might remind
+a modern of the days of the zealous volunteer service, when the
+bar-gown of our pleaders was often flung over a blazing uniform.
+To this must be added the prejudices of ancient birth and Jacobite
+politics, greatly strengthened by habits of solitary and secluded
+authority, which, though exercised only within the bounds of his
+half-cultivated estate, was there indisputable and undisputed.
+For, as he used to observe, 'the lands of Bradwardine, Tully-
+Veolan, and others, had been erected into a free barony by a
+charter from David the First, cum liberali potest. habendi curias
+et justicias, cum fossa et furca (LIE, pit and gallows) et saka et
+soka, et thol et theam, et infang-thief et outfang-thief, sive
+hand-habend. sive bak-barand.' The peculiar meaning of all these
+cabalistical words few or none could explain; but they implied,
+upon the whole, that the Baron of Bradwardine might, in case of
+delinquency, imprison, try, and execute his vassals at his
+pleasure. Like James the First, however, the present possessor of
+this authority was more pleased in talking about prerogative than
+in exercising it; and excepting that he imprisoned two poachers in
+the dungeon of the old tower of Tully-Veolan, where they were
+sorely frightened by ghosts, and almost eaten by rats, and that he
+set an old woman in the jougs (or Scottish pillory) for saying'
+there were mair fules in the laird's ha' house than Davie
+Gellatley,' I do not learn that he was accused of abusing his high
+powers. Still, however, the conscious pride of possessing them
+gave additional importance to his language and deportment.
+
+At his first address to Waverley, it would seem that the hearty
+pleasure he felt to behold the nephew of his friend had somewhat
+discomposed the stiff and upright dignity of the Baron of
+Bradwardine's demeanour, for the tears stood in the old
+gentleman's eyes, when, having first shaken Edward heartily by the
+hand in the English fashion, he embraced him a la mode Francoise,
+and kissed him on both sides of his face; while the hardness of
+his gripe, and the quantity of Scotch snuff which his accolade
+communicated, called corresponding drops of moisture to the eyes
+of his guest.
+
+'Upon the honour of a gentleman,' he said, 'but it makes me young
+again to see you here, Mr. Waverley! A worthy scion of the old
+stock of Waverley-Honour--spes altera, as Maro hath it--and you
+have the look of the old line, Captain Waverley; not so portly yet
+as my old friend Sir Everard--mais cela viendra avec le tems, as
+my Dutch acquaintance, Baron Kikkitbroeck, said of the sagesse of
+Madame son epouse. And so ye have mounted the cockade? Right,
+right; though I could have wished the colour different, and so I
+would ha' deemed might Sir Everard. But no more of that; I am old,
+and times are changed. And how does the worthy knight baronet, and
+the fair Mrs. Rachel?--Ah, ye laugh, young man! In troth she was
+the fair Mrs. Rachel in the year of grace seventeen hundred and
+sixteen; but time passes--et singula praedantur anni--that is
+most certain. But once again ye are most heartily welcome to my
+poor house of Tully-Veolan! Hie to the house, Rose, and see that
+Alexander Saunderson looks out the old Chateau Margaux, which I
+sent from Bourdeaux to Dundee in the year 1713.'
+
+Rose tripped off demurely enough till she turned the first corner,
+and then ran with the speed of a fairy, that she might gain
+leisure, after discharging her father's commission, to put her own
+dress in order, and produce all her little finery, an occupation
+for which the approaching dinner-hour left but limited time.
+
+'We cannot rival the luxuries of your English table, Captain
+Waverley, or give you the epulae lautiores of Waverley-Honour. I
+say epulae rather than prandium, because the latter phrase is
+popular: epulae ad senatum, prandium vero ad populum attinet, says
+Suetonius Tranquillus. But I trust ye will applaud my Bourdeaux;
+c'est des deux oreilles, as Captain Vinsauf used to say; vinum
+primae notae, the principal of Saint Andrews denominated it. And,
+once more, Captain Waverley, right glad am I that ye are here to
+drink the best my cellar can make forthcoming.'
+
+This speech, with the necessary interjectional answers, continued
+from the lower alley where they met up to the door of the house,
+where four or five servants in old-fashioned liveries, headed by
+Alexander Saunderson, the butler, who now bore no token of the
+sable stains of the garden, received them in grand COSTUME,
+
+    In an old hall hung round with pikes and with bows,
+    With old bucklers and corslets that had borne many shrewd
+      blows.
+
+With much ceremony, and still more real kindness, the Baron,
+without stopping in any intermediate apartment, conducted his
+guest through several into the great dining parlour, wainscotted
+with black oak, and hung round with the pictures of his ancestry,
+where a table was set forth in form for six persons, and an old-
+fashioned beaufet displayed all the ancient and massive plate of
+the Bradwardine family. A bell was now heard at the head of the
+avenue; for an old man, who acted as porter upon gala days, had
+caught the alarm given by Waverley's arrival, and, repairing to
+his post, announced the arrival of other guests.
+
+These, as the Baron assured his young friend, were very estimable
+persons. 'There was the young Laird of Balmawhapple, a Falconer by
+surname, of the house of Glenfarquhar, given right much to field-
+sports--gaudet equis et canibus--but a very discreet young
+gentleman. Then there was the Laird of Killancureit, who had
+devoted his leisure UNTILL tillage and agriculture, and boasted
+himself to be possessed of a bull of matchless merit, brought from
+the county of Devon (the Damnonia of the Romans, if we can trust
+Robert of Cirencester). He is, as ye may well suppose from such a
+tendency, but of yeoman extraction--servabit odorem testa diu--and
+I believe, between ourselves, his grandsire was from the wrong
+side of the Border--one Bullsegg, who came hither as a steward, or
+bailiff, or ground-officer, or something in that department, to
+the last Girnigo of Killancureit, who died of an atrophy. After
+his master's death, sir,--ye would hardly believe such a scandal,
+--but this Bullsegg, being portly and comely of aspect,
+intermarried with the lady dowager, who was young and amorous, and
+possessed himself of the estate, which devolved on this unhappy
+woman by a settlement of her umwhile husband, in direct
+contravention of an unrecorded taillie, and to the prejudice of
+the disponer's own flesh and blood, in the person of his natural
+heir and seventh cousin, Girnigo of Tipperhewit, whose family was
+so reduced by the ensuing law-suit, that his representative is now
+serving as a private gentleman-sentinel in the Highland Black
+Watch. But this gentleman, Mr. Bullsegg of Killancureit that now
+is, has good blood in his veins by the mother and grandmother, who
+were both of the family of Pickletillim, and he is well liked and
+looked upon, and knows his own place. And God forbid, Captain
+Waverley, that we of irreproachable lineage should exult over him,
+when it may be, that in the eighth, ninth, or tenth generation,
+his progeny may rank, in a manner, with the old gentry of the
+country. Rank and ancestry, sir, should be the last words in the
+mouths of us of unblemished race--vix ea nostra voco, as Naso
+saith. There is, besides, a clergyman of the true (though
+suffering) Episcopal church of Scotland. [Footnote: See Note 9.]
+He was a confessor in her cause after the year 1715, when a
+Whiggish mob destroyed his meeting-house, tore his surplice, and
+plundered his dwelling-house of four silver spoons, intromitting
+also with his mart and his mealark, and with two barrels, one of
+single and one of double ale, besides three bottles of brandy. My
+baron-bailie and doer, Mr. Duncan Macwheeble, is the fourth on our
+list. There is a question, owing to the incertitude of ancient
+orthography, whether he belongs to the clan of Wheedle or of
+Quibble, but both have produced persons eminent in the law.'--
+
+  As such he described them by person and name,
+  They enter'd, and dinner was served as they came.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI
+
+THE BANQUET
+
+
+The entertainment was ample and handsome, according to the Scotch
+ideas of the period, and the guests did great honour to it. The
+Baron eat like a famished soldier, the Laird of Balmawhapple like
+a sportsman, Bullsegg of Killancureit like a farmer, Waverley
+himself like a traveller, and Bailie Macwheeble like all four
+together; though, either out of more respect, or in order to
+preserve that proper declination of person which showed a sense
+that he was in the presence of his patron, he sat upon the edge of
+his chair, placed at three feet distance from the table, and
+achieved a communication with his plate by projecting his person
+towards it in a line which obliqued from the bottom of his spine,
+so that the person who sat opposite to him could only see the
+foretop of his riding periwig.
+
+This stooping position might have been inconvenient to another
+person; but long habit made it, whether seated or walking,
+perfectly easy to the worthy Bailie. In the latter posture it
+occasioned, no doubt, an unseemly projection of the person towards
+those who happened to walk behind; but those being at all times
+his inferiors (for Mr. Macwheeble was very scrupulous in giving
+place to all others), he cared very little what inference of
+contempt or slight regard they might derive from the circumstance.
+Hence, when he waddled across the court to and from his old grey
+pony, he somewhat resembled a turnspit walking upon its hind legs.
+
+The nonjuring clergyman was a pensive and interesting old man,
+with much of the air of a sufferer for conscience' sake. He was
+one of those
+
+    Who, undeprived, their benefice forsook.
+
+For this whim, when the Baron was out of hearing, the Bailie used
+sometimes gently to rally Mr. Rubrick, upbraiding him with the
+nicety of his scruples. Indeed, it must be owned, that he himself,
+though at heart a keen partisan of the exiled family, had kept
+pretty fair with all the different turns of state in his time; so
+that Davie Gellatley once described him as a particularly good
+man, who had a very quiet and peaceful conscience, THAT NEVER DID
+HIM ANY HARM.
+
+When the dinner was removed, the Baron announced the health of the
+King, politely leaving to the consciences of his guests to drink
+to the sovereign de facto or de jure, as their politics inclined.
+The conversation now became general; and, shortly afterwards, Miss
+Bradwardine, who had done the honours with natural grace and
+simplicity, retired, and was soon followed by the clergyman. Among
+the rest of the party, the wine, which fully justified the
+encomiums of the landlord, flowed freely round, although Waverley,
+with some difficulty, obtained the privilege of sometimes
+neglecting the glass. At length, as the evening grew more late,
+the Baron made a private signal to Mr. Saunders Saunderson, or, as
+he facetiously denominated him, Alexander ab Alexandro, who left
+the room with a nod, and soon after returned, his grave
+countenance mantling with a solemn and mysterious smile, and
+placed before his master a small oaken casket, mounted with brass
+ornaments of curious form. The Baron, drawing out a private key,
+unlocked the casket, raised the lid, and produced a golden goblet
+of a singular and antique appearance, moulded into the shape of a
+rampant bear, which the owner regarded with a look of mingled
+reverence, pride, and delight, that irresistibly reminded Waverley
+of Ben Jonson's Tom Otter, with his Bull, Horse, and Dog, as that
+wag wittily denominated his chief carousing cups. But Mr.
+Bradwardine, turning towards him with complacency, requested him
+to observe this curious relic of the olden time.
+
+'It represents,' he said, 'the chosen crest of our family, a bear,
+as ye observe, and RAMPANT; because a good herald will depict
+every animal in its noblest posture, as a horse SALIENT, a
+greyhound CURRANT, and, as may be inferred, a ravenous animal in
+actu ferociori, or in a voracious, lacerating, and devouring
+posture. Now, sir, we hold this most honourable achievement by the
+wappen-brief, or concession of arms, of Frederick Red-beard,
+Emperor of Germany, to my predecessor, Godmund Bradwardine, it
+being the crest of a gigantic Dane, whom he slew in the lists in
+the Holy Land, on a quarrel touching the chastity of the emperor's
+spouse or daughter, tradition saith not precisely which, and thus,
+as Virgilius hath it--
+
+    Mutemus clypeos, Danaumque insignia nobis
+    Aptemus.
+
+Then for the cup, Captain Waverley, it was wrought by the command
+of Saint Duthac, Abbot of Aberbrothock, for behoof of another
+baron of the house of Bradwardine, who had valiantly defended the
+patrimony of that monastery against certain encroaching nobles. It
+is properly termed the Blessed Bear of Bradwardine (though old
+Doctor Doubleit used jocosely to call it Ursa Major), and was
+supposed, in old and Catholic times, to be invested with certain
+properties of a mystical and supernatural quality. And though I
+give not in to such anilia, it is certain it has always been
+esteemed a solemn standard cup and heirloom of our house; nor is
+it ever used but upon seasons of high festival, and such I hold to
+be the arrival of the heir of Sir Everard under my roof; and I
+devote this draught to the health and prosperity of the ancient
+and highly-to-be-honoured house of Waverley.'
+
+During this long harangue, he carefully decanted a cob-webbed
+bottle of claret into the goblet, which held nearly an English
+pint; and, at the conclusion, delivering the bottle to the butler,
+to be held carefully in the same angle with the horizon, he
+devoutly quaffed off the contents of the Blessed Bear of
+Bradwardine.
+
+Edward, with horror and alarm, beheld the animal making his
+rounds, and thought with great anxiety upon the appropriate motto,
+'Beware the Bear'; but, at the same time, plainly foresaw that, as
+none of the guests scrupled to do him this extraordinary honour, a
+refusal on his part to pledge their courtesy would be extremely
+ill received. Resolving, therefore, to submit to this last piece
+of tyranny, and then to quit the table, if possible, and confiding
+in the strength of his constitution, he did justice to the company
+in the contents of the Blessed Bear, and felt less inconvenience
+from the draught than he could possibly have expected. The others,
+whose time had been more actively employed, began to show symptoms
+of innovation--'the good wine did its good office.' [Footnote:
+Southey's Madoc.] The frost of etiquette and pride of birth began
+to give way before the genial blessings of this benign
+constellation, and the formal appellatives with which the three
+dignitaries had hitherto addressed each other were now familiarly
+abbreviated into Tully, Bally, and Killie. When a few rounds had
+passed, the two latter, after whispering together, craved
+permission (a joyful hearing for Edward) to ask the grace-cup.
+This, after some delay, was at length produced, and Waverley
+concluded the orgies of Bacchus were terminated for the evening.
+He was never more mistaken in his life.
+
+As the guests had left their horses at the small inn, or change-
+house, as it was called, of the village, the Baron could not, in
+politeness, avoid walking with them up the avenue, and Waverley
+from the same motive, and to enjoy after this feverish revel the
+cool summer evening, attended the party. But when they arrived at
+Luckie Macleary's the Lairds of Balmawhapple and Killancureit
+declared their determination to acknowledge their sense of the
+hospitality of Tully-Veolan by partaking, with their entertainer
+and his guest Captain Waverley, what they technically called deoch
+an doruis, a stirrup-cup, [Footnote 2: See Note 10] to the honour
+of the Baron's roof-tree.
+
+It must be noticed that the Bailie, knowing by experience that the
+day's jovialty, which had been hitherto sustained at the expense
+of his patron, might terminate partly at his own, had mounted his
+spavined grey pony, and, between gaiety of heart and alarm for
+being hooked into a reckoning, spurred him into a hobbling canter
+(a trot was out of the question), and had already cleared the
+village. The others entered the change-house, leading Edward in
+unresisting submission; for his landlord whispered him, that to
+demur to such an overture would be construed into a high
+misdemeanour against the leges conviviales, or regulations of
+genial compotation. Widow Macleary seemed to have expected this
+visit, as well she might, for it was the usual consummation of
+merry bouts, not only at Tully-Veolan, but at most other
+gentlemen's houses in Scotland, Sixty Years Since. The guests
+thereby at once acquitted themselves of their burden of gratitude
+for their entertainer's kindness, encouraged the trade of his
+change-house, did honour to the place which afforded harbour to
+their horses, and indemnified themselves for the previous
+restraints imposed by private hospitality, by spending what
+Falstaff calls the sweet of the night in the genial license of a
+tavern.
+
+Accordingly, in full expectation of these distinguished guests,
+Luckie Macleary had swept her house for the first time this
+fortnight, tempered her turf-fire to such a heat as the season
+required in her damp hovel even at Midsummer, set forth her deal
+table newly washed, propped its lame foot with a fragment of turf,
+arranged four or five stools of huge and clumsy form upon the
+sites which best suited the inequalities of her clay floor; and
+having, moreover, put on her clean toy, rokelay, and scarlet
+plaid, gravely awaited the arrival of the company, in full hope of
+custom and profit. When they were seated under the sooty rafters
+of Luckie Macleary's only apartment, thickly tapestried with
+cobwebs, their hostess, who had already taken her cue from the
+Laird of Balmawhapple, appeared with a huge pewter measuring-pot,
+containing at least three English quarts, familiarly denominated a
+Tappit Hen, and which, in the language of the hostess, reamed
+(i.e., mantled) with excellent claret just drawn from the cask.
+
+It was soon plain that what crumbs of reason the Bear had not
+devoured were to be picked up by the Hen; but the confusion which
+appeared to prevail favoured Edward's resolution to evade the
+gaily circling glass. The others began to talk thick and at once,
+each performing his own part in the conversation without the least
+respect to his neighbour. The Baron of Bradwardine sung French
+chansons-a-boire, and spouted pieces of Latin; Killancureit
+talked, in a steady unalterable dull key, of top-dressing and
+bottom-dressing, [Footnote: This has been censured as an
+anachronism; and it must be confessed that agriculture of this
+kind was unknown to the Scotch Sixty Years Since.] and year-olds,
+and gimmers, and dinmonts, and stots, and runts, and kyloes, and a
+proposed turnpike-act; while Balmawhapple, in notes exalted above
+both, extolled his horse, his hawks, and a greyhound called
+Whistler. In the middle of this din, the Baron repeatedly implored
+silence; and when at length the instinct of polite discipline so
+far prevailed that for a moment he obtained it, he hastened to
+beseech their attention 'unto a military ariette, which was a
+particular favourite of the Marechal Duc de Berwick'; then,
+imitating, as well as he could, the manner and tone of a French
+musquetaire, he immediately commenced,--
+
+    Mon coeur volage, dit elle,
+      N'est pas pour vous, garcon;
+    Est pour un homme de guerre,
+      Qui a barbe au menton.
+                 Lon, Lon, Laridon.
+
+    Qui port chapeau a plume,
+      Soulier a rouge talon,
+    Qui joue de la flute,
+      Aussi du violon.
+                 Lon, Lon, Laridon.
+
+Balmawhapple could hold no longer, but broke in with what he
+called a d--d good song, composed by Gibby Gaethroughwi't, the
+piper of Cupar; and, without wasting more time, struck up,--
+
+    It's up Glenbarchan's braes I gaed,
+    And o'er the bent of Killiebraid,
+    And mony a weary cast I made,
+      To cuittle the moor-fowl's tail.
+
+[Footnote: Suum cuique. This snatch of a ballad was composed by
+Andrew MacDonald, the ingenious and unfortunate author of
+Vimonda.]
+
+The Baron, whose voice was drowned in the louder and more
+obstreperous strains of Balmawhapple, now dropped the competition,
+but continued to hum 'Lon, Lon, Laridon,' and to regard the
+successful candidate for the attention of the company with an eye
+of disdain, while Balmawhapple proceeded,--
+
+    If up a bonny black-cock should spring,
+    To whistle him down wi' a slug in his wing,
+    And strap him on to my lunzie string,
+    Right seldom would I fail.
+
+After an ineffectual attempt to recover the second verse, he sung
+the first over again; and, in prosecution of his triumph, declared
+there was 'more sense in that than in all the derry-dongs of
+France, and Fifeshire to the boot of it.' The Baron only answered
+with a long pinch of snuff and a glance of infinite contempt. But
+those noble allies, the Bear and the Hen, had emancipated the
+young laird from the habitual reverence in which he held
+Bradwardine at other times. He pronounced the claret shilpit, and
+demanded brandy with great vociferation. It was brought; and now
+the Demon of Politics envied even the harmony arising from this
+Dutch concert, merely because there was not a wrathful note in the
+strange compound of sounds which it produced. Inspired by her, the
+Laird of Balmawhapple, now superior to the nods and winks with
+which the Baron of Bradwardine, in delicacy to Edward, had
+hitherto checked his entering upon political discussion, demanded
+a bumper, with the lungs of a Stentor, 'to the little gentleman in
+black velvet who did such service in 1702, and may the white horse
+break his neck over a mound of his making!'
+
+Edward was not at that moment clear-headed enough to remember that
+King William's fall, which occasioned his death, was said to be
+owing to his horse stumbling at a mole-hill; yet felt inclined to
+take umbrage at a toast which seemed, from the glance of
+Balmawhapple's eye, to have a peculiar and uncivil reference to
+the Government which he served. But, ere he could interfere, the
+Baron of Bradwardine had taken up the quarrel. 'Sir,' he said,
+'whatever my sentiments tanquam privatus may be in such matters, I
+shall not tamely endure your saying anything that may impinge upon
+the honourable feelings of a gentleman under my roof. Sir, if you
+have no respect for the laws of urbanity, do ye not respect the
+military oath, the sacramentum militare, by which every officer is
+bound to the standards under which he is enrolled? Look at Titus
+Livius, what he says of those Roman soldiers who were so unhappy
+as exuere sacramentum, to renounce their legionary oath; but you
+are ignorant, sir, alike of ancient history and modern courtesy.'
+
+'Not so ignorant as ye would pronounce me,' roared Balmawhapple.
+'I ken weel that you mean the Solemn League and Covenant; but if
+a' the Whigs in hell had taken the--'
+
+Here the Baron and Waverley both spoke at once, the former calling
+out, 'Be silent, sir! ye not only show your ignorance, but
+disgrace your native country before a stranger and an Englishman';
+and Waverley, at the same moment, entreating Mr. Bradwardine to
+permit him to reply to an affront which seemed levelled at him
+personally. But the Baron was exalted by wine, wrath, and scorn
+above all sublunary considerations.
+
+'I crave you to be hushed, Captain Waverley; you are elsewhere,
+peradventure, sui juris,--foris-familiated, that is, and entitled,
+it may be, to think and resent for yourself; but in my domain, in
+this poor Barony of Bradwardine, and under this roof, which is
+quasi mine, being held by tacit relocation by a tenant at will, I
+am in loco parentis to you, and bound to see you scathless. And
+for you, Mr. Falconer of Balmawhapple, I warn ye, let me see no
+more aberrations from the paths of good manners.'
+
+'And I tell you, Mr. Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine of Bradwardine and
+Tully-Veolan,' retorted the sportsman in huge disdain, 'that I'll
+make a moor-cock of the man that refuses my toast, whether it be a
+crop-eared English Whig wi' a black ribband at his lug, or ane wha
+deserts his ain friends to claw favour wi' the rats of Hanover.'
+
+In an instant both rapiers were brandished, and some desperate
+passes exchanged. Balmawhapple was young, stout, and active; but
+the Baron, infinitely more master of his weapon, would, like Sir
+Toby Belch, have tickled his opponent other gates than he did had
+he not been under the influence of Ursa Major.
+
+Edward rushed forward to interfere between the combatants, but the
+prostrate bulk of the Laird of Killancureit, over which he
+stumbled, intercepted his passage. How Killancureit happened to be
+in this recumbent posture at so interesting a moment was never
+accurately known. Some thought he was about to insconce himself
+under the table; he himself alleged that he stumbled in the act of
+lifting a joint-stool, to prevent mischief, by knocking down
+Balmawhapple. Be that as it may, if readier aid than either his or
+Waverley's had not interposed, there would certainly have been
+bloodshed. But the well-known clash of swords, which was no
+stranger to her dwelling, aroused Luckie Macleary as she sat
+quietly beyond the hallan, or earthen partition of the cottage,
+with eyes employed on Boston's 'Crook the Lot,' while her ideas
+were engaged in summing up the reckoning. She boldly rushed in,
+with the shrill expostulation, 'Wad their honours slay ane another
+there, and bring discredit on an honest widow-woman's house, when
+there was a' the lee-land in the country to fight upon?' a
+remonstrance which she seconded by flinging her plaid with great
+dexterity over the weapons of the combatants. The servants by this
+time rushed in, and being, by great chance, tolerably sober,
+separated the incensed opponents, with the assistance of Edward
+and Killancureit. The latter led off Balmawhapple, cursing,
+swearing, and vowing revenge against every Whig, Presbyterian, and
+fanatic in England and Scotland, from John-o'-Groat's to the
+Land's End, and with difficulty got him to horse. Our hero, with
+the assistance of Saunders Saunderson, escorted the Baron of
+Bradwardine to his own dwelling, but could not prevail upon him to
+retire to bed until he had made a long and learned apology for the
+events of the evening, of which, however, there was not a word
+intelligible, except something about the Centaurs and the
+Lapithae.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII
+
+REPENTANCE AND A RECONCILIATION
+
+
+Waverley was unaccustomed to the use of wine, excepting with great
+temperance. He slept therefore soundly till late in the succeeding
+morning, and then awakened to a painful recollection of the scene
+of the preceding evening. He had received a personal affront--he,
+a gentleman, a soldier, and a Waverley. True, the person who
+offered it was not, at the time it was given, possessed of the
+moderate share of sense which nature had allotted him; true also,
+in resenting this insult, he would break the laws of Heaven as
+well as of his country; true, in doing so, he might take the life
+of a young man who perhaps respectably discharged the social
+duties, and render his family miserable, or he might lose his own
+--no pleasant alternative even to the bravest, when it is debated
+coolly and in private.
+
+All this pressed on his mind; yet the original statement recurred
+with the same irresistible force. He had received a personal
+insult; he was of the house of Waverley; and he bore a commission.
+There was no alternative; and he descended to the breakfast
+parlour with the intention of taking leave of the family, and
+writing to one of his brother officers to meet him at the inn
+midway between Tully-Veolan and the town where they were
+quartered, in order that he might convey such a message to the
+Laird of Balmawhapple as the circumstances seemed to demand. He
+found Miss Bradwardine presiding over the tea and coffee, the
+table loaded with warm bread, both of flour, oatmeal, and
+barleymeal, in the shape of loaves, cakes, biscuits, and other
+varieties, together with eggs, reindeer ham, mutton and beef
+ditto, smoked salmon, marmalade, and all the other delicacies
+which induced even Johnson himself to extol the luxury of a Scotch
+breakfast above that of all other countries. A mess of oatmeal
+porridge, flanked by a silver jug, which held an equal mixture of
+cream and butter-milk, was placed for the Baron's share of this
+repast; but Rose observed, he had walked out early in the morning,
+after giving orders that his guest should not be disturbed.
+
+Waverley sat down almost in silence, and with an air of absence
+and abstraction which could not give Miss Bradwardine a favourable
+opinion of his talents for conversation. He answered at random one
+or two observations which she ventured to make upon ordinary
+topics; so that, feeling herself almost repulsed in her efforts at
+entertaining him, and secretly wondering that a scarlet coat
+should cover no better breeding, she left him to his mental
+amusement of cursing Doctor Doubleit's favourite constellation of
+Ursa Major as the cause of all the mischief which had already
+happened and was likely to ensue. At once he started, and his
+colour heightened, as, looking toward the window, he beheld the
+Baron and young Balmawhapple pass arm in arm, apparently in deep
+conversation; and he hastily asked, 'Did Mr. Falconer sleep here
+last night?' Rose, not much pleased with the abruptness of the
+first question which the young stranger had addressed to her,
+answered drily in the negative, and the conversation again sunk
+into silence.
+
+At this moment Mr. Saunderson appeared, with a message from his
+master, requesting to speak with Captain Waverley in another
+apartment. With a heart which beat a little quicker, not indeed
+from fear, but from uncertainty and anxiety, Edward obeyed the
+summons. He found the two gentlemen standing together, an air of
+complacent dignity on the brow of the Baron, while something like
+sullenness or shame, or both, blanked the bold visage of
+Balmawhapple. The former slipped his arm through that of the
+latter, and thus seeming to walk with him, while in reality he led
+him, advanced to meet Waverley, and, stopping in the midst of the
+apartment, made in great state the following oration: 'Captain
+Waverley--my young and esteemed friend, Mr. Falconer of
+Balmawhapple, has craved of my age and experience, as of one not
+wholly unskilled in the dependencies and punctilios of the duello
+or monomachia, to be his interlocutor in expressing to you the
+regret with which he calls to remembrance certain passages of our
+symposion last night, which could not but be highly displeasing to
+you, as serving for the time under this present existing
+government. He craves you, sir, to drown in oblivion the memory of
+such solecisms against the laws of politeness, as being what his
+better reason disavows, and to receive the hand which he offers
+you in amity; and I must needs assure you that nothing less than a
+sense of being dans son tort, as a gallant French chevalier, Mons.
+Le Bretailleur, once said to me on such an occasion, and an
+opinion also of your peculiar merit, could have extorted such
+concessions; for he and all his family are, and have been, time
+out of mind, Mavortia pectora, as Buchanan saith, a bold and
+warlike sept, or people.'
+
+Edward immediately, and with natural politeness, accepted the hand
+which Balmawhapple, or rather the Baron in his character of
+mediator, extended towards him. 'It was impossible,' he said, 'for
+him to remember what a gentleman expressed his wish he had not
+uttered; and he willingly imputed what had passed to the exuberant
+festivity of the day.'
+
+'That is very handsomely said,' answered the Baron; 'for
+undoubtedly, if a man be ebrius, or intoxicated, an incident which
+on solemn and festive occasions may and will take place in the
+life of a man of honour; and if the same gentleman, being fresh
+and sober, recants the contumelies which he hath spoken in his
+liquor, it must be held vinum locutum est; the words cease to be
+his own. Yet would I not find this exculpation relevant in the
+case of one who was ebriosus, or an habitual drunkard; because, if
+such a person choose to pass the greater part of his time in the
+predicament of intoxication, he hath no title to be exeemed from
+the obligations of the code of politeness, but should learn to
+deport himself peaceably and courteously when under influence of
+the vinous stimulus. And now let us proceed to breakfast, and
+think no more of this daft business.'
+
+I must confess, whatever inference may be drawn from the
+circumstance, that Edward, after so satisfactory an explanation,
+did much greater honour to the delicacies of Miss Bradwardine's
+breakfast-table than his commencement had promised. Balmawhapple,
+on the contrary, seemed embarrassed and dejected; and Waverley
+now, for the first time, observed that his arm was in a sling,
+which seemed to account for the awkward and embarrassed manner
+with which he had presented his hand. To a question from Miss
+Bradwardine, he muttered in answer something about his horse
+having fallen; and seeming desirous to escape both from the
+subject and the company, he arose as soon as breakfast was over,
+made his bow to the party, and, declining the Baron's invitation
+to tarry till after dinner, mounted his horse and returned to his
+own home.
+
+Waverley now announced his purpose of leaving Tully-Veolan early
+enough after dinner to gain the stage at which he meant to sleep;
+but the unaffected and deep mortification with which the good-
+natured and affectionate old gentleman heard the proposal quite
+deprived him of courage to persist in it. No sooner had he gained
+Waverley's consent to lengthen his visit for a few days than he
+laboured to remove the grounds upon which he conceived he had
+meditated a more early retreat. 'I would not have you opine,
+Captain Waverley, that I am by practice or precept an advocate of
+ebriety, though it may be that, in our festivity of last night,
+some of our friends, if not perchance altogether ebrii, or
+drunken, were, to say the least, ebrioli, by which the ancients
+designed those who were fuddled, or, as your English vernacular
+and metaphorical phrase goes, half-seas-over. Not that I would so
+insinuate respecting you, Captain Waverley, who, like a prudent
+youth, did rather abstain from potation; nor can it be truly said
+of myself, who, having assisted at the tables of many great
+generals and marechals at their solemn carousals, have the art to
+carry my wine discreetly, and did not, during the whole evening,
+as ye must have doubtless observed, exceed the bounds of a modest
+hilarity.'
+
+There was no refusing assent to a proposition so decidedly laid
+down by him, who undoubtedly was the best judge; although, had
+Edward formed his opinion from his own recollections, he would
+have pronounced that the Baron was not only ebriolus, but verging
+to become ebrius; or, in plain English, was incomparably the most
+drunk of the party, except perhaps his antagonist the Laird of
+Balmawhapple. However, having received the expected, or rather the
+required, compliment on his sobriety, the Baron proceeded--'No,
+sir, though I am myself of a strong temperament, I abhor ebriety,
+and detest those who swallow wine gulce causa, for the oblectation
+of the gullet; albeit I might deprecate the law of Pittacus of
+Mitylene, who punished doubly a crime committed under the
+influence of 'Liber Pater'; nor would I utterly accede to the
+objurgation of the younger Plinius, in the fourteenth book of his
+'Historia Naturalis.' No, sir, I distinguish, I discriminate, and
+approve of wine so far only as it maketh glad the face, or, in the
+language of Flaccus, recepto amico.'
+
+Thus terminated the apology which the Baron of Bradwardine thought
+it necessary to make for the superabundance of his hospitality;
+and it may be easily believed that he was neither interrupted by
+dissent nor any expression of incredulity.
+
+He then invited his guest to a morning ride, and ordered that
+Davie Gellatley should meet them at the dern path with Ban and
+Buscar. 'For, until the shooting season commence, I would
+willingly show you some sport, and we may, God willing, meet with
+a roe. The roe, Captain Waverley, may be hunted at all times
+alike; for never being in what is called PRIDE OF GREASE, he is
+also never out of season, though it be a truth that his venison is
+not equal to that of either the red or fallow deer. [Footnote: The
+learned in cookery dissent from the Baron of Bradwardine, and hold
+the roe venison dry and indifferent food, unless when dressed in
+soup and Scotch collops.] But he will serve to show how my dogs
+run; and therefore they shall attend us with David Gellatley.'
+
+Waverley expressed his surprise that his friend Davie was capable
+of such trust; but the Baron gave him to understand that this poor
+simpleton was neither fatuous, nec naturaliter idiota, as is
+expressed in the brieves of furiosity, but simply a crack-brained
+knave, who could execute very well any commission which jumped
+with his own humour, and made his folly a plea for avoiding every
+other. 'He has made an interest with us,' continued the Baron, 'by
+saving Rose from a great danger with his own proper peril; and the
+roguish loon must therefore eat of our bread and drink of our cup,
+and do what he can, or what he will, which, if the suspicions of
+Saunderson and the Bailie are well founded, may perchance in his
+case be commensurate terms.'
+
+Miss Bradwardine then gave Waverley to understand that this poor
+simpleton was dotingly fond of music, deeply affected by that
+which was melancholy, and transported into extravagant gaiety by
+light and lively airs. He had in this respect a prodigious memory,
+stored with miscellaneous snatches and fragments of all tunes and
+songs, which he sometimes applied, with considerable address, as
+the vehicles of remonstrance, explanation, or satire. Davie was
+much attached to the few who showed him kindness; and both aware
+of any slight or ill usage which he happened to receive, and
+sufficiently apt, where he saw opportunity, to revenge it. The
+common people, who often judge hardly of each other as well as of
+their betters, although they had expressed great compassion for
+the poor innocent while suffered to wander in rags about the
+village, no sooner beheld him decently clothed, provided for, and
+even a sort of favourite, than they called up all the instances of
+sharpness and ingenuity, in action and repartee, which his annals
+afforded, and charitably bottomed thereupon a hypothesis that
+David Gellatley was no farther fool than was necessary to avoid
+hard labour. This opinion was not better founded than that of the
+Negroes, who, from the acute and mischievous pranks of the
+monkeys, suppose that they have the gift of speech, and only
+suppress their powers of elocution to escape being set to work.
+But the hypothesis was entirely imaginary; David Gellatley was in
+good earnest the half-crazed simpleton which he appeared, and was
+incapable of any constant and steady exertion. He had just so much
+solidity as kept on the windy side of insanity, so much wild wit
+as saved him from the imputation of idiocy, some dexterity in
+field-sports (in which we have known as great fools excel), great
+kindness and humanity in the treatment of animals entrusted to
+him, warm affections, a prodigious memory, and an ear for music.
+
+The stamping of horses was now heard in the court, and Davie's
+voice singing to the two large deer greyhounds,
+
+    Hie away, hie away,
+    Over bank and over brae,
+    Where the copsewood is the greenest,
+    Where the fountains glisten sheenest,
+    Where the lady-fern grows strongest,
+    Where the morning dew lies longest,
+    Where the black-cock sweetest sips it,
+    Where the fairy latest trips it.
+    Hie to haunts right seldom seen,
+    Lovely, lonesome, cool, and green,
+    Over bank and over brae,
+    Hie away, hie away.
+
+'Do the verses he sings,' asked Waverley, 'belong to old Scottish
+poetry, Miss Bradwardine?'
+
+'I believe not,' she replied. 'This poor creature had a brother,
+and Heaven, as if to compensate to the family Davie's
+deficiencies, had given him what the hamlet thought uncommon
+talents. An uncle contrived to educate him for the Scottish kirk,
+but he could not get preferment because he came from our GROUND.
+He returned from college hopeless and brokenhearted, and fell into
+a decline. My father supported him till his death, which happened
+before he was nineteen. He played beautifully on the flute, and
+was supposed to have a great turn for poetry. He was affectionate
+and compassionate to his brother, who followed him like his
+shadow, and we think that from him Davie gathered many fragments
+of songs and music unlike those of this country. But if we ask him
+where he got such a fragment as he is now singing, he either
+answers with wild and long fits of laughter, or else breaks into
+tears of lamentation; but was never heard to give any explanation,
+or to mention his brother's name since his death.'
+
+'Surely,' said Edward, who was readily interested by a tale
+bordering on the romantic, 'surely more might be learned by more
+particular inquiry.'
+
+'Perhaps so,' answered Rose; 'but my father will not permit any
+one to practise on his feelings on this subject.'
+
+By this time the Baron, with the help of Mr. Saunderson, had
+indued a pair of jack-boots of large dimensions, and now invited
+our hero to follow him as he stalked clattering down the ample
+stair-case, tapping each huge balustrade as he passed with the
+butt of his massive horse-whip, and humming, with the air of a
+chasseur of Louis Quatorze,--
+
+    Pour la chasse ordonnee il faut preparer tout.
+    Ho la ho! Vite! vite debout!
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIII
+
+A MORE RATIONAL DAY THAN THE LAST
+
+
+The Baron of Bradwardine, mounted on an active and well-managed
+horse, and seated on a demi-pique saddle, with deep housings to
+agree with his livery, was no bad representative of the old
+school. His light-coloured embroidered coat, and superbly barred
+waistcoat, his brigadier wig, surmounted by a small gold-laced
+cocked-hat, completed his personal costume; but he was attended by
+two well-mounted servants on horseback, armed with holster-
+pistols.
+
+In this guise he ambled forth over hill and valley, the admiration
+of every farm-yard which they passed in their progress, till, 'low
+down in a grassy vale,' they found David Gellatley leading two
+very tall deer greyhounds, and presiding over half a dozen curs,
+and about as many bare-legged and bare-headed boys, who, to
+procure the chosen distinction of attending on the chase, had not
+failed to tickle his ears with the dulcet appellation of Maister
+Gellatley, though probably all and each had hooted him on former
+occasions in the character of daft Davie. But this is no uncommon
+strain of flattery to persons in office, nor altogether confined
+to the barelegged villagers of Tully-Veolan; it was in fashion
+Sixty Years Since, is now, and will be six hundred years hence, if
+this admirable compound of folly and knavery, called the world,
+shall be then in existence.
+
+These Gillie-wet-foots, as they were called, were destined to beat
+the bushes, which they performed with so much success, that, after
+half an hour's search, a roe was started, coursed, and killed; the
+Baron following on his white horse, like Earl Percy of yore, and
+magnanimously flaying and embowelling the slain animal (which, he
+observed, was called by the French chasseurs, faire la curee) with
+his own baronial couteau de chasse. After this ceremony, he
+conducted his guest homeward by a pleasant and circuitous route,
+commanding an extensive prospect of different villages and houses,
+to each of which Mr. Bradwardine attached some anecdote of history
+or genealogy, told in language whimsical from prejudice and
+pedantry, but often respectable for the good sense and honourable
+feelings which his narrative displayed, and almost always curious,
+if not valuable, for the information they contained.
+
+The truth is, the ride seemed agreeable to both gentlemen, because
+they found amusement in each other's conversation, although their
+characters and habits of thinking were in many respects totally
+opposite. Edward, we have informed the reader, was warm in his
+feelings, wild and romantic in his ideas and in his taste of
+reading, with a strong disposition towards poetry. Mr Bradwardine
+was the reverse of all this, and piqued himself upon stalking
+through life with the same upright, starched, stoical gravity
+which distinguished his evening promenade upon the terrace of
+Tully-Veolan, where for hours together--the very model of old
+Hardyknute--
+
+    Stately stepp'd he east the wa',
+    And stately stepp'd he west
+
+As for literature, he read the classic poets, to be sure, and the
+'Epithalamium' of Georgius Buchanan and Arthur Johnston's Psalms,
+of a Sunday; and the 'Deliciae Poetarum Scotorum,' and Sir David
+Lindsay's 'Works', and Barbour's 'Brace', and Blind Harry's
+'Wallace', and 'The Gentle Shepherd', and 'The Cherry and The
+Slae.'
+
+But though he thus far sacrificed his time to the Muses, he would,
+if the truth must be spoken, have been much better pleased had the
+pious or sapient apothegms, as well as the historical narratives,
+which these various works contained, been presented to him in the
+form of simple prose. And he sometimes could not refrain from
+expressing contempt of the 'vain and unprofitable art of poem-
+making', in which, he said,'the only one who had excelled in his
+time was Allan Ramsay, the periwigmaker.'
+
+[Footnote: The Baron ought to have remembered that the joyous
+Allan literally drew his blood from the house of the noble earl
+whom he terms--
+
+    Dalhousie of an old descent
+    My stoup, my pride, my ornament.]
+
+But although Edward and he differed TOTO COELO, as the Baron would
+have said, upon this subject, yet they met upon history as on a
+neutral ground, in which each claimed an interest. The Baron,
+indeed, only cumbered his memory with matters of fact, the cold,
+dry, hard outlines which history delineates. Edward, on the
+contrary, loved to fill up and round the sketch with the colouring
+of a warm and vivid imagination, which gives light and life to the
+actors and speakers in the drama of past ages. Yet with tastes so
+opposite, they contributed greatly to each other's amusement. Mr.
+Bradwardine's minute narratives and powerful memory supplied to
+Waverley fresh subjects of the kind upon which his fancy loved to
+labour, and opened to him a new mine of incident and of character.
+And he repaid the pleasure thus communicated by an earnest
+attention, valuable to all story-tellers, more especially to the
+Baron, who felt his habits of self-respect flattered by it; and
+sometimes also by reciprocal communications, which interested Mr.
+Bradwardine, as confirming or illustrating his own favourite
+anecdotes. Besides, Mr. Bradwardine loved to talk of the scenes of
+his youth, whichl had been spent in camps and foreign lands, and
+had many interesting particulars to tell of the generals under
+whom he had served and the actions he had witnessed.
+
+Both parties returned to Tully-Veolan in great good-humour with
+each other; Waverley desirous of studying more attentively what he
+considered as a singular and interesting character, gifted with a
+memory containing a curious register of ancient and modern
+anecdotes; and Bradwardine disposed to regard Edward as puer (or
+rather juvenis) bonae spei et magnae indolis, a youth devoid of
+that petulant volatility which is impatient of, or vilipends, the
+conversation and advice of his seniors, from which he predicted
+great things of his future success and deportment in life. There
+was no other guest except Mr. Rubrick, whose information and
+discourse, as a clergyman and a scholar, harmonised very well with
+that of the Baron and his guest.
+
+Shortly after dinner, the Baron, as if to show that his temperance
+was not entirely theoretical, proposed a visit to Rose's
+apartment, or, as he termed it, her troisieme etage. Waverley was
+accordingly conducted through one or two of those long awkward
+passages with which ancient architects studied to puzzle the
+inhabitants of the houses which they planned, at the end of which
+Mr. Bradwardine began to ascend, by two steps at once, a very
+steep, narrow, and winding stair, leaving Mr. Rubrick and Waverley
+to follow at more leisure, while he should announce their approach
+to his daughter.
+
+After having climbed this perpendicular corkscrew until their
+brains were almost giddy, they arrived in a little matted lobby,
+which served as an anteroom to Rose's sanctum sanctorum, and
+through which they entered her parlour. It was a small, but
+pleasant apartment, opening to the south, and hung with tapestry;
+adorned besides with two pictures, one of her mother, in the dress
+of a shepherdess, with a bell-hoop; the other of the Baron, in his
+tenth year, in a blue coat, embroidered waistcoat, laced hat, and
+bag-wig, with a bow in his hand. Edward could not help smiling at
+the costume, and at the odd resemblance between the round, smooth,
+red-cheeked, staring visage in the portrait, and the gaunt,
+bearded, hollow-eyed, swarthy features, which travelling, fatigues
+of war, and advanced age, had bestowed on the original. The Baron
+joined in the laugh. 'Truly,' he said,'that picture was a woman's
+fantasy of my good mother's (a daughter of the Laird of
+Tulliellum, Captain Waverley; I indicated the house to you when we
+were on the top of the Shinnyheuch; it was burnt by the Dutch
+auxiliaries brought in by the Government in 1715); I never sate
+for my pourtraicture but once since that was painted, and it was
+at the special and reiterated request of the Marechal Duke of
+Berwick.'
+
+The good old gentleman did not mention what Mr. Rubrick afterwards
+told Edward, that the Duke had done him this honour on account of
+his being the first to mount the breach of a fort in Savoy during
+the memorable campaign of 1709, and his having there defended
+himself with his half-pike for nearly ten minutes before any
+support reached him. To do the Baron justice, although
+sufficiently prone to dwell upon, and even to exaggerate, his
+family dignity and consequence, he was too much a man of real
+courage ever to allude to such personal acts of merit as he had
+himself manifested.
+
+Miss Rose now appeared from the interior room of her apartment, to
+welcome her father and his friends. The little labours in which
+she had been employed obviously showed a natural taste, which
+required only cultivation. Her father had taught her French and
+Italian, and a few of the ordinary authors in those languages
+ornamented her shelves. He had endeavoured also to be her
+preceptor in music; but as he began with the more abstruse
+doctrines of the science, and was not perhaps master of them
+himself, she had made no proficiency farther than to be able to
+accompany her voice with the harpsichord; but even this was not
+very common in Scotland at that period. To make amends, she sung
+with great taste and feeling, and with a respect to the sense of
+what she uttered that might be proposed in example to ladies of
+much superior musical talent. Her natural good sense taught her
+that, if, as we are assured by high authority, music be 'married
+to immortal verse,' they are very often divorced by the performer
+in a most shameful manner. It was perhaps owing to this
+sensibility to poetry, and power of combining its expression with
+those of the musical notes, that her singing gave more pleasure to
+all the unlearned in music, and even to many of the learned, than
+could have been communicated by a much finer voice and more
+brilliant execution unguided by the same delicacy of feeling.
+
+A bartizan, or projecting gallery, before the windows of her
+parlour, served to illustrate another of Rose's pursuits; for it
+was crowded with flowers of different kinds, which she had taken
+under her special protection. A projecting turret gave access to
+this Gothic balcony, which commanded a most beautiful prospect.
+The formal garden, with its high bounding walls, lay below,
+contracted, as it seemed, to a mere parterre; while the view
+extended beyond them down a wooded glen, where the small river was
+sometimes visible, sometimes hidden in copse. The eye might be
+delayed by a desire to rest on the rocks, which here and there
+rose from the dell with massive or spiry fronts, or it might dwell
+on the noble, though ruined tower, which was here beheld in all
+its dignity, frowning from a promontory over the river. To the
+left were seen two or three cottages, a part of the village, the
+brow of the hill concealed the others. The glen, or dell, was
+terminated by a sheet of water, called Loch Veolan, into which the
+brook discharged itself, and which now glistened in the western
+sun. The distant country seemed open and varied in surface, though
+not wooded; and there was nothing to interrupt the view until the
+scene was bounded by a ridge of distant and blue hills, which
+formed the southern boundary of the strath or valley. To this
+pleasant station Miss Bradwardine had ordered coffee.
+
+The view of the old tower, or fortalice, introduced some family
+anecdotes and tales of Scottish chivalry, which the Baron told
+with great enthusiasm. The projecting peak of an impending crag
+which rose near it had acquired the name of Saint Swithin's Chair.
+It was the scene of a peculiar superstition, of which Mr. Rubrick
+mentioned some curious particulars, which reminded Waverley of a
+rhyme quoted by Edgar in King Lear; and Rose was called upon to
+sing a little legend, in which they had been interwoven by some
+village poet,
+
+    Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung,
+    Saved others' names, but left his own unsung.
+
+The sweetness of her voice, and the simple beauty of her music,
+gave all the advantage which the minstrel could have desired, and
+which his poetry so much wanted. I almost doubt if it can be read
+with patience, destitute of these advantages, although I
+conjecture the following copy to have been somewhat corrected by
+Waverley, to suit the taste of those who might not relish pure
+antiquity.
+
+                Saint Swithin's Chair
+
+      On Hallow-Mass Eve, ere ye boune ye to rest,
+      Ever beware that your couch be bless'd;
+      Sign it with cross, and sain it with bead,
+      Sing the Ave, and say the Creed.
+
+      For on Hallow-Mass Eve the Night-Hag will ride,
+      And all her nine-fold sweeping on by her side,
+      Whether the wind sing lowly or loud,
+      Sailing through moonshine or swath'd in the cloud.
+
+      The Lady she sat in Saint Swithin's Chair,
+      The dew of the night has damp'd her hair:
+      Her cheek was pale; but resolved and high
+      Was the word of her lip and the glance of her eye.
+
+      She mutter'd the spell of Swithin bold,
+      When his naked foot traced the midnight wold,
+      When he stopp'd the Hag as she rode the night,
+      And bade her descend, and her promise plight.
+
+       He that dare sit on Saint Swithin's Chair,
+       When the Night-Hag wings the troubled air,
+       Questions three, when he speaks the spell,
+       He may ask, and she must tell.
+
+       The Baron has been with King Robert his liege
+       These three long years in battle and siege;
+       News are there none of his weal or his woe,
+       And fain the Lady his fate would know.
+
+       She shudders and stops as the charm she speaks;--
+       Is it the moody owl that shrieks?
+       Or is it that sound, betwixt laughter and scream,
+       The voice of the Demon who haunts the stream?
+
+       The moan of the wind sunk silent and low,
+       And the roaring torrent had ceased to flow;
+       The calm was more dreadful than raging storm,
+       When the cold grey mist brought the ghastly Form!
+
+'I am sorry to disappoint the company, especially Captain
+Waverley, who listens with such laudable gravity; it is but a
+fragment, although I think there are other verses, describing the
+return of the Baron from the wars, and how the lady was found
+"clay-cold upon the grounsill ledge.'"
+
+'It is one of those figments,' observed Mr. Bradwardine, 'with
+which the early history of distinguished families was deformed in
+the times of superstition; as that of Rome, and other ancient
+nations, had their prodigies, sir, the which you may read in
+ancient histories, or in the little work compiled by Julius
+Obsequens, and inscribed by the learned Scheffer, the editor, to
+his patron, Benedictus Skytte, Baron of Dudershoff.'
+
+'My father has a strange defiance of the marvellous, Captain
+Waverley,' observed Rose, 'and once stood firm when a whole synod
+of Presbyterian divines were put to the rout by a sudden
+apparition of the foul fiend.'
+
+Waverley looked as if desirous to hear more.
+
+'Must I tell my story as well as sing my song? Well--Once upon a
+time there lived an old woman, called Janet Gellatley, who was
+suspected to be a witch, on the infallible grounds that she was
+very old, very ugly, very poor, and had two sons, one of whom was
+a poet and the other a fool, which visitation, all the
+neighbourhood agreed, had come upon her for the sin of witchcraft.
+And she was imprisoned for a week in the steeple of the parish
+church, and sparely supplied with food, and not permitted to sleep
+until she herself became as much persuaded of her being a witch as
+her accusers; and in this lucid and happy state of mind was
+brought forth to make a clean breast, that is, to make open
+confession of her sorceries, before all the Whig gentry and
+ministers in the vicinity, who were no conjurors themselves. My
+father went to see fair play between the witch and the clergy; for
+the witch had been born on his estate. And while the witch was
+confessing that the Enemy appeared, and made his addresses to her
+as a handsome black man,--which, if you could have seen poor old
+blear-eyed Janet, reflected little honour on Apollyon's taste,--
+and while the auditors listened with astonished ears, and the
+clerk recorded with a trembling hand, she, all of a sudden,
+changed the low mumbling tone with which she spoke into a shrill
+yell, and exclaimed, "Look to yourselves! look to yourselves! I
+see the Evil One sitting in the midst of ye." The surprise was
+general, and terror and flight its immediate consequences. Happy
+were those who were next the door; and many were the disasters
+that befell hats, bands, cuffs, and wigs, before they could get
+out of the church, where they left the obstinate prelatist to
+settle matters with the witch and her admirer at his own peril or
+pleasure.'
+
+'Risu solvuntur tabulae,' said the Baron; 'when they recovered
+their panic trepidation they were too much ashamed to bring any
+wakening of the process against Janet Gellatley.' [Footnote: See
+Note 11]
+
+This anecdote led to a long discussion of
+
+       All those idle thoughts and fantasies,
+         Devices, dreams, opinions unsound,
+         Shows, visions, soothsays, and prophecies,
+       And all that feigned is, as leasings, tales, and lies.
+
+With such conversation, and the romantic legends which it
+introduced, closed our hero's second evening in the house of
+Tully-Veolan.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIV
+
+A DISCOVERY--WAVERLEY BECOMES DOMESTICATED AT TULLY-VEOLAN
+
+
+The next day Edward arose betimes, and in a morning walk around
+the house and its vicinity came suddenly upon a small court in
+front of the dog-kennel, where his friend Davie was employed about
+his four-footed charge. One quick glance of his eye recognised
+Waverley, when, instantly turning his back, as if he had not
+observed him, he began to sing part of an old ballad:--
+
+    Young men will love thee more fair and more fast;
+      Heard ye so merry the little bird sing?
+    Old men's love the longest will last,
+      And the throstle-cock's head is under his wing.
+
+    The young man's wrath is like light straw on fire;
+      Heard ye so merry the little bird sing?
+    But like red-hot steel is the old man's ire,
+      And the throstle-cock's head is under his wing.
+
+    The young man will brawl at the evening board;
+      Heard ye so merry the little bird sing?
+    But the old man will draw at the dawning the sword,
+      And the throstle-cock's head is under his wing.
+
+Waverley could not avoid observing that Davie laid something like
+a satirical emphasis on these lines. He therefore approached, and
+endeavoured, by sundry queries, to elicit from him what the
+innuendo might mean; but Davie had no mind to explain, and had wit
+enough to make his folly cloak his knavery. Edward could collect
+nothing from him, excepting that the Laird of Balmawhapple had
+gone home yesterday morning 'wi' his boots fu' o' bluid.' In the
+garden, however, he met the old butler, who no longer attempted to
+conceal that, having been bred in the nursery line with Sumack and
+Co. of Newcastle, he sometimes wrought a turn in the flower-
+borders to oblige the Laird and Miss Rose. By a series of queries,
+Edward at length discovered, with a painful feeling of surprise
+and shame, that Balmawhapple's submission and apology had been the
+consequence of a rencontre with the Baron before his guest had
+quitted his pillow, in which the younger combatant had been
+disarmed and wounded in the sword arm.
+
+Greatly mortified at this information, Edward sought out his
+friendly host, and anxiously expostulated with him upon the
+injustice he had done him in anticipating his meeting with Mr.
+Falconer, a circumstance which, considering his youth and the
+profession of arms which he had just adopted, was capable of being
+represented much to his prejudice. The Baron justified himself at
+greater length than I choose to repeat. He urged that the quarrel
+was common to them, and that Balmawhapple could not, by the code
+of honour, evite giving satisfaction to both, which he had done in
+his case by an honourable meeting, and in that of Edward by such a
+palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which,
+being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the whole affair.
+
+With this excuse, or explanation, Waverley was silenced, if not
+satisfied; but he could not help testifying some displeasure
+against the Blessed Bear, which had given rise to the quarrel, nor
+refrain from hinting that the sanctified epithet was hardly
+appropriate. The Baron observed, he could not deny that 'the Bear,
+though allowed by heralds as a most honourable ordinary, had,
+nevertheless, somewhat fierce, churlish, and morose in his
+disposition (as might be read in Archibald Simson, pastor of
+Dalkeith's 'Hieroglyphica Animalium') and had thus been the type
+of many quarrels and dissensions which had occurred in the house
+of Bradwardine; of which,' he continued, 'I might commemorate mine
+own unfortunate dissension with my third cousin by the mother's
+side, Sir Hew Halbert, who was so unthinking as to deride my
+family name, as if it had been QUASI BEAR-WARDEN; a most uncivil
+jest, since it not only insinuated that the founder of our house
+occupied such a mean situation as to be a custodier of wild
+beasts, a charge which, ye must have observed, is only entrusted
+to the very basest plebeians; but, moreover, seemed to infer that
+our coat-armour had not been achieved by honourable actions in
+war, but bestowed by way of paranomasia, or pun, upon our family
+appellation,--a sort of bearing which the French call armoires
+parlantes, the Latins arma cantantia, and your English authorities
+canting heraldry, [Footnote: See Note 12] being indeed a species of
+emblazoning more befitting canters, gaberlunzies, and such like
+mendicants, whose gibberish is formed upon playing upon the word,
+than the noble, honourable, and useful science of heraldry, which
+assigns armorial bearings as the reward of noble and generous
+actions, and not to tickle the ear with vain quodlibets, such as
+are found in jestbooks.' Of his quarrel with Sir Hew he said
+nothing more than that it was settled in a fitting manner.
+
+Having been so minute with respect to the diversions of Tully-
+Veolan on the first days of Edward's arrival, for the purpose of
+introducing its inmates to the reader's acquaintance, it becomes
+less necessary to trace the progress of his intercourse with the
+same accuracy. It is probable that a young man, accustomed to more
+cheerful society, would have tired of the conversation of so
+violent an assertor of the 'boast of heraldry' as the Baron; but
+Edward found an agreeable variety in that of Miss Bradwardine, who
+listened with eagerness to his remarks upon literature, and showed
+great justness of taste in her answers. The sweetness of her
+disposition had made her submit with complacency, and even
+pleasure, to the course of reading prescribed by her father,
+although it not only comprehended several heavy folios of history,
+but certain gigantic tomes in high-church polemics. In heraldry he
+was fortunately contented to give her only such a slight tincture
+as might be acquired by perusal of the two folio volumes of
+Nisbet. Rose was indeed the very apple of her father's eye. Her
+constant liveliness, her attention to all those little observances
+most gratifying to those who would never think of exacting them,
+her beauty, in which he recalled the features of his beloved wife,
+her unfeigned piety, and the noble generosity of her disposition,
+would have justified the affection of the most doting father.
+
+His anxiety on her behalf did not, however, seem to extend itself
+in that quarter where, according to the general opinion, it is
+most efficiently displayed, in labouring, namely, to establish her
+in life, either by a large dowry or a wealthy marriage. By an old
+settlement, almost all the landed estates of the Baron went, after
+his death, to a distant relation; and it was supposed that Miss
+Bradwardine would remain but slenderly provided for, as the good
+gentleman's cash matters had been too long under the exclusive
+charge of Bailie Macwheeble to admit of any great expectations
+from his personal succession. It is true, the said Bailie loved
+his patron and his patron's daughter next (though at an
+incomparable distance) to himself. He thought it was possible to
+set aside the settlement on the male line, and had actually
+procured an opinion to that effect (and, as he boasted, without a
+fee) from an eminent Scottish counsel, under whose notice he
+contrived to bring the point while consulting him regularly on
+some other business. But the Baron would not listen to such a
+proposal for an instant. On the contrary, he used to have a
+perverse pleasure in boasting that the barony of Bradwardine was a
+male fief, the first charter having been given at that early
+period when women were not deemed capable to hold a feudal grant;
+because, according to Les coustusmes de Normandie, c'est l'homme
+ki se bast et ki conseille; or, as is yet more ungallantly
+expressed by other authorities, all of whose barbarous names he
+delighted to quote at full length, because a woman could not serve
+the superior, or feudal lord, in war, on account of the decorum of
+her sex, nor assist him with advice, because of her limited
+intellect, nor keep his counsel, owing to the infirmity of her
+disposition. He would triumphantly ask, how it would become a
+female, and that female a Bradwardine, to be seen employed in
+servitio exuendi, seu detrahendi, caligas regis post battaliam?
+that is, in pulling off the king's boots after an engagement,
+which was the feudal service by which he held the barony of
+Bradwardine. 'No,' he said, 'beyond hesitation, procul dubio, many
+females, as worthy as Rose, had been excluded, in order to make
+way for my own succession, and Heaven forbid that I should do
+aught that might contravene the destination of my forefathers, or
+impinge upon the right of my kinsman, Malcolm Bradwardine of
+Inchgrabbit, an honourable, though decayed branch of my own
+family.'
+
+The Bailie, as prime minister, having received this decisive
+communication from his sovereign, durst not press his own opinion
+any farther, but contented himself with deploring, on all suitable
+occasions, to Saunderson, the minister of the interior, the
+laird's self-willedness, and with laying plans for uniting Rose
+with the young Laird of Balmawhapple, who had a fine estate, only
+moderately burdened, and was a faultless young gentleman, being as
+sober as a saint--if you keep brandy from him and him from brandy
+--and who, in brief, had no imperfection but that of keeping light
+company at a time; such as Jinker, the horse-couper, and Gibby
+Gaethroughwi't, the piper o' Cupar; 'o' whilk follies, Mr.
+Saunderson, he'll mend, he'll mend,' pronounced the Bailie.
+
+'Like sour ale in simmer,' added Davie Gellatley, who happened to
+be nearer the conclave than they were aware of.
+
+Miss Bradwardine, such as we have described her, with all the
+simplicity and curiosity of a recluse, attached herself to the
+opportunities of increasing her store of literature which Edward's
+visit afforded her. He sent for some of his books from his
+quarters, and they opened to her sources of delight of which she
+had hitherto had no idea. The best English poets, of every
+description, and other works on belles-lettres, made a part of
+this precious cargo. Her music, even her flowers, were neglected,
+and Saunders not only mourned over, but began to mutiny against,
+the labour for which he now scarce received thanks. These new
+pleasures became gradually enhanced by sharing them with one of a
+kindred taste. Edward's readiness to comment, to recite, to
+explain difficult passages, rendered his assistance invaluable;
+and the wild romance of his spirit delighted a character too young
+and inexperienced to observe its deficiencies. Upon subjects which
+interested him, and when quite at ease, he possessed that flow of
+natural, and somewhat florid eloquence, which has been supposed as
+powerful even as figure, fashion, fame, or fortune, in winning the
+female heart. There was, therefore, an increasing danger in this
+constant intercourse to poor Rose's peace of mind, which was the
+more imminent as her father was greatly too much abstracted in his
+studies, and wrapped up in his own dignity, to dream of his
+daughter's incurring it. The daughters of the house of Bradwardine
+were, in his opinion, like those of the house of Bourbon or
+Austria, placed high above the clouds of passion which might
+obfuscate the intellects of meaner females; they moved in another
+sphere, were governed by other feelings, and amenable to other
+rules than those of idle and fantastic affection. In short, he
+shut his eyes so resolutely to the natural consequences of
+Edward's intimacy with Miss Bradwardine, that the whole
+neighbourhood concluded that he had opened them to the advantages
+of a match between his daughter and the wealthy young Englishman,
+and pronounced him much less a fool than he had generally shown
+himself in cases where his own interest was concerned.
+
+If the Baron, however, had really meditated such an alliance, the
+indifference of Waverley would have been an insuperable bar to his
+project. Our hero, since mixing more freely with the world, had
+learned to think with great shame and confusion upon his mental
+legend of Saint Cecilia, and the vexation of these reflections was
+likely, for some time at least, to counterbalance the natural
+susceptibility of his disposition. Besides, Rose Bradwardine,
+beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely
+the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic
+imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too
+kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the
+marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress
+the empress of his affections. Was it possible to bow, to tremble,
+and to adore, before the timid, yet playful little girl, who now
+asked Edward to mend her pen, now to construe a stanza in Tasso,
+and now how to spell a very--very long word in her version of it?
+All these incidents have their fascination on the mind at a
+certain period of life, but not when a youth is entering it, and
+rather looking out for some object whose affection may dignify him
+in his own eyes than stooping to one who looks up to him for such
+distinction. Hence, though there can be no rule in so capricious a
+passion, early love is frequently ambitious in choosing its
+object; or, which comes to the same, selects her (as in the case
+of Saint Cecilia aforesaid) from a situation that gives fair scope
+for le beau ideal, which the reality of intimate and familiar life
+rather tends to limit and impair. I knew a very accomplished and
+sensible young man cured of a violent passion for a pretty woman,
+whose talents were not equal to her face and figure, by being
+permitted to bear her company for a whole afternoon. Thus, it is
+certain, that had Edward enjoyed such an opportunity of conversing
+with Miss Stubbs, Aunt Rachel's precaution would have been
+unnecessary, for he would as soon have fallen in love with the
+dairy-maid. And although Miss Bradwardine was a very different
+character, it seems probable that the very intimacy of their
+intercourse prevented his feeling for her other sentiments than
+those of a brother for an amiable and accomplished sister; while
+the sentiments of poor Rose were gradually, and without her being
+conscious, assuming a shade of warmer affection.
+
+I ought to have said that Edward, when he sent to Dundee for the
+books before mentioned, had applied for, and received permission,
+extending his leave of absence. But the letter of his commanding
+officer contained a friendly recommendation to him not to spend
+his time exclusively with persons who, estimable as they might be
+in a general sense, could not be supposed well affected to a
+government which they declined to acknowledge by taking the oath
+of allegiance. The letter further insinuated, though with great
+delicacy, that although some family connections might be supposed
+to render it necessary for Captain Waverley to communicate with
+gentlemen who were in this unpleasant state of suspicion, yet his
+father's situation and wishes ought to prevent his prolonging
+those attentions into exclusive intimacy. And it was intimated,
+that, while his political principles were endangered by
+communicating with laymen of this description, he might also
+receive erroneous impressions in religion from the prelatic
+clergy, who so perversely laboured to set up the royal prerogative
+in things sacred.
+
+This last insinuation probably induced Waverley to set both down
+to the prejudices of his commanding officer. He was sensible that
+Mr. Bradwardine had acted with the most scrupulous delicacy, in
+never entering upon any discussion that had the most remote
+tendency to bias his mind in political opinions, although he was
+himself not only a decided partisan of the exiled family, but had
+been trusted at different times with important commissions for
+their service. Sensible, therefore, that there was no risk of his
+being perverted from his allegiance, Edward felt as if he should
+do his uncle's old friend injustice in removing from a house where
+he gave and received pleasure and amusement, merely to gratify a
+prejudiced and ill-judged suspicion. He therefore wrote a very
+general answer, assuring his commanding officer that his loyalty
+was not in the most distant danger of contamination, and continued
+an honoured guest and inmate of the house of Tully-Veolan.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XV
+
+A CREAGH, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
+
+
+When Edward had been a guest at Tully-Veolan nearly six weeks, he
+descried, one morning, as he took his usual walk before the
+breakfast hour, signs of uncommon perturbation in the family. Four
+bare-legged dairy-maids, with each an empty milk-pail in her hand,
+ran about with frantic gestures, and uttering loud exclamations of
+surprise, grief, and resentment. From their appearance, a pagan
+might have conceived them a detachment of the celebrated Belides,
+just come from their baling penance. As nothing was to be got from
+this distracted chorus, excepting 'Lord guide us!' and 'Eh sirs!'
+ejaculations which threw no light upon the cause of their dismay,
+Waverley repaired to the fore-court, as it was called, where he
+beheld Bailie Macwheeble cantering his white pony down the avenue
+with all the speed it could muster. He had arrived, it would seem,
+upon a hasty summons, and was followed by half a score of peasants
+from the village who had no great difficulty in keeping pace with
+him.
+
+The Bailie, greatly too busy and too important to enter into
+explanations with Edward, summoned forth Mr. Saunderson, who
+appeared with a countenance in which dismay was mingled with
+solemnity, and they immediately entered into close conference.
+Davie Gellatley was also seen in the group, idle as Diogenes at
+Sinope while his countrymen were preparing for a siege. His
+spirits always rose with anything, good or bad, which occasioned
+tumult, and he continued frisking, hopping, dancing, and singing
+the burden of an old ballad--
+
+    'Our gear's a' gane,'
+
+until, happening to pass too near the Bailie, he received an
+admonitory hint from his horse-whip, which converted his songs
+into lamentation.
+
+Passing from thence towards the garden, Waverley beheld the Baron
+in person, measuring and re-measuring, with swift and tremendous
+strides, the length of the terrace; his countenance clouded with
+offended pride and indignation, and the whole of his demeanour
+such as seemed to indicate, that any inquiry concerning the cause
+of his discomposure would give pain at least, if not offence.
+Waverley therefore glided into the house, without addressing him,
+and took his way to the breakfast-parlour, where he found his
+young friend Rose, who, though she neither exhibited the
+resentment of her father, the turbid importance of Bailie
+Macwheeble, nor the despair of the handmaidens, seemed vexed and
+thoughtful. A single word explained the mystery. 'Your breakfast
+will be a disturbed one, Captain Waverley. A party of Caterans
+have come down upon us last night, and have driven off all our
+milch cows.'
+
+'A party of Caterans?'
+
+'Yes; robbers from the neighbouring Highlands. We used to be quite
+free from them while we paid blackmail to Fergus Mac-Ivor Vich Ian
+Vohr; but my father thought it unworthy of his rank and birth to
+pay it any longer, and so this disaster has happened. It is not
+the value of the cattle, Captain Waverley, that vexes me; but my
+father is so much hurt at the affront, and is so bold and hot,
+that I fear he will try to recover them by the strong hand; and if
+he is not hurt himself, he will hurt some of these wild people,
+and then there will be no peace between them and us perhaps for
+our life-time; and we cannot defend ourselves as in old times, for
+the government have taken all our arms; and my dear father is so
+rash--O what will become of us!'--Here poor Rose lost heart
+altogether, and burst into a flood of tears.
+
+The Baron entered at this moment, and rebuked her with more
+asperity than Waverley had ever heard him use to any one. 'Was it
+not a shame,' he said, 'that she should exhibit herself before any
+gentleman in such a light, as if she shed tears for a drove of
+horned nolt and milch kine, like the daughter of a Cheshire
+yeoman!--Captain Waverley, I must request your favourable
+construction of her grief, which may, or ought to proceed, solely
+from seeing her father's estate exposed to spulzie and depredation
+from common thieves and sorners, while we are not allowed to keep
+half a score of muskets, whether for defence or rescue.'
+
+Bailie Macwheeble entered immediately afterwards, and by his
+report of arms and ammunition confirmed this statement, informing
+the Baron, in a melancholy voice, that though the people would
+certainly obey his honour's orders, yet there was no chance of
+their following the gear to ony guid purpose, in respect there
+were only his honour's body servants who had swords and pistols,
+and the depredators were twelve Highlanders, completely armed
+after the manner of their country. Having delivered this doleful
+annunciation, he assumed a posture of silent dejection, shaking
+his head slowly with the motion of a pendulum when it is ceasing
+to vibrate, and then remained stationary, his body stooping at a
+more acute angle than usual, and the latter part of his person
+projecting in proportion.
+
+The Baron, meanwhile, paced the room in silent indignation, and at
+length fixing his eye upon an old portrait, whose person was clad
+in armour, and whose features glared grimly out of a huge bush of
+hair, part of which descended from his head to his shoulders, and
+part from his chin and upper-lip to his breast-plate,--'That
+gentleman, Captain Waverley, my grandsire,' he said, 'with two
+hundred horse,--whom he levied within his own bounds, discomfited
+and put to the rout more than five hundred of these Highland
+reivers, who have been ever lapis offensionis et petra scandali, a
+stumbling-block and a rock of offence, to the Lowland vicinage--he
+discomfited them, I say, when they had the temerity to descend to
+harry this country, in the time of the civil dissensions, in the
+year of grace sixteen hundred forty and two. And now, sir, I, his
+grandson, am thus used at such unworthy hands.'
+
+Here there was an awful pause; after which all the company, as is
+usual in cases of difficulty, began to give separate and
+inconsistent counsel. Alexander ab Alexandro proposed they should
+send some one to compound with the Caterans, who would readily, he
+said, give up their prey for a dollar a head. The Bailie opined
+that this transaction would amount to theft-boot, or composition
+of felony; and he recommended that some canny hand should be sent
+up to the glens to make the best bargain he could, as it were for
+himself, so that the Laird might not be seen in such a
+transaction. Edward proposed to send off to the nearest garrison
+for a party of soldiers and a magistrate's warrant; and Rose, as
+far as she dared, endeavoured to insinuate the course of paying
+the arrears of tribute money to Fergus Mac-Ivor Vich Ian Vohr,
+who, they all knew, could easily procure restoration of the
+cattle, if he were properly propitiated.
+
+None of these proposals met the Baron's approbation. The idea of
+composition, direct or implied, was absolutely ignominious; that
+of Waverley only showed that he did not understand the state of
+the country, and of the political parties which divided it; and,
+standing matters as they did with Fergus Mac-Ivor Vich Ian Vohr,
+the Baron would make no concession to him, were it, he said, 'to
+procure restitution in integrum of every stirk and stot that the
+chief, his forefathers, and his clan, had stolen since the days of
+Malcolm Canmore.'
+
+In fact his voice was still for war, and he proposed to send
+expresses to Balmawhapple, Killancureit, Tulliellum, and other
+lairds, who were exposed to similar depredations, inviting them to
+join in the pursuit; 'and then, sir, shall these nebulones
+nequissimi, as Leslaeus calls them, be brought to the fate of
+their predecessor Cacus,
+
+    "Elisos oculos, et siccum sanguine guttur."'
+
+The Bailie, who by no means relished these warlike counsels, here
+pulled forth an immense watch, of the colour, and nearly of the
+size, of a pewter warming-pan, and observed it was now past noon,
+and that the Caterans had been seen in the pass of Ballybrough
+soon after sunrise; so that, before the allied forces could
+assemble, they and their prey would be far beyond the reach of the
+most active pursuit, and sheltered in those pathless deserts,
+where it was neither advisable to follow, nor indeed possible to
+trace them.
+
+This proposition was undeniable. The council therefore broke up
+without coming to any conclusion, as has occurred to councils of
+more importance; only it was determined that the Bailie should
+send his own three milkcows down to the mains for the use of the
+Baron's family, and brew small ale, as a substitute for milk, in
+his own. To this arrangement, which was suggested by Saunderson,
+the Bailie readily assented, both from habitual deference to the
+family, and an internal consciousness that his courtesy would, in
+some mode or other, be repaid tenfold.
+
+The Baron having also retired to give some necessary directions,
+Waverley seized the opportunity to ask, whether this Fergus, with
+the unpronounceable name, was the chief thief-taker of the
+district?
+
+'Thief-taker!' answered Rose, laughing; 'he is a gentleman of
+great honour and consequence, the chieftain of an independent
+branch of a powerful Highland clan, and is much respected, both
+for his own power and that of his kith, kin, and allies.'
+
+'And what has he to do with the thieves, then? Is he a magistrate,
+or in the commission of the peace?' asked Waverley.
+
+'The commission of war rather, if there be such a thing,' said
+Rose; 'for he is a very unquiet neighbour to his unfriends, and
+keeps a greater following on foot than many that have thrice his
+estate. As to his connection with the thieves, that I cannot well
+explain; but the boldest of them will never steal a hoof from any
+one that pays black-mail to Vich lan Vohr.'
+
+'And what is black-mail?'
+
+'A sort of protection-money that Low-Country gentlemen and
+heritors, lying near the Highlands, pay to some Highland chief,
+that he may neither do them harm himself, nor suffer it to be done
+to them by others; and then if your cattle are stolen, you have
+only to send him word, and he will recover them; or it may be, he
+will drive away cows from some distant place, where he has a
+quarrel, and give them to you to make up your loss.' [Footnote:
+See note 13.]
+
+'And is this sort of Highland Jonathan Wild admitted into society,
+and called a gentleman?'
+
+'So much so,' said Rose, 'that the quarrel between my father and
+Fergus Mac-Ivor began at a county meeting, where he wanted to take
+precedence of all the Lowland gentlemen then present, only my
+father would not suffer it. And then he upbraided my father that
+he was under his banner, and paid him tribute; and my father was
+in a towering passion, for Bailie Macwheeble, who manages such
+things his own way, had contrived to keep this black-mail a secret
+from him, and passed it in his account for cess-money. And they
+would have fought; but Fergus Mac-Ivor said, very gallantly, he
+would never raise his hand against a grey head that was so much
+respected as my father's.--O I wish, I wish they had continued
+friends!'
+
+'And did you ever see this Mr. Mac-Ivor, if that be his name, Miss
+Bradwardine?'
+
+'No, that is not his name; and he would consider MASTER as a sort
+of affront, only that you are an Englishman, and know no better.
+But the Lowlanders call him, like other gentlemen, by the name of
+his estate, Glennaquoich; and the Highlanders call him Vich Ian
+Vohr, that is, the son of John the Great; and we upon the braes
+here call him by both names indifferently.'
+
+'I am afraid I shall never bring my English tongue to call him by
+either one or other.'
+
+'But he is a very polite, handsome man,' continued Rose; 'and his
+sister Flora is one of the most beautiful and accomplished young
+ladies in this country; she was bred in a convent in France, and
+was a great friend of mine before this unhappy dispute. Dear
+Captain Waverley, try your influence with my father to make
+matters up. I am sure this is but the beginning of our troubles;
+for Tully-Veolan has never been a safe or quiet residence when we
+have been at feud with the Highlanders. When I was a girl about
+ten, there was a skirmish fought between a party of twenty of them
+and my father and his servants behind the mains; and the bullets
+broke several panes in the north windows, they were so near. Three
+of the Highlanders were killed, and they brought them in wrapped
+in their plaids, and laid them on the stone floor of the hall; and
+next morning, their wives and daughters came, clapping their
+hands, and crying the coronach, and shrieking, and carried away
+the dead bodies, with the pipes playing before them. I could not
+sleep for six weeks without starting and thinking I heard these
+terrible cries, and saw the bodies lying on the steps, all stiff
+and swathed up in their bloody tartans. But since that time there
+came a party from the garrison at Stirling, with a warrant from
+the Lord Justice Clerk, or some such great man, and took away all
+our arms; and now, how are we to protect ourselves if they come
+down in any strength?'
+
+Waverley could not help starting at a story which bore so much
+resemblance to one of his own day-dreams. Here was a girl scarce
+seventeen, the gentlest of her sex, both in temper and appearance,
+who had witnessed with her own eyes such a scene as he had used to
+conjure up in his imagination, as only occurring in ancient times,
+and spoke of it coolly, as one very likely to recur. He felt at
+once the impulse of curiosity, and that slight sense of danger
+which only serves to heighten its interest. He might have said
+with Malvolio, '"I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade
+me!" I am actually in the land of military and romantic
+adventures, and it only remains to be seen what will be my own
+share in them.'
+
+The whole circumstances now detailed concerning the state of the
+country seemed equally novel and extraordinary. He had indeed
+often heard of Highland thieves, but had no idea of the systematic
+mode in which their depredations were conducted; and that the
+practice was connived at, and even encouraged, by many of the
+Highland chieftains, who not only found the creaghs, or forays,
+useful for the purpose of training individuals of their clan to
+the practice of arms, but also of maintaining a wholesome terror
+among their Lowland neighbours, and levying, as we have seen, a
+tribute from them, under colour of protection-money.
+
+Bailie Macwheeble, who soon afterwards entered, expatiated still
+more at length upon the same topic. This honest gentleman's
+conversation was so formed upon his professional practice, that
+Davie Gellatley once said his discourse was like a 'charge of
+horning.' He assured our hero, that 'from the maist ancient times
+of record, the lawless thieves, limmers, and broken men of the
+Highlands, had been in fellowship together by reason of their
+surnames, for the committing of divers thefts, reifs, and herships
+upon the honest men of the Low Country, when they not only
+intromitted with their whole goods and gear, corn, cattle, horse,
+nolt, sheep, outsight and insight plenishing, at their wicked
+pleasure, but moreover made prisoners, ransomed them, or concussed
+them into giving borrows (pledges) to enter into captivity again;
+--all which was directly prohibited in divers parts of the Statute
+Book, both by the act one thousand five hundred and sixty-seven,
+and various others; the whilk statutes, with all that had followed
+and might follow thereupon, were shamefully broken and vilipended
+by the said sorners, limmers, and broken men, associated into
+fellowships, for the aforesaid purposes of theft, stouthreef,
+fire-raising, murther, raptus mulierum, or forcible abduction of
+women, and such like as aforesaid.'
+
+It seemed like a dream to Waverley that these deeds of violence
+should be familiar to men's minds, and currently talked of as
+falling within the common order of things, and happening daily in
+the immediate vicinity, without his having crossed the seas, and
+while he was yet in the otherwise well-ordered island of Great
+Britain.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVI
+
+AN UNEXPECTED ALLY APPEARS
+
+
+The Baron returned at the dinner-hour, and had in a great measure
+recovered his composure and good-humour. He not only confirmed
+the stories which Edward had heard from Rose and Bailie
+Macwheeble, but added many anecdotes from his own experience,
+concerning the state of the Highlands and their inhabitants. The
+chiefs he pronounced to be, in general, gentlemen of great honour
+and high pedigree, whose word was accounted as a law by all those
+of their own sept, or clan. 'It did not indeed,' he said, 'become
+them, as had occurred in late instances, to propone their
+prosapia, a lineage which rested for the most part on the vain and
+fond rhymes of their seannachies or bhairds, as aequiponderate
+with the evidence of ancient charters and royal grants of
+antiquity, conferred upon distinguished houses in the Low Country
+by divers Scottish monarchs; nevertheless, such was their
+outrecuidance and presumption, as to undervalue those who
+possessed such evidents, as if they held their lands in a sheep's
+skin.'
+
+This, by the way, pretty well explained the cause of quarrel
+between the Baron and his Highland ally. But he went on to state
+so many curious particulars concerning the manners, customs, and
+habits of this patriarchal race that Edward's curiosity became
+highly interested, and he inquired whether it was possible to make
+with safety an excursion into the neighbouring Highlands, whose
+dusky barrier of mountains had already excited his wish to
+penetrate beyond them. The Baron assured his guest that nothing
+would be more easy, providing this quarrel were first made up,
+since he could himself give him letters to many of the
+distinguished chiefs, who would receive him with the utmost
+courtesy and hospitality.
+
+While they were on this topic, the door suddenly opened, and,
+ushered by Saunders Saunderson, a Highlander, fully armed and
+equipped, entered the apartment. Had it not been that Saunders
+acted the part of master of the ceremonies to this martial
+apparition, without appearing to deviate from his usual composure,
+and that neither Mr. Bradwardine nor Rose exhibited any emotion,
+Edward would certainly have thought the intrusion hostile. As it
+was, he started at the sight of what he had not yet happened to
+see, a mountaineer in his full national costume. The individual
+Gael was a stout, dark, young man, of low stature, the ample folds
+of whose plaid added to the appearance of strength which his
+person exhibited. The short kilt, or petticoat, showed his sinewy
+and clean-made limbs; the goatskin purse, flanked by the usual
+defences, a dirk and steel-wrought pistol, hung before him; his
+bonnet had a short feather, which indicated his claim to be
+treated as a duinhe-wassel, or sort of gentleman; a broadsword
+dangled by his side, a target hung upon his shoulder, and a long
+Spanish fowling-piece occupied one of his hands. With the other
+hand he pulled off his bonnet, and the Baron, who well knew their
+customs, and the proper mode of addressing them, immediately said,
+with an air of dignity, but without rising, and much, as Edward
+thought, in the manner of a prince receiving an embassy, 'Welcome,
+Evan Dhu Maccombich; what news from Fergus Mac-Ivor Vich lan
+Vohr?'
+
+'Fergus Mac-Ivor Vich lan Vohr,' said the ambassador, in good
+English, 'greets you well, Baron of Bradwardine and Tully-Veolan,
+and is sorry there has been a thick cloud interposed between you
+and him, which has kept you from seeing and considering the
+friendship and alliances that have been between your houses and
+forebears of old; and he prays you that the cloud may pass away,
+and that things may be as they have been heretofore between the
+clan Ivor and the house of Bradwardine, when there was an egg
+between them for a flint and a knife for a sword. And he expects
+you will also say, you are sorry for the cloud, and no man shall
+hereafter ask whether it descended from the bill to the valley, or
+rose from the valley to the hill; for they never struck with the
+scabbard who did not receive with the sword, and woe to him who
+would lose his friend for the stormy cloud of a spring morning.'
+
+To this the Baron of Bradwardine answered with suitable dignity,
+that he knew the chief of Clan Ivor to be a well-wisher to the
+King, and he was sorry there should have been a cloud between him
+and any gentleman of such sound principles, 'for when folks are
+banding together, feeble is he who hath no brother.'
+
+This appearing perfectly satisfactory, that the peace between
+these august persons might be duly solemnised, the Baron ordered a
+stoup of usquebaugh, and, filling a glass, drank to the health and
+prosperity of Mac-Ivor of Glennaquoich; upon which the Celtic
+ambassador, to requite his politeness, turned down a mighty bumper
+of the same generous liquor, seasoned with his good wishes to the
+house of Bradwardine.
+
+Having thus ratified the preliminaries of the general treaty of
+pacification, the envoy retired to adjust with Mr. Macwheeble some
+subordinate articles with which it was not thought necessary to
+trouble the Baron. These probably referred to the discontinuance
+of the subsidy, and apparently the Bailie found means to satisfy
+their ally, without suffering his master to suppose that his
+dignity was compromised. At least, it is certain, that after the
+plenipotentiaries had drunk a bottle of brandy in single drams,
+which seemed to have no more effect upon such seasoned vessels
+than if it had been poured upon the two bears at the top of the
+avenue, Evan Dhu Maccombich, having possessed himself of all the
+information which he could procure respecting the robbery of the
+preceding night, declared his intention to set off immediately in
+pursuit of the cattle, which he pronounced to be 'no that far off;
+they have broken the bone,' he observed, 'but they have had no
+tune to suck the marrow.'
+
+Our hero, who had attended Evan Dhu during his perquisitions, was
+much struck with the ingenuity which he displayed in collecting
+information, and the precise and pointed conclusions which he drew
+from it. Evan Dhu, on his part, was obviously flattered with the
+attention of Waverley, the interest he seemed to take in his
+inquiries, and his curiosity about the customs and scenery of the
+Highlands. Without much ceremony he invited Edward to accompany
+him on a short walk of ten or fifteen miles into the mountains,
+and see the place where the cattle were conveyed to; adding, 'If
+it be as I suppose, you never saw such a place in your life, nor
+ever will, unless you go with me or the like of me.'
+
+Our hero, feeling his curiosity considerably excited by the idea
+of visiting the den of a Highland Cacus, took, however, the
+precaution to inquire if his guide might be trusted. He was
+assured that the invitation would on no account have been given
+had there been the least danger, and that all he had to apprehend
+was a little fatigue; and, as Evan proposed he should pass a day
+at his Chieftain's house in returning, where he would be sure of
+good accommodation and an excellent welcome, there seemed nothing
+very formidable in the task he undertook. Rose, indeed, turned
+pale when she heard of it; but her father, who loved the spirited
+curiosity of his young friend, did not attempt to damp it by an
+alarm of danger which really did not exist, and a knapsack, with a
+few necessaries, being bound on the shoulders of a sort of deputy
+gamekeeper, our hero set forth with a fowling-piece in his hand,
+accompanied by his new friend Evan Dhu, and followed by the
+gamekeeper aforesaid, and by two wild Highlanders, the attendants
+of Evan, one of whom had upon his shoulder a hatchet at the end of
+a pole, called a Lochaber-axe, [Footnote: See Note 14] and the
+other a long ducking-gun. Evan, upon Edward's inquiry, gave him to
+understand that this martial escort was by no means necessary as a
+guard, but merely, as he said, drawing up and adjusting his plaid
+with an air of dignity, that he might appear decently at Tully-
+Veolan, and as Vich Ian Vohr's foster-brother ought to do. 'Ah!'
+said he, 'if you Saxon duinhe-wassel (English gentleman) saw but
+the Chief with his tail on!'
+
+'With his tail on?' echoed Edward in some surprise.
+
+'Yes--that is, with all his usual followers, when he visits those
+of the same rank. There is,' he continued, stopping and drawing
+himself proudly up, while he counted upon his fingers the several
+officers of his chief's retinue; 'there is his hanchman, or right-
+hand man; then his bard, or poet; then his bladier, or orator, to
+make harangues to the great folks whom he visits; then his gilly-
+more, or armour-bearer, to carry his sword and target, and his
+gun; then his gilly-casfliuch, who carries him on his back through
+the sikes and brooks; then his gilly-comstrian, to lead his horse
+by the bridle in steep and difficult paths; then his gilly-
+trushharnish, to carry his knapsack; and the piper and the piper's
+man, and it may be a dozen young lads beside, that have no
+business, but are just boys of the belt, to follow the Laird and
+do his honour's bidding.'
+
+'And does your Chief regularly maintain all these men?' demanded
+Waverley.
+
+'All these?' replied Evan; 'ay, and many a fair head beside, that
+would not ken where to lay itself, but for the mickle barn at
+Glennaquoich.'
+
+With similar tales of the grandeur of the Chief in peace and war,
+Evan Dhu beguiled the way till they approached more closely those
+huge mountains which Edward had hitherto only seen at a distance.
+It was towards evening as they entered one of the tremendous
+passes which afford communication between the high and low
+country; the path, which was extremely steep and rugged, winded up
+a chasm between two tremendous rocks, following the passage which
+a foaming stream, that brawled far below, appeared to have worn
+for itself in the course of ages. A few slanting beams of the sun,
+which was now setting, reached the water in its darksome bed, and
+showed it partially, chafed by a hundred rocks and broken by a
+hundred falls. The descent from the path to the stream was a mere
+precipice, with here and there a projecting fragment of granite,
+or a scathed tree, which had warped its twisted roots into the
+fissures of the rock. On the right hand, the mountain rose above
+the path with almost equal inaccessibility; but the hill on the
+opposite side displayed a shroud of copsewood, with which some
+pines were intermingled.
+
+'This,' said Evan, 'is the pass of Bally-Brough, which was kept in
+former times by ten of the clan Donnochie against a hundred of the
+Low-Country carles. The graves of the slain are still to be seen
+in that little corrie, or bottom, on the opposite side of the
+burn; if your eyes are good, you may see the green specks among
+the heather. See, there is an earn, which you Southrons call an
+eagle. You have no such birds as that in England. He is going to
+fetch his supper from the Laird of Bradwardine's braes, but I 'll
+send a slug after him.'
+
+He fired his piece accordingly, but missed the superb monarch of
+the feathered tribes, who, without noticing the attempt to annoy
+him, continued his majestic flight to the southward. A thousand
+birds of prey, hawks, kites, carrion-crows, and ravens, disturbed
+from the lodgings which they had just taken up for the evening,
+rose at the report of the gun, and mingled their hoarse and
+discordant notes with the echoes which replied to it, and with the
+roar of the mountain cataracts. Evan, a little disconcerted at
+having missed his mark, when he meant to have displayed peculiar
+dexterity, covered his confusion by whistling part of a pibroch as
+he reloaded his piece, and proceeded in silence up the pass.
+
+It issued in a narrow glen, between two mountains, both very lofty
+and covered with heath. The brook continued to be their companion,
+and they advanced up its mazes, crossing them now and then, on
+which occasions Evan Dhu uniformly offered the assistance of his
+attendants to carry over Edward; but our hero, who had been always
+a tolerable pedestrian, declined the accommodation, and obviously
+rose in his guide's opinion, by showing that he did not fear
+wetting his feet. Indeed he was anxious, so far as he could
+without affectation, to remove the opinion which Evan seemed to
+entertain of the effeminacy of the Lowlanders, and particularly of
+the English.
+
+Through the gorge of this glen they found access to a black bog,
+of tremendous extent, full of large pit-holes, which they
+traversed with great difficulty and some danger, by tracks which
+no one but a Highlander could have followed. The path itself, or
+rather the portion of more solid ground on which the travellers
+half walked, half waded, was rough, broken, and in many places
+quaggy and unsound. Sometimes the ground was so completely unsafe
+that it was necessary to spring from one hillock to another, the
+space between being incapable of bearing the human weight. This
+was an easy matter to the Highlanders, who wore thin-soled brogues
+fit for the purpose, and moved with a peculiar springing step; but
+Edward began to find the exercise, to which he was unaccustomed,
+more fatiguing than he expected. The lingering twilight served to
+show them through this Serbonian bog, but deserted them almost
+totally at the bottom of a steep and very stony hill, which it was
+the travellers' next toilsome task to ascend. The night, however,
+was pleasant, and not dark; and Waverley, calling up mental energy
+to support personal fatigue, held on his march gallantly, though
+envying in his heart his Highland attendants, who continued,
+without a symptom of abated vigour, the rapid and swinging pace,
+or rather trot, which, according to his computation, had already
+brought them fifteen miles upon their journey.
+
+After crossing this mountain and descending on the other side
+towards a thick wood, Evan Dhu held some conference with his
+Highland attendants, in consequence of which Edward's baggage was
+shifted from the shoulders of the gamekeeper to those of one of
+the gillies, and the former was sent off with the other
+mountaineer in a direction different from that of the three
+remaining travellers. On asking the meaning of this separation,
+Waverley was told that the Lowlander must go to a hamlet about
+three miles off for the night; for unless it was some very
+particular friend, Donald Bean Lean, the worthy person whom they
+supposed to be possessed of the cattle, did not much approve of
+strangers approaching his retreat. This seemed reasonable, and
+silenced a qualm of suspicion which came across Edward's mind when
+he saw himself, at such a place and such an hour, deprived of his
+only Lowland companion. And Evan immediately afterwards
+added,'that indeed he himself had better get forward, and announce
+their approach to Donald Bean Lean, as the arrival of a sidier roy
+(red soldier) might otherwise be a disagreeable surprise.' And
+without waiting for an answer, in jockey phrase, he trotted out,
+and putting himself to a very round pace, was out of sight in an
+instant.
+
+Waverley was now left to his own meditations, for his attendant
+with the battle-axe spoke very little English. They were
+traversing a thick, and, as it seemed, an endless wood of pines,
+and consequently the path was altogether indiscernible in the
+murky darkness which surrounded them. The Highlander, however,
+seemed to trace it by instinct, without the hesitation of a
+moment, and Edward followed his footsteps as close as he could.
+
+After journeying a considerable time in silence, he could not help
+asking, 'Was it far to the end of their journey?'
+
+'Ta cove was tree, four mile; but as duinhe-wassel was a wee
+taiglit, Donald could, tat is, might--would--should send ta
+curragh.'
+
+This conveyed no information. The curragh which was promised might
+be a man, a horse, a cart, or chaise; and no more could be got
+from the man with the battle-axe but a repetition of 'Aich ay! ta
+curragh.'
+
+But in a short time Edward began to conceive his meaning, when,
+issuing from the wood, he found himself on the banks of a large
+river or lake, where his conductor gave him to understand they
+must sit down for a little while. The moon, which now began to
+rise, showed obscurely the expanse of water which spread before
+them, and the shapeless and indistinct forms of mountains with
+which it seemed to be surrounded. The cool and yet mild air of the
+summer night refreshed Waverley after his rapid and toilsome walk;
+and the perfume which it wafted from the birch trees, [Footnote:
+It is not the weeping birch, the most common species in the
+Highlands, but the woolly-leaved Lowland birch, that is
+distinguished by this fragrance.] bathed in the evening dew, was
+exquisitely fragrant.
+
+He had now time to give himself up to the full romance of his
+situation. Here he sate on the banks of an unknown lake, under the
+guidance of a wild native, whose language was unknown to him, on a
+visit to the den of some renowned outlaw, a second Robin Hood,
+perhaps, or Adam o' Gordon, and that at deep midnight, through
+scenes of difficulty and toil, separated from his attendant, left
+by his guide. What a variety of incidents for the exercise of a
+romantic imagination, and all enhanced by the solemn feeling of
+uncertainty at least, if not of danger! The only circumstance
+which assorted ill with the rest was the cause of his journey--the
+Baron's milk-cows! this degrading incident he kept in the
+background.
+
+While wrapt in these dreams of imagination, his companion gently
+touched him, and, pointing in a direction nearly straight across
+the lake, said, 'Yon's ta cove.' A small point of light was seen
+to twinkle in the direction in which he pointed, and, gradually
+increasing in size and lustre, seemed to flicker like a meteor
+upon the verge of the horizon. While Edward watched this
+phenomenon, the distant dash of oars was heard. The measured sound
+approached near and more near, and presently a loud whistle was
+heard in the same direction. His friend with the battle-axe
+immediately whistled clear and shrill, in reply to the signal, and
+a boat, manned with four or five Highlanders, pushed for a little
+inlet, near which Edward was sitting. He advanced to meet them
+with his attendant, was immediately assisted into the boat by the
+officious attention of two stout mountaineers, and had no sooner
+seated himself than they resumed their oars, and began to row
+across the lake with great rapidity.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVII
+
+THE HOLD OF A HIGHLAND ROBBER
+
+
+The party preserved silence, interrupted only by the monotonous
+and murmured chant of a Gaelic song, sung in a kind of low
+recitative by the steersman, and by the dash of the oars, which
+the notes seemed to regulate, as they dipped to them in cadence.
+The light, which they now approached more nearly, assumed a
+broader, redder and more irregular splendour. It appeared plainly
+to be a large fire, but whether kindled upon an island or the
+mainland Edward could not determine. As he saw it, the red glaring
+orb seemed to rest on the very surface of the lake itself, and
+resembled the fiery vehicle in which the Evil Genius of an
+Oriental tale traverses land and sea. They approached nearer, and
+the light of the fire sufficed to show that it was kindled at the
+bottom of a huge dark crag or rock, rising abruptly from the very
+edge of the water; its front, changed by the reflection to dusky
+red, formed a strange and even awful contrast to the banks around,
+which were from time to time faintly and partially illuminated by
+pallid moonlight.
+
+The boat now neared the shore, and Edward could discover that this
+large fire, amply supplied with branches of pine-wood by two
+figures, who, in the red reflection of its light, appeared like
+demons, was kindled in the jaws of a lofty cavern, into which an
+inlet from the lake seemed to advance; and he conjectured, which
+was indeed true, that the fire had been lighted as a beacon to the
+boatmen on their return. They rowed right for the mouth of the
+cave, and then, shifting their oars, permitted the boat to enter
+in obedience to the impulse which it had received. The skiff
+passed the little point or platform of rock on which the fire was
+blazing, and running about two boats' lengths farther, stopped
+where the cavern (for it was already arched overhead) ascended
+from the water by five or six broad ledges of rock, so easy and
+regular that they might be termed natural steps. At this moment a
+quantity of water was suddenly flung upon the fire, which sunk
+with a hissing noise, and with it disappeared the light it had
+hitherto afforded. Four or five active arms lifted Waverley out of
+the boat, placed him on his feet, and almost carried him into the
+recesses of the cave. He made a few paces in darkness, guided in
+this manner; and advancing towards a hum of voices, which seemed
+to sound from the centre of the rock, at an acute turn Donald Bean
+Lean and his whole establishment were before his eyes.
+
+The interior of the cave, which here rose very high, was
+illuminated by torches made of pine-tree, which emitted a bright
+and bickering light, attended by a strong though not unpleasant
+odour. Their light was assisted by the red glare of a large
+charcoal fire, round which were seated five or six armed
+Highlanders, while others were indistinctly seen couched on their
+plaids in the more remote recesses of the cavern. In one large
+aperture, which the robber facetiously called his SPENCE (or
+pantry), there hung by the heels the carcasses of a sheep, or ewe,
+and two cows lately slaughtered. The principal inhabitant of this
+singular mansion, attended by Evan Dhu as master of the
+ceremonies, came forward to meet his guest, totally different in
+appearance and manner from what his imagination had anticipated.
+The profession which he followed, the wilderness in which he
+dwelt, the wild warrior forms that surrounded him, were all
+calculated to inspire terror. From such accompaniments, Waverley
+prepared himself to meet a stern, gigantic, ferocious figure, such
+as Salvator would have chosen to be the central object of a group
+of banditti. [Footnote: See Note 15.]
+
+Donald Bean Lean was the very reverse of all these. He was thin in
+person and low in stature, with light sandy-coloured hair, and
+small pale features, from which he derived his agnomen of BEAN or
+white; and although his form was light, well proportioned and
+active, he appeared, on the whole, rather a diminutive and
+insignificant figure. He had served in some inferior capacity in
+the French army, and in order to receive his English visitor in
+great form, and probably meaning, in his way, to pay him a
+compliment, he had laid aside the Highland dress for the time, to
+put on an old blue and red uniform and a feathered hat, in which
+he was far from showing to advantage, and indeed looked so
+incongruous, compared with all around him, that Waverley would
+have been tempted to laugh, had laughter been either civil or
+safe. The robber received Captain Waverley with a profusion of
+French politeness and Scottish hospitality, seemed perfectly to
+know his name and connections, and to be particularly acquainted
+with his uncle's political principles. On these he bestowed great
+applause, to which Waverley judged it prudent to make a very
+general reply.
+
+Being placed at a convenient distance from the charcoal fire, the
+heat of which the season rendered oppressive, a strapping Highland
+damsel placed before Waverley, Evan, and Donald Bean three cogues,
+or wooden vessels composed of staves and hoops, containing
+eanaruich, [Footnote: This was the regale presented by Rob Roy to
+the Laird of Tullibody.] a sort of strong soup, made out of a
+particular part of the inside of the beeves. After this
+refreshment, which, though coarse, fatigue and hunger rendered
+palatable, steaks, roasted on the coals, were supplied in liberal
+abundance, and disappeared before Evan Dhu and their host with a
+promptitude that seemed like magic, and astonished Waverley, who
+was much puzzled to reconcile their voracity with what he had
+heard of the abstemiousness of the Highlanders. He was ignorant
+that this abstinence was with the lower ranks wholly compulsory,
+and that, like some animals of prey, those who practise it were
+usually gifted with the power of indemnifying themselves to good
+purpose when chance threw plenty in their way. The whisky came
+forth in abundance to crown the cheer. The Highlanders drank it
+copiously and undiluted; but Edward, having mixed a little with
+water, did not find it so palatable as to invite him to repeat the
+draught. Their host bewailed himself exceedingly that he could
+offer him no wine: 'Had he but known four-and-twenty hours before,
+he would have had some, had it been within the circle of forty
+miles round him. But no gentleman could do more to show his sense
+of the honour of a visit from another than to offer him the best
+cheer his house afforded. Where there are no bushes there can be
+no nuts, and the way of those you live with is that you must
+follow,'
+
+He went on regretting to Evan Dhu the death of an aged man,
+Donnacha an Amrigh, or Duncan with the Cap, 'a gifted seer,' who
+foretold, through the second sight, visitors of every description
+who haunted their dwelling, whether as friends or foes.
+
+'Is not his son Malcolm taishatr (a second-sighted person)?' asked
+Evan.
+
+'Nothing equal to his father,' replied Donald Bean. 'He told us
+the other day, we were to see a great gentleman riding on a horse,
+and there came nobody that whole day but Shemus Beg, the blind
+harper, with his dog. Another time he advertised us of a wedding,
+and behold it proved a funeral; and on the creagh, when he
+foretold to us we should bring home a hundred head of horned
+cattle, we gripped nothing but a fat bailie of Perth.'
+
+From this discourse he passed to the political and military state
+of the country; and Waverley was astonished, and even alarmed, to
+find a person of this description so accurately acquainted with
+the strength of the various garrisons and regiments quartered
+north of the Tay. He even mentioned the exact number of recruits
+who had joined Waverley's troop from his uncle's estate, and
+observed they were PRETTY MEN, meaning, not handsome, but stout
+warlike fellows. He put Waverley in mind of one or two minute
+circumstances which had happened at a general review of the
+regiment, which satisfied him that the robber had been an eye-
+witness of it; and Evan Dhu having by this time retired from the
+conversation, and wrapped himself up in his plaid to take some
+repose, Donald asked Edward, in a very significant manner, whether
+he had nothing particular to say to him.
+
+Waverley, surprised and somewhat startled at this question from
+such a character, answered, he had no motive in visiting him but
+curiosity to see his extraordinary place of residence. Donald Bean
+Lean looked him steadily in the face for an instant, and then
+said, with a significant nod, 'You might as well have confided in
+me; I am as much worthy of trust as either the Baron of
+Bradwardine or Vich Ian Vohr. But you are equally welcome to my
+house.'
+
+Waverley felt an involuntary shudder creep over him at the
+mysterious language held by this outlawed and lawless bandit,
+which, in despite of his attempts to master it, deprived him of
+the power to ask the meaning of his insinuations. A heath pallet,
+with the flowers stuck uppermost, had been prepared for him in a
+recess of the cave, and here, covered with such spare plaids as
+could be mustered, he lay for some time watching the motions of
+the other inhabitants of the cavern. Small parties of two or three
+entered or left the place, without any other ceremony than a few
+words in Gaelic to the principal outlaw, and, when he fell asleep,
+to a tall Highlander who acted as his lieutenant, and seemed to
+keep watch during his repose. Those who entered seemed to have
+returned from some excursion, of which they reported the success,
+and went without farther ceremony to the larder, where, cutting
+with their dirks their rations from the carcasses which were there
+suspended, they proceeded to broil and eat them at their own
+pleasure and leisure. The liquor was under strict regulation,
+being served out either by Donald himself, his lieutenant, or the
+strapping Highland girl aforesaid, who was the only female that
+appeared. The allowance of whisky, however, would have appeared
+prodigal to any but Highlanders, who, living entirely in the open
+air and in a very moist climate, can consume great quantities of
+ardent spirits without the usual baneful effects either upon the
+brain or constitution.
+
+At length the fluctuating groups began to swim before the eyes of
+our hero as they gradually closed; nor did he re-open them till
+the morning sun was high on the lake without, though there was but
+a faint and glimmering twilight in the recesses of Uaimh an Ri, or
+the King's Cavern, as the abode of Donald Bean Lean was proudly
+denominated.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVIII
+
+WAVERLEY PROCEEDS ON HIS JOURNEY
+
+
+When Edward had collected his scattered recollection, he was
+surprised to observe the cavern totally deserted. Having arisen
+and put his dress in some order, he looked more accurately round
+him; but all was still solitary. If it had not been for the
+decayed brands of the fire, now sunk into grey ashes, and the
+remnants of the festival, consisting of bones half burnt and half
+gnawed, and an empty keg or two, there remained no traces of
+Donald and his band. When Waverley sallied forth to the entrance
+of the cave, he perceived that the point of rock, on which
+remained the marks of last night's beacon, was accessible by a
+small path, either natural or roughly hewn in the rock, along the
+little inlet of water which ran a few yards up into the cavern,
+where, as in a wetdock, the skiff which brought him there the
+night before was still lying moored. When he reached the small
+projecting platform on which the beacon had been established, he
+would have believed his further progress by land impossible, only
+that it was scarce probable but what the inhabitants of the cavern
+had some mode of issuing from it otherwise than by the lake.
+Accordingly, he soon observed three or four shelving steps, or
+ledges of rock, at the very extremity of the little platform; and,
+making use of them as a staircase, he clambered by their means
+around the projecting shoulder of the crag on which the cavern
+opened, and, descending with some difficulty on the other side, he
+gained the wild and precipitous shores of a Highland loch, about
+four miles in length and a mile and a half across, surrounded by
+heathy and savage mountains, on the crests of which the morning
+mist was still sleeping.
+
+Looking back to the place from which he came, he could not help
+admiring the address which had adopted a retreat of such seclusion
+and secrecy. The rock, round the shoulder of which he had turned
+by a few imperceptible notches, that barely afforded place for the
+foot, seemed, in looking back upon it, a huge precipice, which
+barred all further passage by the shores of the lake in that
+direction. There could be no possibility, the breadth of the lake
+considered, of descrying the entrance of the narrow and low-browed
+cave from the other side; so that, unless the retreat had been
+sought for with boats, or disclosed by treachery, it might be a
+safe and secret residence to its garrison as long as they were
+supplied with provisions. Having satisfied his curiosity in these
+particulars, Waverley looked around for Evan Dhu and his
+attendants, who, he rightly judged, would be at no great distance,
+whatever might have become of Donald Bean Lean and his party,
+whose mode of life was, of course, liable to sudden migrations of
+abode. Accordingly, at the distance of about half a mile, he
+beheld a Highlander (Evan apparently) angling in the lake, with
+another attending him, whom, from the weapon which he shouldered,
+he recognised for his friend with the battle-axe.
+
+Much nearer to the mouth of the cave he heard the notes of a
+lively Gaelic song, guided by which, in a sunny recess, shaded by
+a glittering birch-tree, and carpeted with a bank of firm white
+sand, he found the damsel of the cavern, whose lay had already
+reached him, busy, to the best of her power, in arranging to
+advantage a morning repast of milk, eggs, barley-bread, fresh
+butter, and honey-comb. The poor girl had already made a circuit
+of four miles that morning in search of the eggs, of the meal
+which baked her cakes, and of the other materials of the
+breakfast, being all delicacies which she had to beg or borrow
+from distant cottagers. The followers of Donald Bean Lean used
+little food except the flesh of the animals which they drove away
+from the Lowlands; bread itself was a delicacy seldom thought of,
+because hard to be obtained, and all the domestic accommodations
+of milk, poultry, butter, etc., were out of the question in this
+Scythian camp. Yet it must not be omitted that, although Alice had
+occupied a part of the morning in providing those accommodations
+for her guest which the cavern did not afford, she had secured
+time also to arrange her own person in her best trim. Her finery
+was very simple. A short russet-coloured jacket and a petticoat of
+scanty longitude was her whole dress; but these were clean, and
+neatly arranged. A piece of scarlet embroidered cloth, called the
+snood, confined her hair, which fell over it in a profusion of
+rich dark curls. The scarlet plaid, which formed part of her
+dress, was laid aside, that it might not impede her activity in
+attending the stranger. I should forget Alice's proudest ornament
+were I to omit mentioning a pair of gold ear-rings and a, golden
+rosary, which her father (for she was the daughter of Donald Bean
+Lean) had brought from France, the plunder, probably, of some
+battle or storm.
+
+Her form, though rather large for her years, was very well
+proportioned, and her demeanour had a natural and rustic grace,
+with nothing of the sheepishness of an ordinary peasant. The
+smiles, displaying a row of teeth of exquisite whiteness, and the
+laughing eyes, with which, in dumb show, she gave Waverley that
+morning greeting which she wanted English words to express, might
+have been interpreted by a coxcomb, or perhaps by a young soldier
+who, without being such, was conscious of a handsome person, as
+meant to convey more than the courtesy of an hostess. Nor do I
+take it upon me to say that the little wild mountaineer would have
+welcomed any staid old gentleman advanced in life, the Baron of
+Bradwardine, for example, with the cheerful pains which she
+bestowed upon Edward's accommodation. She seemed eager to place
+him by the meal which she had so sedulously arranged, and to which
+she now added a few bunches of cranberries, gathered in an
+adjacent morass. Having had the satisfaction of seeing him seated
+at his breakfast, she placed herself demurely upon a stone at a
+few yards' distance, and appeared to watch with great complacency
+for some opportunity of serving him.
+
+Evan and his attendant now returned slowly along the beach, the
+latter bearing a large salmon-trout, the produce of the morning's
+sport, together with the angling-rod, while Evan strolled forward,
+with an easy, self-satisfied, and important gait, towards the spot
+where Waverley was so agreeably employed at the breakfast-table.
+After morning greetings had passed on both sides, and Evan,
+looking at Waverley, had said something in Gaelic to Alice, which
+made her laugh, yet colour up to her eyes, through a complexion
+well en-browned by sun and wind, Evan intimated his commands that
+the fish should be prepared for breakfast. A spark from the lock
+of his pistol produced a light, and a few withered fir branches
+were quickly in flame, and as speedily reduced to hot embers, on
+which the trout was broiled in large slices. To crown the repast,
+Evan produced from the pocket of his short jerkin a large scallop
+shell, and from under the folds of his plaid a ram's horn full of
+whisky. Of this he took a copious dram, observing he had already
+taken his MORNING with Donald Bean Lean before his departure; he
+offered the same cordial to Alice and to Edward, which they both
+declined. With the bounteous air of a lord, Evan then proffered
+the scallop to Dugald Mahony, his attendant, who, without waiting
+to be asked a second time, drank it off with great gusto. Evan
+then prepared to move towards the boat, inviting Waverley to
+attend him. Meanwhile, Alice had made up in a small basket what
+she thought worth removing, and flinging her plaid around her, she
+advanced up to Edward, and with the utmost simplicity, taking hold
+of his hand, offered her cheek to his salute, dropping at the same
+time her little curtsy. Evan, who was esteemed a wag among the
+mountain fair, advanced as if to secure a similar favour; but
+Alice, snatching up her basket, escaped up the rocky bank as
+fleetly as a roe, and, turning round and laughing, called
+something out to him in Gaelic, which he answered in the same tone
+and language; then, waving her hand to Edward, she resumed her
+road, and was soon lost among the thickets, though they continued
+for some time to hear her lively carol, as she proceeded gaily on
+her solitary journey.
+
+They now again entered the gorge of the cavern, and stepping into
+the boat, the Highlander pushed off, and, taking advantage of the
+morning breeze, hoisted a clumsy sort of sail, while Evan assumed
+the helm, directing their course, as it appeared to Waverley,
+rather higher up the lake than towards the place of his
+embarkation on the preceding night. As they glided along the
+silver mirror, Evan opened the conversation with a panegyric upon
+Alice, who, he said, was both CANNY and FENDY; and was, to the
+boot of all that, the best dancer of a strathspey in the whole
+strath. Edward assented to her praises so far as he understood
+them, yet could not help regretting that she was condemned to such
+a perilous and dismal life.
+
+'Oich! for that,' said Evan, 'there is nothing in Perthshire that
+she need want, if she ask her father to fetch it, unless it be too
+hot or too heavy.'
+
+'But to be the daughter of a cattle-stealer--a common thief!'
+'Common thief!--no such thing: Donald Bean Lean never LIFTED less
+than a drove in his life.'
+
+'Do you call him an uncommon thief, then?'
+
+'No; he that steals a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a
+cotter, is a thief; he that lifts a drove from a Sassenach laird
+is a gentleman-drover. And, besides, to take a tree from the
+forest, a salmon from the river, a deer from the hill, or a cow
+from a Lowland strath, is what no Highlander need ever think shame
+upon.'
+
+'But what can this end in, were he taken in such an
+appropriation?'
+
+'To be sure he would DIE FOR THE LAW, as many a pretty man has
+done before him.'
+
+'Die for the law!'
+
+'Ay; that is, with the law, or by the law; be strapped up on the
+KIND gallows of Crieff, [Footnote: See Note 16.] where his father
+died, and his goodsire died, and where I hope he'll live to die
+himsell, if he's not shot, or slashed, in a creagh.'
+
+'You HOPE such a death for your friend, Evan?'
+
+'And that do I e'en; would you have me wish him to die on a bundle
+of wet straw in yon den of his, like a mangy tyke?'
+
+'But what becomes of Alice, then?'
+
+'Troth, if such an accident were to happen, as her father would
+not need her help ony langer, I ken nought to hinder me to marry
+her mysell.'
+
+'Gallantly resolved,' said Edward; 'but, in the meanwhile, Evan,
+what has your father-in-law (that shall be, if he have the good
+fortune to be hanged) done with the Baron's cattle?'
+
+'Oich,' answered Evan,'they were all trudging before your lad and
+Allan Kennedy before the sun blinked ower Ben Lawers this morning;
+and they'll be in the pass of Bally-Brough by this time, in their
+way back to the parks of Tully-Veolan, all but two, that were
+unhappily slaughtered before I got last night to Uaimh an Ri.'
+
+'And where are we going, Evan, if I may be so bold as to ask?'
+said Waverley.
+
+'Where would you be ganging, but to the Laird's ain house of
+Glennaquoich? Ye would not think to be in his country, without
+ganging to see him? It would be as much as a man's life's worth.'
+
+'And are we far from Glennaquoich?'
+
+'But five bits of miles; and Vich Ian Vohr will meet us.'
+
+In about half an hour they reached the upper end of the lake,
+where, after landing Waverley, the two Highanders drew the boat
+into a little creek among thick flags and reeds, where it lay
+perfectly concealed. The oars they put in another place of
+concealment, both for the use of Donald Bean Lean probably, when
+his occasions should next bring him to that place.
+
+The travellers followed for some time a delightful opening into
+the hills, down which a little brook found its way to the lake.
+When they had pursued their walk a short distance, Waverley
+renewed his questions about their host of the cavern.
+
+'Does he always reside in that cave?'
+
+'Out, no! it's past the skill of man to tell where he's to be
+found at a' times; there's not a dern nook, or cove, or corrie, in
+the whole country that he's not acquainted with.'
+
+'And do others beside your master shelter him?'
+
+'My master? MY master is in Heaven,' answered Evan, haughtily; and
+then immediately assuming his usual civility of manner, 'but you
+mean my Chief;--no, he does not shelter Donald Bean Lean, nor any
+that are like him; he only allows him (with a smile) wood and
+water.'
+
+'No great boon, I should think, Evan, when both seem to be very
+plenty.'
+
+'Ah! but ye dinna see through it. When I say wood and water, I
+mean the loch and the land; and I fancy Donald would be put till
+'t if the Laird were to look for him wi' threescore men in the
+wood of Kailychat yonder; and if our boats, with a score or twa
+mair, were to come down the loch to Uaimh an Ri, headed by mysell,
+or ony other pretty man.'
+
+'But suppose a strong party came against him from the Low Country,
+would not your Chief defend him?'
+
+'Na, he would not ware the spark of a flint for him--if they came
+with the law.'
+
+'And what must Donald do, then?'
+
+'He behoved to rid this country of himsell, and fall back, it may
+be, over the mount upon Letter Scriven.'
+
+'And if he were pursued to that place?'
+
+'I'se warrant he would go to his cousin's at Rannoch.'
+
+'Well, but if they followed him to Rannoch?'
+
+'That,' quoth Evan, 'is beyond all belief; and, indeed, to tell
+you the truth, there durst not a Lowlander in all Scotland follow
+the fray a gun-shot beyond Bally-Brough, unless he had the help
+of the Sidier Dhu.'
+
+'Whom do you call so?'
+
+'The Sidier Dhu? the black soldier; that is what they call the
+independent companies that were raised to keep peace and law in
+the Highlands. Vich Ian Vohr commanded one of them for five years,
+and I was sergeant mysell, I shall warrant ye. They call them
+Sidier Dhu because they wear the tartans, as they call your men--
+King George's men--Sidier Roy, or red soldiers.'
+
+'Well, but when you were in King George's pay, Evan, you were
+surely King George's soldiers?'
+
+'Troth, and you must ask Vich Ian Vohr about that; for we are for
+his king, and care not much which o' them it is. At ony rate,
+nobody can say we are King George's men now, when we have not seen
+his pay this twelve-month.'
+
+This last argument admitted of no reply, nor did Edward attempt
+any; he rather chose to bring back the discourse to Donald Bean
+Lean. 'Does Donald confine himself to cattle, or does he LIFT, as
+you call it, anything else that comes in his way?'
+
+'Troth, he's nae nice body, and he'll just tak onything, but most
+readily cattle, horse, or live Christians; for sheep are slow of
+travel, and inside plenishing is cumbrous to carry, and not easy
+to put away for siller in this country.'
+
+'But does he carry off men and women?'
+
+'Out, ay. Did not ye hear him speak o' the Perth bailie? It cost
+that body five hundred merks ere he got to the south of Bally-
+Brough. And ance Donald played a pretty sport. [Footnote: See Note
+17.] There was to be a blythe bridal between the Lady Cramfeezer,
+in the howe o' the Mearns (she was the auld laird's widow, and no
+sae young as she had been hersell), and young Gilliewhackit, who
+had spent his heirship and movables, like a gentleman, at cock-
+matches, bull-baitings, horse-races, and the like. Now, Donald
+Bean Lean, being aware that the bridegroom was in request, and
+wanting to cleik the cunzie (that is, to hook the siller), he
+cannily carried off Gilliewhackit ae night when he was riding
+dovering hame (wi' the malt rather abune the meal), and with the
+help of his gillies he gat him into the hills with the speed of
+light, and the first place he wakened in was the cove of Uaimh an
+Ri. So there was old to do about ransoming the bridegroom; for
+Donald would not lower a farthing of a thousand punds--'
+
+'The devil!'
+
+'Punds Scottish, ye shall understand. And the lady had not the
+siller if she had pawned her gown; and they applied to the
+governor o' Stirling castle, and to the major o' the Black Watch;
+and the governor said it was ower far to the northward, and out of
+his district; and the major said his men were gane hame to the
+shearing, and he would not call them out before the victual was
+got in for all the Cramfeezers in Christendom, let alane the
+Mearns, for that it would prejudice the country. And in the
+meanwhile ye'll no hinder Gilliewhackit to take the small-pox.
+There was not the doctor in Perth or Stirling would look near the
+poor lad; and I cannot blame them, for Donald had been misguggled
+by ane of these doctors about Paris, and he swore he would fling
+the first into the loch that he catched beyond the pass. However
+some cailliachs (that is, old women) that were about Donald's hand
+nursed Gilliewhackit sae weel that, between the free open air in
+the cove and the fresh whey, deil an he did not recover maybe as
+weel as if he had been closed in a glazed chamber and a bed with
+curtains, and fed with red wine and white meat. And Donald was sae
+vexed about it that, when he was stout and weel, he even sent him
+free home, and said he would be pleased with onything they would
+like to gie him for the plague and trouble which he had about
+Gilliewhackit to an unkenn'd degree. And I cannot tell you
+precisely how they sorted; but they agreed sae right that Donald
+was invited to dance at the wedding in his Highland trews, and
+they said that there was never sae meikle siller clinked in his
+purse either before or since. And to the boot of all that,
+Gilliewhackit said that, be the evidence what it liked, if he had
+the luck to be on Donald's inquest, he would bring him in guilty
+of nothing whatever, unless it were wilful arson or murder under
+trust.'
+
+With such bald and disjointed chat Evan went on illustrating the
+existing state of the Highlands, more perhaps to the amusement of
+Waverley than that of our readers. At length, after having marched
+over bank and brae, moss and heather, Edward, though not
+unacquainted with the Scottish liberality in computing distance,
+began to think that Evan's five miles were nearly doubled. His
+observation on the large measure which the Scottish allowed of
+their land, in comparison to the computation of their money, was
+readily answered by Evan with the old jest, 'The deil take them
+wha have the least pint stoup.'
+
+[Footnote: The Scotch are liberal in computing their land and
+liquor; the Scottish pint corresponds to two English quarts. As
+for their coin, every one knows the couplet--
+
+         How can the rogues pretend to sense?
+         Their pound is only twenty pence.]
+
+And now the report of a gun was heard, and a sportsman was seen,
+with his dogs and attendant, at the upper end of the glen.
+'Shough,' said Dugald Mahony, 'tat's ta Chief.'
+
+'It is not,' said Evan, imperiously. 'Do you think he would come
+to meet a Sassenach duinhe-wassel in such a way as that?'
+
+But as they approached a little nearer, he said, with an
+appearance of mortification, 'And it is even he, sure enough; and
+he has not his tail on after all; there is no living creature with
+him but Callum Beg.'
+
+In fact, Fergus Mac-Ivor, of whom a Frenchman might have said as
+truly as of any man in the Highlands, 'Qu'il connoit bien ses
+gens' had no idea of raising himself in the eyes of an English
+young man of fortune by appearing with a retinue of idle
+Highlanders disproportioned to the occasion. He was well aware
+that such an unnecessary attendance would seem to Edward rather
+ludicrous than respectable; and, while few men were more attached
+to ideas of chieftainship and feudal power, he was, for that very
+reason, cautious of exhibiting external marks of dignity, unless
+at the time and in the manner when they were most likely to
+produce an imposing effect. Therefore, although, had he been to
+receive a brother chieftain, he would probably have been attended
+by all that retinue which Evan described with so much unction, he
+judged it more respectable to advance to meet Waverley with a
+single attendant, a very handsome Highland boy, who carried his
+master's shooting-pouch and his broadsword, without which he
+seldom went abroad.
+
+When Fergus and Waverley met, the latter was struck with the
+peculiar grace and dignity of the Chieftain's figure. Above the
+middle size and finely proportioned, the Highland dress, which he
+wore in its simplest mode, set off his person to great advantage.
+He wore the trews, or close trowsers, made of tartan, chequed
+scarlet and white; in other particulars his dress strictly
+resembled Evan's, excepting that he had no weapon save a dirk,
+very richly mounted with silver. His page, as we have said,
+carried his claymore; and the fowling-piece, which he held in his
+hand, seemed only designed for sport. He had shot in the course of
+his walk some young wild-ducks, as, though CLOSE TIME was then
+unknown, the broods of grouse were yet too young for the
+sportsman. His countenance was decidedly Scottish, with all the
+peculiarities of the northern physiognomy, but yet had so little
+of its harshness and exaggeration that it would have been
+pronounced in any country extremely handsome. The martial air of
+the bonnet, with a single eagle's feather as a distinction, added
+much to the manly appearance of his head, which was besides
+ornamented with a far more natural and graceful cluster of close
+black curls than ever were exposed to sale in Bond Street.
+
+An air of openness and affability increased the favorable
+impression derived from this handsome and dignified exterior. Yet
+a skilful physiognomist would have been less satisfied with the
+countenance on the second than on the first view. The eyebrow and
+upper lip bespoke something of the habit of peremptory command and
+decisive superiority. Even his courtesy, though open, frank, and
+unconstrained, seemed to indicate a sense of personal importance;
+and, upon any check or accidental excitation, a sudden, though
+transient lour of the eye showed a hasty, haughty, and vindictive
+temper, not less to be dreaded because it seemed much under its
+owner's command. In short, the countenance of the Chieftain
+resembled a smiling summer's day, in which, notwithstanding, we
+are made sensible by certain, though slight signs that it may
+thunder and lighten before the close of evening.
+
+It was not, however, upon their first meeting that Edward had an
+opportunity of making these less favourable remarks. The Chief
+received him as a friend of the Baron of Bradwardine, with the
+utmost expression of kindness and obligation for the visit;
+upbraided him gently with choosing so rude an abode as he had done
+the night before; and entered into a lively conversation with him
+about Donald Bean's housekeeping, but without the least hint as to
+his predatory habits, or the immediate occasion of Waverley's
+visit, a topic which, as the Chief did not introduce it, our hero
+also avoided. While they walked merrily on towards the house of
+Glennaquoich, Evan, who now fell respectfully into the rear,
+followed with Callum Beg and Dugald Mahony.
+
+We shall take the opportunity to introduce the reader to some
+particulars of Fergus Mac-Ivor's character and history, which were
+not completely known to Waverley till after a connection which,
+though arising from a circumstance so casual, had for a length of
+time the deepest influence upon his character, actions, and
+prospects. But this, being an important subject, must form the
+commencement of a new chapter.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIX
+
+THE CHIEF AND HIS MANSION
+
+
+The ingenious licentiate Francisco de Ubeda, when he commenced his
+history of 'La Picara Justina Diez,'--which, by the way, is one
+of the most rare books of Spanish literature,--complained of his
+pen having caught up a hair, and forthwith begins, with more
+eloquence than common sense, an affectionate expostulation with
+that useful implement, upbraiding it with being the quill of a
+goose,--a bird inconstant by nature, as frequenting the three
+elements of water, earth, and air indifferently, and being, of
+course, 'to one thing constant never.' Now I protest to thee,
+gentle reader, that I entirely dissent from Francisco de Ubeda in
+this matter, and hold it the most useful quality of my pen, that
+it can speedily change from grave to gay, and from description and
+dialogue to narrative and character. So that if my quill display
+no other properties of its mother-goose than her mutability,
+truly I shall be well pleased; and I conceive that you, my worthy
+friend, will have no occasion for discontent. From the jargon,
+therefore, of the Highland gillies I pass to the character of
+their Chief. It is an important examination, and therefore, like
+Dogberry, we must spare no wisdom.
+
+The ancestor of Fergus Mac-Ivor, about three centuries before, had
+set up a claim to be recognised as chief of the numerous and
+powerful clan to which he belonged, the name of which it is
+unnecessary to mention. Being defeated by an opponent who had more
+justice, or at least more force, on his side, he moved southwards,
+with those who adhered to him, in quest of new settlements, like a
+second AEneas. The state of the Perthshire Highlands favoured his
+purpose. A great baron in that country had lately become traitor
+to the crown; Ian, which was the name of our adventurer, united
+himself with those who were commissioned by the king to chastise
+him, and did such good service that he obtained a grant of the
+property, upon which he and his posterity afterwards resided. He
+followed the king also in war to the fertile regions of England,
+where he employed his leisure hours so actively in raising
+subsidies among the boors of Northumberland and Durham, that upon
+his return he was enabled to erect a stone tower, or fortalice, so
+much admired by his dependants and neighbours that he, who had
+hitherto been called Ian Mac-Ivor, or John the son of Ivor, was
+thereafter distinguished, both in song and genealogy, by the high
+title of Ian nan Chaistel, or John of the Tower. The descendants
+of this worthy were so proud of him that the reigning chief always
+bore the patronymic title of Vich Ian Vohr, i.e. the son of John
+the Great; while the clan at large, to distinguish them from that
+from which they had seceded, were denominated Sliochd nan Ivor,
+the race of Ivor.
+
+The father of Fergus, the tenth in direct descent from John of the
+Tower, engaged heart and hand in the insurrection of 1715, and was
+forced to fly to France, after the attempt of that year in favour
+of the Stuarts had proved unsuccessful. More fortunate than other
+fugitives, he obtained employment in the French service, and
+married a lady of rank in that kingdom, by whom he had two
+children, Fergus and his sister Flora. The Scottish estate had
+been forfeited and exposed to sale, but was repurchased for a
+small price in the name of the young proprietor, who in
+consequence came to reside upon his native domains. [Footnote: See
+Note 18.] It was soon perceived that he possessed a character of
+uncommon acuteness, fire, and ambition, which, as he became
+acquainted with the state of the country, gradually assumed a
+mixed and peculiar tone, that could only have been acquired Sixty
+Years Since.
+
+Had Fergus Mac-Ivor lived Sixty Years sooner than he did, he would
+in all probability have wanted the polished manner and knowledge
+of the world which he now possessed; and had he lived Sixty Years
+later, his ambition and love of rule would have lacked the fuel
+which his situation now afforded. He was indeed, within his little
+circle, as perfect a politician as Castruccio Castracani himself.
+He applied himself with great earnestness to appease all the feuds
+and dissensions which often arose among other clans in his
+neighbourhood, so that he became a frequent umpire in their
+quarrels. His own patriarchal power he strengthened at every
+expense which his fortune would permit, and indeed stretched his
+means to the uttermost to maintain the rude and plentiful
+hospitality which was the most valued attribute of a chieftain.
+For the same reason he crowded his estate with a tenantry, hardy
+indeed, and fit for the purposes of war, but greatly outnumbering
+what the soil was calculated to maintain. These consisted chiefly
+of his own clan, not one of whom he suffered to quit his lands if
+he could possibly prevent it. But he maintained, besides, many
+adventurers from the mother sept, who deserted a less warlike,
+though more wealthy chief to do homage to Fergus Mac-Ivor. Other
+individuals, too, who had not even that apology, were nevertheless
+received into his allegiance, which indeed was refused to none who
+were, like Poins, proper men of their hands, and were willing to
+assume the name of Mac-Ivor.
+
+He was enabled to discipline these forces, from having obtained
+command of one of the independent companies raised by government
+to preserve the peace of the Highlands. While in this capacity he
+acted with vigour and spirit, and preserved great order in the
+country under his charge. He caused his vassals to enter by
+rotation into his company, and serve for a certain space of time,
+which gave them all in turn a general notion of military
+discipline. In his campaigns against the banditti, it was observed
+that he assumed and exercised to the utmost the discretionary
+power which, while the law had no free course in the Highlands,
+was conceived to belong to the military parties who were called in
+to support it. He acted, for example, with great and suspicious
+lenity to those freebooters who made restitution on his summons
+and offered personal submission to himself, while he rigorously
+pursued, apprehended, and sacrificed to justice all such
+interlopers as dared to despise his admonitions or commands. On
+the other hand, if any officers of justice, military parties, or
+others, presumed to pursue thieves or marauders through his
+territories, and without applying for his consent and concurrence,
+nothing was more certain than that they would meet with some
+notable foil or defeat; upon which occasions Fergus Mac-Ivor was
+the first to condole with them, and after gently blaming their
+rashness, never failed deeply to lament the lawless state of the
+country. These lamentations did not exclude suspicion, and matters
+were so represented to government that our Chieftain was deprived
+of his military command. [Footnote: See Note 19.]
+
+Whatever Fergus Mac-Ivor felt on this occasion, he had the art of
+entirely suppressing every appearance of discontent; but in a
+short time the neighbouring country began to feel bad effects from
+his disgrace. Donald Bean Lean, and others of his class, whose
+depredations had hitherto been confined to other districts,
+appeared from thenceforward to have made a settlement on this
+devoted border; and their ravages were carried on with little
+opposition, as the Lowland gentry were chiefly Jacobites, and
+disarmed. This forced many of the inhabitants into contracts of
+black-mail with Fergus Mac-Ivor, which not only established him
+their protector, and gave him great weight in all their
+consultations, but, moreover, supplied funds for the waste of his
+feudal hospitality, which the discontinuance of his pay might have
+otherwise essentially diminished.
+
+In following this course of conduct, Fergus had a further object
+than merely being the great man of his neighbourhood, and ruling
+despotically over a small clan. From his infancy upward he had
+devoted himself to the cause of the exiled family, and had
+persuaded himself, not only that their restoration to the crown of
+Britain would be speedy, but that those who assisted them would be
+raised to honour and rank. It was with this view that he laboured
+to reconcile the Highlanders among themselves, and augmented his
+own force to the utmost, to be prepared for the first favourable
+opportunity of rising. With this purpose also he conciliated the
+favour of such Lowland gentlemen in the vicinity as were friends
+to the good cause; and for the same reason, having incautiously
+quarrelled with Mr. Bradwardine, who, notwithstanding his
+peculiarities, was much respected in the country, he took
+advantage of the foray of Donald Bean Lean to solder up the
+dispute in the manner we have mentioned. Some, indeed, surmised
+that he caused the enterprise to be suggested to Donald, on
+purpose to pave the way to a reconciliation, which, supposing that
+to be the case, cost the Laird of Bradwardine two good milch cows.
+This zeal in their behalf the House of Stuart repaid with a
+considerable share of their confidence, an occasional supply of
+louis-d'or, abundance of fair words, and a parchment, with a huge
+waxen seal appended, purporting to be an earl's patent, granted by
+no less a person than James the Third King of England, and Eighth
+King of Scotland, to his right feal, trusty, and well-beloved
+Fergus Mac-Ivor of Glennaquoich, in the county of Perth, and
+kingdom of Scotland.
+
+With this future coronet glittering before his eyes, Fergus
+plunged deeply into the correspondence and plots of that unhappy
+period; and, like all such active agents, easily reconciled his
+conscience to going certain lengths in the service of his party,
+from which honour and pride would have deterred him had his sole
+object been the direct advancement of his own personal interest.
+With this insight into a bold, ambitious, and ardent, yet artful
+and politic character, we resume the broken thread of our
+narrative.
+
+The chief and his guest had by this time reached the house of
+Glennaquoich, which consisted of Ian nan Chaistel's mansion, a
+high rude-looking square tower, with the addition of a lofted
+house, that is, a building of two stories, constructed by Fergus's
+grandfather when he returned from that memorable expedition, well
+remembered by the western shires under the name of the Highland
+Host. Upon occasion of this crusade against the Ayrshire Whigs and
+Covenanters, the Vich Ian Vohr of the time had probably been as
+successful as his predecessor was in harrying Northumberland, and
+therefore left to his posterity a rival edifice as a monument of
+his magnificence.
+
+Around the house, which stood on an eminence in the midst of a
+narrow Highland valley, there appeared none of that attention to
+convenience, far less to ornament and decoration, which usually
+surrounds a gentleman's habitation. An inclosure or two, divided
+by dry-stone walls, were the only part of the domain that was
+fenced; as to the rest, the narrow slips of level ground which lay
+by the side of the brook exhibited a scanty crop of barley, liable
+to constant depredations from the herds of wild ponies and black
+cattle that grazed upon the adjacent hills. These ever and anon
+made an incursion upon the arable ground, which was repelled by
+the loud, uncouth, and dissonant shouts of half a dozen Highland
+swains, all running as if they had been mad, and every one
+hallooing a half-starved dog to the rescue of the forage. At a
+little distance up the glen was a small and stunted wood of birch;
+the hills were high and heathy, but without any variety of
+surface; so that the whole view was wild and desolate rather than
+grand and solitary. Yet, such as it was, no genuine descendant of
+Ian nan Chaistel would have changed the domain for Stow or
+Blenheim.
+
+There was a sight, however, before the gate, which perhaps would
+have afforded the first owner of Blenheim more pleasure than the
+finest view in the domain assigned to him by the gratitude of his
+country. This consisted of about a hundred Highlanders, in
+complete dress and arms; at sight of whom the Chieftain apologised
+to Waverley in a sort of negligent manner. 'He had forgot,' he
+said, 'that he had ordered a few of his clan out, for the purpose
+of seeing that they were in a fit condition to protect the
+country, and prevent such accidents as, he was sorry to learn, had
+befallen the Baron of Bradwardine. Before they were dismissed,
+perhaps Captain Waverley might choose to see them go through a
+part of their exercise.'
+
+Edward assented, and the men executed with agility and precision
+some of the ordinary military movements. They then practised
+individually at a mark, and showed extraordinary dexterity in the
+management of the pistol and firelock. They took aim, standing,
+sitting, leaning, or lying prostrate, as they were commanded, and
+always with effect upon the target. Next, they paired off for the
+broadsword exercise; and, having manifested their individual skill
+and dexterity, united in two bodies, and exhibited a sort of mock
+encounter, in which the charge, the rally, the flight, the
+pursuit, and all the current of a heady fight, were exhibited to
+the sound of the great war bagpipe.
+
+On a signal made by the Chief, the skirmish was ended. Matches
+were then made for running, wrestling, leaping, pitching the bar,
+and other sports, in which this feudal militia displayed
+incredible swiftness, strength, and agility; and accomplished the
+purpose which their Chieftain had at heart, by impressing on
+Waverley no light sense of their merit as soldiers, and of the
+power of him who commanded them by his nod. [Footnote: See Note
+20.]
+
+'And what number of such gallant fellows have the happiness to
+call you leader?' asked Waverley.
+
+'In a good cause, and under a chieftain whom they loved, the race
+of Ivor have seldom taken the field under five hundred claymores.
+But you are aware, Captain Waverley, that the disarming act,
+passed about twenty years ago, prevents their being in the
+complete state of preparation as in former times; and I keep no
+more of my clan under arms than may defend my own or my friends'
+property, when the country is troubled with such men as your last
+night's landlord; and government, which has removed other means of
+defence, must connive at our protecting ourselves.'
+
+'But, with your force, you might soon destroy or put down such
+gangs as that of Donald Bean Lean.'
+
+'Yes, doubtless; and my reward would be a summons to deliver up to
+General Blakeney, at Stirling, the few broadswords they have left
+us; there were little policy in that, methinks. But come, captain,
+the sound of the pipes informs me that dinner is prepared. Let me
+have the honour to show you into my rude mansion.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XX
+
+A HIGHLAND FEAST
+
+
+Ere Waverley entered the banqueting hall, he was offered the
+patriarchal refreshment of a bath for the feet, which the sultry
+weather, and the morasses he had traversed, rendered highly
+acceptable. He was not, indeed, so luxuriously attended upon this
+occasion as the heroic travellers in the Odyssey; the task of
+ablution and abstersion being performed, not by a beautiful
+damsel, trained
+
+    To chafe the limb, and pour the fragrant oil,
+
+but by a smoke-dried skinny old Highland woman, who did not seem
+to think herself much honoured by the duty imposed upon her, but
+muttered between her teeth, 'Our fathers' herds did not feed so
+near together that I should do you this service.' A small
+donation, however, amply reconciled this ancient handmaiden to the
+supposed degradation; and, as Edward proceeded to the hall, she
+gave him her blessing in the Gaelic proverb, 'May the open hand be
+filled the fullest.'
+
+The hall, in which the feast was prepared, occupied all the first
+story of lan nan Chaistel's original erection, and a huge oaken
+table extended through its whole length. The apparatus for dinner
+was simple, even to rudeness, and the company numerous, even to
+crowding. At the head of the table was the Chief himself, with
+Edward, and two or three Highland visitors of neighbouring clans;
+the elders of his own tribe, wadsetters and tacksmen, as they were
+called, who occupied portions of his estate as mortgagers or
+lessees, sat next in rank; beneath them, their sons and nephews
+and foster-brethren; then the officers of the Chief's household,
+according to their order; and lowest of all, the tenants who
+actually cultivated the ground. Even beyond this long perspective,
+Edward might see upon the green, to which a huge pair of folding
+doors opened, a multitude of Highlanders of a yet inferior
+description, who, nevertheless, were considered as guests, and had
+their share both of the countenance of the entertainer and of the
+cheer of the day. In the distance, and fluctuating round this
+extreme verge of the banquet, was a changeful group of women,
+ragged boys and girls, beggars, young and old, large greyhounds,
+and terriers, and pointers, and curs of low degree; all of whom
+took some interest, more or less immediate, in the main action of
+the piece.
+
+This hospitality, apparently unbounded, had yet its line of
+economy. Some pains had been bestowed in dressing the dishes of
+fish, game, etc., which were at the upper end of the table, and
+immediately under the eye of the English stranger. Lower down
+stood immense clumsy joints of mutton and beef, which, but for the
+absence of pork, [Footnote: See Note 21.] abhorred in the
+Highlands, resembled the rude festivity of the banquet of
+Penelope's suitors. But the central dish was a yearling lamb,
+called 'a hog in har'st,' roasted whole. It was set upon its legs,
+with a bunch of parsley in its mouth, and was probably exhibited
+in that form to gratify the pride of the cook, who piqued himself
+more on the plenty than the elegance of his master's table. The
+sides of this poor animal were fiercely attacked by the clansmen,
+some with dirks, others with the knives which were usually in the
+same sheath with the dagger, so that it was soon rendered a
+mangled and rueful spectacle. Lower down still, the victuals
+seemed of yet coarser quality, though sufficiently abundant.
+Broth, onions, cheese, and the fragments of the feast regaled the
+sons of Ivor who feasted in the open air.
+
+The liquor was supplied in the same proportion, and under similar
+regulations. Excellent claret and champagne were liberally
+distributed among the Chief's immediate neighbours; whisky, plain
+or diluted, and strong beer refreshed those who sat near the lower
+end. Nor did this inequality of distribution appear to give the
+least offence. Every one present understood that his taste was to
+be formed according to the rank which he held at table; and,
+consequently, the tacksmen and their dependants always professed
+the wine was too cold for their stomachs, and called, apparently
+out of choice, for the liquor which was assigned to them from
+economy. [Footnote: See Note 22.] The bag-pipers, three in number,
+screamed, during the whole time of dinner, a tremendous war-tune;
+and the echoing of the vaulted roof, and clang of the Celtic
+tongue, produced such a Babel of noises that Waverley dreaded his
+ears would never recover it. Mac-Ivor, indeed, apologised for the
+confusion occasioned by so large a party, and pleaded the
+necessity of his situation, on which unlimited hospitality was
+imposed as a paramount duty. 'These stout idle kinsmen of mine,'
+he said, 'account my estate as held in trust for their support;
+and I must find them beef and ale, while the rogues will do
+nothing for themselves but practise the broadsword, or wander
+about the hills, shooting, fishing, hunting, drinking, and making
+love to the lasses of the strath. But what can I do, Captain
+Waverley? everything will keep after its kind, whether it be a
+hawk or a Highlander.' Edward made the expected answer, in a
+compliment upon his possessing so many bold and attached
+followers.
+
+'Why, yes,' replied the Chief, 'were I disposed, like my father,
+to put myself in the way of getting one blow on the head, or two
+on the neck, I believe the loons would stand by me. But who thinks
+of that in the present day, when the maxim is, "Better an old
+woman with a purse in her hand than three men with belted
+brands"?' Then, turning to the company, he proposed the 'Health of
+Captain Waverley, a worthy friend of his kind neighbour and ally,
+the Baron of Bradwardine.'
+
+'He is welcome hither,' said one of the elders, 'if he come from
+Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine.'
+
+'I say nay to that,' said an old man, who apparently did not mean
+to pledge the toast; 'I say nay to that. While there is a green
+leaf in the forest, there will be fraud in a Comyne.
+
+'There is nothing but honour in the Baron of Bradwardine,'
+answered another ancient; 'and the guest that comes hither from
+him should be welcome, though he came with blood on his hand,
+unless it were blood of the race of Ivor.'
+
+The old man whose cup remained full replied, 'There has been blood
+enough of the race of Ivor on the hand of Bradwardine.'
+
+'Ah! Ballenkeiroch,' replied the first, 'you think rather of the
+flash of the carbine at the mains of Tully-Veolan than the glance
+of the sword that fought for the cause at Preston.'
+
+'And well I may,' answered Ballenkeiroch; 'the flash of the gun
+cost me a fair-haired son, and the glance of the sword has done
+but little for King James.'
+
+The Chieftain, in two words of French, explained to Waverley that
+the Baron had shot this old man's son in a fray near Tully-Veolan,
+about seven years before; and then hastened to remove
+Ballenkeiroch's prejudice, by informing him that Waverley was an
+Englishman, unconnected by birth or alliance with the family of
+Bradwardine; upon which the old gentleman raised the hitherto-
+untasted cup and courteously drank to his health. This ceremony
+being requited in kind, the Chieftain made a signal for the pipes
+to cease, and said aloud, 'Where is the song hidden, my friends,
+that Mac-Murrough cannot find it?'
+
+Mac-Murrough, the family bhairdh, an aged man, immediately took
+the hint, and began to chant, with low and rapid utterance, a
+profusion of Celtic verses, which were received by the audience
+with all the applause of enthusiasm. As he advanced in his
+declamation, his ardour seemed to increase. He had at first spoken
+with his eyes fixed on the ground; he now cast them around as if
+beseeching, and anon as if commanding, attention, and his tones
+rose into wild and impassioned notes, accompanied with appropriate
+gestures. He seemed to Edward, who attended to him with much
+interest, to recite many proper names, to lament the dead, to
+apostrophise the absent, to exhort, and entreat, and animate those
+who were present. Waverley thought he even discerned his own name,
+and was convinced his conjecture was right from the eyes of the
+company being at that moment turned towards him simultaneously.
+The ardour of the poet appeared to communicate itself to the
+audience. Their wild and sun-burnt countenances assumed a fiercer
+and more animated expression; all bent forward towards the
+reciter, many sprung up and waved their arms in ecstasy, and some
+laid their hands on their swords. When the song ceased, there was
+a deep pause, while the aroused feelings of the poet and of the
+hearers gradually subsided into their usual channel.
+
+The Chieftain, who, during this scene had appeared rather to watch
+the emotions which were excited than to partake their high tone of
+enthusiasm, filled with claret a small silver cup which stood by
+him. 'Give this,' he said to an attendant, 'to Mac-Murrough nan
+Fonn (i.e. of the songs), and when he has drank the juice, bid him
+keep, for the sake of Vich Ian Vohr, the shell of the gourd which
+contained it.' The gift was received by Mac-Murrough with profound
+gratitude; he drank the wine, and, kissing the cup, shrouded it
+with reverence in the plaid which was folded on his bosom. He then
+burst forth into what Edward justly supposed to be an
+extemporaneous effusion of thanks and praises of his Chief. It was
+received with applause, but did not produce the effect of his
+first poem. It was obvious, however, that the clan regarded the
+generosity of their Chieftain with high approbation. Many approved
+Gaelic toasts were then proposed, of some of which the Chieftain
+gave his guest the following versions:--
+
+'To him that will not turn his back on friend or foe.' 'To him
+that never forsook a comrade.' 'To him that never bought or sold
+justice.' 'Hospitality to the exile, and broken bones to the
+tyrant.' 'The lads with the kilts.' 'Highlanders, shoulder to
+shoulder,'--with many other pithy sentiments of the like nature.
+
+Edward was particularly solicitous to know the meaning of that
+song which appeared to produce such effect upon the passions of
+the company, and hinted his curiosity to his host. 'As I observe,'
+said the Chieftain, 'that you have passed the bottle during the
+last three rounds, I was about to propose to you to retire to my
+sister's tea-table, who can explain these things to you better
+than I can. Although I cannot stint my clan in the usual current
+of their festivity, yet I neither am addicted myself to exceed in
+its amount, nor do I,' added he, smiling, 'keep a Bear to devour
+the intellects of such as can make good use of them.'
+
+Edward readily assented to this proposal, and the Chieftain,
+saying a few words to those around him, left the table, followed
+by Waverley. As the door closed behind them, Edward heard Vich Ian
+Vohr's health invoked with a wild and animated cheer, that
+expressed the satisfaction of the guests and the depth of their
+devotion to his service.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXI
+
+THE CHIEFTAIN'S SISTER
+
+
+The drawing-room of Flora Mac-Ivor was furnished in the plainest
+and most simple manner; for at Glennaquoich every other sort of
+expenditure was retrenched as much as possible, for the purpose of
+maintaining, in its full dignity, the hospitality of the
+Chieftain, and retaining and multiplying the number of his
+dependants and adherents. But there was no appearance of this
+parsimony in the dress of the lady herself, which was in texture
+elegant, and even rich, and arranged in a manner which partook
+partly of the Parisian fashion and partly of the more simple dress
+of the Highlands, blended together with great taste. Her hair was
+not disfigured by the art of the friseur, but fell in jetty
+ringlets on her neck, confined only by a circlet, richly set with
+diamonds. This peculiarity she adopted in compliance with the
+Highland prejudices, which could not endure that a woman's head
+should be covered before wedlock.
+
+Flora Mac-Ivor bore a most striking resemblance to her brother
+Fergus; so much so that they might have played Viola and Sebastian
+with the same exquisite effect produced by the appearance of Mrs.
+Henry Siddons and her brother, Mr. William Murray, in these
+characters. They had the same antique and regular correctness of
+profile; the same dark eyes, eye-lashes, and eye-brows; the same
+clearness of complexion, excepting that Fergus's was embrowned by
+exercise and Flora's possessed the utmost feminine delicacy. But
+the haughty and somewhat stern regularity of Fergus's features was
+beautifully softened in those of Flora. Their voices were also
+similar in tone, though differing in the key. That of Fergus,
+especially while issuing orders to his followers during their
+military exercise, reminded Edward of a favourite passage in the
+description of Emetrius:
+
+    --whose voice was heard around,
+    Loud as a trumpet with a silver sound.
+
+That of Flora, on the contrary, was soft and sweet--'an excellent
+thing in woman'; yet, in urging any favourite topic, which she
+often pursued with natural eloquence, it possessed as well the
+tones which impress awe and conviction as those of persuasive
+insinuation. The eager glance of the keen black eye, which, in the
+Chieftain, seemed impatient even of the material obstacles it
+encountered, had in his sister acquired a gentle pensiveness. His
+looks seemed to seek glory, power, all that could exalt him above
+others in the race of humanity; while those of his sister, as if
+she were already conscious of mental superiority, seemed to pity,
+rather than envy, those who were struggling for any farther
+distinction. Her sentiments corresponded with the expression of
+her countenance. Early education had impressed upon her mind, as
+well as on that of the Chieftain, the most devoted attachment to
+the exiled family of Stuart. She believed it the duty of her
+brother, of his clan, of every man in Britain, at whatever
+personal hazard, to contribute to that restoration which the
+partisans of the Chevalier St. George had not ceased to hope for.
+For this she was prepared to do all, to suffer all, to sacrifice
+all. But her loyalty, as it exceeded her brother's in fanaticism,
+excelled it also in purity. Accustomed to petty intrigue, and
+necessarily involved in a thousand paltry and selfish discussions,
+ambitious also by nature, his political faith was tinctured, at
+least, if not tainted, by the views of interest and advancement so
+easily combined with it; and at the moment he should unsheathe his
+claymore, it might be difficult to say whether it would be most
+with the view of making James Stuart a king or Fergus Mac-Ivor an
+earl. This, indeed, was a mixture of feeling which he did not avow
+even to himself, but it existed, nevertheless, in a powerful
+degree.
+
+In Flora's bosom, on the contrary, the zeal of loyalty burnt pure
+and unmixed with any selfish feeling; she would have as soon made
+religion the mask of ambitious and interested views as have
+shrouded them under the opinions which she had been taught to
+think patriotism. Such instances of devotion were not uncommon
+among the followers of the unhappy race of Stuart, of which many
+memorable proofs will recur to the minds of most of my readers.
+But peculiar attention on the part of the Chevalier de St. George
+and his princess to the parents of Fergus and his sister, and to
+themselves when orphans, had riveted their faith. Fergus, upon the
+death of his parents, had been for some time a page of honour in
+the train of the Chevalier's lady, and, from his beauty and
+sprightly temper, was uniformly treated by her with the utmost
+distinction. This was also extended to Flora, who was maintained
+for some time at a convent of the first order at the princess's
+expense, and removed from thence into her own family, where she
+spent nearly two years. Both brother and sister retained the
+deepest and most grateful sense of her kindness.
+
+Having thus touched upon the leading principle of Flora's
+character, I may dismiss the rest more slightly. She was highly
+accomplished, and had acquired those elegant manners to be
+expected from one who, in early youth, had been the companion of a
+princess; yet she had not learned to substitute the gloss of
+politeness for the reality of feeling. When settled in the lonely
+regions of Glennaquoich, she found that her resources in French,
+English, and Italian literature were likely to be few and
+interrupted; and, in order to fill up the vacant time, she
+bestowed a part of it upon the music and poetical traditions of
+the Highlanders, and began really to feel the pleasure in the
+pursuit which her brother, whose perceptions of literary merit
+were more blunt, rather affected for the sake of popularity than
+actually experienced. Her resolution was strengthened in these
+researches by the extreme delight which her inquiries seemed to
+afford those to whom she resorted for information.
+
+Her love of her clan, an attachment which was almost hereditary in
+her bosom, was, like her loyalty, a more pure passion than that of
+her brother. He was too thorough a politician, regarded his
+patriarchal influence too much as the means of accomplishing his
+own aggrandisement, that we should term him the model of a
+Highland Chieftain. Flora felt the same anxiety for cherishing and
+extending their patriarchal sway, but it was with the generous
+desire of vindicating from poverty, or at least from want and
+foreign oppression, those whom her brother was by birth, according
+to the notions of the time and country, entitled to govern. The
+savings of her income, for she had a small pension from the
+Princess Sobieski, were dedicated, not to add to the comforts of
+the peasantry, for that was a word which they neither knew nor
+apparently wished to know, but to relieve their absolute
+necessities when in sickness or extreme old age. At every other
+period they rather toiled to procure something which they might
+share with the Chief, as a proof of their attachment, than
+expected other assistance from him save what was afforded by the
+rude hospitality of his castle, and the general division and
+subdivision of his estate among them. Flora was so much beloved by
+them that, when Mac-Murrough composed a song in which he
+enumerated all the principal beauties of the district, and
+intimated her superiority by concluding, that 'the fairest apple
+hung on the highest bough,' he received, in donatives from the
+individuals of the clan, more seed-barley than would have sowed
+his Highland Parnassus, the bard's croft, as it was called, ten
+times over.
+
+From situation as well as choice, Miss Mac-Ivor's society was
+extremely limited. Her most intimate friend had been Rose
+Bradwardine, to whom she was much attached; and when seen
+together, they would have afforded an artist two admirable
+subjects for the gay and the melancholy muse. Indeed Rose was so
+tenderly watched by her father, and her circle of wishes was so
+limited, that none arose but what he was willing to gratify, and
+scarce any which did not come within the compass of his power.
+With Flora it was otherwise. While almost a girl she had undergone
+the most complete change of scene, from gaiety and splendour to
+absolute solitude and comparative poverty; and the ideas and
+wishes which she chiefly fostered respected great national events,
+and changes not to be brought round without both hazard and
+bloodshed, and therefore not to be thought of with levity. Her
+manner, consequently, was grave, though she readily contributed
+her talents to the amusement of society, and stood very high in
+the opinion of the old Baron, who used to sing along with her such
+French duets of Lindor and Cloris, etc., as were in fashion about
+the end of the reign of old Louis le Grand.
+
+It was generally believed, though no one durst have hinted it to
+the Baron of Bradwardine, that Flora's entreaties had no small
+share in allaying the wrath of Fergus upon occasion of their
+quarrel. She took her brother on the assailable side, by dwelling
+first upon the Baron's age, and then representing the injury which
+the cause might sustain, and the damage which must arise to his
+own character in point of prudence--so necessary to a political
+agent, if he persisted in carrying it to extremity. Otherwise it
+is probable it would have terminated in a duel, both because the
+Baron had, on a former occasion, shed blood of the clan, though
+the matter had been timely accommodated, and on account of his
+high reputation for address at his weapon, which Fergus almost
+condescended to envy. For the same reason she had urged their
+reconciliation, which the Chieftain the more readily agreed to as
+it favoured some ulterior projects of his own.
+
+To this young lady, now presiding at the female empire of the tea-
+table, Fergus introduced Captain Waverley, whom she received with
+the usual forms of politeness.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXII
+
+HIGHLAND MINSTRELSY
+
+
+When the first salutations had passed, Fergus said to his sister,
+'My dear Flora, before I return to the barbarous ritual of our
+forefathers, I must tell you that Captain Waverley is a worshipper
+of the Celtic muse, not the less so perhaps that he does not
+understand a word of her language. I have told him you are eminent
+as a translator of Highland poetry, and that Mac-Murrough admires
+your version of his songs upon the same principle that Captain
+Waverley admires the original,--because he does not comprehend
+them. Will you have the goodness to read or recite to our guest in
+English the extraordinary string of names which Mac-Murrough has
+tacked together in Gaelic? My life to a moor-fowl's feather, you
+are provided with a version; for I know you are in all the bard's
+councils, and acquainted with his songs long before he rehearses
+them in the hall.'
+
+'How can you say so, Fergus? You know how little these verses can
+possibly interest an English stranger, even if I could translate
+them as you pretend.'
+
+'Not less than they interest me, lady fair. To-day your joint
+composition, for I insist you had a share in it, has cost me the
+last silver cup in the castle, and I suppose will cost me
+something else next time I hold cour pleniere, if the muse
+descends on Mac-Murrough; for you know our proverb,--"When the
+hand of the chief ceases to bestow, the breath of the bard is
+frozen in the utterance."--Well, I would it were even so: there
+are three things that are useless to a modern Highlander,--a
+sword which he must not draw, a bard to sing of deeds which he
+dare not imitate, and a large goat-skin purse without a louis-d'or
+to put into it.'
+
+'Well, brother, since you betray my secrets, you cannot expect me
+to keep yours. I assure you, Captain Waverley, that Fergus is too
+proud to exchange his broardsword for a marechal's baton, that he
+esteems Mac-Murrough a far greater poet than Homer, and would not
+give up his goat-skin purse for all the louis-d'or which it could
+contain.'
+
+'Well pronounced, Flora; blow for blow, as Conan [Footnote: See
+Note 23.] said to the devil. Now do you two talk of bards and
+poetry, if not of purses and claymores, while I return to do the
+final honours to the senators of the tribe of Ivor.' So saying, he
+left the room.
+
+The conversation continued between Flora and Waverley; for two
+well-dressed young women, whose character seemed to hover between
+that of companions and dependants, took no share in it. They were
+both pretty girls, but served only as foils to the grace and
+beauty of their patroness. The discourse followed the turn which
+the Chieftain had given it, and Waverley was equally amused and
+surprised with the account which the lady gave him of Celtic
+poetry.
+
+'The recitation,' she said, 'of poems recording the feats of
+heroes, the complaints of lovers, and the wars of contending
+tribes, forms the chief amusement of a winter fire-side in the
+Highlands. Some of these are said to be very ancient, and if they
+are ever translated into any of the languages of civilised Europe,
+cannot fail to produce a deep and general sensation. Others are
+more modern, the composition of those family bards whom the
+chieftains of more distinguished name and power retain as the
+poets and historians of their tribes. These, of course, possess
+various degrees of merit; but much of it must evaporate in
+translation, or be lost on those who do not sympathise with the
+feelings of the poet.'
+
+'And your bard, whose effusions seemed to produce such effect upon
+the company to-day, is he reckoned among the favourite poets of
+the mountains?'
+
+'That is a trying question. His reputation is high among his
+countrymen, and you must not expect me to depreciate it.
+[Footnote: The Highland poet almost always was an improvisatore.
+Captain Burt met one of them at Lovat's table.]
+
+'But the song, Miss Mac-Ivor, seemed to awaken all those warriors,
+both young and old.'
+
+'The song is little more than a catalogue of names of the Highland
+clans under their distinctive peculiarities, and an exhortation to
+them to remember and to emulate the actions of their forefathers.'
+
+'And am I wrong in conjecturing, however extraordinary the guess
+appears, that there was some allusion to me in the verses which he
+recited?'
+
+'You have a quick observation, Captain Waverley, which in this
+instance has not deceived you. The Gaelic language, being
+uncommonly vocalic, is well adapted for sudden and extemporaneous
+poetry; and a bard seldom fails to augment the effects of a
+premeditated song by throwing in any stanzas which may be
+suggested by the circumstances attending the recitation.'
+
+'I would give my best horse to know what the Highland bard could
+find to say of such an unworthy Southron as myself.'
+
+'It shall not even cost you a lock of his mane. Una, mavourneen!
+(She spoke a few words to one of the young girls in attendance,
+who instantly curtsied and tripped out of the room.) I have sent
+Una to learn from the bard the expressions he used, and you shall
+command my skill as dragoman.'
+
+Una returned in a few minutes, and repeated to her mistress a few
+lines in Gaelic. Flora seemed to think for a moment, and then,
+slightly colouring, she turned to Waverley--'It is impossible to
+gratify your curiosity, Captain Waverley, without exposing my own
+presumption. If you will give me a few moments for consideration,
+I will endeavour to engraft the meaning of these lines upon a rude
+English translation which I have attempted of a part of the
+original. The duties of the tea-table seem to be concluded, and,
+as the evening is delightful, Una will show you the way to one of
+my favourite haunts, and Cathleen and I will join you there.'
+
+Una, having received instructions in her native language,
+conducted Waverley out by a passage different from that through
+which he had entered the apartment. At a distance he heard the
+hall of the Chief still resounding with the clang of bagpipes and
+the high applause of his guests. Having gained the open air by a
+postern door, they walked a little way up the wild, bleak, and
+narrow valley in which the house was situated, following the
+course of the stream that winded through it. In a spot, about a
+quarter of a mile from the castle, two brooks, which formed the
+little river, had their junction. The larger of the two came down
+the long bare valley, which extended, apparently without any
+change or elevation of character, as far as the hills which formed
+its boundary permitted the eye to reach. But the other stream,
+which had its source among the mountains on the left hand of the
+strath, seemed to issue from a very narrow and dark opening
+betwixt two large rocks. These streams were different also in
+character. The larger was placid, and even sullen in its course,
+wheeling in deep eddies, or sleeping in dark blue pools; but the
+motions of the lesser brook were rapid and furious, issuing from
+between precipices, like a maniac from his confinement, all foam
+and uproar.
+
+It was up the course of this last stream that Waverley, like a
+knight of romance, was conducted by the fair Highland damsel, his
+silent guide. A small path, which had been rendered easy in many
+places for Flora's accommodation, led him through scenery of a
+very different description from that which he had just quitted.
+Around the castle all was cold, bare, and desolate, yet tame even
+in desolation; but this narrow glen, at so short a distance,
+seemed to open into the land of romance. The rocks assumed a
+thousand peculiar and varied forms. In one place a crag of huge
+size presented its gigantic bulk, as if to forbid the passenger's
+farther progress; and it was not until he approached its very base
+that Waverley discerned the sudden and acute turn by which the
+pathway wheeled its course around this formidable obstacle. In
+another spot the projecting rocks from the opposite sides of the
+chasm had approached so near to each other that two pine-trees
+laid across, and covered with turf, formed a rustic bridge at the
+height of at least one hundred and fifty feet. It had no ledges,
+and was barely three feet in breadth.
+
+While gazing at this pass of peril, which crossed, like a single
+black line, the small portion of blue sky not intercepted by the
+projecting rocks on either side, it was with a sensation of horror
+that Waverley beheld Flora and her attendant appear, like
+inhabitants of another region, propped, as it were, in mid air,
+upon this trembling structure. She stopped upon observing him
+below, and, with an air of graceful ease which made him shudder,
+waved her handkerchief to him by way of signal. He was unable,
+from the sense of dizziness which her situation conveyed, to
+return the salute; and was never more relieved than when the fair
+apparition passed on from the precarious eminence which she seemed
+to occupy with so much indifference, and disappeared on the other
+side.
+
+Advancing a few yards, and passing under the bridge which he had
+viewed with so much terror, the path ascended rapidly from the
+edge of the brook, and the glen widened into a sylvan
+amphitheatre, waving with birch, young oaks, and hazels, with here
+and there a scattered yew-tree. The rocks now receded, but still
+showed their grey and shaggy crests rising among the copse-wood.
+Still higher rose eminences and peaks, some bare, some clothed
+with wood, some round and purple with heath, and others splintered
+into rocks and crags. At a short turning the path, which had for
+some furlongs lost sight of the brook, suddenly placed Waverley in
+front of a romantic waterfall. It was not so remarkable either for
+great height or quantity of water as for the beautiful
+accompaniments which made the spot interesting. After a broken
+cataract of about twenty feet, the stream was received in a large
+natural basin filled to the brim with water, which, where the
+bubbles of the fall subsided, was so exquisitely clear that,
+although it was of great depth, the eye could discern each pebble
+at the bottom. Eddying round this reservoir, the brook found its
+way as if over a broken part of the ledge, and formed a second
+fall, which seemed to seek the very abyss; then, wheeling out
+beneath from among the smooth dark rocks which it had polished for
+ages, it wandered murmuring down the glen, forming the stream up
+which Waverley had just ascended. [Footnote: See Note 24.] The
+borders of this romantic reservoir corresponded in beauty; but it
+was beauty of a stern and commanding cast, as if in the act of
+expanding into grandeur. Mossy banks of turf were broken and
+interrupted by huge fragments of rock, and decorated with trees
+and shrubs, some of which had been planted under the direction of
+Flora, but so cautiously that they added to the grace without
+diminishing the romantic wildness of the scene.
+
+Here, like one of those lovely forms which decorate the landscapes
+of Poussin, Waverley found Flora gazing on the waterfall. Two
+paces further back stood Cathleen, holding a small Scottish harp,
+the use of which had been taught to Flora by Rory Dall, one of the
+last harpers of the Western Highlands. The sun, now stooping in
+the west, gave a rich and varied tinge to all the objects which
+surrounded Waverley, and seemed to add more than human brilliancy
+to the full expressive darkness of Flora's eye, exalted the
+richness and purity of her complexion, and enhanced the dignity
+and grace of her beautiful form. Edward thought he had never, even
+in his wildest dreams, imagined a figure of such exquisite and
+interesting loveliness. The wild beauty of the retreat, bursting
+upon him as if by magic, augmented the mingled feeling of delight
+and awe with which he approached her, like a fair enchantress of
+Boiardo or Ariosto, by whose nod the scenery around seemed to have
+been created an Eden in the wilderness.
+
+Flora, like every beautiful woman, was conscious of her own power,
+and pleased with its effects, which she could easily discern from
+the respectful yet confused address of the young soldier. But, as
+she possessed excellent sense, she gave the romance of the scene
+and other accidental circumstances full weight in appreciating the
+feelings with which Waverley seemed obviously to be impressed;
+and, unacquainted with the fanciful and susceptible peculiarities
+of his character, considered his homage as the passing tribute
+which a woman of even inferior charms might have expected in such
+a situation. She therefore quietly led the way to a spot at such a
+distance from the cascade that its sound should rather accompany
+than interrupt that of her voice and instrument, and, sitting down
+upon a mossy fragment of rock, she took the harp from Cathleen.
+
+'I have given you the trouble of walking to this spot, Captain
+Waverley, both because I thought the scenery would interest you,
+and because a Highland song would suffer still more from my
+imperfect translation were I to introduce it without its own wild
+and appropriate accompaniments. To speak in the poetical language
+of my country, the seat of the Celtic Muse is in the mist of the
+secret and solitary hill, and her voice in the murmur of the
+mountain stream. He who woos her must love the barren rock more
+than the fertile valley, and the solitude of the desert better
+than the festivity of the hall.'
+
+Few could have heard this lovely woman make this declaration, with
+a voice where harmony was exalted by pathos, without exclaiming
+that the muse whom she invoked could never find a more appropriate
+representative. But Waverley, though the thought rushed on his
+mind, found no courage to utter it. Indeed, the wild feeling of
+romantic delight with which he heard the few first notes she drew
+from her instrument amounted almost to a sense of pain. He would
+not for worlds have quitted his place by her side; yet he almost
+longed for solitude, that he might decipher and examine at leisure
+the complication of emotions which now agitated his bosom.
+
+Flora had exchanged the measured and monotonous recitative of the
+bard for a lofty and uncommon Highland air, which had been a
+battle-song in former ages. A few irregular strains introduced a
+prelude of a wild and peculiar tone, which harmonised well with
+the distant waterfall, and the soft sigh of the evening breeze in
+the rustling leaves of an aspen, which overhung the seat of the
+fair harpress. The following verses convey but little idea of the
+feelings with which, so sung and accompanied, they were heard by
+Waverley:--
+
+    There is mist on the mountain, and night on the vale,
+    But more dark is the sleep of the sons of the Gael.
+    A stranger commanded--it sunk on the land,
+    It has frozen each heart, and benumb'd every hand!
+
+    The dirk and the target lie sordid with dust,
+    The bloodless claymore is but redden'd with rust;
+    On the hill or the glen if a gun should appear,
+    It is only to war with the heath-cock or deer.
+
+    The deeds of our sires if our bards should rehearse,
+    Let a blush or a blow be the meed of their verse!
+    Be mute every string, and be hush'd every tone,
+    That shall bid us remember the fame that is flown.
+
+    But the dark hours of night and of slumber are past,
+    The morn on our mountains is dawning at last;
+    Glenaladale's peaks are illumined with the rays,
+    And the streams of Glenfinnan leap bright in the blaze.
+
+[Footnote: The young and daring adventurer, Charles Edward, landed
+at Glenaladale, in Moidart, and displayed his standard in the
+valley of Glenfinnan, mustering around it the Mac-Donalds, the
+Camerons, and other less numerous clans, whom he had prevailed on
+to join him. There is a monument erected on the spot, with a Latin
+inscription by the late Doctor Gregory.]
+
+    O high-minded Moray! the exiled! the dear!
+    In the blush of the dawning the STANDARD uprear!
+    Wide, wide on the winds of the north let it fly,
+    Like the sun's latest flash when the tempest is nigh!
+
+[Footnote: The Marquis of Tullibardine's elder brother, who, long
+exiled, returned to Scotland with Charles Edward in 1745.]
+
+    Ye sons of the strong, when that dawning shall break,
+    Need the harp of the aged remind you to wake?
+    That dawn never beam'd on your forefathers' eye,
+    But it roused each high chieftain to vanquish or die.
+
+    O, sprung from the Kings who in Islay kept state,
+    Proud chiefs of Clan Ranald, Glengarry, and Sleat!
+    Combine like three streams from one mountain of snow,
+    And resistless in union rush down on the foe!
+
+    True son of Sir Evan, undaunted Lochiel,
+    Place thy targe on thy shoulder and burnish thy steel!
+    Rough Keppoch, give breath to thy bugle's bold swell,
+    Till far Coryarrick resound to the knell!
+
+    Stern son of Lord Kenneth, high chief of Kintail,
+    Let the stag in thy standard bound wild in the gale!
+    May the race of Clan Gillean, the fearless and free,
+    Remember Glenlivat, Harlaw, and Dundee!
+
+    Let the clan of grey Fingon, whose offspring has given
+    Such heroes to earth and such martyrs to heaven,
+    Unite with the race of renown'd Rorri More,
+    To launch the long galley and stretch to the oar.
+
+    How Mac-Shimei will joy when their chief shall display
+    The yew-crested bonnet o'er tresses of grey!
+    How the race of wrong'd Alpine and murder'd Glencoe
+    Shall shout for revenge when they pour on the foe!
+
+    Ye sons of brown Dermid, who slew the wild boar,
+    Resume the pure faith of the great Callum-More!
+    Mac-Neil of the islands, and Moy of the Lake,
+    For honour, for freedom, for vengeance awake!
+
+Here a large greyhound, bounding up the glen, jumped upon Flora
+and interrupted her music by his importunate caresses. At a
+distant whistle he turned and shot down the path again with the
+rapidity of an arrow. 'That is Fergus's faithful attendant,
+Captain Waverley, and that was his signal. He likes no poetry but
+what is humorous, and comes in good time to interrupt my long
+catalogue of the tribes, whom one of your saucy English poets
+calls
+
+    Our bootless host of high-born beggars,
+    Mac-Leans, Mac-Kenzies, and Mac-Gregors.'
+
+Waverley expressed his regret at the interruption.
+
+'O you cannot guess how much you have lost! The bard, as in duty
+bound, has addressed three long stanzas to Vich Ian Vohr of the
+Banners, enumerating all his great properties, and not forgetting
+his being a cheerer of the harper and bard--"a giver of bounteous
+gifts." Besides, you should have heard a practical admonition to
+the fair-haired son of the stranger, who lives in the land where
+the grass is always green--the rider on the shining pampered
+steed, whose hue is like the raven, and whose neigh is like the
+scream of the eagle for battle. This valiant horseman is
+affectionately conjured to remember that his ancestors were
+distinguished by their loyalty as well as by their courage. All
+this you have lost; but, since your curiosity is not satisfied, I
+judge, from the distant sound of my brother's whistle, I may have
+time to sing the concluding stanzas before he comes to laugh at my
+translation.'
+
+    Awake on your hills, on your islands awake,
+    Brave sons of the mountain, the frith, and the lake!
+    'T is the bugle--but not for the chase is the call;
+    'T is the pibroch's shrill summons--but not to the hall.
+
+    'T is the summons of heroes for conquest or death,
+    When the banners are blazing on mountain and heath:
+    They call to the dirk, the claymore, and the targe,
+    To the march and the muster, the line and the charge.
+
+    Be the brand of each chieftain like Fin's in his ire!
+    May the blood through his veins flow like currents of fire!
+    Burst the base foreign yoke as your sires did of yore,
+    Or die like your sires, and endure it no more!
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIII
+
+WAVEELEY CONTINUES AT GLENNAQUOICH
+
+
+As Flora concluded her song, Fergus stood before them. 'I knew I
+should find you here, even without the assistance of my friend
+Bran. A simple and unsublimed taste now, like my own, would prefer
+a jet d'eau at Versailles to this cascade, with all its
+accompaniments of rock and roar; but this is Flora's Parnassus,
+Captain Waverley, and that fountain her Helicon. It would be
+greatly for the benefit of my cellar if she could teach her
+coadjutor, Mac-Murrough, the value of its influence: he has just
+drunk a pint of usquebaugh to correct, he said, the coldness of
+the claret. Let me try its virtues.' He sipped a little water in
+the hollow of his hand, and immediately commenced, with a
+theatrical air,--
+
+    'O Lady of the desert, hail!
+     That lovest the harping of the Gael,
+     Through fair and fertile regions borne,
+     Where never yet grew grass or corn.
+
+But English poetry will never succeed under the influence of a
+Highland Helicon. Allons, courage!
+
+    O vous, qui buvez, a tasse pleine,
+    A cette heureuse f ontaine,
+    Ou on ne voit, sur le rivage,
+      Que quelques vilains troupeaux,
+    Suivis de nymphes de village,
+      Qui les escortent sans sabots--'
+
+'A truce, dear Fergus! spare us those most tedious and insipid
+persons of all Arcadia. Do not, for Heaven's sake, bring down
+Coridon and Lindor upon us.'
+
+'Nay, if you cannot relish la houlette et le chalumeau, have with
+you in heroic strains.'
+
+'Dear Fergus, you have certainly partaken of the inspiration of
+Mac-Murrough's cup rather than of mine.'
+
+'I disclaim it, ma belle demoiselle, although I protest it would
+be the more congenial of the two. Which of your crack-brained
+Italian romancers is it that says,
+
+                               Io d'Elicona niente
+    Mi curo, in fe de Dio; che'l bere d'acque
+    (Bea chi ber ne vuol) sempre mi spiacque!
+
+[Footnote:
+
+    Good sooth, I reck nought of your Helicon;
+    Drink water whoso will, in faith I will drink none.]
+
+But if you prefer the Gaelic, Captain Waverley, here is little
+Cathleen shall sing you Drimmindhu. Come, Cathleen, astore (i.e.
+my dear), begin; no apologies to the cean-kinne.'
+
+Cathleen sung with much liveliness a little Gaelic song, the
+burlesque elegy of a countryman on the loss of his cow, the comic
+tones of which, though he did not understand the language, made
+Waverley laugh more than once. [Footnote: This ancient Gaelic
+ditty is still well known, both in the Highlands and in Ireland It
+was translated into English, and published, if I mistake not,
+under the auspices of the facetious Tom D'Urfey, by the title of
+'Colley, my Cow.']
+
+'Admirable, Cathleen!' cried the Chieftain; 'I must find you a
+handsome husband among the clansmen one of these days.'
+
+Cathleen laughed, blushed, and sheltered herself behind her
+companion.
+
+In the progress of their return to the castle, the Chieftain
+warmly pressed Waverley to remain for a week or two, in order to
+see a grand hunting party, in which he and some other Highland
+gentlemen proposed to join. The charms of melody and beauty were
+too strongly impressed in Edward's breast to permit his declining
+an invitation so pleasing. It was agreed, therefore, that he
+should write a note to the Baron of Bradwardine, expressing his
+intention to stay a fortnight at Glennaquoich, and requesting him
+to forward by the bearer (a gilly of the Chieftain's) any letters
+which might have arrived for him.
+
+This turned the discourse upon the Baron, whom Fergus highly
+extolled as a gentleman and soldier. His character was touched
+with yet more discrimination by Flora, who observed he was the
+very model of the old Scottish cavalier, with all his excellencies
+and peculiarities. 'It is a character, Captain Waverley, which is
+fast disappearing; for its best point was a self-respect which was
+never lost sight of till now. But in the present time the
+gentlemen whose principles do not permit them to pay court to the
+existing government are neglected and degraded, and many conduct
+themselves accordingly; and, like some of the persons you have
+seen at Tully-Veolan, adopt habits and companions inconsistent
+with their birth and breeding. The ruthless proscription of party
+seems to degrade the victims whom it brands, however unjustly. But
+let us hope a brighter day is approaching, when a Scottish country
+gentleman may be a scholar without the pedantry of our friend the
+Baron, a sportsman without the low habits of Mr. Falconer, and a
+judicious improver of his property without becoming a boorish two-
+legged steer like Killancureit.'
+
+Thus did Flora prophesy a revolution, which time indeed has
+produced, but in a manner very different from what she had in her
+mind.
+
+The amiable Rose was next mentioned, with the warmest encomium on
+her person, manners, and mind. 'That man,' said Flora, 'will find
+an inestimable treasure in the affections of Rose Bradwardine who
+shall be so fortunate as to become their object. Her very soul is
+in home, and in the discharge of all those quiet virtues of which
+home is the centre. Her husband will be to her what her father now
+is, the object of all her care, solicitude, and affection. She
+will see nothing, and connect herself with nothing, but by him and
+through him. If he is a man of sense and virtue, she will
+sympathise in his sorrows, divert his fatigue, and share his
+pleasures. If she becomes the property of a churlish or negligent
+husband, she will suit his taste also, for she will not long
+survive his unkindness. And, alas! how great is the chance that
+some such unworthy lot may be that of my poor friend! O that I
+were a queen this moment, and could command the most amiable and
+worthy youth of my kingdom to accept happiness with the hand of
+Rose Bradwardine!'
+
+'I wish you would command her to accept mine en attendant,' said
+Fergus, laughing.
+
+I don't know by what caprice it was that this wish, however
+jocularly expressed, rather jarred on Edward's feelings,
+notwithstanding his growing inclination to Flora and his
+indifference to Miss Bradwardine. This is one of the
+inexplicabilities of human nature, which we leave without comment.
+
+'Yours, brother?' answered Flora, regarding him steadily. 'No; you
+have another bride--Honour; and the dangers you must run in
+pursuit of her rival would break poor Rose's heart.'
+
+With this discourse they reached the castle, and Waverley soon
+prepared his despatches for Tully-Veolan. As he knew the Baron was
+punctilious in such matters, he was about to impress his billet
+with a seal on which his armorial bearings were engraved, but he
+did not find it at his watch, and thought he must have left it at
+Tully-Veolan. He mentioned his loss, borrowing at the same time
+the family seal of the Chieftain.
+
+'Surely,' said Miss Mac-Ivor, 'Donald Bean Lean would not--'
+
+'My life for him in such circumstances,' answered her brother;
+'besides, he would never have left the watch behind.'
+
+'After all, Fergus,' said Flora, 'and with every allowance, I am
+surprised you can countenance that man.'
+
+'I countenance him? This kind sister of mine would persuade you,
+Captain Waverley, that I take what the people of old used to call
+"a steakraid," that is, a "collop of the foray," or, in plainer
+words, a portion of the robber's booty, paid by him to the Laird,
+or Chief, through whose grounds he drove his prey. O, it is
+certain that, unless I can find some way to charm Flora's tongue,
+General Blakeney will send a sergeant's party from Stirling (this
+he said with haughty and emphatic irony) to seize Vich lan Vohr,
+as they nickname me, in his own castle.'
+
+'Now, Fergus, must not our guest be sensible that all this is
+folly and affectation? You have men enough to serve you without
+enlisting banditti, and your own honour is above taint. Why don't
+you send this Donald Bean Lean, whom I hate for his smoothness and
+duplicity even more than for his rapine, out of your country at
+once? No cause should induce me to tolerate such a character.'
+
+'No cause, Flora?' said the Chieftain significantly.
+
+'No cause, Fergus! not even that which is nearest to my heart.
+Spare it the omen of such evil supporters!'
+
+'O but, sister,' rejoined the Chief gaily, 'you don't consider my
+respect for la belle passion. Evan Dhu Maccombich is in love with
+Donald's daughter, Alice, and you cannot expect me to disturb him
+in his amours. Why, the whole clan would cry shame on me. You know
+it is one of their wise sayings, that a kinsman is part of a man's
+body, but a foster-brother is a piece of his heart.'
+
+'Well, Fergus, there is no disputing with you; but I would all
+this may end well.'
+
+'Devoutly prayed, my dear and prophetic sister, and the best way
+in the world to close a dubious argument. But hear ye not the
+pipes, Captain Waverley? Perhaps you will like better to dance to
+them in the hall than to be deafened with their harmony without
+taking part in the exercise they invite us to.'
+
+Waverley took Flora's hand. The dance, song, and merry-making
+proceeded, and closed the day's entertainment at the castle of
+Vich Ian Vohr. Edward at length retired, his mind agitated by a
+variety of new and conflicting feelings, which detained him from
+rest for some time, in that not unpleasing state of mind in which
+fancy takes the helm, and the soul rather drifts passively along
+with the rapid and confused tide of reflections than exerts itself
+to encounter, systematise, or examine them. At a late hour he fell
+asleep, and dreamed of Flora Mac-Ivor.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIV
+
+A STAG-HUNT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
+
+
+Shall this be a long or a short chapter? This is a question in
+which you, gentle reader, have no vote, however much you may be
+interested in the consequences; just as you may (like myself)
+probably have nothing to do with the imposing a new tax, excepting
+the trifling circumstance of being obliged to pay it. More happy
+surely in the present case, since, though it lies within my
+arbitrary power to extend my materials as I think proper, I cannot
+call you into Exchequer if you do not think proper to read my
+narrative. Let me therefore consider. It is true that the annals
+and documents in my hands say but little of this Highland chase;
+but then I can find copious materials for description elsewhere.
+There is old Lindsay of Pitscottie ready at my elbow, with his
+Athole hunting, and his 'lofted and joisted palace of green
+timber; with all kind of drink to be had in burgh and land, as
+ale, beer, wine, muscadel, malvaise, hippocras, and aquavitae;
+with wheat-bread, main-bread, ginge-bread, beef, mutton, lamb,
+veal, venison, goose, grice, capon, coney, crane, swan, partridge,
+plover, duck, drake, brisselcock, pawnies, black-cock, muir-fowl,
+and capercailzies'; not forgetting the 'costly bedding, vaiselle,
+and napry,' and least of all the 'excelling stewards, cunning
+baxters, excellent cooks, and pottingars, with confections and
+drugs for the desserts.' Besides the particulars which may be
+thence gleaned for this Highland feast (the splendour of which
+induced the Pope's legate to dissent from an opinion which he had
+hitherto held, that Scotland, namely, was the--the--the latter end
+of the world)--besides these, might I not illuminate my pages
+with Taylor the Water Poet's hunting in the Braes of Mar, where,--
+
+    Through heather, mosse,'mong frogs, and bogs, and fogs,
+      'Mongst craggy cliffs and thunder-batter'd hills,
+    Hares, hinds, bucks, roes, are chased by men and dogs,
+      Where two hours' hunting fourscore fat deer kills.
+    Lowland, your sports are low as is your seat;
+    The Highland games and minds are high and great?
+
+But without further tyranny over my readers, or display of the
+extent of my own reading, I shall content myself with borrowing a
+single incident from the memorable hunting at Lude, commemorated
+in the ingenious Mr. Gunn's essay on the Caledonian Harp, and so
+proceed in my story with all the brevity that my natural style of
+composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and
+ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus, will permit me.
+
+The solemn hunting was delayed, from various causes, for about
+three weeks. The interval was spent by Waverley with great
+satisfaction at Glennaquoich; for the impression which Flora had
+made on his mind at their first meeting grew daily stronger. She
+was precisely the character to fascinate a youth of romantic
+imagination. Her manners, her language, her talents for poetry and
+music, gave additional and varied influence to her eminent
+personal charms. Even in her hours of gaiety she was in his fancy
+exalted above the ordinary daughters of Eve, and seemed only to
+stoop for an instant to those topics of amusement and gallantry
+which others appear to live for. In the neighbourhood of this
+enchantress, while sport consumed the morning and music and the
+dance led on the hours of evening, Waverley became daily more
+delighted with his hospitable landlord, and more enamoured of his
+bewitching sister.
+
+At length the period fixed for the grand hunting arrived, and
+Waverley and the Chieftain departed for the place of rendezvous,
+which was a day's journey to the northward of Glennaquoich. Fergus
+was attended on this occasion by about three hundred of his clan,
+well armed and accoutred in their best fashion. Waverley complied
+so far with the custom of the country as to adopt the trews (he
+could not be reconciled to the kilt), brogues, and bonnet, as the
+fittest dress for the exercise in which he was to be engaged, and
+which least exposed him to be stared at as a stranger when they
+should reach the place of rendezvous. They found on the spot
+appointed several powerful Chiefs, to all of whom Waverley was
+formally presented, and by all cordially received. Their vassals
+and clansmen, a part of whose feudal duty it was to attend on
+these parties, appeared in such numbers as amounted to a small
+army. These active assistants spread through the country far and
+near, forming a circle, technically called the tinchel, which,
+gradually closing, drove the deer in herds together towards the
+glen where the Chiefs and principal sportsmen lay in wait for
+them. In the meanwhile these distinguished personages bivouacked
+among the flowery heath, wrapped up in their plaids, a mode of
+passing a summer's night which Waverley found by no means
+unpleasant.
+
+For many hours after sunrise the mountain ridges and passes
+retained their ordinary appearance of silence and solitude, and
+the Chiefs, with their followers, amused themselves with various
+pastimes, in which the joys of the shell, as Ossian has it, were
+not forgotten. 'Others apart sate on a hill retired,' probably as
+deeply engaged in the discussion of politics and news as Milton's
+spirits in metaphysical disquisition. At length signals of the
+approach of the game were descried and heard. Distant shouts
+resounded from valley to valley, as the various parties of
+Highlanders, climbing rocks, struggling through copses, wading
+brooks, and traversing thickets, approached more and more near to
+each other, and compelled the astonished deer, with the other wild
+animals that fled before them, into a narrower circuit. Every now
+and then the report of muskets was heard, repeated by a thousand
+echoes. The baying of the dogs was soon added to the chorus, which
+grew ever louder and more loud. At length the advanced parties of
+the deer began to show themselves; and as the stragglers came
+bounding down the pass by two or three at a time, the Chiefs
+showed their skill by distinguishing the fattest deer, and their
+dexterity in bringing them down with their guns. Fergus exhibited
+remarkable address, and Edward was also so fortunate as to attract
+the notice and applause of the sportsmen.
+
+But now the main body of the deer appeared at the head of the
+glen, compelled into a very narrow compass, and presenting such a
+formidable phalanx that their antlers appeared at a distance, over
+the ridge of the steep pass, like a leafless grove. Their number
+was very great, and from a desperate stand which they made, with
+the tallest of the red-deer stags arranged in front, in a sort of
+battle-array, gazing on the group which barred their passage down
+the glen, the more experienced sportsmen began to augur danger.
+The work of destruction, however, now commenced on all sides. Dogs
+and hunters were at work, and muskets and fusees resounded from
+every quarter. The deer, driven to desperation, made at length a
+fearful charge right upon the spot where the more distinguished
+sportsmen had taken their stand. The word was given in Gaelic to
+fling themselves upon their faces; but Waverley, on whose English
+ears the signal was lost, had almost fallen a sacrifice to his
+ignorance of the ancient language in which it was communicated.
+Fergus, observing his danger, sprung up and pulled him with
+violence to the ground, just as the whole herd broke down upon
+them. The tide being absolutely irresistible, and wounds from a
+stag's horn highly dangerous, the activity of the Chieftain may be
+considered, on this occasion, as having saved his guest's life. He
+detained him with a firm grasp until the whole herd of deer had
+fairly run over them. Waverley then attempted to rise, but found
+that he had suffered several very severe contusions, and, upon a
+further examination, discovered that he had sprained his ankle
+violently.
+
+[Footnote: The thrust from the tynes, or branches, of the stag's
+horns was accounted far more dangerous than those of the boar's
+tusk:--
+
+    If thou be hurt with horn of stag,
+    it brings thee to thy bier,
+    But barber's hand shall boar's hurt heal,
+    thereof have thou no fear.]
+
+This checked the mirth of the meeting, although the Highlanders,
+accustomed to such incidents, and prepared for them, had suffered
+no harm themselves. A wigwam was erected almost in an instant,
+where Edward was deposited on a couch of heather. The surgeon, or
+he who assumed the office, appeared to unite the characters of a
+leech and a conjuror. He was an old smoke-dried Highlander,
+wearing a venerable grey beard, and having for his sole garment a
+tartan frock, the skirts of which descended to the knee, and,
+being undivided in front, made the vestment serve at once for
+doublet and breeches. [Footnote: This garb, which resembled the
+dress often put on children in Scotland, called a polonie (i. e.
+polonaise), is a very ancient modification of the Highland garb.
+It was, in fact, the hauberk or shirt of mail, only composed of
+cloth instead of rings of armour.] He observed great ceremony in
+approaching Edward; and though our hero was writhing with pain,
+would not proceed to any operation which might assuage it until he
+had perambulated his couch three times, moving from east to west,
+according to the course of the sun. This, which was called making
+the deasil, [Footnote: Old Highlanders will still make the deasil
+around those whom they wish well to. To go round a person in the
+opposite direction, or withershins (German wider-shins), is
+unlucky, and a sort of incantation.] both the leech and the
+assistants seemed to consider as a matter of the last importance
+to the accomplishment of a cure; and Waverley, whom pain rendered
+incapable of expostulation, and who indeed saw no chance of its
+being attended to, submitted in silence.
+
+After this ceremony was duly performed, the old Esculapius let his
+patient's blood with a cupping-glass with great dexterity, and
+proceeded, muttering all the while to himself in Gaelic, to boil
+on the fire certain herbs, with which he compounded an
+embrocation. He then fomented the parts which had sustained
+injury, never failing to murmur prayers or spells, which of the
+two Waverley could not distinguish, as his ear only caught the
+words Gaspar-Melchior-Balthazar-max-prax-fax, and similar
+gibberish. The fomentation had a speedy effect in alleviating the
+pain and swelling, which our hero imputed to the virtue of the
+herbs or the effect of the chafing, but which was by the
+bystanders unanimously ascribed to the spells with which the
+operation had been accompanied. Edward was given to understand
+that not one of the ingredients had been gathered except during
+the full moon, and that the herbalist had, while collecting them,
+uniformly recited a charm, which in English ran thus:--
+
+    Hail to thee, them holy herb,
+    That sprung on holy ground!
+    All in the Mount Olivet
+    First wert thou found.
+    Thou art boot for many a bruise,
+    And healest many a wound;
+    In our Lady's blessed name,
+    I take thee from the ground.
+
+[Footnote: This metrical spell, or something very like it, is
+preserved by Reginald Scott in his work on Witchcraft.]
+
+Edward observed with some surprise that even Fergus,
+notwithstanding his knowledge and education, seemed to fall in
+with the superstitious ideas of his countrymen, either because he
+deemed it impolitic to affect scepticism on a matter of general
+belief, or more probably because, ike most men who do not think
+deeply or accurately on such subjects, he had in his mind a
+reserve of superstition which balanced the freedom of his
+expressions and practice upon other occasions. Waverley made no
+commentary, therefore, on the manner of the treatment, but
+rewarded the professor of medicine with a liberality beyond the
+utmost conception of his wildest hopes. He uttered on the occasion
+so many incoherent blessings in Gaelic and English that Mac-Ivor,
+rather scandalised at the excess of his acknowledgments, cut them
+short by exclaiming, Ceud mile mhalloich ort! i.e. 'A hundred
+thousand curses on you!' and so pushed the helper of men out of
+the cabin.
+
+After Waverley was left alone, the exhaustion of pain and fatigue
+--for the whole day's exercise had been severe--threw him into a
+profound, but yet a feverish sleep, which he chiefly owed to an
+opiate draught administered by the old Highlander from some
+decoction of herbs in his pharmacopoeia.
+
+Early the next morning, the purpose of their meeting being over,
+and their sports damped by the untoward accident, in which Fergus
+and all his friends expressed the greatest sympathy, it became a
+question how to dispose of the disabled sportsman. This was
+settled by Mac-Ivor, who had a litter prepared, of 'birch and
+hazel-grey,'
+
+[FOOTNOTE:
+
+    On the morrow they made their biers
+    Of birch and hazel grey. Chevy Chase.]
+
+which was borne by his people with such caution and dexterity as
+renders it not improbable that they may have been the ancestors of
+some of those sturdy Gael who have now the happiness to transport
+the belles of Edinburgh in their sedan-chairs to ten routs in one
+evening. When Edward was elevated upon their shoulders he could
+not help being gratified with the romantic effect produced by the
+breaking up of this sylvan camp. [Footnote: See Note 25.]
+
+The various tribes assembled, each at the pibroch of their native
+clan, and each headed by their patriarchal ruler. Some, who had
+already begun to retire, were seen winding up the hills, or
+descending the passes which led to the scene of action, the sound
+of their bagpipes dying upon the ear. Others made still a moving
+picture upon the narrow plain, forming various changeful groups,
+their feathers and loose plaids waving in the morning breeze, and
+their arms glittering in the rising sun. Most of the Chiefs came
+to take farewell of Waverley, and to express their anxious hope
+they might again, and speedily, meet; but the care of Fergus
+abridged the ceremony of taking leave. At length, his own men
+being completely assembled and mustered, Mac-Ivor commenced his
+march, but not towards the quarter from which they had come. He
+gave Edward to understand that the greater part of his followers
+now on the field were bound on a distant expedition, and that when
+he had deposited him in the house of a gentleman, who he was sure
+would pay him every attention, he himself should be under the
+necessity of accompanying them the greater part of the way, but
+would lose no time in rejoining his friend.
+
+Waverley was rather surprised that Fergus had not mentioned this
+ulterior destination when they set out upon the hunting-party; but
+his situation did not admit of many interrogatories. The greater
+part of the clansmen went forward under the guidance of old
+Ballenkeiroch and Evan Dhu Maccombich, apparently in high spirits.
+A few remained for the purpose of escorting the Chieftain, who
+walked by the side of Edward's litter, and attended him with the
+most affectionate assiduity. About noon, after a journey which the
+nature of the conveyance, the pain of his bruises, and the
+roughness of the way rendered inexpressibly painful, Waverley was
+hospitably received into the house of a gentleman related to
+Fergus, who had prepared for him every accommodation which the
+simple habits of living then universal in the Highlands put in his
+power. In this person, an old man about seventy, Edward admired a
+relic of primitive simplicity. He wore no dress but what his
+estate afforded; the cloth was the fleece of his own sheep, woven
+by his own servants, and stained into tartan by the dyes produced
+from the herbs and lichens of the hills around him. His linen was
+spun by his daughters and maidservants, from his own flax; nor did
+his table, though plentiful, and varied with game and fish, offer
+an article but what was of native produce.
+
+Claiming himself no rights of clanship or vassalage, he was
+fortunate in the alliance and protection of Vich Ian Vohr and
+other bold and enterprising Chieftains, who protected him in the
+quiet unambitious life he loved. It is true, the youth born on his
+grounds were often enticed to leave him for the service of his
+more active friends; but a few old servants and tenants used to
+shake their grey locks when they heard their master censured for
+want of spirit, and observed, 'When the wind is still, the shower
+falls soft.' This good old man, whose charity and hospitality were
+unbounded, would have received Waverley with kindness had he been
+the meanest Saxon peasant, since his situation required
+assistance. But his attention to a friend and guest of Vich Ian
+Vohr was anxious and unremitted. Other embrocations were applied
+to the injured limb, and new spells were put in practice. At
+length, after more solicitude than was perhaps for the advantage
+of his health, Fergus took farewell of Edward for a few days,
+when, he said, he would return to Tomanrait, and hoped by that
+time Waverley would be able to ride one of the Highland ponies of
+his landlord, and in that manner return to Glennaquoich.
+
+The next day, when his good old host appeared, Edward learned that
+his friend had departed with the dawn, leaving none of his
+followers except Callum Beg, the sort of foot-page who used to
+attend his person, and who had now in charge to wait upon
+Waverley. On asking his host if he knew where the Chieftain was
+gone, the old man looked fixedly at him, with something mysterious
+and sad in the smile which was his only reply. Waverley repeated
+his question, to which his host answered in a proverb,--
+
+    What sent the messengers to hell,
+    Was asking what they knew full well.
+
+[Footnote: Corresponding to the Lowland saying, 'Mony ane speirs
+the gate they ken fu' weel.']
+
+He was about to proceed, but Callum Beg said, rather pertly, as
+Edward thought, that 'Ta Tighearnach (i.e. the Chief) did not like
+ta Sassenagh duinhe-wassel to be pingled wi' mickle speaking, as
+she was na tat weel.' From this Waverley concluded he should
+disoblige his friend by inquiring of a stranger the object of a
+journey which he himself had not communicated.
+
+It is unnecessary to trace the progress of our hero's recovery.
+The sixth morning had arrived, and he was able to walk about with
+a staff, when Fergus returned with about a score of his men. He
+seemed in the highest spirits, congratulated Waverley on his
+progress towards recovery, and finding he was able to sit on
+horseback, proposed their immediate return to Glennaquoich.
+Waverley joyfully acceded, for the form of its fair mistress had
+lived in his dreams during all the time of his confinement.
+
+    Now he has ridden o'er moor and moss,
+        O'er hill and many a glen,
+
+Fergus, all the while, with his myrmidons, striding stoutly by his
+side, or diverging to get a shot at a roe or a heath-cock.
+Waverley's bosom beat thick when they approached the old tower of
+Ian nan Chaistel, and could distinguish the fair form of its
+mistress advancing to meet them.
+
+Fergus began immediately, with his usual high spirits, to exclaim,
+'Open your gates, incomparable princess, to the wounded Moor
+Abindarez, whom Rodrigo de Narvez, constable of Antiquera, conveys
+to your castle; or open them, if you like it better, to the
+renowned Marquis of Mantua, the sad attendant of his half-slain
+friend Baldovinos of the Mountain. Ah, long rest to thy soul,
+Cervantes! without quoting thy remnants, how should I frame my
+language to befit romantic ears!'
+
+Flora now advanced, and welcoming Waverley with much kindness,
+expressed her regret for his accident, of which she had already
+heard particulars, and her surprise that her brother should not
+have taken better care to put a stranger on his guard against the
+perils of the sport in which he engaged him. Edward easily
+exculpated the Chieftain, who, indeed, at his own personal risk,
+had probably saved his life.
+
+This greeting over, Fergus said three or four words to his sister
+in Gaelic. The tears instantly sprung to her eyes, but they seemed
+to be tears of devotion and joy, for she looked up to heaven and
+folded her hands as in a solemn expression of prayer or gratitude.
+After the pause of a minute, she presented to Edward some letters
+which had been forwarded from Tully-Veolan during his absence, and
+at the same time delivered some to her brother. To the latter she
+likewise gave three or four numbers of the Caledonian Mercury, the
+only newspaper which was then published to the north of the Tweed.
+
+Both gentlemen retired to examine their despatches, and Edward
+speedily found that those which he had received contained matters
+of very deep interest.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXV
+
+NEWS FROM ENGLAND
+
+
+The letters which Waverley had hitherto received from his
+relations in England were not such as required any particular
+notice in this narrative. His father usually wrote to him with the
+pompous affectation of one who was too much oppressed by public
+affairs to find leisure to attend to those of his own family. Now
+and then he mentioned persons of rank in Scotland to whom he
+wished his son should pay some attention; but Waverley, hitherto
+occupied by the amusements which he had found at Tully-Veolan and
+Glennaquoich, dispensed with paying any attention to hints so
+coldly thrown out, especially as distance, shortness of leave of
+absence, and so forth furnished a ready apology. But latterly the
+burden of Mr. Richard Waverley's paternal epistles consisted in
+certain mysterious hints of greatness and influence which he was
+speedily to attain, and which would ensure his son's obtaining the
+most rapid promotion, should he remain in the military service.
+Sir Everard's letters were of a different tenor. They were short;
+for the good Baronet was none of your illimitable correspondents,
+whose manuscript overflows the folds of their large post paper,
+and leaves no room for the seal; but they were kind and
+affectionate, and seldom concluded without some allusion to our
+hero's stud, some question about the state of his purse, and a
+special inquiry after such of his recruits as had preceded him
+from Waverley-Honour. Aunt Rachel charged him to remember his
+principles of religion, to take care of his health, to beware of
+Scotch mists, which, she had heard, would wet an Englishman
+through and through, never to go out at night without his great-
+coat, and, above all, to wear flannel next to his skin.
+
+Mr. Pembroke only wrote to our hero one letter, but it was of the
+bulk of six epistles of these degenerate days, containing, in the
+moderate compass of ten folio pages, closely written, a precis of
+a supplementary quarto manuscript of addenda, delenda, et
+corrigenda in reference to the two tracts with which he had
+presented Waverley. This he considered as a mere sop in the pan to
+stay the appetite of Edward's curiosity until he should find an
+opportunity of sending down the volume itself, which was much too
+heavy for the post, and which he proposed to accompany with
+certain interesting pamphlets, lately published by his friend in
+Little Britain, with whom he had kept up a sort of literary
+correspondence, in virtue of which the library shelves of
+Waverley-Honour were loaded with much trash, and a good round
+bill, seldom summed in fewer than three figures, was yearly
+transmitted, in which Sir Everard Waverley of Waverley-Honour,
+Bart., was marked Dr. to Jonathan Grubbet, bookseller and
+stationer, Little Britain. Such had hitherto been the style of the
+letters which Edward had received from England; but the packet
+delivered to him at Glennaquoich was of a different and more
+interesting complexion. It would be impossible for the reader,
+even were I to insert the letters at full length, to comprehend
+the real cause of their being written, without a glance into the
+interior of the British cabinet at the period in question.
+
+The ministers of the day happened (no very singular event) to be
+divided into two parties; the weakest of which, making up by
+assiduity of intrigue their inferiority in real consequence, had
+of late acquired some new proselytes, and with them the hope of
+superseding their rivals in the favour of their sovereign, and
+overpowering them in the House of Commons. Amongst others, they
+had thought it worth while to practise upon Richard Waverley. This
+honest gentleman, by a grave mysterious demeanour, an attention to
+the etiquette of business rather more than to its essence, a
+facility in making long dull speeches, consisting of truisms and
+commonplaces, hashed up with a technical jargon of office, which
+prevented the inanity of his orations from being discovered, had
+acquired a certain name and credit in public life, and even
+established, with many, the character of a profound politician;
+none of your shining orators, indeed, whose talents evaporate in
+tropes of rhetoric and flashes of wit, but one possessed of steady
+parts for business, which would wear well, as the ladies say in
+choosing their silks, and ought in all reason to be good for
+common and every-day use, since they were confessedly formed of no
+holiday texture.
+
+This faith had become so general that the insurgent party in the
+cabinet, of which we have made mention, after sounding Mr. Richard
+Waverley, were so satisfied with his sentiments and abilities as
+to propose that, in case of a certain revolution in the ministry,
+he should take an ostensible place in the new order of things, not
+indeed of the very first rank, but greatly higher, in point both
+of emolument and influence, than that which he now enjoyed. There
+was no resisting so tempting a proposal, notwithstanding that the
+Great Man under whose patronage he had enlisted, and by whose
+banner he had hitherto stood firm, was the principal object of the
+proposed attack by the new allies. Unfortunately this fair scheme
+of ambition was blighted in the very bud by a premature movement.
+All the official gentlemen concerned in it who hesitated to take
+the part of a voluntary resignation were informed that the king
+had no further occasion for their services; and in Richard
+Waverley's case, which the minister considered as aggravated by
+ingratitude, dismissal was accompanied by something like personal
+contempt and contumely. The public, and even the party of whom he
+shared the fall, sympathised little in the disappointment of this
+selfish and interested statesman; and he retired to the country
+under the comfortable reflection that he had lost, at the same
+time, character, credit, and,--what he at least equally deplored,
+--emolument.
+
+Richard Waverley's letter to his son upon this occasion was a
+masterpiece of its kind. Aristides himself could not have made out
+a harder case. An unjust monarch and an ungrateful country were
+the burden of each rounded paragraph. He spoke of long services
+and unrequited sacrifices; though the former had been overpaid by
+his salary, and nobody could guess in what the latter consisted,
+unless it were in his deserting, not from conviction, but for the
+lucre of gain, the Tory principles of his family. In the
+conclusion, his resentment was wrought to such an excess by the
+force of his own oratory, that he could not repress some threats
+of vengeance, however vague and impotent, and finally acquainted
+his son with his pleasure that he should testify his sense of the
+ill-treatment he had sustained by throwing up his commission as
+soon as the letter reached him. This, he said, was also his
+uncle's desire, as he would himself intimate in due course.
+
+Accordingly, the next letter which Edward opened was from Sir
+Everard. His brother's disgrace seemed to have removed from his
+well-natured bosom all recollection of their differences, and,
+remote as he was from every means of learning that Richard's
+disgrace was in reality only the just as well as natural
+consequence of his own unsuccessful intrigues, the good but
+credulous Baronet at once set it down as a new and enormous
+instance of the injustice of the existing government. It was true,
+he said, and he must not disguise it even from Edward, that his
+father could not have sustained such an insult as was now, for the
+first time, offered to one of his house, unless he had subjected
+himself to it by accepting of an employment under the present
+system. Sir Everard had no doubt that he now both saw and felt the
+magnitude of this error, and it should be his (Sir Everard's)
+business to take care that the cause of his regret should not
+extend itself to pecuniary consequences. It was enough for a
+Waverley to have sustained the public disgrace; the patrimonial
+injury could easily be obviated by the head of their family. But
+it was both the opinion of Mr. Richard Waverley and his own that
+Edward, the representative of the family of Waverley-Honour,
+should not remain in a situation which subjected him also to such
+treatment as that with which his father had been stigmatised. He
+requested his nephew therefore to take the fittest, and at the
+same time the most speedy, opportunity of transmitting his
+resignation to the War Office, and hinted, moreover, that little
+ceremony was necessary where so little had been used to his
+father. He sent multitudinous greetings to the Baron of
+Bradwardine.
+
+A letter from Aunt Rachel spoke out even more plainly. She
+considered the disgrace of brother Richard as the just reward of
+his forfeiting his allegiance to a lawful though exiled sovereign,
+and taking the oaths to an alien; a concession which her
+grandfather, Sir Nigel Waverley, refused to make, either to the
+Roundhead Parliament or to Cromwell, when his life and fortune
+stood in the utmost extremity. She hoped her dear Edward would
+follow the footsteps of his ancestors, and as speedily as possible
+get rid of the badge of servitude to the usurping family, and
+regard the wrongs sustained by his father as an admonition from
+Heaven that every desertion of the line of loyalty becomes its own
+punishment. She also concluded with her respects to Mr.
+Bradwardine, and begged Waverley would inform her whether his
+daughter, Miss Rose, was old enough to wear a pair of very
+handsome ear-rings, which she proposed to send as a token of her
+affection. The good lady also desired to be informed whether Mr.
+Bradwardine took as much Scotch snuff and danced as unweariedly as
+he did when he was at Waverley-Honour about thirty years ago.
+
+These letters, as might have been expected, highly excited
+Waverley's indignation. From the desultory style of his studies,
+he had not any fixed political opinion to place in opposition to
+the movements of indignation which he felt at his father's
+supposed wrongs. Of the real cause of his disgrace Edward was
+totally ignorant; nor had his habits at all led him to investigate
+the politics of the period in which he lived, or remark the
+intrigues in which his father had been so actively engaged.
+Indeed, any impressions which he had accidentally adopted
+concerning the parties of the times were (owing to the society in
+which he had lived at Waverley-Honour) of a nature rather
+unfavourable to the existing government and dynasty. He entered,
+therefore, without hesitation into the resentful feeling of the
+relations who had the best title to dictate his conduct, and not
+perhaps the less willingly when he remembered the tedium of his
+quarters, and the inferior figure which he had made among the
+officers of his regiment. If he could have had any doubt upon the
+subject it would have been decided by the following letter from
+his commanding officer, which, as it is very short, shall be
+inserted verbatim:--
+
+SIR,--
+
+Having carried somewhat beyond the line of my duty an indulgence
+which even the lights of nature, and much more those of
+Christianity, direct towards errors which may arise from youth and
+inexperience, and that altogether without effect, I am reluctantly
+compelled, at the present crisis, to use the only remaining remedy
+which is in my power. You are, therefore, hereby commanded to
+repair to--, the headquarters of the regiment, within three days
+after the date of this letter. If you shall fail to do so, I must
+report you to the War Office as absent without leave, and also
+take other steps, which will be disagreeable to you as well as to,
+
+Sir,
+
+Your obedient Servant,
+
+J. GARDINER, Lieut.-Col.
+
+Commanding the----Regt. Dragoons.
+
+Edward's blood boiled within him as he read this letter. He had
+been accustomed from his very infancy to possess in a great
+measure the disposal of his own time, and thus acquired habits
+which rendered the rules of military discipline as unpleasing to
+him in this as they were in some other respects. An idea that in
+his own case they would not be enforced in a very rigid manner had
+also obtained full possession of his mind, and had hitherto been
+sanctioned by the indulgent conduct of his lieutenant-colonel.
+Neither had anything occurred, to his knowledge, that should have
+induced his commanding officer, without any other warning than the
+hints we noticed at the end of the fourteenth chapter, so suddenly
+to assume a harsh and, as Edward deemed it, so insolent a tone of
+dictatorial authority. Connecting it with the letters he had just
+received from his family, he could not but suppose that it was
+designed to make him feel, in his present situation, the same
+pressure of authority which had been exercised in his father's
+case, and that the whole was a concerted scheme to depress and
+degrade every member of the Waverley family.
+
+Without a pause, therefore, Edward wrote a few cold lines,
+thanking his lieutenant-colonel for past civilities, and
+expressing regret that he should have chosen to efface the
+remembrance of them by assuming a different tone towards him. The
+strain of his letter, as well as what he (Edward) conceived to be
+his duty in the present crisis, called upon him to lay down his
+commission; and he therefore inclosed the formal resignation of a
+situation which subjected him to so unpleasant a correspondence,
+and requested Colonel Gardiner would have the goodness to forward
+it to the proper authorities.
+
+Having finished this magnanimous epistle, he felt somewhat
+uncertain concerning the terms in which his resignation ought to
+be expressed, upon which subject he resolved to consult Fergus
+Mac-Ivor. It may be observed in passing that the bold and prompt
+habits of thinking, acting, and speaking which distinguished this
+young Chieftain had given him a considerable ascendency over the
+mind of Waverley. Endowed with at least equal powers of
+understanding, and with much finer genius, Edward yet stooped to
+the bold and decisive activity of an intellect which was sharpened
+by the habit of acting on a preconceived and regular system, as
+well as by extensive knowledge of the world.
+
+When Edward found his friend, the latter had still in his hand the
+newspaper which he had perused, and advanced to meet him with the
+embarrassment of one who has unpleasing news to communicate. 'Do
+your letters, Captain Waverley, confirm the unpleasing information
+which I find in this paper?'
+
+He put the paper into his hand, where his father's disgrace was
+registered in the most bitter terms, transferred probably from
+some London journal. At the end of the paragraph was this
+remarkable innuendo:--
+
+'We understand that "this same RICHARD who hath done all this" is
+not the only example of the WAVERING HONOUR of W-v-r-ly H-n-r. See
+the Gazette of this day.'
+
+With hurried and feverish apprehension our hero turned to the
+place referred to, and found therein recorded, 'Edward Waverley,
+captain in----regiment dragoons, superseded for absence without
+leave'; and in the list of military promotions, referring to the
+same regiment, he discovered this farther article, 'Lieut. Julius
+Butler, to be captain, VICE Edward Waverley, superseded.'
+
+Our hero's bosom glowed with the resentment which undeserved and
+apparently premeditated insult was calculated to excite in the
+bosom of one who had aspired after honour, and was thus wantonly
+held up to public scorn and disgrace. Upon comparing the date of
+his colonel's letter with that of the article in the Gazette, he
+perceived that his threat of making a report upon his absence had
+been literally fulfilled, and without inquiry, as it seemed,
+whether Edward had either received his summons or was disposed to
+comply with it. The whole, therefore, appeared a formed plan to
+degrade him in the eyes of the public; and the idea of its having
+succeeded filled him with such bitter emotions that, after various
+attempts to conceal them, he at length threw himself into Mac-
+Ivor's arms, and gave vent to tears of shame and indignation.
+
+It was none of this Chieftain's faults to be indifferent to the
+wrongs of his friends; and for Edward, independent of certain
+plans with which he was connected, he felt a deep and sincere
+interest. The proceeding appeared as extraordinary to him as it
+had done to Edward. He indeed knew of more motives than Waverley
+was privy to for the peremptory order that he should join his
+regiment. But that, without further inquiry into the circumstances
+of a necessary delay, the commanding officer, in contradiction to
+his known and established character, should have proceeded in so
+harsh and unusual a manner was a mystery which he could not
+penetrate. He soothed our hero, however, to the best of his power,
+and began to turn his thoughts on revenge for his insulted honour.
+
+Edward eagerly grasped at the idea. 'Will you carry a message for
+me to Colonel Gardiner, my dear Fergus, and oblige me for ever?'
+
+Fergus paused. 'It is an act of friendship which you should
+command, could it be useful, or lead to the righting your honour;
+but in the present case I doubt if your commanding officer would
+give you the meeting on account of his having taken measures
+which, however harsh and exasperating, were still within the
+strict bounds of his duty. Besides, Gardiner is a precise
+Huguenot, and has adopted certain ideas about the sinfulness of
+such rencontres, from which it would be impossible to make him
+depart, especially as his courage is beyond all suspicion. And
+besides, I--I, to say the truth--I dare not at this moment, for
+some very weighty reasons, go near any of the military quarters or
+garrisons belonging to this government.'
+
+'And am I,' said Waverley, 'to sit down quiet and contented under
+the injury I have received?'
+
+'That will I never advise my friend,' replied Mac-Ivor. 'But I
+would have vengeance to fall on the head, not on the hand, on the
+tyrannical and oppressive government which designed and directed
+these premeditated and reiterated insults, not on the tools of
+office which they employed in the execution of the injuries they
+aimed at you.'
+
+'On the government!' said Waverley.
+
+'Yes,' replied the impetuous Highlander, 'on the usurping House of
+Hanover, whom your grandfather would no more have served than he
+would have taken wages of red-hot gold from the great fiend of
+hell!'
+
+'But since the time of my grandfather two generations of this
+dynasty have possessed the throne,' said Edward coolly.
+
+'True,' replied the Chieftain; 'and because we have passively
+given them so long the means of showing their native character,--
+because both you and I myself have lived in quiet submission, have
+even truckled to the times so far as to accept commissions under
+them, and thus have given them an opportunity of disgracing us
+publicly by resuming them, are we not on that account to resent
+injuries which our fathers only apprehended, but which we have
+actually sustained? Or is the cause of the unfortunate Stuart
+family become less just, because their title has devolved upon an
+heir who is innocent of the charges of misgovernment brought
+against his father? Do you remember the lines of your favourite
+poet?
+
+    Had Richard unconstrain'd resign'd the throne,
+    A king can give no more than is his own;
+    The title stood entail'd had Richard had a son.
+
+You see, my dear Waverley, I can quote poetry as well as Flora and
+you. But come, clear your moody brow, and trust to me to show you
+an honourable road to a speedy and glorious revenge. Let us seek
+Flora, who perhaps has more news to tell us of what has occurred
+during our absence. She will rejoice to hear that you are relieved
+of your servitude. But first add a postscript to your letter,
+marking the time when you received this calvinistical colonel's
+first summons, and express your regret that the hastiness of his
+proceedings prevented your anticipating them by sending your
+resignation. Then let him blush for his injustice.'
+
+The letter was sealed accordingly, covering a formal resignation
+of the commission, and Mac-Ivor despatched it with some letters of
+his own by a special messenger, with charge to put them into the
+nearest post-office in the Lowlands.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVI
+
+AN ECLAIRCISSEMENT
+
+
+The hint which the Chieftain had thrown out respecting Flora was
+not unpremeditated. He had observed with great satisfaction the
+growing attachment of Waverley to his sister, nor did he see any
+bar to their union, excepting the situation which Waverley's
+father held in the ministry, and Edward's own commission in the
+army of George II. These obstacles were now removed, and in a
+manner which apparently paved the way for the son's becoming
+reconciled to another allegiance. In every other respect the match
+would be most eligible. The safety, happiness, and honourable
+provision of his sister, whom he dearly loved, appeared to be
+ensured by the proposed union; and his heart swelled when he
+considered how his own interest would be exalted in the eyes of
+the ex-monarch to whom he had dedicated his service, by an
+alliance with one of those ancient, powerful, and wealthy English
+families of the steady cavalier faith, to awaken whose decayed
+attachment to the Stuart family was now a matter of such vital
+importance to the Stuart cause. Nor could Fergus perceive any
+obstacle to such a scheme. Waverley's attachment was evident; and
+as his person was handsome, and his taste apparently coincided
+with her own, he anticipated no opposition on the part of Flora.
+Indeed, between his ideas of patriarchal power and those which he
+had acquired in France respecting the disposal of females in
+marriage, any opposition from his sister, dear as she was to him,
+would have been the last obstacle on which he would have
+calculated, even had the union been less eligible.
+
+Influenced by these feelings, the Chief now led Waverley in quest
+of Miss Mac-Ivor, not without the hope that the present agitation
+of his guest's spirits might give him courage to cut short what
+Fergus termed the romance of the courtship. They found Flora, with
+her faithful attendants, Una and Cathleen, busied in preparing
+what appeared to Waverley to be white bridal favours. Disguising
+as well as he could the agitation of his mind, Waverley asked for
+what joyful occasion Miss Mac-Ivor made such ample preparation.
+
+'It is for Fergus's bridal,' she said, smiling.
+
+'Indeed!' said Edward; 'he has kept his secret well. I hope he
+will allow me to be his bride's-man.'
+
+'That is a man's office, but not yours, as Beatrice says,'
+retorted Flora.
+
+'And who is the fair lady, may I be permitted to ask, Miss Mac-
+Ivor?'
+
+'Did not I tell you long since that Fergus wooed no bride but
+Honour?' answered Flora.
+
+'And am I then incapable of being his assistant and counsellor in
+the pursuit of honour?' said our hero, colouring deeply. 'Do I
+rank so low in your opinion?'
+
+'Far from it, Captain Waverley. I would to God you were of our
+determination! and made use of the expression which displeased
+you, solely
+
+    Because you are not of our quality,
+    But stand against us as an enemy.'
+
+'That time is past, sister,' said Fergus; 'and you may wish
+Edward Waverley (no longer captain) joy of being freed from the
+slavery to an usurper, implied in that sable and ill-omened
+emblem.'
+
+'Yes,' said Waverley, undoing the cockade from his hat, 'it has
+pleased the king who bestowed this badge upon me to resume it in a
+manner which leaves me little reason to regret his service.'
+
+'Thank God for that!' cried the enthusiast; 'and O that they may
+be blind enough to treat every man of honour who serves them with
+the same indignity, that I may have less to sigh for when the
+struggle approaches!'
+
+'And now, sister,' said the Chieftain, 'replace his cockade with
+one of a more lively colour. I think it was the fashion of the
+ladies of yore to arm and send forth their knights to high
+achievement.'
+
+'Not,' replied the lady, 'till the knight adventurer had well
+weighed the justice and the danger of the cause, Fergus. Mr.
+Waverley is just now too much agitated by feelings of recent
+emotion for me to press upon him a resolution of consequence.'
+
+Waverley felt half alarmed at the thought of adopting the badge of
+what was by the majority of the kingdom esteemed rebellion, yet he
+could not disguise his chagrin at the coldness with which Flora
+parried her brother's hint. 'Miss Mac-Ivor, I perceive, thinks the
+knight unworthy of her encouragement and favour,' said he,
+somewhat bitterly.
+
+'Not so, Mr. Waverley,' she replied, with great sweetness. 'Why
+should I refuse my brother's valued friend a boon which I am
+distributing to his whole clan? Most willingly would I enlist
+every man of honour in the cause to which my brother has devoted
+himself. But Fergus has taken his measures with his eyes open. His
+life has been devoted to this cause from his cradle; with him its
+call is sacred, were it even a summons to the tomb. But how can I
+wish you, Mr. Waverley, so new to the world, so far from every
+friend who might advise and ought to influence you,--in a moment,
+too, of sudden pique and indignation,--how can I wish you to
+plunge yourself at once into so desperate an enterprise?'
+
+Fergus, who did not understand these delicacies, strode through
+the apartment biting his lip, and then, with a constrained smile,
+said, 'Well, sister, I leave you to act your new character of
+mediator between the Elector of Hanover and the subjects of your
+lawful sovereign and benefactor,' and left the room.
+
+There was a painful pause, which was at length broken by Miss Mac-
+Ivor. 'My brother is unjust,' she said, 'because he can bear no
+interruption that seems to thwart his loyal zeal.'
+
+'And do you not share his ardour?' asked Waverley,
+
+'Do I not?' answered Flora. 'God knows mine exceeds his, if that
+be possible. But I am not, like him, rapt by the bustle of
+military preparation, and the infinite detail necessary to the
+present undertaking, beyond consideration of the grand principles
+of justice and truth, on which our enterprise is grounded; and
+these, I am certain, can only be furthered by measures in
+themselves true and just. To operate upon your present feelings,
+my dear Mr. Waverley, to induce you to an irretrievable step, of
+which you have not considered either the justice or the danger,
+is, in my poor judgment, neither the one nor the other.'
+
+'Incomparable Flora!' said Edward, taking her hand, 'how much do I
+need such a monitor!'
+
+'A better one by far,' said Flora, gently withdrawing her hand,
+'Mr. Waverley will always find in his own bosom, when he will give
+its small still voice leisure to be heard.'
+
+'No, Miss Mac-Ivor, I dare not hope it; a thousand circumstances
+of fatal self-indulgence have made me the creature rather of
+imagination than reason. Durst I but hope--could I but think--that
+you would deign to be to me that affectionate, that condescending
+friend, who would strengthen me to redeem my errors, my future
+life--'
+
+'Hush, my dear sir! now you carry your joy at escaping the hands
+of a Jacobite recruiting officer to an unparalleled excess of
+gratitude.'
+
+'Nay, dear Flora, trifle with me no longer; you cannot mistake the
+meaning of those feelings which I have almost involuntarily
+expressed; and since I have broken the barrier of silence, let me
+profit by my audacity. Or may I, with your permission, mention to
+your brother--'
+
+'Not for the world, Mr. Waverley!'
+
+'What am I to understand?' said Edward. 'Is there any fatal bar--
+has any prepossession--'
+
+'None, sir,' answered Flora. 'I owe it to myself to say that I
+never yet saw the person on whom I thought with reference to the
+present subject.'
+
+'The shortness of our acquaintance, perhaps--If Miss Mac-Ivor will
+deign to give me time--'
+
+'I have not even that excuse. Captain Waverley's character is so
+open--is, in short, of that nature that it cannot be misconstrued,
+either in its strength or its weakness.'
+
+'And for that weakness you despise me?' said Edward.
+
+'Forgive me, Mr. Waverley--and remember it is but within this half
+hour that there existed between us a barrier of a nature to me
+insurmountable, since I never could think of an officer in the
+service of the Elector of Hanover in any other light than as a
+casual acquaintance. Permit me then to arrange my ideas upon so
+unexpected a topic, and in less than an hour I will be ready to
+give you such reasons for the resolution I shall express as may be
+satisfactory at least, if not pleasing to you.' So saying Flora
+withdrew, leaving Waverley to meditate upon the manner in which
+she had received his addresses.
+
+Ere he could make up his mind whether to believe his suit had been
+acceptable or no, Fergus re-entered the apartment. 'What, a la
+mort, Waverley?' he cried. 'Come down with me to the court, and
+you shall see a sight worth all the tirades of your romances. An
+hundred firelocks, my friend, and as many broadswords, just
+arrived from good friends; and two or three hundred stout fellows
+almost fighting which shall first possess them. But let me look at
+you closer. Why, a true Highlander would say you had been blighted
+by an evil eye. Or can it be this silly girl that has thus blanked
+your spirit. Never mind her, dear Edward; the wisest of her sex
+are fools in what regards the business of life.'
+
+'Indeed, my good friend,' answered Waverley, 'all that I can
+charge against your sister is, that she is too sensible, too
+reasonable.'
+
+'If that be all, I ensure you for a louis-d'or against the mood
+lasting four-and-twenty hours. No woman was ever steadily sensible
+for that period; and I will engage, if that will please you, Flora
+shall be as unreasonable to-morrow as any of her sex. You must
+learn, my dear Edward, to consider women en mousquetaire.' So
+saying, he seized Waverley's arm and dragged him off to review his
+military preparations.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVII
+
+UPON THE SAME SUBJECT
+
+
+Fergus Mac-Ivor had too much tact and delicacy to renew the
+subject which he had interrupted. His head was, or appeared to be,
+so full of guns, broadswords, bonnets, canteens, and tartan hose
+that Waverley could not for some time draw his attention to any
+other topic.
+
+'Are you to take the field so soon, Fergus,' he asked, 'that you
+are making all these martial preparations?'
+
+'When we have settled that you go with me, you shall know all; but
+otherwise, the knowledge might rather be prejudicial to you.'
+
+'But are you serious in your purpose, with such inferior forces,
+to rise against an established government? It is mere frenzy.'
+
+'Laissez faire a Don Antoine; I shall take good care of myself. We
+shall at least use the compliment of Conan, who never got a stroke
+but he gave one. I would not, however,' continued the Chieftain,
+'have you think me mad enough to stir till a favourable
+opportunity: I will not slip my dog before the game's afoot. But,
+once more, will you join with us, and you shall know all?'
+
+'How can I?' said Waverley; 'I, who have so lately held that
+commission which is now posting back to those that gave it? My
+accepting it implied a promise of fidelity, and an acknowledgment
+of the legality of the government.'
+
+'A rash promise,' answered Fergus, 'is not a steel handcuff, it
+may be shaken off, especially when it was given under deception,
+and has been repaid by insult. But if you cannot immediately make
+up your mind to a glorious revenge, go to England, and ere you
+cross the Tweed you will hear tidings that will make the world
+ring; and if Sir Everard be the gallant old cavalier I have heard
+him described by some of our HONEST gentlemen of the year one
+thousand seven hundred and fifteen, he will find you a better
+horse-troop and a better cause than you have lost.'
+
+'But your sister, Fergus?'
+
+'Out, hyperbolical fiend!' replied the Chief, laughing; 'how
+vexest thou this man! Speak'st thou of nothing but of ladies?'
+
+'Nay, be serious, my dear friend,' said Waverley; 'I feel that the
+happiness of my future life must depend upon the answer which Miss
+Mac-Ivor shall make to what I ventured to tell her this morning.'
+
+'And is this your very sober earnest,' said Fergus, more gravely,
+'or are we in the land of romance and fiction?'
+
+'My earnest, undoubtedly. How could you suppose me jesting on such
+a subject?'
+
+'Then, in very sober earnest,' answered his friend, 'I am very
+glad to hear it; and so highly do I think of Flora, that you are
+the only man in England for whom I would say so much. But before
+you shake my hand so warmly, there is more to be considered. Your
+own family--will they approve your connecting yourself with the
+sister of a high-born Highland beggar?'
+
+'My uncle's situation,' said Waverley, 'his general opinions, and
+his uniform indulgence, entitle me to say, that birth and personal
+qualities are all he would look to in such a connection. And where
+can I find both united in such excellence as in your sister?'
+
+'O nowhere! cela va sans dire,' replied Fergus, with a smile. 'But
+your father will expect a father's prerogative in being
+consulted.'
+
+'Surely; but his late breach with the ruling powers removes all
+apprehension of objection on his part, especially as I am
+convinced that my uncle will be warm in my cause.'
+
+'Religion perhaps,' said Fergus, 'may make obstacles, though we
+are not bigotted Catholics.'
+
+'My grandmother was of the Church of Rome, and her religion was
+never objected to by my family. Do not think of MY friends, dear
+Fergus; let me rather have your influence where it may be more
+necessary to remove obstacles--I mean with your lovely sister.'
+
+'My lovely sister,' replied Fergus, 'like her loving brother, is
+very apt to have a pretty decisive will of her own, by which, in
+this case, you must be ruled; but you shall not want my interest,
+nor my counsel. And, in the first place, I will give you one hint
+--Loyalty is her ruling passion; and since she could spell an
+English book she has been in love with the memory of the gallant
+Captain Wogan, who renounced the service of the usurper Cromwell
+to join the standard of Charles II, marched a handful of cavalry
+from London to the Highlands to join Middleton, then in arms for
+the king, and at length died gloriously in the royal cause. Ask
+her to show you some verses she made on his history and fate; they
+have been much admired, I assure you. The next point is--I think
+I saw Flora go up towards the waterfall a short time since;
+follow, man, follow! don't allow the garrison time to strengthen
+its purposes of resistance. Alerte a la muraille! Seek Flora out,
+and learn her decision as soon as you can, and Cupid go with you,
+while I go to look over belts and cartouch-boxes.'
+
+Waverley ascended the glen with an anxious and throbbing heart.
+Love, with all its romantic train of hopes, fears, and wishes, was
+mingled with other feelings of a nature less easily defined. He
+could not but remember how much this morning had changed his fate,
+and into what a complication of perplexity it was likely to plunge
+him. Sunrise had seen him possessed of an esteemed rank in the
+honourable profession of arms, his father to all appearance
+rapidly rising in the favour of his sovereign. All this had passed
+away like a dream: he himself was dishonoured, his father
+disgraced, and he had become involuntarily the confidant at least,
+if not the accomplice, of plans, dark, deep, and dangerous, which
+must infer either the subversion of the government he had so
+lately served or the destruction of all who had participated in
+them. Should Flora even listen to his suit favourably, what
+prospect was there of its being brought to a happy termination
+amid the tumult of an impending insurrection? Or how could he make
+the selfish request that she should leave Fergus, to whom she was
+so much attached, and, retiring with him to England, wait, as a
+distant spectator, the success of her brother's undertaking, or
+the ruin of all his hopes and fortunes? Or, on the other hand, to
+engage himself, with no other aid than his single arm, in the
+dangerous and precipitate counsels of the Chieftain, to be whirled
+along by him, the partaker of all his desperate and impetuous
+motions, renouncing almost the power of judging, or deciding upon
+the rectitude or prudence of his actions, this was no pleasing
+prospect for the secret pride of Waverley to stoop to. And yet
+what other conclusion remained, saving the rejection of his
+addresses by Flora, an alternative not to be thought of in the
+present high-wrought state of his feelings with anything short of
+mental agony. Pondering the doubtful and dangerous prospect before
+him, he at length arrived near the cascade, where, as Fergus had
+augured, he found Flora seated.
+
+She was quite alone, and as soon as she observed his approach she
+rose and came to meet him. Edward attempted to say something
+within the verge of ordinary compliment and conversation, but
+found himself unequal to the task. Flora seemed at first equally
+embarrassed, but recovered herself more speedily, and (an
+unfavourable augury for Waverley's suit) was the first to enter
+upon the subject of their last interview. 'It is too important, in
+every point of view, Mr. Waverley, to permit me to leave you in
+doubt on my sentiments.'
+
+'Do not speak them speedily,' said Waverley, much agitated,
+'unless they are such as I fear, from your manner, I must not dare
+to anticipate. Let time--let my future conduct--let your brother's
+influence--'
+
+'Forgive me, Mr. Waverley,' said Flora, her complexion a little
+heightened, but her voice firm and composed. 'I should incur my
+own heavy censure did I delay expressing my sincere conviction
+that I can never regard you otherwise than as a valued friend. I
+should do you the highest injustice did I conceal my sentiments
+for a moment. I see I distress you, and I grieve for it, but
+better now than later; and O, better a thousand times, Mr.
+Waverley, that you should feel a present momentary disappointment
+than the long and heart-sickening griefs which attend a rash and
+ill-assorted marriage!'
+
+'Good God!' exclaimed Waverley, 'why should you anticipate such
+consequences from a union where birth is equal, where fortune is
+favourable, where, if I may venture to say so, the tastes are
+similar, where you allege no preference for another, where you
+even express a favourable opinion of him whom you reject?'
+
+'Mr. Waverley, I HAVE that favourable opinion,' answered Flora;
+'and so strongly that, though I would rather have been silent on
+the grounds of my resolution, you shall command them, if you exact
+such a mark of my esteem and confidence.'
+
+She sat down upon a fragment of rock, and Waverley, placing
+himself near her, anxiously pressed for the explanation she
+offered.
+
+'I dare hardly,' she said, 'tell you the situation of my feelings,
+they are so different from those usually ascribed to young women
+at my period of life; and I dare hardly touch upon what I
+conjecture to be the nature of yours, lest I should give offence
+where I would willingly administer consolation. For myself, from
+my infancy till this day I have had but one wish--the restoration
+of my royal benefactors to their rightful throne. It is impossible
+to express to you the devotion of my feelings to this single
+subject; and I will frankly confess that it has so occupied my
+mind as to exclude every thought respecting what is called my own
+settlement in life. Let me but live to see the day of that happy
+restoration, and a Highland cottage, a French convent, or an
+English palace will be alike indifferent to me.'
+
+'But, dearest Flora, how is your enthusiastic zeal for the exiled
+family inconsistent with my happiness?'
+
+'Because you seek, or ought to seek, in the object of your
+attachment a heart whose principal delight should be in augmenting
+your domestic felicity and returning your affection, even to the
+height of romance. To a man of less keen sensibility, and less
+enthusiastic tenderness of disposition, Flora Mac-Ivor might give
+content, if not happiness; for, were the irrevocable words spoken,
+never would she be deficient in the duties which she vowed.'
+
+'And why,--why, Miss Mac-Ivor, should you think yourself a more
+valuable treasure to one who is less capable of loving, of
+admiring you, than to me?'
+
+'Simply because the tone of our affections would be more in
+unison, and because his more blunted sensibility would not require
+the return of enthusiasm which I have not to bestow. But you, Mr.
+Waverley, would for ever refer to the idea of domestic happiness
+which your imagination is capable of painting, and whatever fell
+short of that ideal representation would be construed into
+coolness and indifference, while you might consider the enthusiasm
+with which I regarded the success of the royal family as
+defrauding your affection of its due return.'
+
+'In other words, Miss Mac-Ivor, you cannot love me?' said her
+suitor dejectedly.
+
+'I could esteem you, Mr. Waverley, as much, perhaps more, than any
+man I have ever seen; but I cannot love you as you ought to be
+loved. O! do not, for your own sake, desire so hazardous an
+experiment! The woman whom you marry ought to have affections and
+opinions moulded upon yours. Her studies ought to be your studies;
+her wishes, her feelings, her hopes, her fears, should all mingle
+with yours. She should enhance your pleasures, share your sorrows,
+and cheer your melancholy.'
+
+'And why will not you, Miss Mac-Ivor, who can so well describe a
+happy union, why will not you be yourself the person you
+describe?'
+
+'Is it possible you do not yet comprehend me?' answered Flora.
+'Have I not told you that every keener sensation of my mind is
+bent exclusively towards an event upon which, indeed, I have no
+power but those of my earnest prayers?'
+
+'And might not the granting the suit I solicit,' said Waverley,
+too earnest on his purpose to consider what he was about to say,
+'even advance the interest to which you have devoted yourself? My
+family is wealthy and powerful, inclined in principles to the
+Stuart race, and should a favourable opportunity--'
+
+'A favourable opportunity!' said Flora--somewhat scornfully.
+'Inclined in principles! Can such lukewarm adherence be honourable
+to yourselves, or gratifying to your lawful sovereign? Think, from
+my present feelings, what I should suffer when I held the place of
+member in a family where the rights which I hold most sacred are
+subjected to cold discussion, and only deemed worthy of support
+when they shall appear on the point of triumphing without it!'
+
+'Your doubts,' quickly replied Waverley, 'are unjust as far as
+concerns myself. The cause that I shall assert, I dare support
+through every danger, as undauntedly as the boldest who draws
+sword in its behalf.'
+
+'Of that,' answered Flora, 'I cannot doubt for a moment. But
+consult your own good sense and reason rather than a prepossession
+hastily adopted, probably only because you have met a young woman
+possessed of the usual accomplishments in a sequestered and
+romantic situation. Let your part in this great and perilous drama
+rest upon conviction, and not on a hurried and probably a
+temporary feeling.'
+
+Waverley attempted to reply, but his words failed him. Every
+sentiment that Flora had uttered vindicated the strength of his
+attachment; for even her loyalty, although wildly enthusiastic,
+was generous and noble, and disdained to avail itself of any
+indirect means of supporting the cause to which she was devoted.
+
+After walking a little way in silence down the path, Flora thus
+resumed the conversation.--'One word more, Mr. Waverley, ere we
+bid farewell to this topic for ever; and forgive my boldness if
+that word have the air of advice. My brother Fergus is anxious
+that you should join him in his present enterprise. But do not
+consent to this; you could not, by your single exertions, further
+his success, and you would inevitably share his fall, if it be
+God's pleasure that fall he must. Your character would also suffer
+irretrievably. Let me beg you will return to your own country;
+and, having publicly freed yourself from every tie to the usurping
+government, I trust you will see cause, and find opportunity, to
+serve your injured sovereign with effect, and stand forth, as your
+loyal ancestors, at the head of your natural followers and
+adherents, a worthy representative of the house of Waverley.'
+
+'And should I be so happy as thus to distinguish myself, might I
+not hope--'
+
+'Forgive my interruption,' said Flora. 'The present time only is
+ours, and I can but explain to you with candour the feelings which
+I now entertain; how they might be altered by a train of events
+too favourable perhaps to be hoped for, it were in vain even to
+conjecture. Only be assured, Mr. Waverley, that, after my
+brother's honour and happiness, there is none which I shall more
+sincerely pray for than for yours.'
+
+With these words she parted from him, for they were now arrived
+where two paths separated. Waverley reached the castle amidst a
+medley of conflicting passions. He avoided any private interview
+with Fergus, as he did not find himself able either to encounter
+his raillery or reply to his solicitations. The wild revelry of
+the feast, for Mac-Ivor kept open table for his clan, served in
+some degree to stun reflection. When their festivity was ended, he
+began to consider how he should again meet Miss Mac-Ivor after the
+painful and interesting explanation of the morning. But Flora did
+not appear. Fergus, whose eyes flashed when he was told by
+Cathleen that her mistress designed to keep her apartment that
+evening, went himself in quest of her; but apparently his
+remonstrances were in vain, for he returned with a heightened
+complexion and manifest symptoms of displeasure. The rest of the
+evening passed on without any allusion, on the part either of
+Fergus or Waverley, to the subject which engrossed the reflections
+of the latter, and perhaps of both.
+
+When retired to his own apartment, Edward endeavoured to sum up
+the business of the day. That the repulse he had received from
+Flora would be persisted in for the present, there was no doubt.
+But could he hope for ultimate success in case circumstances
+permitted the renewal of his suit? Would the enthusiastic loyalty,
+which at this animating moment left no room for a softer passion,
+survive, at least in its engrossing force, the success or the
+failure of the present political machinations? And if so, could he
+hope that the interest which she had acknowledged him to possess
+in her favour might be improved into a warmer attachment? He taxed
+his memory to recall every word she had used, with the appropriate
+looks and gestures which had enforced them, and ended by finding
+himself in the same state of uncertainty. It was very late before
+sleep brought relief to the tumult of his mind, after the most
+painful and agitating day which he had ever passed.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVIII
+
+A LETTER FROM TULLY-VEOLAN
+
+
+In the morning, when Waverley's troubled reflections had for some
+time given way to repose, there came music to his dreams, but not
+the voice of Selma. He imagined himself transported back to Tully-
+Veolan, and that he heard Davie Gellatley singing in the court
+those matins which used generally to be the first sounds that
+disturbed his repose while a guest of the Baron of Bradwardine.
+The notes which suggested this vision continued, and waxed louder,
+until Edward awoke in earnest. The illusion, however, did not seem
+entirely dispelled. The apartment was in the fortress of lan nan
+Chaistel, but it was still the voice of Davie Gellatley that made
+the following lines resound under the window:--
+
+    My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
+    My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
+    A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe,
+    My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.
+
+[Footnote: These lines form the burden of an old song to which
+Burns wrote additional verses.]
+
+Curious to know what could have determined Mr. Gellatley on an
+excursion of such unwonted extent, Edward began to dress himself
+in all haste, during which operation the minstrelsy of Davie
+changed its tune more than once:--
+
+    There's nought in the Highlands but syboes and leeks,
+    And lang-leggit callants gaun wanting the breeks,
+    Wanting the breeks, and without hose and shoon,
+    But we'll a'win the breeks when King Jamie comes hame.
+
+[Footnote: These lines are also ancient, and I believe to the tune
+of          We'll never hae peace till Jamie comes hame, to which
+Burns likewise wrote some verses.]
+
+By the time Waverley was dressed and had issued forth, David had
+associated himself with two or three of the numerous Highland
+loungers who always graced the gates of the castle with their
+presence, and was capering and dancing full merrily in the doubles
+and full career of a Scotch foursome reel, to the music of his own
+whistling. In this double capacity of dancer and musician he
+continued, until an idle piper, who observed his zeal, obeyed the
+unanimous call of seid suas (i.e. blow up), and relieved him from
+the latter part of his trouble. Young and old then mingled in the
+dance as they could find partners. The appearance of Waverley did
+not interrupt David's exercise, though he contrived, by grinning,
+nodding, and throwing one or two inclinations of the body into the
+graces with which he performed the Highland fling, to convey to
+our hero symptoms of recognition. Then, while busily employed in
+setting, whooping all the while, and snapping his fingers over his
+head, he of a sudden prolonged his side-step until it brought him
+to the place where Edward was standing, and, still keeping time to
+the music like Harlequin in a pantomime, he thrust a letter into
+our hero's hand, and continued his saltation without pause or
+intermission. Edward, who perceived that the address was in Rose's
+hand-writing, retired to peruse it, leaving the faithful bearer to
+continue his exercise until the piper or he should be tired out.
+
+The contents of the letter greatly surprised him. It had
+originally commenced with 'Dear Sir'; but these words had been
+carefully erased, and the monosyllable 'Sir' substituted in their
+place. The rest of the contents shall be given in Rose's own
+language.
+
+I fear I am using an improper freedom by intruding upon you, yet I
+cannot trust to any one else to let you know some things which
+have happened here, with which it seems necessary you should be
+acquainted. Forgive me, if I am wrong in what I am doing; for,
+alas! Mr. Waverley, I have no better advice than that of my own
+feelings; my dear father is gone from this place, and when he can
+return to my assistance and protection, God alone knows. You have
+probably heard that, in consequence of some troublesome news from
+the Highlands, warrants were sent out for apprehending several
+gentlemen in these parts, and, among others, my dear father. In
+spite of all my tears and entreaties that he would surrender
+himself to the government, he joined with Mr. Falconer and some
+other gentlemen, and they have all gone northwards, with a body of
+about forty horsemen. So I am not so anxious concerning his
+immediate safety as about what may follow afterwards, for these
+troubles are only beginning. But all this is nothing to you, Mr.
+Waverley, only I thought you would be glad to learn that my father
+has escaped, in case you happen to have heard that he was in
+danger.
+
+The day after my father went off there came a party of soldiers to
+Tully-Veolan, and behaved very rudely to Bailie Macwheeble; but
+the officer was very civil to me, only said his duty obliged him
+to search for arms and papers. My father had provided against this
+by taking away all the arms except the old useless things which
+hung in the hall, and he had put all his papers out of the way.
+But O! Mr. Waverley, how shall I tell you, that they made strict
+inquiry after you, and asked when you had been at Tully-Veolan,
+and where you now were. The officer is gone back with his party,
+but a non-commissioned officer and four men remain as a sort of
+garrison in the house. They have hitherto behaved very well, as we
+are forced to keep them in good-humour. But these soldiers have
+hinted as if, on your falling into their hands, you would be in
+great danger; I cannot prevail on myself to write what wicked
+falsehoods they said, for I am sure they are falsehoods; but you
+will best judge what you ought to do. The party that returned
+carried off your servant prisoner, with your two horses, and
+everything that you left at Tully-Veolan. I hope God will protect
+you, and that you will get safe home to England, where you used to
+tell me there was no military violence nor fighting among clans
+permitted, but everything was done according to an equal law that
+protected all who were harmless and innocent. I hope you will
+exert your indulgence as to my boldness in writing to you, where
+it seems to me, though perhaps erroneously, that your safety and
+honour are concerned. I am sure--at least I think, my father
+would approve of my writing; for Mr. Rubrick is fled to his
+cousin's at the Duchran, to to be out of danger from the soldiers
+and the Whigs, and Bailie Macwheeble does not like to meddle (he
+says) in other men's concerns, though I hope what may serve my
+father's friend at such a time as this cannot be termed improper
+interference. Farewell, Captain Waverley! I shall probaby never
+see you more; for it would be very improper to wish you to call at
+Tully-Veolan just now, even if these men were gone; but I will
+always remember with gratitude your kindness in assisting so poor
+a scholar as myself, and your attentions to my dear, dear father.
+
+I remain, your obliged servant,
+
+ROSE COMYNE BRADWARDINE.
+
+P.S.--I hope you will send me a line by David Gellatley, just to
+say you have received this and that you will take care of
+yourself; and forgive me if I entreat you, for your own sake, to
+join none of these unhappy cabals, but escape, as fast as
+possible, to your own fortunate country. My compliments to my dear
+Flora and to Glennaquoich. Is she not as handsome and accomplished
+as I have described her?
+
+Thus concluded the letter of Rose Bradwardine, the contents of
+which both surprised and affected Waverley. That the Baron should
+fall under the suspicions of government, in consequence of the
+present stir among the partisans of the house of Stuart, seemed
+only the natural consequence of his political predilections; but
+how HE himself should have been involved in such suspicions,
+conscious that until yesterday he had been free from harbouring a
+thought against the prosperity of the reigning family, seemed
+inexplicable. Both at Tully-Veolan and Glennaquoich his hosts had
+respected his engagements with the existing government, and though
+enough passed by accidental innuendo that might induce him to
+reckon the Baron and the Chief among those disaffected gentlemen
+who were still numerous in Scotland, yet until his own connection
+with the army had been broken off by the resumption of his
+commission, he had no reason to suppose that they nourished any
+immediate or hostile attempts against the present establishment.
+Still he was aware that, unless he meant at once to embrace the
+proposal of Fergus Mac-Ivor, it would deeply concern him to leave
+the suspicious neighbourhood without delay, and repair where his
+conduct might undergo a satisfactory examination. Upon this he the
+rather determined, as Flora's advice favoured his doing so, and
+because he felt inexpressible repugnance at the idea of being
+accessary to the plague of civil war. Whatever were the original
+rights of the Stuarts, calm reflection told him that, omitting the
+question how far James the Second could forfeit those of his
+posterity, he had, according to the united voice of the whole
+nation, justly forfeited his own. Since that period four monarchs
+had reigned in peace and glory over Britain, sustaining and
+exalting the character of the nation abroad and its liberties at
+home. Reason asked, was it worth while to disturb a government so
+long settled and established, and to plunge a kingdom into all the
+miseries of civil war, for the purpose of replacing upon the
+throne the descendants of a monarch by whom it had been wilfully
+forfeited? If, on the other hand, his own final conviction of the
+goodness of their cause, or the commands of his father or uncle,
+should recommend to him allegiance to the Stuarts, still it was
+necessary to clear his own character by showing that he had not,
+as seemed to be falsely insinuated, taken any step to this purpose
+during his holding the commission of the reigning monarch,
+
+The affectionate simplicity of Rose and her anxiety for his
+safety, his sense too of her unprotected state, and of the terror
+and actual dangers to which she might be exposed, made an
+impression upon his mind, and he instantly wrote to thank her in
+the kindest terms for her solicitude on his account, to express
+his earnest good wishes for her welfare and that of her father,
+and to assure her of his own safety. The feelings which this task
+excited were speedily lost in the necessity which he now saw of
+bidding farewell to Flora Mac-Ivor, perhaps for ever. The pang
+attending this reflection was inexpressible; for her high-minded
+elevation of character, her self-devotion to the cause which she
+had embraced, united to her scrupulous rectitude as to the means
+of serving it, had vindicated to his judgment the choice adopted
+by his passions. But time pressed, calumny was busy with his fame,
+and every hour's delay increased the power to injure it. His
+departure must be instant.
+
+With this determination he sought out Fergus, and communicated to
+him the contents of Rose's letter, with his own resolution
+instantly to go to Edinburgh, and put into the hands of some one
+or other of those persons of influence to whom he had letters from
+his father his exculpation from any charge which might be
+preferred against him.
+
+'You run your head into the lion's mouth,' answered Mac-Ivor. 'You
+do not know the severity of a government harassed by just
+apprehensions, and a consciousness of their own illegality and
+insecurity. I shall have to deliver you from some dungeon in
+Stirling or Edinburgh Castle.'
+
+'My innocence, my rank, my father's intimacy with Lord M--,
+General G--, etc., will be a sufficient protection,' said
+Waverley.
+
+'You will find the contrary,' replied the Chieftain, 'these
+gentlemen will have enough to do about their own matters. Once
+more, will you take the plaid, and stay a little while with us
+among the mists and the crows, in the bravest cause ever sword was
+drawn in?'
+
+[Footnote: A Highland rhyme on Glencairn's Expedition, in 1650,
+has these lines--
+
+      We'll bide a while amang ta crows,
+      We'll wiske ta sword and bend ta bows]
+
+'For many reasons, my dear Fergus, you must hold me excused.'
+
+'Well then,' said Mac-Ivor, 'I shall certainly find you exerting
+your poetical talents in elegies upon a prison, or your
+antiquarian researches in detecting the Oggam [Footnote: The Oggam
+is a species of the old Irish character. The idea of the
+correspondence betwixt the Celtic and Punic, founded on a scene in
+Plautus, was not started till General Vallancey set up his theory,
+long after the date of Fergus Mac-Ivor] character or some Punic
+hieroglyphic upon the keystones of a vault, curiously arched. Or
+what say you to un petit pendement bien joli? against which
+awkward ceremony I don't warrant you, should you meet a body of
+the armed West-Country Whigs.'
+
+'And why should they use me so?' said Waverley.
+
+'For a hundred good reasons,' answered Fergus. 'First, you are an
+Englishman; secondly, a gentleman; thirdly, a prelatist abjured;
+and, fourthly, they have not had an opportunity to exercise their
+talents on such a subject this long while. But don't be cast down,
+beloved; all will be done in the fear of the Lord.'
+
+'Well, I must run my hazard.'
+
+'You are determined, then?'
+
+'I am.'
+
+'Wilful will do't' said Fergus. 'But you cannot go on foot, and I
+shall want no horse, as I must march on foot at the head of the
+children of Ivor; you shall have brown Dermid.'
+
+'If you will sell him, I shall certainly be much obliged.'
+
+'If your proud English heart cannot be obliged by a gift or loan,
+I will not refuse money at the entrance of a campaign: his price
+is twenty guineas. [Remember, reader, it was Sixty Years Since.]
+And when do you propose to depart?'
+
+'The sooner the better,' answered Waverley.
+
+'You are right, since go you must, or rather, since go you will. I
+will take Flora's pony and ride with you as far as Bally-Brough.
+Callum Beg, see that our horses are ready, with a pony for
+yourself, to attend and carry Mr. Waverley's baggage as far as--
+(naming a small town), where he can have a horse and guide to
+Edinburgh. Put on a Lowland dress, Callum, and see you keep your
+tongue close, if you would not have me cut it out. Mr. Waverley
+rides Dermid.' Then turning to Edward, 'You will take leave of my
+sister?'
+
+'Surely--that is, if Miss Mac-Ivor will honour me so far.'
+
+'Cathleen, let my sister know Mr. Waverley wishes to bid her
+farewell before he leaves us. But Rose Bradwardine, her situation
+must be thought of; I wish she were here. And why should she not?
+There are but four red-coats at Tully-Veolan, and their muskets
+would be very useful to us.'
+
+To these broken remarks Edward made no answer; his ear indeed
+received them, but his soul was intent upon the expected entrance
+of Flora. The door opened. It was but Cathleen, with her lady's
+excuse, and wishes for Captain Waverley's health and happiness.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIX
+
+WAVERLEY'S RECEPTION IN THE LOWLANDS AFTER HIS HIGHLAND TOUR
+
+
+It was noon when the two friends stood at the top of the pass of
+Bally-Brough. 'I must go no farther,' said Fergus Mac-Ivor, who
+during the journey had in vain endeavoured to raise his friend's
+spirits. 'If my cross-grained sister has any share in your
+dejection, trust me she thinks highly of you, though her present
+anxiety about the public cause prevents her listening to any other
+subject. Confide your interest to me; I will not betray it,
+providing you do not again assume that vile cockade.'
+
+'No fear of that, considering the manner in which it has been
+recalled. Adieu, Fergus; do not permit your sister to forget me.'
+
+'And adieu, Waverley; you may soon hear of her with a prouder
+title. Get home, write letters, and make friends as many and as
+fast as you can; there will speedily be unexpected guests on the
+coast of Suffolk, or my news from France has deceived
+me.' [Footnote: The sanguine Jacobites, during the eventful years
+1745-46, kept up the spirits of their party by the rumour of
+descents from France on behalf of the Chevalier St. George.]
+
+Thus parted the friends; Fergus returning back to his castle,
+while Edward, followed by Callum Beg, the latter transformed from
+point to point into a Low-Country groom, proceeded to the little
+town of--.
+
+Edward paced on under the painful and yet not altogether
+embittered feelings which separation and uncertainty produce in
+the mind of a youthful lover. I am not sure if the ladies
+understand the full value of the influence of absence, nor do I
+think it wise to teach it them, lest, like the Clelias and
+Mandanes of yore, they should resume the humour of sending their
+lovers into banishment. Distance, in truth, produces in idea the
+same effect as in real perspective. Objects are softened, and
+rounded, and rendered doubly graceful; the harsher and more
+ordinary points of character are mellowed down, and those by which
+it is remembered are the more striking outlines that mark
+sublimity, grace, or beauty. There are mists too in the mental as
+well as the natural horizon, to conceal what is less pleasing in
+distant objects, and there are happy lights, to stream in full
+glory upon those points which can profit by brilliant
+illumination.
+
+Waverley forgot Flora Mac-Ivor's prejudices in her magnanimity,
+and almost pardoned her indifference towards his affection when he
+recollected the grand and decisive object which seemed to fill her
+whole soul. She, whose sense of duty so wholly engrossed her in
+the cause of a benefactor, what would be her feelings in favour of
+the happy individual who should be so fortunate as to awaken them?
+Then came the doubtful question, whether he might not be that
+happy man,--a question which fancy endeavoured to answer in the
+affirmative, by conjuring up all she had said in his praise, with
+the addition of a comment much more flattering than the text
+warranted. All that was commonplace, all that belonged to the
+every-day world, was melted away and obliterated in those dreams
+of imagination, which only remembered with advantage the points of
+grace and dignity that distinguished Flora from the generality of
+her sex, not the particulars which she held in common with them.
+Edward was, in short, in the fair way of creating a goddess out of
+a high-spirited, accomplished, and beautiful young woman; and the
+time was wasted in castle-building until, at the descent of a
+steep hill, he saw beneath him the market-town of ----.
+
+The Highland politeness of Callum Beg--there are few nations, by
+the way, who can boast of so much natural politeness as the
+Highlanders [Footnote: The Highlander, in former times, had always
+a high idea of his own gentility, and was anxious to impress the
+same upon those with whom he conversed. His language abounded in
+the phrases of courtesy and compliment; and the habit of carrying
+arms, and mixing with those who did so, made it particularly
+desirable they should use cautious politeness in their intercourse
+with each other.]--the Highland civility of his attendant had not
+permitted him to disturb the reveries of our hero. But observing
+him rouse himself at the sight of the village, Callum pressed
+closer to his side, and hoped 'when they cam to the public, his
+honour wad not say nothing about Vich Ian Vohr, for ta people were
+bitter Whigs, deil burst tem.'
+
+Waverley assured the prudent page that he would be cautious; and
+as he now distinguished, not indeed the ringing of bells, but the
+tinkling of something like a hammer against the side of an old
+mossy, green, inverted porridge-pot that hung in an open booth, of
+the size and shape of a parrot's cage, erected to grace the east
+end of a building resembling an old barn, he asked Callum Beg if
+it were Sunday.
+
+'Could na say just preceesely; Sunday seldom cam aboon the pass of
+Bally-Brough.'
+
+On entering the town, however, and advancing towards the most
+apparent public-house which presented itself, the numbers of old
+women, in tartan screens and red cloaks, who streamed from the
+barn-resembling building, debating as they went the comparative
+merits of the blessed youth Jabesh Rentowel and that chosen vessel
+Maister Goukthrapple, induced Callum to assure his temporary
+master 'that it was either ta muckle Sunday hersell, or ta little
+government Sunday that they ca'd ta fast.'
+
+On alighting at the sign of the Seven-branched Golden Candlestick,
+which, for the further delectation of the guests, was graced with
+a short Hebrew motto, they were received by mine host, a tall thin
+puritanical figure, who seemed to debate with himself whether he
+ought to give shelter to those who travelled on such a day.
+Reflecting, however, in all probability, that he possessed the
+power of mulcting them for this irregularity, a penalty which they
+might escape by passing into Gregor Duncanson's, at the sign of
+the Highlander and the Hawick Gill, Mr. Ebenezer Cruickshanks
+condescended to admit them into his dwelling.
+
+To this sanctified person Waverley addressed his request that he
+would procure him a guide, with a saddle-horse, to carry his
+portmanteau to Edinburgh.
+
+'And whar may ye be coming from?' demanded mine host of the
+Candlestick.
+
+'I have told you where I wish to go; I do not conceive any further
+information necessary either for the guide or his saddle-horse.'
+
+'Hem! Ahem!' returned he of the Candlestick, somewhat disconcerted
+at this rebuff. 'It's the general fast, sir, and I cannot enter
+into ony carnal transactions on sic a day, when the people should
+be humbled and the backsliders should return, as worthy Mr.
+Goukthrapple said; and moreover when, as the precious Mr. Jabesh
+Rentowel did weel observe, the land was mourning for covenants
+burnt, broken, and buried.'
+
+'My good friend,' said Waverley, 'if you cannot let me have a
+horse and guide, my servant shall seek them elsewhere.'
+
+'Aweel! Your servant? and what for gangs he not forward wi' you
+himsell?'
+
+Waverley had but very little of a captain of horse's spirit within
+him--I mean of that sort of spirit which I have been obliged to
+when I happened, in a mail coach or diligence, to meet some
+military man who has kindly taken upon him the disciplining of the
+waiters and the taxing of reckonings. Some of this useful talent
+our hero had, however, acquired during his military service, and
+on this gross provocation it began seriously to arise. 'Look ye,
+sir; I came here for my own accommodation, and not to answer
+impertinent questions. Either say you can, or cannot, get me what
+I want; I shall pursue my course in either case.'
+
+Mr. Ebenezer Cruickshanks left the room with some indistinct
+mutterings; but whether negative or acquiescent, Edward could not
+well distinguish. The hostess, a civil, quiet, laborious drudge,
+came to take his orders for dinner, but declined to make answer on
+the subject of the horse and guide; for the Salique law, it seems,
+extended to the stables of the Golden Candlestick.
+
+From a window which overlooked the dark and narrow court in which
+Callum Beg rubbed down the horses after their journey, Waverley
+heard the following dialogue betwixt the subtle foot-page of Vich
+Ian Vohr and his landlord:--
+
+'Ye'll be frae the north, young man?' began the latter.
+
+'And ye may say that,' answered Callum.
+
+'And ye'll hae ridden a lang way the day, it may weel be?'
+
+'Sae lang, that I could weel tak a dram.'
+
+'Gudewife, bring the gill stoup.'
+
+Here some compliments passed fitting the occasion, when my host of
+the Golden Candlestick, having, as he thought, opened his guest's
+heart by this hospitable propitiation, resumed his scrutiny.
+
+'Ye'll no hae mickle better whisky than that aboon the Pass?'
+
+'I am nae frae aboon the Pass.'
+
+'Ye're a Highlandman by your tongue?'
+
+'Na; I am but just Aberdeen-a-way.'
+
+'And did your master come frae Aberdeen wi' you?'
+
+'Ay; that's when I left it mysell,' answered the cool and
+impenetrable Callum Beg.
+
+'And what kind of a gentleman is he?'
+
+'I believe he is ane o' King George's state officers; at least
+he's aye for ganging on to the south, and he has a hantle siller,
+and never grudges onything till a poor body, or in the way of a
+lawing.'
+
+'He wants a guide and a horse frae hence to Edinburgh?'
+
+'Ay, and ye maun find it him forthwith.'
+
+'Ahem! It will be chargeable.'
+
+'He cares na for that a bodle.'
+
+'Aweel, Duncan--did ye say your name was Duncan, or Donald?'
+
+'Na, man--Jamie--Jamie Steenson--I telt ye before.'
+
+This last undaunted parry altogether foiled Mr. Cruickshanks, who,
+though not quite satisfied either with the reserve of the master
+or the extreme readiness of the man, was contented to lay a tax on
+the reckoning and horse-hire that might compound for his
+ungratified curiosity. The circumstance of its being the fast day
+was not forgotten in the charge, which, on the whole, did not,
+however, amount to much more than double what in fairness it
+should have been.
+
+Callum Beg soon after announced in person the ratification of this
+treaty, adding, 'Ta auld deevil was ganging to ride wi' ta duinhe-
+wassel hersell.'
+
+'That will not be very pleasant, Callum, nor altogether safe, for
+our host seems a person of great curiosity; but a traveller must
+submit to these inconveniences. Meanwhile, my good lad, here is a
+trifle for you to drink Vich Ian Vohr's health.'
+
+The hawk's eye of Callum flashed delight upon a golden guinea,
+with which these last words were accompanied. He hastened, not
+without a curse on the intricacies of a Saxon breeches pocket, or
+spleuchan, as he called it, to deposit the treasure in his fob;
+and then, as if he conceived the benevolence called for some
+requital on his part, he gathered close up to Edward, with an
+expression of countenance peculiarly knowing, and spoke in an
+undertone, 'If his honour thought ta auld deevil Whig carle was a
+bit dangerous, she could easily provide for him, and teil ane ta
+wiser.'
+
+'How, and in what manner?'
+
+'Her ain sell,' replied Callum, 'could wait for him a wee bit frae
+the toun, and kittle his quarters wi'her skene-occle.'
+
+'Skene-occle! what's that?'
+
+Callum unbuttoned his coat, raised his left arm, and, with an
+emphatic nod, pointed to the hilt of a small dirk, snugly
+deposited under it, in the lining of his jacket. Waverley thought
+he had misunderstood his meaning; he gazed in his face, and
+discovered in Callum's very handsome though embrowned features
+just the degree of roguish malice with which a lad of the same age
+in England would have brought forward a plan for robbing an
+orchard.
+
+'Good God, Callum, would you take the man's life?'
+
+'Indeed,' answered the young desperado, 'and I think he has had
+just a lang enough lease o 't, when he's for betraying honest folk
+that come to spend siller at his public.'
+
+Edward saw nothing was to be gained by argument, and therefore
+contented himself with enjoining Callum to lay aside all practices
+against the person of Mr. Ebenezer Cruickshanks; in which
+injunction the page seemed to acquiesce with an air of great
+indifference.
+
+'Ta duinhe-wassel might please himsell; ta auld rudas loon had
+never done Callum nae ill. But here's a bit line frae ta
+Tighearna, tat he bade me gie your honour ere I came back.'
+
+The letter from the Chief contained Flora's lines on the fate of
+Captain Wogan, whose enterprising character is so well drawn by
+Clarendon. He had originally engaged in the service of the
+Parliament, but had abjured that party upon the execution of
+Charles I; and upon hearing that the royal standard was set up by
+the Earl of Glencairn and General Middleton in the Highlands of
+Scotland, took leave of Charles II, who was then at Paris, passed
+into England, assembled a body of Cavaliers in the neighbourhood
+of London, and traversed the kingdom, which had been so long under
+domination of the usurper, by marches conducted with such skill,
+dexterity, and spirit that he safely united his handful of
+horsemen with the body of Highlanders then in arms. After several
+months of desultory warfare, in which Wogan's skill and courage
+gained him the highest reputation, he had the misfortune to be
+wounded in a dangerous manner, and no surgical assistance being
+within reach he terminated his short but glorious career.
+
+There were obvious reasons why the politic Chieftain was desirous
+to place the example of this young hero under the eye of Waverley,
+with whose romantic disposition it coincided so peculiarly. But
+his letter turned chiefly upon some trifling commissions which
+Waverley had promised to execute for him in England, and it was
+only toward the conclusion that Edward found these words: 'I owe
+Flora a grudge for refusing us her company yesterday; and, as I am
+giving you the trouble of reading these lines, in order to keep in
+your memory your promise to procure me the fishing-tackle and
+cross-bow from London, I will enclose her verses on the Grave of
+Wogan. This I know will tease her; for, to tell you the truth, I
+think her more in love with the memory of that dead hero than she
+is likely to be with any living one, unless he shall tread a
+similar path. But English squires of our day keep their oak-trees
+to shelter their deer parks, or repair the losses of an evening at
+White's, and neither invoke them to wreathe their brows nor
+shelter their graves. Let me hope for one brilliant exception in a
+dear friend, to whom I would most gladly give a dearer title.'
+
+The verses were inscribed,
+
+    To an Oak Tree
+
+    In the Church-Yard of ----, in the Highlands of Scotland,
+    said to mark the Grave of Captain Wogan, killed in 1649.
+
+    Emblem of England's ancient faith,
+      Full proudly may thy branches wave,
+    Where loyalty lies low in death,
+      And valour fills a timeless grave.
+
+    And thou, brave tenant of the tomb!
+      Repine not if our clime deny,
+    Above thine honour'd sod to bloom
+      The flowerets of a milder sky.
+
+    These owe their birth to genial May;
+      Beneath a fiercer sun they pine,
+    Before the winter storm decay;
+      And can their worth be type of thine?
+
+    No! for, 'mid storms of Fate opposing,
+      Still higher swell'd thy dauntless heart,
+    And, while Despair the scene was closing,
+      Commenced thy brief but brilliant part.
+
+    'T was then thou sought'st on Albyn's hill,
+      (When England's sons the strife resign'd)
+    A rugged race resisting still,
+      And unsubdued though unrefined.
+
+    Thy death's hour heard no kindred wail,
+      No holy knell thy requiem rung;
+    Thy mourners were the plaided Gael,
+      Thy dirge the clamourous pibroch sung.
+
+    Yet who, in Fortune's summer-shine
+      To waste life's longest term away,
+    Would change that glorious dawn of thine,
+      Though darken'd ere its noontide day!
+
+    Be thine the tree whose dauntless boughs
+      Brave summer's drought and winter's gloom.
+    Rome bound with oak her patriots' brows,
+      As Albyn shadows Wogan's tomb.
+
+Whatever might be the real merit of Flora Mac-Ivor's
+poetry, the enthusiasm which it intimated was well calculated to
+make a corresponding impression upon her lover. The lines were
+read--read again, then deposited in Waverley's bosom, then again
+drawn out, and read line by line, in a low and smothered voice,
+and with frequent pauses which prolonged the mental treat, as an
+epicure protracts, by sipping slowly, the enjoyment of a delicious
+beverage. The entrance of Mrs. Cruickshanks with the sublunary
+articles of dinner and wine hardly interrupted this pantomime of
+affectionate enthusiasm.
+
+At length the tall ungainly figure and ungracious visage of
+Ebenezer presented themselves. The upper part of his form,
+notwithstanding the season required no such defence, was shrouded
+in a large great-coat, belted over his under habiliments, and
+crested with a huge cowl of the same stuff, which, when drawn over
+the head and hat, completely overshadowed both, and, being
+buttoned beneath the chin, was called a trot-cozy. His hand
+grasped a huge jockey-whip, garnished with brassmounting. His thin
+legs tenanted a pair of gambadoes, fastened at the sides with
+rusty clasps. Thus accoutred, he stalked into the midst of the
+apartment, and announced his errand in brief phrase: 'Yer horses
+are ready.'
+
+'You go with me yourself then, landlord?'
+
+'I do, as far as Perth; where ye may be supplied with a guide to
+Embro', as your occasions shall require.'
+
+Thus saying, he placed under Waverley's eye the bill which he held
+in his hand; and at the same time, self-invited, filled a glass
+of wine and drank devoutly to a blessing on their journey.
+Waverley stared at the man's impudence, but, as their connection
+was to be short and promised to be convenient, he made no
+observation upon it; and, having paid his reckoning, expressed his
+intention to depart immediately. He mounted Dermid accordingly and
+sallied forth from the Golden Candlestick, followed by the
+puritanical figure we have described, after he had, at the expense
+of some time and difficulty, and by the assistance of a 'louping-
+on-stane,' or structure of masonry erected for the traveller's
+convenience in front of the house, elevated his person to the back
+of a long-backed, raw-boned, thin-gutted phantom of a broken-down
+blood-horse, on which Waverley's portmanteau was deposited. Our
+hero, though not in a very gay humour, could hardly help laughing
+at the appearance of his new squire, and at imagining the
+astonishment which his person and equipage would have excited at
+Waverley-Honour.
+
+Edward's tendency to mirth did not escape mine host of the
+Candlestick, who, conscious of the cause, infused a double portion
+of souring into the pharisaical leaven of his countenance, and
+resolved internally that, in one way or other, the young
+'Englisher' should pay dearly for the contempt with which he
+seemed to regard him. Callum also stood at the gate and enjoyed,
+with undissembled glee, the ridiculous figure of Mr. Cruickshanks.
+As Waverley passed him he pulled off his hat respectfully, and,
+approaching his stirrup, bade him 'Tak heed the auld whig deevil
+played him nae cantrip.'
+
+Waverley once more thanked and bade him farewell, and then rode
+briskly onward, not sorry to be out of hearing of the shouts of
+the children, as they beheld old Ebenezer rise and sink in his
+stirrups to avoid the concussions occasioned by a hard trot upon a
+half-paved street. The village of--was soon several miles behind
+him.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXX
+
+SHOWS THAT THE LOSS OF A HORSE'S SHOE MAY BE A SERIOUS
+INCONVENIENCE
+
+
+The manner and air of Waverley, but, above all, the glittering
+contents of his purse, and the indifference with which he seemed
+to regard them, somewhat overawed his companion, and deterred him
+from making any attempts to enter upon conversation. His own
+reflections were moreover agitated by various surmises, and by
+plans of self-interest with which these were intimately connected.
+The travellers journeyed, therefore, in silence, until it was
+interrupted by the annunciation, on the part of the guide, that
+his 'naig had lost a fore-foot shoe, which, doubtless, his honour
+would consider it was his part to replace.'
+
+This was what lawyers call a fishing question, calculated to
+ascertain how far Waverley was disposed to submit to petty
+imposition. 'My part to replace your horse's shoe, you rascal!'
+said Waverley, mistaking the purport of the intimation.
+
+'Indubitably,' answered Mr. Cruickshanks; 'though there was no
+preceese clause to that effect, it canna be expected that I am to
+pay for the casualties whilk may befall the puir naig while in
+your honour's service. Nathless, if your honour--'
+
+'O, you mean I am to pay the farrier; but where shall we find
+one?'
+
+Rejoiced at discerning there would be no objection made on the
+part of his temporary master, Mr. Cruickshanks assured him that
+Cairnvreckan, a village which they were about to enter, was happy
+in an excellent blacksmith; 'but as he was a professor, he would
+drive a nail for no man on the Sabbath or kirk-fast, unless it
+were in a case of absolute necessity, for which he always charged
+sixpence each shoe.' The most important part of this
+communication, in the opinion of the speaker, made a very slight
+impression on the hearer, who only internally wondered what
+college this veterinary professor belonged to, not aware that the
+word was used to denote any person who pretended to uncommon
+sanctity of faith and manner.
+
+As they entered the village of Cairnvreckan, they speedily
+distinguished the smith's house. Being also a public, it was two
+stories high, and proudly reared its crest, covered with grey
+slate, above the thatched hovels by which it was surrounded. The
+adjoining smithy betokened none of the Sabbatical silence and
+repose which Ebenezer had augured from the sanctity of his friend.
+On the contrary, hammer clashed and anvil rang, the bellows
+groaned, and the whole apparatus of Vulcan appeared to be in full
+activity. Nor was the labour of a rural and pacific nature. The
+master smith, benempt, as his sign intimated, John Mucklewrath,
+with two assistants, toiled busily in arranging, repairing, and
+furbishing old muskets, pistols, and swords, which lay scattered
+around his workshop in military confusion. The open shed,
+containing the forge, was crowded with persons who came and went
+as if receiving and communicating important news, and a single
+glance at the aspect of the people who traversed the street in
+haste, or stood assembled in groups, with eyes elevated and hands
+uplifted, announced that some extraordinary intelligence was
+agitating the public mind of the municipality of Cairnvreckan.
+'There is some news,' said mine host of the Candlestick, pushing
+his lantern-jawed visage and bare-boned nag rudely forward into
+the crowd--'there is some news; and, if it please my Creator, I
+will forthwith obtain speirings thereof.'
+
+Waverley, with better regulated curiosity than his attendant's,
+dismounted and gave his horse to a boy who stood idling near. It
+arose, perhaps, from the shyness of his character in early youth,
+that he felt dislike at applying to a stranger even for casual
+information, without previously glancing at his physiognomy and
+appearance. While he looked about in order to select the person
+with whom he would most willingly hold communication, the buzz
+around saved him in some degree the trouble of interrogatories.
+The names of Lochiel, Clanronald, Glengarry, and other
+distinguished Highland Chiefs, among whom Vich Ian Vohr was
+repeatedly mentioned, were as familiar in men's mouths as
+household words; and from the alarm generally expressed, he easily
+conceived that their descent into the Lowlands, at the head of
+their armed tribes, had either already taken place or was
+instantly apprehended.
+
+Ere Waverley could ask particulars, a strong, large-boned, hard-
+featured woman, about forty, dressed as if her clothes had been
+flung on with a pitchfork, her cheeks flushed with a scarlet red
+where they were not smutted with soot and lamp-black, jostled
+through the crowd, and, brandishing high a child of two years old,
+which she danced in her arms without regard to its screams of
+terror, sang forth with all her might,--
+
+    Charlie is my darling, my darling, my darling,
+    Charlie is my darling,
+    The young Chevalier!
+
+'D' ye hear what's come ower ye now,' continued the virago, 'ye
+whingeing Whig carles? D'ye hear wha's coming to cow yer cracks?
+
+    Little wot ye wha's coming,
+    Little wot ye wha's coming,
+    A' the wild Macraws are coming.'
+
+The Vulcan of Cairnvreckan, who acknowledged his Venus in this
+exulting Bacchante, regarded her with a grim and ire-foreboding
+countenance, while some of the senators of the village hastened to
+interpose. 'Whisht, gudewife; is this a time or is this a day to
+be singing your ranting fule sangs in?--a time when the wine of
+wrath is poured out without mixture in the cup of indignation, and
+a day when the land should give testimony against popery, and
+prelacy, and quakerism, and independency, and supremacy, and
+erastianism, and antinomianism, and a' the errors of the church?'
+
+'And that's a' your Whiggery,' reechoed the Jacobite heroine;
+'that's a' your Whiggery, and your presbytery, ye cut-lugged,
+graning carles! What! d' ye think the lads wi' the kilts will care
+for yer synods and yer presbyteries, and yer buttock-mail, and yer
+stool o' repentance? Vengeance on the black face o't! mony an
+honester woman's been set upon it than streeks doon beside ony
+Whig in the country. I mysell--'
+
+Here John Mucklewrath, who dreaded her entering upon a detail of
+personal experience, interposed his matrimonial authority. 'Gae
+hame, and be d--(that I should say sae), and put on the sowens
+for supper.'
+
+'And you, ye doil'd dotard,' replied his gentle helpmate, her
+wrath, which had hitherto wandered abroad over the whole assembly,
+being at once and violently impelled into its natural channel, 'YE
+stand there hammering dog-heads for fules that will never snap
+them at a Highlandman, instead of earning bread for your family
+and shoeing this winsome young gentleman's horse that's just come
+frae the north! I'se warrant him nane of your whingeing King
+George folk, but a gallant Gordon, at the least o' him.'
+
+The eyes of the assembly were now turned upon Waverley, who took
+the opportunity to beg the smith to shoe his guide's horse with
+all speed, as he wished to proceed on his journey; for he had
+heard enough to make him sensible that there would be danger in
+delaying long in this place. The smith's eyes rested on him with a
+look of displeasure and suspicion, not lessened by the eagerness
+with which his wife enforced Waverley's mandate. 'D'ye hear what
+the weel-favoured young gentleman says, ye drunken ne'er-do-good?'
+
+'And what may your name be, sir?' quoth Mucklewrath.
+
+'It is of no consequence to you, my friend, provided I pay your
+labour.'
+
+'But it may be of consequence to the state, sir,' replied an old
+farmer, smelling strongly of whisky and peat-smoke; 'and I doubt
+we maun delay your journey till you have seen the Laird.'
+
+'You certainly,' said Waverley, haughtily, 'will find it both
+difficult and dangerous to detain me, unless you can produce some
+proper authority.'
+
+There was a pause and a whisper among the crowd--'Secretary
+Murray'--'Lord Lewis Gordon'--'Maybe the Chevalier himsell!' Such
+were the surmises that passed hurriedly among them, and there was
+obviously an increased disposition to resist Waverley's departure.
+He attempted to argue mildly with them, but his voluntary ally,
+Mrs. Mucklewrath, broke in upon and drowned his expostulations,
+taking his part with an abusive violence which was all set down to
+Edward's account by those on whom it was bestowed. 'YE'LL stop ony
+gentleman that's the Prince's freend?' for she too, though with
+other feelings, had adopted the general opinion respecting
+Waverley. 'I daur ye to touch him,' spreading abroad her long and
+muscular fingers, garnished with claws which a vulture might have
+envied. 'I'll set my ten commandments in the face o' the first
+loon that lays a finger on him.'
+
+'Gae hame, gudewife,' quoth the farmer aforesaid; 'it wad better
+set you to be nursing the gudeman's bairns than to be deaving us
+here.'
+
+'HIS bairns?' retorted the Amazon, regarding her husband with a
+grin of ineffable contempt--'HIS bairns!
+
+    O gin ye were dead, gudeman,
+      And a green turf on your head, gudeman!
+    Then I wad ware my widowhood
+      Upon a ranting Highlandman'
+
+This canticle, which excited a suppressed titter among the younger
+part of the audience, totally overcame the patience of the taunted
+man of the anvil. 'Deil be in me but I'll put this het gad down
+her throat!' cried he in an ecstasy of wrath, snatching a bar from
+the forge; and he might have executed his threat, had he not been
+withheld by a part of the mob, while the rest endeavoured to force
+the termagant out of his presence.
+
+Waverley meditated a retreat in the confusion, but his horse was
+nowhere to be seen. At length he observed at some distance his
+faithful attendant, Ebenezer, who, as soon as he had perceived the
+turn matters were likely to take, had withdrawn both horses from
+the press, and, mounted on the one and holding the other, answered
+the loud and repeated calls of Waverley for his horse. 'Na, na! if
+ye are nae friend to kirk and the king, and are detained as siccan
+a person, ye maun answer to honest men of the country for breach
+of contract; and I maun keep the naig and the walise for damage
+and expense, in respect my horse and mysell will lose to-morrow's
+day's wark, besides the afternoon preaching.'
+
+Edward, out of patience, hemmed in and hustled by the rabble on
+every side, and every moment expecting personal violence, resolved
+to try measures of intimidation, and at length drew a pocket-
+pistol, threatening, on the one hand, to shoot whomsoever dared to
+stop him, and, on the other, menacing Ebenezer with a similar doom
+if he stirred a foot with the horses. The sapient Partridge says
+that one man with a pistol is equal to a hundred unarmed, because,
+though he can shoot but one of the multitude, yet no one knows but
+that he himself may be that luckless individual. The levy en masse
+of Cairnvreckan would therefore probably have given way, nor would
+Ebenezer, whose natural paleness had waxed three shades more
+cadaverous, have ventured to dispute a mandate so enforced, had
+not the Vulcan of the village, eager to discharge upon some more
+worthy object the fury which his helpmate had provoked, and not
+ill satisfied to find such an object in Waverley, rushed at him
+with the red-hot bar of iron with such determination as made the
+discharge of his pistol an act of self-defence. The unfortunate
+man fell; and while Edward, thrilled with a natural horror at the
+incident, neither had presence of mind to unsheathe his sword nor
+to draw his remaining pistol, the populace threw themselves upon
+him, disarmed him, and were about to use him with great violence,
+when the appearance of a venerable clergyman, the pastor of the
+parish, put a curb on their fury.
+
+This worthy man (none of the Goukthrapples or Rentowels)
+maintained his character with the common people, although he
+preached the practical fruits of Christian faith as well as its
+abstract tenets, and was respected by the higher orders,
+notwithstanding he declined soothing their speculative errors by
+converting the pulpit of the gospel into a school of heathen
+morality. Perhaps it is owing to this mixture of faith and
+practice in his doctrine that, although his memory has formed a
+sort of era in the annals of Cairnvreckan, so that the
+parishioners, to denote what befell Sixty Years Since, still say
+it happened 'in good Mr. Morton's time,' I have never been able to
+discover which he belonged to, the evangelical or the moderate
+party in the kirk. Nor do I hold the circumstance of much moment,
+since, in my own remembrance, the one was headed by an Erskine,
+the other by a Robertson.
+
+[Footnote: The Reverend John Erskine, D. D, an eminent Scottish
+divine and a most excellent man, headed the Evangelical party in
+the Church of Scotland at the time when the celebrated Doctor
+Robertson, the historian, was the leader of the Moderate party.
+These two distinguished persons were colleagues in the Old Grey
+Friars' Church, Edinburgh; and, however much they differed in
+church politics, preserved the most perfect harmony as private
+friends and as clergymen serving the same cure]
+
+Mr. Morton had been alarmed by the discharge of the pistol and the
+increasing hubbub around the smithy. His first attention, after he
+had directed the bystanders to detain Waverley, but to abstain
+from injuring him, was turned to the body of Mucklewrath, over
+which his wife, in a revulsion of feeling, was weeping, howling,
+and tearing her elf-locks in a state little short of distraction.
+On raising up the smith, the first discovery was that he was
+alive; and the next that he was likely to live as long as if he
+had never heard the report of a pistol in his life. He had made a
+narrow escape, however; the bullet had grazed his head and stunned
+him for a moment or two, which trance terror and confusion of
+spirit had prolonged somewhat longer. He now arose to demand
+vengeance on the person of Waverley, and with difficulty
+acquiesced in the proposal of Mr. Morton that he should be carried
+before the Laird, as a justice of peace, and placed at his
+disposal. The rest of the assistants unanimously agreed to the
+measure recommended; even Mrs. Mucklewrath, who had begun to
+recover from her hysterics, whimpered forth, 'She wadna say
+naething against what the minister proposed; he was e'en ower gude
+for his trade, and she hoped to see him wi' a dainty decent
+bishop's gown on his back; a comelier sight than your Geneva
+cloaks and bands, I wis.'
+
+All controversy being thus laid aside, Waverley, escorted by the
+whole inhabitants of the village who were not bed-ridden, was
+conducted to the house of Cairnvreckan, which was about half a
+mile distant.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXI
+
+AN EXAMINATION
+
+
+Major Melville of Cairnvreckan, an elderly gentleman, who had
+spent his youth in the military service, received Mr. Morton with
+great kindness, and our hero with civility, which the equivocal
+circumstances wherein Edward was placed rendered constrained and
+distant.
+
+The nature of the smith's hurt was inquired into, and, as the
+actual injury was likely to prove trifling, and the circumstances
+in which it was received rendered the infliction on Edward's part
+a natural act of self-defence, the Major conceived he might
+dismiss that matter on Waverley's depositing in his hands a small
+sum for the benefit of the wounded person.
+
+'I could wish, sir,' continued the Major, 'that my duty terminated
+here; but it is necessary that we should have some further inquiry
+into the cause of your journey through the country at this
+unfortunate and distracted time.'
+
+Mr. Ebenezer Cruickshanks now stood forth, and communicated to the
+magistrate all he knew or suspected from the reserve of Waverley
+and the evasions of Callum Beg. The horse upon which Edward rode,
+he said, he knew to belong to Vich Ian Vohr, though he dared not
+tax Edward's former attendant with the fact, lest he should have
+his house and stables burnt over his head some night by that
+godless gang, the Mac-Ivors. He concluded by exaggerating his own
+services to kirk and state, as having been the means, under God
+(as he modestly qualified the assertion), of attaching this
+suspicious and formidable delinquent. He intimated hopes of future
+reward, and of instant reimbursement for loss of time, and even of
+character, by travelling on the state business on the fast-day.
+
+To this Major Melville answered, with great composure, that so far
+from claiming any merit in this affair, Mr. Cruickshanks ought to
+deprecate the imposition of a very heavy fine for neglecting to
+lodge, in terms of the recent proclamation, an account with the
+nearest magistrate of any stranger who came to his inn; that, as
+Mr. Cruickshanks boasted so much of religion and loyalty, he
+should not impute this conduct to disaffection, but only suppose
+that his zeal for kirk and state had been lulled asleep by the
+opportunity of charging a stranger with double horse-hire; that,
+however, feeling himself incompetent to decide singly upon the
+conduct of a person of such importance, he should reserve it for
+consideration of the next quarter-sessions. Now our history for
+the present saith no more of him of the Candlestick, who wended
+dolorous and malcontent back to his own dwelling.
+
+Major Melville then commanded the villagers to return to their
+homes, excepting two, who officiated as constables, and whom he
+directed to wait below. The apartment was thus cleared of every
+person but Mr. Morton, whom the Major invited to remain; a sort of
+factor, who acted as clerk; and Waverley himself. There ensued a
+painful and embarrassed pause, till Major Melville, looking upon
+Waverley with much compassion, and often consulting a paper or
+memorandum which he held in his hand, requested to know his name.
+
+'Edward Waverley.'
+
+'I thought so; late of the--dragoons, and nephew of Sir Everard
+Waverley of Waverley-Honour?'
+
+'The same.'
+
+'Young gentleman, I am extremely sorry that this painful duty has
+fallen to my lot.'
+
+'Duty, Major Melville, renders apologies superfluous.'
+
+'True, sir; permit me, therefore, to ask you how your time has
+been disposed of since you obtained leave of absence from your
+regiment, several weeks ago, until the present moment?'
+
+'My reply,' said Waverley, 'to so general a question must be
+guided by the nature of the charge which renders it necessary. I
+request to know what that charge is, and upon what authority I am
+forcibly detained to reply to it?'
+
+'The charge, Mr. Waverley, I grieve to say, is of a very high
+nature, and affects your character both as a soldier and a
+subject. In the former capacity you are charged with spreading
+mutiny and rebellion among the men you commanded, and setting them
+the example of desertion, by prolonging your own absence from the
+regiment, contrary to the express orders of your commanding
+officer. The civil crime of which you stand accused is that of
+high treason and levying war against the king, the highest
+delinquency of which a subject can be guilty.'
+
+'And by what authority am I detained to reply to such heinous
+calumnies?'
+
+'By one which you must not dispute, nor I disobey.'
+
+He handed to Waverley a warrant from the Supreme Criminal Court of
+Scotland, in full form, for apprehending and securing the person
+of Edward Waverley, Esq., suspected of treasonable practices and
+other high crimes and misdemeanours.
+
+The astonishment which Waverley expressed at this communication
+was imputed by Major Melville to conscious guilt, while Mr. Morton
+was rather disposed to construe it into the surprise of innocence
+unjustly suspected. There was something true in both conjectures;
+for although Edward's mind acquitted him of the crime with which
+he was charged, yet a hasty review of his own conduct convinced
+him he might have great difficulty in establishing his innocence
+to the satisfaction of others.
+
+'It is a very painful part of this painful business,' said Major
+Melville, after a pause, 'that, under so grave a charge, I must
+necessarily request to see such papers as you have on your
+person.'
+
+'You shall, sir, without reserve,' said Edward, throwing his
+pocket-book and memorandums upon the table; 'there is but one with
+which I could wish you would dispense.'
+
+'I am afraid, Mr. Waverley, I can indulge you with no
+reservation,'
+
+'You shall see it then, sir; and as it can be of no service, I beg
+it may be returned.'
+
+He took from his bosom the lines he had that morning received, and
+presented them with the envelope. The Major perused them in
+silence, and directed his clerk to make a copy of them. He then
+wrapped the copy in the envelope, and placing it on the table
+before him, returned the original to Waverley, with an air of
+melancholy gravity.
+
+After indulging the prisoner, for such our hero must now be
+considered, with what he thought a reasonable time for reflection,
+Major Melville resumed his examination, premising that, as Mr.
+Waverley seemed to object to general questions, his
+interrogatories should be as specific as his information
+permitted. He then proceeded in his investigation, dictating, as
+he went on, the import of the questions and answers to the
+amanuensis, by whom it was written down.
+
+'Did Mr. Waverley know one Humphry Houghton, a non-commissioned
+officer in Gardiner's dragoons?'
+
+'Certainly; he was sergeant of my troop, and son of a tenant of my
+uncle.'
+
+'Exactly--and had a considerable share of your confidence, and an
+influence among his comrades?'
+
+'I had never occasion to repose confidence in a person of his
+description,' answered Waverley. 'I favoured Sergeant Houghton as
+a clever, active young fellow, and I believe his fellow-soldiers
+respected him accordingly.'
+
+'But you used through this man,' answered Major Melville, 'to
+communicate with such of your troop as were recruited upon
+Waverley-Honour?'
+
+'Certainly; the poor fellows, finding themselves in a regiment
+chiefly composed of Scotch or Irish, looked up to me in any of
+their little distresses, and naturally made their countryman and
+sergeant their spokesman on such occasions.'
+
+'Sergeant Houghton's influence,' continued the Major, 'extended,
+then, particularly over those soldiers who followed you to the
+regiment from your uncle's estate?'
+
+'Surely; but what is that to the present purpose?'
+
+'To that I am just coming, and I beseech your candid reply. Have
+you, since leaving the regiment, held any correspondence, direct
+or indirect, with this Sergeant Houghton?'
+
+'I!--I hold correspondence with a man of his rank and situation!
+How, or for what purpose?'
+
+'That you are to explain. But did you not, for example, send to
+him for some books?'
+
+'You remind me of a trifling commission,' said Waverley, 'which I
+gave Sergeant Houghton, because my servant could not read. I do
+recollect I bade him, by letter, select some books, of which I
+sent him a list, and send them to me at Tully-Veolan.'
+
+'And of what description were those books?'
+
+'They related almost entirely to elegant literature; they were
+designed for a lady's perusal.'
+
+'Were there not, Mr. Waverley, treasonable tracts and pamphlets
+among them?'
+
+'There were some political treatises, into which I hardly looked.
+They had been sent to me by the officiousness of a kind friend,
+whose heart is more to be esteemed than his prudence or political
+sagacity; they seemed to be dull compositions.'
+
+'That friend,' continued the persevering inquirer, 'was a Mr.
+Pembroke, a nonjuring clergyman, the author of two treasonable
+works, of which the manuscripts were found among your baggage?'
+
+'But of which, I give you my honour as a gentleman,' replied
+Waverley, 'I never read six pages.'
+
+'I am not your judge, Mr. Waverley; your examination will be
+transmitted elsewhere. And now to proceed. Do you know a person
+that passes by the name of Wily Will, or Will Ruthven?'
+
+'I never heard of such a name till this moment.'
+
+'Did you never through such a person, or any other person,
+communicate with Sergeant Humphry Houghton, instigating him to
+desert, with as many of his comrades as he could seduce to join
+him, and unite with the Highlanders and other rebels now in arms
+under the command of the Young Pretender?'
+
+'I assure you I am not only entirely guiltless of the plot you
+have laid to my charge, but I detest it from the very bottom of my
+soul, nor would I be guilty of such treachery to gain a throne,
+either for myself or any other man alive.'
+
+'Yet when I consider this envelope in the handwriting of one of
+those misguided gentlemen who are now in arms against their
+country, and the verses which it enclosed, I cannot but find some
+analogy between the enterprise I have mentioned and the exploit of
+Wogan, which the writer seems to expect you should imitate.'
+
+Waverley was struck with the coincidence, but denied that the
+wishes or expectations of the letter-writer were to be regarded as
+proofs of a charge otherwise chimerical.
+
+'But, if I am rightly informed, your time was spent, during your
+absence from the regiment, between the house of this Highland
+Chieftain and that of Mr. Bradwardine of Bradwardine, also in arms
+for this unfortunate cause?'
+
+'I do not mean to disguise it; but I do deny, most resolutely,
+being privy to any of their designs against the government.'
+
+'You do not, however, I presume, intend to deny that you attended
+your host Glennaquoich to a rendezvous, where, under a pretence of
+a general hunting match, most of the accomplices of his treason
+were assembled to concert measures for taking arms?'
+
+'I acknowledge having been at such a meeting,' said Waverley; 'but
+I neither heard nor saw anything which could give it the character
+you affix to it.'
+
+'From thence you proceeded,' continued the magistrate, 'with
+Glennaquoich and a part of his clan to join the army of the Young
+Pretender, and returned, after having paid your homage to him, to
+discipline and arm the remainder, and unite them to his bands on
+their way southward?'
+
+'I never went with Glennaquoich on such an errand. I never so much
+as heard that the person whom you mention was in the country.'
+
+He then detailed the history of his misfortune at the hunting
+match, and added, that on his return he found himself suddenly
+deprived of his commission, and did not deny that he then, for the
+first time, observed symptoms which indicated a disposition in the
+Highlanders to take arms; but added that, having no inclination to
+join their cause, and no longer any reason for remaining in
+Scotland, he was now on his return to his native country, to which
+he had been summoned by those who had a right to direct his
+motions, as Major Melville would perceive from the letters on the
+table.
+
+Major Melville accordingly perused the letters of Richard
+Waverley, of Sir Everard, and of Aunt Rachel; but the inferences
+he drew from them were different from what Waverley expected. They
+held the language of discontent with government, threw out no
+obscure hints of revenge, and that of poor Aunt Rachel, which
+plainly asserted the justice of the Stuart cause, was held to
+contain the open avowal of what the others only ventured to
+insinuate.
+
+'Permit me another question, Mr. Waverley,' said Major Melville.
+'Did you not receive repeated letters from your commanding
+officer, warning you and commanding you to return to your post,
+and acquainting you with the use made of your name to spread
+discontent among your soldiers?'
+
+'I never did, Major Melville. One letter, indeed, I received from
+him, containing a civil intimation of his wish that I would employ
+my leave of absence otherwise than in constant residence at
+Bradwardine, as to which, I own, I thought he was not called on to
+interfere; and, finally, I received, on the same day on which I
+observed myself superseded in the "Gazette," a second letter from
+Colonel Gardiner, commanding me to join the regiment, an order
+which, owing to my absence, already mentioned and accounted for, I
+received too late to be obeyed. If there were any intermediate
+letters, and certainly from the Colonel's high character I think
+it probable that there were, they have never reached me.'
+
+'I have omitted, Mr. Waverley,' continued Major Melville, 'to
+inquire after a matter of less consequence, but which has
+nevertheless been publicly talked of to your disadvantage. It is
+said that a treasonable toast having been proposed in your hearing
+and presence, you, holding his Majesty's commission, suffered the
+task of resenting it to devolve upon another gentleman of the
+company. This, sir, cannot be charged against you in a court of
+justice; but if, as I am informed, the officers of your regiment
+requested an explanation of such a rumour, as a gentleman and
+soldier I cannot but be surprised that you did not afford it to
+them.'
+
+This was too much. Beset and pressed on every hand by accusations,
+in which gross falsehoods were blended with such circumstances of
+truth as could not fail to procure them credit,--alone,
+unfriended, and in a strange land, Waverley almost gave up his
+life and honour for lost, and, leaning his head upon his hand,
+resolutely refused to answer any further questions, since the fair
+and candid statement he had already made had only served to
+furnish arms against him.
+
+Without expressing either surprise or displeasure at the change in
+Waverley's manner, Major Melville proceeded composedly to put
+several other queries to him.
+
+'What does it avail me to answer you?' said Edward sullenly. 'You
+appear convinced of my guilt, and wrest every reply I have made to
+support your own preconceived opinion. Enjoy your supposed
+triumph, then, and torment me no further. If I am capable of the
+cowardice and treachery your charge burdens me with, I am not
+worthy to be believed in any reply I can make to you. If I am not
+deserving of your suspicion--and God and my own conscience bear
+evidence with me that it is so--then I do not see why I should, by
+my candour, lend my accusers arms against my innocence. There is
+no reason I should answer a word more, and I am determined to
+abide by this resolution.'
+
+And again he resumed his posture of sullen and determined silence.
+
+'Allow me,' said the magistrate, 'to remind you of one reason that
+may suggest the propriety of a candid and open confession. The
+inexperience of youth, Mr. Waverley, lays it open to the plans of
+the more designing and artful; and one of your friends at least--I
+mean Mac-Ivor of Glennaquoich--ranks high in the latter class, as,
+from your apparent ingenuousness, youth, and unacquaintance with
+the manners of the Highlands, I should be disposed to place you
+among the former. In such a case, a false step or error like
+yours, which I shall be happy to consider as involuntary, may be
+atoned for, and I would willingly act as intercessor. But, as you
+must necessarily be acquainted with the strength of the
+individuals in this country who have assumed arms, with their
+means and with their plans, I must expect you will merit this
+mediation on my part by a frank and candid avowal of all that has
+come to your knowledge upon these heads; in which case, I think I
+can venture to promise that a very short personal restraint will
+be the only ill consequence that can arise from your accession to
+these unhappy intrigues.'
+
+Waverley listened with great composure until the end of this
+exhortation, when, springing from his seat with an energy he had
+not yet displayed, he replied, 'Major Melville, since that is your
+name, I have hitherto answered your questions with candour, or
+declined them with temper, because their import concerned myself
+alone; but, as you presume to esteem me mean enough to commence
+informer against others, who received me, whatever may be their
+public misconduct, as a guest and friend, I declare to you that I
+consider your questions as an insult infinitely more offensive
+than your calumnious suspicions; and that, since my hard fortune
+permits me no other mode of resenting them than by verbal
+defiance, you should sooner have my heart out of my bosom than a
+single syllable of information on subjects which I could only
+become acquainted with in the full confidence of unsuspecting
+hospitality.'
+
+Mr. Morton and the Major looked at each other; and the former,
+who, in the course of the examination, had been repeatedly
+troubled with a sorry rheum, had recourse to his snuff-box and his
+handkerchief.
+
+'Mr. Waverley,' said the Major, 'my present situation prohibits me
+alike from giving or receiving offence, and I will not protract a
+discussion which approaches to either. I am afraid I must sign a
+warrant for detaining you in custody, but this house shall for the
+present be your prison. I fear I cannot persuade you to accept a
+share of our supper?--(Edward shook his head)--but I will order
+refreshments in your apartment.'
+
+Our hero bowed and withdrew, under guard of the officers of
+justice, to a small but handsome room, where, declining all offers
+of food or wine, he flung himself on the bed, and, stupified by
+the harassing events and mental fatigue of this miserable day, he
+sunk into a deep and heavy slumber. This was more than he himself
+could have expected; but it is mentioned of the North-American
+Indians, when at the stake of torture, that on the least
+intermission of agony they will sleep until the fire is applied to
+awaken them.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXII
+
+A CONFERENCE AND THE CONSEQUENCE
+
+
+Major Melville had detained Mr. Morton during his examination of
+Waverley, both because he thought he might derive assistance from
+his practical good sense and approved loyalty, and also because it
+was agreeable to have a witness of unimpeached candour and
+veracity to proceedings which touched the honour and safety of a
+young Englishman of high rank and family, and the expectant heir
+of a large fortune. Every step he knew would be rigorously
+canvassed, and it was his business to place the justice and
+integrity of his own conduct beyond the limits of question.
+
+When Waverley retired, the laird and clergyman of Cairnvreckan sat
+down in silence to their evening meal. While the servants were in
+attendance neither chose to say anything on the circumstances
+which occupied their minds, and neither felt it easy to speak upon
+any other. The youth and apparent frankness of Waverley stood in
+strong contrast to the shades of suspicion which darkened around
+him, and he had a sort of naivete and openness of demeanour that
+seemed to belong to one unhackneyed in the ways of intrigue, and
+which pleaded highly in his favour.
+
+Each mused over the particulars of the examination, and each
+viewed it through the medium of his own feelings. Both were men of
+ready and acute talent, and both were equally competent to combine
+various parts of evidence, and to deduce from them the necessary
+conclusions. But the wide difference of their habits and education
+often occasioned a great discrepancy in their respective
+deductions from admitted premises.
+
+Major Melville had been versed in camps and cities; he was
+vigilant by profession and cautious from experience, had met with
+much evil in the world, and therefore, though himself an upright
+magistrate and an honourable man, his opinions of others were
+always strict, and sometimes unjustly severe. Mr. Morton, on the
+contrary, had passed from the literary pursuits of a college,
+where he was beloved by his companions and respected by his
+teachers, to the ease and simplicity of his present charge, where
+his opportunities of witnessing evil were few, and never dwelt
+upon but in order to encourage repentance and amendment; and where
+the love and respect of his parishioners repaid his affectionate
+zeal in their behalf by endeavouring to disguise from him what
+they knew would give him the most acute pain, namely, their own
+occasional transgressions of the duties which it was the business
+of his life to recommend. Thus it was a common saying in the
+neighbourhood (though both were popular characters), that the
+laird knew only the ill in the parish and the minister only the
+good.
+
+A love of letters, though kept in subordination to his clerical
+studies and duties, also distinguished the pastor of Cairnvreckan,
+and had tinged his mind in earlier days with a slight feeling of
+romance, which no after incidents of real life had entirely
+dissipated. The early loss of an amiable young woman whom he had
+married for love, and who was quickly followed to the grave by an
+only child, had also served, even after the lapse of many years,
+to soften a disposition naturally mild and contemplative. His
+feelings on the present occasion were therefore likely to differ
+from those of the severe disciplinarian, strict magistrate, and
+distrustful man of the world.
+
+When the servants had withdrawn, the silence of both parties
+continued, until Major Melville, filling his glass and pushing the
+bottle to Mr. Morton, commenced--
+
+'A distressing affair this, Mr. Morton. I fear this youngster has
+brought himself within the compass of a halter.'
+
+'God forbid!' answered the clergyman.
+
+'Marry, and amen,' said the temporal magistrate; 'but I think even
+your merciful logic will hardly deny the conclusion.'
+
+'Surely, Major,' answered the clergyman, 'I should hope it might
+be averted, for aught we have heard tonight?'
+
+'Indeed!' replied Melville. 'But, my good parson, you are one of
+those who would communicate to every criminal the benefit of
+clergy.'
+
+'Unquestionably I would. Mercy and long-suffering are the grounds
+of the doctrine I am called to teach.'
+
+'True, religiously speaking; but mercy to a criminal may be gross
+injustice to the community. I don't speak of this young fellow in
+particular, who I heartily wish may be able to clear himself, for
+I like both his modesty and his spirit. But I fear he has rushed
+upon his fate.'
+
+'And why? Hundreds of misguided gentlemen are now in arms against
+the government, many, doubtless, upon principles which education
+and early prejudice have gilded with the names of patriotism and
+heroism; Justice, when she selects her victims from such a
+multitude (for surely all will not be destroyed), must regard the
+moral motive. He whom ambition or hope of personal advantage has
+led to disturb the peace of a well-ordered government, let him
+fall a victim to the laws; but surely youth, misled by the wild
+visions of chivalry and imaginary loyalty, may plead for pardon.'
+
+'If visionary chivalry and imaginary loyalty come within the
+predicament of high treason,' replied the magistrate, 'I know no
+court in Christendom, my dear Mr. Morton, where they can sue out
+their Habeas Corpus.'
+
+'But I cannot see that this youth's guilt is at all established to
+my satisfaction,' said the clergyman.
+
+'Because your good-nature blinds your good sense,' replied Major
+Melville. 'Observe now: This young man, descended of a family of
+hereditary Jacobites, his uncle the leader of the Tory interest in
+the county of ----, his father a disobliged and discontented
+courtier, his tutor a nonjuror and the author of two treasonable
+volumes--this youth, I say, enters into Gardiner's dragoons,
+bringing with him a body of young fellows from his uncle's estate,
+who have not stickled at avowing in their way the High-Church
+principles they learned at Waverley-Honour, in their disputes with
+their comrades. To these young men Waverley is unusually
+attentive; they are supplied with money beyond a soldier's wants
+and inconsistent with his discipline; and are under the management
+of a favourite sergeant, through whom they hold an unusually close
+communication with their captain, and affect to consider
+themselves as independent of the other officers, and superior to
+their comrades.'
+
+'All this, my dear Major, is the natural consequence of their
+attachment to their young landlord, and of their finding
+themselves in a regiment levied chiefly in the north of Ireland
+and the west of Scotland, and of course among comrades disposed to
+quarrel with them, both as Englishmen and as members of the Church
+of England.'
+
+'Well said, parson!' replied the magistrate. 'I would some of your
+synod heard you. But let me go on. This young man obtains leave of
+absence, goes to Tully-Veolan--the principles of the Baron of
+Bradwardine are pretty well known, not to mention that this lad's
+uncle brought him off in the year fifteen; he engages there in a
+brawl, in which he is said to have disgraced the commission he
+bore; Colonel Gardiner writes to him, first mildly, then more
+sharply--I think you will not doubt his having done so, since he
+says so; the mess invite him to explain the quarrel in which he is
+said to have been involved; he neither replies to his commander
+nor his comrades. In the meanwhile his soldiers become mutinous
+and disorderly, and at length, when the rumour of this unhappy
+rebellion becomes general, his favourite Sergeant Houghton and
+another fellow are detected in correspondence with a French
+emissary, accredited, as he says, by Captain Waverley, who urges
+him, according to the men's confession, to desert with the troop
+and join their captain, who was with Prince Charles. In the
+meanwhile this trusty captain is, by his own admission, residing
+at Glennaquoich with the most active, subtle, and desperate
+Jacobite in Scotland; he goes with him at least as far as their
+famous hunting rendezvous, and I fear a little farther. Meanwhile
+two other summonses are sent him; one warning him of the
+disturbances in his troop, another peremptorily ordering him to
+repair to the regiment, which, indeed, common sense might have
+dictated, when he observed rebellion thickening all round him. He
+returns an absolute refusal, and throws up his commission.'
+
+'He had been already deprived of it,' said Mr. Morton.
+
+'But he regrets,' replied Melville, 'that the measure had
+anticipated his resignation. His baggage is seized at his quarters
+and at Tully-Veolan, and is found to contain a stock of pestilent
+Jacobitical pamphlets, enough to poison a whole country, besides
+the unprinted lucubrations of his worthy friend and tutor Mr.
+Pembroke.'
+
+'He says he never read them,' answered the minister.
+
+'In an ordinary case I should believe him,' replied the
+magistrate, 'for they are as stupid and pedantic in composition as
+mischievous in their tenets. But can you suppose anything but
+value for the principles they maintain would induce a young man of
+his age to lug such trash about with him? Then, when news arrive
+of the approach of the rebels, he sets out in a sort of disguise,
+refusing to tell his name; and, if yon old fanatic tell truth,
+attended by a very suspicious character, and mounted on a horse
+known to have belonged to Glennaquoich, and bearing on his person
+letters from his family expressing high rancour against the house
+of Brunswick, and a copy of verses in praise of one Wogan, who
+abjured the service of the Parliament to join the Highland
+insurgents, when in arms to restore the house of Stuart, with a
+body of English cavalry--the very counterpart of his own plot--and
+summed up with a "Go thou and do likewise" from that loyal
+subject, and most safe and peaceable character, Fergus Mac-Ivor of
+Glennaquoich, Vich Ian Vohr, and so forth. And, lastly,' continued
+Major Melville, warming in the detail of his arguments, 'where do
+we find this second edition of Cavalier Wogan? Why, truly, in the
+very track most proper for execution of his design, and pistolling
+the first of the king's subjects who ventures to question his
+intentions.'
+
+Mr. Morton prudently abstained from argument, which he perceived
+would only harden the magistrate in his opinion, and merely asked
+how he intended to dispose of the prisoner?
+
+'It is a question of some difficulty, considering the state of the
+country,' said Major Melville.
+
+'Could you not detain him (being such a gentleman-like young man)
+here in your own house, out of harm's way, till this storm blow
+over?'
+
+'My good friend,' said Major Melville, 'neither your house nor
+mine will be long out of harm's way, even were it legal to confine
+him here. I have just learned that the commander-in-chief, who
+marched into the Highlands to seek out and disperse the
+insurgents, has declined giving them battle at Coryarrick, and
+marched on northward with all the disposable force of government
+to Inverness, John-o'-Groat's House, or the devil, for what I
+know, leaving the road to the Low Country open and undefended to
+the Highland army.'
+
+'Good God!' said the clergyman. 'Is the man a coward, a traitor,
+or an idiot?'
+
+'None of the three, I believe,' answered Melville. 'Sir John has
+the commonplace courage of a common soldier, is honest enough,
+does what he is commanded, and understands what is told him, but
+is as fit to act for himself in circumstances of importance as I,
+my dear parson, to occupy your pulpit.'
+
+This important public intelligence naturally diverted the
+discourse from Waverley for some time; at length, however, the
+subject was resumed.
+
+'I believe,' said Major Melville, 'that I must give this young man
+in charge to some of the detached parties of armed volunteers who
+were lately sent out to overawe the disaffected districts. They
+are now recalled towards Stirling, and a small body comes this way
+to-morrow or next day, commanded by the westland man--what's his
+name? You saw him, and said he was the very model of one of
+Cromwell's military saints.'
+
+'Gilfillan, the Cameronian,' answered Mr. Morton. 'I wish the
+young gentleman may be safe with him. Strange things are done in
+the heat and hurry of minds in so agitating a crisis, and I fear
+Gilfillan is of a sect which has suffered persecution without
+learning mercy.'
+
+'He has only to lodge Mr. Waverley in Stirling Castle,' said the
+Major; 'I will give strict injunctions to treat him well. I really
+cannot devise any better mode for securing him, and I fancy you
+would hardly advise me to encounter the responsibility of setting
+him at liberty.'
+
+'But you will have no objection to my seeing him tomorrow in
+private?' said the minister.
+
+'None, certainly; your loyalty and character are my warrant. But
+with what view do you make the request?'
+
+'Simply,' replied Mr. Morton, 'to make the experiment whether he
+may not be brought to communicate to me some circumstances which
+may hereafter be useful to alleviate, if not to exculpate, his
+conduct.'
+
+The friends now parted and retired to rest, each filled with the
+most anxious reflections on the state of the country.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXIII
+
+A CONFIDANT
+
+
+Waverley awoke in the morning from troubled dreams and
+unrefreshing slumbers to a full consciousness of the horrors of
+his situation. How it might terminate he knew not. He might be
+delivered up to military law, which, in the midst of civil war,
+was not likely to be scrupulous in the choice of its victims or
+the quality of the evidence. Nor did he feel much more comfortable
+at the thoughts of a trial before a Scottish court of justice,
+where he knew the laws and forms differed in many respects from
+those of England, and had been taught to believe, however
+erroneously, that the liberty and rights of the subject were less
+carefully protected. A sentiment of bitterness rose in his mind
+against the government, which he considered as the cause of his
+embarrassment and peril, and he cursed internally his scrupulous
+rejection of Mac-Ivor's invitation to accompany him to the field.
+
+'Why did not I,' he said to himself, 'like other men of honour,
+take the earliest opportunity to welcome to Britain the descendant
+of her ancient kings and lineal heir of her throne? Why did not I--
+
+    Unthread the rude eye of rebellion,
+    And welcome home again discarded faith,
+    Seek out Prince Charles, and fall before his feet?
+
+All that has been recorded of excellence and worth in the house of
+Waverley has been founded upon their loyal faith to the house of
+Stuart. From the interpretation which this Scotch magistrate has
+put upon the letters of my uncle and father, it is plain that I
+ought to have understood them as marshalling me to the course of
+my ancestors; and it has been my gross dulness, joined to the
+obscurity of expression which they adopted for the sake of
+security, that has confounded my judgment. Had I yielded to the
+first generous impulse of indignation when I learned that my
+honour was practised upon, how different had been my present
+situation! I had then been free and in arms fighting, like my
+forefathers, for love, for loyalty, and for fame. And now I am
+here, netted and in the toils, at the disposal of a suspicious,
+stern, and cold-hearted man, perhaps to be turned over to the
+solitude of a dungeon or the infamy of a public execution. O,
+Fergus! how true has your prophecy proved; and how speedy, how
+very speedy, has been its accomplishment!'
+
+While Edward was ruminating on these painful subjects of
+contemplation, and very naturally, though not quite so justly,
+bestowing upon the reigning dynasty that blame which was due to
+chance, or, in part at least, to his own unreflecting conduct, Mr.
+Morton availed himself of Major Melville's permission to pay him
+an early visit.
+
+Waverley's first impulse was to intimate a desire that he might
+not be disturbed with questions or conversation; but he suppressed
+it upon observing the benevolent and reverend appearance of the
+clergyman who had rescued him from the immediate violence of the
+villagers.
+
+'I believe, sir,' said the unfortunate young man,'that in any
+other circumstances I should have had as much gratitude to express
+to you as the safety of my life may be worth; but such is the
+present tumult of my mind, and such is my anticipation of what I
+am yet likely to endure, that I can hardly offer you thanks for
+your interposition.'
+
+Mr. Morton replied, that, far from making any claim upon his good
+opinion, his only wish and the sole purpose of his visit was to
+find out the means of deserving it. 'My excellent friend, Major
+Melville,' he continued, 'has feelings and duties as a soldier and
+public functionary by which I am not fettered; nor can I always
+coincide in opinions which he forms, perhaps with too little
+allowance for the imperfections of human nature.' He paused and
+then proceeded: 'I do not intrude myself on your confidence, Mr.
+Waverley, for the purpose of learning any circumstances the
+knowledge of which can be prejudicial either to yourself or to
+others; but I own my earnest wish is that you would intrust me
+with any particulars which could lead to your exculpation. I can
+solemnly assure you they will be deposited with a faithful and, to
+the extent of his limited powers, a zealous agent.'
+
+'You are, sir, I presume, a Presbyterian clergyman?' Mr. Morton
+bowed. 'Were I to be guided by the prepossessions of education, I
+might distrust your friendly professions in my case; but I have
+observed that similar prejudices are nourished in this country
+against your professional brethren of the Episcopal persuasion,
+and I am willing to believe them equally unfounded in both cases.'
+
+'Evil to him that thinks otherwise,' said Mr. Morton; 'or who
+holds church government and ceremonies as the exclusive gage of
+Christian faith or moral virtue.'
+
+'But,' continued Waverley, 'I cannot perceive why I should trouble
+you with a detail of particulars, out of which, after revolving
+them as carefully as possible in my recollection, I find myself
+unable to explain much of what is charged against me. I know,
+indeed, that I am innocent, but I hardly see how I can hope to
+prove myself so.'
+
+'It is for that very reason, Mr. Waverley,' said the clergyman,
+'that I venture to solicit your confidence. My knowledge of
+individuals in this country is pretty general, and can upon
+occasion be extended. Your situation will, I fear, preclude your
+taking those active steps for recovering intelligence or tracing
+imposture which I would willingly undertake in your behalf; and if
+you are not benefited by my exertions, at least they cannot be
+prejudicial to you.'
+
+Waverley, after a few minutes' reflection, was convinced that his
+reposing confidence in Mr. Morton, so far as he himself was
+concerned, could hurt neither Mr. Bradwardine nor Fergus Mac-Ivor,
+both of whom had openly assumed arms against the government, and
+that it might possibly, if the professions of his new friend
+corresponded in sincerity with the earnestness of his expression,
+be of some service to himself. He therefore ran briefly over most
+of the events with which the reader is already acquainted,
+suppressing his attachment to Flora, and indeed neither mentioning
+her nor Rose Bradwardine in the course of his narrative.
+
+Mr. Morton seemed particularly struck with the account of
+Waverley's visit to Donald Bean Lean. 'I am glad,' he said, 'you
+did not mention this circumstance to the Major. It is capable of
+great misconstruction on the part of those who do not consider the
+power of curiosity and the influence of romance as motives of
+youthful conduct. When I was a young man like you, Mr. Waverley,
+any such hair-brained expedition (I beg your pardon for the
+expression) would have had inexpressible charms for me. But there
+are men in the world who will not believe that danger and fatigue
+are often incurred without any very adequate cause, and therefore
+who are sometimes led to assign motives of action entirely foreign
+to the truth. This man Bean Lean is renowned through the country
+as a sort of Robin Hood, and the stories which are told of his
+address and enterprise are the common tales of the winter
+fireside. He certainly possesses talents beyond the rude sphere in
+which he moves; and, being neither destitute of ambition nor
+encumbered with scruples, he will probably attempt, by every
+means, to distinguish himself during the period of these unhappy
+commotions.' Mr. Morton then made a careful memorandum of the
+various particulars of Waverley's interview with Donald Bean Lean
+and the other circumstances which he had communicated.
+
+The interest which this good man seemed to take in his
+misfortunes, above all, the full confidence he appeared to repose
+in his innocence, had the natural effect of softening Edward's
+heart, whom the coldness of Major Melville had taught to believe
+that the world was leagued to oppress him. He shook Mr. Morton
+warmly by the hand, and, assuring him that his kindness and
+sympathy had relieved his mind of a heavy load, told him that,
+whatever might be his own fate, he belonged to a family who had
+both gratitude and the power of displaying it. The earnestness of
+his thanks called drops to the eyes of the worthy clergyman, who
+was doubly interested in the cause for which he had volunteered
+his services, by observing the genuine and undissembled feelings
+of his young friend.
+
+Edward now inquired if Mr. Morton knew what was likely to be his
+destination.
+
+'Stirling Castle,' replied his friend; 'and so far I am well
+pleased for your sake, for the governor is a man of honour and
+humanity. But I am more doubtful of your treatment upon the road;
+Major Melville is involuntarily obliged to intrust the custody of
+your person to another.'
+
+'I am glad of it,' answered Waverley. 'I detest that cold-blooded
+calculating Scotch magistrate. I hope he and I shall never meet
+more. He had neither sympathy with my innocence nor with my
+wretchedness; and the petrifying accuracy with which he attended
+to every form of civility, while he tortured me by his questions,
+his suspicions, and his inferences, was as tormenting as the racks
+of the Inquisition. Do not vindicate him, my dear sir, for that I
+cannot bear with patience; tell me rather who is to have the
+charge of so important a state prisoner as I am.'
+
+'I believe a person called Gilfillan, one of the sect who are
+termed Cameronians.'
+
+'I never heard of them before.'
+
+'They claim,' said the clergyman, 'to represent the more strict
+and severe Presbyterians, who, in Charles Second's and James
+Second's days, refused to profit by the Toleration, or Indulgence,
+as it was called, which was extended to others of that religion.
+They held conventicles in the open fields, and, being treated with
+great violence and cruelty by the Scottish government, more than
+once took arms during those reigns. They take their name from
+their leader, Richard Cameron.'
+
+'I recollect,' said Waverley; 'but did not the triumph of
+Presbytery at the Revolution extinguish that sect?'
+
+'By no means,' replied Morton; 'that great event fell yet far
+short of what they proposed, which was nothing less than the
+complete establishment of the Presbyterian Church upon the grounds
+of the old Solemn League and Covenant. Indeed, I believe they
+scarce knew what they wanted; but being a numerous body of men,
+and not unacquainted with the use of arms, they kept themselves
+together as a separate party in the state, and at the time of the
+Union had nearly formed a most unnatural league with their old
+enemies the Jacobites to oppose that important national measure.
+Since that time their numbers have gradually diminished; but a
+good many are still to be found in the western counties, and
+several, with a better temper than in 1707, have now taken arms
+for government. This person, whom they call Gifted Gilfillan, has
+been long a leader among them, and now heads a small party, which
+will pass here to-day or to-morrow on their march towards
+Stirling, under whose escort Major Melville proposes you shall
+travel. I would willingly speak to Gilfillan in your behalf; but,
+having deeply imbibed all the prejudices of his sect, and being of
+the same fierce disposition, he would pay little regard to the
+remonstrances of an Erastian divine, as he would politely term me.
+And now, farewell, my young friend; for the present I must not
+weary out the Major's indulgence, that I may obtain his permission
+to visit you again in the course of the day.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXIV
+
+THINGS MEND A LITTLE
+
+
+About noon Mr. Morton returned and brought an invitation from
+Major Melville that Mr. Waverley would honour him with his company
+to dinner, notwithstanding the unpleasant affair which detained
+him at Cairnvreckan, from which he should heartily rejoice to see
+Mr. Waverley completely extricated. The truth was that Mr.
+Morton's favourable report and opinion had somewhat staggered the
+preconceptions of the old soldier concerning Edward's supposed
+accession to the mutiny in the regiment; and in the unfortunate
+state of the country the mere suspicion of disaffection or an
+inclination to join the insurgent Jacobites might infer
+criminality indeed, but certainly not dishonour. Besides, a person
+whom the Major trusted had reported to him (though, as it proved,
+inaccurately) a contradiction of the agitating news of the
+preceding evening. According to this second edition of the
+intelligence, the Highlanders had withdrawn from the Lowland
+frontier with the purpose of following the army in their march to
+Inverness. The Major was at a loss, indeed, to reconcile his
+information with the well-known abilities of some of the gentlemen
+in the Highland army, yet it was the course which was likely to be
+most agreeable to others. He remembered the same policy had
+detained them in the north in the year 1715, and he anticipated a
+similar termination to the insurrection as upon that occasion.
+
+This news put him in such good-humour that he readily acquiesced
+in Mr. Morton's proposal to pay some hospitable attention to his
+unfortunate guest, and voluntarily added, he hoped the whole
+affair would prove a youthful escapade, which might be easily
+atoned by a short confinement. The kind mediator had some trouble
+to prevail on his young friend to accept the invitation. He dared
+not urge to him the real motive, which was a good-natured wish to
+secure a favourable report of Waverley's case from Major Melville
+to Governor Blakeney. He remarked, from the flashes of our hero's
+spirit, that touching upon this topic would be sure to defeat his
+purpose. He therefore pleaded that the invitation argued the
+Major's disbelief of any part of the accusation which was
+inconsistent with Waverley's conduct as a soldier and a man of
+honour, and that to decline his courtesy might be interpreted into
+a consciousness that it was unmerited. In short, he so far
+satisfied Edward that the manly and proper course was to meet the
+Major on easy terms that, suppressing his strong dislike again to
+encounter his cold and punctilious civility, Waverley agreed to be
+guided by his new friend.
+
+The meeting at first was stiff and formal enough. But Edward,
+having accepted the invitation, and his mind being really soothed
+and relieved by the kindness of Morton, held himself bound to
+behave with ease, though he could not affect cordiality. The Major
+was somewhat of a bon vivant, and his wine was excellent. He told
+his old campaign stories, and displayed much knowledge of men and
+manners. Mr. Morton had an internal fund of placid and quiet
+gaiety, which seldom failed to enliven any small party in which he
+found himself pleasantly seated. Waverley, whose life was a dream,
+gave ready way to the predominating impulse and became the most
+lively of the party. He had at all times remarkable natural powers
+of conversation, though easily silenced by discouragement. On the
+present occasion he piqued himself upon leaving on the minds of
+his companions a favourable impression of one who, under such
+disastrous circumstances, could sustain his misfortunes with ease
+and gaiety. His spirits, though not unyielding, were abundantly
+elastic, and soon seconded his efforts. The trio were engaged in
+very lively discourse, apparently delighted with each other, and
+the kind host was pressing a third bottle of Burgundy, when the
+sound of a drum was heard at some distance. The Major, who, in the
+glee of an old soldier, had forgot the duties of a magistrate,
+cursed, with a muttered military oath, the circumstances which
+recalled him to his official functions. He rose and went towards
+the window, which commanded a very near view of the highroad, and
+he was followed by his guests.
+
+The drum advanced, beating no measured martial tune, but a kind of
+rub-a-dub-dub, like that with which the fire-drum startles the
+slumbering artizans of a Scotch burgh. It is the object of this
+history to do justice to all men; I must therefore record, in
+justice to the drummer, that he protested he could beat any known
+march or point of war known in the British army, and had
+accordingly commenced with 'Dumbarton's Drums,' when he was
+silenced by Gifted Gilfillan, the commander of the party, who
+refused to permit his followers to move to this profane, and even,
+as he said, persecutive tune, and commanded the drummer to beat
+the 119th Psalm. As this was beyond the capacity of the drubber of
+sheepskin, he was fain to have recourse to the inoffensive row-de-
+dow as a harmless substitute for the sacred music which his
+instrument or skill were unable to achieve. This may be held a
+trifling anecdote, but the drummer in question was no less than
+town-drummer of Anderton. I remember his successor in office, a
+member of that enlightened body, the British Convention. Be his
+memory, therefore, treated with due respect.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXV
+
+A VOLUNTEER SIXTY YEARS SINCE
+
+
+On hearing the unwelcome sound of the drum, Major Melville hastily
+opened a sashed door and stepped out upon a sort of terrace which
+divided his house from the highroad from which the martial music
+proceeded. Waverley and his new friend followed him, though
+probably he would have dispensed with their attendance. They soon
+recognised in solemn march, first, the performer upon the drum;
+secondly, a large flag of four compartments, on which were
+inscribed the words, COVENANT, KIRK, KING, KINGDOMS. The person
+who was honoured with this charge was followed by the commander of
+the party, a thin, dark, rigid-looking man, about sixty years old.
+The spiritual pride, which in mine host of the Candlestick mantled
+in a sort of supercilious hypocrisy, was in this man's face
+elevated and yet darkened by genuine and undoubting fanaticism. It
+was impossible to behold him without imagination placing him in
+some strange crisis, where religious zeal was the ruling
+principle. A martyr at the stake, a soldier in the field, a lonely
+and banished wanderer consoled by the intensity and supposed
+purity of his faith under every earthly privation, perhaps a
+persecuting inquisitor, as terrific in power as unyielding in
+adversity; any of these seemed congenial characters to this
+personage. With these high traits of energy, there was something
+in the affected precision and solemnity of his deportment and
+discourse that bordered upon the ludicrous; so that, according to
+the mood of the spectator's mind and the light under which Mr.
+Gilfillan presented himself, one might have feared, admired, or
+laughed at him. His dress was that of a West-Country peasant, of
+better materials indeed than that of the lower rank, but in no
+respect affecting either the mode of the age or of the Scottish
+gentry at any period. His arms were a broadsword and pistols,
+which, from the antiquity of their appearance, might have seen the
+rout of Pentland or Bothwell Brigg.
+
+As he came up a few steps to meet Major Melville, and touched
+solemnly, but slightly, his huge and over-brimmed blue bonnet, in
+answer to the Major, who had courteously raised a small triangular
+gold-laced hat, Waverley was irresistibly impressed with the idea
+that he beheld a leader of the Roundheads of yore in conference
+with one of Marlborough's captains.
+
+The group of about thirty armed men who followed this gifted
+commander was of a motley description. They were in ordinary
+Lowland dresses, of different colours, which, contrasted with the
+arms they bore, gave them an irregular and mobbish appearance; so
+much is the eye accustomed to connect uniformity of dress with the
+military character. In front were a few who apparently partook of
+their leader's enthusiasm, men obviously to be feared in a combat,
+where their natural courage was exalted by religious zeal. Others
+puffed and strutted, filled with the importance of carrying arms
+and all the novelty of their situation, while the rest, apparently
+fatigued with their march, dragged their limbs listlessly along,
+or straggled from their companions to procure such refreshments as
+the neighbouring cottages and alehouses afforded. Six grenadiers
+of Ligonier's, thought the Major to himself, as his mind reverted
+to his own military experience, would have sent all these fellows
+to the right about.
+
+Greeting, however, Mr. Gilfillan civilly, he requested to know if
+he had received the letter he had sent to him upon his march, and
+could undertake the charge of the state prisoner whom he there
+mentioned as far as Stirling Castle. 'Yea,' was the concise reply
+of the Cameronian leader, in a voice which seemed to issue from
+the very penetralia of his person.
+
+'But your escort, Mr. Gilfillan, is not so strong as I expected,'
+said Major Melville.
+
+'Some of the people,' replied Gilfillan, 'hungered and were
+athirst by the way, and tarried until their poor souls were
+refreshed with the word.'
+
+'I am sorry, sir,' replied the Major, 'you did not trust to your
+refreshing your men at Cairnvreckan; whatever my house contains is
+at the command of persons employed in the service.'
+
+'It was not of creature-comforts I spake,' answered the
+Covenanter, regarding Major Melville with something like a smile
+of contempt; 'howbeit, I thank you; but the people remained
+waiting upon the precious Mr. Jabesh Rentowel for the out-pouring
+of the afternoon exhortation.'
+
+'And have you, sir,' said the Major, 'when the rebels are about to
+spread themselves through this country, actually left a great part
+of your command at a fieldpreaching?'
+
+Gilfillan again smiled scornfully as he made this indirect answer
+--'Even thus are the children of this world wiser in their
+generation than the children of light!'
+
+'However, sir,' said the Major, 'as you are to take charge of this
+gentleman to Stirling, and deliver him, with these papers, into
+the hands of Governor Blakeney, I beseech you to observe some
+rules of military discipline upon your march. For example, I would
+advise you to keep your men more closely together, and that each
+in his march should cover his file-leader, instead of straggling
+like geese upon a common; and, for fear of surprise, I further
+recommend to you to form a small advance-party of your best men,
+with a single vidette in front of the whole march, so that when
+you approach a village or a wood'--(here the Major interrupted
+himself)--'But as I don't observe you listen to me, Mr.
+Gilfillan, I suppose I need not give myself the trouble to say
+more upon the subject. You are a better judge, unquestionably,
+than I am of the measures to be pursued; but one thing I would
+have you well aware of, that you are to treat this gentleman, your
+prisoner, with no rigour nor incivility, and are to subject him to
+no other restraint than is necessary for his security.'
+
+'I have looked into my commission,' said Mr. Gilfillan,'
+subscribed by a worthy and professing nobleman, William, Earl of
+Glencairn; nor do I find it therein set down that I am to receive
+any charges or commands anent my doings from Major William
+Melville of Cairnvreckan.'
+
+Major Melville reddened even to the well-powdered ears which
+appeared beneath his neat military sidecurls, the more so as he
+observed Mr. Morton smile at the same moment. 'Mr. Gilfillan,' he
+answered, with some asperity, 'I beg ten thousand pardons for
+interfering with a person of your importance. I thought, however,
+that as you have been bred a grazier, if I mistake not, there
+might be occasion to remind you of the difference between
+Highlanders and Highland cattle; and if you should happen to meet
+with any gentleman who has seen service, and is disposed to speak
+upon the subject, I should still imagine that listening to him
+would do you no sort of harm. But I have done, and have only once
+more to recommend this gentleman to your civility as well as to
+your custody. Mr. Waverley, I am truly sorry we should part in
+this way; but I trust, when you are again in this country, I may
+have an opportunity to render Cairnvreckan more agreeable than
+circumstances have permitted on this occasion.'
+
+So saying, he shook our hero by the hand. Morton also took an
+affectionate farewell, and Waverley, having mounted his horse,
+with a musketeer leading it by the bridle and a file upon each
+side to prevent his escape, set forward upon the march with
+Gilfillan and his party. Through the little village they were
+accompanied with the shouts of the children, who cried out, 'Eh!
+see to the Southland gentleman that's gaun to be hanged for
+shooting lang John Mucklewrath, the smith!
+
+
+
+
+
+APPENDICES TO THE GENERAL PREFACE
+
+
+NO. I
+
+FRAGMENT [Footnote: It is not to be supposed that these fragments
+are given in possessing any intrinsic value of themselves; but
+there may be some curiosity attached to them, as to the first
+etchings of a plate, which are accounted interesting by those who
+have, in any degree, been interested in the more finished works of
+the artist.] OF A ROMANCE WHICH WAS TO HAVE BEEN ENTITLED
+
+THOMAS THE RHYMER
+
+CHAPTER I
+
+THE sun was nearly set behind the distant mountains of Liddesdale,
+when a few of the scattered and terrified inhabitants of the
+village of Hersildoune, which had four days before been burned by
+a predatory band of English Borderers, were now busied in
+repairing their ruined dwellings. One high tower in the centre of
+the village alone exhibited no appearance of devastation. It was
+surrounded with court walls, and the outer gate was barred and
+bolted. The bushes and brambles which grew around, and had even
+insinuated their branches beneath the gate, plainly showed that it
+must have been many years since it had been opened. While the
+cottages around lay in smoking ruins, this pile, deserted and
+desolate as it seemed to be, had suffered nothing from the
+violence of the invaders; and the wretched beings who were
+endeavouring to repair their miserable huts against nightfall
+seemed to neglect the preferable shelter which it might have
+afforded them without the necessity of labour.
+
+Before the day had quite gone down, a knight, richly armed and
+mounted upon an ambling hackney, rode slowly into the village. His
+attendants were a lady, apparently young and beautiful, who rode
+by his side upon a dappled palfrey; his squire, who carried his
+helmet and lance, and led his battlehorse, a noble steed, richly
+caparisoned. A page and four yeomen bearing bows and quivers,
+short swords, and targets of a span breadth, completed his
+equipage, which, though small, denoted him to be a man of high
+rank.
+
+He stopped and addressed several of the inhabitants whom curiosity
+had withdrawn from their labour to gaze at him; but at the sound
+of his voice, and still more on perceiving the St. George's Cross
+in the caps of his followers, they fled, with a loud cry, 'that
+the Southrons were returned.' The knight endeavoured to
+expostulate with the fugitives, who were chiefly aged men, women,
+and children; but their dread of the English name accelerated
+their flight, and in a few minutes, excepting the knight and his
+attendants, the place was deserted by all. He paced through the
+village to seek a shelter for the night, and, despairing to find
+one either in the inaccessible tower or the plundered huts of the
+peasantry, he directed his course to the left hand, where he spied
+a small decent habitation, apparently the abode of a man
+considerably above the common rank. After much knocking, the
+proprietor at length showed himself at the window, and speaking in
+the English dialect, with great signs of apprehension, demanded
+their business. The warrior replied that his quality was an
+English knight and baron, and that he was travelling to the court
+of the King of Scotland on affairs of consequence to both
+kingdoms.
+
+'Pardon my hesitation, noble Sir Knight,' said the old man, as he
+unbolted and unbarred his doors--'Pardon my hesitation, but we are
+here exposed to too many intrusions to admit of our exercising
+unlimited and unsuspicious hospitality. What I have is yours; and
+God send your mission may bring back peace and the good days of
+our old Queen Margaret!'
+
+'Amen, worthy Franklin,' quoth the Knight--'Did you know her?'
+
+'I came to this country in her train,' said the Franklin; 'and the
+care of some of her jointure lands which she devolved on me
+occasioned my settling here.'
+
+'And how do you, being an Englishman,' said the Knight, 'protect
+your life and property here, when one of your nation cannot obtain
+a single night's lodging, or a draught of water were he thirsty?'
+
+'Marry, noble sir,' answered the Franklin, 'use, as they say, will
+make a man live in a lion's den; and as I settled here in a quiet
+time, and have never given cause of offence, I am respected by my
+neighbours, and even, as you see, by our FORAYERS from England.'
+
+'I rejoice to hear it, and accept your hospitality. Isabella, my
+love, our worthy host will provide you a bed. My daughter, good
+Franklin, is ill at ease. We will occupy your house till the
+Scottish King shall return from his northern expedition; meanwhile
+call me Lord Lacy of Chester.'
+
+The attendants of the Baron, assisted by the Franklin, were now
+busied in disposing of the horses, and arranging the table for
+some refreshment for Lord Lacy and his fair companion. While they
+sat down to it, they were attended by their host and his daughter,
+whom custom did not permit to eat in their presence, and who
+afterwards withdrew to an outer chamber, where the squire and page
+(both young men of noble birth) partook of supper, and were
+accommodated with beds. The yeomen, after doing honour to the
+rustic cheer of Queen Margaret's bailiff, withdrew to the stable,
+and each, beside his favourite horse, snored away the fatigues of
+their journey.
+
+Early on the following morning the travellers were roused by a
+thundering knocking at the door of the house, accompanied with
+many demands for instant admission in the roughest tone. The
+squire and page of Lord Lacy, after buckling on their arms, were
+about to sally out to chastise these intruders, when the old host,
+after looking out at a private casement, contrived for
+reconnoitring his visitors, entreated them, with great signs of
+terror, to be quiet, if they did not mean that all in the house
+should be murdered.
+
+He then hastened to the apartment of Lord Lacy, whom he met
+dressed in a long furred gown and the knightly cap called a
+MORTIER, irritated at the noise, and demanding to know the cause
+which had disturbed the repose of the household.
+
+'Noble sir,' said the Franklin, 'one of the most formidable and
+bloody of the Scottish Border riders is at hand; he is never
+seen,' added he, faltering with terror, 'so far from the hills but
+with some bad purpose, and the power of accomplishing it; so hold
+yourself to your guard, for--'
+
+A loud crash here announced that the door was broken down, and the
+knight just descended the stair in time to prevent bloodshed
+betwixt his attendants and the intruders. They were three in
+number; their chief was tall, bony, and athletic, his spare and
+muscular frame, as well as the hardness of his features, marked
+the course of his life to have been fatiguing and perilous. The
+effect of his appearance was aggravated by his dress, which
+consisted of a jack or jacket, composed of thick buff leather, on
+which small plates of iron of a lozenge form were stitched in such
+a manner as to overlap each other and form a coat of mail, which
+swayed with every motion of the wearer's body. This defensive
+armour covered a doublet of coarse grey cloth, and the Borderer
+had a few half-rusted plates of steel on his shoulders, a two-
+edged sword, with a dagger hanging beside it, in a buff belt; a
+helmet, with a few iron bars, to cover the face instead of a
+visor, and a lance of tremendous and uncommon length, completed
+his appointments. The looks of the man were as wild and rude as
+his attire: his keen black eyes never rested one moment fixed upon
+a single object, but constantly traversed all around, as if they
+ever sought some danger to oppose, some plunder to seize, or some
+insult to revenge. The latter seemed to be his present object,
+for, regardless of the dignified presence of Lord Lacy, he uttered
+the most incoherent threats against the owner of the house and his
+guests.
+
+'We shall see--ay, marry shall we--if an English hound is to
+harbour and reset the Southrons here. Thank the Abbot of Melrose
+and the good Knight of Coldingnow that have so long kept me from
+your skirts. But those days are gone, by Saint Mary, and you shall
+find it!'
+
+It is probable the enraged Borderer would not have long continued
+to vent his rage in empty menaces, had not the entrance of the
+four yeomen with their bows bent convinced him that the force was
+not at this moment on his own side.
+
+Lord Lacy now advanced towards him. 'You intrude upon my privacy,
+soldier; withdraw yourself and your followers. There is peace
+betwixt our nations, or my servants should chastise thy
+presumption.'
+
+'Such peace as ye give such shall ye have,' answered the moss-
+trooper, first pointing with his lance towards the burned village
+and then almost instantly levelling it against Lord Lacy. The
+squire drew his sword and severed at one blow the steel head from
+the truncheon of the spear.
+
+'Arthur Fitzherbert,' said the Baron, 'that stroke has deferred
+thy knighthood for one year; never must that squire wear the spurs
+whose unbridled impetuosity can draw unbidden his sword in the
+presence of his master. Go hence and think on what I have said.'
+
+The squire left the chamber abashed.
+
+'It were vain,' continued Lord Lacy, 'to expect that courtesy from
+a mountain churl which even my own followers can forget. Yet,
+before thou drawest thy brand (for the intruder laid his hand upon
+the hilt of his sword), thou wilt do well to reflect that I came
+with a safe-conduct from thy king, and have no time to waste in
+brawls with such as thou.'
+
+'From MY king--from my king!' re-echoed the mountaineer. 'I care
+not that rotten truncheon (striking the shattered spear furiously
+on the ground) for the King of Fife and Lothian. But Habby of
+Cessford will be here belive; and we shall soon know if he will
+permit an English churl to occupy his hostelrie.'
+
+Having uttered these words, accompanied with a lowering glance
+from under his shaggy black eyebrows, he turned on his heel and
+left the house with his two followers. They mounted their horses,
+which they had tied to an outer fence, and vanished in an instant.
+
+'Who is this discourteous ruffian?' said Lord Lacy to the
+Franklin, who had stood in the most violent agitation during this
+whole scene.
+
+'His name, noble lord, is Adam Kerr of the Moat, but he is
+commonly called by his companions the Black Rider of Cheviot. I
+fear, I fear, he comes hither for no good; but if the Lord of
+Cessford be near, he will not dare offer any unprovoked outrage.'
+
+'I have heard of that chief,' said the Baron. 'Let me know when he
+approaches, and do thou, Rodulph (to the eldest yeoman), keep a
+strict watch. Adelbert (to the page), attend to arm me.' The page
+bowed, and the Baron withdrew to the chamber of the Lady Isabella
+to explain the cause of the disturbance.
+
+No more of the proposed tale was ever written; but the Author's
+purpose was that it should turn upon a fine legend of superstition
+which is current in the part of the Borders where he had his
+residence, where, in the reign of Alexander III of Scotland, that
+renowned person Thomas of Hersildoune, called the Rhymer, actually
+flourished. This personage, the Merlin of Scotland, and to whom
+some of the adventures which the British bards assigned to Merlin
+Caledonius, or the Wild, have been transferred by tradition, was,
+as is well known, a magician, as well as a poet and prophet. He is
+alleged still to live in the land of Faery, and is expected to
+return at some great convulsion of society, in which he is to act
+a distinguished part, a tradition common to all nations, as the
+belief of the Mahomedans respecting their twelfth Imaum
+demonstrates.
+
+Now, it chanced many years since that there lived on the Borders a
+jolly, rattling horse-cowper, who was remarkable for a reckless
+and fearless temper, which made him much admired and a little
+dreaded amongst his neighbours. One moonlight night, as he rode
+over Bowden Moor, on the west side of the Eildon Hills, the scene
+of Thomas the Rhymer's prophecies, and often mentioned in his
+story, having a brace of horses along with him which he had not
+been able to dispose of, he met a man of venerable appearance and
+singularly antique dress, who, to his great surprise, asked the
+price of his horses, and began to chaffer with him on the subject.
+To Canobie Dick, for so shall we call our Border dealer, a chap
+was a chap, and he would have sold a horse to the devil himself,
+without minding his cloven hoof, and would have probably cheated
+Old Nick into the bargain. The stranger paid the price they agreed
+on, and all that puzzled Dick in the transaction was, that the
+gold which he received was in unicorns, bonnet-pieces, and other
+ancient coins, which would have been invaluable to collectors, but
+were rather troublesome in modern currency. It was gold, however,
+and therefore Dick contrived to get better value for the coin than
+he perhaps gave to his customer. By the command of so good a
+merchant, he brought horses to the same spot more than once, the
+purchaser only stipulating that he should always come, by night,
+and alone. I do not know whether it was from mere curiosity, or
+whether some hope of gain mixed with it, but after Dick had sold
+several horses in this way, he began to complain that dry bargains
+were unlucky, and to hint that, since his chap must live in the
+neighbourhood, he ought, in the courtesy of dealing, to treat him
+to half a mutchkin.
+
+'You may see my dwelling if you will,' said the stranger; 'but if
+you lose courage at what you see there, you will rue it all your
+life.'
+
+Dicken, however, laughed the warning to scorn, and, having
+alighted to secure his horse, he followed the stranger up a narrow
+foot-path, which led them up the hills to the singular eminence
+stuck betwixt the most southern and the centre peaks, and called
+from its resemblance to such an animal in its form the Lucken
+Hare. At the foot of this eminence, which is almost as famous for
+witch meetings as the neighbouring wind-mill of Kippilaw, Dick was
+somewhat startled to observe that his conductor entered the
+hillside by a passage or cavern, of which he himself, though well
+acquainted with the spot, had never seen or heard.
+
+'You may still return,' said his guide, looking ominously back
+upon him; but Dick scorned to show the white feather, and on they
+went. They entered a very long range of stables; in every stall
+stood a coal-black horse; by every horse lay a knight in coal-
+black armour, with a drawn sword in his hand; but all were as
+silent, hoof and limb, as if they had been cut out of marble. A
+great number of torches lent a gloomy lustre to the hall, which,
+like those of the Caliph Vathek, was of large dimensions. At the
+upper end, however, they at length arrived, where a sword and horn
+lay on an antique table.
+
+'He that shall sound that horn and draw that sword,' said the
+stranger, who now intimated that he was the famous Thomas of
+Hersildoune, 'shall, if his heart fail him not, be king over all
+broad Britain. So speaks the tongue that cannot lie. But all
+depends on courage, and much on your taking the sword or the horn
+first.'
+
+Dick was much disposed to take the sword, but his bold spirit was
+quailed by the supernatural terrors of the hall, and he thought to
+unsheath the sword first might be construed into defiance, and
+give offence to the powers of the Mountain. He took the bugle with
+a trembling hand, and [sounded] a feeble note, but loud enough to
+produce a terrible answer. Thunder rolled in stunning peals
+through the immense hall; horses and men started to life; the
+steeds snorted, stamped, grinded their bits, and tossed on high
+their heads; the warriors sprung to their feet, clashed their
+armour, and brandished their swords. Dick's terror was extreme at
+seeing the whole army, which had been so lately silent as the
+grave, in uproar, and about to rush on him. He dropped the horn,
+and made a feeble attempt to seize the enchanted sword; but at the
+same moment a voice pronounced aloud the mysterious words:
+
+    'Woe to the coward, that ever he was born,
+    Who did not draw the sword before he blew the horn!'
+
+At the same time a whirlwind of irresistible fury howled through
+the long hall, bore the unfortunate horse-jockey clear out of the
+mouth of the cavern, and precipitated him over a steep bank of
+loose stones, where the shepherds found him the next morning, with
+just breath sufficient to tell his fearful tale, after concluding
+which he expired.
+
+This legend, with several variations, is found in many parts of
+Scotland and England; the scene is sometimes laid in some
+favourite glen of the Highlands, sometimes in the deep coal-mines
+of Northumberland and Cumberland, which run so far beneath the
+ocean. It is also to be found in Reginald Scott's book on
+"Witchcraft," which was written in the sixteenth century. It would
+be in vain to ask what was the original of the tradition. The
+choice between the horn and sword, may perhaps, include as a moral
+that it is foolhardy to awaken danger before we have arms in our
+hands to resist it.
+
+Although admitting of much poetical ornament, it is clear that
+this legend would have formed but an unhappy foundation for a
+prose story, and must have degenerated into a mere fairy tale.
+Doctor John Leyden has beautifully introduced the tradition in his
+Scenes of Infancy:--
+
+    Mysterious Rhymer, doom'd by fate's decree,
+    Still to revisit Eildon's fated tree;
+    Where oft the swain, at dawn of Hallow-day,
+    Hears thy fleet barb with wild impatience neigh;
+    Say who is he, with summons long and high.
+    Shall bid the charmed sleep of ages fly,
+    Roll the long sound through Eildon's caverns vast,
+    While each dark warrior kindles at the blast:
+    The horn, the falchion grasp with mighty hand,
+    And peal proud Arthur's march from Fairy-land?
+
+    Scenes of Infancy, Part I.
+
+In the same cabinet with the preceding fragment, the following
+occurred among other disjecta membra. It seems to be an attempt at
+a tale of a different description from the last, but was almost
+instantly abandoned. The introduction points out the time of the
+composition to have been about the end of the eighteenth century.
+
+THE LORD OF ENNERDALE
+
+A FRAGMENT OF A LETTER FROM JOHN B----, ESQ., OF THAT ILK, TO
+WILLIAM G----, F.R.S.E.
+
+'FILL a bumper,' said the Knight; 'the ladies may spare us a
+little longer. Fill a bumper to the Archduke Charles.'
+
+The company did due honour to the toast of their landlord.
+
+'The success of the Archduke,' said the muddy Vicar, 'will tend to
+further our negotiation at Paris; and if--'
+
+'Pardon the interruption, Doctor,' quoth a thin emaciated figure,
+with somewhat of a foreign accent; 'but why should you connect
+those events, unless to hope that the bravery and victories of our
+allies may supersede the necessity of a degrading treaty?'
+
+'We begin to feel, Monsieur L'Abbe,' answered the Vicar, with some
+asperity, 'that a Continental war entered into for the defence of
+an ally who was unwilling to defend himself, and for the
+restoration of a royal family, nobility, and priesthood who tamely
+abandoned their own rights, is a burden too much even for the
+resources of this country.'
+
+'And was the war then on the part of Great Britain,' rejoined the
+Abbe, 'a gratuitous exertion of generosity? Was there no fear of
+the wide-wasting spirit of innovation which had gone abroad? Did
+not the laity tremble for their property, the clergy for their
+religion, and every loyal heart for the Constitution? Was it not
+thought necessary to destroy the building which was on fire, ere
+the conflagration spread around the vicinity?'
+
+'Yet, if upon trial,' said the Doctor,' the walls were found to
+resist our utmost efforts, I see no great prudence in persevering
+in our labour amid the smouldering ruins.'
+
+'What, Doctor,' said the Baronet,'must I call to your recollection
+your own sermon on the late general fast? Did you not encourage us
+to hope that the Lord of Hosts would go forth with our armies, and
+that our enemies, who blasphemed him, should be put to shame?'
+
+'It may please a kind father to chasten even his beloved
+children,' answered the Vicar.
+
+'I think,' said a gentleman near the foot of the table,'that the
+Covenanters made some apology of the same kind for the failure of
+their prophecies at the battle of Dunbar, when their mutinous
+preachers compelled the prudent Lesley to go down against the
+Philistines in Gilgal.'
+
+The Vicar fixed a scrutinizing and not a very complacent eye upon
+this intruder. He was a young man, of mean stature, and rather a
+reserved appearance. Early and severe study had quenched in his
+features the gaiety peculiar to his age, and impressed upon them a
+premature cast of thoughtfulness. His eye had, however, retained
+its fire, and his gesture its animation. Had he remained silent,
+he would have been long unnoticed; but when he spoke there was
+something in his manner which arrested attention.
+
+'Who is this young man?' said the Vicar in a low voice to his
+neighbour.
+
+'A Scotchman called Maxwell, on a visit to Sir Henry,' was the
+answer.
+
+'I thought so, from his accent and his manners,' said the Vicar.
+
+It may be here observed that the northern English retain rather
+more of the ancient hereditary aversion to their neighbours than
+their countrymen of the south. The interference of other
+disputants, each of whom urged his opinion with all the vehemence
+of wine and politics, rendered the summons to the drawing-room
+agreeable to the more sober part of the company.
+
+The company dispersed by degrees, and at length the Vicar and the
+young Scotchman alone remained, besides the Baronet, his lady,
+daughters, and myself. The clergyman had not, it would seem,
+forgot the observation which ranked him with the false prophets of
+Dunbar, for he addressed Mr. Maxwell upon the first opportunity.
+
+'Hem! I think, sir, you mentioned something about the civil wars
+of last century? You must be deeply skilled in them, indeed, if
+you can draw any parallel betwixt those and the present evil days
+--days which I am ready to maintain are the most gloomy that ever
+darkened the prospects of Britain.'
+
+'God forbid, Doctor, that I should draw a comparison between the
+present times and those you mention. I am too sensible of the
+advantages we enjoy over our ancestors. Faction and ambition have
+introduced division among us; but we are still free from the guilt
+of civil bloodshed, and from all the evils which flow from it. Our
+foes, sir, are not those of our own household; and while we
+continue united and firm, from the attacks of a foreign enemy,
+however artful, or however inveterate, we have, I hope, little to
+dread.'
+
+'Have you found anything curious, Mr. Maxwell, among the dusty
+papers?' said Sir Henry, who seemed to dread a revival of
+political discussion.
+
+'My investigation amongst them led to reflections at which I have
+just now hinted,' said Maxwell; 'and I think they are pretty
+strongly exemplified by a story which I have been endeavouring to
+arrange from some of your family manuscripts.'
+
+'You are welcome to make what use of them you please,' said Sir
+Henry;' they have been undisturbed for many a day, and I have
+often wished for some person as well skilled as you in these old
+pot-hooks to tell me their meaning.'
+
+'Those I just mentioned,' answered Maxwell, 'relate to a piece of
+private history, savouring not a little of the marvellous, and
+intimately connected with your family; if it is agreeable, I can
+read to you the anecdotes in the modern shape into which I have
+been endeavouring to throw them, and you can then judge of the
+value of the originals.'
+
+There was something in this proposal agreeable to all parties. Sir
+Henry had family pride, which prepared him to take an interest in
+whatever related to his ancestors. The ladies had dipped deeply
+into the fashionable reading of the present day. Lady Ratcliff and
+her fair daughters had climbed every pass, viewed every pine-
+shrouded ruin, heard every groan, and lifted every trap-door in
+company with the noted heroine of Udolpho. They had been heard,
+however, to observe that the famous incident of the Black Veil
+singularly resembled the ancient apologue of the mountain in
+labour, so that they were unquestionably critics as well as
+admirers. Besides all this, they had valorously mounted en croupe
+behind the ghostly horseman of Prague, through all his seven
+translators, and followed the footsteps of Moor through the forest
+of Bohemia. Moreover, it was even hinted (but this was a greater
+mystery than all the rest) that a certain performance called the
+'Monk,' in three neat volumes, had been seen by a prying eye in
+the right hand drawer of the Indian cabinet of Lady Ratcliff's
+dressing-room. Thus predisposed for wonders and signs, Lady
+Ratcliff and her nymphs drew their chairs round a large blazing
+wood-fire and arranged themselves to listen to the tale. To that
+fire I also approached, moved thereunto partly by the inclemency
+of the season, and partly that my deafness, which you know,
+cousin, I acquired during my campaign under Prince Charles Edward,
+might be no obstacle to the gratification of my curiosity, which
+was awakened by what had any reference to the fate of such
+faithful followers of royalty as you well know the house of
+Ratcliff have ever been. To this wood-fire the Vicar likewise drew
+near, and reclined himself conveniently in his chair, seemingly
+disposed to testify his disrespect for the narration and narrator
+by falling asleep as soon as he conveniently could. By the side of
+Maxwell (by the way, I cannot learn that he is in the least
+related to the Nithsdale family) was placed a small table and a
+couple of lights, by the assistance of which he read as follows:--
+
+'Journal of Jan Van Eulen
+
+'On the 6th November 1645, I, Jan Van Eulen, merchant in
+Rotterdam, embarked with my only daughter on board of the good
+vessel Vryheid of Amsterdam, in order to pass into the unhappy and
+disturbed kingdom of England. 7th November--a brisk gale--
+daughter sea-sick--myself unable to complete the calculation which
+I have begun of the inheritance left by Jane Lansache of Carlisle,
+my late dear wife's sister, the collection of which is the object
+of my voyage. 8th November--wind still stormy and adverse--a
+horrid disaster nearly happened--my dear child washed overboard as
+the vessel lurched to leeward. Memorandum--to reward the young
+sailor who saved her out of the first moneys which I can recover
+from the inheritance of her aunt Lansache. 9th November--calm--
+P.M. light breezes from N. N. W. I talked with the captain about
+the inheritance of my sister-in-law, Jane Lansache. He says he
+knows the principal subject, which will not exceed L1000 in value.
+N. B. He is a cousin to a family of Petersons, which was the name
+of the husband of my sister-in-law; so there is room to hope it
+may be worth more than he reports. 10th November, 10 A.M. May God
+pardon all our sins!--An English frigate, bearing the Parliament
+flag, has appeared in the offing, and gives chase.--11 A.M. She
+nears us every moment, and the captain of our vessel prepares to
+clear for action.--May God again have mercy upon us!'
+
+'Here,' said Maxwell, 'the journal with which I have opened the
+narration ends somewhat abruptly.'
+
+'I am glad of it,' said Lady Ratcliff.
+
+'But, Mr. Maxwell,' said young Frank, Sir Henry's grandchild,
+'shall we not hear how the battle ended?'
+
+I do not know, cousin, whether I have not formerly made you
+acquainted with the abilities of Frank Ratcliff. There is not a
+battle fought between the troops of the Prince and of the
+Government during the years 1745-46, of which he is not able to
+give an account. It is true, I have taken particular pains to fix
+the events of this important period upon his memory by frequent
+repetition.
+
+'No, my dear,' said Maxwell, in answer to young Frank Ratcliff--
+'No, my dear, I cannot tell you the exact particulars of the
+engagement, but its consequences appear from the following letter,
+despatched by Garbonete Von Eulen, daughter of our journalist, to
+a relation in England, from whom she implored assistance. After
+some general account of the purpose of the voyage and of the
+engagement her narrative proceeds thus:--
+
+'The noise of the cannon had hardly ceased before the sounds of a
+language to me but half known, and the confusion on board our
+vessel, informed me that the captors had boarded us and taken
+possession of our vessel. I went on deck, where the first
+spectacle that met my eyes was a young man, mate of our vessel,
+who, though disfigured and covered with blood, was loaded with
+irons, and whom they were forcing over the side of the vessel into
+a boat. The two principal persons among our enemies appeared to be
+a man of a tall thin figure, with a high-crowned hat and long
+neckband, and short-cropped head of hair, accompanied by a bluff,
+open-looking elderly man in a naval uniform. "Yarely! yarely! pull
+away, my hearts," said the latter, and the boat bearing the
+unlucky young man soon carried him on board the frigate. Perhaps
+you will blame me for mentioning this circumstance; but consider,
+my dear cousin, this man saved my life, and his fate, even when my
+own and my father's were in the balance, could not but affect me
+nearly.
+
+'"In the name of Him who is jealous, even to slaying," said the
+first--'
+
+CETERA DESUNT
+
+
+
+
+
+NO. II
+
+CONCLUSION OF MR. STRUTT'S ROMANCE OF QUEENHOO-HALL
+
+BY THE AUTHOR OF WAVERLEY
+
+CHAPTER IV
+
+A HUNTING PARTY--AN ADVENTURE--A DELIVERANCE
+
+THE next morning the bugles were sounded by daybreak in the court
+of Lord Boteler's mansion, to call the inhabitants from their
+slumbers to assist in a splendid chase with which the Baron had
+resolved to entertain his neighbour Fitzallen and his noble
+visitor St. Clare. Peter Lanaret, the falconer, was in attendance,
+with falcons for the knights and teircelets for the ladies, if
+they should choose to vary their sport from hunting to hawking.
+Five stout yeomen keepers, with their attendants, called Ragged
+Robins, all meetly arrayed in Kendal green, with bugles and short
+hangers by their sides, and quarter-staffs in their hands, led the
+slow-hounds or brachets by which the deer were to be put up. Ten
+brace of gallant greyhounds, each of which was fit to pluck down,
+singly, the tallest red deer, were led in leashes, by as many of
+Lord Boteler's foresters. The pages, squires, and other attendants
+of feudal splendour well attired, in their best hunting-gear, upon
+horseback or foot, according to their rank, with their boar-
+spears, long bows, and cross-bows, were in seemly waiting.
+
+A numerous train of yeomen, called in the language of the times
+retainers, who yearly received a livery coat and a small pension
+for their attendance on such solemn occasions, appeared in
+cassocks of blue, bearing upon their arms the cognisance of the
+house of Boteler, as a badge of their adherence. They were the
+tallest men of their hands that the neighbouring villages could
+supply, with every man his good buckler on his shoulder, and a
+bright burnished broadsword dangling from his leathern belt. On
+this occasion they acted as rangers for beating up the thickets
+and rousing the game. These attendants filled up the court of the
+castle, spacious as it was.
+
+On the green without you might have seen the motley assemblage of
+peasantry convened by report of the splendid hunting, including
+most of our old acquaintances from Tewin, as well as the jolly
+partakers of good cheer at Hob Filcher's. Gregory the jester, it
+may well be guessed, had no great mind to exhibit himself in
+public after his recent disaster; but Oswald the steward, a great
+formalist in whatever concerned the public exhibition of his
+master's household state, had positively enjoined his attendance.
+'What,' quoth he,'shall the house of the brave Lord Boteler, on
+such a brave day as this, be without a fool? Certes, the good Lord
+Saint Clere and his fair lady sister might think our housekeeping
+as niggardly as that of their churlish kinsman at Gay Bowers, who
+sent his father's jester to the hospital, sold the poor sot's
+bells for hawk-jesses, and made a nightcap of his long-eared
+bonnet. And, sirrah, let me see thee fool handsomely--speak squibs
+and crackers, instead of that dry, barren, musty gibing which thou
+hast used of late; or, by the bones! the porter shall have thee to
+his lodge, and cob thee with thine own wooden sword till thy skin
+is as motley as thy doublet.'
+
+To this stern injunction Gregory made no reply, any more than to
+the courteous offer of old Albert Drawslot, the chief parkkeeper,
+who proposed to blow vinegar in his nose to sharpen his wit, as he
+had done that blessed morning to Bragger, the old hound, whose
+scent was failing. There was, indeed, little time for reply, for
+the bugles, after a lively flourish, were now silent, and Peretto,
+with his two attendant minstrels, stepping beneath the windows of
+the strangers' apartments, joined in the following roundelay, the
+deep voices of the rangers and falconers making up a chorus that
+caused the very battlements to ring again:--
+
+    Waken, lords and ladies gay,
+    On the mountain dawns the day;
+    All the jolly chase is here,
+    With hawk and horse, and hunting spear;
+    Hounds are in their couples yelling,
+    Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling,
+    Merrily, merrily, mingle they,
+    'Waken, lords and ladies gay.'
+
+    Waken, lords and ladies gay,
+    The mist has left the mountain grey;
+    Springlets in the dawn are streaming,
+    Diamonds on the brake are gleaming,
+
+    And foresters have busy been,
+    To track the buck in thicket green;
+    Now we come to chant our lay,
+    'Waken, lords and ladies gay.'
+
+    Waken, lords and ladies gay,
+    To the green-wood haste away;
+    We can show you where he lies,
+    Fleet of foot and tall of size;
+    We can show the marks he made,
+    When 'gamst the oak his antlers frayed;
+    You shall see him brought to bay,
+    'Waken, lords and ladies gay.'
+
+    Louder, louder chant the lay,
+    Waken, lords and ladies gay;
+    Tell them youth, and mirth, and glee
+    Run a course as well as we;
+    Time, stern huntsman! who can baulk,
+    Stanch as hound and fleet as hawk?
+    Think of this and rise with day,
+    Gentle lords and ladies gay.
+
+By the time this lay was finished, Lord Boteler, with his daughter
+and kinsman, Fitzallen of Harden, and other noble guests, had
+mounted their palfreys, and the hunt set forward in due order. The
+huntsmen, having carefully observed the traces of a large stag on
+the preceding evening, were able, without loss of time, to conduct
+the company, by the marks which they had made upon the trees, to
+the side of the thicket in which, by the report of Drawslot, he
+had harboured all night. The horsemen, spreading themselves along
+the side of the cover, waited until the keeper entered, leading
+his ban-dog, a large blood-hound tied in a learn or band, from
+which he takes his name.
+
+But it befell thus. A hart of the second year, which was in the
+same cover with the proper object of their pursuit, chanced to be
+unharboured first, and broke cover very near where the Lady Emma
+and her brother were stationed. An inexperienced varlet, who was
+nearer to them, instantly unloosed two tall greyhounds, who sprung
+after the fugitive with all the fleetness of the north wind.
+Gregory, restored a little to spirits by the enlivening scene
+around him, followed, encouraging the hounds with a loud layout,
+for which he had the hearty curses of the huntsman, as well as of
+the Baron, who entered into the spirit of the chase with all the
+juvenile ardour of twenty. 'May the foul fiend, booted and
+spurred, ride down his bawling throat with a scythe at his
+girdle,' quoth Albert Drawslot; 'here have I been telling him that
+all the marks were those of a buck of the first head, and he has
+hallooed the hounds upon a velvet-headed knobbler! By Saint
+Hubert, if I break not his pate with my cross-bow, may I never
+cast off hound more! But to it, my lords and masters! the noble
+beast is here yet, and, thank the saints, we have enough of
+hounds.'
+
+The cover being now thoroughly beat by the attendants, the stag
+was compelled to abandon it and trust to his speed for his safety.
+Three greyhounds were slipped upon him, whom he threw out, after
+running a couple of miles, by entering an extensive furzy brake,
+which extended along the side of a hill. The horsemen soon came
+up, and casting off a sufficient number of slow-hounds, sent them
+with the prickers into the cover, in order to drive the game from
+his strength. This object being accomplished, afforded another
+severe chase of several miles, in a direction almost circular,
+during which the poor animal tried every wile to get rid of his
+persecutors. He crossed and traversed all such dusty paths as were
+likely to retain the least scent of his footsteps; he laid himself
+close to the ground, drawing his feet under his belly, and
+clapping his nose close to the earth, lest he should be betrayed
+to the hounds by his breath and hoofs. When all was in vain, and
+he found the hounds coming fast in upon him, his own strength
+failing, his mouth embossed with foam, and the tears dropping from
+his eyes, he turned in despair upon his pursuers, who then stood
+at gaze, making an hideous clamour, and awaiting their two-footed
+auxiliaries. Of these, it chanced that the Lady Eleanor, taking
+more pleasure in the sport than Matilda, and being a less burden
+to her palfrey than the Lord Boteler, was the first who arrived at
+the spot, and taking a cross-bow from an attendant, discharged a
+bolt at the stag. When the infuriated animal felt himself wounded,
+he pushed frantically towards her from whom he had received the
+shaft, and Lady Eleanor might have had occasion to repent of her
+enterprise, had not young Fitzallen, who had kept near her during
+the whole day, at that instant galloped briskly in, and, ere the
+stag could change his object of assault, despatched him with his
+short hunting-sword.
+
+Albert Drawslot, who had just come up in terror for the young
+lady's safety, broke out into loud encomiums upon Fitzallen's
+strength and gallantry. 'By 'r Lady,' said he, taking off his cap
+and wiping his sun-burnt face with his sleeve, 'well struck, and
+in good time! But now, boys, doff your bonnets and sound the
+mort.'
+
+The sportsmen then sounded a treble mort, and set up a general
+whoop, which, mingled with the yelping of the dogs, made the
+welkin ring again. The huntsman then offered his knife to Lord
+Boteler, that he might take the say of the deer, but the Baron
+courteously insisted upon Fitzallen going through that ceremony.
+The Lady Matilda was now come up, with most of the attendants; and
+the interest of the chase being ended, it excited some surprise
+that neither Saint Clere nor his sister made their appearance. The
+Lord Boteler commanded the horns again to sound the recheat, in
+hopes to call in the stragglers, and said to Fitzallen, 'Methinks
+Saint Clere so distinguished for service in war, should have been
+more forward in the chase.'
+
+'I trow,' said Peter Lanaret, 'I know the reason of the noble
+lord's absence; for, when that mooncalf Gregory hallooed the dogs
+upon the knobbler, and galloped like a green hilding, as he is,
+after them, I saw the Lady Emma's palfrey follow apace after that
+varlet, who should be thrashed for overrunning, and I think her
+noble brother has followed her, lest she should come to harm. But
+here, by the rood, is Gregory to answer for himself.'
+
+At this moment Gregory entered the circle which had been formed
+round the deer, out of breath, and his face covered with blood. He
+kept for some time uttering inarticulate cries of 'Harrow!' and
+'Wellaway!' and other exclamations of distress and terror,
+pointing all the while to a thicket at some distance from the spot
+where the deer had been killed.
+
+'By my honour,' said the Baron, 'I would gladly know who has dared
+to array the poor knave thus; and I trust he should dearly abye
+his outrecuidance, were he the best, save one, in England.'
+
+Gregory, who had now found more breath, cried, 'Help, an ye be
+men! Save Lady Emma and her brother, whom they are murdering in
+Brokenhurst thicket.'
+
+This put all in motion. Lord Boteler hastily commanded a small
+party of his men to abide for the defence of the ladies, while he
+himself, Fitzallen, and the rest made what speed they could
+towards the thicket, guided by Gregory, who for that purpose was
+mounted behind Fabian. Pushing through a narrow path, the first
+object they encountered was a man of small stature lying on the
+ground, mastered and almost strangled by two dogs, which were
+instantly recognised to be those that had accompanied Gregory. A
+little farther was an open space, where lay three bodies of dead
+or wounded men; beside these was Lady Emma, apparently lifeless,
+her brother and a young forester bending over and endeavouring to
+recover her. By employing the usual remedies, this was soon
+accomplished; while Lord Boteler, astonished at such a scene,
+anxiously inquired at Saint Clere the meaning of what he saw, and
+whether more danger was to be expected.
+
+'For the present I trust not,' said the young warrior, who they
+now observed was slightly wounded; 'but I pray you, of your
+nobleness, let the woods here be searched; for we were assaulted
+by four of these base assassins, and I see three only on the
+sward.'
+
+The attendants now brought forwaid the person whom they had
+rescued from the dogs, and Henry, with disgust, shame, and
+astonishment, recognised his kinsman, Gaston Saint Clere. This
+discovery he communicated in a whisper to Lord Boteler, who
+commanded the prisoner to be conveyed to Queenhoo-Hall, and
+closely guarded; meanwhile he anxiously inquired of young Saint
+Clere about his wound.
+
+'A scratch, a trifle!' cried Henry. 'I am in less haste to bind it
+than to introduce to you one without whose aid that of the leech
+would have come too late. Where is he? where is my brave
+deliverer?'
+
+'Here, most noble lord,' said Gregory, sliding from his palfrey
+and stepping forward, 'ready to receive the guerdon which your
+bounty would heap on him.'
+
+'Truly, friend Gregory,' answered the young warrior,'thou shalt
+not be forgotten, for thou didst run speedily, and roar manfully
+for aid, without which, I think verily, we had not received it.
+But the brave forester, who came to my rescue when these three
+ruffians had nigh overpowered me, where is he?'
+
+Every one looked around, but though all had seen him on entering
+the thicket, he was not now to be found. They could only
+conjecture that he had retired during the confusion occasioned by
+the detention of Gaston.
+
+'Seek not for him,' said the Lady Emma, who had now in some degree
+recovered her composure, 'he will not be found of mortal, unless
+at his own season.'
+
+The Baron, convinced from this answer that her terror had for the
+time somewhat disturbed her reason, forbore to question her; and
+Matilda and Eleanor, to whom a message had been despatched with
+the result of this strange adventure, arriving, they took the Lady
+Emma between them, and all in a body returned to the castle.
+
+The distance was, however, considerable, and before reaching it
+they had another alarm. The prickers, who rode foremost in the
+troop, halted and announced to the Lord Boteler, that they
+perceived advancing towards them a body of armed men. The
+followers of the Baron were numerous, but they were arrayed for
+the chase, not for battle, and it was with great pleasure that he
+discerned, on the pennon of the advancing body of men-at-arms,
+instead of the cognisance of Gaston, as he had some reason to
+expect, the friendly bearings of Fitzosborne of Diggswell, the
+same young lord who was present at the May-games with Fitzallen of
+Harden. The knight himself advanced, sheathed in armour, and,
+without raising his visor, informed Lord Boteler that, having
+heard of a base attempt made upon a part of his train by ruffianly
+assassins, he had mounted and armed a small party of his retainers
+to escort them to Queenhoo-Hall. Having received and accepted an
+invitation to attend them thither, they prosecuted their journey
+in confidence and security, and arrived safe at home without any
+further accident.
+
+CHAPTER V
+
+INVESTIGATION OF THE ADVENTURE OF THE HUNTING--A DISCOVERY--
+GREGORY'S MANHOOD--PATE OF GASTON SAINT CLERE--CONCLUSION
+
+So soon as they arrived at the princely mansion of Boteler, the
+Lady Emma craved permission to retire to her chamber, that she
+might compose her spirits after the terror she had undergone.
+Henry Saint Clere, in a few words, proceeded to explain the
+adventure to the curious audience. 'I had no sooner seen my
+sister's palfrey, in spite of her endeavours to the contrary,
+entering with spirit into the chase set on foot by the worshipful
+Gregory, than I rode after to give her assistance. So long was the
+chase that, when the greyhounds pulled down the knobbler, we were
+out of hearing of your bugles; and having rewarded and coupled the
+dogs, I gave them to be led by the jester, and we wandered in
+quest of our company, whom it would seem the sport had led in a
+different direction. At length, passing through the thicket where
+you found us, I was surprised by a cross-bow bolt whizzing past
+mine head. I drew my sword and rushed into the thicket, but was
+instantly assailed by two ruffians, while other two made towards
+my sister and Gregory. The poor knave fled, crying for help,
+pursued by my false kinsman, now your prisoner; and the designs of
+the other on my poor Emma (murderous no doubt) were prevented by
+the sudden apparition of a brave woodsman, who, after a short
+encounter, stretched the miscreant at his feet and came to my
+assistance. I was already slightly wounded, and nearly overlaid
+with odds. The combat lasted some time, for the caitiffs were both
+well armed, strong, and desperate; at length, however, we had each
+mastered our antagonist, when your retinue, my Lord Boteler,
+arrived to my relief. So ends my story; but, by my knighthood, I
+would give an earl's ransom for an opportunity of thanking the
+gallant forester by whose aid I live to tell it.'
+
+'Fear not,' said Lord Boteler, 'he shall be found, if this or the
+four adjacent counties hold him. And now Lord Fitzosborne will be
+pleased to doff the armour he has so kindly assumed for our sakes,
+and we will all bowne ourselves for the banquet.'
+
+When the hour of dinner approached, the Lady Matilda and her
+cousin visited the chamber of the fair Darcy. They found her in a
+composed but melancholy postmire. She turned the discourse upon
+the misfortunes of her life, and hinted, that having recovered her
+brother, and seeing him look forward to the society of one who
+would amply repay to him the loss of hers, she had thoughts of
+dedicating her remaining life to Heaven, by whose providential
+interference it had been so often preserved.
+
+Matilda coloured deeply at something in this speech, and her
+cousin inveighed loudly against Emma's resolution. 'Ah, my dear
+lady Eleanor,' replied she, 'I have to-day witnessed what I cannot
+but judge a supernatural visitation, and to what end can it call
+me but to give myself to the altar? That peasant who guided me to
+Baddow through the Park of Danbury, the same who appeared before
+me at different times and in different forms during that eventful
+journey--that youth, whose features are imprinted on my memory, is
+the very individual forester who this day rescued us in the
+forest. I cannot be mistaken; and, connecting these marvellous
+appearances with the spectre which I saw while at Gay Bowers, I
+cannot resist the conviction that Heaven has permitted my guardian
+angel to assume mortal shape for my relief and protection.'
+
+The fair cousins, after exchanging looks which implied a fear that
+her mind was wandering, answered her in soothing terms, and
+finally prevailed upon her to accompany them to the banqueting-
+hall. Here the first person they encountered was the Baron
+Fitzosborne of Diggswell, now divested of his armour, at the sight
+of whom the Lady Emma changed colour, and exclaiming, 'It is the
+same!' sunk senseless into the arms of Matilda.
+
+'She is bewildered by the terrors of the day,' said Eleanor;' and
+we have done ill in obliging her to descend.'
+
+'And I,'said Fitzosborne, 'have done madly in presenting before
+her one whose presence must recall moments the most alarming in
+her life.'
+
+While the ladies supported Emma from the hall, Lord Boteler and
+Saint Clere requested an explanation from Fitzosborne of the words
+he had used.
+
+'Trust me, gentle lords,' said the Baron of Diggswell, 'ye shall
+have what ye demand when I learn that Lady Emma Darcy has not
+suffered from my imprudence.'
+
+At this moment Lady Matilda, returning, said that her fair friend,
+on her recovery, had calmly and deliberately insisted that she had
+seen Fitzosborne before, in the most dangerous crisis of her life.
+
+'I dread,' said she, 'her disordered mind connects all that her
+eye beholds with the terrible passages that she has witnessed.'
+
+'Nay,' said Fitzosborne, 'if noble Saint Clere can pardon the
+unauthorized interest which, with the purest and most honourable
+intentions, I have taken in his sister's fate, it is easy for me
+to explain this mysterious impression.'
+
+He proceeded to say that, happening to be in the hostelry called
+the Griffin, near Baddow, while upon a journey in that country, he
+had met with the old nurse of the Lady Emma Darcy, who, being just
+expelled from Gay Bowers, was in the height of her grief and
+indignation, and made loud and public proclamation of Lady Emma's
+wrongs. From the description she gave of the beauty of her foster-
+child, as well as from the spirit of chivalry, Fitzosborne became
+interested in her fate. This interest was deeply enhanced when, by
+a bribe to old Gaunt the Reve, he procured a view of the Lady Emma
+as she walked near the castle of Gay Bowers. The aged churl
+refused to give him access to the castle; yet dropped some hints
+as if he thought the lady in danger, and wished she were well out
+of it. His master, he said, had heard she had a brother in life,
+and since that deprived him of all chance of gaining her domains
+by purchase, he--in short, Gaunt wished they were safely
+separated. 'If any injury,' quoth he, 'should happen to the damsel
+here, it were ill for us all. I tried by an innocent stratagem to
+frighten her from the castle, by introducing a figure through a
+trap-door, and warning her, as if by a voice from the dead, to
+retreat from thence; but the giglet is wilful, and is running upon
+her fate.'
+
+Finding Gaunt, although covetous and communicative, too faithful a
+servant to his wicked master to take any active steps against his
+commands, Fitzosborne applied himself to old Ursely, whom he found
+more tractable. Through her he learned the dreadful plot Gaston
+had laid to rid himself of his kinswoman, and resolved to effect
+her deliverance. But aware of the delicacy of Emma's situation, he
+charged Ursely to conceal from her the interest he took in her
+distress, resolving to watch over her in disguise until he saw her
+in a place of safety. Hence the appearance he made before her in
+various dresses during her journey, in the course of which he was
+never far distant; and he had always four stout yeomen within
+hearing of his bugle, had assistance been necessary. When she was
+placed in safety at the lodge, it was Fitzosborne's intention to
+have prevailed upon his sisters to visit and take her under their
+protection; but he found them absent from Diggswell, having gone
+to attend an aged relation who lay dangerously ill in a distant
+county. They did not return until the day before the May-games;
+and the other events followed too rapidly to permit Fitzosborne to
+lay any plan for introducing them to Lady Emma Darcy. On the day
+of the chase he resolved to preserve his romantic disguise, and
+attend the Lady Emma as a forester, partly to have the pleasure of
+being near her and partly to judge whether, according to an idle
+report in the country, she favoured his friend and comrade
+Fitzallen of Marden. This last motive, it may easily be believed,
+he did not declare to the company. After the skirmish with the
+ruffians, he waited till the Baron and the hunters arrived, and
+then, still doubting the farther designs of Gaston, hastened to
+his castle to arm the band which had escorted them to Queenhoo-
+Hall.
+
+Fitzosborne's story being finished, he received the thanks of all
+the company, particularly of Saint Clere, who felt deeply the
+respectful delicacy with which he had conducted himself towards
+his sister. The lady was carefully informed of her obligations to
+him; and it is left to the well-judging reader whether even the
+raillery of Lady Eleanor made her regret that Heaven had only
+employed natural means for her security, and that the guardian
+angel was converted into a handsome, gallant, and enamoured
+knight.
+
+The joy of the company in the hall extended itself to the buttery,
+where Gregory the jester narrated such feats of arms done by
+himself in the fray of the morning as might have shamed Bevis and
+Guy of Warwick. He was, according to his narrative, singled out
+for destruction by the gigantic Baron himself, while he abandoned
+to meaner hands the destruction of Saint Clere and Fitzosborne.
+
+'But certes,' said he, 'the foul paynim met his match; for, ever
+as he foined at me with his brand, I parried his blows with my
+bauble, and, closing with him upon the third veny, threw him to
+the ground, and made him cry recreant to an unarmed man.'
+
+'Tush, man,' said Drawslot, 'thou forgettest thy best auxiliaries,
+the good greyhounds, Help and Holdfast! I warrant thee, that when
+the hump-backed Baron caught thee by the cowl, which he hath
+almost torn off, thou hadst been in a fair plight had they not
+remembered an old friend, and come in to the rescue. Why, man, I
+found them fastened on him myself; and there was odd staving and
+stickling to make them "ware haunch!" Their mouths were full of
+the flex, for I pulled a piece of the garment from their jaws. I
+warrant thee, that when they brought him to ground thou fledst
+like a frighted pricket.'
+
+'And as for Gregory's gigantic paynim,' said Fabian, 'why, he lies
+yonder in the guard-room, the very size, shape, and colour of a
+spider in a yew-hedge.'
+
+'It is false!' said Gregory. 'Colbrand the Dane was a dwarf to
+him.'
+
+'It is as true,' returned Fabian, 'as that the Tasker is to be
+married on Tuesday to pretty Margery. Gregory, thy sheet hath
+brought them between a pair of blankets.'
+
+'I care no more for such a gillflirt,' said the jester,' than I do
+for thy leasings. Marry, thou hop-o'-my-thumb, happy wouldst thou
+be could thy head reach the captive Baron's girdle.'
+
+'By the mass,' said Peter Lanaret, 'I will have one peep at this
+burly gallant'; and, leaving the buttery, he went to the guard-
+room where Gaston Saint Clere was confined. A man-at-arms, who
+kept sentinel on the strong studded door of the apartment, said he
+believed he slept; for that, after raging, stamping, and uttering
+the most horrid imprecations, he had been of late perfectly still.
+The falconer gently drew back a sliding board of a foot square
+towards the top of the door, which covered a hole of the same
+size, strongly latticed, through which the warder, without opening
+the door, could look in upon his prisoner. From this aperture he
+beheld the wretched Gaston suspended by the neck by his own girdle
+to an iron ring in the side of his prison. He had clambered to it
+by means of the table on which his food had been placed; and, in
+the agonies of shame and disappointed malice, had adopted this
+mode of ridding himself of a wretched life. He was found yet warm,
+but totally lifeless. A proper account of the manner of his death
+was drawn up and certified. He was buried that evening in the
+chapel of the castle, out of respect to his high birth; and the
+chaplain of Fitzallen of Marden, who said the service upon the
+occasion, preached the next Sunday an excellent sermon upon the
+text, 'Radix malorum est cupiditas,' which we have here
+transcribed.
+
+Here the manuscript, from which we have painfully transcribed, and
+frequently, as it were, translated, this tale for the reader's
+edification, is so indistinct and defaced, that, excepting certain
+howbeits, nathlesses, lo ye's! etc., we can pick out little that
+is intelligible, saving that avarice is defined 'a likourishness
+of heart after earthly things.' A little farther there seems to
+have been a gay account of Margery's wedding with Ralph the
+Tasker, the running at the quintain, and other rural games
+practised on the occasion. There are also fragments of a mock
+sermon preached by Gregory upon that occasion, as for example:--
+
+'My dear cursed caitiffs, there was once a king, and he wedded a
+young old queen, and she had a child; and this child was sent to
+Solomon the Sage, praying he would give it the same blessing which
+he got from the witch of Endor when she bit him by the heel.
+Hereof speaks the worthy Doctor Radigundus Potator; why should not
+mass be said for all the roasted shoe souls served up in the
+king's dish on Saturday; for true it is, that Saint Peter asked
+Father Adam, as they journeyed to Camelot, an high, great, and
+doubtful question, "Adam, Adam, why eated'st thou the apple
+without paring?"
+
+[Footnote: This tirade of gibberish is literally taken or selected
+from a mock discourse pronounced by a professed jester, which
+occurs in an ancient manuscript in the Advocates' Library, the
+same from which the late ingenious Mr. Weber published the curious
+comic romance of the Hunting of the Hare. It was introduced in
+compliance with Mr Strutt's plan of rendering his tale an
+illustration of ancient manners A similar burlesque sermon is
+pronounced by the fool in Sir David Lindesay's satire of the Three
+Estates. The nonsense and vulgar burlesque of that composition
+illustrate the ground of Sir Andrew Aguecheek's eulogy on the
+exploits of the jester in Twelfth Night, who, reserving his
+sharper jests for Sir Toby, had doubtless enough of the jargon of
+his calling to captivate the imbecility of his brother knight, who
+is made to exclaim--'In sooth, thou wast in very gracious fooling
+last night, when thou spokest of Pigrogremitus, and of the vapours
+passing the equinoctials of Quenbus; 't was very good, i' faith!'
+It is entertaining to find commentators seeking to discover some
+meaning in the professional jargon of such a passage as this.]
+
+With much goodly gibberish to the same effect; which display of
+Gregory's ready wit not only threw the whole company into
+convulsions of laughter, but made such an impression on Rose, the
+Potter's daughter, that it was thought it would be the Jester's
+own fault if Jack was long without his Jill. Much pithy matter,
+concerning the bringing the bride to bed, the loosing the
+bridegroom's points, the scramble which ensued for them, and the
+casting of the stocking, is also omitted from its obscurity.
+
+The following song which has been since borrowed by the worshipful
+author of the famous History of Fryar Bacon, has been with
+difficulty deciphered. It seems to have been sung on occasion of
+carrying home the bride
+
+    Bridal Song
+
+    To the tune of--'I have been a Fiddler,' etc,
+
+    And did you not hear of a mirth befell
+      The morrow after a wedding day,
+    And carrying a bride at home to dwell?
+      And away to Tewin, away, away!
+
+    The quintain was set, and the garlands were made,
+      'T is pity old customs should ever decay;
+    And woe be to him that was horsed on a jade,
+      For he carried no credit away, away.
+
+    We met a consort of fiddle-de-dees;
+      We set them a cockhorse, and made them play
+    The winning of Bullen and Upsey-frees,
+      And away to Tewin, away, away!
+
+    There was ne'er a lad in all the parish
+      That would go to the plough that day;
+    But on his fore-horse his wench he carries.
+      And away to Tewin, away, away!
+
+    The butler was quick, and the ale he did tap,
+      The maidens did make the chamber full gay;
+    The servants did give me a fuddling cup,
+      And I did carry't away, away.
+
+    The smith of the town his liquor so took,
+      That he was persuaded that the ground look'd blue;
+    And I dare boldly be sworn on a book,
+      Such smiths as he there's but a few.
+
+    A posset was made, and the women did sip,
+      And simpering said, they could eat no more;
+    Full many a maiden was laid on the lip,--
+      I'll say no more, but give o'er (give o'er).
+
+But what our fair readers will chiefly regret is the loss of three
+declarations of love; the first by Saint Clere to Matilda; which,
+with the lady's answer, occupies fifteen closely written pages of
+manuscript. That of Fitzosborne to Emma is not much shorter; but
+the amours of Fitzallen and Eleanor, being of a less romantic
+cast, are closed in three pages only. The three noble couples were
+married in Queenhoo-Hall upon the same day, being the twentieth
+Sunday after Easter. There is a prolix account of the marriage-
+feast, of which we can pick out the names of a few dishes, such as
+peterel, crane, sturgeon, swan, etc. etc., with a profusion of
+wild-fowl and venison. We also see that a suitable song was
+produced by Peretto on the occasion; and that the bishop who
+blessed the bridal beds which received the happy couples was no
+niggard of his holy water, bestowing half a gallon upon each of
+the couches. We regret we cannot give these curiosities to the
+reader in detail, but we hope to expose the manuscript to abler
+antiquaries so soon as it shall be framed and glazed by the
+ingenious artist who rendered that service to Mr. Ireland's
+Shakspeare MSS. And so (being unable to lay aside the style to
+which our pen is habituated), gentle reader, we bid thee heartily
+farewell.
+
+
+
+
+
+NO. III
+
+ANECDOTE OF SCHOOL DAYS
+
+UPON WHICH MR. THOMAS SCOTT PROPOSED TO FOUND A TALE OF FICTION
+
+It is well known in the South that there is little or no boxing at
+the Scottish schools. About forty or fifty years ago, however, a
+far more dangerous mode of fighting, in parties or factions, was
+permitted in the streets of Edinburgh, to the great disgrace of
+the police and danger of the parties concerned. These parties were
+generally formed from the quarters of the town in which the
+combatants resided, those of a particular square or district
+fighting against those of an adjoining one. Hence it happened that
+the children of the higher classes were often pitted against those
+of the lower, each taking their side according to the residence of
+their friends. So far as I recollect, however, it was unmingled
+either with feelings of democracy or aristocracy, or indeed with
+malice or ill-will of any kind towards the opposite party. In
+fact, it was only a rough mode of play. Such contests were,
+however, maintained with great vigour with stones and sticks and
+fisticuffs, when one party dared to charge and the other stood
+their ground. Of course mischief sometimes happened; boys are said
+to have been killed at these bickers, as they were called, and
+serious accidents certainly took place, as many contemporaries can
+bear witness.
+
+The author's father residing in George Square, in the southern
+side of Edinburgh, the boys belonging to that family, with others
+in the square, were arranged into a sort of company, to which a
+lady of distinction presented a handsome set of colours. Now this
+company or regiment, as a matter of course, was engaged in weekly
+warfare with the boys inhabiting the Crosscauseway, Bristo Street,
+the Potterrow--in short, the neighbouring suburbs. These last were
+chiefly of the lower rank, but hardy loons, who threw stones to a
+hair's-breadth and were very rugged antagonists at close quarters.
+The skirmish sometimes lasted for a whole evening, until one party
+or the other was victorious, when, if ours were successful, we
+drove the enemy to their quarters, and were usually chased back by
+the reinforcement of bigger lads who came to their assistance. If,
+on the contrary, we were pursued, as was often the case, into the
+precincts of our square, we were in our turn supported by our
+elder brothers, domestic servants, and similar auxiliaries.
+
+It followed, from our frequent opposition to each other, that,
+though not knowing the names of our enemies, we were yet well
+acquainted with their appearance, and had nicknames for the most
+remarkable of them. One very active and spirited boy might be
+considered as the principal leader in the cohort of the suburbs.
+He was, I suppose, thirteen or fourteen years old, finely made,
+tall, blue-eyed, with long fair hair, the very picture of a
+youthful Goth. This lad was always first in the charge and last in
+the retreat--the Achilles, at once, and Ajax of the
+Crosscauseway. He was too formidable to us not to have a cognomen,
+and, like that of a knight of old, it was taken from the most
+remarkable part of his dress, being a pair of old green livery
+breeches, which was the principal part of his clothing; for, like
+Pentapolin, according to Don Quixote's account, Green-Breeks, as
+we called him, always entered the battle with bare arms, legs, and
+feet.
+
+It fell, that once upon a time, when the combat was at the
+thickest, this plebeian champion headed a sudden charge, so rapid
+and furious that all fled before him. He was several paces before
+his comrades, and had actually laid his hands on the patrician
+standard, when one of our party, whom some misjudging friend had
+entrusted with a couleau de chasse, or hanger, inspired with a
+zeal for the honour of the corps worthy of Major Sturgeon himself,
+struck poor Green-Breeks over the head with strength sufficient to
+cut him down. When this was seen, the casualty was so far beyond
+what had ever taken place before, that both parties fled different
+ways, leaving poor Green-Breeks, with his bright hair plentifully
+dabbled in blood, to the care of the watchman, who (honest man)
+took care not to know who had done the mischief. The bloody hanger
+was flung into one of the Meadow ditches, and solemn secrecy was
+sworn on all hands; but the remorse and terror of the actor were
+beyond all bounds, and his apprehensions of the most dreadful
+character. The wounded hero was for a few days in the Infirmary,
+the case being only a trifling one. But, though inquiry was
+strongly pressed on him, no argument could make him indicate the
+person from whom he had received the wound, though he must have
+been perfectly well known to him. When he recovered and was
+dismissed, the author and his brothers opened a communication with
+him, through the medium of a popular ginger-bread baker, of whom
+both parties were customers, in order to tender a subsidy in name
+of smart-money. The sum would excite ridicule were I to name it;
+but sure I am that the pockets of the noted Green-Breeks never
+held as much money of his own. He declined the remittance, saying
+that he would not sell his blood; but at the same time reprobated
+the idea of being an informer, which he said was clam, i.e. base
+or mean. With much urgency he accepted a pound of snuff for the
+use of some old woman--aunt, grandmother, or the like--with whom
+he lived. We did not become friends, for the bickers were more
+agreeable to both parties than any more pacific amusement; but we
+conducted them ever after under mutual assurances of the highest
+consideration for each other.
+
+Such was the hero whom Mr. Thomas Scott proposed to carry to
+Canada, and involve in adventures with the natives and colonists
+of that country. Perhaps the youthful generosity of the lad will
+not seem so great in the eyes of others as to those whom it was
+the means of screening from severe rebuke and punishment. But it
+seemed to those concerned to argue a nobleness of sentiment far
+beyond the pitch of most minds; and however obscurely the lad who
+showed such a frame of noble spirit may have lived or died, I
+cannot help being of opinion that, if fortune had placed him in
+circumstances calling for gallantry or generosity, the man would
+have fulfilled the promise of the boy. Long afterwards, when the
+story was told to my father, he censured us severely for not
+telling the truth at the time, that he might have attempted to be
+of use to the young man in entering on life. But our alarms for
+the consequences of the drawn sword, and the wound inflicted with
+such a weapon, were far too predominant at the time for such a
+pitch of generosity.
+
+Perhaps I ought not to have inserted this schoolboy tale; but,
+besides the strong impression made by the incident at the time,
+the whole accompaniments of the story are matters to me of solemn
+and sad recollection. Of all the little band who were concerned in
+those juvenile sports or brawls, I can scarce recollect a single
+survivor. Some left the ranks of mimic war to die in the active
+service of their country. Many sought distant lands to return no
+more. Others, dispersed in different paths of life,'my dim eyes
+now seek for in vain.' Of five brothers, all healthy and promising
+in a degree far beyond one whose infancy was visited by personal
+infirmity, and whose health after this period seemed long very
+precarious, I am, nevertheless, the only survivor. The best loved,
+and the best deserving to be loved, who had destined this incident
+to be the foundation of literary composition, died 'before his
+day' in a distant and foreign land; and trifles assume an
+importance not their own when connected with those who have been
+loved and lost.
+
+
+
+
+
+NOTES
+
+
+NOTE I
+
+LONG the oracle of the country gentlemen of the high Tory party.
+The ancient News-Letter was written in manuscript and copied by
+clerks, who addressed the copies to the subscribers. The
+politician by whom they were compiled picked up his intelligence
+at coffee-houses, and often pleaded for an additional gratuity in
+consideration of the extra expense attached to frequenting such
+places of fashionable resort.
+
+NOTE 2
+
+There is a family legend to this purpose, belonging to the
+knightly family of Bradshaigh, the proprietors of Haigh Hall, in
+Lancashire, where, I have been told, the event is recorded on a
+painted glass window. The German ballad of the Noble Moringer
+turns upon a similar topic. But undoubtedly many such incidents
+may have taken place, where, the distance being great and the
+intercourse infrequent, false reports concerning the fate of the
+absent Crusaders must have been commonly circulated, and sometimes
+perhaps rather hastily credited at home.
+
+NOTE 3
+
+The attachment to this classic was, it is said, actually displayed
+in the manner mentioned in the text by an unfortunate Jacobite in
+that unhappy period. He escaped from the jail in which he was
+confined for a hasty trial and certain condemnation, and was
+retaken as he hovered around the place in which he had been
+imprisoned, for which he could give no better reason than the hope
+of recovering his favourite Titus Livius. I am sorry to add that
+the simplicity of such a character was found to form no apology
+for his guilt as a rebel, and that he was condemned and executed.
+
+NOTE 4
+
+Nicholas Amhurst, a noted political writer, who conducted for many
+years a paper called the Craftsman, under the assumed name of
+Caleb D'Anvers. He was devoted to the Tory interest, and seconded
+with much ability the attacks of Pulteney on Sir Robert Walpole.
+He died in 1742, neglected by his great patrons and in the most
+miserable circumstances.
+
+'Amhurst survived the downfall of Walpole's power, and had reason
+to expect a reward for his labours. If we excuse Bolingbroke, who
+had only saved the shipwreck of his fortunes, we shall be at a
+loss to justify Pulteney, who could with ease have given this man
+a considerable income. The utmost of his generosity to Amhurst
+that I ever heard of was a hogshead of claret! He died, it is
+supposed, of a broken heart; and was buried at the charge of his
+honest printer, Richard Francklin.'--Lord Chesterfield's
+Characters Reviewed, p. 42.
+
+NOTE 5
+
+I have now given in the text the full name of this gallant and
+excellent man, and proceed to copy the account of his remarkable
+conversion, as related by Doctor Doddridge.
+
+'This memorable event,' says the pious writer, 'happened towards
+the middle of July 1719. The major had spent the evening (and, if
+I mistake not, it was the Sabbath) in some gay company, and had an
+unhappy assignation with a married woman, whom he was to attend
+exactly at twelve. The company broke up about eleven, and, not
+judging it convenient to anticipate the time appointed, he went
+into his chamber to kill the tedious hour, perhaps with some
+amusing book, or some other way. But it very accidentally happened
+that he took up a religious book, which his good mother or aunt
+had, without his knowledge, slipped into his portmanteau. It was
+called, if I remember the title exactly, The Christian Soldier, or
+Heaven taken by Storm, and it was written by Mr. Thomas Watson.
+Guessing by the title of it that he would find some phrases of his
+own profession spiritualised in a manner which he thought might
+afford him some diversion, he resolved to dip into it, but he took
+no serious notice of anything it had in it; and yet, while this
+book was in his hand, an impression was made upon his mind
+(perhaps God only knows how) which drew after it a train of the
+most important and happy consequences. He thought he saw an
+unusual blaze of light fall upon the book which he was reading,
+which he at first imagined might happen by some accident in the
+candle, but, lifting up his eyes, he apprehended to his extreme
+amazement that there was before him, as it were suspended in the
+air, a visible representation of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the
+cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory; and was impressed as
+if a voice, or something equivalent to a voice, had come to him,
+to this effect (for he was not confident as to the words), "Oh,
+sinner! did I suffer this for thee, and are these thy returns?"
+Struck with so amazing a phenomenon as this, there remained hardly
+any life in him, so that he sunk down in the arm-chair in which he
+sat, and continued, he knew not how long, insensible.'
+
+'With regard to this vision,' says the ingenious Dr. Hibbert, 'the
+appearance of our Saviour on the cross, and the awful words
+repeated, can be considered in no other light than as so many
+recollected images of the mind, which probably had their origin in
+the language of some urgent appeal to repentance that the colonel
+might have casually read or heard delivered. From what cause,
+however, such ideas were rendered as vivid as actual impressions,
+we have no information to be depended upon. This vision was
+certainly attended with one of the most important of consequences
+connected with the Christian dispensation--the conversion of a
+sinner. And hence no single narrative has, perhaps, done more to
+confirm the superstitious opinion that apparitions of this awful
+kind cannot arise without a divine fiat.' Doctor Hibbert adds in a
+note--'A short time before the vision, Colonel Gardiner had
+received a severe fall from his horse. Did the brain receive some
+slight degree of injury from the accident, so as to predispose him
+to this spiritual illusion?'--Hibbert's Philosophy of Apparitions,
+Edinburgh, 1824, p. 190.
+
+NOTE 6
+
+The courtesy of an invitation to partake a traveller's meal, or at
+least that of being invited to share whatever liquor the guest
+called for, was expected by certain old landlords in Scotland even
+in the youth of the author. In requital mine host was always
+furnished with the news of the country, and was probably a little
+of a humorist to boot. The devolution of the whole actual business
+and drudgery of the inn upon the poor gudewife was very common
+among the Scottish Bonifaces. There was in ancient times, in the
+city of Edinburgh, a gentleman of good family who condescended, in
+order to gain a livelihood, to become the nominal keeper of a
+coffee-house, one of the first places of the kind which had been
+opened in the Scottish metropolis. As usual, it was entirely
+managed by the careful and industrious Mrs. B--; while her husband
+amused himself with field sports, without troubling his head about
+the matter. Once upon a time, the premises having taken fire, the
+husband was met walking up the High Street loaded with his guns
+and fishing-rods, and replied calmly to someone who inquired after
+his wife, 'that the poor woman was trying to save a parcel of
+crockery and some trumpery books'; the last being those which
+served her to conduct the business of the house.
+
+There were many elderly gentlemen in the author's younger days who
+still held it part of the amusement of a journey 'to parley with
+mine host,' who often resembled, in his quaint humour, mine Host
+of the Garter in the Merry Wives of Windsor; or Blague of the
+George in the Merry Devil of Edmonton. Sometimes the landlady took
+her share of entertaining the company. In either case the omitting
+to pay them due attention gave displeasure, and perhaps brought
+down a smart jest, as on the following occasion:
+
+A jolly dame who, not 'Sixty Years Since,' kept the principal
+caravansary at Greenlaw, in Berwickshire, had the honour to
+receive under her roof a very worthy clergyman, with three sons of
+the same profession, each having a cure of souls; be it said in
+passing, none of the reverend party were reckoned powerful in the
+pulpit. After dinner was over, the worthy senior, in the pride of
+his heart, asked Mrs. Buchan whether she ever had had such a party
+in her house before. 'Here sit I,' he said, 'a placed minister of
+the Kirk of Scotland, and here sit my three sons, each a placed
+minister of the same kirk. Confess, Luckie Buchan, you never had
+such a party in your house before.' The question was not premised
+by any invitation to sit down and take a glass of wine or the
+like, so Mrs. B. answered drily, 'Indeed, sir, I cannot just say
+that ever I had such a party in my house before, except once in
+the forty-five, when I had a Highland piper here, with his three
+sons, all Highland pipers; and deil a spring they could play amang
+them.'
+
+NOTE 7
+
+There is no particular mansion described under the name of Tully-
+Veolan; but the peculiarities of the description occur in various
+old Scottish seats. The House of Warrender upon Bruntsfield Links
+and that of Old Ravelston, belonging, the former to Sir George
+Warrender, the latter to Sir Alexander Keith, have both
+contributed several hints to the description in the text. The
+House of Dean, near Edinburgh, has also some points of resemblance
+with Tully-Veolan. The author has, however, been informed that the
+House of Grandtully resembles that of the Baron of Bradwardine
+still more than any of the above.
+
+NOTE 8
+
+I am ignorant how long the ancient and established custom of
+keeping fools has been disused in England. Swift writes an epitaph
+on the Earl of Suffolk's fool--
+
+Whose name was Dickie Pearce
+
+In Scotland, the custom subsisted till late in the last century;
+at Glamis Castle is preserved the dress of one of the jesters,
+very handsome, and ornamented with many bells. It is not above
+thirty years since such a character stood by the sideboard of a
+nobleman of the first rank in Scotland, and occasionally mixed in
+the conversation, till he carried the joke rather too far, in
+making proposals to one of the young ladies of the family, and
+publishing the bans betwixt her and himself in the public church.
+
+NOTE 9
+
+After the Revolution of 1688, and on some occasions when the
+spirit of the Presbyterians had been unusually animated against
+their opponents, the Episcopal clergymen, who were chiefly
+nonjurors, were exposed to be mobbed, as we should now say, or
+rabbled, as the phrase then went, to expiate their political
+heresies. But notwithstanding that the Presbyterians had the
+persecution in Charles II and his brother's time to exasperate
+them, there was little mischief done beyond the kind of petty
+violence mentioned in the text.
+
+NOTE 10
+
+I may here mention that the fashion of compotation described in
+the text was still occasionally practised in Scotland in the
+author's youth. A company, after having taken leave of their host,
+often went to finish the evening at the clachan or village, in
+'womb of tavern.' Their entertainer always accompanied them to
+take the stirrup-cup, which often occasioned a long and late
+revel.
+
+The poculum potatorium of the valiant Baron, his blessed Bear, has
+a prototype at the fine old Castle of Glamis, so rich in memorials
+of ancient times; it is a massive beaker of silver, double gilt,
+moulded into the shape of a lion, and holding about an English
+pint of wine. The form alludes to the family name of Strathmore,
+which is Lyon, and, when exhibited, the cup must necessarily be
+emptied to the Earl's health. The author ought perhaps to be
+ashamed of recording that he has had the honour of swallowing the
+contents of the Lion; and the recollection of the feat served to
+suggest the story of the Bear of Bradwardine. In the family of
+Scott of Thirlestane (not Thirlestane in the Forest, but the place
+of the same name in Roxburghshire) was long preserved a cup of the
+same kind, in the form of a jack-boot. Each guest was obliged to
+empty this at his departure. If the guest's name was Scott, the
+necessity was doubly imperative.
+
+When the landlord of an inn presented his guests with deoch an
+doruis, that is, the drink at the door, or the stirrup-cup, the
+draught was not charged in the reckoning. On this point a learned
+bailie of the town of Forfar pronounced a very sound judgment.
+
+A., an ale-wife in Forfar, had brewed her 'peck of malt' and set
+the liquor out of doors to cool; the cow of B., a neighbour of A.,
+chanced to come by, and seeing the good beverage, was allured to
+taste it, and finally to drink it up. When A. came to take in her
+liquor, she found her tub empty, and from the cow's staggering and
+staring, so as to betray her intemperance, she easily divined the
+mode in which her 'browst' had disappeared. To take vengeance on
+Crummie's ribs with a stick was her first effort. The roaring of
+the cow brought B., her master, who remonstrated with his angry
+neighbour, and received in reply a demand for the value of the ale
+which Crummie had drunk up. B. refused payment, and was conveyed
+before C., the bailie, or sitting magistrate. He heard the case
+patiently; and then demanded of the plaintiff A. whether the cow
+had sat down to her potation or taken it standing. The plaintiff
+answered, she had not seen the deed committed, but she supposed
+the cow drank the ale while standing on her feet, adding, that had
+she been near she would have made her use them to some purpose.
+The bailie, on this admission, solemnly adjudged the cow's drink
+to be deoch an doruis, a stirrup-cup, for which no charge could be
+made without violating the ancient hospitality of Scotland.
+
+NOTE 11
+
+The story last told was said to have happened in the south of
+Scotland; but cedant arma togae and let the gown have its dues. It
+was an old clergyman, who had wisdom and firmness enough to resist
+the panic which seized his brethren, who was the means of rescuing
+a poor insane creature from the cruel fate which would otherwise
+have overtaken her. The accounts of the trials for witchcraft form
+one of the most deplorable chapters in Scottish story.
+
+NOTE 12
+
+Although canting heraldry is generally reprobated, it seems
+nevertheless to have been adopted in the arms and mottos of many
+honourable families. Thus the motto of the Vernons, Ver non semper
+viret, is a perfect pun, and so is that of the Onslows, Festina
+lente. The Periissem ni per-iissem of the Anstruthers is liable to
+a similar objection. One of that ancient race, finding that an
+antagonist, with whom he had fixed a friendly meeting, was
+determined to take the opportunity of assassinating him, prevented
+the hazard by dashing out his brains with a battle-axe. Two sturdy
+arms, brandishing such a weapon, form the usual crest of the
+family, with the above motto, Periissem ni per-iissem--I had died,
+unless I had gone through with it.
+
+NOTE 13
+
+Mac-Donald of Barrisdale, one of the very last Highland gentlemen
+who carried on the plundering system to any great extent, was a
+scholar and a well-bred gentleman. He engraved on his broad-
+swords the well-known lines--
+
+    Hae tibi erunt artes pacisque imponere morem,
+    Parcere subjectis, et debellare superbos.
+
+Indeed, the levying of black-mail was, before 1745, practised by
+several chiefs of very high rank, who, in doing so, contended that
+they were lending the laws the assistance of their arms and
+swords, and affording a protection which could not be obtained
+from the magistracy in the disturbed state of the country. The
+author has seen a Memoir of Mac-Pherson of Cluny, chief of that
+ancient clan, from which it appears that he levied protection-
+money to a very large amount, which was willingly paid even by
+some of his most powerful neighbours. A gentleman of this clan,
+hearing a clergyman hold forth to his congregation on the crime of
+theft, interrupted the preacher to assure him, he might leave the
+enforcement of such doctrines to Cluny Mac-Pherson, whose
+broadsword would put a stop to theft sooner than all the sermons
+of all the ministers of the synod.
+
+NOTE 14
+
+The Town-guard of Edinburgh were, till a late period, armed with
+this weapon when on their police-duty. There was a hook at the
+back of the axe, which the ancient Highlanders used to assist them
+to climb over walls, fixing the hook upon it and raising
+themselves by the handle. The axe, which was also much used by the
+natives of Ireland, is supposed to have been introduced into both
+countries from Scandinavia.
+
+NOTE 15
+
+An adventure very similar to what is here stated actually befell
+the late Mr. Abercromby of Tullibody, grandfather of the present
+Lord Abercromby, and father of the celebrated Sir Ralph. When this
+gentleman, who lived to a very advanced period of life, first
+settled in Stirlingshire, his cattle were repeatedly driven off by
+the celebrated Rob Roy, or some of his gang; and at length he was
+obliged, after obtaining a proper safe-conduct, to make the
+cateran such a visit as that of Waverley to Bean Lean in the text.
+Rob received him with much courtesy, and made many apologies for
+the accident, which must have happened, he said, through some
+mistake. Mr. Abercromby was regaled with collops from two of his
+own cattle, which were hung up by the heels in the cavern, and was
+dismissed in perfect safety, after having agreed to pay in future
+a small sum of black-mail, in consideration of which Rob Roy not
+only undertook to forbear his herds in future, but to replace any
+that should be stolen from him by other freebooters. Mr.
+Abercromby said Rob Roy affected to consider him as a friend to
+the Jacobite interest and a sincere enemy to the Union. Neither of
+these circumstances were true; but the laird thought it quite
+unnecessary to undeceive his Highland host at the risk of bringing
+on a political dispute in such a situation. This anecdote I
+received many years since (about 1792) from the mouth of the
+venerable gentleman who was concerned in it.
+
+NOTE 16
+
+This celebrated gibbet was, in the memory of the last generation,
+still standing at the western end of the town of Crieff, in
+Perthshire. Why it was called the kind gallows we are unable to
+inform the reader with certainty; but it is alleged that the
+Highlanders used to touch their bonnets as they passed a place
+which had been fatal to many of their countrymen, with the
+ejaculation 'God bless her nain sell, and the Teil tamn you!' It
+may therefore have been called kind, as being a sort of native or
+kindred place of doom to those who suffered there, as in
+fulfilment of a natural destiny.
+
+NOTE 17
+
+The story of the bridegroom carried off by caterans on his bridal-
+day is taken from one which was told to the author by the late
+Laird of Mac-Nab many years since. To carry off persons from the
+Lowlands, and to put them to ransom, was a common practice with
+the wild Highlanders, as it is said to be at the present day with
+the banditti in the south of Italy. Upon the occasion alluded to,
+a party of caterans carried off the bridegroom and secreted him in
+some cave near the mountain of Schiehallion. The young man caught
+the small-pox before his ransom could be agreed on; and whether it
+was the fine cool air of the place, or the want of medical
+attendance, Mac-Nab did not pretend to be positive; but so it was,
+that the prisoner recovered, his ransom was paid, and he was
+restored to his friends and bride, but always considered the
+Highland robbers as having saved his life by their treatment of
+his malady.
+
+NOTE 18
+
+This happened on many occasions. Indeed, it was not till after the
+total destruction of the clan influence, after 1745, that
+purchasers could be found who offered a fair price for the estates
+forfeited in 1715, which were then brought to sale by the
+creditors of the York Buildings Company, who had purchased the
+whole, or greater part, from government at a very small price.
+Even so late as the period first mentioned, the prejudices of the
+public in favour of the heirs of the forfeited families threw
+various impediments in the way of intending purchasers of such
+property.
+
+NOTE 19
+
+This sort of political game ascribed to Mac-Ivor was in reality
+played by several Highland chiefs, the celebrated Lord Lovat in
+particular, who used that kind of finesse to the uttermost. The
+Laird of Mac---was also captain of an independent company, but
+valued the sweets of present pay too well to incur the risk of
+losing them in the Jacobite cause. His martial consort raised his
+clan and headed it in 1745. But the chief himself would have
+nothing to do with king-making, declaring himself for that
+monarch, and no other, who gave the Laird of Mac ---- 'half-a-guinea
+the day and half-a-guinea the morn.'
+
+NOTE 20
+
+In explanation of the military exercise observed at the Castle of
+Glennaquoich, the author begs to remark that the Highlanders were
+not only well practised in the use of the broadsword, firelock,
+and most of the manly sports and trials of strength common
+throughout Scotland, but also used a peculiar sort of drill,
+suited to their own dress and mode of warfare. There were, for
+instance, different modes of disposing the plaid, one when on a
+peaceful journey, another when danger was apprehended; one way of
+enveloping themselves in it when expecting undisturbed repose, and
+another which enabled them to start up with sword and pistol in
+hand on the slightest alarm.
+
+Previous to 1720 or thereabouts, the belted plaid was universally
+worn, in which the portion which surrounded the middle of the
+wearer and that which was flung around his shoulders were all of
+the same piece of tartan. In a desperate onset all was thrown
+away, and the clan charged bare beneath the doublet, save for an
+artificial arrangement of the shirt, which, like that of the
+Irish, was always ample, and for the sporran-mollach, or goat's-
+skin purse.
+
+The manner of handling the pistol and dirk was also part of the
+Highland manual exercise, which the author has seen gone through
+by men who had learned it in their youth.
+
+NOTE 21
+
+Pork or swine's flesh, in any shape, was, till of late years, much
+abominated by the Scotch, nor is it yet a favourite food amongst
+them. King Jamie carried this prejudice to England, and is known
+to have abhorred pork almost as much as he did tobacco. Ben Jonson
+has recorded this peculiarity, where the gipsy in a masque,
+examining the king's hand, says--
+
+You should, by this line,
+
+Love a horse and a hound, but no part of a swine.
+
+The Gipsies Metamorphosed.
+
+James's own proposed banquet for the Devil was a loin of pork and
+a poll of ling, with a pipe of tobacco for digestion.
+
+NOTE 22
+
+In the number of persons of all ranks who assembled at the same
+table, though by no means to discuss the same fare, the Highland
+chiefs only retained a custom which had been formerly universally
+observed throughout Scotland. 'I myself,' says the traveller,
+Fynes Morrison, in the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the scene
+being the Lowlands of Scotland, 'was at a knight's house, who had
+many servants to attend him, that brought in his meat with their
+heads covered with blue caps, the table being more than half
+furnished with great platters of porridge, each having a little
+piece of sodden meat. And when the table was served, the servants
+did sit down with us; but the upper mess, instead of porridge, had
+a pullet, with some prunes in the broth.'--Travels, p. 155.
+
+Till within this last century the farmers, even of a respectable
+condition, dined with their work-people. The difference betwixt
+those of high degree was ascertained by the place of the party
+above or below the salt, or sometimes by a line drawn with chalk
+on the dining-table. Lord Lovat, who knew well how to feed the
+vanity and restrain the appetites of his clansmen, allowed each
+sturdy Fraser who had the slightest pretensions to be a
+Duinhewassel the full honour of the sitting, but at the same time
+took care that his young kinsmen did not acquire at his table any
+taste for outlandish luxuries. His lordship was always ready with
+some honourable apology why foreign wines and French brandy,
+delicacies which he conceived might sap the hardy habits of his
+cousins, should not circulate past an assigned point on the table.
+
+NOTE 23
+
+In the Irish ballads relating to Fion (the Fingal of Mac-Pherson)
+there occurs, as in the primitive poetry of most nations, a cycle
+of heroes, each of whom has some distinguishing attribute; upon
+these qualities, and the adventures of those possessing them, many
+proverbs are formed, which are still current in the Highlands.
+Among other characters, Conan is distinguished as in some respects
+a kind of Thersites, but brave and daring even to rashness. He had
+made a vow that he would never take a blow without returning it;
+and having, like other heroes of antiquity, descended to the
+infernal regions, he received a cuff from the Arch-fiend who
+presided there, which he instantly returned, using the expression
+in the text. Sometimes the proverb is worded thus--'Claw for claw,
+and the devil take the shortest nails, as Conan said to the
+devil.'
+
+NOTE 24
+
+The description of the waterfall mentioned in this chapter is
+taken from that of Ledeard, at the farm so called, on the northern
+side of Lochard, and near the head of the lake, four or five miles
+from Aberfoyle. It is upon a small scale, but otherwise one of the
+most exquisite cascades it is possible to behold. The appearance
+of Flora with the harp, as described, has been justly censured as
+too theatrical and affected for the lady-like simplicity of her
+character. But something may be allowed to her French education,
+in which point and striking effect always make a considerable
+object.
+
+NOTE 25
+
+The author has been sometimes accused of confounding fiction with
+reality. He therefore thinks it necessary to state that the
+circumstance of the hunting described in the text as preparatory
+to the insurrection of 1745 is, so far as he knows, entirely
+imaginary. But it is well known such a great hunting was held in
+the Forest of Brae-Mar, under the auspices of the Earl of Mar, as
+preparatory to the Rebellion of 1715; and most of the Highland
+chieftains who afterwards engaged in that civil commotion were
+present on this occasion.
+
+
+
+
+
+GLOSSARY
+
+
+A', all.
+
+ABOON, abune, above.
+
+ABY, abye, endure, suffer.
+
+ACCOLADE, the salutation marking the bestowal of knighthood.
+
+AIN, own.
+
+ALANE, alone.
+
+AN, if.
+
+ANE, one.
+
+ARRAY, annoy, trouble.
+
+AULD, old.
+
+AWEEL, well.
+
+AYE, always.
+
+BAILIE, a city magistrate in Scotland.
+
+BAN, curse.
+
+BAWTY, sly, cunning.
+
+BAXTER, a baker.
+
+BEES, in the, stupefied, bewildered.
+
+BELIVE, belyve, by and by.
+
+BEN, in, inside.
+
+BENT, an open field.
+
+BHAIRD, a bard.
+
+BLACK-FISHING, fishing by torchlight poaching.
+
+BLINKED, glanced.
+
+BLUDE, braid, blood.
+
+BLYTHE, gay, glad.
+
+BODLE, a copper coin worth a third of an English penny.
+
+BOLE, a bowl.
+
+BOOT-KETCH, a boot-jack.
+
+BRAE, the side of a hill.
+
+BRISSEL-COCK, a turkey cock.
+
+BREEKS, breeches.
+
+BROGUES, Highland shoes.
+
+BROKEN MEN, outlaws.
+
+BROUGHT FAR BEN, held in special favor
+
+BROWST, a brewing.
+
+BRUIK, enjoy.
+
+BUCKIE, a perverse or refractory person.
+
+BULLSEGG, a gelded bull.
+
+BURD, bird, a term of familiarity.
+
+BURN, a brook.
+
+BUSKING, dress, decoration.
+
+BUTTOCK-MAIL, a fine for fornication.
+
+BYDAND, awaiting.
+
+CAILLIACHS, old women on whom devolved the duty of lamenting for
+the dead, which the Irish call keening.
+
+CALLANT, a young lad, a fine fellow.
+
+CANNY, prudent, skillful, lucky.
+
+CANTER, a canting, whining beggar.
+
+CANTRIP, a trick.
+
+CARLE, a churl, an old man.
+
+CATERAN, a Highland irregular soldier, a freebooter.
+
+CHAP, a customer.
+
+CLACHAN, a hamlet.
+
+CLAW FAVOUR, curry favour.
+
+CLAYMORE, a broad sword.
+
+CLEEK, a hook.
+
+CLEIK the cunzie, steal the silver.
+
+COB, beat.
+
+COBLE, a small fishing boat.
+
+COGS, wooden vessels.
+
+COGUE, a round wooden vessel.
+
+CONCUSSED, violently shaken, disturbed, forced.
+
+CORONACH, a dirge.
+
+CORRIE, a mountain hollow.
+
+COVE, a cave.
+
+CRAME, a booth, a merchant's shop.
+
+CREAGH, an incursion for plunder, termed on the Borders a raid.
+
+CROUSE, bold, courageous.
+
+CRUMMY, a cow with crooked horns.
+
+CUITTLE, tickle.
+
+CURRAGH, a Highland boat.
+
+DAFT, mad, foolish.
+
+DEBINDED, bound down.
+
+DECREET, an order of decree.
+
+DEOCH AN DORUIS, the stirrup-cup or parting drink.
+
+DERN, concealed, secret.
+
+DINMONTS, wethers in the second year.
+
+DOER, an agent, a manager.
+
+DOON, doun, down.
+
+DOVERING, dozing.
+
+DUINHE-WASSEL, dunniewassal, a Highland gentleman, usually the
+cadet of a family of rank.
+
+EANARUICH, the regalia presented by Rob Roy to the Laird of
+Tullibody.
+
+ENEUGH, eneuch, enough.
+
+ERGASTULO, in a penitentiary.
+
+EXEEMED, exempt.
+
+FACTORY, stewardship.
+
+FEAL AND DIVOT, turf and thatch.
+
+FECK, a quantity.
+
+FEIFTEEN, the Jacobite rebellion of 1715.
+
+FENDY, good at making a shift.
+
+FIRE-RAISING, setting an incendiary fire.
+
+FLEMIT, frightened,
+
+FRAE, from.
+
+FU, full.
+
+FULE, fool.
+
+GABERLUNZIE, a kind of professional beggar.
+
+GANE, gone.
+
+GANG, go.
+
+GAR, make.
+
+GATE, gait, way.
+
+GAUN, going.
+
+GAY, gey, very.
+
+GEAR, goods, property.
+
+GILLFLIRT, a flirty girl.
+
+GILLIE, a servant, an attendant.
+
+GILLIE-WET-FOOT, a barefooted Highland lad.
+
+GIMMER, a ewe from one to two years old.
+
+GLISKED, glimpsed.
+
+GRIPPLE, rapacious, niggardly.
+
+GULPIN, a simpleton.
+
+HA', hall.
+
+HAG, a portion of copse marked off for cutting.
+
+HAIL, whole.
+
+HALLAN, a partition, a screen.
+
+HAME, home.
+
+HANTLE, a great deal.
+
+HARST, harvest.
+
+HERSHIPS, plunder.
+
+HILDING, a coward.
+
+HIRSTS, knolls.
+
+HORNING, charge of, a summons to pay a debt, on pain of being
+pronounced a rebel, to the sound of a horn.
+
+HOWE, a hollow.
+
+HOULERYING AND POULERYING, hustling and pulling.
+
+HURLEY-HOUSE, a brokendown manor house.
+
+ILK, same; of that ilk, of the same name or place.
+
+ILKA, each, every.
+
+IN THE BEES, stupefied.
+
+INTROMIT, meddle with.
+
+KEN, know.
+
+KITTLE, tickle, ticklish.
+
+KNOBBLER, a male deer in its second year.
+
+KYLOE, a small Highland cow.
+
+LAIRD, squire, lord of the manor.
+
+LANG-LEGGIT, long-legged.
+
+LAWING, a tavern reckoning.
+
+LEE LAND, pasture land.
+
+LIE, a word used in old Scottish legal documents to call attention
+to the following word or phrase.
+
+LIFT, capture, carry off by theft.
+
+LIMMER, a jade.
+
+LOCH, a lake.
+
+LOON, an idle fellow, a lout, a rogue.
+
+LUCKIE, an elderly woman.
+
+LUG, an ear, a handle.
+
+LUNZIE, the loins, the waist.
+
+MAE, mair, more.
+
+MAINS, the chief farm of an estate.
+
+MALT ABUNE THE MEAL, the drink above the food, half-seas over.
+
+MAUN, must.
+
+MEAL ARK, a meal chest.
+
+MERK, 13 1/3 pence in English money.
+
+MICKLE, much, great.
+
+MISGUGGLED, mangled, rumpled.
+
+MONY, many.
+
+MORN, the morn, tomorrow.
+
+MORNING, a morning dram.
+
+MUCKLE, much, great.
+
+MUIR, moor.
+
+NA, nae, no, not.
+
+NAINSELL, own self.
+
+NICE, simple.
+
+NOLT, black cattle. ony, any.
+
+ORRA, odd, unemployed.
+
+ORRA-TIME, occasionally.
+
+OWER, over.
+
+PEEL-HOUSE, a fortified tower.
+
+PENDICLE, a small piece of ground.
+
+PINGLE, a fuss, trouble.
+
+PLENISHING, furnishings.
+
+PLOY, sport, entertainment.
+
+PRETTY MEN, stout, warlike fellows.
+
+REIFS, robberies.
+
+REIVERS, robbers.
+
+RIGGS, ridges, ploughed ground.
+
+ROKELAY, a short cloak.
+
+RUDAS, coarse, hag-like.
+
+SAIN, mark with the sign of the cross, bless.
+
+SAIR, sore, very.
+
+SAUMON, salmon.
+
+SAUT, salt.
+
+SAY, a sample.
+
+SCHELLUM, a rascal.
+
+SCOUPING, scowping, skipping, leaping, running.
+
+SEANNACHIE, a Highland antiquary.
+
+SHEARING, reaping, harvest.
+
+SHILPIT, weak, sickly.
+
+SHOON, shoes.
+
+SIC, siccan, such.
+
+SIDIER DHU, black soldiers, independent companies raised to keep
+peace in the Highlands; named from the tartans they wore.
+
+SIDIER ROY, red soldiers, King George's men.
+
+SIKES, small brooks.
+
+SILLER, silver, money.
+
+SIMMER, summer.
+
+SLIVER, slice, slit.
+
+SMOKY, suspicious.
+
+SNECK, cut.
+
+SNOOD, a fillet worn by young women.
+
+SOPITE, quiet a brawl.
+
+SORNERS, sornars, sojourners, sturdy beggars, especially those
+unwelcome visitors who exact lodgings and victuals by force.
+
+SORTED, arranged, adjusted.
+
+SPEIR, ask, investigate.
+
+SPORRAN-MOLLACH, a Highland purse of goatskin.
+
+SPRACK, animated, lively.
+
+SPRING, a cheerful tune.
+
+SPURRZIE, spoil.
+
+STIEVE, stiff, firm.
+
+STIRK, a young steer or heifer.
+
+STOT, a bullock.
+
+STOUP, a jug, a pitcher.
+
+STOUTHREEF, robbery.
+
+STRAE, straw.
+
+STRATH, a valley through which a river runs.
+
+SYBOES, onions.
+
+TA, the. TAIGLIT, harassed, loitered.
+
+TAILZIE, taillie, a deed of entail.
+
+TAPPIT-HEN, a pewter pot that holds three English quarts.
+
+TAYOUT, tailliers-hors; in modern phrase, Tally-ho!
+
+TEIL, the devil.
+
+TEINDS, tithes.
+
+TELT, told.
+
+TILL, to. TOUN, a hamlet, a farm.
+
+TREWS, trousers.
+
+TROW, believe, suppose.
+
+TWA, two.
+
+TYKE, a dog, a snarling fellow.
+
+UNCO, strange, very.
+
+UNKENN'D, unknown.
+
+USQUEBAUGH, whiskey.
+
+WA', wall.
+
+WARE, spend.
+
+WEEL, well.
+
+WHA, who.
+
+WHAR, where.
+
+WHAT FOR, why.
+
+WHILK, which.
+
+WISKE, whisk, brandish.
+
+
+
+
+
+END OF VOLUME I
+WAVERLEY
+
+BY SIR WALTER SCOTT
+
+VOLUME II
+
+
+
+
+
+WAVERLEY
+
+OR 'TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVI
+
+AN INCIDENT
+
+
+The dinner hour of Scotland Sixty Years Since was two o'clock. It
+was therefore about four o'clock of a delightful autumn afternoon
+that Mr. Gilfillan commenced his march, in hopes, although
+Stirling was eighteen miles distant, he might be able, by becoming
+a borrower of the night for an hour or two, to reach it that
+evening. He therefore put forth his strength, and marched stoutly
+along at the head of his followers, eyeing our hero from time to
+time, as if he longed to enter into controversy with him. At
+length, unable to resist the temptation, he slackened his pace
+till he was alongside of his prisoner's horse, and after marching
+a few steps in silence abreast of him, he suddenly asked--'Can ye
+say wha the carle was wi' the black coat and the mousted head,
+that was wi' the Laird of Cairnvreckan?'
+
+'A Presbyterian clergyman,' answered Waverley.
+
+'Presbyterian!' answered Gilfillan contemptuously; 'a wretched
+Erastian, or rather an obscure Prelatist, a favourer of the black
+indulgence, ane of thae dumb dogs that canna bark; they tell ower
+a clash o' terror and a clatter o' comfort in their sermons,
+without ony sense, or savour, or life. Ye've been fed in siccan a
+fauld, belike?'
+
+'No; I am of the Church of England,' said Waverley.
+
+'And they're just neighbour-like,' replied the Covenanter; 'and
+nae wonder they gree sae weel. Wha wad hae thought the goodly
+structure of the Kirk of Scotland, built up by our fathers in
+1642, wad hae been defaced by carnal ends and the corruptions of
+the time;--ay, wha wad hae thought the carved work of the
+sanctuary would hae been sae soon cut down!'
+
+To this lamentation, which one or two of the assistants chorussed
+with a deep groan, our hero thought it unnecessary to make any
+reply. Whereupon Mr. Gilfillan, resolving that he should be a
+hearer at least, if not a disputant, proceeded in his Jeremiade.
+
+'And now is it wonderful, when, for lack of exercise anent the
+call to the service of the altar and the duty of the day,
+ministers fall into sinful compliances with patronage, and
+indemnities, and oaths, and bonds, and other corruptions,--is it
+wonderful, I say, that you, sir, and other sic-like unhappy
+persons, should labour to build up your auld Babel of iniquity, as
+in the bluidy persecuting saint-killing times? I trow, gin ye
+werena blinded wi' the graces and favours, and services and
+enjoyments, and employments and inheritances, of this wicked
+world, I could prove to you, by the Scripture, in what a filthy
+rag ye put your trust; and that your surplices, and your copes and
+vestments, are but cast-off garments of the muckle harlot that
+sitteth upon seven hills and drinketh of the cup of abomination.
+But, I trow, ye are deaf as adders upon that side of the head; ay,
+ye are deceived with her enchantments, and ye traffic with her
+merchandise, and ye are drunk with the cup of her fornication!'
+
+How much longer this military theologist might have continued his
+invective, in which he spared nobody but the scattered remnant of
+HILL-FOLK, as he called them, is absolutely uncertain. His matter
+was copious, his voice powerful, and his memory strong; so that
+there was little chance of his ending his exhortation till the
+party had reached Stirling, had not his attention been attracted
+by a pedlar who had joined the march from a cross-road, and who
+sighed or groaned with great regularity at all fitting pauses of
+his homily.
+
+'And what may ye be, friend?' said the Gifted Gilfillan.
+
+'A puir pedlar, that's bound for Stirling, and craves the
+protection of your honour's party in these kittle times. Ah' your
+honour has a notable faculty in searching and explaining the
+secret,--ay, the secret and obscure and incomprehensible causes of
+the backslidings of the land; ay, your honour touches the root o'
+the matter.'
+
+'Friend,' said Gilfillan, with a more complacent voice than he had
+hitherto used, 'honour not me. I do not go out to park-dikes and
+to steadings and to market-towns to have herds and cottars and
+burghers pull off their bonnets to me as they do to Major Melville
+o' Cairnvreckan, and ca' me laird or captain or honour. No; my
+sma' means, whilk are not aboon twenty thousand merk, have had the
+blessing of increase, but the pride of my heart has not increased
+with them; nor do I delight to be called captain, though I have
+the subscribed commission of that gospel-searching nobleman, the
+Earl of Glencairn, fa whilk I am so designated. While I live I am
+and will be called Habakkuk Gilfillan, who will stand up for the
+standards of doctrine agreed on by the ance famous Kirk of
+Scotland, before she trafficked with the accursed Achan, while he
+has a plack in his purse or a drap o' bluid in his body.'
+
+'Ah,' said the pedlar, 'I have seen your land about Mauchlin. A
+fertile spot! your lines have fallen in pleasant places! And
+siccan a breed o' cattle is not in ony laird's land in Scotland.'
+
+'Ye say right,--ye say right, friend' retorted Gilfillan eagerly,
+for he was not inaccessible to flattery upon this subject,--'ye
+say right; they are the real Lancashire, and there's no the like
+o' them even at the mains of Kilmaurs'; and he then entered into a
+discussion of their excellences, to which our readers will
+probably be as indifferent as our hero. After this excursion the
+leader returned to his theological discussions, while the pedlar,
+less profound upon those mystic points, contented himself with
+groaning and expressing his edification at suitable intervals.
+
+'What a blessing it would be to the puir blinded popish nations
+among whom I hae sojourned, to have siccan a light to their paths!
+I hae been as far as Muscovia in my sma' trading way, as a
+travelling merchant, and I hae been through France, and the Low
+Countries, and a' Poland, and maist feck o' Germany, and O! it
+would grieve your honour's soul to see the murmuring and the
+singing and massing that's in the kirk, and the piping that's in
+the quire, and the heathenish dancing and dicing upon the
+Sabbath!'
+
+This set Gilfillan off upon the Book of Sports and the Covenant,
+and the Engagers, and the Protesters, and the Whiggamore's Raid,
+and the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and the Longer and
+Shorter Catechism, and the Excommunication at Torwood, and the
+slaughter of Archbishop Sharp. This last topic, again, led him
+into the lawfulness of defensive arms, on which subject he uttered
+much more sense than could have been expected from some other
+parts of his harangue, and attracted even Waverley's attention,
+who had hitherto been lost in his own sad reflections. Mr.
+Gilfillan then considered the lawfulness of a private man's
+standing forth as the avenger of public oppression, and as he was
+labouring with great earnestness the cause of Mas James Mitchell,
+who fired at the Archbishop of Saint Andrews some years before the
+prelate's assassination on Magus Muir, an incident occurred which
+interrupted his harangue.
+
+The rays of the sun were lingering on the very verge of the
+horizon as the party ascended a hollow and somewhat steep path
+which led to the summit of a rising ground. The country was
+uninclosed, being part of a very extensive heath or common; but it
+was far from level, exhibiting in many places hollows filled with
+furze and broom; in others, little dingles of stunted brushwood. A
+thicket of the latter description crowned the hill up which the
+party ascended. The foremost of the band, being the stoutest and
+most active, had pushed on, and, having surmounted the ascent,
+were out of ken for the present. Gilfillan, with the pedlar and
+the small party who were Waverley's more immediate guard, were
+near the top of the ascent, and the remainder straggled after them
+at a considerable interval.
+
+Such was the situation of matters when the pedlar, missing, as he
+said, a little doggie which belonged to him, began to halt and
+whistle for the animal. This signal, repeated more than once, gave
+offence to the rigour of his companion, the rather because it
+appeared to indicate inattention to the treasures of theological
+and controversial knowledge which were pouring out for his
+edification. He therefore signified gruffly that he could not
+waste his time in waiting for an useless cur.
+
+'But if your honour wad consider the case of Tobit--'
+
+'Tobit!' exclaimed Gilffflan, with great heat; 'Tobit and his dog
+baith are altogether heathenish and apocryphal, and none but a
+prelatist or a papist would draw them into question. I doubt I hae
+been mista'en in you, friend.'
+
+'Very likely,' answered the pedlar, with great composure; 'but
+ne'ertheless, I shall take leave to whistle again upon puir
+Bawty.'
+
+This last signal was answered in an unexpected manner; for six or
+eight stout Highlanders, who lurked among the copse and brushwood,
+sprung into the hollow way and began to lay about them with their
+claymores. Gilfillan, unappalled at this undesirable apparition,
+cried out manfully, 'The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!' and,
+drawing his broadsword, would probably have done as much credit to
+the good old cause as any of its doughty champions at Drumclog,
+when, behold! the pedlar, snatching a musket from the person who
+was next him bestowed the butt of it with such emphasis on the
+head of his late instructor in the Cameronian creed that he was
+forthwith levelled to the ground. In the confusion which ensued
+the horse which bore our hero was shot by one of Gilfillan's
+party, as he discharged his firelock at random. Waverley fell
+with, and indeed under, the animal, and sustained some severe
+contusions. But he was almost instantly extricated from the fallen
+steed by two Highlanders, who, each seizing him by the arm,
+hurried him away from the scuffle and from the highroad. They ran
+with great speed, half supporting and half dragging our hero, who
+could, however, distinguish a few dropping shots fired about the
+spot which he had left. This, as he afterwards learned, proceeded
+from Gilfillan's party, who had now assembled, the stragglers in
+front and rear having joined the others. At their approach the
+Highlanders drew off, but not before they had rifled Gilfillan and
+two of his people, who remained on the spot grievously wounded. A
+few shots were exchanged betwixt them and the Westlanders; but the
+latter, now without a commander, and apprehensive of a second
+ambush, did not make any serious effort to recover their prisoner,
+judging it more wise to proceed on their journey to Stirling,
+carrying with them their wounded captain and comrades.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVII
+
+WAVERLEY IS STILL IN DISTRESS
+
+
+The velocity, and indeed violence, with which Waverley was hurried
+along nearly deprived him of sensation; for the injury he had
+received from his fall prevented him from aiding himself so
+effectually as he might otherwise have done. When this was
+observed by his conductors, they called to their aid two or three
+others of the party, and, swathing our hero's body in one of their
+plaids, divided his weight by that means among them, and
+transported him at the same rapid rate as before, without any
+exertion of his own. They spoke little, and that in Gaelic; and
+did not slacken their pace till they had run nearly two miles,
+when they abated their extreme rapidity, but continued still to
+walk very fast, relieving each other occasionally.
+
+Our hero now endeavoured to address them, but was only answered
+with 'Cha n'eil Beurl agam' i.e. 'I have no English,' being, as
+Waverley well knew, the constant reply of a Highlander when he
+either does not understand or does not choose to reply to an
+Englishman or Lowlander. He then mentioned the name of Vich lan
+Vohr, concluding that he was indebted to his friendship for his
+rescue from the clutches of Gifted Gilfillan, but neither did this
+produce any mark of recognition from his escort.
+
+The twilight had given place to moonshine when the party halted
+upon the brink of a precipitous glen, which, as partly enlightened
+by the moonbeams, seemed full of trees and tangled brushwood. Two
+of the Highlanders dived into it by a small foot-path, as if to
+explore its recesses, and one of them returning in a few minutes,
+said something to his companions, who instantly raised their
+burden and bore him, with great attention and care, down the
+narrow and abrupt descent. Notwithstanding their precautions,
+however, Waverley's person came more than once into contact,
+rudely enough, with the projecting stumps and branches which
+overhung the pathway.
+
+At the bottom of the descent, and, as it seemed, by the side of a
+brook (for Waverley heard the rushing of a considerable body of
+water, although its stream was invisible in the darkness), the
+party again stopped before a small and rudely-constructed hovel.
+The door was open, and the inside of the premises appeared as
+uncomfortable and rude as its situation and exterior foreboded.
+There was no appearance of a floor of any kind; the roof seemed
+rent in several places; the walls were composed of loose stones
+and turf, and the thatch of branches of trees. The fire was in the
+centre, and filled the whole wigwam with smoke, which escaped as
+much through the door as by means of a circular aperture in the
+roof. An old Highland sibyl, the only inhabitant of this forlorn
+mansion, appeared busy in the preparation of some food. By the
+light which the fire afforded Waverley could discover that his
+attendants were not of the clan of Ivor, for Fergus was
+particularly strict in requiring from his followers that they
+should wear the tartan striped in the mode peculiar to their race;
+a mark of distinction anciently general through the Highlands, and
+still maintained by those Chiefs who were proud of their lineage
+or jealous of their separate and exclusive authority.
+
+Edward had lived at Glennaquoich long enough to be aware of a
+distinction which he had repeatedly heard noticed, and now
+satisfied that he had no interest with, his attendants, he glanced
+a disconsolate eye around the interior of the cabin. The only
+furniture, excepting a washing-tub and a wooden press, called in
+Scotland an ambry, sorely decayed, was a large wooden bed,
+planked, as is usual, all around, and opening by a sliding panel.
+In this recess the Highlanders deposited Waverley, after he had by
+signs declined any refreshment. His slumbers were broken and
+unrefreshing; strange visions passed before his eyes, and it
+required constant and reiterated efforts of mind to dispel them.
+Shivering, violent headache, and shooting pains in his limbs
+succeeded these symptoms; and in the morning it was evident to his
+Highland attendants or guard, for he knew not in which light to
+consider them, that Waverley was quite unfit to travel.
+
+After a long consultation among themselves, six of the party left
+the hut with their arms, leaving behind an old and a young man.
+The former addressed Waverley, and bathed the contusions, which
+swelling and livid colour now made conspicuous. His own
+portmanteau, which the Highlanders had not failed to bring off,
+supplied him with linen, and to his great surprise was, with all
+its undiminished contents, freely resigned to his use. The bedding
+of his couch seemed clean and comfortable, and his aged attendant
+closed the door of the bed, for it had no curtain, after a few
+words of Gaelic, from which Waverley gathered that he exhorted him
+to repose. So behold our hero for a second time the patient of a
+Highland Esculapius, but in a situation much more uncomfortable
+than when he was the guest of the worthy Tomanrait.
+
+The symptomatic fever which accompanied the injuries he had
+sustained did not abate till the third day, when it gave way to
+the care of his attendants and the strength of his constitution,
+and he could now raise himself in his bed, though not without
+pain. He observed, however, that there was a great disinclination
+on the part of the old woman who acted as his nurse, as well as on
+that of the elderly Highlander, to permit the door of the bed to
+be left open, so that he might amuse himself with observing their
+motions; and at length, after Waverley had repeatedly drawn open
+and they had as frequently shut the hatchway of his cage, the old
+gentleman put an end to the contest by securing it on the outside
+with a nail so effectually that the door could not be drawn till
+this exterior impediment was removed.
+
+While musing upon the cause of this contradictory spirit in
+persons whose conduct intimated no purpose of plunder, and who, in
+all other points, appeared to consult his welfare and his wishes,
+it occurred to our hero that, during the worst crisis of his
+illness, a female figure, younger than his old Highland nurse, had
+appeared to flit around his couch. Of this, indeed, he had but a
+very indistinct recollection, but his suspicions were confirmed
+when, attentively listening, he often heard, in the course of the
+day, the voice of another female conversing in whispers with his
+attendant. Who could it be? And why should she apparently desire
+concealment? Fancy immediately aroused herself and turned to Flora
+Mac-Ivor. But after a short conflict between his eager desire to
+believe she was in his neighbourhood, guarding, like an angel of
+mercy, the couch of his sickness, Waverley was compelled to
+conclude that his conjecture was altogether improbable; since, to
+suppose she had left her comparatively safe situation at
+Glennaquoich to descend into the Low Country, now the seat of
+civil war, and to inhabit such a lurking-place as this, was a
+thing hardly to be imagined. Yet his heart bounded as he sometimes
+could distinctly hear the trip of a light female step glide to or
+from the door of the hut, or the suppressed sounds of a female
+voice, of softness and delicacy, hold dialogue with the hoarse
+inward croak of old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated
+attendant was denominated.
+
+Having nothing else to amuse his solitude, he employed himself in
+contriving some plan to gratify his curiosity, in despite of the
+sedulous caution of Janet and the old Highland janizary, for he
+had never seen the young fellow since the first morning. At
+length, upon accurate examination, the infirm state of his wooden
+prison-house appeared to supply the means of gratifying his
+curiosity, for out of a spot which was somewhat decayed he was
+able to extract a nail. Through this minute aperture he could
+perceive a female form, wrapped in a plaid, in the act of
+conversing with Janet. But, since the days of our grandmother Eve,
+the gratification of inordinate curiosity has generally borne its
+penalty in disappointment. The form was not that of Flora, nor was
+the face visible; and, to crown his vexation, while he laboured
+with the nail to enlarge the hole, that he might obtain a more
+complete view, a slight noise betrayed his purpose, and the object
+of his curiosity instantly disappeared, nor, so far as he could
+observe, did she again revisit the cottage.
+
+All precautions to blockade his view were from that time
+abandoned, and he was not only permitted but assisted to rise, and
+quit what had been, in a literal sense, his couch of confinement.
+But he was not allowed to leave the hut; for the young Highlander
+had now rejoined his senior, and one or other was constantly on
+the watch. Whenever Waverley approached the cottage dooi the
+sentinel upon duty civilly, but resolutely, placed himself against
+it and opposed his exit, accompanying his action with signs which
+seemed to imply there was danger in the attempt and an enemy in
+the neighbourhood. Old Janet appeared anxious and upon the watch;
+and Waverley, who had not yet recovered strength enough to attempt
+to take his departure in spite of the opposition of his hosts, was
+under the necessity of remaining patient His fare was, in every
+point of view, better than he could have conceived, for poultry,
+and even wine, were no strangers to his table. The Highlanders
+never presumed to eat with him, and, unless in the circumstance of
+watching him, treated him with great respect. His sole amusement
+was gazing from the window, or rather the shapeless aperture which
+was meant to answer the purpose of a window, upon a large and
+rough brook, which raged and foamed through a rocky channel,
+closely canopied with trees and bushes, about ten feet beneath the
+site of his house of captivity.
+
+Upon the sixth day of his confinement Waverley found himself so
+well that he began to meditate his escape from this dull and
+miserable prison-house, thinking any risk which he might incur in
+the attempt preferable to the stupefying and intolerable
+uniformity of Janet's retirement. The question indeed occurred,
+whither he was to direct his course when again at his own
+disposal. Two schemes seemed practicable, yet both attended with
+danger and difficulty. One was to go back to Glennaquoich and join
+Fergus Mac-Ivor, by whom he was sure to be kindly received; and in
+the present state of his mind, the rigour with which he had been
+treated fully absolved him, in his own eyes, from his allegiance
+to the existing government. The other project was to endeavour to
+attain a Scottish seaport, and thence to take shipping for
+England. His mind wavered between these plans, and probably, if he
+had effected his escape in the manner he proposed, he would have
+been finally determined by the comparative facility by which
+either might have been executed. But his fortune had settled that
+he was not to be left to his option.
+
+Upon the evening of the seventh day the door of the hut suddenly
+opened, and two Highlanders entered, whom Waverley recognised as
+having been a part of his original escort to this cottage. They
+conversed for a short time with the old man and his companion, and
+then made Waverley understand, by very significant signs, that he
+was to prepare to accompany them. This was a joyful communication.
+What had already passed during his confinement made it evident
+that no personal injury was designed to him; and his romantic
+spirit, having recovered during his repose much of that elasticity
+which anxiety, resentment, disappointment, and the mixture of
+unpleasant feelings excited by his late adventures had for a time
+subjugated, was now wearied with inaction. His passion for the
+wonderful, although it is the nature of such dispositions to be
+excited by that degree of danger which merely gives dignity to the
+feeling of the individual exposed to it, had sunk under the
+extraordinary and apparently insurmountable evils by which he
+appeared environed at Cairnvreckan. In fact, this compound of
+intense curiosity and exalted imagination forms a peculiar species
+of courage, which somewhat resembles the light usually carried by
+a miner--sufficiently competent, indeed, to afford him guidance
+and comfort during the ordinary perils of his labour, but certain
+to be extinguished should he encounter the more formidable hazard
+of earth damps or pestiferous vapours. It was now, however, once
+more rekindled, and with a throbbing mixture of hope, awe, and
+anxiety, Waverley watched the group before him, as those who were
+just arrived snatched a hasty meal, and the others assumed their
+arms and made brief preparations for their departure.
+
+As he sat in the smoky hut, at some distance from the fire, around
+which the others were crowded, he felt a gentle pressure upon his
+arm. He looked round; it was Alice, the daughter of Donald Bean
+Lean. She showed him a packet of papers in such a manner that the
+motion was remarked by no one else, put her finger for a second to
+her lips, and passed on, as if to assist old Janet in packing
+Waverley's clothes in his portmanteau. It was obviously her wish
+that he should not seem to recognise her, yet she repeatedly
+looked back at him, as an opportunity occurred of doing so
+unobserved, and when she saw that he remarked what she did, she
+folded the packet with great address and speed in one of his
+shirts, which she deposited in the portmanteau.
+
+Here then was fresh food for conjecture. Was Alice his unknown
+warden, and was this maiden of the cavern the tutelar genius that
+watched his bed during his sickness? Was he in the hands of her
+father? and if so, what was his purpose? Spoil, his usual object,
+seemed in this case neglected; for not only Waverley's property
+was restored, but his purse, which might have tempted this
+professional plunderer, had been all along suffered to remain in
+his possession. All this perhaps the packet might explain; but it
+was plain from Alice's manner that she desired he should consult
+it in secret. Nor did she again seek his eye after she had
+satisfied herself that her manoeuvre was observed and understood.
+On the contrary, she shortly afterwards left the hut, and it was
+only as she tript out from the door, that, favoured by the
+obscurity, she gave Waverley a parting smile and nod of
+significance ere she vanished in the dark glen.
+
+The young Highlander was repeatedly despatched by his comrades as
+if to collect intelligence. At length, when he had returned for
+the third or fourth time, the whole party arose and made signs to
+our hero to accompany them. Before his departure, however, he
+shook hands with old Janet, who had been so sedulous in his
+behalf, and added substantial marks of his gratitude for her
+attendance.
+
+'God bless you! God prosper you, Captain Waverley!' said Janet, in
+good Lowland Scotch, though he had never hithero heard her utter a
+syllable, save in Gaelic. But the impatience of his attendants
+prohibited his asking any explanation.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVIII
+
+A NOCTURNAL ADVENTURE
+
+
+There was a moment's pause when the whole party had got out of the
+hut; and the Highlander who assumed the command, and who, in
+Waverley's awakened recollection, seemed to be the same tall
+figure who had acted as Donald Bean Lean's lieutenant, by whispers
+and signs imposed the strictest silence. He delivered to Edward a
+sword and steel pistol, and, pointing up the track, laid his hand
+on the hilt of his own claymore, as if to make him sensible they
+might have occasion to use force to make good their passage. He
+then placed himself at the head of the party, who moved up the
+pathway in single or Indian file, Waverley being placed nearest to
+their leader. He moved with great precaution, as if to avoid
+giving any alarm, and halted as soon as he came to the verge of
+the ascent. Waverley was soon sensible of the reason, for he heard
+at no great distance an English sentinel call out 'All's well.'
+The heavy sound sunk on the night-wind down the woody glen, and
+was answered by the echoes of its banks. A second, third, and
+fourth time the signal was repeated fainter and fainter, as if at
+a greater and greater distance. It was obvious that a party of
+soldiers were near, and upon their guard, though not sufficiently
+so to detect men skilful in every art of predatory warfare, like
+those with whom he now watched their ineffectual precautions.
+
+When these sounds had died upon the silence of the night, the
+Highlanders began their march swiftly, yet with the most cautious
+silence. Waverley had little time, or indeed disposition, for
+observation, and could only discern that they passed at some
+distance from a large building, in the windows of which a light or
+two yet seemed to twinkle. A little farther on the leading
+Highlander snuffed the wind like a setting spaniel, and then made
+a signal to his party again to halt. He stooped down upon all
+fours, wrapped up in his plaid, so as to be scarce distinguishable
+from the heathy ground on which he moved, and advanced in this
+posture to reconnoitre. In a short time he returned, and dismissed
+his attendants excepting one; and, intimating to Waverley that he
+must imitate his cautious mode of proceeding, all three crept
+forward on hands and knees.
+
+After proceeding a greater way in this inconvenient manner than
+was at all comfortable to his knees and shins, Waverley perceived
+the smell of smoke, which probably had been much sooner
+distinguished by the more acute nasal organs of his guide. It
+proceeded from the corner of a low and ruinous sheep-fold, the
+walls of which were made of loose stones, as is usual in Scotland.
+Close by this low wall the Highlander guided Waverley, and, in
+order probably to make him sensible of his danger, or perhaps to
+obtain the full credit of his own dexterity, he intimated to him,
+by sign and example, that he might raise his head so as to peep
+into the sheep-fold. Waverley did so, and beheld an outpost of
+four or five soldiers lying by their watch-fire. They were all
+asleep except the sentinel, who paced backwards and forwards with
+his firelock on his shoulder, which glanced red in the light of
+the fire as he crossed and re-crossed before it in his short walk,
+casting his eye frequently to that part of the heavens from which
+the moon, hitherto obscured by mist, seemed now about to make her
+appearance.
+
+In the course of a minute or two, by one of those sudden changes
+of atmosphere incident to a mountainous country, a breeze arose
+and swept before it the clouds which had covered the horizon, and
+the night planet poured her full effulgence upon a wide and
+blighted heath, skirted indeed with copse-wood and stunted trees
+in the quarter from which they had come, but open and bare to the
+observation of the sentinel in that to which their course tended.
+The wall of the sheep-fold indeed concealed them as they lay, but
+any advance beyond its shelter seemed impossible without certain
+discovery.
+
+The Highlander eyed the blue vault, but far from blessing the
+useful light with Homer's, or rather Pope's benighted peasant, he
+muttered a Gaelic curse upon the unseasonable splendour of Mac-
+Farlane's buat (i.e. lantern) [Footnote: See Note 1]. He looked
+anxiously around for a few minutes, and then apparently took his
+resolution. Leaving his attendant with Waverley, after motioning
+to Edward to remain quiet, and giving his comrade directions in a
+brief whisper, he retreated, favoured by the irregularity of the
+ground, in the same direction and in the same manner as they had
+advanced. Edward, turning his head after him, could perceive him
+crawling on all fours with the dexterity of an Indian, availing
+himself of every bush and inequality to escape observation, and
+never passing over the more exposed parts of his track until the
+sentinel's back was turned from him. At length he reached the
+thickets and underwood which partly covered the moor in that
+direction, and probably extended to the verge of the glen where
+Waverley had been so long an inhabitant. The Highlander
+disappeared, but it was only for a few minutes, for he suddenly
+issued forth from a different part of the thicket, and, advancing
+boldly upon the open heath as if to invite discovery, he levelled
+his piece and fired at the sentinel. A wound in the arm proved a
+disagreeable interruption to the poor fellow's meteorological
+observations, as well as to the tune of 'Nancy Dawson,' which he
+was whistling. He returned the fire ineffectually, and his
+comrades, starting up at the alarm, advanced alertly towards the
+spot from which the first shot had issued. The Highlander, after
+giving them a full view of his person, dived among the thickets,
+for his ruse de guerre had now perfectly succeeded.
+
+While the soldiers pursued the cause of their disturbance in one
+direction, Waverley, adopting the hint of his remaining attendant,
+made the best of his speed in that which his guide originally
+intended to pursue, and which now (the attention of the soldiers
+being drawn to a different quarter) was unobserved and unguarded.
+When they had run about a quarter of a mile, the brow of a rising
+ground which they had surmounted concealed them from further risk
+of observation. They still heard, however, at a distance the
+shouts of the soldiers as they hallooed to each other upon the
+heath, and they could also hear the distant roll of a drum beating
+to arms in the same direction. But these hostile sounds were now
+far in their rear, and died away upon the breeze as they rapidly
+proceeded.
+
+When they had walked about half an hour, still along open and
+waste ground of the same description, they came to the stump of an
+ancient oak, which, from its relics, appeared to have been at one
+time a tree of very large size. In an adjacent hollow they found
+several Highlanders, with a horse or two. They had not joined them
+above a few minutes, which Waverley's attendant employed, in all
+probability, in communicating the cause of their delay (for the
+words 'Duncan Duroch' were often repeated), when Duncan himself
+appeared, out of breath indeed, and with all the symptoms of
+having run for his life, but laughing, and in high spirits at the
+success of the stratagem by which he had baffled his pursuers.
+This indeed Waverley could easily conceive might be a matter of no
+great difficulty to the active mountaineer, who was perfectly
+acquainted with the ground, and traced his course with a firmness
+and confidence to which his pursuers must have been strangers. The
+alarm which he excited seemed still to continue, for a dropping
+shot or two were heard at a great distance, which seemed to serve
+as an addition to the mirth of Duncan and his comrades.
+
+The mountaineer now resumed the arms with which he had entrusted
+our hero, giving him to understand that the dangers of the journey
+were happily surmounted. Waverley was then mounted upon one of the
+horses, a change which the fatigue of the night and his recent
+illness rendered exceedingly acceptable. His portmanteau was
+placed on another pony, Duncan mounted a third, and they set
+forward at a round pace, accompanied by their escort. No other
+incident marked the course of that night's journey, and at the
+dawn of morning they attained the banks of a rapid river. The
+country around was at once fertile and romantic. Steep banks of
+wood were broken by corn-fields, which this year presented an
+abundant harvest, already in a great measure cut down.
+
+On the opposite bank of the river, and partly surrounded by a
+winding of its stream, stood a large and massive castle, the half-
+ruined turrets of which were already glittering in the first rays
+of the sun. [Footnote: See Note 2.] It was in form an oblong
+square, of size sufficient to contain a large court in the centre.
+The towers at each angle of the square rose higher than the walls
+of the building, and were in their turn surmounted by turrets,
+differing in height and irregular in shape. Upon one of these a
+sentinel watched, whose bonnet and plaid, streaming in the wind,
+declared him to be a Highlander, as a broad white ensign, which
+floated from another tower, announced that the garrison was held
+by the insurgent adherents of the House of Stuart.
+
+Passing hastily through a small and mean town, where their
+appearance excited neither surprise nor curiosity in the few
+peasants whom the labours of the harvest began to summon from
+their repose, the party crossed an ancient and narrow bridge of
+several arches, and, turning to the left up an avenue of huge old
+sycamores, Waverley found himself in front of the gloomy yet
+picturesque structure which he had admired at a distance. A huge
+iron-grated door, which formed the exterior defence of the
+gateway, was already thrown back to receive them; and a second,
+heavily constructed of oak and studded thickly with iron nails,
+being next opened, admitted them into the interior court-yard. A
+gentleman, dressed in the Highland garb and having a white cockade
+in his bonnet, assisted Waverley to dismount from his horse, and
+with much courtesy bid him welcome to the castle.
+
+The governor, for so we must term him, having conducted Waverley
+to a half-ruinous apartment, where, however, there was a small
+camp-bed, and having offered him any refreshment which he desired,
+was then about to leave him.
+
+'Will you not add to your civilities,' said Waverley, after having
+made the usual acknowledgment, 'by having the kindness to inform
+me where I am, and whether or not I am to consider myself as a
+prisoner?'
+
+'I am not at liberty to be so explicit upon this subject as I
+could wish. Briefly, however, you are in the Castle of Doune, in
+the district of Menteith, and in no danger whatever.'
+
+'And how am I assured of that?'
+
+'By the honour of Donald Stewart, governor of the garrison, and
+lieutenant-colonel in the service of his Royal Highness Prince
+Charles Edward.' So saying, he hastily left the apartment, as if
+to avoid further discussion.
+
+Exhausted by the fatigues of the night, our hero now threw himself
+upon the bed, and was in a few minutes fast asleep.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXIX
+
+THE JOURNEY IS CONTINUED
+
+
+Before Waverley awakened from his repose, the day was far
+advanced, and he began to feel that he had passed many hours
+without food. This was soon supplied in form of a copious
+breakfast, but Colonel Stewart, as if wishing to avoid the queries
+of his guest, did not again present himself. His compliments were,
+however, delivered by a servant, with an offer to provide anything
+in his power that could be useful to Captain Waverley on his
+journey, which he intimated would be continued that evening. To
+Waverley's further inquiries, the servant opposed the impenetrable
+barrier of real or affected ignorance and stupidity. He removed
+the table and provisions, and Waverley was again consigned to his
+own meditations.
+
+As he contemplated the strangeness of his fortune, which seemed to
+delight in placing him at the disposal of others, without the
+power of directing his own motions, Edward's eye suddenly rested
+upon his portmanteau, which had been deposited in his apartment
+during his sleep. The mysterious appearance of Alice in the
+cottage of the glen immediately rushed upon his mind, and he was
+about to secure and examine the packet which she had deposited
+among his clothes, when the servant of Colonel Stewart again made
+his appearance, and took up the portmanteau upon his shoulders.
+
+'May I not take out a change of linen, my friend?'
+
+'Your honour sall get ane o' the Colonel's ain ruffled sarks, but
+this maun gang in the baggage-cart.'
+
+And so saying, he very coolly carried off the portmanteau, without
+waiting further remonstrance, leaving our hero in a state where
+disappointment and indignation struggled for the mastery. In a few
+minutes he heard a cart rumble out of the rugged court-yard, and
+made no doubt that he was now dispossessed, for a space at least,
+if not for ever, of the only documents which seemed to promise
+some light upon the dubious events which had of late influenced
+his destiny. With such melancholy thoughts he had to beguile about
+four or five hours of solitude.
+
+When this space was elapsed, the trampling of horse was heard in
+the court-yard, and Colonel Stewart soon after made his appearance
+to request his guest to take some further refreshment before his
+departure. The offer was accepted, for a late breakfast had by no
+means left our hero incapable of doing honour to dinner, which was
+now presented. The conversation of his host was that of a plain
+country gentleman, mixed with some soldier-like sentiments and
+expressions. He cautiously avoided any reference to the military
+operations or civil politics of the time; and to Waverley's direct
+inquiries concerning some of these points replied, that he was not
+at liberty to speak upon such topics.
+
+When dinner was finished the governor arose, and, wishing Edward a
+good journey, said that, having been informed by Waverley's
+servant that his baggage had been sent forward, he had taken the
+freedom to supply him with such changes of linen as he might find
+necessary till he was again possessed of his own. With this
+compliment he disappeared. A servant acquainted Waverley an
+instant afterwards that his horse was ready.
+
+Upon this hint he descended into the court-yard, and found a
+trooper holding a saddled horse, on which he mounted and sallied
+from the portal of Doune Castle, attended by about a score of
+armed men on horseback. These had less the appearance of regular
+soldiers than of individuals who had suddenly assumed arms from
+some pressing motive of unexpected emergency. Their uniform, which
+was blue and red, an affected imitation of that of French
+chasseurs, was in many respects incomplete, and sate awkwardly
+upon those who wore it. Waverley's eye, accustomed to look at a
+well-disciplined regiment, could easily discover that the motions
+and habits of his escort were not those of trained soldiers, and
+that, although expert enough in the management of their horses,
+their skill was that of huntsmen or grooms rather than of
+troopers. The horses were not trained to the regular pace so
+necessary to execute simultaneous and combined movements and
+formations; nor did they seem bitted (as it is technically
+expressed) for the use of the sword. The men, however, were stout,
+hardy-looking fellows, and might be individually formidable as
+irregular cavalry. The commander of this small party was mounted
+upon an excellent hunter, and, although dressed in uniform, his
+change of apparel did not prevent Waverley from recognising his
+old acquaintance, Mr. Falconer of Balmawhapple.
+
+Now, although the terms upon which Edward had parted with this
+gentleman were none of the most friendly, he would have sacrificed
+every recollection of their foolish quarrel for the pleasure of
+enjoying once more the social intercourse of question and answer,
+from which he had been so long secluded. But apparently the
+remembrance of his defeat by the Baron of Bradwardine, of which
+Edward had been the unwilling cause, still rankled in the mind of
+the low-bred and yet proud laird. He carefully avoided giving the
+least sign of recognition, riding doggedly at the head of his men,
+who, though scarce equal in numbers to a sergeant's party, were
+denominated Captain Falconer's troop, being preceded by a trumpet,
+which sounded from time to time, and a standard, borne by Cornet
+Falconer, the laird's younger brother. The lieutenant, an elderly
+man, had much the air of a low sportsman and boon companion; an
+expression of dry humour predominated in his countenance over
+features of a vulgar cast, which indicated habitual intemperance.
+His cocked hat was set knowingly upon one side of his head, and
+while he whistled the 'Bob of Dumblain,' under the influence of
+half a mutchkin of brandy, he seemed to trot merrily forward, with
+a happy indifference to the state of the country, the conduct of
+the party, the end of the journey, and all other sublunary matters
+whatever.
+
+From this wight, who now and then dropped alongside of his horse,
+Waverley hoped to acquire some information, or at least to beguile
+the way with talk.
+
+'A fine evening, sir,' was Edward's salutation.
+
+'Ow, ay, sir! a bra' night,' replied the lieutenant, in broad
+Scotch of the most vulgar description.
+
+'And a fine harvest, apparently,' continued Waverley, following up
+his first attack.
+
+'Ay, the aits will be got bravely in; but the farmers, deil burst
+them, and the corn-mongers will make the auld price gude against
+them as has horses till keep.'
+
+'You perhaps act as quartermaster, sir?'
+
+'Ay, quartermaster, riding-master, and lieutenant,' answered this
+officer of all work. 'And, to be sure, wha's fitter to look after
+the breaking and the keeping of the poor beasts than mysell, that
+bought and sold every ane o' them?'
+
+'And pray, sir, if it be not too great a freedom, may I beg to
+know where we are going just now?'
+
+'A fule's errand, I fear,' answered this communicative personage.
+
+'In that case,' said Waverley, determined not to spare civility,
+'I should have thought a person of your appearance would not have
+been found on the road.'
+
+'Vera true, vera true, sir,' replied the officer, 'but every why
+has its wherefore. Ye maun ken, the laird there bought a' thir
+beasts frae me to munt his troop, and agreed to pay for them
+according to the necessities and prices of the time. But then he
+hadna the ready penny, and I hae been advised his bond will not be
+worth a boddle against the estate, and then I had a' my dealers to
+settle wi' at Martinmas; and so, as he very kindly offered me this
+commission, and as the auld Fifteen [Footnote: The Judges of the
+Supreme Court of Session in Scotland are proverbially termed among
+the country people, The Fifteen.] wad never help me to my siller
+for sending out naigs against the government, why, conscience!
+sir, I thought my best chance for payment was e'en to GAE OUT
+[Footnote: See Note 3.] mysell; and ye may judge, sir, as I hae
+dealt a' my life in halters, I think na mickle o' putting my craig
+in peril of a Saint John-stone's tippet.'
+
+'You are not, then, by profession a soldier?' said Waverley.
+
+'Na, na; thank God,' answered this doughty partizan, 'I wasna bred
+at sae short a tether, I was brought up to hack and manger. I was
+bred a horse-couper, sir; and if I might live to see you at
+Whitson-tryst, or at Stagshawbank, or the winter fair at Hawick,
+and ye wanted a spanker that would lead the field, I'se be caution
+I would serve ye easy; for Jamie Jinker was ne'er the lad to
+impose upon a gentleman. Ye're a gentleman, sir, and should ken a
+horse's points; ye see that through--ganging thing that
+Balmawhapple's on; I selled her till him. She was bred out of
+Lick-the-ladle, that wan the king's plate at Caverton-Edge, by
+Duke Hamilton's White-Foot,' etc., etc., etc.
+
+But as Jinker was entered full sail upon the pedigree of
+Balmawhapple's mare, having already got as far as great-grandsire
+and great-grand-dam, and while Waverley was watching for an
+opportunity to obtain from him intelligence of more interest, the
+noble captain checked his horse until they came up, and then,
+without directly appearing to notice Edward, said sternly to the
+genealogist, 'I thought, lieutenant, my orders were preceese, that
+no one should speak to the prisoner?'
+
+The metamorphosed horse-dealer was silenced of course, and slunk
+to the rear, where he consoled himself by entering into a vehement
+dispute upon the price of hay with a farmer who had reluctantly
+followed his laird to the field rather than give up his farm,
+whereof the lease had just expired. Waverley was therefore once
+more consigned to silence, foreseeing that further attempts at
+conversation with any of the party would only give Balmawhapple a
+wished-for opportunity to display the insolence of authority, and
+the sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged, and rendered more so
+by habits of low indulgence and the incense of servile adulation.
+
+In about two hours' time the party were near the Castle of
+Stirling, over whose battlements the union flag was brightened as
+it waved in the evening sun. To shorten his journey, or perhaps to
+display his importance and insult the English garrison,
+Balmawhapple, inclining to the right, took his route through the
+royal park, which reaches to and surrounds the rock upon which the
+fortress is situated.
+
+With a mind more at ease Waverley could not have failed to admire
+the mixture of romance and beauty which renders interesting the
+scene through which he was now passing--the field which had been
+the scene of the tournaments of old--the rock from which the
+ladies beheld the contest, while each made vows for the success of
+some favourite knight--the towers of the Gothic church, where
+these vows might be paid--and, surmounting all, the fortress
+itself, at once a castle and palace, where valour received the
+prize from royalty, and knights and dames closed the evening amid
+the revelry of the dance, the song, and the feast. All these were
+objects fitted to arouse and interest a romantic imagination.
+
+But Waverley had other objects of meditation, and an incident soon
+occurred of a nature to disturb meditation of any kind.
+Balmawhapple, in the pride of his heart, as he wheeled his little
+body of cavalry round the base of the Castle, commanded his
+trumpet to sound a flourish and his standard to be displayed. This
+insult produced apparently some sensation; for when the cavalcade
+was at such distance from the southern battery as to admit of a
+gun being depressed so as to bear upon them, a flash of fire
+issued from one of the embrazures upon the rock; and ere the
+report with which it was attended could be heard, the rushing
+sound of a cannon-ball passed over Balmawhapple's head, and the
+bullet, burying itself in the ground at a few yards' distance,
+covered him with the earth which it drove up. There was no need to
+bid the party trudge. In fact, every man, acting upon the impulse
+of the moment, soon brought Mr. Jinker's steeds to show their
+mettle, and the cavaliers, retreating with more speed than
+regularity, never took to a trot, as the lieutenant afterwards
+observed, until an intervening eminence had secured them from any
+repetition of so undesirable a compliment on the part of Stirling
+Castle. I must do Balmawhapple, however, the justice to say that
+he not only kept the rear of his troop, and laboured to maintain
+some order among them, but, in the height of his gallantry,
+answered the fire of the Castle by discharging one of his horse-
+pistols at the battlements; although, the distance being nearly
+half a mile, I could never learn that this measure of retaliation
+was attended with any particular effect.
+
+The travellers now passed the memorable field of Bannockburn and
+reached the Torwood, a place glorious or terrible to the
+recollections of the Scottish peasant, as the feats of Wallace or
+the cruelties of Wude Willie Grime predominate in his
+recollection. At Falkirk, a town formerly famous in Scottish
+history, and soon to be again distinguished as the scene of
+military events of importance, Balmawhapple proposed to halt and
+repose for the evening. This was performed with very little regard
+to military discipline, his worthy quarter-master being chiefly
+solicitous to discover where the best brandy might be come at.
+Sentinels were deemed unnecessary, and the only vigils performed
+were those of such of the party as could procure liquor. A few
+resolute men might easily have cut off the detachment; but of the
+inhabitants some were favourable, many indifferent, and the rest
+overawed. So nothing memorable occurred in the course of the
+evening, except that Waverley's rest was sorely interrupted by the
+revellers hallooing forth their Jacobite songs, without remorse or
+mitigation of voice.
+
+Early in the morning they were again mounted and on the road to
+Edinburgh, though the pallid visages of some of the troop betrayed
+that they had spent a night of sleepless debauchery. They halted
+at Linlithgow, distinguished by its ancient palace, which Sixty
+Years Since was entire and habitable, and whose venerable ruins,
+NOT QUITE SIXTY YEARS SINCE, very narrowly escaped the unworthy
+fate of being converted into a barrack for French prisoners. May
+repose and blessings attend the ashes of the patriotic statesman
+who, amongst his last services to Scotland, interposed to prevent
+this profanation!
+
+As they approached the metropolis of Scotland, through a champaign
+and cultivated country, the sounds of war began to be heard. The
+distant yet distinct report of heavy cannon, fired at intervals,
+apprized Waverley that the work of destruction was going forward.
+Even Balmawhapple seemed moved to take some precautions, by
+sending an advanced party in front of his troop, keeping the main
+body in tolerable order, and moving steadily forward.
+
+Marching in this manner they speedily reached an eminence, from
+which they could view Edinburgh stretching along the ridgy hill
+which slopes eastward from the Castle. The latter, being in a
+state of siege, or rather of blockade, by the northern insurgents,
+who had already occupied the town for two or three days, fired at
+intervals upon such parties of Highlanders as exposed themselves,
+either on the main street or elsewhere in the vicinity of the
+fortress. The morning being calm and fair, the effect of this
+dropping fire was to invest the Castle in wreaths of smoke, the
+edges of which dissipated slowly in the air, while the central
+veil was darkened ever and anon by fresh clouds poured forth from
+the battlements; the whole giving, by the partial concealment, an
+appearance of grandeur and gloom, rendered more terrific when
+Waverley reflected on the cause by which it was produced, and that
+each explosion might ring some brave man's knell.
+
+Ere they approached the city the partial cannonade had wholly
+ceased. Balmawhapple, however, having in his recollection the
+unfriendly greeting which his troop had received from the battery
+at Stirling, had apparently no wish to tempt the forbearance of
+the artillery of the Castle. He therefore left the direct road,
+and, sweeping considerably to the southward so as to keep out of
+the range of the cannon, approached the ancient palace of Holyrood
+without having entered the walls of the city. He then drew up his
+men in front of that venerable pile, and delivered Waverley to the
+custody of a guard of Highlanders, whose officer conducted him
+into the interior of the building.
+
+A long, low, and ill-proportioned gallery, hung with pictures,
+affirmed to be the portraits of kings, who, if they ever
+flourished at all, lived several hundred years before the
+invention of painting in oil colours, served as a sort of guard
+chamber or vestibule to the apartments which the adventurous
+Charles Edward now occupied in the palace of his ancestors.
+Officers, both in the Highland and Lowland garb, passed and
+repassed in haste, or loitered in the hall as if waiting for
+orders. Secretaries were engaged in making out passes, musters,
+and returns. All seemed busy, and earnestly intent upon something
+of importance; but Waverley was suffered to remain seated in the
+recess of a window, unnoticed by any one, in anxious reflection
+upon the crisis of his fate, which seemed now rapidly approaching.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XL
+
+AN OLD AND A NEW ACQUAINTANCE
+
+
+While he was deep sunk in his reverie, the rustle of tartans was
+heard behind him, a friendly arm clasped his shoulders, and a
+friendly voice exclaimed,
+
+'Said the Highland prophet sooth? Or must second-sight go for
+nothing?'
+
+Waverley turned, and was warmly embraced by Fergus Mac-Ivor. 'A
+thousand welcomes to Holyrood, once more possessed by her
+legitimate sovereign! Did I not say we should prosper, and that
+you would fall into the hands of the Philistines if you parted
+from us?'
+
+'Dear Fergus!' said Waverley, eagerly returning his greeting. 'It
+is long since I have heard a friend's voice. Where is Flora?'
+
+'Safe, and a triumphant spectator of our success.'
+
+'In this place?' said Waverley.
+
+'Ay, in this city at least,' answered his friend, 'and you shall
+see her; but first you must meet a friend whom you little think
+of, who has been frequent in his inquiries after you.'
+
+Thus saying, he dragged Waverley by the arm out of the guard
+chamber, and, ere he knew where he was conducted, Edward found
+himself in a presence room, fitted up with some attempt at royal
+state.
+
+A young man, wearing his own fair hair, distinguished by the
+dignity of his mien and the noble expression of his well-formed
+and regular features, advanced out of a circle of military
+gentlemen and Highland chiefs by whom he was surrounded. In his
+easy and graceful manners Waverley afterwards thought he could
+have discovered his high birth and rank, although the star on his
+breast and the embroidered garter at his knee had not appeared as
+its indications.
+
+'Let me present to your Royal Highness,' said Fergus, bowing
+profoundly--
+
+'The descendant of one of the most ancient and loyal families in
+England,' said the young Chevalier, interrupting him. 'I beg your
+pardon for interrupting you, my dear Mac-Ivor; but no master of
+ceremonies is necessary to present a Waverley to a Stuart.'
+
+Thus saying, he extended his hand to Edward with the utmost
+courtesy, who could not, had he desired it, have avoided rendering
+him the homage which seemed due to his rank, and was certainly the
+right of his birth. 'I am sorry to understand, Mr. Waverley, that,
+owing to circumstances which have been as yet but ill explained,
+you have suffered some restraint among my followers in Perthshire
+and on your march here; but we are in such a situation that we
+hardly know our friends, and I am even at this moment uncertain
+whether I can have the pleasure of considering Mr. Waverley as
+among mine.'
+
+He then paused for an instant; but before Edward could adjust a
+suitable reply, or even arrange his ideas as to its purport, the
+Prince took out a paper and then proceeded:--'I should indeed have
+no doubts upon this subject if I could trust to this proclamation,
+set forth by the friends of the Elector of Hanover, in which they
+rank Mr. Waverley among the nobility and gentry who are menaced
+with the pains of high-treason for loyalty to their legitimate
+sovereign. But I desire to gain no adherents save from affection
+and conviction; and if Mr. Waverley inclines to prosecute his
+journey to the south, or to join the forces of the Elector, he
+shall have my passport and free permission to do so; and I can
+only regret that my present power will not extend to protect him
+against the probable consequences of such a measure. But,'
+continued Charles Edward, after another short pause, 'if Mr.
+Waverley should, like his ancestor, Sir Nigel, determine to
+embrace a cause which has little to recommend it but its justice,
+and follow a prince who throws himself upon the affections of his
+people to recover the throne of his ancestors or perish in the
+attempt, I can only say, that among these nobles and gentlemen he
+will find worthy associates in a gallant enterprise, and will
+follow a master who may be unfortunate, but, I trust, will never
+be ungrateful.'
+
+The politic Chieftain of the race of Ivor knew his advantage in
+introducing Waverley to this personal interview with the royal
+adventurer. Unaccustomed to the address and manners of a polished
+court, in which Charles was eminently skilful, his words and his
+kindness penetrated the heart of our hero, and easily outweighed
+all prudential motives. To be thus personally solicited for
+assistance by a prince whose form and manners, as well as the
+spirit which he displayed in this singular enterprise, answered
+his ideas of a hero of romance; to be courted by him in the
+ancient halls of his paternal palace, recovered by the sword which
+he was already bending towards other conquests, gave Edward, in
+his own eyes, the dignity and importance which he had ceased to
+consider as his attributes. Rejected, slandered, and threatened
+upon the one side, he was irresistibly attracted to the cause
+which the prejudices of education and the political principles of
+his family had already recommended as the most just. These
+thoughts rushed through his mind like a torrent, sweeping before
+them every consideration of an opposite tendency,--the time,
+besides, admitted of no deliberation,--and Waverley, kneeling to
+Charles Edward, devoted his heart and sword to the vindication of
+his rights!
+
+The Prince (for, although unfortunate in the faults and follies of
+his forefathers, we shall here and elsewhere give him the title
+due to his birth) raised Waverley from the ground and embraced him
+with an expression of thanks too warm not to be genuine. He also
+thanked Fergus Mac-Ivor repeatedly for having brought him such an
+adherent, and presented Waverley to the various noblemen,
+chieftains, and officers who were about his person as a young
+gentleman of the highest hopes and prospects, in whose bold and
+enthusiastic avowal of his cause they might see an evidence of the
+sentiments of the English families of rank at this important
+crisis. [Footnote: See Note 4.] Indeed, this was a point much
+doubted among the adherents of the house of Stuart; and as a well-
+founded disbelief in the cooperation of the English Jacobites kept
+many Scottish men of rank from his standard, and diminished the
+courage of those who had joined it, nothing could be more
+seasonable for the Chevalier than the open declaration in his
+favour of the representative of the house of Waverley-Honour, so
+long known as Cavaliers and Royalists. This Fergus had foreseen
+from the beginning. He really loved Waverley, because their
+feelings and projects never thwarted each other; he hoped to see
+him united with Flora, and he rejoiced that they were effectually
+engaged in the same cause. But, as we before hinted, he also
+exulted as a politician in beholding secured to his party a
+partizan of such consequence; and he was far from being insensible
+to the personal importance which he himself gained with the Prince
+from having so materially assisted in making the acquisition.
+
+Charles Edward, on his part, seemed eager to show his attendants
+the value which he attached to his new adherent, by entering
+immediately, as in confidence, upon the circumstances of his
+situation. 'You have been secluded so much from intelligence, Mr.
+Waverley, from causes of which I am but indistinctly informed,
+that I presume you are even yet unacquainted with the important
+particulars of my present situation. You have, however, heard of
+my landing in the remote district of Moidart, with only seven
+attendants, and of the numerous chiefs and clans whose loyal
+enthusiasm at once placed a solitary adventurer at the head of a
+gallant army. You must also, I think, have learned that the
+commander-in-chief of the Hanoverian Elector, Sir John Cope,
+marched into the Highlands at the head of a numerous and well-
+appointed military force with the intention of giving us battle,
+but that his courage failed him when we were within three hours'
+march of each other, so that he fairly gave us the slip and
+marched northward to Aberdeen, leaving the Low Country open and
+undefended. Not to lose so favourable an opportunity, I marched on
+to this metropolis, driving before me two regiments of horse,
+Gardiner's and Hamilton's, who had threatened to cut to pieces
+every Highlander that should venture to pass Stirling; and while
+discussions were carrying forward among the magistracy and
+citizens of Edinburgh whether they should defend themselves or
+surrender, my good friend Lochiel (laying his hand on the shoulder
+of that gallant and accomplished chieftain) saved them the trouble
+of farther deliberation by entering the gates with five hundred
+Camerons. Thus far, therefore, we have done well; but, in the
+meanwhile, this doughty general's nerves being braced by the keen
+air of Aberdeen, he has taken shipping for Dunbar, and I have just
+received certain information that he landed there yesterday. His
+purpose must unquestionably be to march towards us to recover
+possession of the capital. Now there are two opinions in my
+council of war: one, that being inferior probably in numbers, and
+certainly in discipline and military appointments, not to mention
+our total want of artillery and the weakness of our cavalry, it
+will be safest to fall back towards the mountains, and there
+protract the war until fresh succours arrive from France, and the
+whole body of the Highland clans shall have taken arms in our
+favour. The opposite opinion maintains, that a retrograde
+movement, in our circumstances, is certain to throw utter
+discredit on our arms and undertaking; and, far from gaining us
+new partizans, will be the means of disheartening those who have
+joined our standard. The officers who use these last arguments,
+among whom is your friend Fergus Mac-Ivor, maintain that, if the
+Highlanders are strangers to the usual military discipline of
+Europe, the soldiers whom they are to encounter are no less
+strangers to their peculiar and formidable mode of attack; that
+the attachment and courage of the chiefs and gentlemen are not to
+be doubted; and that, as they will be in the midst of the enemy,
+their clansmen will as surely follow them; in fine, that having
+drawn the sword we should throw away the scabbard, and trust our
+cause to battle and to the God of battles. Will Mr. Waverley
+favour us with his opinion in these arduous circumstances?'
+
+Waverley coloured high betwixt pleasure and modesty at the
+distinction implied in this question, and answered, with equal
+spirit and readiness, that he could not venture to offer an
+opinion as derived from military skill, but that the counsel would
+be far the most acceptable to him which should first afford him an
+opportunity to evince his zeal in his Royal Highness's service.
+
+'Spoken like a Waverley!' answered Charles Edward; 'and that you
+may hold a rank in some degree corresponding to your name, allow
+me, instead of the captain's commission which you have lost, to
+offer you the brevet rank of major in my service, with the
+advantage of acting as one of my aides-de-camp until you can be
+attached to a regiment, of which I hope several will be speedily
+embodied.'
+
+'Your Royal Highness will forgive me,' answered Waverley (for his
+recollection turned to Balmawhapple and his scanty troop), 'if I
+decline accepting any rank until the time and place where I may
+have interest enough to raise a sufficient body of men to make my
+command useful to your Royal Highness's service. In the meanwhile,
+I hope for your permission to serve as a volunteer under my friend
+Fergus Mac-Ivor.'
+
+'At least,' said the Prince, who was obviously pleased with this
+proposal, 'allow me the pleasure of arming you after the Highland
+fashion.' With these words, he unbuckled the broadsword which he
+wore, the belt of which was plaited with silver, and the steel
+basket-hilt richly and curiously inlaid. 'The blade,' said the
+Prince, 'is a genuine Andrea Ferrara; it has been a sort of heir-
+loom in our family; but I am convinced I put it into better hands
+than my own, and will add to it pistols of the same workmanship.
+Colonel Mac-Ivor, you must have much to say to your friend; I will
+detain you no longer from your private conversation; but remember
+we expect you both to attend us in the evening. It may be perhaps
+the last night we may enjoy in these halls, and as we go to the
+field with a clear conscience, we will spend the eve of battle
+merrily.'
+
+Thus licensed, the Chief and Waverley left the presence-chamber.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLI
+
+THE MYSTERY BEGINS TO BE CLEARED UP
+
+
+'How do you like him?' was Fergus's first question, as they
+descended the large stone staircase.
+
+'A prince to live and die under' was Waverley's enthusiastic
+answer.
+
+'I knew you would think so when you saw him, and I intended you
+should have met earlier, but was prevented by your sprain. And yet
+he has his foibles, or rather he has difficult cards to play, and
+his Irish officers, [Footnote: See Note 5.] who are much about
+him, are but sorry advisers: they cannot discriminate among the
+numerous pretensions that are set up. Would you think it--I have
+been obliged for the present to suppress an earl's patent, granted
+for services rendered ten years ago, for fear of exciting the
+jealousy, forsooth, of C----and M----? But you were very right,
+Edward, to refuse the situation of aide-de-camp. There are two
+vacant, indeed, but Clanronald and Lochiel, and almost all of us,
+have requested one for young Aberchallader, and the Lowlanders and
+the Irish party are equally desirous to have the other for the
+master of F--. Now, if either of these candidates were to be
+superseded in your favour, you would make enemies. And then I am
+surprised that the Prince should have offered you a majority, when
+he knows very well that nothing short of lieutenant-colonel will
+satisfy others, who cannot bring one hundred and fifty men to the
+field. "But patience, cousin, and shuffle the cards!" It is all
+very well for the present, and we must have you properly equipped
+for the evening in your new costume; for, to say truth, your
+outward man is scarce fit for a court.'
+
+'Why,' said Waverley, looking at his soiled dress,'my shooting
+jacket has seen service since we parted; but that probably you, my
+friend, know as well or better than I.'
+
+'You do my second-sight too much honour,' said Fergus. 'We were so
+busy, first with the scheme of giving battle to Cope, and
+afterwards with our operations in the Lowlands, that I could only
+give general directions to such of our people as were left in
+Perthshire to respect and protect you, should you come in their
+way. But let me hear the full story of your adventures, for they
+have reached us in a very partial and mutilated manner.'
+
+Waverley then detailed at length the circumstances with which the
+reader is already acquainted, to which Fergus listened with great
+attention. By this time they had reached the door of his quarters,
+which he had taken up in a small paved court, retiring from the
+street called the Canongate, at the house of a buxom widow of
+forty, who seemed to smile very graciously upon the handsome young
+Chief, she being a person with whom good looks and good-humour
+were sure to secure an interest, whatever might be the party's
+"political opinions". Here Callum Beg received them with a smile
+of recognition. 'Callum,' said the Chief, 'call Shemus an Snachad'
+(James of the Needle). This was the hereditary tailor of Vich lan
+Vohr. 'Shemus, Mr. Waverley is to wear the cath dath (battle
+colour, or tartan); his trews must be ready in four hours. You
+know the measure of a well-made man--two double nails to the small
+of the leg--'
+
+'Eleven from haunch to heel, seven round the waist. I give your
+honour leave to hang Shemus, if there's a pair of sheers in the
+Highlands that has a baulder sneck than her's ain at the cumadh an
+truais' (shape of the trews).
+
+'Get a plaid of Mac-Ivor tartan and sash,' continued the
+Chieftain, 'and a blue bonnet of the Prince's pattern, at Mr.
+Mouat's in the Crames. My short green coat, with silver lace and
+silver buttons, will fit him exactly, and I have never worn it.
+Tell Ensign Maccombich to pick out a handsome target from among
+mine. The Prince has given Mr. Waverley broadsword and pistols, I
+will furnish him with a dirk and purse; add but a pair of low-
+heeled shoes, and then, my dear Edward (turning to him), you will
+be a complete son of Ivor.'
+
+These necessary directions given, the Chieftain resumed the
+subject of Waverley's adventures. 'It is plain,' he said,'that you
+have been in the custody of Donald Bean Lean. You must know that,
+when I marched away my clan to join the Prince, I laid my
+injunctions on that worthy member of society to perform a certain
+piece of service, which done, he was to join me with all the force
+he could muster. But, instead of doing so, the gentleman, finding
+the coast clear, thought it better to make war on his own account,
+and has scoured the country, plundering, I believe, both friend
+and foe, under pretence of levying blackmail, sometimes as if by
+my authority, and sometimes (and be cursed to his consummate
+impudence) in his own great name! Upon my honour, if I live to see
+the cairn of Benmore again, I shall be tempted to hang that
+fellow! I recognise his hand particularly in the mode of your
+rescue from that canting rascal Gilfillan, and I have little doubt
+that Donald himself played the part of the pedlar on that
+occasion; but how he should not have plundered you, or put you to
+ransom, or availed himself in some way or other of your captivity
+for his own advantage, passes my judgment.'
+
+'When and how did you hear the intelligence of my confinement?'
+asked Waverley.
+
+'The Prince himself told me,' said Fergus, 'and inquired very
+minutely into your history. He then mentioned your being at that
+moment in the power of one of our northern parties--you know I
+could not ask him to explain particulars--and requested my opinion
+about disposing of you. I recommended that you should be brought
+here as a prisoner, because I did not wish to prejudice you
+farther with the English government, in case you pursued your
+purpose of going southward. I knew nothing, you must recollect, of
+the charge brought against you of aiding and abetting high
+treason, which, I presume, had some share in changing your
+original plan. That sullen, good-for-nothing brute, Balmawhapple,
+was sent to escort you from Doune, with what he calls his troop of
+horse. As to his behaviour, in addition to his natural antipathy
+to everything that resembles a gentleman, I presume his adventure
+with Bradwardine rankles in his recollection, the rather that I
+daresay his mode of telling that story contributed to the evil
+reports which reached your quondam regiment.'
+
+'Very likely,' said Waverley; 'but now surely, my dear Fergus, you
+may find time to tell me something of Flora.'
+
+'Why,' replied Fergus, 'I can only tell you that she is well, and
+residing for the present with a relation in this city. I thought
+it better she should come here, as since our success a good many
+ladies of rank attend our military court; and I assure you that
+there is a sort of consequence annexed to the near relative of
+such a person as Flora Mac-Ivor, and where there is such a
+justling of claims and requests, a man must use every fair means
+to enhance his importance.'
+
+There was something in this last sentence which grated on
+Waverley's feelings. He could not bear that Flora should be
+considered as conducing to her brother's preferment by the
+admiration which she must unquestionably attract; and although it
+was in strict correspondence with many points of Fergus's
+character, it shocked him as selfish, and unworthy of his sister's
+high mind and his own independent pride. Fergus, to whom such
+manoeuvres were familiar, as to one brought up at the French
+court, did not observe the unfavourable impression which he had
+unwarily made upon his friend's mind, and concluded by saying,'
+that they could hardly see Flora before the evening, when she
+would be at the concert and ball with which the Prince's party
+were to be entertained. She and I had a quarrel about her not
+appearing to take leave of you. I am unwilling to renew it by
+soliciting her to receive you this morning; and perhaps my doing
+so might not only be ineffectual, but prevent your meeting this
+evening.'
+
+While thus conversing, Waverley heard in the court, before the
+windows of the parlour, a well-known voice. 'I aver to you, my
+worthy friend,' said the speaker, 'that it is a total dereliction
+of military discipline; and were you not as it were a tyro, your
+purpose would deserve strong reprobation. For a prisoner of war is
+on no account to be coerced with fetters, or debinded in
+ergastulo, as would have been the case had you put this gentleman
+into the pit of the peel-house at Balmawhapple. I grant, indeed,
+that such a prisoner may for security be coerced in carcere, that
+is, in a public prison.'
+
+The growling voice of Balmawhapple was heard as taking leave in
+displeasure, but the word 'land-louper' alone was distinctly
+audible. He had disappeared before Waverley reached the house in
+order to greet the worthy Baron of Bradwardine. The uniform in
+which he was now attired, a blue coat, namely, with gold lace, a
+scarlet waistcoat and breeches, and immense jack-boots, seemed to
+have added fresh stiffness and rigidity to his tall, perpendicular
+figure; and the consciousness of military command and authority
+had increased, in the same proportion, the self-importance of his
+demeanour and the dogmatism of his conversation.
+
+He received Waverley with his usual kindness, and expressed
+immediate anxiety to hear an explanation of the circumstances
+attending the loss of his commission in Gardiner's dragoons;
+'not,' he said, 'that he had the least apprehension of his young
+friend having done aught which could merit such ungenerous
+treatment as he had received from government, but because it was
+right and seemly that the Baron of Bradwardine should be, in point
+of trust and in point of power, fully able to refute all calumnies
+against the heir of Waverley-Honour, whom he had so much right to
+regard as his own son.'
+
+Fergus Mac-Ivor, who had now joined them, went hastily over the
+circumstances of Waverley's story, and concluded with the
+flattering reception he had met from the young Chevalier. The
+Baron listened in silence, and at the conclusion shook Waverley
+heartily by the hand and congratulated him upon entering the
+service of his lawful Prince. 'For,' continued he, 'although it
+has been justly held in all nations a matter of scandal and
+dishonour to infringe the sacramentum militare, and that whether
+it was taken by each soldier singly, whilk the Romans denominated
+per conjurationem, or by one soldier in name of the rest, yet no
+one ever doubted that the allegiance so sworn was discharged by
+the dimissio, or discharging of a soldier, whose case would be as
+hard as that of colliers, salters, and other adscripti glebes, or
+slaves of the soil, were it to be accounted otherwise. This is
+something like the brocard expressed by the learned Sanchez in his
+work "De Jure-jurando" which you have questionless consulted upon
+this occasion. As for those who have calumniated you by leasing-
+making, I protest to Heaven I think they have justly incurred the
+penalty of the "Memnonia Lex," also called "Lex Rhemnia," which is
+prelected upon by Tullius in his oration "In Verrem." I should
+have deemed, however, Mr. Waverley, that before destining yourself
+to any special service in the army of the Prince, ye might have
+inquired what rank the old Bradwardine held there, and whether he
+would not have been peculiarly happy to have had your services in
+the regiment of horse which he is now about to levy.' Edward
+eluded this reproach by pleading the necessity of giving an
+immediate answer to the Prince's proposal, and his uncertainty at
+the moment whether his friend the Baron was with the army or
+engaged upon service elsewhere.
+
+This punctilio being settled, Waverley made inquiry after Miss
+Bradwardine, and was informed she had come to Edinburgh with Flora
+Mac-Ivor, under guard of a party of the Chieftain's men. This step
+was indeed necessary, Tully-Veolan having become a very
+unpleasant, and even dangerous, place of residence for an
+unprotected young lady, on account of its vicinity to the
+Highlands, and also to one or two large villages which, from
+aversion as much to the caterans as zeal for presbytery, had
+declared themselves on the side of government, and formed
+irregular bodies of partizans, who had frequent skirmishes with
+the mountaineers, and sometimes attacked the houses of the
+Jacobite gentry in the braes, or frontier betwixt the mountain and
+plain.
+
+'I would propose to you,' continued the Baron,'to walk as far as
+my quarters in the Luckenbooths, and to admire in your passage the
+High Street, whilk is, beyond a shadow of dubitation, finer than
+any street whether in London or Paris. But Rose, poor thing, is
+sorely discomposed with the firing of the Castle, though I have
+proved to her from Blondel and Coehorn, that it is impossible a
+bullet can reach these buildings; and, besides, I have it in
+charge from his Royal Highness to go to the camp, or leaguer of
+our army, to see that the men do condamare vasa, that is, truss up
+their bag and baggage for tomorrow's march.'
+
+'That will be easily done by most of us,' said Mac-Ivor, laughing.
+
+'Craving your pardon, Colonel Mac-Ivor, not quite so easily as ye
+seem to opine. I grant most of your folk left the Highlands
+expedited as it were, and free from the incumbrance of baggage;
+but it is unspeakable the quantity of useless sprechery which they
+have collected on their march. I saw one fellow of yours (craving
+your pardon once more) with a pier-glass upon his back.'
+
+'Ay,' said Fergus, still in good-humour, 'he would have told you,
+if you had questioned him, "a ganging foot is aye getting." But
+come, my dear Baron, you know as well as I that a hundred Uhlans,
+or a single troop of Schmirschitz's Pandours, would make more
+havoc in a country than the knight of the mirror and all the rest
+of our clans put together.'
+
+'And that is very true likewise,' replied the Baron; 'they are, as
+the heathen author says, ferociores in aspectu, mitiores in actu,
+of a horrid and grim visage, but more benign in demeanour than
+their physiognomy or aspect might infer. But I stand here talking
+to you two youngsters when I should be in the King's Park.'
+
+'But you will dine with Waverley and me on your return? I assure
+you, Baron, though I can live like a Highlander when needs must, I
+remember my Paris education, and understand perfectly faire la
+meilleure chere.'
+
+'And wha the deil doubts it,' quoth the Baron, laughing, 'when ye
+bring only the cookery and the gude toun must furnish the
+materials? Weel, I have some business in the toun too; but I'll
+join you at three, if the vivers can tarry so long.'
+
+So saying, he took leave of his friends and went to look after the
+charge which had been assigned him.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLII
+
+A SOLDIER'S DINNER
+
+
+James of the Needle was a man of his word when whisky was no party
+to the contract; and upon this occasion Callum Beg, who still
+thought himself in Waverley's debt, since he had declined
+accepting compensation at the expense of mine host of the
+Candlestick's person, took the opportunity of discharging the
+obligation, by mounting guard over the hereditary tailor of
+Sliochd nan Ivor; and, as he expressed himself, 'targed him
+tightly' till the finishing of the job. To rid himself of this
+restraint, Shemus's needle flew through the tartan like lightning;
+and as the artist kept chanting some dreadful skirmish of Fin
+Macoul, he accomplished at least three stitches to the death of
+every hero. The dress was, therefore, soon ready, for the short
+coat fitted the wearer, and the rest of the apparel required
+little adjustment.
+
+Our hero having now fairly assumed the 'garb of old Gaul,' well
+calculated as it was to give an appearance of strength to a figure
+which, though tall and well-made, was rather elegant than robust,
+I hope my fair readers will excuse him if he looked at himself in
+the mirror more than once, and could not help acknowledging that
+the reflection seemed that of a very handsome young fellow. In
+fact, there was no disguising it. His light-brown hair--for he
+wore no periwig, notwithstanding the universal fashion of the
+time--became the bonnet which surmounted it. His person promised
+firmness and agility, to which the ample folds of the tartan added
+an air of dignity. His blue eye seemed of that kind,
+
+    Which melted in love, and which kindled in war;
+
+and an air of bashfulness, which was in reality the effect of want
+of habitual intercourse with the world, gave interest to his
+features, without injuring their grace or intelligence.
+
+'He's a pratty man, a very pratty man,' said Evan Dhu (now Ensign
+Maccombich) to Fergus's buxom landlady.
+
+'He's vera weel,' said the Widow Flockhart, 'but no naething sae
+weel-far'd as your colonel, ensign.'
+
+'I wasna comparing them,' quoth Evan, 'nor was I speaking about
+his being weel-favoured; but only that Mr. Waverley looks clean-
+made and deliver, and like a proper lad o' his quarters, that will
+not cry barley in a brulzie. And, indeed, he's gleg aneuch at the
+broadsword and target. I hae played wi' him mysell at
+Glennaquoich, and sae has Vich lan Vohr, often of a Sunday
+afternoon.'
+
+'Lord forgie ye, Ensign Maccombich,' said the alarmed
+Presbyterian; 'I'm sure the colonel wad never do the like o'
+that!'
+
+'Hout! hout! Mrs. Flockhart,' replied the ensign, 'we're young
+blude, ye ken; and young saints, auld deils.'
+
+'But will ye fight wi' Sir John Cope the morn, Ensign Maccombich?'
+demanded Mrs. Flockhart of her guest.
+
+'Troth I'se ensure him, an he'll bide us, Mrs. Flockhart,' replied
+the Gael.
+
+'And will ye face thae tearing chields, the dragoons, Ensign
+Maccombich?' again inquired the landlady.
+
+'Claw for claw, as Conan said to Satan, Mrs. Flockhart, and the
+deevil tak the shortest nails.'
+
+'And will the colonel venture on the bagganets himsell?'
+
+'Ye may swear it, Mrs. Flockhart; the very first man will he be,
+by Saint Phedar.'
+
+'Merciful goodness! and if he's killed amang the redcoats!'
+exclaimed the soft-hearted widow.
+
+'Troth, if it should sae befall, Mrs. Flockhart, I ken ane that
+will no be living to weep for him. But we maun a' live the day,
+and have our dinner; and there's Vich lan Vohr has packed his
+dorlach, and Mr. Waverley's wearied wi' majoring yonder afore the
+muckle pier-glass; and that grey auld stoor carle, the Baron o'
+Bradwardine that shot young Ronald of Ballenkeiroch, he's coming
+down the close wi' that droghling coghling bailie body they ca'
+Macwhupple, just like the Laird o' Kittlegab's French cook, wi'
+his turnspit doggie trindling ahint him, and I am as hungry as a
+gled, my bonny dow; sae bid Kate set on the broo', and do ye put
+on your pinners, for ye ken Vich lan Vohr winna sit down till ye
+be at the head o' the table;--and dinna forget the pint bottle o'
+brandy, my woman.'
+
+This hint produced dinner. Mrs. Flockhart, smiling in her weeds
+like the sun through a mist, took the head of the table, thinking
+within herself, perhaps, that she cared not how long the rebellion
+lasted that brought her into company so much above her usual
+associates. She was supported by Waverley and the Baron, with the
+advantage of the Chieftain vis-a-vis. The men of peace and of war,
+that is, Bailie Macwheeble and Ensign Maccombich, after many
+profound conges to their superiors and each other, took their
+places on each side of the Chieftain. Their fare was excellent,
+time, place, and circumstances considered, and Fergus's spirits
+were extravagantly high. Regardless of danger, and sanguine from
+temper, youth, and ambition, he saw in imagination all his
+prospects crowned with success, and was totally indifferent to the
+probable alternative of a soldier's grave. The Baron apologized
+slightly for bringing Macwheeble. They had been providing, he
+said, for the expenses of the campaign. 'And, by my faith,' said
+the old man, 'as I think this will be my last, so I just end where
+I began: I hae evermore found the sinews of war, as a learned
+author calls the caisse mttitaire, mair difficult to come by than
+either its flesh, blood, or bones.'
+
+'What! have you raised our only efficient body of cavalry and got
+ye none of the louis-d'or out of the Doutelle [Footnote: The
+Doutelle was an armed vessel which brought a small supply of money
+and arms from France for the use of the insurgents.] to help you?'
+
+'No, Glennaquoich; cleverer fellows have been before me.'
+
+'That's a scandal,' said the young Highlander; 'but you will share
+what is left of my subsidy; it will save you an anxious thought
+tonight, and will be all one tomorrow, for we shall all be
+provided for, one way or other, before the sun sets.' Waverley,
+blushing deeply, but with great earnestness, pressed the same
+request.
+
+'I thank ye baith, my good lads,' said the Baron, 'but I will not
+infringe upon your peculium. Bailie Macwheeble has provided the
+sum which is necessary.'
+
+Here the Bailie shifted and fidgeted about in his seat, and
+appeared extremely uneasy. At length, after several preliminary
+hems, and much tautological expression of his devotion to his
+honour's service, by night or day, living or dead, he began to
+insinuate, 'that the banks had removed a' their ready cash into
+the Castle; that, nae doubt, Sandie Goldie, the silversmith, would
+do mickle for his honour; but there was little time to get the
+wadset made out; and, doubtless, if his honour Glennaquoich or Mr.
+Wauverley could accommodate--'
+
+'Let me hear of no such nonsense, sir,' said the Baron, in a tone
+which rendered Macwheeble mute, 'but proceed as we accorded before
+dinner, if it be your wish to remain in my service.'
+
+To this peremptory order the Bailie, though he felt as if
+condemned to suffer a transfusion of blood from his own veins into
+those of the Baron, did not presume to make any reply. After
+fidgeting a little while longer, however, he addressed himself to
+Glennaquoich, and told him, if his honour had mair ready siller
+than was sufficient for his occasions in the field, he could put
+it out at use for his honour in safe hands and at great profit at
+this time.
+
+At this proposal Fergus laughed heartily, and answered, when he
+had recovered his breath--'Many thanks, Bailie; but you must know,
+it is a general custom among us soldiers to make our landlady our
+banker. Here, Mrs. Flockhart,' said he, taking four or five broad
+pieces out of a well-filled purse and tossing the purse itself,
+with its remaining contents, into her apron, 'these will serve my
+occasions; do you take the rest. Be my banker if I live, and my
+executor if I die; but take care to give something to the Highland
+cailliachs [Footnote: Old women, on whom devolved the duty of
+lamenting for the dead, which the Irish call keening.] that shall
+cry the coronach loudest for the last Vich lan Vohr.'
+
+'It is the testamentum militare,' quoth the Baron, 'whilk, amang
+the Romans, was privilegiate to be nuncupative.' But the soft
+heart of Mrs. Flockhart was melted within her at the Chieftain's
+speech; she set up a lamentable blubbering, and positively refused
+to touch the bequest, which Fergus was therefore obliged to
+resume.
+
+'Well, then,' said the Chief, 'if I fall, it will go to the
+grenadier that knocks my brains out, and I shall take care he
+works hard for it.'
+
+Bailie Macwheeble was again tempted to put in his oar; for where
+cash was concerned he did not willingly remain silent. 'Perhaps he
+had better carry the gowd to Miss Mac-Ivor, in case of mortality
+or accidents of war. It might tak the form of a mortis causa
+donation in the young leddie's favour, and--wad cost but the
+scrape of a pen to mak it out.'
+
+'The young lady,' said Fergus,'should such an event happen, will
+have other matters to think of than these wretched louis-d'or.'
+
+'True--undeniable--there's nae doubt o' that; but your honour kens
+that a full sorrow--'
+
+'Is endurable by most folk more easily than a hungry one? True,
+Bailie, very true; and I believe there may even be some who would
+be consoled by such a reflection for the loss of the whole
+existing generation. But there is a sorrow which knows neither
+hunger nor thirst; and poor Flora--' He paused, and the whole
+company sympathised in his emotion.
+
+The Baron's thoughts naturally reverted to the unprotected state
+of his daughter, and the big tear came to the veteran's eye. 'If I
+fall, Macwheeble, you have all my papers and know all my affairs;
+be just to Rose.'
+
+The Bailie was a man of earthly mould, after all; a good deal of
+dirt and dross about him, undoubtedly, but some kindly and just
+feelings he had, especially where the Baron or his young mistress
+were concerned. He set up a lamentable howl. 'If that doleful day
+should come, while Duncan Macwheeble had a boddle it should be
+Miss Rose's. He wald scroll for a plack the sheet or she kenn'd
+what it was to want; if indeed a' the bonnie baronie o'
+Bradwardine and Tully-Veolan, with the fortalice and manor-place
+thereof (he kept sobbing and whining at every pause), tofts,
+crofts, mosses, muirs--outfield, infield--buildings--orchards--
+dove-cots--with the right of net and coble in the water and loch
+of Veolan--teinds, parsonage and vicarage--annexis, connexis--
+rights of pasturage--feul, feal and divot--parts, pendicles, and
+pertinents whatsoever--(here he had recourse to the end of his
+long cravat to wipe his eyes, which overflowed, in spite of him,
+at the ideas which this technical jargon conjured up)--all as more
+fully described in the proper evidents and titles thereof--and
+lying within the parish of Bradwardine and the shire of Perth--if,
+as aforesaid, they must a' pass from my master's child to Inch-
+Grabbit, wha's a Whig and a Hanoverian, and be managed by his
+doer, Jamie Howie, wha's no fit to be a birlieman, let be a
+bailie--'
+
+The beginning of this lamentation really had something affecting,
+but the conclusion rendered laughter irresistible. 'Never mind,
+Bailie,' said Ensign Maccombich, 'for the gude auld times of
+rugging and riving (pulling and tearing) are come back again, an'
+Sneckus Mac-Snackus (meaning, probably, annexis, connexis), and a'
+the rest of your friends, maun gie place to the langest claymore.'
+
+'And that claymore shall be ours, Bailie,' said the Chieftain, who
+saw that Macwheeble looked very blank at this intimation.
+
+    'We'll give them the metal our mountain affords,
+        Lillibulero, bullen a la,
+    And in place of broad-pieces, we'll pay with broadswords,
+        Lero, lero, etc.
+    With duns and with debts we will soon clear our score,
+        Lillibulero, etc.
+    For the man that's thus paid will crave payment no more,
+        Lero, lero, etc.
+
+[Footnote: These lines, or something like them, occur in an old
+magazine of the period.]
+
+But come, Bailie, be not cast down; drink your wine with a joyous
+heart; the Baron shall return safe and victorious to Tully-Veolan,
+and unite Killancureit's lairdship with his own, since the
+cowardly half-bred swine will not turn out for the Prince like a
+gentleman.'
+
+'To be sure, they lie maist ewest,' said the Bailie, wiping his
+eyes, 'and should naturally fa' under the same factory.'
+
+'And I,' proceeded the Chieftain,'shall take care of myself, too;
+for you must know, I have to complete a good work here, by
+bringing Mrs. Flockhart into the bosom of the Catholic church, or
+at least half way, and that is to your Episcopal meeting-house. O
+Baron! if you heard her fine counter-tenor admonishing Kate and
+Matty in the morning, you, who understand music, would tremble at
+the idea of hearing her shriek in the psalmody of Haddo's Hole.'
+
+'Lord forgie you, colonel, how ye rin on! But I hope your honours
+will tak tea before ye gang to the palace, and I maun gang and
+mask it for you.'
+
+So saying, Mrs. Flockhart left the gentlemen to their own
+conversation, which, as might be supposed, turned chiefly upon the
+approaching events of the campaign.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIII
+
+THE BALL
+
+
+Ensign MacCombich having gone to the Highland camp upon duty, and
+Bailie Macwheeble having retired to digest his dinner and Evan
+Dhu's intimation of martial law in some blind change-house,
+Waverley, with the Baron and the Chieftain, proceeded to Holyrood
+House. The two last were in full tide of spirits, and the Baron
+rallied in his way our hero upon the handsome figure which his new
+dress displayed to advantage. 'If you have any design upon the
+heart of a bonny Scotch lassie, I would premonish you, when you
+address her, to remember and quote the words of Virgilius:--
+
+    Nunc insanus amor duri me Martis in armis,
+    Tela inter media atque adversos detinet hostes;
+
+whilk verses Robertson of Struan, Chief of the Clan Donnochy
+(unless the claims of Lude ought to be preferred primo loco), has
+thus elegantly rendered:--
+
+    For cruel love had gartan'd low my leg,
+    And clad my hurdies in a philabeg.
+
+Although, indeed, ye wear the trews, a garment whilk I approve
+maist of the twa, as mair ancient and seemly.' 'Or rather,' said
+Fergus, 'hear my song:--
+
+    She wadna hae a Lowland laird,
+      Nor be an English lady;
+    But she's away with Duncan Grame,
+      And he's row'd her in his plaidy.'
+
+By this time they reached the palace of Holyrood, and were
+announced respectively as they entered the apartments.
+
+It is but too well known how many gentlemen of rank, education,
+and fortune took a concern in the ill-fated and desperate
+undertaking of 1745. The ladies, also, of Scotland very generally
+espoused the cause of the gallant and handsome young Prince, who
+threw himself upon the mercy of his countrymen rather like a hero
+of romance than a calculating politician. It is not, therefore, to
+be wondered that Edward, who had spent the greater part of his
+life in the solemn seclusion of Waverley-Honour, should have been
+dazzled at the liveliness and elegance of the scene now exhibited
+in the long deserted halls of the Scottish palace. The
+accompaniments, indeed, fell short of splendour, being such as the
+confusion and hurry of the time admitted; still, however, the
+general effect was striking, and, the rank of the company
+considered, might well be called brilliant.
+
+It was not long before the lover's eye discovered the object of
+his attachment. Flora Mac-Ivor was in the act of returning to her
+seat, near the top of the room, with Rose Bradwardine by her side.
+Among much elegance and beauty, they had attracted a great degree
+of the public attention, being certainly two of the handsomest
+women present. The Prince took much notice of both, particularly
+of Flora, with whom he danced, a preference which she probably
+owed to her foreign education and command of the French and
+Italian languages.
+
+When the bustle attending the conclusion of the dance permitted,
+Edward almost intuitively followed Fergus to the place where Miss
+Mac-Ivor was seated. The sensation of hope with which he had
+nursed his affection in absence of the beloved object seemed to
+vanish in her presence, and, like one striving to recover the
+particulars of a forgotten dream, he would have given the world at
+that moment to have recollected the grounds on which he had
+founded expectations which now seemed so delusive. He accompanied
+Fergus with downcast eyes, tingling ears, and the feelings of the
+criminal who, while the melancholy cart moves slowly through the
+crowds that have assembled to behold his execution, receives no
+clear sensation either from the noise which fills his ears or the
+tumult on which he casts his wandering look. Flora seemed a
+little--a very little--affected and discomposed at his approach.
+'I bring you an adopted son of Ivor,' said Fergus.
+
+'And I receive him as a second brother,' replied Flora.
+
+There was a slight emphasis on the word, which would have escaped
+every ear but one that was feverish with apprehension. It was,
+however, distinctly marked, and, combined with her whole tone and
+manner, plainly intimated, 'I will never think of Mr. Waverley as
+a more intimate connexion.' Edward stopped, bowed, and looked at
+Fergus, who bit his lip, a movement of anger which proved that he
+also had put a sinister interpretation on the reception which his
+sister had given his friend. 'This, then, is an end of my day-
+dream!' Such was Waverley's first thought, and it was so
+exquisitely painful as to banish from his cheek every drop of
+blood.
+
+'Good God!' said Rose Bradwardine, 'he is not yet recovered!'
+
+These words, which she uttered with great emotion, were overheard
+by the Chevalier himself, who stepped hastily forward, and, taking
+Waverley by the hand, inquired kindly after his health, and added
+that he wished to speak with him. By a strong and sudden effort;
+which the circumstances rendered indispensable, Waverley recovered
+himself so far as to follow the Chevalier in silence to a recess
+in the apartment.
+
+Here the Prince detained him some time, asking various questions
+about the great Tory and Catholic families of England, their
+connexions, their influence, and the state of their affections
+towards the house of Stuart. To these queries Edward could not at
+any time have given more than general answers, and it may be
+supposed that, in the present state of his feelings, his responses
+were indistinct even to confusion. The Chevalier smiled once or
+twice at the incongruity of his replies, but continued the same
+style of conversation, although he found himself obliged to occupy
+the principal share of it, until he perceived that Waverley had
+recovered his presence of mind. It is probable that this long
+audience was partly meant to further the idea which the Prince
+desired should be entertained among his followers, that Waverley
+was a character of political influence. But it appeared, from his
+concluding expressions, that he had a different and good-natured
+motive, personal to our hero, for prolonging the conference. 'I
+cannot resist the temptation,' he said, 'of boasting of my own
+discretion as a lady's confidant. You see, Mr. Waverley, that I
+know all, and I assure you I am deeply interested in the affair.
+But, my good young friend, you must put a more severe restraint
+upon your feelings. There are many here whose eyes can see as
+clearly as mine, but the prudence of whose tongues may not be
+equally trusted,'
+
+So saying, he turned easily away and joined a circle of officers
+at a few paces' distance, leaving Waverley to meditate upon his
+parting expression, which, though not intelligible to him in its
+whole purport, was sufficiently so in the caution which the last
+word recommended. Making, therefore, an effort to show himself
+worthy of the interest which his new master had expressed, by
+instant obedience to his recommendation, he walked up to the spot
+where Flora and Miss Bradwardine were still seated, and having
+made his compliments to the latter, he succeeded, even beyond his
+own expectation, in entering into conversation upon general
+topics.
+
+If, my dear reader, thou hast ever happened to take post-horses
+at----or at----(one at least of which blanks, or more probably
+both, you will be able to fill up from an inn near your own
+residence), you must have observed, and doubtless with sympathetic
+pain, the reluctant agony with which the poor jades at first apply
+their galled necks to the collars of the harness. But when the
+irresistible arguments of the post-boy have prevailed upon them to
+proceed a mile or two, they will become callous to the first
+sensation; and being warm in the harness, as the said post-boy may
+term it, proceed as if their withers were altogether unwrung. This
+simile so much corresponds with the state of Waverley's feelings
+in the course of this memorable evening, that I prefer it
+(especially as being, I trust, wholly original) to any more
+splendid illustration with which Byshe's 'Art of Poetry' might
+supply me.
+
+Exertion, like virtue, is its own reward; and our hero had,
+moreover, other stimulating motives for persevering in a display
+of affected composure and indifference to Flora's obvious
+unkindness. Pride, which supplies its caustic as an useful, though
+severe, remedy for the wounds of affection, came rapidly to his
+aid. Distinguished by the favour of a prince; destined, he had
+room to hope, to play a conspicuous part in the revolution which
+awaited a mighty kingdom; excelling, probably, in mental
+acquirements, and equalling at least in personal accomplishments,
+most of the noble and distinguished persons with whom he was now
+ranked; young, wealthy, and high-born,--could he, or ought he, to
+droop beneath the frown of a capricious beauty?
+
+    O nymph, unrelenting and cold as thou art,
+    My bosom is proud as thine own.
+
+With the feeling expressed in these beautiful lines (which,
+however, were not then written), [Footnote: They occur in Miss
+Seward's fine verses, beginning--'To thy rocks, stormy Lannow,
+adieu.'] Waverley determined upon convincing Flora that he was not
+to be depressed by a rejection in which his vanity whispered that
+perhaps she did her own prospects as much injustice as his. And,
+to aid this change of feeling, there lurked the secret and
+unacknowledged hope that she might learn to prize his affection
+more highly, when she did not conceive it to be altogether within
+her own choice to attract or repulse it. There was a mystic tone
+of encouragement, also, in the Chevalier's words, though he feared
+they only referred to the wishes of Fergus in favour of an union
+between him and his sister. But the whole circumstances of time,
+place, and incident combined at once to awaken his imagination and
+to call upon him for a manly and decisive tone of conduct, leaving
+to fate to dispose of the issue. Should he appear to be the only
+one sad and disheartened on the eve of battle, how greedily would
+the tale be commented upon by the slander which had been already
+but too busy with his fame! Never, never, he internally resolved,
+shall my unprovoked enemies possess such an advantage over my
+reputation.
+
+Under the influence of these mixed sensations, and cheered at
+times by a smile of intelligence and approbation from the Prince
+as he passed the group, Waverley exerted his powers of fancy,
+animation, and eloquence, and attracted the general admiration of
+the company. The conversation gradually assumed the tone best
+qualified for the display of his talents and acquisitions. The
+gaiety of the evening was exalted in character, rather than
+checked, by the approaching dangers of the morrow. All nerves were
+strung for the future, and prepared to enjoy the present. This
+mood of mind is highly favourable for the exercise of the powers
+of imagination, for poetry, and for that eloquence which is allied
+to poetry. Waverley, as we have elsewhere observed, possessed at
+times a wonderful flow of rhetoric; and on the present occasion,
+he touched more than once the higher notes of feeling, and then
+again ran off in a wild voluntary of fanciful mirth. He was
+supported and excited by kindred spirits, who felt the same
+impulse of mood and time; and even those of more cold and
+calculating habits were hurried along by the torrent. Many ladies
+declined the dance, which still went forward, and under various
+pretences joined the party to which the 'handsome young
+Englishman' seemed to have attached himself. He was presented to
+several of the first rank, and his manners, which for the present
+were altogether free from the bashful restraint by which, in a
+moment of less excitation, they were usually clouded, gave
+universal delight.
+
+Flora Mac-Ivor appeared to be the only female present who regarded
+him with a degree of coldness and reserve; yet even she could not
+suppress a sort of wonder at talents which, in the course of their
+acquaintance, she had never seen displayed with equal brilliancy
+and impressive effect. I do not know whether she might not feel a
+momentary regret at having taken so decisive a resolution upon the
+addresses of a lover who seemed fitted so well to fill a high
+place in the highest stations of society. Certainly she had
+hitherto accounted among the incurable deficiencies of Edward's
+disposition the mauvaise honte which, as she had been educated in
+the first foreign circles, and was little acquainted with the
+shyness of English manners, was in her opinion too nearly related
+to timidity and imbecility of disposition. But if a passing wish
+occurred that Waverley could have rendered himself uniformly thus
+amiable and attractive, its influence was momentary; for
+circumstances had arisen since they met which rendered in her eyes
+the resolution she had formed respecting him final and
+irrevocable.
+
+With opposite feelings Rose Bradwardine bent her whole soul to
+listen. She felt a secret triumph at the public tribute paid to
+one whose merit she had learned to prize too early and too fondly.
+Without a thought of jealousy, without a feeling of fear, pain, or
+doubt, and undisturbed by a single selfish consideration, she
+resigned herself to the pleasure of observing the general murmur
+of applause. When Waverley spoke, her ear was exclusively filled
+with his voice, when others answered, her eye took its turn of
+observation, and seemed to watch his reply. Perhaps the delight
+which she experienced in the course of that evening, though
+transient, and followed by much sorrow, was in its nature the most
+pure and disinterested which the human mind is capable of
+enjoying.
+
+'Baron,' said the Chevalier, 'I would not trust my mistress in the
+company of your young friend. He is really, though perhaps
+somewhat romantic, one of the most fascinating young men whom I
+have ever seen.'
+
+'And by my honour, sir,' replied the Baron,'the lad can sometimes
+be as dowff as a sexagenary like myself. If your Royal Highness
+had seen him dreaming and dozing about the banks of Tully-Veolan
+like an hypochondriac person, or, as Burton's "Anatomia" hath it,
+a phrenesiac or lethargic patient, you would wonder where he hath
+sae suddenly acquired all this fine sprack festivity and
+jocularity.'
+
+'Truly,' said Fergus Mac-Ivor, 'I think it can only be the
+inspiration of the tartans; for, though Waverley be always a young
+fellow of sense and honour, I have hitherto often found him a very
+absent and inattentive companion.'
+
+'We are the more obliged to him,' said the Prince, 'for having
+reserved for this evening qualities which even such intimate
+friends had not discovered. But come, gentlemen, the night
+advances, and the business of tomorrow must be early thought upon.
+Each take charge of his fair partner, and honour a small
+refreshment with your company.'
+
+He led the way to another suite of apartments, and assumed the
+seat and canopy at the head of a long range of tables with an air
+of dignity, mingled with courtesy, which well became his high
+birth and lofty pretensions. An hour had hardly flown away when
+the musicians played the signal for parting so well known in
+Scotland. [Footnote: Which is, or was wont to be, the old air of
+'Good-night and joy be wi' you a'.]
+
+'Good-night, then,' said the Chevalier, rising; 'goodnight, and
+joy be with you! Good-night, fair ladies, who have so highly
+honoured a proscribed and banished Prince! Good-night, my brave
+friends; may the happiness we have this evening experienced be an
+omen of our return to these our paternal halls, speedily and in
+triumph, and of many and many future meetings of mirth and
+pleasure in the palace of Holyrood!'
+
+When the Baron of Bradwardine afterwards mentioned this adieu of
+the Chevalier, he never failed to repeat, in a melancholy tone,
+
+    'Audiit, et voti Phoebus succedere partem
+    Mente dedit; partem volucres dispersit in auras;
+
+which,' as he added, 'is weel rendered into English metre by my
+friend Bangour:--
+
+    Ae half the prayer wi' Phoebus grace did find,
+    The t'other half he whistled down the wind.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIV
+
+THE MARCH
+
+
+The conflicting passions and exhausted feelings of Waverley had
+resigned him to late but sound repose. He was dreaming of
+Glennaquoich, and had transferred to the halls of lan nan Chaistel
+the festal train which so lately graced those of Holyrood. The
+pibroch too was distinctly heard; and this at least was no
+delusion, for the 'proud step of the chief piper' of the 'chlain
+MacIvor' was perambulating the court before the door of his
+Chieftain's quarters, and as Mrs. Flockhart, apparently no friend
+to his minstrelsy, was pleased to observe, 'garring the very
+stane-and-lime wa's dingle wi' his screeching.' Of course it soon
+became too powerful for Waverley's dream, with which it had at
+first rather harmonised.
+
+The sound of Callum's brogues in his apartment (for Mac-Ivor had
+again assigned Waverley to his care) was the next note of parting.
+'Winna yer honour bang up? Vich lan Vohr and ta Prince are awa to
+the lang green glen ahint the clachan, tat they ca' the King's
+Park, [Footnote: The main body of the Highland army encamped, or
+rather bivouacked, in that part of the King's Park which lies
+towards the village of Duddingston.] and mony ane's on his ain
+shanks the day that will be carried on ither folk's ere night.'
+
+Waverley sprung up, and, with Callum's assistance and
+instructions, adjusted his tartans in proper costume. Callum told
+him also,' tat his leather dorlach wi' the lock on her was come
+frae Doune, and she was awa again in the wain wi' Vich Ian Vohr's
+walise.'
+
+By this periphrasis Waverley readily apprehended his portmanteau
+was intended. He thought upon the mysterious packet of the maid of
+the cavern, which seemed always to escape him when within his very
+grasp. But this was no time for indulgence of curiosity; and
+having declined Mrs. Flockhart's compliment of a MORNING, i.e. a
+matutinal dram, being probably the only man in the Chevalier's
+army by whom such a courtesy would have been rejected, he made his
+adieus and departed with Callum.
+
+'Callum,' said he, as they proceeded down a dirty close to gain
+the southern skirts of the Canongate, 'what shall I do for a
+horse?'
+
+'Ta deil ane ye maun think o',' said Callum. 'Vich Ian Vohr's
+marching on foot at the head o' his kin (not to say ta Prince, wha
+does the like), wi' his target on his shoulder; and ye maun e'en
+be neighbour-like.'
+
+'And so I will, Callum, give me my target; so, there we are fixed.
+How does it look?'
+
+'Like the bra' Highlander tat's painted on the board afore the
+mickle change-house they ca' Luckie Middlemass's,' answered
+Callum; meaning, I must observe, a high compliment, for in his
+opinion Luckie Middlemass's sign was an exquisite specimen of art.
+Waverley, however, not feeling the full force of this polite
+simile, asked him no further questions.
+
+Upon extricating themselves from the mean and dirty suburbs of the
+metropolis, and emerging into the open air, Waverley felt a
+renewal of both health and spirits, and turned his recollection
+with firmness upon the events of the preceding evening, and with
+hope and resolution towards those of the approaching day.
+
+When he had surmounted a small craggy eminence called St.
+Leonard's Hill, the King's Park, or the hollow between the
+mountain of Arthur's Seat and the rising grounds on which the
+southern part of Edinburgh is now built, lay beneath him, and
+displayed a singular and animating prospect. It was occupied by
+the army of the Highlanders, now in the act of preparing for their
+march. Waverley had already seen something of the kind at the
+hunting-match which he attended with Fergus MacIvor; but this was
+on a scale of much greater magnitude, and incomparably deeper
+interest. The rocks, which formed the background of the scene, and
+the very sky itself, rang with the clang of the bagpipers,
+summoning forth, each with his appropriate pibroch, his chieftain
+and clan. The mountaineers, rousing themselves from their couch
+under the canopy of heaven with the hum and bustle of a confused
+and irregular multitude, like bees alarmed and arming in their
+hives, seemed to possess all the pliability of movement fitted to
+execute military manoeuvres. Their motions appeared spontaneous
+and confused, but the result was order and regularity; so that a
+general must have praised the conclusion, though a martinet might
+have ridiculed the method by which it was attained.
+
+The sort of complicated medley created by the hasty arrangements
+of the various clans under their respective banners, for the
+purpose of getting into the order of march, was in itself a gay
+and lively spectacle. They had no tents to striket having
+generally, and by choice, slept upon the open field, although the
+autumn was now waning and the nights began to be frosty. For a
+little space, while they were getting into order, there was
+exhibited a changing, fluctuating, and confused appearance of
+waving tartans and floating plumes, and of banners displaying the
+proud gathering word of Clanronald, Ganion Coheriga (Gainsay who
+dares), Loch-Sloy, the watchword of the MacFarlanes; Forth,
+fortune, and fill the fetters, the motto of the Marquis of
+Tullibardine; Bydand, that of Lord Lewis Gordon, and the
+appropriate signal words and emblems of many other chieftains and
+clans.
+
+At length the mixed and wavering multitude arranged themselves
+into a narrow and dusky column of great length, stretching through
+the whole extent of the valley. In the front of the column the
+standard of the Chevalier was displayed, bearing a red cross upon
+a white ground, with the motto Tandem Triumphans. The few cavalry,
+being chiefly Lowland gentry, with their domestic servants and
+retainers, formed the advanced guard of the army; and their
+standards, of which they had rather too many in respect of their
+numbers, were seen waving upon the extreme verge of the horizon.
+Many horsemen of this body, among whom Waverley accidentally
+remarked Balmawhapple and his lieutenant, Jinker (which last,
+however, had been reduced, with several others, by the advice of
+the Baron of Bradwardine, to the situation of what he called
+reformed officers, or reformadoes), added to the liveliness,
+though by no means to the regularity, of the scene, by galloping
+their horses as fast forward as the press would permit, to join
+their proper station in the van. The fascinations of the Circes of
+the High Street, and the potations of strength with which they had
+been drenched over night, had probably detained these heroes
+within the walls of Edinburgh somewhat later than was consistent
+with their morning duty. Of such loiterers, the prudent took the
+longer and circuitous, but more open, route to attain their place
+in the march, by keeping at some distance from the infantry, and
+making their way through the inclosures to the right, at the
+expense of leaping over or pulling down the drystone fences. The
+irregular appearance and vanishing of these small parties of
+horsemen, as well as the confusion occasioned by those who
+endeavoured, though generally without effect, to press to the
+front through the crowd of Highlanders, maugre their curses,
+oaths, and opposition, added to the picturesque wildness what it
+took from the military regularity of the scene.
+
+While Waverley gazed upon this remarkable spectacle, rendered yet
+more impressive by the occasional discharge of cannon-shot from
+the Castle at the Highland guards as they were withdrawn from its
+vicinity to join their main body, Callum, with his usual freedom
+of interference, reminded him that Vich lan Vohr's folk were
+nearly at the head of the column of march which was still distant,
+and that 'they would gang very fast after the cannon fired.' Thus
+admonished, Waverley walked briskly forward, yet often casting a
+glance upon the darksome clouds of warriors who were collected
+before and beneath him. A nearer view, indeed, rather diminished
+the effect impressed on the mind by the more distant appearance of
+the army. The leading men of each clan were well armed with broad-
+sword, target, and fusee, to which all added the dirk, and most
+the steel pistol. But these consisted of gentlemen, that is,
+relations of the chief, however distant, and who had an immediate
+title to his countenance and protection. Finer and hardier men
+could not have been selected out of any army in Christendom; while
+the free and independent habits which each possessed, and which
+each was yet so well taught to subject to the command of his
+chief, and the peculiar mode of discipline adopted in Highland
+warfare, rendered them equally formidable by their individual
+courage and high spirit, and from their rational conviction of the
+necessity of acting in unison, and of giving their national mode
+of attack the fullest opportunity of success.
+
+But, in a lower rank to these, there were found individuals of an
+inferior description, the common peasantry of the Highland
+country, who, although they did not allow themselves to be so
+called, and claimed often, with apparent truth, to be of more
+ancient descent than the masters whom they served, bore,
+nevertheless, the livery of extreme penury, being indifferently
+accoutred, and worse armed, half naked, stinted in growth, and
+miserable in aspect. Each important clan had some of those Helots
+attached to them: thus, the MacCouls, though tracing their descent
+from Comhal, the father of Finn or Fingal, were a sort of
+Gibeonites, or hereditary servants to the Stewarts of Appin; the
+Macbeths, descended from the unhappy monarch of that name, were
+subjects to the Morays and clan Donnochy, or Robertsons of Athole;
+and many other examples might be given, were it not for the risk
+of hurting any pride of clanship which may yet be left, and
+thereby drawing a Highland tempest into the shop of my publisher.
+Now these same Helots, though forced into the field by the
+arbitrary authority of the chieftains under whom they hewed wood
+and drew water, were in general very sparingly fed, ill dressed,
+and worse armed. The latter circumstance was indeed owing chiefly
+to the general disarming act, which had been carried into effect
+ostensibly through the whole Highlands, although most of the
+chieftains contrived to elude its influence by retaining the
+weapons of their own immediate clansmen, and delivering up those
+of less value, which they collected from these inferior
+satellites. It followed, as a matter of course, that, as we have
+already hinted, many of these poor fellows were brought to the
+field in a very wretched condition.
+
+From this it happened that, in bodies, the van of which were
+admirably well armed in their own fashion, the rear resembled
+actual banditti. Here was a pole-axe, there a sword without a
+scabbard; here a gun without a lock, there a scythe set straight
+upon a pole; and some had only their dirks, and bludgeons or
+stakes pulled out of hedges. The grim, uncombed, and wild
+appearance of these men, most of whom gazed with all the
+admiration of ignorance upon the most ordinary productions of
+domestic art, created surprise in the Lowlands, but it also
+created terror. So little was the condition of the Highlands known
+at that late period that the character and appearance of their
+population, while thus sallying forth as military adventurers,
+conveyed to the South-Country Lowlanders as much surprise as if an
+invasion of African Negroes or Esquimaux Indians had issued forth
+from the northern mountains of their own native country. It cannot
+therefore be wondered if Waverley, who had hitherto judged of the
+Highlanders generally from the samples which the policy of Fergus
+had from time to time exhibited, should have felt damped and
+astonished at the daring attempt of a body not then exceeding four
+thousand men, and of whom not above half the number, at the
+utmost, were armed, to change the fate and alter the dynasty of
+the British kingdoms.
+
+As he moved along the column, which still remained stationary, an
+iron gun, the only piece of artillery possessed by the army which
+meditated so important a revolution, was fired as the signal of
+march. The Chevalier had expressed a wish to leave this useless
+piece of ordnance behind him; but, to his surprise, the Highland
+chiefs interposed to solicit that it might accompany their march,
+pleading the prejudices of their followers, who, little accustomed
+to artillery, attached a degree of absurd importance to this
+field-piece, and expected it would contribute essentially to a
+victory which they could only owe to their own muskets and
+broadswords. Two or three French artillerymen were therefore
+appointed to the management of this military engine, which was
+drawn along by a string of Highland ponies, and was, after all,
+only used for the purpose of firing signals. [Footnote: See Note
+6.]
+
+No sooner was its voice heard upon the present occasion than the
+whole line was in motion. A wild cry of joy from the advancing
+batallions rent the air, and was then lost in the shrill clangour
+of the bagpipes, as the sound of these, in their turn, was
+partially drowned by the heavy tread of so many men put at once
+into motion. The banners glittered and shook as they moved
+forward, and the horse hastened to occupy their station as the
+advanced guard, and to push on reconnoitring parties to ascertain
+and report the motions of the enemy. They vanished from Waverley's
+eye as they wheeled round the base of Arthur's Seat, under the
+remarkable ridge of basaltic rocks which fronts the little lake of
+Duddingston.
+
+The infantry followed in the same direction, regulating their pace
+by another body which occupied a road more to the southward. It
+cost Edward some exertion of activity to attain the place which
+Fergus's followers occupied in the line of march.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLV
+
+AN INCIDENT GIVES RISE TO UNAVAILING REFLECTIONS
+
+
+When Waverley reached that part of the column which was filled by
+the clan of Mac-Ivor, they halted, formed, and received him with a
+triumphant flourish upon the bagpipes and a loud shout of the men,
+most of whom knew him personally, and were delighted to see him in
+the dress of their country and of their sept. 'You shout,' said a
+Highlander of a neighbouring clan to Evan Dhu, 'as if the
+Chieftain were just come to your head.'
+
+'_Mar e Bran is e a brathair_, If it be not Bran, it is Bran's
+brother,' was the proverbial reply of Maccombich. [Footnote: Bran,
+the well-known dog of Fingal. is often the theme of Highland
+proverb as well as song.]
+
+'O, then, it is the handsome Sassenach duinhe-wassel that is to be
+married to Lady Flora?'
+
+'That may be, or it may not be; and it is neither your matter nor
+mine, Gregor.'
+
+Fergus advanced to embrace the volunteer, and afford him a warm
+and hearty welcome; but he thought it necessary to apologize for
+the diminished numbers of his battalion (which did not exceed
+three hundred men) by observing he had sent a good many out upon
+parties.
+
+The real fact, however, was, that the defection of Donald Bean
+Lean had deprived him of at least thirty hardy fellows, whose
+services he had fully reckoned upon, and that many of his
+occasional adherents had been recalled by their several chiefs to
+the standards to which they most properly owed their allegiance.
+The rival chief of the great northern branch, also, of his own
+clan had mustered his people, although he had not yet declared
+either for the government or for the Chevalier, and by his
+intrigues had in some degree diminished the force with which
+Fergus took the field. To make amends for these disappointments,
+it was universally admitted that the followers of Vich Ian Vohr,
+in point of appearance, equipment, arms, and dexterity in using
+them, equalled the most choice troops which followed the standard
+of Charles Edward. Old Ballenkeiroch acted as his major; and, with
+the other officers who had known Waverley when at Glennaquoich,
+gave our hero a cordial reception, as the sharer of their future
+dangers and expected honours.
+
+The route pursued by the Highland army, after leaving the village
+of Duddingston, was for some time the common post-road betwixt
+Edinburgh and Haddington, until they crossed the Esk at
+Musselburgh, when, instead of keeping the low grounds towards the
+sea, they turned more inland, and occupied the brow of the
+eminence called Carberry Hill, a place already distinguished in
+Scottish history as the spot where the lovely Mary surrendered
+herself to her insurgent subjects. This direction was chosen
+because the Chevalier had received notice that the army of the
+government, arriving by sea from Aberdeen, had landed at Dunbar,
+and quartered the night before to the west of Haddington, with the
+intention of falling down towards the sea-side, and approaching
+Edinburgh by the lower coast-road. By keeping the height, which
+overhung that road in many places, it was hoped the Highlanders
+might find an opportunity of attacking them to advantage. The army
+therefore halted upon the ridge of Carberry Hill, both to refresh
+the soldiers and as a central situation from which their march
+could be directed to any point that the motions of the enemy might
+render most advisable. While they remained in this position a
+messenger arrived in haste to desire Mac-Ivor to come to the
+Prince, adding that their advanced post had had a skirmish with
+some of the enemy's cavalry, and that the Baron of Bradwardine had
+sent in a few prisoners.
+
+Waverley walked forward out of the line to satisfy his curiosity,
+and soon observed five or six of the troopers who, covered with
+dust, had galloped in to announce that the enemy were in full
+march westward along the coast. Passing still a little farther on,
+he was struck with a groan which issued from a hovel. He
+approached the spot, and heard a voice, in the provincial English
+of his native county, which endeavoured, though frequently
+interrupted by pain, to repeat the Lord's Prayer. The voice of
+distress always found a ready answer in our hero's bosom. He
+entered the hovel, which seemed to be intended for what is called,
+in the pastoral counties of Scotland, a smearing-house; and in its
+obscurity Edward could only at first discern a sort of red bundle;
+for those who had stripped the wounded man of his arms and part of
+his clothes had left him the dragoon-cloak in which he was
+enveloped.
+
+'For the love of God,' said the wounded man, as he heard
+Waverley's step, 'give me a single drop of water!'
+
+'You shall have it,' answered Waverley, at the same time raising
+him in his arms, bearing him to the door of the hut, and giving
+him some drink from his flask.
+
+'I should know that voice,' said the man; but looking on
+Waverley's dress with a bewildered look--'no, this is not the
+young squire!'
+
+This was the common phrase by which Edward was distinguished on
+the estate of Waverley-Honour, and the sound now thrilled to his
+heart with the thousand recollections which the well-known accents
+of his native country had already contributed to awaken.
+'Houghton!' he said, gazing on the ghastly features which death
+was fast disfiguring, 'can this be you?'
+
+'I never thought to hear an English voice again,' said the wounded
+man;'they left me to live or die here as I could, when they found
+I would say nothing about the strength of the regiment. But, O
+squire! how could you stay from us so long, and let us be tempted
+by that fiend of the pit, Rufinn? we should have followed you
+through flood and fire, to be sure.'
+
+'Rufin! I assure you, Houghton, you have been vilely imposed
+upon.'
+
+'I often thought so,' said Houghton,'though they showed us your
+very seal; and so Tims was shot and I was reduced to the ranks.'
+
+'Do not exhaust your strength in speaking,' said Edward; 'I will
+get you a surgeon presently.'
+
+He saw Mac-Ivor approaching, who was now returning from
+headquarters, where he had attended a council of war, and hastened
+to meet him. 'Brave news!'shouted the Chief; 'we shall be at it in
+less than two hours. The Prince has put himself at the head of the
+advance, and, as he drew his sword, called out, "My friends, I
+have thrown away the scabbard." Come, Waverley, we move
+instantly.'
+
+'A moment--a moment; this poor prisoner is dying; where shall I
+find a surgeon?'
+
+'Why, where should you? We have none, you know, but two or three
+French fellows, who, I believe, are little better than _garqons
+apothecaires_.'
+
+'But the man will bleed to death.'
+
+'Poor fellow!' said Fergus, in a momentary fit of compassion; then
+instantly added, 'But it will be a thousand men's fate before
+night; so come along.'
+
+'I cannot; I tell you he is a son of a tenant of my uncle's.'
+
+'O, if he's a follower of yours he must be looked to; I'll send
+Callum to you; but _diaoul! ceade millia mottigheart_,' continued
+the impatient Chieftain, 'what made an old soldier like
+Bradwardine send dying men here to cumber us?'
+
+Callum came with his usual alertness; and, indeed, Waverley rather
+gained than lost in the opinion of the Highlanders by his anxiety
+about the wounded man. They would not have understood the general
+philanthropy which rendered it almost impossible for Waverley to
+have passed any person in such distress; but, as apprehending that
+the sufferer was one of his _following_ they unanimously allowed
+that Waverley's conduct was thatof akind and considerate
+chieftain, who merited the attachment of his people. In about a
+quarter of an hour poor Humphrey breathed his last, praying his
+young master, when he returned to Waverley-Honour, to be kind to
+old Job Houghton and his dame, and conjuring him not to fight with
+these wild petticoat-men against old England.
+
+When his last breath was drawn, Waverley, who had beheld with
+sincere sorrow, and no slight tinge of remorse, the final agonies
+of mortality, now witnessed for the first time, commanded Callum
+to remove the body into the hut. This the young Highlander
+performed, not without examining the pockets of the defunct,
+which, however, he remarked had been pretty well spunged. He took
+the cloak, however, and proceeding with the provident caution of a
+spaniel hiding a bone, concealed it among some furze and carefully
+marked the spot, observing that, if he chanced to return that way,
+it would be an excellent rokelay for his auld mother Elspat.
+
+It was by a considerable exertion that they regained their place
+in the marching column, which was now moving rapidly forward to
+occupy the high grounds above the village of Tranent, between
+which and the sea lay the purposed march of the opposite army.
+
+This melancholy interview with his late sergeant forced many
+unavailing and painful reflections upon Waverley's mind. It was
+clear from the confession of the man that Colonel Gardiner's
+proceedings had been strictly warranted, and even rendered
+indispensable, by the steps taken in Edward's name to induce the
+soldiers of his troop to mutiny. The circumstance of the seal he
+now, for the first time, recollected, and that he had lost it in
+the cavern of the robber, Bean Lean. That the artful villain had
+secured it, and used it as the means of carrying on an intrigue in
+the regiment for his own purposes, was sufficiently evident; and
+Edward had now little doubt that in the packet placed in his
+portmanteau by his daughter he should find farther light upon his
+proceedings. In the meanwhile the repeated expostulation of
+Houghton--'Ah, squire, why did you leave us?' rung like a knell in
+his ears.
+
+'Yes,' he said, 'I have indeed acted towards you with thoughtless
+cruelty. I brought you from your paternal fields, and the
+protection of a generous and kind landlord, and when I had
+subjected you to all the rigour of military discipline, I shunned
+to bear my own share of the burden, and wandered from the duties I
+had undertaken, leaving alike those whom it was my business to
+protect, and my own reputation, to suffer under the artifices of
+villainy. O, indolence and indecision of mind, if not in
+yourselves vices--to how much exquisite misery and mischief do you
+frequently prepare the way!'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVI
+
+THE EVE OF BATTLE
+
+
+Although the Highlanders marched on very fast, the sun was
+declining when they arrived upon the brow of those high grounds
+which command an open and extensive plain stretching northward to
+the sea, on which are situated, but at a considerable distance
+from each other, the small villages of Seaton and Cockenzie, and
+the larger one of Preston. One of the low coastroads to Edinburgh
+passed through this plain, issuing upon it from the enclosures of
+Seaton House, and at the town or village of Preston again entering
+the denies of an enclosed country. By this way the English general
+had chosen to approach the metropolis, both as most commodious for
+his cavalry, and being probably of opinion that by doing so he
+would meet in front with the Highlanders advancing from Edinburgh
+in the opposite direction. In this he was mistaken; for the sound
+judgment of the Chevalier, or of those to whose advice he
+listened, left the direct passage free, but occupied the strong
+ground by which it was overlooked and commanded.
+
+When the Highlanders reached the heights above the plain
+described, they were immediately formed in array of battle along
+the brow of the hill. Almost at the same instant the van of the
+English appeared issuing from among the trees and enclosures of
+Seaton, with the purpose of occupying the level plain between the
+high ground and the sea; the space which divided the armies being
+only about half a mile in breadth. Waverley could plainly see the
+squadrons of dragoons issue, one after another, from the defiles,
+with their videttes in front, and form upon the plain, with their
+front opposed to that of the Prince's army. They were followed by
+a train of field-pieces, which, when they reached the flank of the
+dragoons, were also brought into line and pointed against the
+heights. The march was continued by three or four regiments of
+infantry marching in open column, their fixed bayonets showing
+like successive hedges of steel, and their arms glancing like
+lightning, as, at a signal given, they also at once wheeled up,
+and were placed in direct opposition to the Highlanders. A second
+train of artillery, with another regiment of horse, closed the
+long march, and formed on the left flank of the infantry, the
+whole line facing southward.
+
+While the English army went through these evolutions, the
+Highlanders showed equal promptitude and zeal for battle. As fast
+as the clans came upon the ridge which fronted their enemy, they
+were formed into line, so that both armies got into complete order
+of battle at the same moment. When this was accomplished, the
+Highlanders set up a tremendous yell, which was re-echoed by the
+heights behind them. The regulars, who were in high spirits,
+returned a loud shout of defiance, and fired one or two of their
+cannon upon an advanced post of the Highlanders. The latter
+displayed great earnestness to proceed instantly to the attack,
+Evan Dhu urging to Fergus, by way of argument, that 'the SIDIER
+ROY was tottering like an egg upon a staff, and that they had a'
+the vantage of the onset, for even a haggis (God bless her!) could
+charge down hill.'
+
+But the ground through which the mountaineers must have descended,
+although not of great extent, was impracticable in its
+character, being not only marshy but intersected with walls of dry
+stone, and traversed in its whole length by a very broad and deep
+ditch, circumstances which must have given the musketry of the
+regulars dreadful advantages before the mountaineers could have
+used their swords, on which they were taught to rely. The
+authority of the commanders was therefore interposed to curb the
+impetuosity of the Highlanders, and only a few marksmen were sent
+down the descent to skirmish with the enemy's advanced posts and
+to reconnoitre the ground.
+
+Here, then, was a military spectacle of no ordinary interest or
+usual occurrence. The two armies, so different in aspect and
+discipline, yet each admirably trained in its own peculiar mode of
+war, upon whose conflict the temporary fate at least of Scotland
+appeared to depend, now faced each other like two gladiators in
+the arena, each meditating upon the mode of attacking their enemy.
+The leading officers and the general's staff of each army could be
+distinguished in front of their lines, busied with spy-glasses to
+watch each other's motions, and occupied in despatching the orders
+and receiving the intelligence conveyed by the aides-de-camp and
+orderly men, who gave life to the scene by galloping along in
+different directions, as if the fate of the day depended upon
+the speed of their horses. The space between the armies was at
+times occupied by the partial and irregular contest of individual
+sharp-shooters, and a hat or bonnet was occasionally seen to
+fall, as a wounded man was borne off by his comrades. These,
+however, were but trifling skirmishes, for it suited the views
+of neither party to advance in that direction. From the
+neighbouring hamlets the peasantry cautiously showed themselves,
+as if watching the issue of the expected engagement; and at no
+great distance in the bay were two square-rigged vessels, bearing
+the English flag, whose tops and yards were crowded with less
+timid spectators.
+
+When this awful pause had lasted for a short time, Fergus, with
+another chieftain, received orders to detach their clans towards
+the village of Preston, in order to threaten the right flank of
+Cope's army and compel him to a change of position. To enable him
+to execute these orders, the Chief of Glennaquoich occupied the
+church-yard of Tranent, a commanding situation, and a convenient
+place, as Evan Dhu remarked, 'for any gentleman who might have the
+misfortune to be killed, and chanced to be curious about Christian
+burial.' To check or dislodge this party, the English general
+detached two guns, escorted by a strong party of cavalry. They
+approached so near that Waverley could plainly recognise the
+standard of the troop he had formerly commanded, and hear the
+trumpets and kettle-drums sound the signal of advance which he had
+so often obeyed. He could hear, too, the well-known word given in
+the English dialect by the equally well-distinguished voice of the
+commanding officer, for whom he had once felt so much respect. It
+was at that instant, that, looking around him, he saw the wild
+dress and appearance of his Highland associates, heard their
+whispers in an uncouth and unknown language, looked upon his own
+dress, so unlike that which he had worn from his infancy, and
+wished to awake from what seemed at the moment a dream, strange,
+horrible, and unnatural. 'Good God!' he muttered, 'am I then a
+traitor to my country, a renegade to my standard, and a foe, as
+that poor dying wretch expressed himself, to my native England!'
+
+Ere he could digest or smother the recollection, the tall military
+form of his late commander came full in view, for the purpose of
+reconnoitring. 'I can hit him now,' said Callum, cautiously
+raising his fusee over the wall under which he lay couched, at
+scarce sixty yards' distance.
+
+Edward felt as if he was about to see a parricide committed in his
+presence; for the venerable grey hair and striking countenance of
+the veteran recalled the almost paternal respect with which his
+officers universally regarded him. But ere he could say 'Hold!' an
+aged Highlander who lay beside Callum Beg stopped his arm. 'Spare
+your shot,' said the seer, 'his hour is not yet come. But let him
+beware of to-morrow; I see his winding-sheet high upon his
+breast.'
+
+Callum, flint to other considerations, was penetrable to
+superstition. He turned pale at the words of the _taishatr_, and
+recovered his piece. Colonel Gardiner, unconscious of the danger
+he had escaped, turned his horse round and rode slowly back to the
+front of his regiment.
+
+By this time the regular army had assumed a new line, with one
+flank inclined towards the sea and the other resting upon the
+village of Preston; and, as similar difficulties occurred in
+attacking their new position, Fergus and the rest of the
+detachment were recalled to their former post. This alteration
+created the necessity of a corresponding change in General Cope's
+army, which was again brought into a line parallel with that of
+the Highlanders. In these manoeuvres on both sides the daylight
+was nearly consumed, and both armies prepared to rest upon their
+arms for the night in the lines which they respectively occupied.
+
+'There will be nothing done to-night,' said Fergus to his friend
+Waverley; 'ere we wrap ourselves in our plaids, let us go see what
+the Baron is doing in the rear of the line.'
+
+When they approached his post, they found the good old careful
+officer, after having sent out his night patrols and posted his
+sentinels, engaged in reading the Evening Service of the Episcopal
+Church to the remainder of his troop. His voice was loud and
+sonorous, and though his spectacles upon his nose, and the
+appearance of Saunders Saunderson, in military array, performing
+the functions of clerk, had something ludicrous, yet the
+circumstances of danger in which they stood, the military costume
+of the audience, and the appearance of their horses saddled and
+picqueted behind them, gave an impressive and solemn effect to the
+office of devotion.
+
+'I have confessed to-day, ere you were awake,' whispered Fergus to
+Waverley; 'yet I am not so strict a Catholic as to refuse to join
+in this good man's prayers.'
+
+Edward assented, and they remained till the Baron had concluded
+the service.
+
+As he shut the book, 'Now, lads,' said he, 'have at them in the
+morning with heavy hands and light consciences.' He then kindly
+greeted Mac-Ivor and Waverley, who requested to know his opinion
+of their situation. Why, you know Tacitus saith, "In rebus
+bellicis maxime dominalur Fortuna," which is equiponderate with
+our vernacular adage, "Luck can maist in the mellee." But credit
+me, gentlemen, yon man is not a deacon o' his craft. He damps the
+spirits of the poor lads he commands by keeping them on the
+defensive, whilk of itself implies inferiority or fear. Now will
+they lie on their arms yonder as anxious and as ill at ease as a
+toad under a harrow, while our men will be quite fresh and blithe
+for action in the morning. Well, good-night. One thing troubles
+me, but if to-morrow goes well off, I will consult you about it,
+Glennaquoich.'
+
+'I could almost apply to Mr. Bradwardine the character which Henry
+gives of Fluellen,' said Waverley, as his friend and he walked
+towards their bivouac:
+
+    'Though it appears a little out of fashion,
+    There is much care and valour in this "Scotchman."'
+
+'He has seen much service,' answered Fergus, 'and one is sometimes
+astonished to find how much nonsense and reason are mingled in his
+composition. I wonder what can be troubling his mind; probably
+something about Rose. Hark! the English are setting their watch.'
+
+The roll of the drum and shrill accompaniment of the fifes swelled
+up the hill--died away--resumed its thunder--and was at length
+hushed. The trumpets and kettle-drums of the cavalry were next
+heard to perform the beautiful and wild point of war appropriated
+as a signal for that piece of nocturnal duty, and then finally
+sunk upon the wind with a shrill and mournful cadence.
+
+The friends, who had now reached their post, stood and looked
+round them ere they lay down to rest. The western sky twinkled
+with stars, but a frost-mist, rising from the ocean, covered the
+eastern horizon, and rolled in white wreaths along the plain where
+the adverse army lay couched upon their arms. Their advanced posts
+were pushed as far as the side of the great ditch at the bottom of
+the descent, and had kindled large fires at different intervals,
+gleaming with obscure and hazy lustre through the heavy fog which
+encircled them with a doubtful halo.
+
+The Highlanders,'thick as leaves in Vallombrosa,' lay stretched
+upon the ridge of the hill, buried (excepting their sentinels) in
+the most profound repose. 'How many of these brave fellows will
+sleep more soundly before to-morrow night, Fergus!' said Waverley,
+with an involuntary sigh.
+
+'You must notthink of that,' answered Fergus, whose ideas were
+entirely military. 'You must only think of your sword, and by whom
+it was given. All other reflections are now TOO LATE.'
+
+With the opiate contained in this undeniable remark Edward
+endeavoured to lull the tumult of his conflicting feelings. The
+Chieftain and he, combining their plaids, made a comfortable and
+warm couch. Callum, sitting down at their head (for it was his
+duty to watch upon the immediate person of the Chief), began a
+long mournful song in Gaelic, to a low and uniform tune, which,
+like the sound of the wind at a distance, soon lulled them to
+sleep.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVII
+
+THE CONFLICT
+
+
+When Fergus Mac-Ivor and his friend had slept for a few hours,
+they were awakened and summoned to attend the Prince. The distant
+village clock was heard to toll three as they hastened to the
+place where he lay. He was already surrounded by his principal
+officers and the chiefs of clans. A bundle of pease-straw, which
+had been lately his couch, now served for his seat. Just as Fergus
+reached the circle, the consultation had broken up. 'Courage, my
+brave friends!' said the Chevalier, 'and each one put himself
+instantly at the head of his command; a faithful friend [Footnote:
+See Note 7.] has offered to guide us by a practicable, though
+narrow and circuitous, route, which, sweeping to our right,
+traverses the broken ground and morass, and enables us to gain the
+firm and open plain upon which the enemy are lying. This
+difficulty surmounted, Heaven and your good swords must do the
+rest.'
+
+The proposal spread unanimous joy, and each leader hastened to get
+his men into order with as little noise as possible. The army,
+moving by its right from off the ground on which they had rested,
+soon entered the path through the morass, conducting their march
+with astonishing silence and great rapidity. The mist had not
+risen to the higher grounds, so that for some time they had the
+advantage of star-light. But this was lost as the stars faded
+before approaching day, and the head of the marching column,
+continuing its descent, plunged as it were into the heavy ocean of
+fog, which rolled its white waves over the whole plain, and over
+the sea by which it was bounded. Some difficulties were now to be
+encountered, inseparable from darkness, a narrow, broken, and
+marshy path, and the necessity of preserving union in the march.
+These, however, were less inconvenient to Highlanders, from their
+habits of life, than they would have been to any other troops, and
+they continued a steady and swift movement.
+
+As the clan of Ivor approached the firm ground, following the
+track of those who preceded them, the challenge of a patrol was
+heard through the mist, though they could not see the dragoon by
+whom it was made--'Who goes there?'
+
+'Hush!' cried Fergus, 'hush! let none answer, as he values his
+life; press forward'; and they continued their march with silence
+and rapidity.
+
+The patrol fired his carabine upon the body, and the report was
+instantly followed by the clang of his horse's feet as he galloped
+off. 'Hylax in limine latrat,' said the Baron of Bradwardine, who
+heard the shot;'that loon will give the alarm.'
+
+The clan of Fergus had now gained the firm plain, which had lately
+borne a large crop of corn. But the harvest was gathered in, and
+the expanse was unbroken by tree, bush, or interruption of any
+kind. The rest of the army were following fast, when they heard
+the drums of the enemy beat the general. Surprise, however, had
+made no part of their plan, so they were not disconcerted by this
+intimation that the foe was upon his guard and prepared to receive
+them. It only hastened their dispositions for the combat, which
+were very simple.
+
+The Highland army, which now occupied the eastern end of the wide
+plain, or stubble field, so often referred to, was drawn up in two
+lines, extending from the morass towards the sea. The first was
+destined to charge the enemy, the second to act as a reserve. The
+few horse, whom the Prince headed in person, remained between the
+two lines. The adventurer had intimated a resolution to charge in
+person at the head of his first line; but his purpose was
+deprecated by all around him, and he was with difficulty induced
+to abandon it.
+
+Both lines were now moving forward, the first prepared for instant
+combat. The clans of which it was composed formed each a sort of
+separate phalanx, narrow in front, and in depth ten, twelve, or
+fifteen files, according to the strength of the following. The
+best-armed and best-born, for the words were synonymous, were
+placed in front of each of these irregular subdivisions. The
+others in the rear shouldered forward the front, and by their
+pressure added both physical impulse and additional ardour and
+confidence to those who were first to encounter the danger.
+
+'Down with your plaid, Waverley,' cried Fergus, throwing off his
+own; 'we'll win silks for our tartans before the sun is above the
+sea.'
+
+The clansmen on every side stript their plaids, prepared their
+arms, and there was an awful pause of about three minutes, during
+which the men, pulling off their bonnets, raised their faces to
+heaven and uttered a short prayer; then pulled their bonnets over
+their brows and began to move forward, at first slowly. Waverley
+felt his heart at that moment throb as it would have burst from
+his bosom. It was not fear, it was not ardour: it was a compound
+of both, a new and deeply energetic impulse that with its first
+emotion chilled and astounded, then fevered and maddened his mind.
+The sounds around him combined to exalt his enthusiasm; the pipes
+played, and the clans rushed forward, each in its own dark column.
+As they advanced they mended their pace, and the muttering sounds
+of the men to each other began to swell into a wild cry.
+
+At this moment the sun, which was now risen above the horizon,
+dispelled the mist. The vapours rose like a curtain, and showed
+the two armies in the act of closing. The line of the regulars was
+formed directly fronting the attack of the Highlanders; it
+glittered with the appointments of a complete army, and was
+flanked by cavalry and artillery. But the sight impressed no
+terror on the assailants.
+
+'Forward, sons of Ivor,' cried their Chief, 'or the Camerons will
+draw the first blood!' They rushed on with a tremendous yell.
+
+The rest is well known. The horse, who were commanded to charge
+the advancing Highlanders in the flank, received an irregular fire
+from their fusees as they ran on and, seized with a disgraceful
+panic, wavered, halted, disbanded, and galloped from the field.
+The artillery men, deserted by the cavalry, fled after discharging
+their pieces, and the Highlanders, who dropped their guns when
+fired and drew their broadswords, rushed with headlong fury
+against the infantry.
+
+It was at this moment of confusion and terror that Waverley
+remarked an English officer, apparently of high rank, standing,
+alone and unsupported, by a fieldpiece, which, after the flight of
+the men by whom it was wrought, he had himself levelled and
+discharged against the clan of Mac-Ivor, the nearest group of
+Highlanders within his aim. Struck with his tall, martial figure,
+and eager to save him from inevitable destruction, Waverley
+outstripped for an instant even the speediest of the warriors,
+and, reaching the spot first, called to him to surrender. The
+officer replied by a thrust with his sword, which Waverley
+received in his target, and in turning it aside the Englishman's
+weapon broke. At the same time the battle-axe of Dugald Mahony was
+in the act of descending upon the officer's head. Waverley
+intercepted and prevented the blow, and the officer, perceiving
+further resistance unavailing, and struck with Edward's generous
+anxiety for his safety, resigned the fragment of his sword, and
+was committed by Waverley to Dugald, with strict charge to use him
+well, and not to pillage his person, promising him, at the same
+time, full indemnification for the spoil.
+
+On Edward's right the battle for a few minutes raged fierce and
+thick. The English infantry, trained in the wars in Flanders,
+stood their ground with great courage. But their extended files
+were pierced and broken in many places by the close masses of the
+clans; and in the personal struggle which ensued the nature of the
+Highlanders' weapons, and their extraordinary fierceness and
+activity, gave them a decided superiority over those who had been
+accustomed to trust much to their array and discipline, and felt
+that the one was broken and the other useless. Waverley, as he
+cast his eyes towards this scene of smoke and slaughter, observed
+Colonel Gardiner, deserted by his own soldiers in spite of all his
+attempts to rally them, yet spurring his horse through the field
+to take the command of a small body of infantry, who, with their
+backs arranged against the wall of his own park (for his house was
+close by the field of battle), continued a desperate and
+unavailing resistance. Waverley could perceive that he had already
+received many wounds, his clothes and saddle being marked with
+blood. To save this good and brave man became the instant object
+of his most anxious exertions. But he could only witness his fall.
+Ere Edward could make his way among the Highlanders, who, furious
+and eager for spoil, now thronged upon each other, he saw his
+former commander brought from his horse by the blow of a scythe,
+and beheld him receive, while on the ground, more wounds than
+would have let out twenty lives. When Waverley came up, however,
+perception had not entirely fled. The dying warrior seemed to
+recognize Edward, for he fixed his eye upon him with an
+upbraiding, yet sorrowful, look, and appeared to struggle, for
+utterance. But he felt that death was dealing closely with him,
+and resigning his purpose, and folding his hands as if in
+devotion, he gave up his soul to his Creator. The look with which
+he regarded Waverley in his dying moments did not strike him so
+deeply at that crisis of hurry and confusion as when it recurred
+to his imagination at the distance of some time. [Footnote: See
+Note 8.]
+
+Loud shouts of triumph now echoed over the whole field. The battle
+was fought and won, and the whole baggage, artillery, and military
+stores of the regular army remained in possession of the victors.
+Never was a victory more complete. Scarce any escaped from the
+battle, excepting the cavalry, who had left it at the very onset,
+and even these were broken into different parties and scattered
+all over the country. So far as our tale is concerned, we have
+only to relate the fate of Balmawhapple, who, mounted on a horse
+as headstrong and stiff-necked as his rider, pursued the flight of
+the dragoons above four miles from the field of battle, when some
+dozen of the fugitives took heart of grace, turned round, and
+cleaving his skull with their broadswords, satisfied the world
+that the unfortunate gentleman had actually brains, the end of his
+life thus giving proof of a fact greatly doubted during its
+progress. His death was lamented by few. Most of those who knew
+him agreed in the pithy observation of Ensign Maccombich, that
+there 'was mair tint (lost) at Sheriff-Muir.' His friend,
+Lieutenant Jinker, bent his eloquence only to exculpate his
+favourite mare from any share in contributing to the catastrophe.
+'He had tauld the laird a thousand times,' he said,'that it was a
+burning shame to put a martingale upon the puir thing, when he
+would needs ride her wi' a curb of half a yard lang; and that he
+could na but bring himsell (not to say her) to some mischief, by
+flinging her down, or otherwise; whereas, if he had had a wee bit
+rinnin ring on the snaffle, she wad ha' rein'd as cannily as a
+cadger's pownie.'
+
+Such was the elegy of the Laird of Balmawhapple. [Footnote: See
+Note 9.]
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVIII
+
+AN UNEXPECTED EMBARRASSMENT
+
+
+When the battle was over, and all things coming into order, the
+Baron of Bradwardine, returning from the duty of the day, and
+having disposed those under his command in their proper stations,
+sought the Chieftain of Glennaquoich and his friend Edward
+Waverley. He found the former busied in determining disputes among
+his clansmen about points of precedence and deeds of valour,
+besides sundry high and doubtful questions concerning plunder. The
+most important of the last respected the property of a gold watch,
+which had once belonged to some unfortunate English officer. The
+party against whom judgment was awarded consoled himself by
+observing, 'She (i.e. the watch, which he took for a living
+animal) died the very night Vich lan Vohr gave her to Murdoch';
+the machine, having, in fact, stopped for want of winding up.
+
+It was just when this important question was decided that the
+Baron of Bradwardine, with a careful and yet important expression
+of countenance, joined the two young men. He descended from his
+reeking charger, the care of which he recommended to one of his
+grooms. 'I seldom ban, sir,' said he to the man; 'but if you play
+any of your hound's-foot tricks, and leave puir Berwick before
+he's sorted, to rin after spuilzie, deil be wi' me if I do not
+give your craig a thraw.' He then stroked with great complacency
+the animal which had borne him through the fatigues of the day,
+and having taken a tender leave of him--' Weel, my good young
+friends, a glorious and decisive victory,' said he; 'but these
+loons of troopers fled ower soon. I should have liked to have
+shown you the true points of the pralium equestre, or equestrian
+combat, whilk their cowardice has postponed, and which I hold to
+be the pride and terror of warfare. Weel--I have fought once more
+in this old quarrel, though I admit I could not be so far BEN as
+you lads, being that it was my point of duty to keep together our
+handful of horse. And no cavalier ought in any wise to begrudge
+honour that befalls his companions, even though they are ordered
+upon thrice his danger, whilk, another time, by the blessing of
+God, may be his own case. But, Glennaquoich, and you, Mr.
+Waverley, I pray ye to give me your best advice on a matter of
+mickle weight, and which deeply affects the honour of the house of
+Bradwardine. I crave your pardon, Ensign Maccombich, and yours,
+Inveraughlin, and yours, Edderalshendrach, and yours, sir.'
+
+The last person he addressed was Ballenkeiroch, who, remembering
+the death of his son, loured on him with a look of savage
+defiance. The Baron, quick as lightning at taking umbrage, had
+already bent his brow when Glennaquoich dragged his major from the
+spot, and remonstrated with him, in the authoritative tone of a
+chieftain, on the madness of reviving a quarrel in such a moment.
+
+'The ground is cumbered with carcasses,' said the old mountaineer,
+turning sullenly away; 'ONE MORE would hardly have been kenn'dupon
+it; and if it wasna for yoursell, Vich lan Vohr, that one should
+be Bradwardine's or mine.'
+
+The Chief soothed while he hurried him away; and then returned to
+the Baron. 'It is Ballenkeiroch,' he said, in an under and
+confidential voice, 'father of the young man who fell eight years
+since in the unlucky affair at the mains.'
+
+'Ah!' said the Baron, instantly relaxing the doubtful sternness of
+his features, 'I can take naickle frae a man to whom I have
+unhappily rendered sic a displeasure as that. Ye were right to
+apprise me, Glennaquoich; he may look as black as midnight at
+Martinmas ere Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine shall say he does him
+wrang. Ah! I have nae male lineage, and I should bear with one I
+have made childless, though you are aware the blood-wit was made
+up to your ain satisfaction by assythment, and that I have since
+expedited letters of slains. Weel, as I have said, I have no male
+issue, and yet it is needful that I maintain the honour of my
+house; and it is on that score I prayed ye for your peculiar and
+private attention.'
+
+The two young men awaited to hear him, in anxious curiosity.
+
+'I doubt na, lads,' he proceeded, 'but your education has been sae
+seen to that ye understand the true nature of the feudal tenures?'
+
+Fergus, afraid of an endless dissertation, answered, 'Intimately,
+Baron,' and touched Waverley as a signal to express no ignorance.
+
+'And ye are aware, I doubt not, that the holding of the barony of
+Bradwardine is of a nature alike honourable and peculiar, being
+blanch (which Craig opines ought to be Latinated blancum, or
+rather francum, a free holding) pro sermtio detrahendi, seu
+exuendi, caligas regis post battalliam.' Here Fergus turned his
+falcon eye upon Edward, with an almost imperceptible rise of his
+eyebrow, to which his shoulders corresponded in the same degree of
+elevation. 'Now, twa points of dubitation occur to me upon this
+topic. First, whether this service, or feudal homage, be at any
+event due to the person of the Prince, the words being, per
+expressum, caligas REGIS, the boots of the king himself; and I
+pray your opinion anent that particular before we proceed
+farther.'
+
+'Why, he is Prince Regent,' answered Mac-Ivor, with laudable
+composure of countenance; 'and in the court of France all the
+honours are rendered to the person of the Regent which are due to
+that of the King. Besides, were I to pull off either of their
+boots, I would render that service to the young Chevalier ten
+times more willingly than to his father.'
+
+' Ay, but I talk not of personal predilections. However, your
+authority is of great weight as to the usages of the court of
+France; and doubtless the Prince, as alter ego, may have a right
+to claim the homagium of the great tenants of the crown, since all
+faithful subjects are commanded, in the commission of regency, to
+respect him as the King's own person. Far, therefore, be it from
+me to diminish the lustre of his authority by withholding this act
+of homage, so peculiarly calculated to give it splendour; for I
+question if the Emperor of Germany hath his boots taken off by a
+free baron of the empire. But here lieth the second difficulty--
+the Prince wears no boots, but simply brogues and trews.'
+
+This last dilemma had almost disturbed Fergus's gravity.
+
+'Why,' said he, 'you know, Baron, the proverb tells us, "It's ill
+taking the breeks off a Highlandman," and the boots are here in
+the same predicament.'
+
+'The word caligce, however,' continued the Baron, 'though I admit
+that, by family tradition, and even in our ancient evidents, it is
+explained "lie-boots," means, in its primitive sense, rather
+sandals; and Caius Caesar, the nephew and successor of Caius
+Tiberius, received the agnomen of Caligula, a caligulis sine
+caligis levioribus, quibus adolescentior usus fuerat in exercitu
+Germanici patris sui. And the caligce were also proper to the
+monastic bodies; for we read in an ancient glossarium upon the
+rule of Saint Benedict, in the Abbey of Saint Amand, that caligae
+were tied with latchets.'
+
+'That will apply to the brogues,' said Fergus.
+
+'It will so, my dear Glennaquoich, and the words are express:
+Caligae, dicta sunt quia ligantur; nam socci non ligantur, sed
+tantum intromittuntur; that is, caligae are denominated from the
+ligatures wherewith they are bound; whereas socci, which may be
+analogous to our mules, whilk the English denominate slippers, are
+only slipped upon the feet. The words of the charter are also
+alternative, exuere seu detrahere; that is, to undo, as in the
+case of sandals or brogues, and to pull of, as we say vernacularly
+concerning boots. Yet I would we had more light; but I fear there
+is little chance of finding hereabout any erudite author de re
+vestiaria.'
+
+'I should doubt it very much,' said the Chieftain, looking around
+on the straggling Highlanders, who were returning loaded with
+spoils of the slain,'though the res vestiaria itself seems to be
+in some request at present.'
+
+This remark coming within the Baron's idea of jocularity, he
+honoured it with a smile, but immediately resumed what to him
+appeared very serious business.
+
+'Bailie Macwheeble indeed holds an opinion that this honorary
+service is due, from its very nature, si petatur tantum; only if
+his Royal Highness shall require of the great tenant of the crown
+to perform that personal duty; and indeed he pointed out the case
+in Dirleton's Doubts and Queries, Grippit versus Spicer, anent the
+eviction of an estate ob non solutum canonem; that is, for non-
+payment of a feu-duty of three pepper-corns a year, whilk were
+taxt to be worth seven-eighths of a penny Scots, in whilk the
+defender was assoilzied. But I deem it safest, wi' your good
+favour, to place myself in the way of rendering the Prince this
+service, and to proffer performance thereof; and I shall cause the
+Bailie to attend with a schedule of a protest, whilk he has here
+prepared (taking out a paper), intimating, that if it shall be his
+Royal Highness's pleasure to accept of other assistance at pulling
+off his caligae (whether the same shall be rendered boots or
+brogues) save that of the said Baron of Bradwardine, who is in
+presence ready and willing to perform the same, it shall in no
+wise impinge upon or prejudice the right of the said Cosmo Comyne
+Bradwardine to perform the said service in future; nor shall it
+give any esquire, valet of the chamber, squire, or page, whose
+assistance it may please his Royal Highness to employ, any right,
+title, or ground for evicting from the said Cosmo Comyne
+Bradwardine the estate and barony of Bradwardine, and others held
+as aforesaid, by the due and faithful performance thereof.'
+
+Fergus highly applauded this arrangement; and the Baron took a
+friendly leave of them, with a smile of contented importance upon
+his visage.
+
+'Long live our dear friend the Baron,' exclaimed the Chief, as
+soon as he was out of hearing, 'for the most absurd original that
+exists north of the Tweed! I wish to heaven I had recommended him
+to attend the circle this evening with a boot-ketch under his arm.
+I think he might have adopted the suggestion if it had been made
+with suitable gravity.'
+
+'And how can you take pleasure in making a man of his worth so
+ridiculous?'
+
+'Begging pardon, my dear Waverley, you are as ridiculous as he.
+Why, do you not see that the man's whole mind is wrapped up in
+this ceremony? He has heard and thought of it since infancy as the
+most august privilege and ceremony in the world; and I doubt not
+but the expected pleasure of performing it was a principal motive
+with him for taking up arms. Depend upon it, had I endeavoured to
+divert him from exposing himself he would have treated me as an
+ignorant, conceited coxcomb, or perhaps might have taken a fancy
+to cut my throat; a pleasure which he once proposed to himself
+upon some point of etiquette not half so important, in his eyes,
+as this matter of boots or brogues, or whatever the caliga shall
+finally be pronounced by the learned. But I must go to
+headquarters, to prepare the Prince for this extraordinary scene.
+My information will be well taken, for it will give him a hearty
+laugh at present, and put him on his guard against laughing when
+it might be very mal-a-propos. So, au revoir, my dear Waverley.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIX
+
+THE ENGLISH PRISONER
+
+
+The first occupation of Waverley, after he departed from the
+Chieftain, was to go in quest of the officer whose life he had
+saved. He was guarded, along with his companions in misfortune,
+who were very numerous, in a gentleman's house near the field of
+battle.
+
+On entering the room where they stood crowded together, Waverley
+easily recognised the object of his visit, not only by the
+peculiar dignity of his appearance, but by the appendage of Dugald
+Mahony, with his battleaxe, who had stuck to him from the moment
+of his captivity as if he had been skewered to his side. This
+close attendance was perhaps for the purpose of securing his
+promised reward from Edward, but it also operated to save the
+English gentleman from being plundered in the scene of general
+confusion; for Dugald sagaciously argued that the amount of the
+salvage which he might be allowed would be regulated by the state
+of the prisoner when he should deliver him over to Waverley. He
+hastened to assure Waverley, therefore, with more words than he
+usually employed, that he had 'keepit ta sidier roy haill, and
+that he wasna a plack the waur since the fery moment when his
+honour forbad her to gie him a bit clamhewit wi' her Lochaber-
+axe.'
+
+Waverley assured Dugald of a liberal recompense, and, approaching
+the English officer, expressed his anxiety to do anything which
+might contribute to his convenience under his present unpleasant
+circumstances.
+
+'I am not so inexperienced a soldier, sir,' answered the
+Englishman, 'as to complain of the fortune of war. I am only
+grieved to see those scenes acted in our own island which I have
+often witnessed elsewhere with comparative indifference.'
+
+'Another such day as this,' said Waverley, 'and I trust the cause
+of your regrets will be removed, and all will again return to
+peace and order.'
+
+The officer smiled and shook his head. 'I must not forget my
+situation so far as to attempt a formal confutation of that
+opinion; but, notwithstanding your success and the valour which
+achieved it, you have undertaken a task to which your strength
+appears wholly inadequate.'
+
+At this moment Fergus pushed into the press.
+
+'Come, Edward, come along; the Prince has gone to Pinkie House for
+the night; and we must follow, or lose the whole ceremony of the
+caligae. Your friend, the Baron, has been guilty of a great piece
+of cruelty; he has insisted upon dragging Bailie Macwheeble out to
+the field of battle. Now, you must know, the Bailie's greatest
+horror is an armed Highlander or a loaded gun; and there he
+stands, listening to the Baron's instructions concerning the
+protest, ducking his head like a sea-gull at the report of every
+gun and pistol that our idle boys are firing upon the fields, and
+undergoing, by way of penance, at every symptom of flinching a
+severe rebuke from his patron, who would not admit the discharge
+of a whole battery of cannon, within point-blank distance, as an
+apology for neglecting a discourse in which the honour of his
+family is interested.'
+
+'But how has Mr. Bradwardine got him to venture so far?' said
+Edward.
+
+'Why, he had come as far as Musselburgh, I fancy, in hopes of
+making some of our wills; and the peremptory commands of the Baron
+dragged him forward to Preston after the battle was over. He
+complains of one or two of our ragamuffins having put him in peril
+of his life by presenting their pieces at him; but as they limited
+his ransom to an English penny, I don't think we need trouble the
+provost-marshal upon that subject. So come along, Waverley.'
+
+'Waverley!' said the English officer, with great emotion;' the
+nephew of Sir Everard Waverley, of----shire?'
+
+'The same, sir,' replied our hero, somewhat surprised at the tone
+in which he was addressed.
+
+'I am at once happy and grieved,' said the prisoner, 'to have met
+with you.'
+
+'I am ignorant, sir,' answered Waverley, 'how I have deserved so
+much interest.'
+
+'Did your uncle never mention a friend called Talbot?'
+
+'I have heard him talk with great regard of such a person,'
+replied Edward; 'a colonel, I believe, in the army, and the
+husband of Lady Emily Blandeville; but I thought Colonel Talbot
+had been abroad.'
+
+'I am just returned,' answered the officer; 'and being in
+Scotland, thought it my duty to act where my services promised to
+be useful. Yes, Mr. Waverley, I am that Colonel Talbot, the
+husband of the lady you have named; and I am proud to acknowledge
+that I owe alike my professional rank and my domestic happiness to
+your generous and noble-minded relative. Good God! that I should
+find his nephew in such a dress, and engaged in such a cause!'
+
+'Sir,' said Fergus, haughtily, 'the dress and cause are those of
+men of birth and honour.'
+
+'My situation forbids me to dispute your assertion,' said Colonel
+Talbot; 'otherwise it were no difficult matter to show that
+neither courage nor pride of lineage can gild a bad cause. But,
+with Mr. Waverley's permission and yours, sir, if yours also must
+be asked, I would willingly speak a few words with him on affairs
+connected with his own family.'
+
+'Mr. Waverley, sir, regulates his own motions. You will follow me,
+I suppose, to Pinkie,' said Fergus, turning to Edward, 'when you
+have finished your discourse with this new acquaintance?' So
+saying, the Chief of Glennaquoich adjusted his plaid with rather
+more than his usual air of haughty assumption and left the
+apartment.
+
+The interest of Waverley readily procured for Colonel Talbot the
+freedom of adjourning to a large garden belonging to his place of
+confinement. They walked a few paces in silence, Colonel Talbot
+apparently studying how to open what he had to say; at length he
+addressed Edward.
+
+'Mr. Waverley, you have this day saved my life; and yet I would to
+God that I had lost it, ere I had found you wearing the uniform
+and cockade of these men.'
+
+'I forgive your reproach, Colonel Talbot; it is well meant, and
+your education and prejudices render it natural. But there is
+nothing extraordinary in finding a man whose honour has been
+publicly and unjustly assailed in the situation which promised
+most fair to afford him satisfaction on his calumniators.'
+
+'I should rather say, in the situation most likely to confirm the
+reports which they have circulated,' said Colonel Talbot, 'by
+following the very line of conduct ascribed to you. Are you aware,
+Mr. Waverley, of the infinite distress, and even danger, which
+your present conduct has occasioned to your nearest relatives?'
+
+'Danger!'
+
+'Yes, sir, danger. When I left England your uncle and father had
+been obliged to find bail to answer a charge of treason, to which
+they were only admitted by the exertion of the most powerful
+interest. I came down to Scotland with the sole purpose of
+rescuing you from the gulf into which you have precipitated
+yourself; nor can I estimate the consequences to your family of
+your having openly joined the rebellion, since the very suspicion
+of your intention was so perilous to them. Most deeply do I regret
+that I did not meet you before this last and fatal error.'
+
+'I am really ignorant,' said Waverley, in a tone of reserve, 'why
+Colonel Talbot should have taken so much trouble on my account.'
+
+'Mr. Waverley,' answered Talbot, 'I am dull at apprehending irony;
+and therefore I shall answer your words according to their plain
+meaning. I am indebted to your uncle for benefits greater than
+those which a son owes to a father. I acknowledge to him the duty
+of a son; and as I know there is no manner in which I can requite
+his kindness so well as by serving you, I will serve you, if
+possible, whether you will permit me or no. The personal
+obligation which you have this day laid me under (although, in
+common estimation, as great as one human being can bestow on
+another) adds nothing to my zeal on your behalf; nor can that zeal
+be abated by any coolness with which you may please to receive
+it.'
+
+'Your intentions may be kind, sir,' said Waverley, drily; 'but
+your language is harsh, or at least peremptory.'
+
+'On my return to England,' continued Colonel Talbot, 'after long
+absence, I found your uncle, Sir Everard Waverley, in the custody
+of a king's messenger, in consequence of the suspicion brought
+upon him by your conduct. He is my oldest friend--how often shall
+I repeat it?--my best benefactor! he sacrificed his own views of
+happiness to mine; he never uttered a word, he never harboured a
+thought, that benevolence itself might not have thought or spoken.
+I found this man in confinement, rendered harsher to him by his
+habits of life, his natural dignity of feeling, and--forgive me,
+Mr. Waverley--by the cause through which this calamity had come
+upon him. I cannot disguise from you my feelings upon this
+occasion; they were most painfully unfavorable to you. Having by
+my family interest, which you probably know is not inconsiderable,
+succeeded in obtaining Sir Everard's release, I set out for
+Scotland. I saw Colonel Gardiner, a man whose fate alone is
+sufficient to render this insurrection for ever execrable. In the
+course of conversation with him I found that, from late
+circumstances, from a reexamination of the persons engaged in the
+mutiny, and from his original good opinion of your character, he
+was much softened towards you; and I doubted not that, if I could
+be so fortunate as to discover you, all might yet be well. But
+this unnatural rebellion has ruined all. I have, for the first
+time in a long and active military life, seen Britons disgrace
+themselves by a panic flight, and that before a foe without either
+arms or discipline. And now I find the heir of my dearest friend--
+the son, I may say, of his' affections--sharing a triumph for
+which he ought the first to have blushed. Why should I lament
+Gardiner? his lot was happy compared to mine!'
+
+There was so much dignity in Colonel Talbot's manner, such a
+mixture of military pride and manly sorrow, and the news of Sir
+Everard's imprisonment was told in so deep a tone of feeling, that
+Edward stood mortified, abashed, and distressed in presence of the
+prisoner who owed to him his life not many hours before. He was
+not sorry when Fergus interrupted their conference a second time.
+
+'His Royal Highness commands Mr. Waverley's attendance.' Colonel
+Talbot threw upon Edward a reproachful glance, which did not
+escape the quick eye of the Highland Chief. 'His immediate
+attendance,' he repeated, with considerable emphasis. Waverley
+turned again towards the Colonel.
+
+'We shall meet again,' he said; 'in the meanwhile, every possible
+accommodation--'
+
+'I desire none,' said the Colonel; 'let me fare like the meanest
+of those brave men who, on this day of calamity, have preferred
+wounds and captivity to flight; I would almost exchange places
+with one of those who have fallen to know that my words have made
+a suitable impression on your mind.'
+
+'Let Colonel Talbot be carefully secured,' said Fergus to the
+Highland officer who commanded the guard over the prisoners; 'it
+is the Prince's particular command; he is a prisoner of the utmost
+importance.'
+
+'But let him want no accommodation suitable to his rank,' said
+Waverley. 'Consistent always with secure custody,' reiterated
+Fergus. The officer signified his acquiescence in both commands,
+and Edward followed Fergus to the garden-gate, where Callum Beg,
+with three saddle-horses, awaited them. Turning his head, he saw
+Colonel Talbot reconducted to his place of confinement by a file
+of Highlanders; he lingered on the threshold of the door and made
+a signal with his hand towards Waverley, as if enforcing the
+language he had held towards him.
+
+'Horses,' said Fergus, as he mounted, 'are now as plenty as
+blackberries; every man may have them for the catching. Come, let
+Callum adjust your stirrups and let us to Pinkie House [Footnote:
+Charles Edward took up his quarters after the battle at Pinkie
+House, adjoining to Musselburgh.] as fast as these ci-devant
+dragoon-horses choose to carry us.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER L
+
+RATHER UNIMPORTANT
+
+
+'I was turned back,' said Fergus to Edward, as they galloped from
+Preston to Pinkie House, 'by a message from the Prince. But I
+suppose you know the value of this most noble Colonel Talbot as a
+prisoner. He is held one of the best officers among the red-coats,
+a special friend and favourite of the Elector himself, and of that
+dreadful hero, the Duke of Cumberland, who has been summoned from
+his triumphs at Fontenoy to come over and devour us poor
+Highlanders alive. Has he been telling you how the bells of St.
+James's ring? Not "turn again, Whittington," like those of Bow, in
+the days of yore?'
+
+'Fergus!' said Waverley, with a reproachful look.
+
+'Nay, I cannot tell what to make of you,' answered the Chief of
+Mac-Ivor, 'you are blown about with every wind of doctrine. Here
+have we gained a victory unparalleled in history, and your
+behaviour is praised by every living mortal to the skies, and the
+Prince is eager to thank you in person, and all our beauties of
+the White Rose are pulling caps for you;--and you, the preux
+chevalier of the day, are stooping on your horse's neck like a
+butter-woman riding to market, and looking as black as a funeral!'
+
+'I am sorry for poer Colonel Gardiner's death; he was once very
+kind to me.'
+
+'Why, then, be sorry for five minutes, and then be glad again; his
+chance to-day may be ours to-morrow; and what does it signify? The
+next best thing to victory is honourable death; but it is a PIS-
+ALLER, and one would rather a foe had it than one's self.'
+
+'But Colonel Talbot has informed me that my father and uncle are
+both imprisoned by government on my account.'
+
+'We'll put in bail, my boy; old Andrew Ferrara [Footnote: See Note
+10] shall lodge his security; and I should like to see him put to
+justify it in Westminster Hall!'
+
+'Nay, they are already at liberty, upon bail of a more civic
+disposition.'
+
+'Then why is thy noble spirit cast down, Edward? Dost think that
+the Elector's ministers are such doves as to set their enemies at
+liberty at this critical moment if they could or durst confine and
+punish them? Assure thyself that either they have no charge
+against your relations on which they can continue their
+imprisonment, or else they are afraid of our friends, the jolly
+Cavaliers of old England. At any rate, you need not be
+apprehensive upon their account; and we will find some means of
+conveying to them assurances of your safety.'
+
+Edward was silenced but not satisfied with these reasons. He had
+now been more than once shocked at the small degree of sympathy
+which Fergus exhibited for the feelings even of those whom he
+loved, if they did not correspond with his own mood at the time,
+and more especially if they thwarted him while earnest in a
+favourite pursuit. Fergus sometimes indeed observed that he had
+offended Waverley, but, always intent upon some favourite plan or
+project of his own, he was never sufficiently aware of the extent
+or duration of his displeasure, so that the reiteration of these
+petty offences somewhat cooled the volunteer's extreme attachment
+to his officer.
+
+The Chevalier received Waverley with his usual favour, and paid
+him many compliments on his distinguished bravery. He then took
+him apart, made many inquiries concerning Colonel Talbot, and when
+he had received all the information which Edward was able to give
+concerning him and his connexions, he proceeded--'I cannot but
+think, Mr. Waverley, that since this gentleman is so particularly
+connected with our worthy and excellent friend, Sir Everard
+Waverley, and since his lady is of the house of Blandeville, whose
+devotion to the true and loyal principles of the Church of England
+is so generally known, the Colonel's own private sentiments cannot
+be unfavorable to us, whatever mask he may have assumed to
+accommodate himself to the times.'
+
+'If I am to judge from the language he this day held to me, I am
+under the necessity of differing widely from your Royal Highness.'
+
+'Well, it is worth making a trial at least. I therefore entrust
+you with the charge of Colonel Talbot, with power to act
+concerning him as you think most advisable; and I hope you will
+find means of ascertaining what are his real dispositions towards
+our Royal Father's restoration.'
+
+'I am convinced,' said Waverley, bowing,'that if Colonel Talbot
+chooses to grant his parole, it may be securely depended upon; but
+if he refuses it, I trust your Royal Highness will devolve on some
+other person than the nephew of his friend the task of laying him
+under the necessary restraint.'
+
+'I will trust him with no person but you,' said the Prince,
+smiling, but peremptorily repeating his mandate; 'it is of
+importance to my service that there should appear to be a good
+intelligence between you, even if you are unable to gain his
+confidence in earnest. You will therefore receive him into your
+quarters, and in case he declines giving his parole, you must
+apply for a proper guard. I beg you will go about this directly.
+We return to Edinburgh tomorrow.'
+
+Being thus remanded to the vicinity of Preston, Waverley lost the
+Baron of Bradwardine's solemn act of homage. So little, however,
+was he at this time in love with vanity, that he had quite
+forgotten the ceremony in which Fergus had laboured to engage his
+curiosity. But next day a formal 'Gazette' was circulated,
+containing a detailed account of the battle of Gladsmuir, as the
+Highlanders chose to denominate their victory. It concluded with
+an account of the court afterwards held by the Chevalier at Pinkie
+House, which contained this among other high-flown descriptive
+paragraphs:--
+
+'Since that fatal treaty which annihilates Scotland as an
+independent nation, it has not been our happiness to see her
+princes receive, and her nobles discharge, those acts of feudal
+homage which, founded upon the splendid actions of Scottish
+valour, recall the memory of her early history, with the manly and
+chivalrous simplicity of the ties which united to the Crown the
+homage of the warriors by whom it was repeatedly upheld and
+defended. But on the evening of the 20th our memories were
+refreshed with one of those ceremonies which belong to the ancient
+days of Scotland's glory. After the circle was formed, Cosmo
+Comyne Bradwardine of that ilk, colonel in the service, etc.,
+etc., etc., came before the Prince, attended by Mr. D. Macwheeble,
+the Bailie of his ancient barony of Bradwardine (who, we
+understand, has been lately named a commissary), and, under form
+of instrument, claimed permission to perform to the person of his
+Royal Highness, as representing his father, the service used and
+wont, for which, under a charter of Robert Bruce (of which the
+original was produced and inspected by the Masters of his Royal
+Highness's Chancery for the time being), the claimant held the
+barony of Bradwardine and lands of Tully-Veolan. His claim being
+admitted and registered, his Royal Highness having placed his foot
+upon a cushion, the Baron of Bradwardine, kneeling upon his right
+knee, proceeded to undo the latchet of the brogue, or low-heeled
+Highland shoe, which our gallant young hero wears in compliment to
+his brave followers. When this was performed, his Royal Highness
+declared the ceremony completed; and, embracing the gallant
+veteran, protested that nothing but compliance with an ordinance
+of Robert Bruce could have induced him to receive even the
+symbolical performance of a menial office from hands which had
+fought so bravely to put the crown upon the head of his father.
+The Baron of Bradwardine then took instruments in the hands of Mr.
+Commissary Macwheeble, bearing that all points and circumstances
+of the act of homage had been rite et solenniter acta et peracta;
+and a corresponding entry was made in the protocol of the Lord
+High Chamberlain and in the record of Chancery. We understand that
+it is in contemplation of his Royal Highness, when his Majesty's
+pleasure can be known, to raise Colonel Bradwardine to the
+peerage, by the title of Viscount Bradwardine of Bradwardine and
+Tully-Veolan, and that, in the meanwhile, his Royal Highness, in
+his father's name and authority, has been pleased to grant him an
+honourable augmentation to his paternal coat of arms, being a
+budget or boot-jack, disposed saltier-wise with a naked
+broadsword, to be borne in the dexter cantle of the shield; and,
+as an additional motto, on a scroll beneath, the words, "Draw and
+draw off."'
+
+'Were it not for the recollection of Fergus's raillery,' thought
+Waverley to himself, when he had perused this long and grave
+document,' how very tolerably would all this sound, and how little
+should I have thought of connecting it with any ludicrous idea!
+Well, after all, everything has its fair as well as its seamy
+side; and truly I do not see why the Baron's boot-jack may not
+stand as fair in heraldry as the water-buckets, waggons, cart-
+wheels, plough-socks, shuttles, candlesticks, and other
+ordinaries, conveying ideas of anything save chivalry, which
+appear in the arms of some of our most ancient gentry.'
+
+This, however, is an episode in respect to the principal story.
+
+When Waverley returned to Preston and rejoined Colonel Talbot, he
+found him recovered from the strong and obvious emotions with
+which a concurrence of unpleasing events had affected him. He had
+regained his natural manner, which was that of an English
+gentleman and soldier, manly, open and generous, but not
+unsusceptible of prejudice against those of a different country,
+or who opposed him in political tenets. When Waverley acquainted
+Colonel Talbot with the Chevalier's purpose to commit him to his
+charge, 'I did not think to have owed so much obligation to that
+young gentleman,' he said, 'as is implied in this destination. I
+can at least cheerfully join in the prayer of the honest
+Presbyterian clergyman, that, as he has come among us seeking an
+earthly crown, his labours may be speedily rewarded with a
+heavenly one. [Footnote: The clergyman's name was Mac-Vicar.
+Protected by the cannon of the Castle, he preached every Sunday in
+the West Kirk while the Highlanders were in possession of
+Edinburgh, and it was in presence of some of the Jacobites that he
+prayed for Prince Charles Edward in the terms quoted in the text.]
+I shall willingly give my parole not to attempt an escape without
+your knowledge, since, in fact, it was to meet you that I came to
+Scotland; and I am glad it has happened even under this
+predicament. But I suppose we shall be but a short time together.
+Your Chevalier (that is a name we may both give to him), with his
+plaids and blue caps, will, I presume, be continuing his crusade
+southward?'
+
+'Not as I hear; I believe the army makes some stay in Edinburgh to
+collect reinforcements.'
+
+'And to besiege the Castle?' said Talbot, smiling sarcastically.
+'Well, unless my old commander, General Preston, turn false metal,
+or the Castle sink into the North Loch, events which I deem
+equally probable, I think we shall have some time to make up our
+acquaintance. I have a guess that this gallant Chevalier has a
+design that I should be your proselyte; and, as I wish you to be
+mine, there cannot be a more fair proposal than to afford us fair
+conference together. But, as I spoke today under the influence of
+feelings I rarely give way to, I hope you will excuse my entering
+again upon controversy till we are somewhat better acquainted.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LI
+
+INTRIGUES OF LOVE AND POLITICS
+
+
+It is not necessary to record in these pages the triumphant
+entrance of the Chevalier into Edinburgh after the decisive affair
+at Preston. One circumstance, however, may be noticed, because it
+illustrates the high spirit of Flora Mac-Ivor. The Highlanders by
+whom the Prince was surrounded, in the license and extravagance of
+this joyful moment, fired their pieces repeatedly, and one of
+these having been accidentally loaded with ball, the bullet grazed
+the young lady's temple as she waved her handkerchief from a
+balcony. [Footnote: See Note II.] Fergus, who beheld the accident,
+was at her side in an instant; and, on seeing that the wound was
+trifling, he drew his broadsword with the purpose of rushing down
+upon the man by whose carelessness she had incurred so much
+danger, when, holding him by the plaid, 'Do not harm the poor
+fellow,' she cried; 'for Heaven's sake, do not harm him! but thank
+God with me that the accident happened to Flora Mac-Ivor; for had
+it befallen a Whig, they would have pretended that the shot was
+fired on purpose.'
+
+Waverley escaped the alarm which this accident would have
+occasioned to him, as he was unavoidably delayed by the necessity
+of accompanying Colonel Talbot to Edinburgh.
+
+They performed the journey together on horseback, and for some
+time, as if to sound each other's feelings and sentiments, they
+conversed upon general and ordinary topics.
+
+When Waverley again entered upon the subject which he had most at
+heart, the situation, namely, of his father and his uncle, Colonel
+Talbot seemed now rather desirous to alleviate than to aggravate
+his anxiety. This appeared particularly to be the case when he
+heard Waverley's history, which he did not scruple to confide to
+him.
+
+'And so,' said the Colonel,'there has been no malice prepense, as
+lawyers, I think, term it, in this rash step of yours; and you
+have been trepanned into the service of this Italian knight-errant
+by a few civil speeches from him and one or two of his Highland
+recruiting sergeants? It is sadly foolish, to be sure, but not
+nearly so bad as I was led to expect. However, you cannot desert,
+even from the Pretender, at the present moment; that seems
+impossible. But I have little doubt that, in the dissensions
+incident to this heterogeneous mass of wild and desperate men,
+some opportunity may arise, by availing yourself of which you may
+extricate yourself honourably from your rash engagement before the
+bubble burst. If this can be managed, I would have you go to a
+place of safety in Flanders which I shall point out. And I think I
+can secure your pardon from government after a few months'
+residence abroad.'
+
+'I cannot permit you, Colonel Talbot,' answered Waverley, 'to
+speak of any plan which turns on my deserting an enterprise in
+which I may have engaged hastily, but certainly voluntarily, and
+with the purpose of abiding the issue.'
+
+'Well,' said Colonel Talbot, smiling, 'leave me my thoughts and
+hopes at least at liberty, if not my speech. But have you never
+examined your mysterious packet?'
+
+'It is in my baggage,' replied Edward; 'we shall find it in
+Edinburgh.'
+
+In Edinburgh they soon arrived. Waverley's quarters had been
+assigned to him, by the Prince's express orders, in a handsome
+lodging, where there was accommodation for Colonel Talbot. His
+first business was to examine his portmanteau, and, after a very
+short search, out tumbled the expected packet. Waverley opened it
+eagerly. Under a blank cover, simply addressed to E. Waverley,
+Esq., he found a number of open letters. The uppermost were two
+from Colonel Gardiner addressed to himself. The earliest in date
+was a kind and gentle remonstrance for neglect of the writer's
+advice respecting the disposal of his time during his leave of
+absence, the renewal of which, he reminded Captain Waverley, would
+speedily expire. 'Indeed,' the letter proceeded, 'had it been
+otherwise, the news from abroad and my instructions from the War
+Office must have compelled me to recall it, as there is great
+danger, since the disaster in Flanders, both of foreign invasion
+and insurrection among the disaffected at home. I therefore
+entreat you will repair as soon as possible to the headquarters of
+the regiment; and I am concerned to add that this is still the
+more necessary as there is some discontent in your troop, and I
+postpone inquiry into particulars until I can have the advantage
+of your assistance.'
+
+The second letter, dated eight days later, was in such a style as
+might have been expected from the Colonel's receiving no answer to
+the first. It reminded Waverley of his duty as a man of honour, an
+officer, and a Briton; took notice of the increasing
+dissatisfaction of his men, and that some of them had been heard
+to hint that their Captain encouraged and approved of their
+mutinous behaviour; and, finally, the writer expressed the utmost
+regret and surprise that he had not obeyed his commands by
+repairing to headquarters, reminded him that his leave of absence
+had been recalled, and conjured him, in a style in which paternal
+remonstrance was mingled with military authority, to redeem his
+error by immediately joining his regiment. 'That I may be
+certain,' concluded the letter, 'that this actually reaches you, I
+despatch it by Corporal Tims of your troop, with orders to deliver
+it into your own hand.'
+
+Upon reading these letters Waverley, with great bitterness of
+feeling, was compelled to make the amende honorable to the memory
+of the brave and excellent writer; for surely, as Colonel Gardiner
+must have had every reason to conclude they had come safely to
+hand, less could not follow, on their being neglected, than that
+third and final summons, which Waverley actually received at
+Glennaquoich, though too late to obey it. And his being
+superseded, in consequence of his apparent neglect of this last
+command, was so far from being a harsh or severe proceeding, that
+it was plainly inevitable. The next letter he unfolded was from
+the major of the regiment, acquainting him that a report to the
+disadvantage of his reputation was public in the country, stating,
+that one Mr. Falconer of Ballihopple, or some such name, had
+proposed in his presence a treasonable toast, which he permitted
+to pass in silence, although it was so gross an affront to the
+royal family that a gentleman in company, not remarkable for his
+zeal for government, had never theless taken the matter up, and
+that, supposing the account true, Captain Waverley had thus
+suffered another, comparatively unconcerned, to resent an affront
+directed against him personally as an officer, and to go out with
+the person by whom it was offered. The major concluded that no one
+of Captain Waverley's brother officers could believe this
+scandalous story, but that it was necessarily their joint opinion
+that his own honour, equally with that of the regiment, depended
+upon its being instantly contradicted by his authority, etc. etc.
+etc.
+
+'What do you think of all this?' said Colonel Talbot, to whom
+Waverley handed the letters after he had perused them.
+
+'Think! it renders thought impossible. It is enough to drive me
+mad.'
+
+'Be calm, my young friend; let us see what are these dirty scrawls
+that follow.'
+
+The first was addressed,--
+
+'For Master W. Ruffin, These.'--
+
+'Dear sur, sum of our yong gulpins will not bite, thof I tuold
+them you shoed me the squoire's own seel. But Tims will deliver
+you the lettrs as desired, and tell ould Addem he gave them to
+squoir's bond, as to be sure yours is the same, and shall be ready
+for signal, and hoy for Hoy Church and Sachefrel, as fadur sings
+at harvestwhome. Yours, deer Sur,
+
+'H. H.
+
+'Poscriff.--Do'e tell squoire we longs to heer from him, and has
+dootings about his not writing himself, and Lifetenant Bottler is
+smoky.'
+
+'This Ruffin, I suppose, then, is your Donald of the Cavern, who
+has intercepted your letters, and carried on a correspondence with
+the poor devil Houghton, as if under your authority?'
+
+'It seems too true. But who can Addem be?'
+
+'Possibly Adam, for poor Gardiner, a sort of pun on his name.'
+
+The other letters were to the same purpose; and they soon received
+yet more complete light upon Donald Bean's machinations.
+
+John Hodges, one of Waverley's servants, who had remained with the
+regiment and had been taken at Preston, now made his appearance.
+He had sought out his master with the purpose of again entering
+his service. From this fellow they learned that some time after
+Waverley had gone from the headquarters of the regiment, a pedlar,
+called Ruthven, Rufnn, or Rivane, known among the soldiers by the
+name of Wily Will, had made frequent visits to the town of Dundee.
+He appeared to possess plenty of money, sold his commodities very
+cheap, seemed always willing to treat his friends at the ale-
+house, and easily ingratiated himself with many of Waverley's
+troop, particularly Sergeant Houghton and one Tims, also a non-
+commissioned officer. To these he unfolded, in Waverley's name, a
+plan for leaving the regiment and joining him in the Highlands,
+where report said the clans had already taken arms in great
+numbers. The men, who had been educated as Jacobites, so far as
+they had any opinion at all, and who knew their landlord, Sir
+Everard, had always been supposed to hold such tenets, easily fell
+into the snare. That Waverley was at a distance in the Highlands
+was received as a sufficient excuse for transmitting his letters
+through the medium of the pedlar; and the sight of his well-known
+seal seemed to authenticate the negotiations in his name, where
+writing might have been dangerous. The cabal, however, began to
+take air, from the premature mutinous language of those concerned.
+Wily Will justified his appellative; for, after suspicion arose,
+he was seen no more. When the 'Gazette' appeared in which Waverley
+was superseded, great part of his troop broke out into actual
+mutiny, but were surrounded and disarmed by the rest of the
+regiment In consequence of the sentence of a court-martial,
+Houghton and Tims were condemned to be shot, but afterwards
+permitted to cast lots for life. Houghton, the survivor, showed
+much penitence, being convinced, from the rebukes and explanations
+of Colonel Gardiner, that he had really engaged in a very heinous
+crime. It is remarkable that, as soon as the poor fellow was
+satisfied of this, he became also convinced that the instigator
+had acted without authority from Edward, saying, 'If it was
+dishonourable and against Old England, the squire could know
+nought about it; he never did, or thought to do, anything
+dishonourable, no more didn't Sir Everard, nor none of them afore
+him, and in that belief he would live and die that Ruffin had done
+it all of his own head.'
+
+The strength of conviction with which he expressed himself upon
+this subject, as well as his assurances that the letters intended
+for Waverley had been delivered to Ruthven, made that revolution
+in Colonel Gardiner's opinion which he expressed to Talbot.
+
+The reader has long since understood that Donald Bean Lean played
+the part of tempter on this occasion. His motives were shortly
+these. Of an active and intriguing spirit, he had been long
+employed as a subaltern agent and spy by those in the confidence
+of the Chevalier, to an extent beyond what was suspected even by
+Fergus Mac-Ivor, whom, though obliged to him for protection, he
+regarded with fear and dislike. To success in this political
+department he naturally looked for raising himself by some bold
+stroke above his present hazardous and precarious trade of rapine.
+He was particularly employed in learning the strength of the
+regiments in Scotland, the character of the officers, etc., and
+had long had his eye upon Waverley's troop as open to temptation.
+Donald even believed that Waverley himself was at bottom in the
+Stuart interest, which seemed confirmed by his long visit to the
+Jacobite Baron of Bradwardine. When, therefore, he came to his
+cave with one of Glennaquoich's attendants, the robber, who could
+never appreciate his real motive, which was mere curiosity, was so
+sanguine as to hope that his own talents were to be employed in
+some intrigue of consequence, under the auspices of this wealthy
+young Englishman. Nor was he undeceived by Waverley's neglecting
+all hints and openings afforded for explanation. His conduct
+passed for prudent reserve, and somewhat piqued Donald Bean, who,
+supposing himself left out of a secret where confidence promised
+to be advantageous, determined to have his share in the drama,
+whether a regular part were assigned him or not. For this purpose
+during Waverley's sleep he possessed himself of his seal, as a
+token to be used to any of the troopers whom he might discover to
+be possessed of the captain's confidence. His first journey to
+Dundee, the town where the regiment was quartered, undeceived him
+in his original supposition, but opened to him a new field of
+action. He knew there would be no service so well rewarded by the
+friends of the Chevalier as seducing a part of the regular army to
+his standard. For this purpose he opened the machinations with
+which the reader is already acquainted, and which form a clue to
+all the intricacies and obscurities of the narrative previous to
+Waverley's leaving Glennaquoich.
+
+By Colonel Talbot's advice, Waverley declined detaining in his
+service the lad whose evidence had thrown additional light on
+these intrigues. He represented to him, that it would be doing the
+man an injury to engage him in a desperate undertaking, and that,
+whatever should happen, his evidence would go some length at least
+in explaining the circumstances under which Waverley himself had
+embarked in it. Waverley therefore wrote a short state of what had
+happened to his uncle and his father, cautioning them, however, in
+the present circumstances, not to attempt to answer his letter.
+Talbot then gave the young man a letter to the commander of one of
+the English vessels of war cruising in the frith, requesting him
+to put the bearer ashore at Berwick, with a pass to proceed to----
+shire. He was then furnished with money to make an expeditious
+journey, and directed to get on board the ship by means of bribing
+a fishing-boat, which, as they afterwards learned, he easily
+effected.
+
+Tired of the attendance of Callum Beg, who, he thought, had some
+disposition to act as a spy on his motions, Waverley hired as a
+servant a simple Edinburgh swain, who had mounted the white
+cockade in a fit of spleen and jealousy, because Jenny Jop had
+danced a whole night with Corporal Bullock of the Fusileers.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LII
+
+INTRIGUES OF SOCIETY AND LOVE
+
+
+Colonel Talbot became more kindly in his demeanour towards
+Waverley after the confidence he had reposed in him, and, as they
+were necessarily much together, the character of the Colonel rose
+in Waverley's estimation. There seemed at first something harsh in
+his strong expressions of dislike and censure, although no one was
+in the general case more open to conviction. The habit of
+authority had also given his manners some peremptory hardness,
+notwithstanding the polish which they had received from his
+intimate acquaintance with the higher circles. As a specimen of
+the military character, he differed from all whom Waverley had as
+yet seen. The soldiership of the Baron of Bradwardine was marked
+by pedantry; that of Major Melville by a sort of martinet
+attention to the minutiae and technicalities of discipline, rather
+suitable to one who was to manoeuvre a battalion than to him who
+was to command an army; the military spirit of Fergus was so much
+warped and blended with his plans and political views, that it was
+less that of a soldier than of a petty sovereign. But Colonel
+Talbot was in every point the English soldier. His whole soul was
+devoted to the service of his king and country, without feeling
+any pride in knowing the theory of his art with the Baron, or its
+practical minutiae with the Major, or in applying his science to
+his own particular plans of ambition, like the Chieftain of
+Glennaquoich. Added to this, he was a man of extended knowledge
+and cultivated taste, although strongly tinged, as we have already
+observed, with those prejudices which are peculiarly English.
+
+The character of Colonel Talbot dawned upon Edward by degrees; for
+the delay of the Highlanders in the fruitless siege of Edinburgh
+Castle occupied several weeks, during which Waverley had little to
+do excepting to seek such amusement as society afforded. He would
+willingly have persuaded his new friend to become acquainted with
+some of his former intimates. But the Colonel, after one or two
+visits, shook his head, and declined farther experiment. Indeed he
+went farther, and characterised the Baron as the most intolerable
+formal pedant he had ever had the misfortune to meet with, and the
+Chief of Glennaquoich as a Frenchified Scotchman, possessing all
+the cunning and plausibility of the nation where he was educated,
+with the proud, vindictive, and turbulent humour of that of his
+birth. 'If the devil,' he said, 'had sought out an agent expressly
+for the purpose of embroiling this miserable country, I do not
+think he could find a better than such a fellow as this, whose
+temper seems equally active, supple, and mischievous, and who is
+followed, and implicitly obeyed, by a gang of such cut-throats as
+those whom you are pleased to admire so much.'
+
+The ladies of the party did not escape his censure. He allowed
+that Flora Mac-Ivor was a fine woman, and Rose Bradwardine a
+pretty girl. But he alleged that the former destroyed the effect
+of her beauty by an affectation of the grand airs which she had
+probably seen practised in the mock court of St. Germains. As for
+Rose Bradwardine, he said it was impossible for any mortal to
+admire such a little uninformed thing, whose small portion of
+education was as ill adapted to her sex or youth as if she had
+appeared with one of her father's old campaign-coats upon her
+person for her sole garment. Now much of this was mere spleen and
+prejudice in the excellent Colonel, with whom the white cockade on
+the breast, the white rose in the hair, and the Mac at the
+beginning of a name would have made a devil out of an angel; and
+indeed he himself jocularly allowed that he could not have endured
+Venus herself if she had been announced in a drawing-room by the
+name of Miss Mac-Jupiter.
+
+Waverley, it may easily be believed, looked upon these young
+ladies with very different eyes. During the period of the siege he
+paid them almost daily visits, although he observed with regret
+that his suit made as little progress in the affections of the
+former as the arms of the Chevalier in subduing the fortress. She
+maintained with rigour the rule she had laid down of treating him
+with indifference, without either affecting to avoid him or to
+shun intercourse with him. Every word, every look, was strictly
+regulated to accord with her system, and neither the dejection of
+Waverley nor the anger which Fergus scarcely suppressed could
+extend Flora's attention to Edward beyond that which the most
+ordinary politeness demanded. On the other hand, Rose Bradwardine
+gradually rose in Waverley's opinion. He had several opportunities
+of remarking that, as her extreme timidity wore off, her manners
+assumed a higher character; that the agitating circumstances of
+the stormy time seemed to call forth a certain dignity of feeling
+and expression which he had not formerly observed; and that she
+omitted no opportunity within her reach to extend her knowledge
+and refine her taste.
+
+Flora Mac-Ivor called Rose her pupil, and was attentive to assist
+her in her studies, and to fashion both her taste and
+understanding. It might have been remarked by a very close
+observer that in the presence of Waverley she was much more
+desirous to exhibit her friend's excellences than her own. But I
+must request of the reader to suppose that this kind and
+disinterested purpose was concealed by the most cautious delicacy,
+studiously shunning the most distant approach to affectation. So
+that it was as unlike the usual exhibition of one pretty woman
+affecting to proner another as the friendship of David and
+Jonathan might be to the intimacy of two Bond Street loungers. The
+fact is that, though the effect was felt, the cause could hardly
+be observed. Each of the ladies, like two excellent actresses,
+were perfect in their parts, and performed them to the delight of
+the audience; and such being the case, it was almost impossible to
+discover that the elder constantly ceded to her friend that which
+was most suitable to her talents.
+
+But to Waverley Rose Bradwardine possessed an attraction which few
+men can resist, from the marked interest which she took in
+everything that affected him. She was too young and too
+inexperienced to estimate the full force of the constant attention
+which she paid to him. Her father was too abstractedly immersed in
+learned and military discussions to observe her partiality, and
+Flora Mac-Ivor did not alarm her by remonstrance, because she saw
+in this line of conduct the most probable chance of her friend
+securing at length a return of affection.
+
+The truth is, that in her first conversation after their meeting
+Rose had discovered the state of her mind to that acute and
+intelligent friend, although she was not herself aware of it. From
+that time Flora was not only determined upon the final rejection
+of Waverley's addresses, but became anxious that they should, if
+possible, be transferred to her friend. Nor was she less
+interested in this plan, though her brother had from time to time
+talked, as between jest and earnest, of paying his suit to Miss
+Bradwardine. She knew that Fergus had the true continental
+latitude of opinion respecting the institution of marriage, and
+would not have given his hand to an angel unless for the purpose
+of strengthening his alliances and increasing his influence and
+wealth. The Baron's whim of transferring his estate to the distant
+heir-male, instead of his own daughter, was therefore likely to be
+an insurmountable obstacle to his entertaining any serious
+thoughts of Rose Bradwardine. Indeed, Fergus's brain was a
+perpetual workshop of scheme and intrigue, of every possible kind
+and description; while, like many a mechanic of more ingenuity
+than steadiness, he would often unexpectedly, and without any
+apparent motive, abandon one plan and go earnestly to work upon
+another, which was either fresh from the forge of his imagination
+or had at some former period been flung aside half finished. It
+was therefore often difficult to guess what line of conduct he
+might finally adopt upon any given occasion.
+
+Although Flora was sincerely attached to her brother, whose high
+energies might indeed have commanded her admiration even without
+the ties which bound them together, she was by no means blind to
+his faults, which she considered as dangerous to the hopes of any
+woman who should found her ideas of a happy marriage in the
+peaceful enjoyment of domestic society and the exchange of mutual
+and engrossing affection. The real disposition of Waverley, on the
+other hand, notwithstanding his dreams of tented fields and
+military honour, seemed exclusively domestic. He asked and
+received no share in the busy scenes which were constantly going
+on around him, and was rather annoyed than interested by the
+discussion of contending claims, rights, and interests which often
+passed in his presence. All this pointed him out as the person
+formed to make happy a spirit like that of Rose, which
+corresponded with his own.
+
+She remarked this point in Waverley's character one day while she
+sat with Miss Bradwardine. 'His genius and elegant taste,'
+answered Rose, 'cannot be interested in such trifling discussions.
+What is it to him, for example, whether the Chief of the
+Macindallaghers, who has brought out only fifty men, should be a
+colonel or a captain? and how could Mr. Waverley be supposed to
+interest himself in the violent altercation between your brother
+and young Corrinaschian whether the post of honour is due to the
+eldest cadet of a clan or the youngest?'
+
+'My dear Rose, if he were the hero you suppose him he would
+interest himself in these matters, not indeed as important in
+themselves, but for the purpose of mediating between the ardent
+spirits who actually do make them the subject of discord. You saw
+when Corrinaschian raised his voice in great passion, and laid his
+hand upon his sword, Waverley lifted his head as if he had just
+awaked from a dream, and asked with great composure what the
+matter was.'
+
+'Well, and did not the laughter they fell into at his absence of
+mind serve better to break off the dispute than anything he could
+have said to them?'
+
+'True, my dear,' answered Flora; 'but not quite so creditably for
+Waverley as if he had brought them to their senses by force of
+reason.'
+
+'Would you have him peacemaker general between all the gunpowder
+Highlanders in the army? I beg your pardon, Flora, your brother,
+you know, is out of the question; he has more sense than half of
+them. But can you think the fierce, hot, furious spirits of whose
+brawls we see much and hear more, and who terrify me out of my
+life every day in the world, are at all to be compared to
+Waverley?'
+
+'I do not compare him with those uneducated men, my dear Rose. I
+only lament that, with his talents and genius, he does not assume
+that place in society for which they eminently fit him, and that
+he does not lend their full impulse to the noble cause in which he
+has enlisted. Are there not Lochiel, and P--, and M--, and G--,
+all men of the highest education as well as the first talents,--
+why will he not stoop like them to be alive and useful? I often
+believe his zeal is frozen by that proud cold-blooded Englishman
+whom he now lives with so much.'
+
+'Colonel Talbot? he is a very disagreeable person, to be sure. He
+looks as if he thought no Scottish woman worth the trouble of
+handing her a cup of tea. But Waverley is so gentle, so well
+informed--'
+
+'Yes,' said Flora, smiling, 'he can admire the moon and quote a
+stanza from Tasso.'
+
+'Besides, you know how he fought,' added Miss Bradwardine.
+
+'For mere fighting,' answered Flora,' I believe all men (that is,
+who deserve the name) are pretty much alike; there is generally
+more courage required to run away. They have besides, when
+confronted with each other, a certain instinct for strife, as we
+see in other male animals, such as dogs, bulls, and so forth. But
+high and perilous enterprise is not Waverley's forte. He would
+never have been his celebrated ancestor Sir Nigel, but only Sir
+Nigel's eulogist and poet. I will tell you where he will be at
+home, my dear, and in his place--in the quiet circle of domestic
+happiness, lettered indolence, and elegant enjoyments of Waverley-
+Honour. And he will refit the old library in the most exquisite
+Gothic taste, and garnish its shelves with the rarest and most
+valuable volumes; and he will draw plans and landscapes, and write
+verses, and rear temples, and dig grottoes; and he will stand in a
+clear summer night in the colonnade before the hall, and gaze on
+the deer as they stray in the moonlight, or lie shadowed by the
+boughs of the huge old fantastic oaks; and he will repeat verses
+to his beautiful wife, who will hang upon his arm;--and he will be
+a happy man.'
+
+And she will be a happy woman, thought poor Rose. But she only
+sighed and dropped the conversation.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LIII
+
+FERGUS A SUITOR
+
+
+Waverley had, indeed, as he looked closer into the state of the
+Chevalier's court, less reason to be satisfied with it. It
+contained, as they say an acorn includes all the ramifications of
+the future oak, as many seeds of tracasserie and intrigue as might
+have done honour to the court of a large empire. Every person of
+consequence had some separate object, which he pursued with a fury
+that Waverley considered as altogether disproportioned to its
+importance. Almost all had their reasons for discontent, although
+the most legitimate was that of the worthy old Baron, who was only
+distressed on account of the common cause.
+
+'We shall hardly,' said he one morning to Waverley when they had
+been viewing the Castle--'we shall hardly gain the obsidional
+crown, which you wot well was made of the roots or grain which
+takes root within the place besieged, or it may be of the herb
+woodbind, parietaria, or pellitory; we shall not, I say, gain it
+by this same blockade or leaguer of Edinburgh Castle.' For this
+opinion he gave most learned and satisfactory reasons, that the
+reader may not care to hear repeated.
+
+Having escaped from the old gentleman, Waverley went to Fergus's
+lodgings by appointment, to await his return from Holyrood House.
+'I am to have a particular audience to-morrow,' said Fergus to
+Waverley overnight, 'and you must meet me to wish me joy of the
+success which I securely anticipate.'
+
+The morrow came, and in the Chief's apartment he found Ensign
+Maccombich waiting to make report of his turn of duty in a sort of
+ditch which they had dug across the Castle-hill and called a
+trench. In a short time the Chief's voice was heard on the stair
+in a tone of impatient fury: 'Callum! why, Callum Beg! Diaoul!' He
+entered the room with all the marks of a man agitated by a
+towering passion; and there were few upon whose features rage
+produced a more violent effect. The veins of his forehead swelled
+when he was in such agitation; his nostril became dilated; his
+cheek and eye inflamed; and hislook that of a demoniac. These
+appearances of half-suppressed rage were the more frightful
+because they were obviously caused by a strong effort to temper
+with discretion an almost ungovernable paroxysm of passion, and
+resulted from an internal conflict of the most dreadful kind,
+which agitated his whole frame of mortality.
+
+As he entered the apartment he unbuckled his broadsword, and
+throwing it down with such violence that the weapon rolled to the
+other end of the room, 'I know not what,' he exclaimed, 'withholds
+me from taking a solemn oath that I will never more draw it in his
+cause. Load my pistols, Callum, and bring them hither instantly--
+instantly!' Callum, whom nothing ever startled, dismayed, or
+disconcerted, obeyed very coolly. Evan Dhu, upon whose brow the
+suspicion that his Chief had been insulted called up a
+corresponding storm, swelled in sullen silence, awaiting to learn
+where or upon whom vengeance was to descend.
+
+'So, Waverley, you are there,' said the Chief, after a moment's
+recollection. 'Yes, I remember I asked you to share my triumph,
+and you have come to witness my disappointment we shall call it.'
+Evan now presented the written report he had in his hand, which
+Fergus threw from him with great passion. 'I wish to God,' he
+said, 'the old den would tumble down upon the heads of the fools
+who attack and the knaves who defend it! I see, Waverley, you
+think I am mad. Leave us, Evan, but be within call.'
+
+'The Colonel's in an unco kippage,' said Mrs. Flockhart to Evan as
+he descended; 'I wish he may be weel,--the very veins on his brent
+brow are swelled like whipcord; wad he no tak something?'
+
+'He usually lets blood for these fits,' answered the Highland
+ancient with great composure.
+
+When this officer left the room, the Chieftain gradually reassumed
+some degree of composure. 'I know, Waverley,' he said, 'that
+Colonel Talbot has persuaded you to curse ten times a day your
+engagement with us; nay, never deny it, for I am at this moment
+tempted to curse my own. Would you believe it, I made this very
+morning two suits to the Prince, and he has rejected them both;
+what do you think of it?'
+
+'What can I think,' answered Waverley,'till I know what your
+requests were?' 'Why, what signifies what they were, man? I tell
+you it was I that made them--I to whom he owes more than to any
+three who have joined the standard; for I negotiated the whole
+business, and brought in all the Perthshire men when not one would
+have stirred. I am not likely, I think, to ask anything very
+unreasonable, and if I did, they might have stretched a point.
+Well, but you shall know all, now that I can draw my breath again
+with some freedom. You remember my earl's patent; it is dated some
+years back, for services then rendered; and certainly my merit has
+not been diminished, to say the least, by my subsequent behaviour.
+Now, sir, I value this bauble of a coronet as little as you can,
+or any philosopher on earth; for I hold that the chief of such a
+clan as the Sliochd nan Ivor is superior in rank to any earl in
+Scotland. But I had a particular reason for assuming this cursed
+title at this time. You must know that I learned accidentally that
+the Prince has been pressing that old foolish Baron of Bradwardine
+to disinherit his male heir, or nineteenth or twentieth cousin,
+who has taken a command in the Elector of Hanover's militia, and
+to settle his estate upon your pretty little friend Rose; and
+this, as being the command of his king and overlord, who may alter
+the destination of a fief at pleasure, the old gentleman seems
+well reconciled to.'
+
+'And what becomes of the homage?'
+
+'Curse the homage! I believe Rose is to pull off the queen's
+slipper on her coronation-day, or some such trash. Well, sir, as
+Rose Bradwardine would always have made a suitable match for me
+but for this idiotical predilection of her father for the heir-
+male, it occurred to me there now remained no obstacle unless that
+the Baron might expect his daughter's husband to take the name of
+Bradwardine (which you know would be impossible in my case), and
+that this might be evaded by my assuming the title to which I had
+so good a right, and which, of course, would supersede that
+difficulty. If she was to be also Viscountess Bradwardine in her
+own right after her father's demise, so much the better; I could
+have no objection.'
+
+'But, Fergus,' said Waverley, 'I had no idea that you had any
+affection for Miss Bradwardine, and you are always sneering at her
+father.'
+
+'I have as much affection for Miss Bradwardine, my good friend, as
+I think it necessary to have for the future mistress of my family
+and the mother of my children. She is a very pretty, intelligent
+girl, and is certainly of one of the very first Lowland families;
+and, with a little of Flora's instructions and forming, will make
+a very good figure. As to her father, he is an original, it is
+true, and an absurd one enough; but he has given such severe
+lessons to Sir Hew Halbert, that dear defunct the Laird of
+Balmawhapple, and others, that nobody dare laugh at him, so his
+absurdity goes for nothing. I tell you there could have been no
+earthly objection--none. I had settled the thing entirely in my
+own mind.'
+
+'But had you asked the Baron's consent,' said Waverley, 'or
+Rose's?'
+
+'To what purpose? To have spoke to the Baron before I had assumed
+my title would have only provoked a premature and irritating
+discussion on the subject of the change of name, when, as Earl of
+Glennaquoich, I had only to propose to him to carry his d--d bear
+and bootjack party per pale, or in a scutcheon of pretence, or in
+a separate shield perhaps--any way that would not blemish my own
+coat of arms. And as to Rose, I don't see what objection she could
+have made if her father was satisfied.'
+
+'Perhaps the same that your sister makes to me, you being
+satisfied.'
+
+Fergus gave a broad stare at the comparison which this supposition
+implied, but cautiously suppressed the answer which rose to his
+tongue. 'O, we should easily have arranged all that. So, sir, I
+craved a private interview, and this morning was assigned; and I
+asked you to meet me here, thinking, like a fool, that I should
+want your countenance as bride's-man. Well, I state my pretension
+--they are not denied; the promises so repeatedly made and the
+patent granted--they are acknowledged. But I propose, as a natural
+consequence, to assume the rank which the patent bestowed. I have
+the old story of the jealousy of C----and M----trumped up
+against me. I resist this pretext, and offer to procure their
+written acquiescence, in virtue of the date of my patent as prior
+to their silly claims; I assure you I would have had such a
+consent from them, if it had been at the point of the sword. And
+then out comes the real truth; and he dares to tell me to my face
+that my patent must be suppressed for the present, for fear of
+disgusting that rascally coward and faineant (naming the rival
+chief of his own clan), who has no better title to be a chieftain
+than I to be Emperor of China, and who is pleased to shelter his
+dastardly reluctance to come out, agreeable to his promise twenty
+times pledged, under a pretended jealousy of the Prince's
+partiality to me. And, to leave this miserable driveller without a
+pretence for his cowardice, the Prince asks it as a personal
+favour of me, forsooth, not to press my just and reasonable
+request at this moment. After this, put your faith in princes!'
+
+'And did your audience end here?'
+
+'End? O no! I was determined to leave him no pretence for his
+ingratitude, and I therefore stated, with all the composure I
+could muster,--for I promise you I trembled with passion,--the
+particular reasons I had for wishing that his Royal Highness would
+impose upon me any other mode of exhibiting my duty and devotion,
+as my views in life made what at any other time would have been a
+mere trifle at this crisis a severe sacrifice; and then I
+explained to him my full plan.'
+
+'And what did the Prince answer?'
+
+'Answer? why--it is well it is written, "Curse not the king, no,
+not in thy thought!"--why, he answered that truly he was glad I
+had made him my confidant, to prevent more grievous
+disappointment, for he could assure me, upon the word of a prince,
+that Miss Bradwardine's affections were engaged, and he was under
+a particular promise to favour them. "So, my dear Fergus," said
+he, with his most gracious cast of smile, "as the marriage is
+utterly out of question, there need be no hurry, you know, about
+the earldom." And so he glided off and left me plante la.'
+
+'And what did you do?'
+
+'I'll tell you what I COULD have done at that moment--sold myself
+to the devil or the Elector, whichever offered the dearest
+revenge. However, I am now cool. I know he intends to marry her to
+some of his rascally Frenchmen or his Irish officers, but I will
+watch them close; and let the man that would supplant me look well
+to himself. Bisogna coprirsi, Signor.'
+
+After some further conversation, unnecessary to be detailed,
+Waverley took leave of the Chieftain, whose fury had now subsided
+into a deep and strong desire of vengeance, and returned home,
+scarce able to analyse the mixture of feelings which the narrative
+had awakened in his own bosom.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LIV
+
+'TO ONE THING CONSTANT NEVER'
+
+
+'I am the very child of caprice,'said Waverley to himself, as he
+bolted the door of his apartment and paced it with hasty steps.
+'What is it to me that Fergus Mac-Ivor should wish to marry Rose
+Bradwardine? I love her not; I might have been loved by her
+perhaps; but rejected her simple, natural, and affecting
+attachment, instead of cherishing it into tenderness, and
+dedicated myself to one who will never love mortal man, unless old
+Warwick, the King-maker, should arise from the dead The Baron too
+--I would not have cared about his estate, and so the name would
+have been no stumbling-block. The devil might have taken the
+barren moors and drawn off the royal caligae for anything I would
+have minded. But, framed as she is for domestic affection and
+tenderness, for giving and receiving all those kind and quiet
+attentions which sweeten life to those who pass it together, she
+is sought by Fergus Mac-Ivor. He will not use her ill, to be sure;
+of that he is incapable. But he will neglect her after the first
+month; he will be too intent on subduing some rival chieftain or
+circumventing some favourite at court, on gaining some heathy hill
+and lake or adding to his bands some new troop of caterans, to
+inquire what she does, or how she amuses herself.
+
+    And then will canker sorrow eat her bud,
+    And chase the native beauty from her cheek;
+    And she will look as hollow as a ghost,
+    And dim and meagre as an ague fit,
+    And so she'll die.
+
+And such a catastrophe of the most gentle creature on earth might
+have been prevented if Mr. Edward Waverley had had his eyes! Upon
+my word, I cannot understand how I thought Flora so much, that is,
+so very much, handsomer than Rose. She is taller indeed, and her
+manner more formed; but many people think Miss Bradwardine's more
+natural; and she is certainly much younger. I should think Flora
+is two years older than I am. I will look at them particularly
+this evening.'
+
+And with this resolution Waverley went to drink tea (as the
+fashion was Sixty Years Since) at the house of a lady of quality
+attached to the cause of the Chevalier, where he found, as he
+expected, both the ladies. All rose as he entered, but Flora
+immediately resumed her place and the conversation in which she
+was engaged. Rose, on the contrary, almost imperceptibly made a
+little way in the crowded circle for his advancing the corner of a
+chair. 'Her manner, upon the whole, is most engaging,' said
+Waverley to himself.
+
+A dispute occurred whether the Gaelic or Italian language was most
+liquid, and best adapted for poetry; the opinion for the Gaelic,
+which probably might not have found supporters elsewhere, was here
+fiercely defended by seven Highland ladies, who talked at the top
+of their lungs, and screamed the company deaf with examples of
+Celtic euphonia. Flora, observing the Lowland ladies sneer at the
+comparison, produced some reasons to show that it was not
+altogether so absurd; but Rose, when asked for her opinion, gave
+it with animation in praise of Italian, which she had studied with
+Waverley's assistance. "She has a more correct ear than Flora,
+though a less accomplished musician," said Waverley to himself. 'I
+suppose Miss Mac-Ivor will next compare Mac-Murrough nan Fonn to
+Ariosto!'
+
+Lastly, it so befell that the company differed whether Fergus
+should be asked to perform on the flute, at which he was an adept,
+or Waverley invited to read a play of Shakspeare; and the lady of
+the house good-humouredly undertook to collect the votes of the
+company for poetry or music, under the condition that the
+gentleman whose talents were not laid under contribution that
+evening should contribute them to enliven the next. It chanced
+that Rose had the casting vote. Now Flora, who seemed to impose it
+as a rule upon herself never to countenance any proposal which
+might seem to encourage Waverley, had voted for music, providing
+the Baron would take his violin to accompany Fergus. 'I wish you
+joy of your taste, Miss Mac-Ivor,' thought Edward, as they sought
+for his book. 'I thought it better when we were at Glennaquoich;
+but certainly the Baron is no great performer, and Shakspeare is
+worth listening to.'
+
+'Romeo and Juliet' was selected, and Edward read with taste,
+feeling, and spirit several scenes from that play. All the company
+applauded with their hands, and many with their tears. Flora, to
+whom the drama was well known, was among the former; Rose, to whom
+it was altogether new, belonged to the latter class of admirers.
+'She has more feeling too,' said Waverley, internally.
+
+The conversation turning upon the incidents of the play and upon
+the characters, Fergus declared that the only one worth naming, as
+a man of fashion and spirit, was Mercutio. 'I could not,' he said,
+'quite follow all his old-fashioned wit, but he must have been a
+very pretty fellow, according to the ideas of his time.'
+
+'And it was a shame,' said Ensign Maccombich, who usually followed
+his Colonel everywhere, 'for that Tibbert, or Taggart, or whatever
+was his name, to stick him under the other gentleman's arm while
+he was redding the fray.'
+
+The ladies, of course, declared loudly in favour of Romeo, but
+this opinion did not go undisputed. The mistress of the house and
+several other ladies severely reprobated the levity with which the
+hero transfers his affections from Rosalind to Juliet. Flora
+remained silent until her opinion was repeatedly requested, and
+then answered, she thought the circumstance objected to not only
+reconcilable to nature, but such as in the highest degree evinced
+the art of the poet. 'Romeo is described,' said she, 'as a young
+man peculiarly susceptible of the softer passions; his love is at
+first fixed upon a woman who could afford it no return; this he
+repeatedly tells you,--
+
+    From love's weak, childish bow she lives unharmed,
+
+and again--
+
+    She hath forsworn to love.
+
+Now, as it was impossible that Romeo's love, supposing him a
+reasonable being, could continue to subsist without hope, the poet
+has, with great art, seized the moment when he was reduced
+actually to despair to throw in his way an object more
+accomplished than her by whom he had been rejected, and who is
+disposed to repay his attachment. I can scarce conceive a
+situation more calculated to enhance the ardour of Romeo's
+affection for Juliet than his being at once raised by her from the
+state of drooping melancholy in which he appears first upon the
+scene to the ecstatic state in which he exclaims--
+
+    --come what sorrow can,
+    It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
+    That one short moment gives me in her sight.'
+
+'Good now, Miss Mac-Ivor,' said a young lady of quality, 'do you
+mean to cheat us out of our prerogative? will you persuade us love
+cannot subsist without hope, or that the lover must become fickle
+if the lady is cruel? O fie! I did not expect such an
+unsentimental conclusion.'
+
+'A lover, my dear Lady Betty,' said Flora, 'may, I conceive,
+persevere in his suit under very discouraging circumstances.
+Affection can (now and then) withstand very severe storms of
+rigour, but not a long polar frost of downright indifference.
+Don't, even with YOUR attractions, try the experiment upon any
+lover whose faith you value. Love will subsist on wonderfully
+little hope, but not altogether without it.'
+
+'It will be just like Duncan Mac-Girdie's mare,' said Evan, 'if
+your ladyships please, he wanted to use her by degrees to live
+without meat, and just as he had put her on a straw a day the poor
+thing died!'
+
+Evan's illustration set the company a-laughing, and the discourse
+took a different turn. Shortly afterwards the party broke up, and
+Edward returned home, musing on what Flora had said. 'I will love
+my Rosalind no more,' said he; 'she has given me a broad enough
+hint for that; and I will speak to her brother and resign my suit.
+But for a Juliet--would it be handsome to interfere with Fergus's
+pretensions? though it is impossible they can ever succeed; and
+should they miscarry, what then? why then alors comme alors.' And
+with this resolution of being guided by circumstances did our hero
+commit himself to repose.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LV
+
+A BRAVE MAN IN SORROW
+
+
+Ifmy fair readers should be of opinion that my hero's levity in
+love is altogether unpardonable, I must remind them that all his
+griefs and difficulties did not arise from that sentimental
+source. Even the lyric poet who complains so feelingly of the
+pains of love could not forget, that at the same time he was 'in
+debt and in drink,' which, doubtless, were great aggravations of
+his distress. There were, indeed, whole days in which Waverley
+thought neither of Flora nor Rose Bradwardine, but which were
+spent in melancholy conjectures on the probable state of matters
+at Waverley-Honour, and the dubious issue of the civil contest in
+which he was pledged. Colonel Talbot often engaged him in
+discussions upon the justice of the cause he had espoused. 'Not,'
+he said, 'that it is possible for you to quit it at this present
+moment, for, come what will, you must stand by your rash
+engagement. But I wish you to be aware that the right is not with
+you; that you are fighting against the real interests of your
+country; and that you ought, as an Englishman and a patriot, to
+take the first opportunity to leave this unhappy expedition before
+the snowball melts.'
+
+In such political disputes Waverley usually opposed the common
+arguments of his party, with which it is unnecessary to trouble
+the reader. But he had little to say when the Colonel urged him to
+compare the strength by which they had undertaken to overthrow the
+government with that which was now assembling very rapidly for its
+support. To this statement Waverley had but one answer: 'If the
+cause I have undertaken be perilous, there would be the greater
+disgrace in abandoning it.' And in his turn he generally silenced
+Colonel Talbot, and succeeded in changing the subject.
+
+One night, when, after a long dispute of this nature, the friends
+had separated and our hero had retired to bed, he was awakened
+about midnight by a suppressed groan. He started up and listened;
+it came from the apartment of Colonel Talbot, which was divided
+from his own by a wainscotted partition, with a door of
+communication. Waverley approached this door and distinctly heard
+one or two deep-drawn sighs. What could be the matter? The Colonel
+had parted from him apparently in his usual state of spirits. He
+must have been taken suddenly ill. Under this impression he opened
+the door of communication very gently, and perceived the Colonel,
+in his night-gown, seated by a table, on which lay a letter and a
+picture. He raised his head hastily, as Edward stood uncertain
+whether to advance or retire, and Waverley perceived that his
+cheeks were stained with tears.
+
+As if ashamed at being found giving way to such emotion, Colonel
+Talbot rose with apparent displeasure and said, with some
+sternness, 'I think, Mr. Waverley, my own apartment and the hour
+might have secured even a prisoner against--'
+
+'Do not say INTRUSION, Colonel Talbot; I heard you breathe hard
+and feared you were ill; that alone could have induced me to break
+in upon you.'
+
+'I am well,' said the Colonel, 'perfectly well.'
+
+'But you are distressed,' said Edward; 'is there anything can be
+done?'
+
+'Nothing, Mr. Waverley; I was only thinking of home, and some
+unpleasant occurrences there.'
+
+'Good God, my uncle!' exclaimed Waverley.
+
+'No, it is a grief entirely my own. I am ashamed you should have
+seen it disarm me so much; but it must have its course at times,
+that it may be at others more decently supported. I would have
+kept it secret from you; for I think it will grieve you, and yet
+you can administer no consolation. But you have surprised me,--I
+see you are surprised yourself,--and I hate mystery. Read that
+letter.'
+
+The letter was from Colonel Talbot's sister, and in these words:--
+
+'I received yours, my dearest brother, by Hodges. Sir E. W. and
+Mr. R. are still at large, but are not permitted to leave London.
+I wish to Heaven I could give you as good an account of matters in
+the square. But the news of the unhappy affair at Preston came
+upon us, with the dreadful addition that you were among the
+fallen. You know Lady Emily's state of health, when your
+friendship for Sir E. induced you to leave her. She was much
+harassed with the sad accounts from Scotland of the rebellion
+having broken out; but kept up her spirits, as, she said, it
+became your wife, and for the sake of the future heir, so long
+hoped for in vain. Alas, my dear brother, these hopes are now
+ended! Notwithstanding all my watchful care, this unhappy rumour
+reached her without preparation. She was taken ill immediately;
+and the poor infant scarce survived its birth. Would to God this
+were all! But although the contradiction of the horrible report by
+your own letter has greatly revived her spirits, yet Dr.----
+apprehends, I grieve to say, serious, and even dangerous,
+consequences to her health, especially from the uncertainty in
+which she must necessarily remain for some time, aggravated by the
+ideas she has formed of the ferocity of those with whom you are a
+prisoner.
+
+'Do therefore, my dear brother, as soon as this reaches you,
+endeavour to gain your release, by parole, by ransom, or any way
+that is practicable. I do not exaggerate Lady Emily's state of
+health; but I must not--dare not--suppress the truth. Ever, my
+dear Philip, your most affectionate sister,
+
+'Lucy TALBOT.'
+
+Edward stood motionless when he had perused this letter; for the
+conclusion was inevitable, that, by the Colonel's journey in quest
+of him, he had incurred this heavy calamity. It was severe enough,
+even in its irremediable part; for Colonel Talbot and Lady Emily,
+long without a family, had fondly exulted in the hopes which were
+now blasted. But this disappointment was nothing to the extent of
+the threatened evil; and Edward, with horror, regarded himself as
+the original cause of both.
+
+Ere he could collect himself sufficiently to speak, Colonel Talbot
+had recovered his usual composure of manner, though his troubled
+eye denoted his mental agony.
+
+'She is a woman, my young friend, who may justify even a soldier's
+tears.' He reached him the miniature, exhibiting features which
+fully justified the eulogium; 'and yet, God knows, what you see of
+her there is the least of the charms she possesses--possessed, I
+should perhaps say--but God's will be done.'
+
+' You must fly--you must fly instantly to her relief. It is not--
+it shall not be too late.'
+
+'Fly? how is it possible? I am a prisoner, upon parole.'
+
+'I am your keeper; I restore your parole; I am to answer for you.'
+
+'You cannot do so consistently with your duty; nor can I accept a
+discharge from you, with due regard to my own honour; you would be
+made responsible.'
+
+'I will answer it with my head, if necessary,' said Waverley
+impetuously. 'I have been the unhappy cause of the loss of your
+child, make me not the murderer of your wife.'
+
+'No, my dear Edward,' said Talbot, taking him kindly by the hand,
+'you are in no respect to blame; and if I concealed this domestic
+distress for two days, it was lest your sensibility should view it
+in that light. You could not think of me, hardly knew of my
+existence, when I left England in quest of you. It is a
+responsibility, Heaven knows, sufficiently heavy for mortality,
+that we must answer for the foreseen and direct result of our
+actions; for their indirect and consequential operation the great
+and good Being, who alone can foresee the dependence of human
+events on each other, hath not pronounced his frail creatures
+liable.'
+
+'But that you should have left Lady Emily,' said Waverley, with
+much emotion, 'in the situation of all others the most interesting
+to a husband, to seek a--'
+
+'I only did my duty,' answered Colonel Talbot, calmly, 'and I do
+not, ought not, to regret it. If the path of gratitude and honour
+were always smooth and easy, there would be little merit in
+following it; but it moves often in contradiction to our interest
+and passions, and sometimes to our better affections. These are
+the trials of life, and this, though not the least bitter' (the
+tears came unbidden to his eyes), 'is not the first which it has
+been my fate to encounter. But we will talk of this to-morrow,'
+he said, wringing Waverley's hands. 'Good-night; strive to forget
+it for a few hours. It will dawn, I think, by six, and it is now
+past two. Good-night.'
+
+Edward retired, without trusting his voice with a reply.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LVI
+
+EXERTION
+
+
+When Colonel Talbot entered the breakfast-parlour next morning, he
+learned from Waverley's servant that our hero had been abroad at
+an early hour and was not yet returned. The morning was well
+advanced before he again appeared. He arrived out of breath, but
+with an air of joy that astonished Colonel Talbot.
+
+'There,' said he, throwing a paper on the table, 'there is my
+morning's work. Alick, pack up the Colonel's clothes. Make haste,
+make haste.'
+
+The Colonel examined the paper with astonishment. It was a pass
+from the Chevalier to Colonel Talbot, to repair to Leith, or any
+other port in possession of his Royal Highness's troops, and there
+to embark for England or elsewhere, at his free pleasure; he only
+giving his parole of honour not to bear arms against the house of
+Stuart for the space of a twelve-month.
+
+'In the name of God,' said the Colonel, his eyes sparkling with
+eagerness, 'how did you obtain this?'
+
+'I was at the Chevalier's levee as soon as he usually rises. He
+was gone to the camp at Duddingston. I pursued him thither, asked
+and obtained an audience--but I will tell you not a word more,
+unless I see you begin to pack.'
+
+'Before I know whether I can avail myself of this passport, or how
+it was obtained?'
+
+'O, you can take out the things again, you know. Now I see you
+busy, I will go on. When I first mentioned your name, his eyes
+sparkled almost as bright as yours did two minutes since. "Had
+you," he earnestly asked, "shown any sentiments favourable to his
+cause?" "Not in the least, nor was there any hope you would do
+so." His countenance fell. I requested your freedom. "Impossible,"
+he said; "your importance as a friend and confidant of such and
+such personages made my request altogether extravagant." I told
+him my own story and yours; and asked him to judge what my
+feelings must be by his own. He has a heart, and a kind one,
+Colonel Talbot, you may say what you please. He took a sheet of
+paper and wrote the pass with his own hand. "I will not trust
+myself with my council," he said; "they will argue me out of what
+is right. I will not endure that a friend, valued as I value you,
+should be loaded with the painful reflections which must afflict
+you in case of further misfortune in Colonel Talbot's family; nor
+will I keep a brave enemy a prisoner under such circumstances.
+Besides," said he, "I think I can justify myself to my prudent
+advisers by pleading the good effect such lenity will produce on
+the minds of the great English families with whom Colonel Talbot
+is connected."'
+
+'There the politician peeped out,' said the Colonel.
+
+'Well, at least he concluded like a king's son: "Take the
+passport; I have added a condition for form's sake; but if the
+Colonel objects to it, let him depart without giving any parole
+whatever. I come here to war with men, but not to distress or
+endanger women."'
+
+'Well, I never thought to have been so much indebted to the
+Pretend--'
+
+'To the Prince,' said Waverley, smiling.
+
+'To the Chevalier,' said the Colonel; 'it is a good travelling
+name, and which we may both freely use. Did he say anything more?'
+
+'Only asked if there was anything else he could oblige me in; and
+when I replied in the negative, he shook me by the hand, and
+wished all his followers were as considerate, since some friends
+of mine not only asked all he had to bestow, but many things which
+were entirely out of his power, or that of the greatest sovereign
+upon earth. Indeed, he said, no prince seemed, in the eyes of his
+followers, so like the Deity as himself, if you were to judge from
+the extravagant requests which they daily preferred to him.'
+
+'Poor young gentleman,' said the Colonel, 'I suppose he begins to
+feel the difficulties of his situation. Well, dear Waverley, this
+is more than kind, and shall not be forgotten while Philip Talbot
+can remember anything. My life--pshaw--let Emily thank you for
+that; this is a favour worth fifty lives. I cannot hesitate on
+giving my parole in the circumstances; there it is (he wrote it
+out in form). And now, how am I to get off?'
+
+'All that is settled: your baggage is packed, my horses wait, and
+a boat has been engaged, by the Prince's permission, to put you on
+board the Fox frigate. I sent a messenger down to Leith on
+purpose.'
+
+'That will do excellently well. Captain Beaver is my particular
+friend; he will put me ashore at Berwick or Shields, from whence I
+can ride post to London; and you must entrust me with the packet
+of papers which you recovered by means of your Miss Bean Lean. I
+may have an opportunity of using them to your advantage. But I see
+your Highland friend, Glen ---- what do you call his barbarous name?
+and his orderly with him; I must not call him his orderly cut-
+throat any more, I suppose. See how he walks as if the world were
+his own, with the bonnet on one side of his head and his plaid
+puffed out across his breast! I should like now to meet that youth
+where my hands were not tied: I would tame his pride, or he should
+tame mine.'
+
+'For shame, Colonel Talbot! you swell at sight of tartan as the
+bull is said to do at scarlet. You and Mac-Ivor have some points
+not much unlike, so far as national prejudice is concerned.'
+
+The latter part of this discourse took place in the street. They
+passed the Chief, the Colonel and he sternly and punctiliously
+greeting each other, like two duellists before they take their
+ground. It was evident the dislike was mutual. 'I never see that
+surly fellow that dogs his heels,' said the Colonel, after he had
+mounted his horse, 'but he reminds me of lines I have somewhere
+heard--upon the stage, I think:--
+
+    Close behind him
+    Stalks sullen Bertram, like a sorcerer's fiend,
+    Pressing to be employed.
+
+'I assure you, Colonel,' said Waverley,'that you judge too harshly
+of the Highlanders.'
+
+'Not a whit, not a whit; I cannot spare them a jot; I cannot bate
+them an ace. Let them stay in their own barren mountains, and puff
+and swell, and hang their bonnets on the horns of the moon, if
+they have a mind; but what business have they to come where people
+wear breeches, and speak an intelligible language? I mean
+intelligible in comparison to their gibberish, for even the
+Lowlanders talk a kind of English little better than the Negroes
+in Jamaica. I could pity the Pr----, I mean the, Chevalier
+himself, for having so many desperadoes about him. And they learn
+their trade so early. There is a kind of subaltern imp, for
+example, a sort of sucking devil, whom your friend Glena----
+Glenamuck there, has sometimes in his train. To look at him, he is
+about fifteen years; but he is a century old in mischief and
+villainy. He was playing at quoits the other day in the court; a
+gentleman, a decent-looking person enough, came past, and as a
+quoit hit his shin, he lifted his cane; but my young bravo whips
+out his pistol, like Beau Clincher in the "Trip to the Jubilee,"
+and had not a scream of Gardez l'eau from an upper window set all
+parties a-scampering for fear of the inevitable consequences, the
+poor gentleman would have lost his life by the hands of that
+little cockatrice.'
+
+'A fine character you'll give of Scotland upon your return,
+Colonel Talbot.'
+
+'O, Justice Shallow,' said the Colonel, 'will save me the trouble
+--"Barren, barren, beggars all, beggars all. Marry, good air,"--and
+that only when you are fairly out of Edinburgh, and not yet come
+to Leith, as is our case at present.'
+
+In a short time they arrived at the seaport.
+
+    The boat rock'd at the pier of Leith,
+    Full loud the wind blew down the ferry;
+    The ship rode at the Berwick Law.
+
+'Farewell, Colonel; may you find all as you would wish it! Perhaps
+we may meet sooner than you expect; they talk of an immediate
+route to England.'
+
+'Tell me nothing of that,' said Talbot; 'I wish to carry no news
+of your motions.'
+
+'Simply, then, adieu. Say, with a thousand kind greetings, all
+that is dutiful and affectionate to Sir Everard and Aunt Rachel.
+Think of me as kindly as you can, speak of me as indulgently as
+your conscience will permit, and once more adieu.'
+
+'And adieu, my dear Waverley; many, many thanks for your kindness.
+Unplaid yourself on the first opportunity. I shall ever think on
+you with gratitude, and the worst of my censure shall be, Que
+diable alloit--il faire dans cette galere?'
+
+And thus they parted, Colonel Talbot going on board of the boat
+and Waverley returning to Edinburgh.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LVII
+
+THE MARCH
+
+
+It is not our purpose to intrude upon the province of history. We
+shall therefore only remind our readers that about the beginning
+of November the Young Chevalier, at the head of about six thousand
+men at the utmost, resolved to peril his cause on an attempt to
+penetrate into the centre of England, although aware of the mighty
+preparations which were made for his reception. They set forward
+on this crusade in weather which would have rendered any other
+troops incapable of marching, but which in reality gave these
+active mountaineers advantages over a less hardy enemy. In
+defiance of a superior army lying upon the Borders, under Field-
+Marshal Wade, they besieged and took Carlisle, and soon afterwards
+prosecuted their daring march to the southward.
+
+As Colonel Mac-Ivor's regiment marched in the van of the clans, he
+and Waverley, who now equalled any Highlander in the endurance of
+fatigue, and was become somewhat acquainted with their language,
+were perpetually at its head. They marked the progress of the
+army, however, with very different eyes. Fergus, all air and fire,
+and confident against the world in arms, measured nothing but that
+every step was a yard nearer London. He neither asked, expected,
+nor desired any aid except that of the clans to place the Stuarts
+once more on the throne; and when by chance a few adherents joined
+the standard, he always considered them in the light of new
+claimants upon the favours of the future monarch, who, he
+concluded, must therefore subtract for their gratification so much
+of the bounty which ought to be shared among his Highland
+followers.
+
+Edward's views were very different. He could not but observe that
+in those towns in which they proclaimed James the Third, 'no man
+cried, God bless him.' The mob stared and listened, heartless,
+stupefied, and dull, but gave few signs even of that boisterous
+spirit which induces them to shout upon all occasions for the mere
+exercise of their most sweet voices. The Jacobites had been taught
+to believe that the north-western counties abounded with wealthy
+squires and hardy yeomen, devoted to the cause of the White Rose.
+But of the wealthier Tories they saw little. Some fled from their
+houses, some feigned themselves sick, some surrendered themselves
+to the government as suspected persons. Of such as remained, the
+ignorant gazed with astonishment, mixed with horror and aversion,
+at the wild appearance, unknown language, and singular garb of the
+Scottish clans. And to the more prudent their scanty numbers,
+apparent deficiency in discipline, and poverty of equipment seemed
+certain tokens of the calamitous termination of their rash
+undertaking. Thus the few who joined them were such as bigotry of
+political principle blinded to consequences, or whose broken
+fortunes induced them to hazard all on a risk so desperate.
+
+The Baron of Bradwardine, being asked what he thought of these
+recruits, took a long pinch of snuff, and answered drily,'that he
+could not but have an excellent opinion of them, since they
+resembled precisely the followers who attached themselves to the
+good King David at the cave of Adullam--videlicet, every one that
+was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one
+that was discontented, which the vulgate renders bitter of soul;
+and doubtless,' he said, 'they will prove mighty men of their
+hands, and there is much need that they should, for I have seen
+many a sour look cast upon us.'
+
+But none of these considerations moved Fergus. He admired the
+luxuriant beauty of the country, and the situation of many of the
+seats which they passed. 'Is Waverley-Honour like that house,
+Edward?'
+
+'It is one-half larger.'
+
+'Is your uncle's park as fine a one as that?'
+
+'It is three times as extensive, and rather resembles a forest
+than a mere park.'
+
+'Flora will be a happy woman.'
+
+'I hope Miss Mac-Ivor will have much reason for happiness
+unconnected with Waverley-Honour.'
+
+'I hope so too; but to be mistress of such a place will be a
+pretty addition to the sum total.'
+
+'An addition, the want of which, I trust, will be amply supplied
+by some other means.'
+
+'How,' said Fergus, stopping short and turning upon Waverley--'how
+am I to understand that, Mr. Waverley? Had I the pleasure to hear
+you aright?'
+
+'Perfectly right, Fergus.'
+
+'And am I to understand that you no longer desire my alliance and
+my sister's hand?'
+
+'Your sister has refused mine,' said Waverley, 'both directly and
+by all the usual means by which ladies repress undesired
+attentions.'
+
+'I have no idea,' answered the Chieftain, 'of a lady dismissing or
+a gentleman withdrawing his suit, after it has been approved of by
+her legal guardian, without giving him an opportunity of talking
+the matter over with the lady. You did not, I suppose, expect my
+sister to drop into your mouth like a ripe plum the first moment
+you chose to open it?'
+
+'As to the lady's title to dismiss her lover, Colonel,' replied
+Edward, 'it is a point which you must argue with her, as I am
+ignorant of the customs of the Highlands in that particular. But
+as to my title to acquiesce in a rejection from her without an
+appeal to your interest, I will tell you plainly, without meaning
+to undervalue Miss Mac-Ivor's admitted beauty and accomplishments,
+that I would not take the hand of an angel, with an empire for her
+dowry, if her consent were extorted by the importunity of friends
+and guardians, and did not flow from her own free inclination.'
+
+'An angel, with the dowry of an empire,' repeated Fergus, in a
+tone of bitter irony, 'is not very likely to be pressed upon a ----
+shire squire. But, sir,' changing his tone, 'if Flora Mac-Ivor
+have not the dowry of an empire, she is MY sister; and that is
+sufficient at least to secure her against being treated with
+anything approaching to levity.'
+
+'She is Flora Mac-Ivor, sir,' said Waverley, with firmness, 'which
+to me, were I capable of treating ANY woman with levity, would be
+a more effectual protection.'
+
+The brow of the Chieftain was now fully clouded; but Edward felt
+too indignant at the unreasonable tone which he had adopted to
+avert the storm by the least concession. They both stood still
+while this short dialogue passed, and Fergus seemed half disposed
+to say something more violent, but, by a strong effort, suppressed
+his passion, and, turning his face forward, walked sullenly on. As
+they had always hitherto walked together, and almost constantly
+side by side, Waverley pursued his course silently in the same
+direction, determined to let the Chief take his own time in
+recovering the good-humour which he had so unreasonably discarded,
+and firm in his resolution not to bate him an inch of dignity.
+
+After they had marched on in this sullen manner about a mile,
+Fergus resumed the discourse in a different tone. 'I believe I was
+warm, my dear Edward, but you provoke me with your want of
+knowledge of the world. You have taken pet at some of Flora's
+prudery, or high-flying notions of loyalty, and now, like a
+child, you quarrel with the plaything you have been crying for,
+and beat me, your faithful keeper, because my arm cannot reach to
+Edinburgh to hand it to you. I am sure, if I was passionate, the
+mortification of losing the alliance of such a friend, after your
+arrangement had been the talk of both Highlands and Lowlands, and
+that without so much as knowing why or wherefore, might well
+provoke calmer blood than mine. I shall write to Edinburgh and put
+all to rights; that is, if you desire I should do so; as indeed I
+cannot suppose that your good opinion of Flora, it being such as
+you have often expressed to me, can be at once laid aside.'
+
+'Colonel Mac-Ivor,' said Edward, who had no mind to be hurried
+farther or faster than he chose in a matter which he had already
+considered as broken off, 'I am fully sensible of the value of
+your good offices; and certainly, by your zeal on my behalf in
+such an affair, you do me no small honour. But as Miss Mac-Ivor
+has made her election freely and voluntarily, and as all my
+attentions in Edinburgh were received with more than coldness, I
+cannot, in justice either to her or myself, consent that she
+should again be harassed upon this topic. I would have mentioned
+this to you some time since, but you saw the footing upon which we
+stood together, and must have understood it. Had I thought
+otherwise I would have earlier spoken; but I had a natural
+reluctance to enter upon a subject so painful to us both.'
+
+'O, very well, Mr. Waverley,' said Fergus, haughtily, 'the thing
+is at an end. I have no occasion to press my sister upon any man.'
+
+'Nor have I any occasion to court repeated rejection from the same
+young lady,' answered Edward, in the same tone.
+
+'I shall make due inquiry, however,' said the Chieftain, without
+noticing the interruption, 'and learn what my sister thinks of all
+this, we will then see whether it is to end here.'
+
+'Respecting such inquiries, you will of course be guided by your
+own judgment,' said Waverley. 'It is, I am aware, impossible Miss
+Mac-Ivor can change her mind; and were such an unsupposable case
+to happen, it is certain I will not change mine. I only mention
+this to prevent any possibility of future misconstruction.'
+
+Gladly at this moment would Mac-Ivor have put their quarrel to a
+personal arbitrement, his eye flashed fire, and he measured Edward
+as if to choose where he might best plant a mortal wound. But
+although we do not now quarrel according to the modes and figures
+of Caranza or Vincent Saviola, no one knew better than Fergus that
+there must be some decent pretext for a mortal duel. For instance,
+you may challenge a man for treading on your corn in a crowd, or
+for pushing you up to the wall, or for taking your seat in the
+theatre; but the modern code of honour will not permit you to
+found a quarrel upon your right of compelling a man to continue
+addresses to a female relative which the fair lady has already
+refused. So that Fergus was compelled to stomach this supposed
+affront until the whirligig of time, whose motion he promised
+himself he would watch most sedulously, should bring about an
+opportunity of revenge.
+
+Waverley's servant always led a saddle-horse for him in the rear
+of the battalion to which he was attached, though his master
+seldom rode. But now, incensed at the domineering and unreasonable
+conduct of his late friend, he fell behind the column and mounted
+his horse, resolving to seek the Baron of Bradwardine, and request
+permission to volunteer in his troop instead of the Mac-Ivor
+regiment.
+
+'A happy time of it I should have had,' thought he, after he was
+mounted, 'to have been so closely allied to this superb specimen
+of pride and self-opinion and passion. A colonel! why, he should
+have been a generalissimo. A petty chief of three or four hundred
+men! his pride might suffice for the Cham of Tartary--the Grand
+Seignior--the Great Mogul! I am well free of him. Were Flora an
+angel, she would bring with her a second Lucifer of ambition and
+wrath for a brother-in-law.'
+
+The Baron, whose learning (like Sancho's jests while in the Sierra
+Morena) seemed to grow mouldy for want of exercise, joyfully
+embraced the opportunity of Waverley's offering his service in his
+regiment, to bring it into some exertion. The good-natured old
+gentleman, however, laboured to effect a reconciliation between
+the two quondam friends. Fergus turned a cold ear to his
+remonstrances, though he gave them a respectful hearing; and as
+for Waverley, he saw no reason why he should be the first in
+courting a renewal of the intimacy which the Chieftain had so
+unreasonably disturbed. The Baron then mentioned the matter to the
+Prince, who, anxious to prevent quarrels in his little army,
+declared he would himself remonstrate with Colonel Mac-Ivor on the
+unreasonableness of his conduct. But, in the hurry of their march,
+it was a day or two before he had an opportunity to exert his
+influence in the manner proposed.
+
+In the meanwhile Waverley turned the instructions he had received
+while in Gardiner's dragoons to some account, and assisted the
+Baron in his command as a sort of adjutant. 'Parmi les aveugles un
+borgne est roi,' says the French proverb; and the cavalry, which
+consisted chiefly of Lowland gentlemen, their tenants and
+servants, formed a high opinion of Waverley's skill and a great
+attachment to his person. This was indeed partly owing to the
+satisfaction which they felt at the distinguished English
+volunteer's leaving the Highlanders to rank among them; for there
+was a latent grudge between the horse and foot, not only owing to
+the difference of the services, but because most of the gentlemen,
+living near the Highlands, had at one time or other had quarrels
+with the tribes in their vicinity, and all of them looked with a
+jealous eye on the Highlanders' avowed pretensions to superior
+valour and utility in the Prince's service.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LVIII
+
+THE CONFUSION OF KING AGRAMANT'S CAMP
+
+
+Itwas Waverley's custom sometimes to ride a little apart from the
+main body, to look at any object of curiosity which occurred on
+the march. They were now in Lancashire, when, attracted by a
+castellated old hall, he left the squadron for half an hour to
+take a survey and slight sketch of it. As he returned down the
+avenue he was met by Ensign Maccombich. This man had contracted a
+sort of regard for Edward since the day of his first seeing him at
+Tully-Veolan and introducing him to the Highlands. He seemed to
+loiter, as if on purpose to meet with our hero. Yet, as he passed
+him, he only approached his stirrup and pronounced the single word
+'Beware!' and then walked swiftly on, shunning all further
+communication.
+
+Edward, somewhat surprised at this hint, followed with his eyes
+the course of Evan, who speedily disappeared among the trees. His
+servant, Alick Polwarth, who was in attendance, also looked after
+the Highlander, and then riding up close to his master, said,--
+
+'The ne'er be in me, sir, if I think you're safe amang thae
+Highland rinthereouts.'
+
+'What do you mean, Alick?' said Waverley.
+
+'The Mac-Ivors, sir, hae gotten it into their heads that ye hae
+affronted their young leddy, Miss Flora; and I hae heard mae than
+ane say, they wadna tak muckle to mak a black-cock o' ye; and ye
+ken weel eneugh there's mony o' them wadna mind a bawbee the
+weising a ball through the Prince himsell, an the Chief gae them
+the wink, or whether he did or no, if they thought it a thing that
+would please him when it was dune.'
+
+Waverley, though confident that Fergus Mac-Ivor was incapable of
+such treachery, was by no means equally sure of the forbearance of
+his followers. He knew that, where the honour of the Chief or his
+family was supposed to be touched, the happiest man would be he
+that could first avenge the stigma; and he had often heard them
+quote a proverb, 'That the best revenge was the most speedy and
+most safe.' Coupling this with the hint of Evan, he judged it most
+prudent to set spurs to his horse and ride briskly back to the
+squadron. Ere he reached the end of the long avenue, however, a
+ball whistled past him, and the report of a pistol was heard.
+
+'It was that deevil's buckle, Callum Beg,' said Alick; 'I saw him
+whisk away through amang the reises.'
+
+Edward, justly incensed at this act of treachery, galloped out of
+the avenue, and observed the battalion of Mac-Ivor at some
+distance moving along the common in which it terminated. He also
+saw an individual running very fast to join the party; this he
+concluded was the intended assassin, who, by leaping an enclosure,
+might easily make a much shorter path to the main body than he
+could find on horseback. Unable to contain himself, he commanded
+Alick to go to the Baron of Bradwardine, who was at the head of
+his regiment about half a mile in front, and acquaint him with
+what had happened. He himself immediately rode up to Fergus's
+regiment. The Chief himself was in the act of joining them. He was
+on horseback, having returned from waiting on the Prince. On
+perceiving Edward approaching, he put his horse in motion towards
+him.
+
+'Colonel Mac-Ivor,' said Waverley, without any farther salutation,
+'I have to inform you that one of your people has this instant
+fired at me from a lurking-place.'
+
+'As that,' answered Mac-Ivor, 'excepting the circumstance of a
+lurking-place, is a pleasure which I presently propose to myself,
+I should be glad to know which of my clansmen dared to anticipate
+me.'
+
+'I shall certainly be at your command whenever you please; the
+gentleman who took your office upon himself is your page there,
+Callum Beg.'
+
+'Stand forth from the ranks, Callum! Did you fire at Mr.
+Waverley?'
+
+'No,' answered the unblushing Callum.
+
+'You did,' said Alick Polwarth, who was already returned, having
+met a trooper by whom he despatched an account of what was going
+forward to the Baron of Bradwardine, while he himself returned to
+his master at full gallop, neither sparing the rowels of his spurs
+nor the sides of his horse. 'You did; I saw you as plainly as I
+ever saw the auld kirk at Coudingham.'
+
+'You lie,' replied Callum, with his usual impenetrable obstinacy.
+The combat between the knights would certainly, as in the days of
+chivalry, have been preceded by an encounter between the squires
+(for Alick was a stout-hearted Merseman, and feared the bow of
+Cupid far more than a Highlander's dirk or claymore), but Fergus,
+with his usual tone of decision, demanded Callum's pistol. The
+cock was down, the pan and muzzle were black with the smoke; it
+had been that instant fired.
+
+'Take that,' said Fergus, striking the boy upon the head with the
+heavy pistol-butt with his whole force--'take that for acting
+without orders, and lying to disguise it.' Callum received the
+blow without appearing to flinch from it, and fell without sign of
+life. 'Stand still, upon your lives!' said Fergus to the rest of
+the clan; 'I blow out the brains of the first man who interferes
+between Mr. Waverley and me.' They stood motionless; Evan Dhu
+alone showed symptoms of vexation and anxiety. Callum lay on the
+ground bleeding copiously, but no one ventured to give him any
+assistance. It seemed as if he had gotten his death-blow.
+
+'And now for you, Mr. Waverley; please to turn your horse twenty
+yards with me upon the common.' Waverley complied; and Fergus,
+confronting him when they were a little way from the line of
+march, said, with great affected coolness, 'I could not but
+wonder, sir, at the fickleness of taste which you were pleased to
+express the other day. But it was not an angel, as you justly
+observed, who had charms for you, unless she brought an empire for
+her fortune. I have now an excellent commentary upon that obscure
+text.'
+
+'I am at a loss even to guess at your meaning, Colonel Mac-Ivor,
+unless it seems plain that you intend to fasten a quarrel upon
+me.'
+
+'Your affected ignorance shall not serve you, sir. The Prince--the
+Prince himself has acquainted me with your manoeuvres. I little
+thought that your engagements with Miss Bradwardine were the
+reason of your breaking off your intended match with my sister. I
+suppose the information that the Baron had altered the destination
+of his estate was quite a sufficient reason for slighting your
+friend's sister and carrying off your friend's mistress.'
+
+'Did the Prince tell you I was engaged to Miss Bradwardine?' said
+Waverley. 'Impossible.'
+
+'He did, sir,' answered Mac-Ivor; 'so, either draw and defend
+yourself or resign your pretensions to the lady.' 'This is
+absolute madness,' exclaimed Waverley, 'or some strange mistake!'
+
+'O! no evasion! draw your sword!' said the infuriated Chieftain,
+his own already unsheathed.
+
+'Must I fight in a madman's quarrel?'
+
+'Then give up now, and forever, all pretensions to Miss
+Bradwardine's hand.'
+
+'What title have you,' cried Waverley, utterly losing command of
+himself--'what title have you, or any man living, to dictate such
+terms to me?' And he also drew his sword.
+
+At this moment the Baron of Bradwardine, followed by several of
+his troop, came up on the spur, some from curiosity, others to
+take part in the quarrel which they indistinctly understood had
+broken out between the Mac-Ivors and their corps. The clan, seeing
+them approach, put themselves in motion to support their
+Chieftain, and a scene of confusion commenced which seamed likely
+to terminate in bloodshed. A hundred tongues were in motion at
+once. The Baron lectured, the Chieftain stormed, the Highlanders
+screamed in Gaelic, the horsemen cursed and swore in Lowland
+Scotch. At length matters came to such a pass that the Baron
+threatened to charge the Mac-Ivors unless they resumed their
+ranks, and many of them, in return, presented their firearms at
+him and the other troopers. The confusion was privately fostered
+by old Ballenkeiroch, who made no doubt that his own day of
+vengeance was arrived, when, behold! a cry arose of 'Room! make
+way! place a Monseigneur! place a Monseigneur!' This announced the
+approach of the Prince, who came up with a party of Fitz-James's
+foreign dragoons that acted as his body-guard. His arrival
+produced some degree of order. The Highlanders reassumed their
+ranks, the cavalry fell in and formed squadron, and the Baron and
+Chieftain were silent.
+
+The Prince called them and Waverley before him. Having heard the
+original cause of the quarrel through the villainy of Callum Beg,
+he ordered him into custody of the provost-marshal for immediate
+execution, in the event of his surviving the chastisement
+inflicted by his Chieftain. Fergus, however, in a tone betwixt
+claiming a right and asking a favour, requested he might be left
+to his disposal, and promised his punishment should be exemplary.
+To deny this might have seemed to encroach on the patriarchal
+authority of the Chieftains, of which they were very jealous, and
+they were not persons to be disobliged. Callum was therefore left
+to the justice of his own tribe.
+
+The Prince next demanded to know the new cause of quarrel between
+Colonel Mac-Ivor and Waverley. There was a pause. Both gentlemen
+found the presence of the Baron of Bradwardine (for by this time
+all three had approached the Chevalier by his command) an
+insurmountable barrier against entering upon a subject where the
+name of his daughter must unavoidably be mentioned. They turned
+their eyes on the ground, with looks in which shame and
+embarrassment were mingled with displeasure. The Prince, who had
+been educated amongst the discontented and mutinous spirits of the
+court of St. Germains, where feuds of every kind were the daily
+subject of solicitude to the dethroned sovereign, had served his
+apprenticeship, as old Frederick of Prussia would have said, to
+the trade of royalty. To promote or restore concord among his
+followers was indispensable. Accordingly he took his measures.
+
+'Monsieur de Beaujeu!'
+
+'Monseigneur!' said a very handsome French cavalry officer who was
+in attendance.
+
+'Ayez la bonte d'aligner ces montagnards la, ainsi que la
+cavalerie, s'il vous plait, et de les remettre a la marche. Vous
+parlez si bien l'Anglois, cela ne vous donneroit pas beaucoup de
+peine.'
+
+'Ah! pas du tout, Monseigneur,' replied Mons. le Comte de Beaujeu,
+his head bending down to the neck of his little prancing highly-
+managed charger. Accordingly he piaffed away, in high spirits and
+confidence, to the head of Fergus's regiment, although
+understanding not a word of Gaelic and very little English.
+
+'Messieurs les sauvages Ecossois--dat is, gentilmans savages, have
+the goodness d'arranger vous.'
+
+The clan, comprehending the order more from the gesture than the
+words, and seeing the Prince himself present, hastened to dress
+their ranks.
+
+'Ah! ver well! dat is fort bien!' said the Count de Beaujeu.
+'Gentilmans sauvages! mais, tres bien. Eh bien! Qu'est ce que vous
+appelez visage, Monsieur?' (to a lounging trooper who stood by
+him). 'Ah, oui! face. Je vous remercie, Monsieur. Gentilshommes,
+have de goodness to make de face to de right par file, dat is, by
+files. Marsh! Mais, tres bien; encore, Messieurs; il faut vous
+mettre a la marche. ... Marchez done, au nom de Dieu, parceque
+j'ai oublie le mot Anglois; mais vous etes des braves gens, et me
+comprenez tres bien.'
+
+The Count next hastened to put the cavalry in motion. 'Gentilmans
+cavalry, you must fall in. Ah! par ma foi, I did not say fall off!
+I am a fear de little gross fat gentilman is moche hurt. Ah, mon
+Dieu! c'est le Commissaire qui nous a apporte les premieres
+nouvelles de ce maudit fracas. Je suis trop fache, Monsieur!'
+
+But poor Macwheeble, who, with a sword stuck across him, and a
+white cockade as large as a pancake, now figured in the character
+of a commissary, being overturned in the bustle occasioned by the
+troopers hastening to get themselves in order in the Prince's
+presence, before he could rally his galloway, slunk to the rear
+amid the unrestrained laughter of the spectators.
+
+'Eh bien, Messieurs, wheel to de right. Ah! dat is it! Eh,
+Monsieur de Bradwardine, ayez la bonte de vous mettre a la tete de
+votre regiment, car, par Dieu, je n'en puis plus!'
+
+The Baron of Bradwardine was obliged to go to the assistance of
+Monsieur de Beaujeu, after he had fairly expended his few English
+military phrases. One purpose of the Chevalier was thus answered.
+The other he proposed was, that in the eagerness to hear and
+comprehend commands issued through such an indistinct medium in
+his own presence, the thoughts of the soldiers in both corps might
+get a current different from the angry channel in which they were
+flowing at the time.
+
+Charles Edward was no sooner left with the Chieftain and Waverley,
+the rest of his attendants being at some distance, than he said,
+'If I owed less to your disinterested friendship, I could be most
+seriously angry with both of you for this very extraordinary and
+causeless broil, at a moment when my father's service so decidedly
+demands the most perfect unanimity. But the worst of my situation
+is, that my very best friends hold they have liberty to ruin
+themselves, as well as the cause they are engaged in, upon the
+slightest caprice.'
+
+Both the young men protested their resolution to submit every
+difference to his arbitration. 'Indeed,' said Edward, 'I hardly
+know of what I am accused. I sought Colonel Mac-Ivor merely to
+mention to him that I had narrowly escaped assassination at the
+hand of his immediate dependent, a dastardly revenge which I knew
+him to be incapable of authorising. As to the cause for which he
+is disposed to fasten a quarrel upon me, I am ignorant of it,
+unless it be that he accuses me, most unjustly, of having engaged
+the affections of a young lady in prejudice of his pretensions.'
+
+'If there is an error,' said the Chieftain, 'it arises from a
+conversation which I held this morning with his Royal Highness
+himself.'
+
+'With me?' said the Chevalier; 'how can Colonel Mac-Ivor have so
+far misunderstood me?'
+
+He then led Fergus aside, and, after five minutes' earnest
+conversation, spurred his horse towards Edward. 'Is it possible--
+nay, ride up, Colonel, for I desire no secrets--is it possible,
+Mr. Waverley, that I am mistaken in supposing that you are an
+accepted lover of Miss Bradwardine? a fact of which I was by
+circumstances, though not by communication from you, so absolutely
+convinced that I alleged it to Vich Ian Vohr this morning as a
+reason why, without offence to him, you might not continue to be
+ambitious of an alliance which, to an unengaged person, even
+though once repulsed, holds out too many charms to be lightly laid
+aside.'
+
+'Your Royal Highness,' said Waverley,'must have founded on
+circumstances altogether unknown to me, when you did me the
+distinguished honour of supposing me an accepted lover of Miss
+Bradwardine. I feel the distinction implied in the supposition,
+but I have no title to it. For the rest, my confidence in my own
+merit is too justly slight to admit of my hoping for success in
+any quarter after positive rejection.'
+
+The Chevalier was silent for a moment, looking steadily at them
+both, and then said, 'Upon my word, Mr. Waverley, you are a less
+happy man than I conceived I had very good reason to believe you.
+But now, gentlemen, allow me to be umpire in this matter, not as
+Prince Regent but as Charles Stuart, a brother adventurer with you
+in the same gallant cause. Lay my pretensions to be obeyed by you
+entirely out of view, and consider your own honour, and how far it
+is well or becoming to give our enemies the advantage and our
+friends the scandal of showing that, few as we are, we are not
+united. And forgive me if I add, that the names of the ladies who
+have been mentioned crave more respect from us all than to be made
+themes of discord.'
+
+He took Fergus a little apart and spoke to him very earnestly for
+two or three minutes, and then returning to Waverley, said, 'I
+believe I have satisfied Colonel Mac-Ivor that his resentment was
+founded upon a misconception, to which, indeed, I myself gave
+rise; and I trust Mr. Waverley is too generous to harbour any
+recollection of what is past when I assure him that such is the
+case. You must state this matter properly to your clan, Vich Ian
+Vohr, to prevent a recurrence of their precipitate violence.'
+Fergus bowed. 'And now, gentlemen, let me have the pleasure to see
+you shake hands.'
+
+They advanced coldly, and with measured steps, each apparently
+reluctant to appear most forward in concession. They did, however,
+shake hands, and parted, taking a respectful leave of the
+Chevalier.
+
+Charles Edward [Footnote: See Note 12.] then rode to the head of
+the MacIvors, threw himself from his horse, begged a drink out of
+old Ballenkeiroch's cantine, and marched about half a mile along
+with them, inquiring into the history and connexions of Sliochd
+nan Ivor, adroitly using the few words of Gaelic he possessed, and
+affecting a great desire to learn it more thoroughly. He then
+mounted his horse once more, and galloped to the Baron's cavalry,
+which was in front, halted them, and examined their accoutrements
+and state of discipline; took notice of the principal gentlemen,
+and even of the cadets; inquired after their ladies, and commended
+their horses; rode about an hour with the Baron of Bradwardine,
+and endured three long stories about Field-Marshal the Duke of
+Berwick.
+
+'Ah, Beaujeu, mon cher ami,' said he, as he returned to his usual
+place in the line of march, 'que mon metier de prince errant est
+ennuyant, par fois. Mais, courage! c'est le grand jeu, apres
+tout.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LIX
+
+A SKIRMISH
+
+
+Theeader need hardly be reminded that, after a council of war
+held at Derby on the 5th of December, the Highlanders relinquished
+their desperate attempt to penetrate farther into England, and,
+greatly to the dissatisfaction of their young and daring leader,
+positively determined to return northward. They commenced their
+retreat accordingly, and, by the extreme celerity of their
+movements, outstripped the motions of the Duke of Cumberland, who
+now pursued them with a very large body of cavalry.
+
+This retreat was a virtual resignation of their towering hopes.
+None had been so sanguine as Fergus MacIvor; none, consequently,
+was so cruelly mortified at the change of measures. He argued, or
+rather remonstrated, with the utmost vehemence at the council of
+war; and, when his opinion was rejected, shed tears of grief and
+indignation. From that moment his whole manner was so much altered
+that he could scarcely have been recognised for the same soaring
+and ardent spirit, for whom the whole earth seemed too narrow but
+a week before. The retreat had continued for several days, when
+Edward, to his surprise, early on the 12th of December, received a
+visit from the Chieftain in his quarters, in a hamlet about half-
+way between Shap and Penrith.
+
+Having had no intercourse with the Chieftain since their rupture,
+Edward waited with some anxiety an explanation of this unexpected
+visit; nor could he help being surprised, and somewhat shocked,
+with the change in his appearance. His eye had lost much of its
+fire; his cheek was hollow, his voice was languid, even his gait
+seemed less firm and elastic than it was wont; and his dress, to
+which he used to be particularly attentive, was now carelessly
+flung about him. He invited Edward to walk out with him by the
+little river in the vicinity; and smiled in a melancholy manner
+when he observed him take down and buckle on his sword.
+
+As soon as they were in a wild sequestered path by the side of the
+stream, the Chief broke out--'Our fine adventure is now totally
+ruined, Waverley, and I wish to know what you intend to do;--nay,
+never stare at me, man. I tell you I received a packet from my
+sister yesterday, and, had I got the information it contains
+sooner, it would have prevented a quarrel which I am always vexed
+when I think of. In a letter written after our dispute, I
+acquainted her with the cause of it; and she now replies to me
+that she never had, nor could have, any purpose of giving you
+encouragement; so that it seems I have acted like a madman. Poor
+Flora! she writes in high spirits; what a change will the news of
+this unhappy retreat make in her state of mind!'
+
+Waverley, who was really much affected by the deep tone of
+melancholy with which Fergus spoke, affectionately entreated him
+to banish from his remembrance any unkindness which had arisen
+between them, and they once more shook hands, but now with sincere
+cordiality. Fergus again inquired of Waverley what he intended to
+do. 'Had you not better leave this luckless army, and get down
+before us into Scotland, and embark for the Continent from some of
+the eastern ports that are still in our possession? When you are
+out of the kingdom, your friends will easily negotiate your
+pardon; and, to tell you the truth, I wish you would carry Rose
+Bradwardine with you as your wife, and take Flora also under your
+joint protection.'--Edward looked surprised.--'She loves you, and
+I believe you love her, though, perhaps, you have not found it
+out, for you are not celebrated for knowing your own mind very
+pointedly.' He said this with a sort of smile.
+
+'How,' answered Edward, 'can you advise me to desert the
+expedition in which we are all embarked?'
+
+'Embarked?' said Fergus; 'the vessel is going to pieces, and it is
+full time for all who can to get into the long-boat and leave
+her.'
+
+'Why, what will other gentlemen do?' answered Waverley, 'and why
+did the Highland Chiefs consent to this retreat if it is so
+ruinous?'
+
+'O,' replied Mac-Ivor, 'they think that, as on former occasions,
+the heading, hanging, and forfeiting will chiefly fall to the lot
+of the Lowland gentry; that they will be left secure in their
+poverty and their fastnesses, there, according to their proverb,
+"to listen to the wind upon the hill till the waters abate." But
+they will be disappointed; they have been too often troublesome to
+be so repeatedly passed over, and this time John Bull has been too
+heartily frightened to recover his good-humour for some time. The
+Hanoverian ministers always deserved to be hanged for rascals; but
+now, if they get the power in their hands,--as, sooner or later,
+they must, since there is neither rising in England nor assistance
+from France,--they will deserve the gallows as fools if they leave
+a single clan in the Highlands in a situation to be again
+troublesome to government. Ay, they will make root-and-branch-
+work, I warrant them.'
+
+'And while you recommend flight to me,' said Edward,--'a counsel
+which I would rather die than embrace,--what are your own views?'
+
+'O,' answered Fergus, with a melancholy air, 'my fate is settled.
+Dead or captive I must be before tomorrow.'
+
+'What do you mean by that, my friend?' said Edward. 'The enemy is
+still a day's march in our rear, and if he comes up, we are still
+strong enough to keep him in check. Remember Gladsmuir.'
+
+'What I tell you is true notwithstanding, so far as I am
+individually concerned.'
+
+'Upon what authority can you found so melancholy a prediction?'
+asked Waverley.
+
+'On one which never failed a person of my house. I have seen,' he
+said, lowering his voice, 'I have seen the Bodach Glas.'
+
+'Bodach Glas?'
+
+'Yes; have you been so long at Glennaquoich, and never heard of
+the Grey Spectre? though indeed there is a certain reluctance
+among us to mention him.'
+
+'No, never.'
+
+'Ah! it would have been a tale for poor Flora to have told you.
+Or, if that hill were Benmore, and that long blue lake, which you
+see just winding towards yon mountainous country, were Loch Tay,
+or my own Loch an Ri, the tale would be better suited with
+scenery. However, let us sit down on this knoll; even Saddleback
+and Ulswater will suit what I have to say better than the English
+hedgerows, enclosures, and farmhouses. You must know, then, that
+when my ancestor, Ian nan Chaistel, wasted Northumberland, there
+was associated with him in the expedition a sort of Southland
+Chief, or captain of a band of Lowlanders, called Halbert Hall. In
+their return through the Cheviots they quarrelled about the
+division of the great booty they had acquired, and came from words
+to blows. The Lowlanders were cut off to a man, and their chief
+fell the last, covered with wounds by the sword of my ancestor.
+Since that time his spirit has crossed the Vich Ian Vohr of the
+day when any great disaster was impending, but especially before
+approaching death. My father saw him twice, once before he was
+made prisoner at Sheriff-Muir, another time on the morning of the
+day on which he died.'
+
+'How can you, my dear Fergus, tell such nonsense with a grave
+face?'
+
+' I do not ask you to believe it; but I tell you the truth,
+ascertained by three hundred years' experience at least, and last
+night by my own eyes.'
+
+'The particulars, for heaven's sake!' said Waverley, with
+eagerness.
+
+'I will, on condition you will not attempt a jest on the subject.
+Since this unhappy retreat commenced I have scarce ever been able
+to sleep for thinking of my clan, and of this poor Prince, whom
+they are leading back like a dog in a string, whether he will or
+no, and of the downfall of my family. Last night I felt so
+feverish that I left my quarters and walked out, in hopes the keen
+frosty air would brace my nerves--I cannot tell how much I dislike
+going on, for I know you will hardly believe me. However--I
+crossed a small footbridge, and kept walking backwards and
+forwards, when I observed with surprise by the clear moonlight a
+tall figure in a grey plaid, such as shepherds wear in the south
+of Scotland, which, move at what pace I would, kept regularly
+about four yards before me.'
+
+'You saw a Cumberland peasant in his ordinary dress, probably.'
+
+'No; I thought so at first, and was astonished at the man's
+audacity in daring to dog me. I called to him, but received no
+answer. I felt an anxious throbbing at my heart, and to ascertain
+what I dreaded, I stood still and turned myself on the same spot
+successively to the four points of the compass. By Heaven, Edward,
+turn where I would, the figure was instantly before my eyes, at
+precisely the same distance! I was then convinced it was the
+Bodach Glas. My hair bristled and my knees shook. I manned myself,
+however, and determined to return to my quarters. My ghastly
+visitant glided before me (for I cannot say he walked) until he
+reached the footbridge; there he stopped and turned full round. I
+must either wade the river or pass him as close as I am to you. A
+desperate courage, founded on the belief that my death was near,
+made me resolve to make my way in despite of him. I made the sign
+of the cross, drew my sword, and uttered, "In the name of God,
+Evil Spirit, give place!" "Vich Ian Vohr," it said, in a voice
+that made my very blood curdle, "beware of to-morrow!" It seemed
+at that moment not half a yard from my sword's point; but the
+words were no sooner spoken than it was gone, and nothing appeared
+further to obstruct my passage. I got home and threw myself on my
+bed, where I spent a few hours heavily enough; and this morning,
+as no enemy was reported to be near us, I took my horse and rode
+forward to make up matters with you. I would not willingly fall
+until I am in charity with a wronged friend.'
+
+Edward had little doubt that this phantom was the operation of an
+exhausted frame and depressed spirits, working on the belief
+common to all Highlanders in such superstitions. He did not the
+less pity Fergus, for whom, in his present distress, he felt all
+his former regard revive. With the view of diverting his mind from
+these gloomy images, he offered, with the Baron's permission,
+which he knew he could readily obtain, to remain in his quarters
+till Fergus's corps should come up, and then to march with them as
+usual. The Chief seemed much pleased, yet hesitated to accept the
+offer.
+
+'We are, you know, in the rear, the post of danger in a retreat.'
+
+'And therefore the post of honour.'
+
+'Well,' replied the Chieftain, 'let Alick have your horse in
+readiness, in case we should be overmatched, and I shall be
+delighted to have your company once more.'
+
+The rear-guard were late in making their appearance, having been
+delayed by various accidents and by the badness of the roads. At
+length they entered the hamlet. When Waverley joined the clan Mac-
+Ivor, arm-in-arm with their Chieftain, all the resentment they had
+entertained against him seemed blown off at once. Evan Dhu
+received him with a grin of congratulation; and even Callum, who
+was running about as active as ever, pale indeed, and with a great
+patch on his head, appeared delighted to see him.
+
+'That gallows-bird's skull,' said Fergus, 'must be harder than
+marble; the lock of the pistol was actually broken.'
+
+'How could you strike so young a lad so hard?' said Waverley, with
+some interest.
+
+'Why, if I did not strike hard sometimes, the rascals would forget
+themselves.'
+
+They were now in full march, every caution being taken to prevent
+surprise. Fergus's people, and a fine clan regiment from Badenoch,
+commanded by Cluny Mac-Pherson, had the rear. They had passed a
+large open moor, and were entering into the enclosures which
+surround a small village called Clifton. The winter sun had set,
+and Edward began to rally Fergus upon the false predictions of the
+Grey Spirit. 'The ides of March are not past,' said Mac-Ivor, with
+a smile; when, suddenly casting his eyes back on the moor, a large
+body of cavalry was indistinctly seen to hover upon its brown and
+dark surface. To line the enclosures facing the open ground and
+the road by which the enemy must move from it upon the village was
+the work of a short time. While these manoeuvres were
+accomplishing, night sunk down, dark and gloomy, though the moon
+was at full. Sometimes, however, she gleamed forth a dubious light
+upon the scene of action.
+
+The Highlanders did not long remain undisturbed in the defensive
+position they had adopted. Favoured by the night, one large body
+of dismounted dragoons attempted to force the enclosures, while
+another, equally strong, strove to penetrate by the highroad. Both
+were received by such a heavy fire as disconcerted their ranks and
+effectually checked their progress. Unsatisfied with the advantage
+thus gained, Fergus, to whose ardent spirit the approach of danger
+seemed to restore all its elasticity, drawing his sword and
+calling out 'Claymore!' encouraged his men, by voice and example,
+to break through the hedge which divided them and rush down upon
+the enemy. Mingling with the dismounted dragoons, they forced
+them, at the sword-point, to fly to the open moor, where a
+considerable number were cut to pieces. But the moon, which
+suddenly shone out, showed to the English the small number of
+assailants, disordered by their own success. Two squadrons of
+horse moving to the support of their companions, the Highlanders
+endeavoured to recover the enclosures. But several of them,
+amongst others their brave Chieftain, were cut off and surrounded
+before they could effect their purpose. Waverley, looking eagerly
+for Fergus, from whom, as well as from the retreating body of his
+followers, he had been separated in the darkness and tumult, saw
+him, with Evan Dhu and Callum, defending themselves desperately
+against a dozen of horsemen, who were hewing at them with their
+long broadswords. The moon was again at that moment totally
+overclouded, and Edward, in the obscurity, could neither bring aid
+to his friends nor discover which way lay his own road to rejoin
+the rear-guard. After once or twice narrowly escaping being slain
+or made prisoner by parties of the cavalry whom he encountered in
+the darkness, he at length reached an enclosure, and, clambering
+over it, concluded himself in safety and on the way to the
+Highland forces, whose pipes he heard at some distance. For Fergus
+hardly a hope remained, unless that he might be made prisoner
+Revolving his fate with sorrow and anxiety, the superstition of
+the Bodach Glas recurred to Edward's recollection, and he said to
+himself, with internal surprise 'What, can the devil speak truth?'
+[Footnote: See Note 13.]
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LX
+
+CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS
+
+
+Edward was in a most unpleasant and dangerous situation. He soon
+lost the sound of the bagpipes; and, what was yet more unpleasant,
+when, after searching long in vain and scrambling through many
+enclosures, he at length approached the highroad, he learned, from
+the unwelcome noise of kettledrums and trumpets, that the English
+cavalry now occupied it, and consequently were between him and the
+Highlanders. Precluded, therefore, from advancing in a straight
+direction, he resolved to avoid the English military and endeavour
+to join his friends by making a circuit to the left, for which a
+beaten path, deviating from the main road in that direction,
+seemed to afford facilities. The path was muddy and the night dark
+and cold; but even these inconveniences were hardly felt amidst
+the apprehensions which falling into the hands of the King's
+forces reasonably excited in his bosom.
+
+After walking about three miles, he at length reached a hamlet.
+Conscious that the common people were in general unfavourable to
+the cause he had espoused, yet desirous, if possible, to procure a
+horse and guide to Penrith, where he hoped to find the rear, if
+not the main body, of the Chevalier's army, he approached the
+alehouse of the place. There was a great noise within; he paused
+to listen. A round English oath or two, and the burden of a
+campaign song, convinced him the hamlet also was occupied by the
+Duke of Cumberland's soldiers. Endeavouring to retire from it as
+softly as possible, and blessing the obscurity which hitherto he
+had murmured against, Waverley groped his way the best he could
+along a small paling, which seemed the boundary of some cottage
+garden. As he reached the gate of this little enclosure, his
+outstretched hand was grasped by that of a female, whose voice at
+the same time uttered, 'Edward, is't thou, man?'
+
+'Here is some unlucky mistake,' thought Edward, struggling, but
+gently, to disengage himself.
+
+'Naen o' thy foun, now, man, or the red cwoats will hear thee;
+they hae been houlerying and poulerying every ane that past
+alehouse door this noight to make them drive their waggons and
+sick loike. Come into feyther's, or they'll do ho a mischief.'
+
+'A good hint,' thought Waverley, following the girl through the
+little garden into a brick-paved kitchen, where she set herself to
+kindle a match at an expiring fire, and with the match to light a
+candle. She had no sooner looked on Edward than she dropped the
+light, with a shrill scream of 'O feyther, feyther!'
+
+The father, thus invoked, speedily appeared--a sturdy old farmer,
+in a pair of leather breeches, and boots pulled on without
+stockings, having just started from his bed; the rest of his dress
+was only a Westmoreland statesman's robe-de-chambre--that is, his
+shirt. His figure was displayed to advantage by a candle which he
+bore in his left hand; in his right he brandished a poker.
+
+'What hast ho here, wench?'
+
+'O!' cried the poor girl, almost going off in hysterics, 'I
+thought it was Ned Williams, and it is one of the plaid-men.'
+
+'And what was thee ganging to do wi' Ned Williams at this time o'
+noight?' To this, which was, perhaps, one of the numerous class of
+questions more easily asked than answered, the rosy-cheeked damsel
+made no reply, but continued sobbing and wringing her hands.
+
+'And thee, lad, dost ho know that the dragoons be a town? dost ho
+know that, mon? ad, they'll sliver thee loike a turnip, mon.'
+
+'I know my life is in great danger,' said Waverley, 'but if you
+can assist me, I will reward you handsomely. I am no Scotchman,
+but an unfortunate English gentleman.'
+
+'Be ho Scot or no,' said the honest farmer, 'I wish thou hadst
+kept the other side of the hallan. But since thou art here, Jacob
+Jopson will betray no man's bluid; and the plaids were gay canny,
+and did not do so much mischief when they were here yesterday.'
+Accordingly, he set seriously about sheltering and refreshing our
+hero for the night. The fire was speedily rekindled, but with
+precaution against its light being seen from without. The jolly
+yeoman cut a rasher of bacon, which Cicely soon broiled, and her
+father added a swingeing tankard of his best ale. It was settled
+that Edward should remain there till the troops marched in the
+morning, then hire or buy a horse from the farmer, and, with the
+best directions that could be obtained, endeavour to overtake his
+friends. A clean, though coarse, bed received him after the
+fatigues of this unhappy day.
+
+With the morning arrived the news that the Highlanders had
+evacuated Penrith, and marched off towards Carlisle; that the Duke
+of Cumberland was in possession of Penrith, and that detachments
+of his army covered the roads in every direction. To attempt to
+get through undiscovered would be an act of the most frantic
+temerity. Ned Williams (the right Edward) was now called to
+council by Cicely and her father. Ned, who perhaps did not care
+that his handsome namesake should remain too long in the same
+house with his sweetheart, for fear of fresh mistakes, proposed
+that Waverley, exchanging his uniform and plaid for the dress of
+the country, should go with him to his father's farm near
+Ullswater, and remain in that undisturbed retirement until the
+military movements in the country should have ceased to render
+his departure hazardous. A price was also agreed upon, at which
+the stranger might board with Farmer Williams if he thought
+proper, till he could depart with safety. It was of moderate
+amount; the distress of his situation, among this honest and
+simple-hearted race, being considered as no reason for increasing
+their demand.
+
+The necessary articles of dress were accordingly procured, and, by
+following by-paths known to the young farmer, they hoped to escape
+any unpleasant rencontre. A recompense for their hospitality was
+refused peremptorily by old Jopson and his cherry-cheeked
+daughter; a kiss paid the one and a hearty shake of the hand the
+other. Both seemed anxious for their guest's safety, and took
+leave of him with kind wishes.
+
+In the course of their route Edward, with his guide, traversed
+those fields which the night before had been the scene of action.
+A brief gleam of December's sun shone sadly on the broad heath,
+which, towards the spot where the great north-west road entered
+the enclosures of Lord Lonsdale's property, exhibited dead bodies
+of men and horses, and the usual companions of war, a number of
+carrion-crows, hawks, and ravens.
+
+'And this, then, was thy last field,' said Waverley to himself,
+his eye filling at the recollection of the many splendid points of
+Fergus's character, and of their former intimacy, all his passions
+and imperfections forgotten--'here fell the last Vich Ian Vohr,
+on a nameless heath; and in an obscure night-skirmish was quenched
+that ardent spirit, who thought it little to cut a way for his
+master to the British throne! Ambition, policy, bravery, all far
+beyond their sphere, here learned the fate of mortals. The sole
+support, too, of a sister whose spirit, as proud and unbending,
+was even more exalted than thine own; here ended all thy hopes for
+Flora, and the long and valued line which it was thy boast to
+raise yet more highly by thy adventurous valour!'
+
+As these ideas pressed on Waverley's mind, he resolved to go upon
+the open heath and search if, among the slain, he could discover
+the body of his friend, with the pious intention of procuring for
+him the last rites of sepulture. The timorous young man who
+accompanied him remonstrated upon the danger of the attempt, but
+Edward was determined. The followers of the camp had already
+stripped the dead of all they could carry away; but the country
+people, unused to scenes of blood, had not yet approached the
+field of action, though some stood fearfully gazing at a distance.
+About sixty or seventy dragoons lay slain within the first
+enclosure, upon the highroad, and on the open moor. Of the
+Highlanders, not above a dozen had fallen, chiefly those who,
+venturing too far on the moor, could not regain the strong ground.
+He could not find the body of Fergus among the slain. On a little
+knoll, separated from the others, lay the carcasses of three
+English dragoons, two horses, and the page Callum Beg, whose hard
+skull a trooper's broadsword had, at length, effectually cloven.
+It was possible his clan had carried off the body of Fergus; but
+it was also possible he had escaped, especially as Evan Dhu, who
+would never leave his Chief, was not found among the dead; or he
+might be prisoner, and the less formidable denunciation inferred
+from the appearance of the Bodach Glas might have proved the true
+one. The approach of a party sent for the purpose of compelling
+the country people to bury the dead, and who had already assembled
+several peasants for that purpose, now obliged Edward to rejoin
+his guide, who awaited him in great anxiety and fear under shade
+of the plantations.
+
+After leaving this field of death, the rest of their journey was
+happily accomplished. At the house of Farmer Williams, Edward
+passed for a young kinsman, educated for the church, who was come
+to reside there till the civil tumults permitted him to pass
+through the country. This silenced suspicion among the kind and
+simple yeomanry of Cumberland, and accounted sufficiently for the
+grave manners and retired habits of the new guest. The precaution
+became more necessary than Waverley had anticipated, as a variety
+of incidents prolonged his stay at Fasthwaite, as the farm was
+called.
+
+A tremendous fall of snow rendered his departure impossible for
+more than ten days. When the roads began to become a little
+practicable, they successively received news of the retreat of the
+Chevalier into Scotland; then, that he had abandoned the
+frontiers, retiring upon Glasgow; and that the Duke of Cumberland
+had formed the siege of Carlisle. His army, therefore, cut off all
+possibility of Waverley's escaping into Scotland in that
+direction. On the eastern border Marshal Wade, with a large force,
+was advancing upon Edinburgh; and all along the frontier, parties
+of militia, volunteers, and partizans were in arms to suppress
+insurrection, and apprehend such stragglers from the Highland army
+as had been left in England. The surrender of Carlisle, and the
+severity with which the rebel garrison were threatened, soon
+formed an additional reason against venturing upon a solitary and
+hopeless journey through a hostile country and a large army, to
+carry the assistance of a single sword to a cause which seemed
+altogether desperate. In this lonely and secluded situation,
+without the advantage of company or conversation with men of
+cultivated minds, the arguments of Colonel Talbot often recurred
+to the mind of our hero. A still more anxious recollection haunted
+his slumbers--it was the dying look and gesture of Colonel
+Gardiner. Most devoutly did he hope, as the rarely occurring post
+brought news of skirmishes with various success, that it might
+never again be his lot to draw his sword in civil conflict. Then
+his mind turned to the supposed death of Fergus, to the desolate
+situation of Flora, and, with yet more tender recollection, to
+that of Rose Bradwardine, who was destitute of the devoted
+enthusiasm of loyalty, which to her friend hallowed and exalted
+misfortune. These reveries he was permitted to enjoy, undisturbed
+by queries or interruption; and it was in many a winter walk by
+the shores of Ullswater that he acquired a more complete mastery
+of a spirit tamed by adversity than his former experience had
+given him; and that he felt himself entitled to say firmly, though
+perhaps with a sigh, that the romance of his life was ended, and
+that its real history had now commenced. He was soon called upon
+to justify his pretensions by reason and philosophy.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXI
+
+A JOURNEY TO LONDON
+
+
+Theamily at Fasthwaite were soon attached to Edward. He had,
+indeed, that gentleness and urbanity which almost universally
+attracts corresponding kindness; and to their simple ideas his
+learning gave him consequence, and his sorrows interest. The last
+he ascribed, evasively, to the loss of a brother in the skirmish
+near Clifton; and in that primitive state of society, where the
+ties of affection were highly deemed of, his continued depression
+excited sympathy, but not surprise.
+
+In the end of January his more lively powers were called out by
+the happy union of Edward Williams, the son of his host, with
+Cicely Jopson. Our hero would not cloud with sorrow the festivity
+attending the wedding of two persons to whom he was so highly
+obliged. He therefore exerted himself, danced, sung, played at the
+various games of the day, and was the blithest of the company. The
+next morning, however, he had more serious matters to think of.
+
+The clergyman who had married the young couple was so much pleased
+with the supposed student of divinity, that he came next day from
+Penrith on purpose to pay him a visit. This might have been a
+puzzling chapter had he entered into any examination of our hero's
+supposed theological studies; but fortunately he loved better to
+hear and communicate the news of the day. He brought with him two
+or three old newspapers, in one of which Edward found a piece of
+intelligence that soon rendered him deaf to every word which the
+Reverend Mr. Twigtythe was saying upon the news from the north,
+and the prospect of the Duke's speedily overtaking and crushing
+the rebels. This was an article in these, or nearly these words:--
+
+'Died at his house, in Hill Street, Berkeley Square, upon the 10th
+inst., Richard Waverley, Esq., second son of Sir Giles Waverley of
+Waverley-Honour, etc. etc. He died of a lingering disorder,
+augmented by the unpleasant predicament of suspicion in which he
+stood, having been obliged to find bail to a high amount to meet
+an impending accusation of high-treason. An accusation of the same
+grave crime hangs over his elder brother, Sir Everard Waverley,
+the representative of that ancient family; and we understand the
+day of his trial will be fixed early in the next month, unless
+Edward Waverley, son of the deceased Richard, and heir to the
+Baronet, shall surrender himself to justice. In that case we are
+assured it is his Majesty's gracious purpose to drop further
+proceedings upon the charge against Sir Everard. This unfortunate
+young gentleman is ascertained to have been in arms in the
+Pretender's service, and to have marched along with the Highland
+troops into England. But he has not been heard of since the
+skirmish at Clifton, on the 18th December last.'
+
+Such was this distracting paragraph. 'Good God!' exclaimed
+Waverley, 'am I then a parricide? Impossible! My father, who never
+showed the affection of a father while he lived, cannot have been
+so much affected by my supposed death as to hasten his own; no, I
+will not believe it, it were distraction to entertain for a moment
+such a horrible idea. But it were, if possible, worse than
+parricide to suffer any danger to hang over my noble and generous
+uncle, who has ever been more to me than a father, if such evil
+can be averted by any sacrifice on my part!'
+
+While these reflections passed like the stings of scorpions
+through Waverley's sensorium, the worthy divine was startled in a
+long disquisition on the battle of Falkirk by the ghastliness
+which they communicated to his looks, and asked him if he was ill?
+Fortunately the bride, all smirk and blush, had just entered the
+room. Mrs. Williams was none of the brightest of women, but she
+was good-natured, and readily concluding that Edward had been
+shocked by disagreeable news in the papers, interfered so
+judiciously, that, without exciting suspicion, she drew off Mr.
+Twigtythe's attention, and engaged it until he soon after took his
+leave. Waverley then explained to his friends that he was under
+the necessity of going to London with as little delay as possible.
+
+One cause of delay, however, did occur, to which Waverley had been
+very little accustomed. His purse, though well stocked when he
+first went to Tully-Veolan, had not been reinforced since that
+period; and although his life since had not been of a nature to
+exhaust it hastily, for he had lived chiefly with his friends or
+with the army, yet he found that, after settling with his kind
+landlord, he should be too poor to encounter the expense of
+travelling post. The best course, therefore, seemed to be to get
+into the great north road about Boroughbridge, and there take a
+place in the northern diligence, a huge old-fashioned tub, drawn
+by three horses, which completed the journey from Edinburgh to
+London (God willing, as the advertisement expressed it) in three
+weeks. Our hero, therefore, took an affectionate farewell of his
+Cumberland friends, whose kindness he promised never to forget,
+and tacitly hoped ene day to acknowledge by substantial proofs of
+gratitude. After some petty difficulties and vexatious delays, and
+after putting his dress into a shape better befitting his rank,
+though perfectly plain and simple, he accomplished crossing the
+country, and found himself in the desired vehicle vis-a-vis to
+Mrs. Nosebag, the lady of Lieutenant Nosebag, adjutant and riding-
+master of the--dragoons, a jolly woman of about fifty, wearing a
+blue habit, faced with scarlet, and grasping a silver-mounted
+horse-whip.
+
+This lady was one of those active members of society who take upon
+them faire lefrais de la conversation. She had just returned from
+the north, and informed Edward how nearly her regiment had cut the
+petticoat people into ribands at Falkirk, 'only somehow there was
+one of those nasty, awkward marshes, that they are never without
+in Scotland, I think, and so our poor dear little regiment
+suffered something, as my Nosebag says, in that unsatisfactory
+affair. You, sir, have served in the dragoons?' Waverley was taken
+so much at unawares that he acquiesced.
+
+'O, I knew it at once; I saw you were military from your air, and
+I was sure you could be none of the foot-wobblers, as my Nosebag
+calls them. What regiment, pray?' Here was a delightful question.
+Waverley, however, justly concluded that this good lady had the
+whole army-list by heart; and, to avoid detection by adhering to
+truth, answered, 'Gardiner's dragoons, ma'am; but I have retired
+some time.'
+
+'O aye, those as won the race at the battle of Preston, as my
+Nosebag says. Pray, sir, were you there?'
+
+'I was so unfortunate, madam,' he replied, 'as to witness that
+engagement.'
+
+'And that was a misfortune that few of Gardiner's stood to
+witness, I believe, sir--ha! ha! ha! I beg your pardon; but a
+soldier's wife loves a joke.'
+
+'Devil confound you,' thought Waverley: 'what infernal luck has
+penned me up with this inquisitive hag!'
+
+Fortunately the good lady did not stick long to one subject. 'We
+are coming to Ferrybridge now,' she said, 'where there was a party
+of OURS left to support the beadles, and constables, and justices,
+and these sort of creatures that are examining papers and stopping
+rebels, and all that.' They were hardly in the inn before she
+dragged Waverley to the window, exclaiming, 'Yonder comes Corporal
+Bridoon, of our poor dear troop; he's coming with the constable
+man. Bridoon's one of my lambs, as Nosebag calls 'ern. Come, Mr.--
+a--a--pray, what's your name, sir?'
+
+'Butler, ma'am,' said Waverley, resolved rather to make free with
+the name of a former fellow-officer than run the risk of detection
+by inventing one not to be found in the regiment.
+
+'O, you got a troop lately, when that shabby fellow, Waverley,
+went over to the rebels? Lord, I wish our old cross Captain Crump
+would go over to the rebels, that Nosebag might get the troop!
+Lord, what can Bridoon be standing swinging on the bridge for?
+I'll be hanged if he a'nt hazy, as Nosebag says. Come, sir, as you
+and I belong to the service, we'll go put the rascal in mind of
+his duty.'
+
+Waverley, with feelings more easily conceived than described, saw
+himself obliged to follow this doughty female commander. The
+gallant trooper was as like a lamb as a drunk corporal of
+dragoons, about six feet high, with very broad shoulders, and very
+thin legs, not to mention a great scar across his nose, could well
+be. Mrs. Nosebag addressed him with something which, if not an
+oath, sounded very like one, and commanded him to attend to his
+duty. 'You be d--d for a----,' commenced the gallant cavalier; but,
+looking up in order to suit the action to the words, and also to
+enforce the epithet which he meditated with an adjective
+applicable to the party, he recognised the speaker, made his
+military salaam, and altered his tone. 'Lord love your handsome
+face, Madam Nosebag, is it you? Why, if a poor fellow does happen
+to fire a slug of a morning, I am sure you were never the lady to
+bring him to harm.'
+
+'Well, you rascallion, go, mind your duty; this gentleman and I
+belong to the service; but be sure you look after that shy cock in
+the slouched hat that sits in the corner of the coach. I believe
+he's one of the rebels in disguise.'
+
+'D--n her gooseberry wig,' said the corporal, when she was out of
+hearing, 'that gimlet-eyed jade--mother adjutant, as we call her
+--is a greater plague to the regiment than provost-marshal,
+sergeant-major, and old Hubble-de-Shuff, the colonel, into the
+bargain. Come, Master Constable, let's see if this shy cock, as
+she calls him (who, by the way, was a Quaker from Leeds, with whom
+Mrs. Nosebag had had some tart argument on the legality of bearing
+arms), will stand godfather to a sup of brandy, for your Yorkshire
+ale is cold on my stomach.'
+
+The vivacity of this good lady, as it helped Edward out of this
+scrape, was like to have drawn him into one or two others. In
+every town where they stopped she wished to examine the corps de
+garde, if there was one, and once very narrowly missed introducing
+Waverley to a recruiting-sergeant of his own regiment. Then she
+Captain'd and Butler'd him till he was almost mad with vexation
+and anxiety; and never was he more rejoiced in his life at the
+termination of a journey than when the arrival of the coach in
+London freed him from the attentions of Madam Nosebag.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXII
+
+WHAT'S TO BE DONE NEXT?
+
+
+Itwas twilight when they arrived in town; and having shaken off
+his companions, and walked through a good many streets to avoid
+the possibility of being traced by them, Edward took a hackney-
+coach and drove to Colonel Talbot's house, in one of the principal
+squares at the west end of the town. That gentleman, by the death
+of relations, had succeeded since his marriage to a large fortune,
+possessed considerable political interest, and lived in what is
+called great style.
+
+When Waverley knocked at his door he found it at first difficult
+to procure admittance, but at length was shown into an apartment
+where the Colonel was at table. Lady Emily, whose very beautiful
+features were still pallid from indisposition, sate opposite to
+him. The instant he heard Waverley's voice, he started up and
+embraced him. 'Frank Stanley, my dear boy, how d'ye do? Emily, my
+love, this is young Stanley.'
+
+The blood started to the lady's cheek as she gave Waverley a
+reception in which courtesy was mingled with kindness, while her
+trembling hand and faltering voice showed how much she was
+startled and discomposed. Dinner was hastily replaced, and while
+Waverley was engaged in refreshing himself, the Colonel proceeded
+--'I wonder you have come here, Frank; the Doctors tell me the air
+of London is very bad for your complaints. You should not have
+risked it. But I am delighted to see you, and so is Emily, though
+I fear we must not reckon upon your staying long.'
+
+'Some particular business brought me up,' muttered Waverley.
+
+'I supposed so, but I shan't allow you to stay long. Spontoon' (to
+an elderly military-looking servant out of livery),'take away
+these things, and answer the bell yourself, if I ring. Don't let
+any of the other fellows disturb us. My nephew and I have business
+to talk of.'
+
+When the servants had retired, 'In the name of God, Waverley, what
+has brought you here? It may be as much as your life is worth.'
+
+'Dear Mr. Waverley,' said Lady Emily, 'to whom I owe so much more
+than acknowledgments can ever pay, how could you be so rash?'
+
+'My father--my uncle--this paragraph,'--he handed the paper to
+Colonel Talbot.
+
+'I wish to Heaven these scoundrels were condemned to be squeezed
+to death in their own presses,' said Talbot. 'I am told there are
+not less than a dozen of their papers now published in town, and
+no wonder that they are obliged to invent lies to find sale for
+their journals. It is true, however, my dear Edward, that you have
+lost your father; but as to this flourish of his unpleasant
+situation having grated upon his spirits and hurt his health--the
+truth is--for though it is harsh to say so now, yet it will
+relieve your mind from the idea of weighty responsibility--the
+truth then is, that Mr. Richard Waverley, through this whole
+business, showed great want of sensibility, both to your situation
+and that of your uncle; and the last time I saw him, he told me,
+with great glee, that, as I was so good as to take charge of your
+interests, he had thought it best to patch up a separate
+negotiation for himself, and make his peace with government
+through some channels which former connexions left still open to
+him.'
+
+'And my uncle, my dear uncle?'
+
+'Is in no danger whatever. It is true (looking at the date of the
+paper) there was a foolish report some time ago to the purport
+here quoted, but it is entirely false. Sir Everard is gone down to
+Waverley-Honour, freed from all uneasiness, unless upon your own
+account. But you are in peril yourself; your name is in every
+proclamation; warrants are out to apprehend you. How and when did
+you come here?'
+
+Edward told his story at length, suppressing his quarrel with
+Fergus; for, being himself partial to Highlanders, he did not wish
+to give any advantage to the Colonel's national prejudice against
+them.
+
+'Are you sure it was your friend Glen's foot-boy you saw dead in
+Clifton Moor?'
+
+'Quite positive.'
+
+'Then that little limb of the devil has cheated the gallows, for
+cut-throat was written in his face; though (turning to Lady Emily)
+it was a very handsome face too. But for you, Edward, I wish you
+would go down again to Cumberland, or rather I wish you had never
+stirred from thence, for there is an embargo in all the seaports,
+and a strict search for the adherents of the Pretender; and the
+tongue of that confounded woman will wag in her head like the
+clack of a mill, till somehow or other she will detect Captain
+Butler to be a feigned personage.'
+
+'Do you know anything,' asked Waverley, 'of my fellow-traveller?'
+
+'Her husband was my sergeant-major for six years; she was a buxom
+widow, with a little money; he married her, was steady, and got on
+by being a good drill. I must send Spontoon to see what she is
+about; he will find her out among the old regimental connections.
+To-morrow you must be indisposed, and keep your room from fatigue.
+Lady Emily is to be your nurse, and Spontoon and I your
+attendants. You bear the name of a near relation of mine, whom
+none of my present people ever saw, except Spontoon, so there will
+be no immediate danger. So pray feel your head ache and your eyes
+grow heavy as soon as possible, that you may be put upon the sick-
+list; and, Emily, do you order an apartment for Frank Stanley,
+with all the attentions which an invalid may require.'
+
+In the morning the Colonel visited his guest. 'Now,' said he, 'I
+have some good news for you. Your reputation as a gentleman and
+officer is effectually cleared of neglect of duty and accession to
+the mutiny in Gardiner's regiment. I have had a correspondence on
+this subject with a very zealous friend of yours, your Scottish
+parson, Morton; his first letter was addressed to Sir Everard; but
+I relieved the good Baronet of the trouble of answering it. You
+must know, that your free-booting acquaintance, Donald of the
+Cave, has at length fallen into the hands of the Philistines. He
+was driving off the cattle of a certain proprietor, called Killan
+--something or other--'
+
+'Killancureit?'
+
+'The same. Now the gentleman being, it seems, a great farmer, and
+having a special value for his breed of cattle, being, moreover,
+rather of a timid disposition, had got a party of soldiers to
+protect his property. So Donald ran his head unawares into the
+lion's mouth, and was defeated and made prisoner. Being ordered
+for execution, his conscience was assailed on the one hand by a
+Catholic priest, on the other by your friend Morton. He repulsed
+the Catholic chiefly on account of the doctrine of extreme
+unction, which this economical gentleman considered as an
+excessive waste of oil. So his conversion from a state of
+impenitence fell to Mr. Morton's share, who, I daresay, acquitted
+himself excellently, though I suppose Donald made but a queer kind
+of Christian after all. He confessed, however, before a
+magistrate, one Major Melville, who seems to have been a correct,
+friendly sort of person, his full intrigue with Houghton,
+explaining particularly how it was carried on, and fully
+acquitting you of the least accession to it. He also mentioned his
+rescuing you from the hands of the volunteer officer, and sending
+you, by orders of the Pret--Chevalier, I mean--as a prisoner to
+Doune, from whence he understood you were carried prisoner to
+Edinburgh. These are particulars which cannot but tell in your
+favour. He hinted that he had been employed to deliver and protect
+you, and rewarded for doing so; but he would not confess by whom,
+alleging that, though he would not have minded breaking any
+ordinary oath to satisfy the curiosity of Mr. Morton, to whose
+pious admonitions he owed so much, yet, in the present case he had
+been sworn to silence upon the edge of his dirk, [Footnote: See
+Note 14.] which, it seems, constituted, in his opinion, an
+inviolable obligation.'
+
+'And what is become of him?'
+
+'Oh, he was hanged at Stirling after the rebels raised the siege,
+with his lieutenant and four plaids besides; he having the
+advantage of a gallows more lofty than his friends.'
+
+'Well, I have little cause either to regret or rejoice at his
+death; and yet he has done me both good and harm to a very
+considerable extent.'
+
+'His confession, at least, will serve you materially, since it
+wipes from your character all those suspicions which gave the
+accusation against you a complexion of a nature different from
+that with which so many unfortunate gentlemen, now or lately in
+arms against the government, may be justly charged. Their treason
+--I must give it its name, though you participate in its guilt--is
+an action arising from mistaken virtue, and therefore cannot be
+classed as a disgrace, though it be doubtless highly criminal.
+Where the guilty are so numerous, clemency must be extended to far
+the greater number; and I have little doubt of procuring a
+remission for you, providing we can keep you out of the claws of
+justice till she has selected and gorged upon her victims; for in
+this, as in other cases, it will be according to the vulgar
+proverb, "First come, first served." Besides, government are
+desirous at present to intimidate the English Jacobites, among
+whom they can find few examples for punishment. This is a
+vindictive and timid feeling which will soon wear off, for of all
+nations the English are least blood-thirsty by nature. But it
+exists at present, and you must therefore be kept out of the way
+in the mean-time.'
+
+Now entered Spontoon with an anxious countenance. By his
+regimental acquaintances he had traced out Madam Nosebag, and
+found her full of ire, fuss, and fidget at discovery of an
+impostor who had travelled from the north with her under the
+assumed name of Captain Butler of Gardiner's dragoons. She was
+going to lodge an information on the subject, to have him sought
+for as an emissary of the Pretender; but Spontoon (an old
+soldier), while he pretended to approve, contrived to make her
+delay her intention. No time, however, was to be lost: the
+accuracy of this good dame's description might probably lead to
+the discovery that Waverley was the pretended Captain Butler, an
+identification fraught with danger to Edward, perhaps to his
+uncle, and even to Colonel Talbot. Which way to direct his course
+was now, therefore, the question.
+
+'To Scotland,' said Waverley.
+
+'To Scotland?' said the Colonel; 'with what purpose? not to engage
+again with the rebels, I hope?'
+
+'No; I considered my campaign ended when, after all my efforts, I
+could not rejoin them; and now, by all accounts, they are gone to
+make a winter campaign in the Highlands, where such adherents as I
+am would rather be burdensome than useful. Indeed, it seems likely
+that they only prolong the war to place the Chevalier's person out
+of danger, and then to make some terms for themselves. To burden
+them with my presence would merely add another party, whom they
+would not give up and could not defend. I understand they left
+almost all their English adherents in garrison at Carlisle, for
+that very reason. And on a more general view, Colonel, to confess
+the truth, though it may lower me in your opinion, I am heartly
+tired of the trade of war, and am, as Fletcher's Humorous
+Lieutenant says, "even as weary of this fighting-'"
+
+'Fighting! pooh, what have you seen but a skirmish or two? Ah! if
+you saw war on the grand scale--sixty or a hundred thousand men in
+the field on each side!'
+
+'I am not at all curious, Colonel. "Enough," says our homely
+proverb, "is as good as a feast." The plumed troops and the big
+war used to enchant me in poetry, but the night marches, vigils,
+couches under the wintry sky, and such accompaniments of the
+glorious trade, are not at all to my taste in practice; then for
+dry blows, I had MY fill of fighting at Clifton, where I escaped
+by a hair's-breadth half a dozen times; and you, I should think--'
+He stopped.
+
+'Had enough of it at Preston? you mean to say,' answered the
+Colonel, laughing; 'but 'tis my vocation, Hal.'
+
+'It is not mine, though,' said Waverley; 'and having honourably
+got rid of the sword, which I drew only as a volunteer, I am quite
+satisfied with my military experience, and shall be in no hurry to
+take it up again.'
+
+'I am very glad you are of that mind; but then what would you do
+in the north?'
+
+'In the first place, there are some seaports on the eastern coast
+of Scotland still in the hands of the Chevalier's friends; should
+I gain any of them, I can easily embark for the Continent.'
+
+'Good, your second reason?'
+
+'Why, to speak the very truth, there is a person in Scotland upon
+whom I now find my happiness depends more than I was always aware,
+and about whose situation I am very anxious.'
+
+'Then Emily was right, and there is a love affair in the case
+after all? And which of these two pretty Scotchwomen, whom you
+insisted upon my admiring, is the distinguished fair? not Miss
+Glen--I hope.'
+
+'No.'
+
+'Ah, pass for the other; simplicity may be improved, but pride and
+conceit never. Well, I don't discourage you; I think it will
+please Sir Everard, from what he said when I jested with him about
+it; only I hope that intolerable papa, with his brogue, and his
+snuff, and his Latin, and his insufferable long stories about the
+Duke of Berwick, will find it necessary hereafter to be an
+inhabitant of foreign parts. But as to the daughter, though I
+think you might find as fitting a match in England, yet if your
+heart be really set upon this Scotch rosebud, why the Baronet has
+a great opinion of her father and of his family, and he wishes
+much to see you married and settled, both for your own sake and
+for that of the three ermines passant, which may otherwise pass
+away altogether. But I will bring you his mind fully upon the
+subject, since you are debarred correspondence for the present,
+for I think you will not be long in Scotland before me.'
+
+'Indeed! and what can induce you to think of returning to
+Scotland? No relenting longings towards the land of mountains and
+floods, I am afraid.'
+
+'None, on my word; but Emily's health is now, thank God,
+reestablished, and, to tell you the truth, I have little hopes of
+concluding the business which I have at present most at heart
+until I can have a personal interview with his Royal Highness the
+Commander-in-Chief; for, as Fluellen says, "the duke doth love me
+well, and I thank heaven I have deserved some love at his hands."
+I am now going out for an hour or two to arrange matters for your
+departure; your liberty extends to the next room, Lady Emily's
+parlour, where you will find her when you are disposed for music,
+reading, or conversation. We have taken measures to exclude all
+servants but Spontoon, who is as true as steel.'
+
+In about two hours Colonel Talbot returned, and found his young
+friend conversing with his lady; she pleased with his manners and
+information, and he delighted at being restored, though but for a
+moment, to the society of his own rank, from which he had been for
+some time excluded.
+
+'And now,' said the Colonel, 'hear my arrangements, for there is
+little time to lose. This youngster, Edward Waverley, alias
+Williams, alias Captain Butler, must continue to pass by his
+fourth ALIAS of Francis Stanley, my nephew; he shall set out to-
+morrow for the North, and the chariot shall take him the first two
+stages. Spontoon shall then attend him; and they shall ride post
+as far as Huntingdon; and the presence of Spontoon, well known on
+the road as my servant, will check all disposition to inquiry. At
+Huntingdon you will meet the real Frank Stanley. He is studying at
+Cambridge; but, a little while ago, doubtful if Emily's health
+would permit me to go down to the North myself, I procured him a
+passport from the secretary of state's office to go in my stead.
+As he went chiefly to look after you, his journey is now
+unnecessary. He knows your story; you will dine together at
+Huntingdon; and perhaps your wise heads may hit upon some plan for
+removing or diminishing the danger of your farther progress north-
+ward. And now (taking out a morocco case), let me put you in funds
+for the campaign.'
+
+'I am ashamed, my dear Colonel--'
+
+'Nay,' said Colonel Talbot, 'you should command my purse in any
+event; but this money is your own. Your father, considering the
+chance of your being attainted, left me his trustee for your
+advantage. So that you are worth above L15,000, besides Brere-Wood
+Lodge--a very independent person, I promise you. There are bills
+here for L200; any larger sum you may have, or credit abroad, as
+soon as your motions require it.'
+
+The first use which occurred to Waverley of his newly acquired
+wealth was to write to honest Farmer Jopson, requesting his
+acceptance of a silver tankard on the part of his friend Williams,
+who had not forgotten the night of the eighteenth December last.
+He begged him at the same time carefully to preserve for him his
+Highland garb and accoutrements, particularly the arms, curious in
+themselves, and to which the friendship of the donors gave
+additional value. Lady Emily undertook to find some suitable token
+of remembrance likely to flatter the vanity and please the taste
+of Mrs. Williams; and the Colonel, who was a kind of farmer,
+promised to send the Ullswater patriarch an excellent team of
+horses for cart and plough.
+
+One happy day Waverley spent in London; and, travelling in the
+manner projected, he met with Frank Stanley at Huntingdon. The two
+young men were acquainted in a minute.
+
+'I can read my uncle's riddle,' said Stanley;'the cautious old
+soldier did not care to hint to me that I might hand over to you
+this passport, which I have no occasion for; but if it should
+afterwards come out as the rattle-pated trick of a young Cantab,
+cela ne tire a rien. You are therefore to be Francis Stanley, with
+this passport.' This proposal appeared in effect to alleviate a
+great part of the difficulties which Edward must otherwise have
+encountered at every turn; and accordingly he scrupled not to
+avail himself of it, the more especially as he had discarded all
+political purposes from his present journey, and could not be
+accused of furthering machinations against the government while
+travelling under protection of the secretary's passport.
+
+The day passed merrily away. The young student was inquisitive
+about Waverley's campaigns, and the manners of the Highlands, and
+Edward was obliged to satisfy his curiosity by whistling a
+pibroch, dancing a strathspey, and singing a Highland song. The
+next morning Stanley rode a stage northward with his new friend,
+and parted from him with great reluctance, upon the remonstrances
+of Spontoon, who, accustomed to submit to discipline, was rigid in
+enforcing it.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXIII
+
+DESOLATION
+
+
+Waverley riding post, as was the usual fashion of the period,
+without any adventure save one or two queries, which the talisman
+of his passport sufficiently answered, reached the borders of
+Scotland. Here he heard the tidings of the decisive battle of
+Culloden. It was no more than he had long expected, though the
+success at Falkirk had thrown a faint and setting gleam over the
+arms of the Chevalier. Yet it came upon him like a shock, by which
+he was for a time altogether unmanned. The generous, the
+courteous, the noble-minded adventurer was then a fugitive, with a
+price upon his head; his adherents, so brave, so enthusiastic, so
+faithful, were dead, imprisoned, or exiled. Where, now, was the
+exalted and high-souled Fergus, if, indeed, he had survived the
+night at Clifton? Where the pure-hearted and primitive Baron of
+Bradwardine, whose foibles seemed foils to set off the
+disinterestedness of his disposition, the genuine goodness of his
+heart, and his unshaken courage? Those who clung for support to
+these fallen columns, Rose and Flora, where were they to be
+sought, and in what distress must not the loss of their natural
+protectors have involved them? Of Flora he thought with the regard
+of a brother for a sister; of Rose with a sensation yet more deep
+and tender. It might be still his fate to supply the want of those
+guardians they had lost. Agitated by these thoughts he
+precipitated his journey.
+
+When he arrived in Edinburgh, where his inquiries must necessarily
+commence, he felt the full difficulty of his situation. Many
+inhabitants of that city had seen and known him as Edward
+Waverley; how, then, could he avail himself of a passport as
+Francis Stanley? He resolved, therefore, to avoid all company, and
+to move northward as soon as possible. He was, however, obliged to
+wait a day or two in expectation of a letter from Colonel Talbot,
+and he was also to leave his own address, under his feigned
+character, at a place agreed upon. With this latter purpose he
+sallied out in the dusk through the well-known streets, carefully
+shunning observation, but in vain: one of the first persons whom
+he met at once recognised him. It was Mrs. Flockhart, Fergus Mac-
+Ivor's good-humoured landlady.
+
+'Gude guide us, Mr. Waverley, is this you? na, ye needna be feared
+for me. I wad betray nae gentleman in your circumstances. Eh,
+lack-a-day! lack-a-day! here's a change o' markets; how merry
+Colonel MacIvor and you used to be in our house!' And the good-
+natured widow shed a few natural tears. As there was no resisting
+her claim of acquaintance, Waverley acknowledged it with a good
+grace, as well as the danger of his own situation. 'As it's near
+the darkening, sir, wad ye just step in by to our house and tak a
+dish o' tea? and I am sure if ye like to sleep in the little room,
+I wad tak care ye are no disturbed, and naebody wad ken ye; for
+Kate and Matty, the limmers, gaed aff wi' twa o' Hawley's
+dragoons, and I hae twa new queans instead o' them.'
+
+Waverley accepted her invitation, and engaged her lodging for a
+night or two, satisfied he should be safer in the house of this
+simple creature than anywhere else. When he entered the parlour
+his heart swelled to see Fergus's bonnet, with the white cockade,
+hanging beside the little mirror.
+
+'Ay,' said Mrs. Flockhart, sighing, as she observed the direction
+of his eyes, 'the puir Colonel bought a new ane just the day
+before they marched, and I winna let them tak that ane doun, but
+just to brush it ilka day mysell; and whiles I look at it till I
+just think I hear him cry to Callum to bring him his bonnet, as he
+used to do when he was ganging out. It's unco silly--the
+neighbours ca' me a Jacobite, but they may say their say--I am
+sure it's no for that--but he was as kind-hearted a gentleman as
+ever lived, and as weel-fa'rd too. Oh, d'ye ken, sir, when he is
+to suffer?'
+
+'Suffer! Good heaven! Why, where is he?'
+
+'Eh, Lord's sake! d'ye no ken? The poor Hieland body, Dugald
+Mahony, cam here a while syne, wi' ane o' his arms cuttit off, and
+a sair clour in the head--ye'll mind Dugald, he carried aye an axe
+on his shouther--and he cam here just begging, as I may say, for
+something to eat. Aweel, he tauld us the Chief, as they ca'd him
+(but I aye ca' him the Colonel), and Ensign Maccombich, that ye
+mind weel, were ta'en somewhere beside the English border, when it
+was sae dark that his folk never missed him till it was ower late,
+and they were like to gang clean daft. And he said that little
+Callum Beg (he was a bauld mischievous callant that) and your
+honour were killed that same night in the tuilzie, and mony mae
+braw men. But he grat when he spak o' the Colonel, ye never saw
+the like. And now the word gangs the Colonel is to be tried, and
+to suffer wi' them that were ta'en at Carlisle.'
+
+'And his sister?'
+
+'Ay, that they ca'd the Lady Flora--weel, she's away up to
+Carlisle to him, and lives wi' some grand Papist lady thereabouts
+to be near him.'
+
+'And,' said Edward,'the other young lady?'
+
+'Whilk other? I ken only of ae sister the Colonel had.'
+
+'I mean Miss Bradwardine,' said Edward.
+
+'Ou, ay; the laird's daughter' said his landlady. 'She was a very
+bonny lassie, poor thing, but far shyer than Lady Flora.'
+
+'Where is she, for God's sake?'
+
+'Ou, wha kens where ony o' them is now? puir things, they're sair
+ta'en doun for their white cockades and their white roses; but she
+gaed north to her father's in Perthshire, when the government
+troops cam back to Edinbro'. There was some prettymen amang them,
+and ane Major Whacker was quartered on me, a very ceevil
+gentleman,--but O, Mr. Waverley, he was naething sae weel fa'rd
+as the puir Colonel.'
+
+'Do you know what is become of Miss Bradwardine's father?'
+
+'The auld laird? na, naebody kens that. But they say he fought
+very hard in that bluidy battle at Inverness; and Deacon Clank,
+the whit-iron smith, says that the government folk are sair agane
+him for having been out twice; and troth he might hae ta'en
+warning, but there's nae Me like an auld fule. The puir Colonel
+was only out ance.'
+
+Such conversation contained almost all the good-natured widow knew
+of the fate of her late lodgers and acquaintances; but it was
+enough to determine Edward, at all hazards, to proceed instantly
+to Tully-Veolan, where he concluded he should see, or at least
+hear, something of Rose. He therefore left a letter for Colonel
+Talbot at the place agreed upon, signed by his assumed name, and
+giving for his address the post-town next to the Baron's
+residence.
+
+From Edinburgh to Perth he took post-horses, resolving to make the
+rest of his journey on foot; a mode of travelling to which he was
+partial, and which had the advantage of permitting a deviation
+from the road when he saw parties of military at a distance. His
+campaign had considerably strengthened his constitution and
+improved his habits of enduring fatigue. His baggage he sent
+before him as opportunity occurred.
+
+As he advanced northward, the traces of war became visible. Broken
+carriages, dead horses, unroofed cottages, trees felled for
+palisades, and bridges destroyed or only partially repaired--all
+indicated the movements of hostile armies. In those places where
+the gentry were attached to the Stuart cause, their houses seemed
+dismantled or deserted, the usual course of what may be called
+ornamental labour was totally interrupted, and the inhabitants
+were seen gliding about, with fear, sorrow, and dejection on their
+faces.
+
+It was evening when he approached the village of Tully-Veolan,
+with feelings and sentiments--how different from those which
+attended his first entrance! Then, life was so new to him that a
+dull or disagreeable day was one of the greatest misfortunes which
+his imagination anticipated, and it seemed to him that his time
+ought only to be consecrated to elegant or amusing study, and
+relieved by social or youthful frolic. Now, how changed! how
+saddened, yet how elevated was his character, within the course of
+a very few months! Danger and misfortune are rapid, though severe
+teachers. 'A sadder and a wiser man,' he felt in internal
+confidence and mental dignity a compensation for the gay dreams
+which in his case experience had so rapidly dissolved.
+
+As he approached the village he saw, with surprise and anxiety,
+that a party of soldiers were quartered near it, and, what was
+worse, that they seemed stationary there. This he conjectured from
+a few tents which he beheld glimmering upon what was called the
+Common Moor. To avoid the risk of being stopped and questioned in
+a place where he was so likely to be recognised, he made a large
+circuit, altogether avoiding the hamlet, and approaching the upper
+gate of the avenue by a by-path well known to him. A single glance
+announced that great changes had taken place. One half of the
+gate, entirely destroyed and split up for firewood, lay in piles,
+ready to be taken away; the other swung uselessly about upon its
+loosened hinges. The battlements above the gate were broken and
+thrown down, and the carved bears, which were said to have done
+sentinel's duty upon the top for centuries, now, hurled from their
+posts, lay among the rubbish. The avenue was cruelly wasted.
+Several large trees were felled and left lying across the path;
+and the cattle of the villagers, and the more rude hoofs of
+dragoon horses, had poached into black mud the verdant turf which
+Waverley had so much admired.
+
+Upon entering the court-yard, Edward saw the fears realised which
+these circumstances had excited. The place had been sacked by the
+King's troops, who, in wanton mischief, had even attempted to burn
+it; and though the thickness of the walls had resisted the fire,
+unless to a partial extent, the stables and out-houses were
+totally consumed. The towers and pinnacles of the main building
+were scorched and blackened; the pavement of the court broken and
+shattered, the doors torn down entirely, or hanging by a single
+hinge, the windows dashed in and demolished, and the court strewed
+with articles of furniture broken into fragments. The accessaries
+of ancient distinction, to which the Baron, in the pride of his
+heart, had attached so much importance and veneration, were
+treated with peculiar contumely. The fountain was demolished, and
+the spring which had supplied it now flooded the court-yard. The
+stone basin seemed to be destined for a drinking-trough for
+cattle, from the manner in which it was arranged upon the ground.
+The whole tribe of bears, large and small, had experienced as
+little favour as those at the head of the avenue, and one or two
+of the family pictures, which seemed to have served as targets for
+the soldiers, lay on the ground in tatters. With an aching heart,
+as may well be imagined, Edward viewed this wreck of a mansion so
+respected. But his anxiety to learn the fate of the proprietors,
+and his fears as to what that fate might be, increased with every
+step. When he entered upon the terrace new scenes of desolation
+were visible. The balustrade was broken down, the walls destroyed,
+the borders overgrown with weeds, and the fruit-trees cut down or
+grubbed up. In one compartment of this old-fashioned garden were
+two immense horse-chestnut trees, of whose size the Baron was
+particularly vain; too lazy, perhaps, to cut them down, the
+spoilers, with malevolent ingenuity, had mined them and placed a
+quantity of gunpowder in the cavity. One had been shivered to
+pieces by the explosion, and the fragments lay scattered around,
+encumbering the ground it had so long shadowed. The other mine had
+been more partial in its effect. About one-fourth of the trunk of
+the tree was torn from the mass, which, mutilated and defaced on
+the one side, still spread on the other its ample and undiminished
+boughs. [Footnote: A pair of chestnut trees, destroyed, the one
+entirely and the other in part, by such a mischievous and wanton
+act of revenge, grew at Invergarry Castle, the fastness of
+MacDonald of Glengarry.]
+
+Amid these general marks of ravage, there were some which more
+particularly addressed the feelings of Waverley. Viewing the front
+of the building thus wasted and defaced, his eyes naturally sought
+the little balcony which more properly belonged to Rose's
+apartment, her troisieme, or rather cinquieme, etage. It was
+easily discovered, for beneath it lay the stage-flowers and shrubs
+with which it was her pride to decorate it, and which had been
+hurled from the bartizan; several of her books were mingled with
+broken flower-pots and other remnants. Among these Waverley
+distinguished one of his own, a small copy of Ariosto, and
+gathered it as a treasure, though wasted by the wind and rain.
+
+While, plunged in the sad reflections which the scene excited, he
+was looking around for some one who might explain the fate of the
+inhabitants, he heard a voice from the interior of the building
+singing, in well-remembered accents, an old Scottish song:--
+
+    They came upon us in the night,
+    And brake my bower and slew my knight;
+    My servants a' for life did flee,
+    And left us in extremitie.
+
+    They slew my knight, to me sae dear;
+    They slew my knight, and drave his gear;
+    The moon may set, the sun may rise,
+    But a deadly sleep has closed his eyes.
+
+[Footnote: The first three couplets are from an old ballad, called
+the Border Widow's Lament.]
+
+'Alas,' thought Edward, 'is it thou? Poor helpless being, art thou
+alone left, to gibber and moan, and fill with thy wild and
+unconnected scraps of minstrelsy the halls that protected thee?'
+He then called, first low, and then louder, 'Davie--Davie
+Gellatley!'
+
+The poor simpleton showed himself from among the ruins of a sort
+of greenhouse, that once terminated what was called the terrace-
+walk, but at first sight of a stranger retreated, as if in terror.
+Waverley, remembering his habits, began to whistle a tune to which
+he was partial, which Davie had expressed great pleasure in
+listening to, and had picked up from him by the ear. Our hero's
+minstrelsy no more equalled that of Blondel than poor Davie
+resembled Coeur de Lion; but the melody had the same effect of
+producing recognition. Davie again stole from his lurking-place,
+but timidly, while Waverley, afraid of frightening him, stood
+making the most encouraging signals he could devise. 'It's his
+ghaist,' muttered Davie; yet, coming nearer, he seemed to
+acknowledge his living acquaintance. The poor fool himself
+appeared the ghost of what he had been. The peculiar dress in
+which he had been attired in better days showed only miserable
+rags of its whimsical finery, the lack of which was oddly supplied
+by the remnants of tapestried hangings, window-curtains, and
+shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. His
+face, too, had lost its vacant and careless air, and the poor
+creature looked hollow-eyed, meagre, half-starved, and nervous to
+a pitiable degree. After long hesitation, he at length approached
+Waverley with some confidence, stared him sadly in the face, and
+said, 'A' dead and gane--a' dead and gane.'
+
+'Who are dead?' said Waverley, forgetting the incapacity of Davie
+to hold any connected discourse.
+
+'Baron, and Bailie, and Saunders Saunderson, and Lady Rose that
+sang sae sweet--a' dead and gane--dead and gane;
+
+    But follow, follow me,
+    While glowworms light the lea,
+    I'll show ye where the dead should be--
+      Each in his shroud,
+      While winds pipe loud,
+      And the red moon peeps dim through the cloud.
+    Follow, follow me;
+    Brave should he be
+    That treads by night the dead man's lea.'
+
+With these words, chanted in a wild and earnest tone, he made a
+sign to Waverley to follow him, and walked rapidly towards the
+bottom of the garden, tracing the bank of the stream which, it may
+be remembered, was its eastern boundary. Edward, over whom an
+involuntary shuddering stole at the import of his words, followed
+him in some hope of an explanation. As the house was evidently
+deserted, he could not expect to find among the ruins any more
+rational informer.
+
+Davie, walking very fast, soon reached the extremity of the
+garden, and scrambled over the ruins of the wall that once had
+divided it from the wooded glen in which the old tower of Tully-
+Veolan was situated. He then jumped down into the bed of the
+stream, and, followed by Waverley, proceeded at a great pace,
+climbing over some fragments of rock and turning with difficulty
+round others. They passed beneath the ruins of the castle;
+Waverley followed, keeping up with his guide with difficulty, for
+the twilight began to fall. Following the descent of the stream a
+little lower, he totally lost him, but a twinkling light which he
+now discovered among the tangled copse-wood and bushes seemed a
+surer guide. He soon pursued a very uncouth path; and by its
+guidance at length reached the door of a wretched hut. A fierce
+barking of dogs was at first heard, but it stilled at his
+approach. A voice sounded from within, and he held it most prudent
+to listen before he advanced.
+
+'Wha hast thou brought here, thou unsonsy villain, thou?' said an
+old woman, apparently in great indignation. He heard Davie
+Gellatley in answer whistle a part of the tune by which he had
+recalled himself to the simpleton's memory, and had now no
+hesitation to knock at the door. There was a dead silence
+instantly within, except the deep growling of the dogs; and he
+next heard the mistress of the hut approach the door, not probably
+for the sake of undoing a latch, but of fastening a bolt. To
+prevent this Waverley lifted the latch himself.
+
+In front was an old wretched-looking woman, exclaiming, 'Wha comes
+into folk's houses in this gate, at this time o' the night?' On
+one side, two grim and half-starved deer greyhounds laid aside
+their ferocity at his appearance, and seemed to recognise him. On
+the other side, half concealed by the open door, yet apparently
+seeking that concealment reluctantly, with a cocked pistol in his
+right hand and his left in the act of drawing another from his
+belt, stood a tall bony gaunt figure in the remnants of a faded
+uniform and a beard of three weeks' growth. It was the Baron of
+Bradwardine. It is unnecessary to add, that he threw aside his
+weapon and greeted Waverley with a hearty embrace.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXIV
+
+COMPARING OF NOTES
+
+
+Thearon's story was short, when divested of the adages and
+commonplaces, Latin, English, and Scotch, with which his erudition
+garnished it. He insisted much upon his grief at the loss of
+Edward and of Glennaquoich, fought the fields of Falkirk and
+Culloden, and related how, after all was lost in the last battle,
+he had returned home, under the idea of more easily finding
+shelter among his own tenants and on his own estate than
+elsewhere. A party of soldiers had been sent to lay waste his
+property, for clemency was not the order of the day. Their
+proceedings, however, were checked by an order from the civil
+court. The estate, it was found, might not be forfeited to the
+crown to the prejudice of Malcolm Bradwardine of Inch-Grabbit, the
+heir-male, whose claim could not be prejudiced by the Baron's
+attainder, as deriving no right through him, and who, therefore,
+like other heirs of entail in the same situation, entered upon
+possession. But, unlike many in similar circumstances, the new
+laird speedily showed that he intended utterly to exclude his
+predecessor from all benefit or advantage in the estate, and that
+it was his purpose to avail himself of the old Baron's evil
+fortune to the full extent. This was the more ungenerous, as it
+was generally known that, from a romantic idea of not prejudicing
+this young man's right as heir-male, the Baron had refrained from
+settling his estate on his daughter.
+
+This selfish injustice was resented by the country people, who
+were partial to their old master, and irritated against his
+successor. In the Baron's own words, 'The matter did not coincide
+with the feelings of the commons of Bradwardine, Mr. Waverley; and
+the tenants were slack and repugnant in payment of their mails and
+duties; and when my kinsman came to the village wi' the new
+factor, Mr. James Howie, to lift the rents, some wanchancy person
+--I suspect John Heatherblutter, the auld gamekeeper, that was out
+wi' me in the year fifteen--fired a shot at him in the gloaming,
+whereby he was so affrighted, that I may say with Tullius In
+Catilinam, "Abiit, evasit, erupit, effugit." He fled, sir, as one
+may say, incontinent to Stirling. And now he hath advertised the
+estate for sale, being himself the last substitute in the entail.
+And if I were to lament about sic matters, this would grieve me
+mair than its passing from my immediate possession, whilk, by the
+course of nature, must have happened in a few years; whereas now
+it passes from the lineage that should have possessed it in
+scecula saculorum. But God's will be done, humana perpessi sumus.
+Sir John of Bradwardine--Black Sir John, as he is called--who was
+the common ancestor of our house and the Inch-Grabbits, little
+thought such a person would have sprung from his loins. Mean time,
+he has accused me to some of the primates, the rulers for the
+time, as if I were a cut-throat, and an abettor of bravoes and
+assassinates and coupe-jarrets. And they have sent soldiers here
+to abide on the estate, and hunt me like a partridge upon the
+mountains, as Scripture says of good King David, or like our
+valiant Sir William Wallace--not that I bring myself into
+comparison with either. I thought, when I heard you at the door,
+they had driven the auld deer to his den at last; and so I e'en
+proposed to die at bay, like a buck of the first head. But now,
+Janet, canna ye gie us something for supper?' 'Ou ay, sir, I'll
+brander the moor-fowl that John Heatherblutter brought in this
+morning; and ye see puir Davie's roasting the black hen's eggs. I
+daur say, Mr. Wauverley, ye never kend that a' the eggs that were
+sae weel roasted at supper in the Ha'-house were aye turned by our
+Davie? there's no the like o' him ony gate for powtering wi' his
+fingers amang the het peat-ashes and roasting eggs.' Davie all
+this while lay with his nose almost in the fire, nuzzling among
+the ashes, kicking his heels, mumbling to himself, turning the
+eggs as they lay in the hot embers, as if to confute the proverb,
+that 'there goes reason to roasting of eggs,' and justify the
+eulogium which poor Janet poured out upon
+
+    Him whom she loved, her idiot boy.
+
+'Davie's no sae silly as folk tak him for, Mr. Wauverley; he wadna
+hae brought you here unless he had kend ye was a friend to his
+Honour; indeed the very dogs kend ye, Mr. Wauverley, for ye was
+aye kind to beast and body. I can tell you a story o' Davie, wi'
+his Honour's leave. His Honour, ye see, being under hiding in thae
+sair times--the mair's the pity--he lies a' day, and whiles a'
+night, in the cove in the dern hag; but though it's a bieldy
+eneugh bit, and the auld gudeman o' Corse-Cleugh has panged it wi'
+a kemple o' strae amaist, yet when the country's quiet, and the
+night very cauld, his Honour whiles creeps doun here to get a warm
+at the ingle and a sleep amang the blankets, and gangs awa in the
+morning. And so, ae morning, siccan a fright as I got! Twa unlucky
+red-coats were up for black-fishing, or some siccan ploy--for the
+neb o' them's never out o' mischief--and they just got a glisk o'
+his Honour as he gaed into the wood, and banged aff a gun at him.
+I out like a jer-falcon, and cried--"Wad they shoot an honest
+woman's poor innocent bairn?" And I fleyt at them, and threepit it
+was my son; and they damned and swuir at me that it was the auld
+rebel, as the villains ca'd his Honour; and Davie was in the wood,
+and heard the tuilzie, and he, just out o' his ain head, got up
+the auld grey mantle that his Honour had flung off him to gang the
+faster, and he cam out o' the very same bit o' the wood, majoring
+and looking about sae like his Honour, that they were clean
+beguiled, and thought they had letten aff their gun at crack-
+brained Sawney, as they ca' him; and they gae me saxpence, and twa
+saumon fish, to say naething about it. Na, na, Davie's no just
+like other folk, puir fallow; but he's no sae silly as folk tak
+him for. But, to be sure, how can we do eneugh for his Honour,
+when we and ours have lived on his ground this twa hundred years;
+and when he keepit my puir Jamie at school and college, and even
+at the Ha'-house, till he gaed to a better place; and when he
+saved me frae being ta'en to Perth as a witch--Lord forgi'e them
+that would touch sic a puir silly auld body!--and has maintained
+puir Davie at heck and manger maist feck o' his life?'
+
+Waverley at length found an opportunity to interrupt Janet's
+narrative by an inquiry after Miss Bradwardine.
+
+'She's weel and safe, thank God! at the Duchran,' answered the
+Baron; 'the laird's distantly related to us, and more nearly to my
+chaplain, Mr. Rubrick; and, though he be of Whig principles, yet
+he's not forgetful of auld friendship at this time. The Bailie's
+doing what he can to save something out of the wreck for puir
+Rose; but I doubt, I doubt, I shall never see her again, for I
+maun lay my banes in some far country.'
+
+'Hout na, your Honour,' said old Janet, 'ye were just as ill aff
+in the feifteen, and got the bonnie baronie back, an' a'. And now
+the eggs is ready, and the muir-cock's brandered, and there's ilk
+ane a trencher and some saut, and the heel o' the white loaf that
+cam frae the Bailie's, and there's plenty o' brandy in the
+greybeard that Luckie Maclearie sent doun, and winna ye be
+suppered like princes?'
+
+'I wish one Prince, at least, of our acquaintance may be no worse
+off,' said the Baron to Waverley, who joined him in cordial hopes
+for the safety of the unfortunate Chevalier.
+
+They then began to talk of their future prospects. The Baron's
+plan was very simple. It was, to escape to France, where, by the
+interest of his old friends, he hoped to get some military
+employment, of which he still conceived himself capable. He
+invited Waverley to go with him, a proposal in which he
+acquiesced, providing the interest of Colonel Talbot should fail
+in procuring his pardon. Tacitly he hoped the Baron would sanction
+his addresses to Rose, and give him a right to assist him in his
+exile; but he forbore to speak on this subject until his own fate
+should be decided. They then talked of Glennaquoich, for whom the
+Baron expressed great anxiety, although, he observed, he was 'the
+very Achilles of Horatius Flaccus,--
+
+Impiger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer; which,' he continued, 'has
+been thus rendered (vernacularly) by Struan Robertson:--
+
+    A fiery etter-cap, a fractious chiel,
+    As het as ginger, and as stieve as steel.'
+
+Flora had a large and unqualified share of the good old man's
+sympathy.
+
+It was now wearing late. Old Janet got into some kind of kennel
+behind the hallan; Davie had been long asleep and snoring between
+Ban and Buscar. These dogs had followed him to the hut after the
+mansion-house was deserted, and there constantly resided; and
+their ferocity, with the old woman's reputation of being a witch,
+contributed a good deal to keep visitors from the glen. With this
+view, Bailie Macwheeble provided Janet underhand with meal for
+their maintenance, and also with little articles of luxury for his
+patron's use, in supplying which much precaution was necessarily
+used. After some compliments, the Baron occupied his usual couch,
+and Waverley reclined in an easy chair of tattered velvet, which
+had once garnished the state bed-room of Tully-Veolan (for the
+furniture of this mansion was now scattered through all the
+cottages in the vicinity), and went to sleep as comfortably as if
+he had been in a bed of down.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXV
+
+MORE EXPLANATION
+
+
+With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the
+house to wake the Baron, who usually slept sound and heavily.
+
+'I must go back,' he said to Waverley,'to my cove; will you walk
+down the glen wi' me?' They went out together, and followed a
+narrow and entangled foot-path, which the occasional passage of
+anglers or wood-cutters had traced by the side of the stream. On
+their way the Baron explained to Waverley that he would be under
+no danger in remaining a day or two at Tully-Veolan, and even in
+being seen walking about, if he used the precaution of pretending
+that he was looking at the estate as agent or surveyor for an
+English gentleman who designed to be purchaser. With this view he
+recommended to him to visit the Bailie, who still lived at the
+factor's house, called Little Veolan, about a mile from the
+village, though he was to remove at next term. Stanley's passport
+would be an answer to the officer who commanded the military; and
+as to any of the country people who might recognise Waverley, the
+Baron assured him he was in no danger of being betrayed by them.
+
+'I believe,' said the old man, 'half the people of the barony know
+that their poor auld laird is somewhere hereabout; for I see they
+do not suffer a single bairn to come here a bird-nesting; a
+practice whilk, when I was in full possession of my power as
+baron, I was unable totally to inhibit. Nay, I often find bits of
+things in my way, that the poor bodies, God help them! leave
+there, because they think they may be useful to me. I hope they
+will get a wiser master, and as kind a one as I was.'
+
+A natural sigh closed the sentence; but the quiet equanimity with
+which the Baron endured his misfortunes had something in it
+venerable and even sublime. There was no fruitless repining, no
+turbid melancholy; he bore his lot, and the hardships which it
+involved, with a good-humored, though serious composure, and used
+no violent language against the prevailing party.
+
+'I did what I thought my duty,' said the good old man, 'and
+questionless they are doing what they think theirs. It grieves me
+sometimes to look upon these blackened walls of the house of my
+ancestors; but doubtless officers cannot always keep the soldier's
+hand from depredation and spuilzie, and Gustavus Adolphus himself,
+as ye may read in Colonel Munro his "Expedition with the Worthy
+Scotch Regiment called Mackay's Regiment" did often permit it.
+Indeed I have myself seen as sad sights as Tully-Veolan now is
+when I served with the Marechal Duke of Berwick. To be sure we may
+say with Virgilius Maro, Fuimus Troes--and there's the end of an
+auld sang. But houses and families and men have a' stood lang
+eneugh when they have stood till they fall with honour; and now I
+hae gotten a house that is not unlike a domus ultima'--they were
+now standing below a steep rock. 'We poor Jacobites,' continued
+the Baron, looking up, 'are now like the conies in Holy Scripture
+(which the great traveller Pococke calleth Jerboa), a feeble
+people, that make our abode in the rocks. So, fare you well, my
+good lad, till we meet at Janet's in the even; for I must get into
+my Patmos, which is no easy matter for my auld stiff limbs.'
+
+With that he began to ascend the rock, striding, with the help of
+his hands, from one precarious footstep to another, till he got
+about half-way up, where two or three bushes concealed the mouth
+of a hole, resembling an oven, into which the Baron insinuated,
+first his head and shoulders, and then, by slow gradation, the
+rest of his l ong body; his legs and feet finally disappearing,
+coiled up like a huge snake entering his retreat, or a long
+pedigree introduced with care and difficulty into the narrow
+pigeon-hole of an old cabinet. Waverley had the curiosity to
+clamber up and look in upon him in his den, as the lurking-place
+might well be termed. Upon the whole, he looked not unlike that
+ingenious puzzle called 'a reel in a bottle,' the marvel of
+children (and of some grown people too, myself for one), who can
+neither comprehend the mysteryhowit has got in or how it is to be
+taken out. The cave was very narrow, too low in the roof to admit
+of his standing, or almost of his sitting up, though he made some
+awkward attempts at the latter posture. His sole amusement was the
+perusal of his old friend Titus Livius, varied by occasionally
+scratching Latin proverbs and texts of Scripture with his knife on
+the roof and walls of his fortalice, which were of sandstone. As
+the cave was dry, and filled with clean straw and withered fern,
+'it made,' as he said, coiling himself up with an air of snugness
+and comfort which contrasted strangely with his situation, 'unless
+when the wind was due north, a very passable gite for an old
+soldier.' Neither, as he observed, was he without sentries for the
+purpose of reconnoitring. Davie and his mother were constantly on
+the watch to discover and avert danger; and it was singular what
+instances of address seemed dictated by the instinctive attachment
+of the poor simpleton when his patron's safety was concerned.
+
+With Janet, Edward now sought an interview. He had recognised her
+at first sight as the old woman who had nursed him during his
+sickness after his delivery from Gifted Gilfillan. The hut also,
+although a little repaired and somewhat better furnished, was
+certainly the place of his confinement; and he now recollected on
+the common moor of Tully-Veolan the trunk of a large decayed tree,
+called the try sting-tree, which he had no doubt was the same at
+which the Highlanders rendezvoused on that memorable night. All
+this he had combined in his imagination the night before; but
+reasons which may probably occur to the reader prevented him from
+catechising Janet in the presence of the Baron.
+
+He now commenced the task in good earnest; and the first question
+was, Who was the young lady that visited the hut during his
+illness? Janet paused for a little; and then observed, that to
+keep the secret now would neither do good nor ill to anybody.
+
+' It was just a leddy that hasna her equal in the world--Miss
+Rose Bradwardine!'
+
+'Then Miss Rose was probably also the author of my deliverance,'
+inferred Waverley, delighted at the confirmation of an idea which
+local circumstances had already induced him to entertain.
+
+'I wot weel, Mr. Wauverley, and that was she e'en; but sair, sair
+angry and affronted wad she hae been, puir thing, if she had
+thought ye had been ever to ken a word about the matter; for she
+gar'd me speak aye Gaelic when ye was in hearing, to mak ye trow
+we were in the Hielands. I can speak it weil eneugh, for my mother
+was a Hieland woman.'
+
+A few more questions now brought out the whole mystery respecting
+Waverley's deliverance from the bondage in which he left
+Cairnvreckan. Never did music sound sweeter to an amateur than the
+drowsy tautology with which old Janet detailed every circumstance
+thrilled upon the ears of Waverley. But my reader is not a lover
+and I must spare his patience, by attempting to condense within
+reasonable compass the narrative which old Janet spread through a
+harangue of nearly two hours.
+
+When Waverley communicated to Fergus the letter he had received
+from Rose Bradwardine by Davie Gellatley, giving an account of
+Tully-Veolan being occupied by a small party of soldiers, that
+circumstance had struck upon the busy and active mind of the
+Chieftain. Eager to distress and narrow the posts of the enemy,
+desirous to prevent their establishing a garrison so near him, and
+willing also to oblige the Baron--for he often had the idea of
+marriage with Rose floating through his brain--he resolved to send
+some of his people to drive out the red-coats and to bring Rose to
+Glennaquoich. But just as he had ordered Evan with a small party
+on this duty, the news of Cope's having marched into the
+Highlands, to meet and disperse the forces of the Chevalier ere
+they came to a head, obliged him to join the standard with his
+whole forces.
+
+He sent to order Donald Bean to attend him; but that cautious
+freebooter, who well understood the value of a separate command,
+instead of joining, sent various apologies which the pressure of
+the times compelled Fergus to admit as current, though not without
+the internal resolution of being revenged on him for his
+procrastination, time and place convenient. However, as he could
+not amend the matter, he issued orders to Donald to descend into
+the Low Country, drive the soldiers from Tully-Veolan, and, paying
+all respect to the mansion of the Baron, to take his abode
+somewhere near it, for protection of his daughter and family, and
+to harass and drive away any of the armed volunteers or small
+parties of military which he might find moving about the vicinity.
+As this charge formed a sort of roving commission, which Donald
+proposed to interpret in the way most advantageous to himself, as
+he was relieved from the immediate terrors of Fergus, and as he
+had, from former secret services, some interest in the councils of
+the Chevalier, he resolved to make hay while the sun shone. He
+achieved without difficulty the task of driving the soldiers from
+Tully-Veolan; but, although he did not venture to encroach upon
+the interior of the family, or to disturb Miss Rose, being
+unwilling to make himself a powerful enemy in the Chevalier's
+army,
+
+    For well he knew the Baron's wrath was deadly;
+
+yet he set about to raise contributions and exactions upon the
+tenantry, and otherwise to turn the war to his own advantage.
+Meanwhile he mounted the white cockade, and waited upon Rose with
+a pretext of great devotion for the service in which her father
+was engaged, and many apologies for the freedom he must
+necessarily use for the support of his people. It was at this
+moment that Rose learned, by open-mouthed fame, with all sorts of
+exaggeration, that Waverley had killed the smith at Cairnvreckan,
+in an attempt to arrest him; had been cast into a dungeon by Major
+Melville of Cairnvreckan, and was to be executed by martial law
+within three days. In the agony which these tidings excited she
+proposed to Donald Bean the rescue of the prisoner. It was the
+very sort of service which he was desirous to undertake, judging
+it might constitute a merit of such a nature as would make amends
+for any peccadilloes which he might be guilty of in the country.
+He had the art, however, pleading all the while duty and
+discipline, to hold off, until poor Rose, in the extremity of her
+distress, offered to bribe him to the enterprise with some
+valuable jewels which had been her mother's.
+
+Donald Bean, who had served in France, knew, and perhaps over-
+estimated, the value of these trinkets. But he also perceived
+Rose's apprehensions of its being discovered that she had parted
+with her jewels for Waverley's liberation. Resolved this scruple
+should not part him and the treasure, he voluntarily offered to
+take an oath that he would never mention Miss Rose's share in the
+transaction; and, foreseeing convenience in keeping the oath and
+no probable advantage in breaking it, he took the engagement--in
+order, as he told his lieutenant, to deal handsomely by the young
+lady--in the only mode and form which, by a mental paction with
+himself, he considered as binding: he swore secrecy upon his drawn
+dirk. He was the more especially moved to this act of good faith
+by some attentions that Miss Bradwardine showed to his daughter
+Alice, which, while they gained the heart of the mountain damsel,
+highly gratified the pride of her father. Alice, who could now
+speak a little English, was very communicative in return for
+Rose's kindness, readily confided to her the whole papers
+respecting the intrigue with Gardiner's regiment, of which she was
+the depositary, and as readily undertook, at her instance, to
+restore them to Waverley without her father's knowledge. For 'they
+may oblige the bonnie young lady and the handsome young
+gentleman,' said Alice, 'and what use has my father for a whin
+bits o' scarted paper?'
+
+The reader is aware that she took an opportunity of executing this
+purpose on the eve of Waverley's leaving the glen.
+
+How Donald executed his enterprise the reader is aware. But the
+expulsion of the military from Tully-Veolan had given alarm, and
+while he was lying in wait for Gilfillan, a strong party, such as
+Donald did not care to face, was sent to drive back the insurgents
+in their turn, to encamp there, and to protect the country. The
+officer, a gentleman and a disciplinarian, neither intruded
+himself on Miss Bradwardine, whose unprotected situation he
+respected, nor permitted his soldiers to commit any breach of
+discipline. He formed a little camp upon an eminence near the
+house of Tully-Veolan, and placed proper guards at the passes in
+the vicinity. This unwelcome news reached Donald Bean Lean as he
+was returning to Tully-Veolan. Determined, however, to obtain the
+guerdon of his labour, he resolved, since approach to Tully-Veolan
+was impossible, to deposit his prisoner in Janet's cottage, a
+place the very existence of which could hardly have been suspected
+even by those who had long lived in the vicinity, unless they had
+been guided thither, and which was utterly unknown to Waverley
+himself. This effected, he claimed and received his reward.
+Waverley's illness was an event which deranged all their
+calculations. Donald was obliged to leave the neighbourhood with
+his people, and to seek more free course for his adventures
+elsewhere. At Rose's entreaty, he left an old man, a herbalist,
+who was supposed to understand a little of medicine, to attend
+Waverley during his illness.
+
+In the meanwhile, new and fearful doubts started in Rose's mind.
+They were suggested by old Janet, who insisted that, a reward
+having been offered for the apprehension of Waverley, and his own
+personal effects being so valuable, there was no saying to what
+breach of faith Donald might be tempted. In an agony of grief and
+terror, Rose took the daring resolution of explaining to the
+Prince himself the danger in which Mr. Waverley stood, judging
+that, both as a politician and a man of honour and humanity,
+Charles Edward would interest himself to prevent his falling into
+the hands of the opposite party. This letter she at first thought
+of sending anonymously, but naturally feared it would not in that
+case be credited. She therefore subscribed her name, though with
+reluctance and terror, and consigned it in charge to a young man,
+who at leaving his farm to join the Chevalier's army, made it his
+petition to her to have some sort of credentials to the
+adventurer, from whom he hoped to obtain a commission.
+
+The letter reached Charles Edward on his descent to the Lowlands,
+and, aware of the political importance of having it supposed that
+he was in correspondence with the English Jacobites, he caused the
+most positive orders to be transmitted to Donald Bean Lean to
+transmit Waverley, safe and uninjured, in person or effects, to
+the governor of Doune Castle. The freebooter durst not disobey,
+for the army of the Prince was now so near him that punishment
+might have followed; besides, he was a politician as well as a
+robber, and was unwilling to cancel the interest created through
+former secret services by being refractory on this occasion. He
+therefore made a virtue of necessity, and transmitted orders to
+his lieutenant to convey Edward to Doune, which was safely
+accomplished in the mode mentioned in a former chapter. The
+governor of Doune was directed to send him to Edinburgh as a
+prisoner, because the Prince was apprehensive that Waverley, if
+set at liberty, might have resumed his purpose of returning to
+England, without affording him an opportunity of a personal
+interview. In this, indeed, he acted by the advice of the
+Chieftain of Glennaquoich, with whom it may be remembered the
+Chevalier communicated upon the mode of disposing of Edward,
+though without telling him how he came to learn the place of his
+confinement.
+
+This, indeed, Charles Edward considered as a lady's secret; for
+although Rose's letter was couched in the most cautious and
+general terms, and professed to be written merely from motives of
+humanity and zeal for the Prince's service, yet she expressed so
+anxious a wish that she should not be known to have interfered,
+that the Chevalier was induced to suspect the deep interest which
+she took in Waverley's safety. This conjecture, which was well
+founded, led, however, to false inferences. For the emotion which
+Edward displayed on approaching Flora and Rose at the ball of
+Holyrood was placed by the Chevalier to the account of the latter;
+and he concluded that the Baron's views about the settlement of
+his property, or some such obstacle, thwarted their mutual
+inclinations. Common fame, it is true, frequently gave Waverley to
+Miss Mac-Ivor; but the Prince knew that common fame is very
+prodigal in such gifts; and, watching attentively the behaviour of
+the ladies towards Waverley, he had no doubt that the young
+Englishman had no interest with Flora, and was beloved by Rose
+Bradwardine. Desirous to bind Waverley to his service, and wishing
+also to do a kind and friendly action, the Prince next assailed
+the Baron on the subject of settling his estate upon his daughter.
+Mr. Bradwardine acquiesced; but the consequence was that Fergus
+was immediately induced to prefer his double suit for a wife and
+an earldom, which the Prince rejected in the manner we have seen.
+The Chevalier, constantly engaged in his own multiplied affairs,
+had not hitherto sought any explanation with Waverley, though
+often meaning to do so. But after Fergus's declaration he saw the
+necessity of appearing neutral between the rivals, devoutly hoping
+that the matter, which now seemed fraught with the seeds of
+strife, might be permitted to lie over till the termination of the
+expedition. When, on the march to Derby, Fergus, being questioned
+concerning his quarrel with Waverley, alleged as the cause that
+Edward was desirous of retracting the suit he had made to his
+sister, the Chevalier plainly told him that he had himself
+observed Miss Mac-Ivor's behaviour to Waverley, and that he was
+convinced Fergus was under the influence of a mistake in judging
+of Waverley's conduct, who, he had every reason to believe, was
+engaged to Miss Bradwardine. The quarrel which ensued between
+Edward and the Chieftain is, I hope, still in the remembrance of
+the reader. These circumstances will serve to explain such points
+of our narrative as, according to the custom of story-tellers, we
+deemed it fit to leave unexplained, for the purpose of exciting
+the reader's curiosity.
+
+When Janet had once finished the leading facts of this narrative,
+Waverley was easily enabled to apply the clue which they afforded
+to other mazes of the labyrinth in which he had been engaged. To
+Rose Bradwardine, then, he owed the life which he now thought he
+could willingly have laid down to serve her. A little reflection
+convinced him, however, that to live for her sake was more
+convenient and agreeable, and that, being possessed of
+independence, she might share it with him either in foreign
+countries or in his own. The pleasure of being allied to a man of
+the Baron's high worth, and who was so much valued by his uncle
+Sir Everard, was also an agreeable consideration, had anything
+been wanting to recommend the match. His absurdities, which had
+appeared grotesquely ludicrous during his prosperity, seemed, in
+the sunset of his fortune, to be harmonised and assimilated with
+the noble features of his character, so as to add peculiarity
+without exciting ridicule. His mind occupied with such projects of
+future happiness, Edward sought Little Veolan, the habitation of
+Mr. Duncan Macwheeble.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXVI
+
+    Now is Cupid a child of conscience--he makes restitution.
+
+    SHAKSPEARE
+
+
+Mr. Duncan MacWheeble, no longer Commissary or Bailie, though
+still enjoying the empty name of the latter dignity, had escaped
+proscription by an early secession from the insurgent party and by
+his insignificance.
+
+Edward found him in his office, immersed among papers and
+accounts. Before him was a large bicker of oatmeal porridge, and
+at the side thereof a horn spoon and a bottle of two-penny.
+Eagerly running his eye over a voluminous law-paper, he from time
+to time shovelled an immense spoonful of these nutritive viands
+into his capacious mouth. A pot-bellied Dutch bottle of brandy
+which stood by intimated either that this honest limb of the law
+had taken his morning already, or that he meant to season his
+porridge with such digestive; or perhaps both circumstances might
+reasonably be inferred. His night-cap and morning-gown, had
+whilome been of tartan, but, equally cautious and frugal, the
+honest Bailie had got them dyed black, lest their original ill-
+omened colour might remind his visitors of his unlucky excursion
+to Derby. To sum up the picture, his face was daubed with snuff up
+to the eyes, and his fingers with ink up to the knuckles. He
+looked dubiously at Waverley as he approached the little green
+rail which fenced his desk and stool from the approach of the
+vulgar. Nothing could give the Bailie more annoyance than the idea
+of his acquaintance being claimed by any of the unfortunate
+gentlemen who were now so much more likely to need assistance than
+to afford profit. But this was the rich young Englishman; who knew
+what might be his situation? He was the Baron's friend too; what
+was to be done?
+
+While these reflections gave an air of absurd perplexity to the
+poor man's visage, Waverley, reflecting on the communication he
+was about to make to him, of a nature so ridiculously contrasted
+with the appearance of the individual, could not help bursting out
+a-laughing, as he checked the propensity to exclaim with Syphax--
+
+    Cato's a proper person to intrust
+    A love-tale with.
+
+As Mr. Macwheeble had no idea of any person laughing heartily who
+was either encircled by peril or oppressed by poverty, the
+hilarity of Edward's countenance greatly relieved the
+embarrassment of his own, and, giving him a tolerably hearty
+welcome to Little Veolan, he asked what he would choose for
+breakfast. His visitor had, in the first place, something for his
+private ear, and begged leave to bolt the door. Duncan by no means
+liked this precaution, which savoured of danger to be apprehended;
+but he could not now draw back.
+
+Convinced he might trust this man, as he could make it his
+interest to be faithful, Edward communicated his present situation
+and future schemes to Macwheeble. The wily agent listened with
+apprehension when he found Waverley was still in a state of
+proscription; was somewhat comforted by learning that he had a
+passport; rubbed his hands with glee when he mentioned the amount
+of his present fortune; opened huge eyes when he heard the
+brilliancy of his future expectations; but when he expressed his
+intention to share them with Miss Rose Bradwardine, ecstasy had
+almost deprived the honest man of his senses. The Bailie started
+from his three-footed stool like the Pythoness from her tripod;
+flung his best wig out of the window, because the block on which
+it was placed stood in the way of his career; chucked his cap to
+the ceiling, caught it as it fell; whistled 'Tullochgorum'; danced
+a Highland fling with inimitable grace and agility, and then threw
+himself exhausted into a chair, exclaiming, 'Lady Wauverley! ten
+thousand a year the least penny! Lord preserve my poor
+understanding!'
+
+'Amen with all my heart,' said Waverley; 'but now, Mr. Macwheeble,
+let us proceed to business.' This word had somewhat a sedative
+effect, but the Bailie's head, as he expressed himself, was still
+'in the bees.' He mended his pen, however, marked half a dozen
+sheets of paper with an ample marginal fold, whipped down Dallas
+of St. Martin's 'Styles' from a shelf, where that venerable work
+roosted with Stair's 'Institutions,' Dirleton's 'Doubts,'
+Balfour's 'Practiques,' and a parcel of old account-books, opened
+the volume at the article Contract of Marriage, and prepared to
+make what he called a'sma' minute to prevent parties frae
+resiling.'
+
+With some difficulty Waverley made him comprehend that he was
+going a little too fast. He explained to him that he should want
+his assistance, in the first place, to make his residence safe for
+the time, by writing to the officer at Tully-Veolan that Mr.
+Stanley, an English gentleman nearly related to Colonel Talbot,
+was upon a visit of business at Mr. Macwheeble's, and, knowing the
+state of the country, had sent his passport for Captain Foster's
+inspection. This produced a polite answer from the officer, with
+an invitation to Mr. Stanley to dine with him, which was declined
+(as may easily be supposed) under pretence of business.
+
+Waverley's next request was, that Mr. Macwheeble would despatch a
+man and horse to----, the post-town at which Colonel Talbot was to
+address him, with directions to wait there until the post should
+bring a letter for Mr. Stanley, and then to forward it to Little
+Veolan with all speed. In a moment the Bailie was in search of his
+apprentice (or servitor, as he was called Sixty Years Since), Jock
+Scriever, and in not much greater space of time Jock was on the
+back of the white pony. 'Tak care ye guide him weel, sir, for he's
+aye been short in the wind since--ahem--Lord be gude to me! (in a
+low voice), I was gaun to come out wi'--since I rode whip and spur
+to fetch the Chevalier to redd Mr. Wauverley and Vich lan Vohr;
+and an uncanny coup I gat for my pains. Lord forgie your honour! I
+might hae broken my neck; but troth it was in a venture, mae ways
+nor ane; but this maks amends for a'. Lady Wauverley! ten thousand
+a year! Lord be gude unto me!'
+
+'But you forget, Mr. Macwheeble, we want the Baron's consent--the
+lady's--'
+
+'Never fear, I'se be caution for them; I'se gie you my personal
+warrandice. Ten thousand a year! it dings Balmawhapple out and
+out--a year's rent's worth a' Balmawhapple, fee and life-rent!
+Lord make us thankful!'
+
+To turn the current of his feelings, Edward inquired if he had
+heard anything lately of the Chieftain of Glennaquoich.
+
+'Not one word,' answered Macwheeble, 'but that he was still in
+Carlisle Castle, and was soon to be panelled for his life. I dinna
+wish the young gentleman ill,' he said, 'but I hope that they that
+hae got him will keep him, and no let him back to this Hieland
+border to plague us wi' black-mail and a' manner o' violent,
+wrongous, and masterfu' oppression and spoliation, both by himself
+and others of his causing, sending, and hounding out; and he
+couldna tak care o' the siller when he had gotten it neither, but
+flung it a' into yon idle quean's lap at Edinburgh; but light come
+light gane. For my part, I never wish to see a kilt in the country
+again, nor a red-coat, nor a gun, for that matter, unless it were
+to shoot a paitrick; they're a' tarr'd wi' ae stick. And when they
+have done ye wrang, even when ye hae gotten decreet of spuilzie,
+oppression, and violent profits against them, what better are ye?
+They hae na a plack to pay ye; ye need never extract it.'
+
+With such discourse, and the intervening topics of business, the
+time passed until dinner, Macwheeble meanwhile promising to devise
+some mode of introducing Edward at the Duchran, where Rose at
+present resided, without risk of danger or suspicion; which seemed
+no very easy task, since the laird was a very zealous friend to
+government. The poultry-yard had been laid under requisition, and
+cockyleeky and Scotch collops soon reeked in the Bailie's little
+parlour. The landlord's cork-screw was just introduced into the
+muzzle of a pint bottle of claret (cribbed possibly from the
+cellars of Tully-Veolan), when the sight of the grey pony passing
+the window at full trot induced the Bailie, but with due
+precaution, to place it aside for the moment. Enter Jock Scriever
+with a packet for Mr. Stanley; it is Colonel Talbot's seal, and
+Edward's ringers tremble as he undoes it. Two official papers,
+folded, signed, and sealed in all formality, drop out. They were
+hastily picked up by the Bailie, who had a natural respect for
+everything resembling a deed, and, glancing slily on their titles,
+his eyes, or rather spectacles, are greeted with 'Protection by
+his Royal Highness to the person of Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine,
+Esq., of that ilk, commonly called Baron of Bradwardine, forfeited
+for his accession to the late rebellion.' The other proves to be a
+protection of the same tenor in favour of Edward Waverley, Esq.
+Colonel Talbot's letter was in these words:--
+
+'My DEAR EDWARD,
+
+'I am just arrived here, and yet I have finished my business; it
+has cost me some trouble though, as you shall hear. I waited upon
+his Royal Highness immediately on my arrival, and found him in no
+very good humour for my purpose. Three or four Scotch gentlemen
+were just leaving his levee. After he had expressed himself to me
+very courteously; "Would you think it," he said, "Talbot, here
+have been half a dozen of the most respectable gentlemen and best
+friends to government north of the Forth, Major Melville of
+Cairnvreckan, Rubrick of Duchran, and others, who have fairly
+wrung from me, by their downright importunity, a present
+protection and the promise of a future pardon for that stubborn
+old rebel whom they call Baron of Bradwardine. They allege that
+his high personal character, and the clemency which he showed to
+such of our people as fell into the rebels' hands, should weigh in
+his favour, especially as the loss of his estate is likely to be a
+severe enough punishment. Rubrick has undertaken to keep him at
+his own house till things are settled in the country; but it's a
+little hard to be forced in a manner to pardon such a mortal enemy
+to the House of Brunswick." This was no favourable moment for
+opening my business; however, I said I was rejoiced to learn that
+his Royal Highness was in the course of granting such requests, as
+it emboldened me to present one of the like nature in my own name.
+He was very angry, but I persisted; I mentioned the uniform
+support of our three votes in, the house, touched modestly on
+services abroad, though valuable only in his Royal Highness's
+having been pleased kindly to accept them, and founded pretty
+strongly on his own expressions of friendship and good-will. He
+was embarrassed, but obstinate. I hinted the policy of detaching,
+on all future occasions, the heir of such a fortune as your
+uncle's from the machinations of the disaffected. But I made no
+impression. I mentioned the obligations which I lay under to Sir
+Everard and to you personally, and claimed, as the sole reward of
+my services, that he would be pleased to afford me the means of
+evincing my gratitude. I perceived that he still meditated a
+refusal, and, taking my commission from my pocket, I said (as a
+last resource) that, as his Royal Highness did not, under these
+pressing circumstances, think me worthy of a favour which he had
+not scrupled to grant to other gentlemen whose services I could
+hardly judge more important than my own, I must beg leave to
+deposit, with all humility, my commission in his Royal Highness's
+hands, and to retire from the service. He was not prepared for
+this; he told me to take up my commission, said some handsome
+things of my services, and granted my request. You are therefore
+once more a free man, and I have promised for you that you will be
+a good boy in future, and remember what you owe to the lenity of
+government. Thus you see my prince can be as generous as yours. I
+do not pretend, indeed, that he confers a favour with all the
+foreign graces and compliments of your Chevalier errant; but he
+has a plain English manner, and the evident reluctance with which
+he grants your request indicates the sacrifice which he makes of
+his own inclination to your wishes. My friend, the adjutant-
+general, has procured me a duplicate of the Baron's protection
+(the original being in Major Melville's possession), which I send
+to you, as I know that if you can find him you will have pleasure
+in being the first to communicate the joyful intelligence. He will
+of course repair to the Duchran without loss of time, there to
+ride quarantine for a few weeks. As for you, I give you leave to
+escort him thither, and to stay a week there, as I understand a
+certain fair lady is in that quarter. And I have the pleasure to
+tell you that whatever progress you can make in her good graces
+will be highly agreeable to Sir Everard and Mrs. Rachel, who will
+never believe your views and prospects settled, and the three
+ermines passant in actual safety, until you present them with a
+Mrs. Edward Waverley. Now, certain love-affairs of my own--a good
+many years since--interrupted some measures which were then
+proposed in favour of the three ermines passant; so I am bound in
+honour to make them amends. Therefore make good use of your time,
+for, when your week is expired, it will be necessary that you go
+to London to plead your pardon in the law courts.
+
+'Ever, dear Waverley, yours most truly, 'PHILIP TALBOT.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXVII
+
+    Happy's the wooing
+    That's not long a doing
+
+
+When the first rapturous sensation occasioned by these excellent
+tidings had somewhat subsided, Edward proposed instantly to go
+down to the glen to acquaint the Baron with their import. But the
+cautious Bailie justly observed that, if the Baron were to appear
+instantly in public, the tenantry and villagers might become
+riotous in expressing their joy, and give offence to 'the powers
+that be,' a sort of persons for whom the Bailie always had
+unlimited respect. He therefore proposed that Mr. Waverley should
+go to Janet Gellatley's and bring the Baron up under cloud of
+night to Little Veolan, where he might once more enjoy the luxury
+of a good bed. In the meanwhile, he said, he himself would go to
+Captain Foster and show him the Baron's protection, and obtain his
+countenance for harbouring him that night, and he would have
+horses ready on the morrow to set him on his way to the Duchran
+along with Mr. Stanley, 'whilk denomination, I apprehend, your
+honour will for the present retain,' said the Bailie.
+
+'Certainly, Mr. Macwheeble; but will you not go down to the glen
+yourself in the evening to meet your patron?'
+
+'That I wad wi' a' my heart; and mickle obliged to your honour for
+putting me in mind o' mybounden duty. But it will be past sunset
+afore I get back frae the Captain's, and at these unsonsy hours
+the glen has a bad name; there's something no that canny about
+auld Janet Gellatley. The Laird he'll no believe thae things, but
+he was aye ower rash and venturesome, and feared neither man nor
+deevil, an sae's seen o't. But right sure am I Sir George
+Mackenyie says, that no divine can doubt there are witches, since
+the Bible says thou shalt not suffer them to live; and that no
+lawyer in Scotland can doubt it, since it is punishable with death
+by our law. So there's baith law and gospel for it. An his honour
+winna believe the Leviticus, he might aye believe the Statute-
+book; but he may tak his ain way o't; it's a' ane to Duncan
+Macwheeble. However, I shall send to ask up auld Janet this e'en;
+it's best no to lightly them that have that character; and we'll
+want Davie to turn the spit, for I'll gar Eppie put down a fat
+goose to the fire for your honours to your supper.'
+
+When it was near sunset Waverley hastened to the hut; and he could
+not but allow that superstition had chosen no improper locality,
+or unfit object, for the foundation of her fantastic terrors. It
+resembled exactly the description of Spenser:--
+
+    There, in a gloomy hollow glen, she found
+    A little cottage built of sticks and reeds,
+    In homely wise, and wall'd with sods around,
+    In which a witch did dwell in loathly weeds,
+    And wilful want, all careless of her needs,
+    So choosing solitary to abide
+    Far from all neighbours, that her devilish deeds,
+    And hellish arts, from people she might hide,
+    And hurt far off, unknown, whomsoever she espied.
+
+He entered the cottage with these verses in his memory. Poor old
+Janet, bent double with age and bleared with peat-smoke, was
+tottering about the hut with a birch broom, muttering to herself
+as she endeavoured to make her hearth and floor a little clean for
+the reception of her expected guests. Waverley's step made her
+start, look up, and fall a-trembling, so much had her nerves been
+on the rack for her patron's safety. With difficulty Waverley made
+her comprehend that the Baron was now safe from personal danger;
+and when her mind had admitted that joyful news, it was equally
+hard to make her believe that he was not to enter again upon
+possession of his estate. 'It behoved to be,' she said, 'he wad
+get it back again; naebody wad be sae gripple as to tak his gear
+after they had gi'en him a pardon: and for that Inch-Grabbit, I
+could whiles wish mysell a witch for his sake, if I werena feared
+the Enemy wad tak me at my word.' Waverley then gave her some
+money, and promised that her fidelity should be rewarded. 'How can
+I be rewarded, sir, sae weel as just to see my auld maister and
+Miss Rose come back and bruik their ain?'
+
+Waverley now took leave of Janet, and soon stood beneath the
+Baron's Patmos. At a low whistle he observed the veteran peeping
+out to reconnoitre, like an old badger with his head out of his
+hole. 'Ye hae come rather early, my good lad,' said he,
+descending; 'I question if the red-coats hae beat the tattoo yet,
+and we're not safe till then.'
+
+'Good news cannot be told too soon,' said Waverley; and with
+infinite joy communicated to him the happy tidings. The old man
+stood for a moment in silent devotion, then exclaimed, 'Praise be
+to God! I shall see my bairn again.'
+
+'And never, I hope, to part with her more,' said Waverley.
+
+'I trust in God not, unless it be to win the means of supporting
+her; for my things are but in a bruckle state;--but what signifies
+warld's gear?'
+
+'And if,' said Waverley modestly, 'there were a situation in life
+which would put Miss Bradwardine beyond the uncertainty of
+fortune, and in the rank to which she was born, would you object
+to it, my dear Baron, because it would make one of your friends
+the happiest man in the world?' The Baron turned and looked at him
+with great earnestness. 'Yes,' continued Edward, 'I shall not
+consider my sentence of banishment as repealed unless you will
+give me permission to accompany you to the Duchran, and--'
+
+The Baron seemed collecting all his dignity to make a suitable
+reply to what, at another time, he would have treated as the
+propounding a treaty of alliance between the houses of Bradwardine
+and Waverley. But his efforts were in vain; the father was too
+mighty for the Baron; the pride of birth and rank were swept away;
+in the joyful surprise a slight convulsion passed rapidly over his
+features, as he gave way to the feelings of nature, threw his arms
+around Waverley's neck, and sobbed out--'My son, my son! if I had
+been to search the world, I would have made my choice here.'
+Edward returned the embrace with great sympathy of feeling, and
+for a little while they both kept silence. At length it was broken
+by Edward. 'But Miss Bradwardine?'
+
+'She had never a will but her old father's; besides, you are a
+likely youth, of honest principles and high birth; no, she never
+had any other will than mine, and in my proudest days I could not
+have wished a mair eligible espousal for her than the nephew of my
+excellent old friend, Sir Everard. But I hope, young man, ye deal
+na rashly in this matter? I hope ye hae secured the approbation of
+your ain friends and allies, particularly of your uncle, who is in
+loco parentis? Ah! we maun tak heed o' that.' Edward assured him
+that Sir Everard would think himself highly honoured in the
+flattering reception his proposal had met with, and that it had
+his entire approbation; in evidence of which he put Colonel
+Talbot's letter into the Baron's hand. The Baron read it with
+great attention. 'Sir Everard,' he said, 'always despised wealth
+in comparison of honour and birth; and indeed he hath no occasion
+to court the Diva Pecunia. Yet I now wish, since this Malcolm
+turns out such a parricide, for I can call him no better, as to
+think of alienating the family inheritance--I now wish (his eyes
+fixed on a part of the roof which was visible above the trees)
+that I could have left Rose the auld hurley-house and the riggs
+belanging to it. And yet,' said he, resuming more cheerfully,
+'it's maybe as weel as it is; for, as Baron of Bradwardine, I
+might have thought it my duty to insist upon certain compliances
+respecting name and bearings, whilk now, as a landless laird wi' a
+tocherless daughter, no one can blame me for departing from.'
+
+'Now, Heaven be praised!' thought Edward,'that Sir Everard does
+not hear these scruples! The three ermines passant and rampant
+bear would certainly have gone together by the ears.' He then,
+with all the ardour of a young lover, assured the Baron that he
+sought for his happiness only in Rose's heart and hand, and
+thought himself as happy in her father's simple approbation as if
+he had settled an earldom upon his daughter.
+
+They now reached Little Veolan. The goose was smoking on the
+table, and the Bailie brandished his knife and fork. A joyous
+greeting took place between him and his patron. The kitchen, too,
+had its company. Auld Janet was established at the ingle-nook;
+Davie had turned the spit to his immortal honour; and even Ban and
+Buscar, in the liberality of Macwheeble's joy, had been stuffed to
+the throat with food, and now lay snoring on the floor.
+
+The next day conducted the Baron and his young friend to the
+Duchran, where the former was expected, in consequence of the
+success of the nearly unanimous application of the Scottish
+friends of government in his favour. This had been so general and
+so powerful that it was almost thought his estate might have been
+saved, had it not passed into the rapacious hands of his unworthy
+kinsman, whose right, arising out of the Baron's attainder, could
+not be affected by a pardon from the crown. The old gentleman,
+however, said, with his usual spirit, he was more gratified by the
+hold he possessed in the good opinion of his neighbours than he
+would have been in being rehabilitated and restored in integrum,
+had it been found practicable.'
+
+We shall not attempt to describe the meeting of the father and
+daughter, loving each other so affectionately, and separated under
+such perilous circumstances. Still less shall we attempt to
+analyse the deep blush of Rose at receiving the compliments of
+Waverley, or stop to inquire whether she had any curiosity
+respecting the particular cause of his journey to Scotland at that
+period. We shall not even trouble the reader with the humdrum
+details of a courtship Sixty Years Since. It is enough to say
+that, under so strict a martinet as the Baron, all things were
+conducted in due form. He took upon himself, the morning after
+their arrival, the task of announcing the proposal of Waverley to
+Rose, which she heard with a proper degree of maiden timidity.
+Fame does, however, say that Waverley had the evening before found
+five minutes to apprise her of what was coming, while the rest of
+the company were looking at three twisted serpents which formed a,
+jet d'eau in the garden.
+
+My fair readers will judge for themselves; but, for my part, I
+cannot conceive how so important an affair could be communicated
+in so short a space of time; at least, it certainly took a full
+hour in the Baron's mode of conveying it.
+
+Waverley was now considered as a received lover in all the forms.
+He was made, by dint of smirking and nodding on the part of the
+lady of the house, to sit next Miss Bradwardine at dinner, to be
+Miss Bradwardine's partner at cards. If he came into the room, she
+of the four Miss Rubricks who chanced to be next Rose was sure to
+recollect that her thimble or her scissors were at the other end
+of the room, in order to leave the seat nearest to Miss
+Bradwardine vacant for his occupation. And sometimes, if papa and
+mamma were not in the way to keep them on their good behaviour,
+the misses would titter a little. The old Laird of Duchran would
+also have his occasional jest, and the old lady her remark. Even
+the Baron could not refrain; but here Rose escaped every
+embarrassment but that of conjecture, for his wit was usually
+couched in a Latin quotation. The very footmen sometimes grinned
+too broadly, the maidservants giggled mayhap too loud, and a
+provoking air of intelligence seemed to pervade the whole family.
+Alice Bean, the pretty maid of the cavern, who, after her father's
+misfortune, as she called it, had attended Rose as fille-de-
+chambre, smiled and smirked with the best of them. Rose and
+Edward, however, endured all these little vexatious circumstances
+as other folks have done before and since, and probably contrived
+to obtain some indemnification, since they are not supposed, on
+the whole, to have been particularly unhappy during Waverley's six
+days' stay at the Duchran.
+
+It was finally arranged that Edward should go to Waverley-Honour
+to make the necessary arrangements for his marriage, thence to
+London to take the proper measures for pleading his pardon, and
+return as soon as possible to claim the hand of his plighted
+bride. He also intended in his journey to visit Colonel Talbot;
+but, above all, it was his most important object to learn the fate
+of the unfortunate Chief of Glennaquoich; to visit him at
+Carlisle, and to try whether anything could be done for procuring,
+if not a pardon, a commutation at least, or alleviation, of the
+punishment to which he was almost certain of being condemned; and,
+in case of the worst, to offer the miserable Flora an asylum with
+Rose, or otherwise to assist her views in any mode which might
+seem possible. The fate of Fergus seemed hard to be averted.
+Edward had already striven to interest his friend, Colonel Talbot,
+in his behalf; but had been given distinctly to understand by his
+reply that his credit in matters of that nature was totally
+exhausted.
+
+The Colonel was still in Edinburgh, and proposed to wait there for
+some months upon business confided to him by the Duke of
+Cumberland. He was to be joined by Lady Emily, to whom easy
+travelling and goat's whey were recommended, and who was to
+journey northward under the escort of Francis Stanley. Edward,
+therefore, met the Colonel at Edinburgh, who wished him joy in the
+kindest manner on his approaching happiness, and cheerfully
+undertook many commissions which our hero was necessarily obliged
+to delegate to his charge. But on the subject of Fergus he was
+inexorable. He satisfied Edward, indeed, that his interference
+would be unavailing; but, besides, Colonel Talbot owned that he
+could not conscientiously use any influence in favour of that
+unfortunate gentleman. 'Justice,' he said, 'which demanded some
+penalty of those who had wrapped the whole nation in fear and in
+mourning, could not perhaps have selected a fitter victim. He came
+to the field with the fullest light upon the nature of his
+attempt. He had studied and understood the subject. His father's
+fate could not intimidate him; the lenity of the laws which had
+restored to him his father's property and rights could not melt
+him. That he was brave, generous, and possessed many good
+qualities only rendered him the more dangerous; that he was
+enlightened and accomplished made his crime the less excusable;
+that he was an enthusiast in a wrong cause only made him the more
+fit to be its martyr. Above all, he had been the means of bringing
+many hundreds of men into the field who, without him, would never
+have broken the peace of the country.
+
+'I repeat it,' said the Colonel,'though Heaven knows with a heart
+distressed for him as an individual, that this young gentleman has
+studied and fully understood the desperate game which he has
+played. He threw for life or death, a coronet or a coffin; and he
+cannot now be permitted, with justice to the country, to draw
+stakes because the dice have gone against him.'
+
+Such was the reasoning of those times, held even by brave and
+humane men towards a vanquished enemy. Let us devoutly hope that,
+in this respect at least, we shall never see the scenes or hold
+the sentiments that were general in Britain Sixty Years Since.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXVIII
+
+    To morrow? O that's sudden!--Spare him, spare him'
+
+    SHAKSPEARE
+
+
+Edward, attended by his former servant Alick Polwarth, who had
+reentered his service at Edinburgh, reached Carlisle while the
+commission of Oyer and Terminer on his unfortunate associates was
+yet sitting. He had pushed forward in haste, not, alas! with the
+most distant hope of saving Fergus, but to see him for the last
+time. I ought to have mentioned that he had furnished funds for
+the defence of the prisoners in the most liberal manner, as soon
+as he heard that the day of trial was fixed. A solicitor and the
+first counsel accordingly attended; but it was upon the same
+footing on which the first physicians are usually summoned to the
+bedside of some dying man of rank--the doctors to take the
+advantage of some incalculable chance of an exertion of nature,
+the lawyers to avail themselves of the barely possible occurrence
+of some legal flaw. Edward pressed into the court, which was
+extremely crowded; but by his arriving from the north, and his
+extreme eagerness and agitation, it was supposed he was a relation
+of the prisoners, and people made way for him. It was the third
+sitting of the court, and there were two men at the bar. The
+verdict of GUILTY was already pronounced. Edward just glanced at
+the bar during the momentous pause which ensued. There was no
+mistaking the stately form and noble features of Fergus Mac-Ivor,
+although his dress was squalid and his countenance tinged with the
+sickly yellow hue of long and close imprisonment. By his side was
+Evan Maccombich. Edward felt sick and dizzy as he gazed on them;
+but he was recalled to himself as the Clerk of Arraigns pronounced
+the solemn words: 'Fergus Mac-Ivor of Glennaquoich, otherwise
+called Vich Ian Vohr, and Evan Mac-Ivor, in the Dhu of
+Tarrascleugh, otherwise called Evan Dhu, otherwise called Evan
+Maccombich, or Evan Dhu MacCombich--you, and each of you, stand
+attainted of high treason. What have you to say for yourselves why
+the Court should not pronounce judgment against you, that you die
+according to law?'
+
+Fergus, as the presiding Judge was putting on the fatal cap of
+judgment, placed his own bonnet upon his head, regarded him with a
+steadfast and stern look, and replied in a firm voice, 'I cannot
+let this numerous audience suppose that to such an appeal I have
+no answer to make. But what I have to say you would not bear to
+hear, for my defence would be your condemnation. Proceed, then, in
+the name of God, to do what is permitted to you. Yesterday and the
+day before you have condemned loyal and honourable blood to be
+poured forth like water. Spare not mine. Were that of all my
+ancestors in my veins, I would have perilled it in this quarrel.'
+He resumed his seat and refused again to rise.
+
+Evan Maccombich looked at him with great earnestness, and, rising
+up, seemed anxious to speak; but the confusion of the court, and
+the perplexity arising from thinking in a language different from
+that in which he was to express himself, kept him silent. There
+was a murmur of compassion among the spectators, from the idea
+that the poor fellow intended to plead the influence of his
+superior as an excuse for his crime. The Judge commanded silence,
+and encouraged Evan to proceed. 'I was only ganging to say, my
+lord,' said Evan, in what he meant to be an insinuating manner,
+'that if your excellent honour and the honourable Court would let
+Vich Ian Vohr go free just this once, and let him gae back to
+France, and no to trouble King George's government again, that ony
+six o' the very best of his clan will be willing to be justified
+in his stead; and if you'll just let me gae down to Glennaquoich,
+I'll fetch them up to ye mysell, to head or hang, and you may
+begin wi' me the very first man.'
+
+Notwithstanding the solemnity of the occasion, a sort of laugh was
+heard in the court at the extraordinary nature of the proposal.
+The Judge checked this indecency, and Evan, looking sternly
+around, when the murmur abated, 'If the Saxon gentlemen are
+laughing,' he said, 'because a poor man, such as me, thinks my
+life, or the life of six of my degree, is worth that of Vich Ian
+Vohr, it's like enough they may be very right; but if they laugh
+because they think I would not keep my word and come back to
+redeem him, I can tell them they ken neither the heart of a
+Hielandman nor the honour of a gentleman.'
+
+There was no farther inclination to laugh among the audience, and
+a dead silence ensued.
+
+The Judge then pronounced upon both prisoners the sentence of the
+law of high treason, with all its horrible accompaniments. The
+execution was appointed for the ensuing day. 'For you, Fergus Mac-
+Ivor,' continued the Judge, 'I can hold out no hope of mercy. You
+must prepare against to-morrow for your last sufferings here, and
+your great audit hereafter.'
+
+'I desire nothing else, my lord,' answered Fergus, in the same
+manly and firm tone.
+
+The hard eyes of Evan, which had been perpetually bent on his
+Chief, were moistened with a tear. 'For you, poor ignorant man,'
+continued the Judge, 'who, following the ideas in which you have
+been educated, have this day given us a striking example how the
+loyalty due to the king and state alone is, from your unhappy
+ideas of clanship, transferred to some ambitious individual who
+ends by making you the tool of his crimes--for you, I say, I feel
+so much compassion that, if you can make up your mind to petition
+for grace, I will endeavour to procure it for you. Otherwise--'
+
+'Grace me no grace,' said Evan; 'since you are to shed Vich Ian
+Vohr's blood, the only favour I would accept from you is to bid
+them loose my hands and gie me my claymore, and bide you just a
+minute sitting where you are!'
+
+'Remove the prisoners,' said the Judge; 'his blood be upon his own
+head.'
+
+Almost stupefied with his feelings, Edward found that the rush of
+the crowd had conveyed him out into the street ere he knew what he
+was doing. His immediate wish was to see and speak with Fergus
+once more. He applied at the Castle where his unfortunate friend
+was confined, but was refused admittance. 'The High Sheriff,' a
+non-commissioned officer said, 'had requested of the governor that
+none should be admitted to see the prisoner excepting his
+confessor and his sister.'
+
+'And where was Miss Mac-Ivor?' They gave him the direction. It was
+the house of a respectable Catholic family near Carlisle.
+
+Repulsed from the gate of the Castle, and not venturing to make
+application to the High Sheriff or Judges in his own unpopular
+name, he had recourse to the solicitor who came down in Fergus's
+behalf. This gentleman told him that it was thought the public
+mind was in danger of being debauched by the account of the last
+moments of these persons, as given by the friends of the
+Pretender; that there had been a resolution, therefore, to exclude
+all such persons as had not the plea of near kindred for attending
+upon them. Yet he promised (to oblige the heir of Waverley-Honour)
+to get him an order for admittance to the prisoner the next
+morning, before his irons were knocked off for execution.
+
+'Is it of Fergus Mac-Ivor they speak thus,' thought Waverley, 'or
+do I dream? Of Fergus, the bold, the chivalrous, the free-minded,
+the lofty chieftain of a tribe devoted to him? Is it he, that I
+have seen lead the chase and head the attack, the brave, the
+active, the young, the noble, the love of ladies, and the theme of
+song,--is it he who is ironed like a malefactor, who is to be
+dragged on a hurdle to the common gallows, to die a lingering and
+cruel death, and to be mangled by the hand of the most outcast of
+wretches? Evil indeed was the spectre that boded such a fate as
+this to the brave Chief of Glennaquoich!'
+
+With a faltering voice he requested the solicitor to find means to
+warn Fergus of his intended visit, should he obtain permission to
+make it. He then turned away from him, and, returning to the inn,
+wrote a scarcely intelligible note to Flora Mac-Ivor, intimating
+his purpose to wait upon her that evening. The messenger brought
+back a letter in Flora's beautiful Italian hand, which seemed
+scarce to tremble even under this load of misery. 'Miss Flora Mac-
+Ivor,' the letter bore, 'could not refuse to see the dearest
+friend of her dear brother, even in her present circumstances of
+unparalleled distress.'
+
+When Edward reached Miss Mac-Ivor's present place of abode he was
+instantly admitted. In a large and gloomy tapestried apartment
+Flora was seated by a latticed window, sewing what seemed to be a
+garment of white flannel. At a little distance sat an elderly
+woman, apparently a foreigner, and of a religious order. She was
+reading in a book of Catholic devotion, but when Waverley entered
+laid it on the table and left the room. Flora rose to receive him,
+and stretched out her hand, but neither ventured to attempt
+speech. Her fine complexion was totally gone; her person
+considerably emaciated; and her face and hands as white as the
+purest statuary marble, forming a strong contrast with her sable
+dress and jet-black hair. Yet, amid these marks of distress there
+was nothing negligent or ill-arranged about her attire; even her
+hair, though totally without ornament, was disposed with her usual
+attention to neatness. The first words she uttered were, 'Have you
+seen him?'
+
+'Alas, no,' answered Waverley, 'I have been refused admittance.'
+
+'It accords with the rest,' she said; 'but we must submit. Shall
+you obtain leave, do you suppose?'
+
+'For--for--tomorrow,' said Waverley; but muttering the last word
+so faintly that it was almost unintelligible.
+
+'Ay, then or never,' said Flora, 'until'--she added, looking
+upward--'the time when, I trust, we shall all meet. But I hope you
+will see him while earth yet bears him. He always loved you at his
+heart, though--but it is vain to talk of the past.'
+
+'Vain indeed!' echoed Waverley.
+
+'Or even of the future, my good friend,' said Flora,'so far as
+earthly events are concerned; for how often have I pictured to
+myself the strong possibility of this horrid issue, and tasked
+myself to consider how I could support my part; and yet how far
+has all my anticipation fallen short of the unimaginable
+bitterness of this hour!'
+
+'Dear Flora, if your strength of mind--'
+
+'Ay, there it is,' she answered, somewhat wildly; 'there is, Mr.
+Waverley, there is a busy devil at my heart that whispers--but it
+were madness to listen to it--that the strength of mind on which
+Flora prided herself has murdered her brother!'
+
+'Good God! how can you give utterance to a thought so shocking?'
+
+'Ay, is it not so? but yet it haunts me like a phantom; I know it
+is unsubstantial and vain; but it will be present; will intrude
+its horrors on my mind; will whisper that my brother, as volatile
+as ardent, would have divided his energies amid a hundred objects.
+It was I who taught him to concentrate them and to gage all on
+this dreadful and desperate cast. Oh that I could recollect that I
+had but once said to him, "He that striketh with the sword shall
+die by the sword"; that I had but once said, "Remain at home;
+reserve yourself, your vassals, your life, for enterprises within
+the reach of man." But O, Mr. Waverley, I spurred his fiery
+temper, and half of his ruin at least lies with his sister!'
+
+The horrid idea which she had intimated, Edward endeavoured to
+combat by every incoherent argument that occurred to him. He
+recalled to her the principles on which both thought it their duty
+to act, and in which they had been educated.
+
+'Do not think I have forgotten them,' she said, looking up with
+eager quickness; 'I do not regret his attempt because it was
+wrong!--O no! on that point I am armed--but because it was
+impossible it could end otherwise than thus.'
+
+'Yet it did not always seem so desperate and hazardous as it was;
+and it would have been chosen by the bold spirit of Fergus whether
+you had approved it or no; your counsels only served to give unity
+and consistence to his conduct; to dignify, but not to
+precipitate, his resolution.' Flora had soon ceased to listen to
+Edward, and was again intent upon her needlework.
+
+'Do you remember,' she said, looking up with a ghastly smile, 'you
+once found me making Fergus's bride-favours, and now I am sewing
+his bridal garment. Our friends here,' she continued, with
+suppressed emotion, 'are to give hallowed earth in their chapel to
+the bloody relics of the last Vich Ian Vohr. But they will not all
+rest together; no--his head!--I shall not have the last miserable
+consolation of kissing the cold lips of my dear, dear Fergus!'
+
+The unfortunate Flora here, after one or two hysterical sobs,
+fainted in her chair. The lady, who had been attending in the
+ante-room, now entered hastily, and begged Edward to leave the
+room, but not the house.
+
+When he was recalled, after the space of nearly half an hour, he
+found that, by a strong effort, Miss Mac-Ivor had greatly composed
+herself. It was then he ventured to urge Miss Bradwardine's claim
+to be considered as an adopted sister, and empowered to assist her
+plans for the future.
+
+'I have had a letter from my dear Rose,' she replied, 'to the same
+purpose. Sorrow is selfish and engrossing, or I would have written
+to express that, even in my own despair, I felt a gleam of
+pleasure at learning her happy prospects, and at hearing that the
+good old Baron has escaped the general wreck. Give this to my
+dearest Rose; it is her poor Flora's only ornament of value, and
+was the gift of a princess.' She put into his hands a case
+containing the chain of diamonds with which she used to decorate
+her hair. 'To me it is in future useless. The kindness of my
+friends has secured me a retreat in the convent of the Scottish
+Benedictine nuns in Paris. Tomorrow--if indeed I can survive
+tomorrow--I set forward on my journey with this venerable sister.
+And now, Mr. Waverley, adieu! May you be as happy with Rose as
+your amiable dispositions deserve; and think sometimes on the
+friends you have lost. Do not attempt to see me again; it would be
+mistaken kindness.'
+
+She gave him her hand, on which Edward shed a torrent of tears,
+and with a faltering step withdrew from the apartment, and
+returned to the town of Carlisle. At the inn he found a letter
+from his law friend intimating that he would be admitted to Fergus
+next morning as soon as the Castle gates were opened, and
+permitted to remain with him till the arrival of the Sheriff gave
+signal for the fatal procession.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXIX
+
+    A darker departure is near,
+    The death drum is muffled, and sable the bier
+
+    CAMPBELL
+
+
+After a sleepless night, the first dawn of morning found Waverley
+on the esplanade in front of the old Gothic gate of Carlisle
+Castle. But he paced it long in every direction before the hour
+when, according to the rules of the garrison, the gates were
+opened and the draw-bridge lowered. He produced his order to the
+sergeant of the guard and was admitted.
+
+The place of Fergus's confinement was a gloomy and vaulted
+apartment in the central part of the Castle; a huge old tower,
+supposed to be of great antiquity, and surrounded by outworks,
+seemingly of Henry VIII's time, or somewhat later. The grating of
+the large old-fashioned bars and bolts, withdrawn for the purpose
+of admitting Edward, was answered by the clash of chains, as the
+unfortunate Chieftain, strongly and heavily fettered, shuffled
+along the stone floor of his prison to fling himself into his
+friend's arms.
+
+'My dear Edward,' he said, in a firm and even cheerful voice,'this
+is truly kind. I heard of your approaching happiness with the
+highest pleasure. And how does Rose? and how is our old whimsical
+friend the Baron? Well, I trust, since I see you at freedom. And
+how will you settle precedence between the three ermines passant
+and the bear and boot-jack?'
+
+'How, O how, my dear Fergus, can you talk of such things at such a
+moment!'
+
+'Why, we have entered Carlisle with happier auspices, to be sure;
+on the 16th of November last, for example, when we marched in side
+by side, and hoisted the white flag on these ancient towers. But I
+am no boy, to sit down and weep because the luck has gone against
+me. I knew the stake which I risked; we played the game boldly and
+the forfeit shall be paid manfully. And now, since my time is
+short, let me come to the questions that interest me most--the
+Prince? has he escaped the bloodhounds?'
+
+'He has, and is in safety.'
+
+'Praised be God for that! Tell me the particulars of his escape.'
+
+Waverley communicated that remarkable history, so far as it had
+then transpired, to which Fergus listened with deep interest. He
+then asked after several other friends; and made many minute
+inquiries concerning the fate of his own clansmen. They had
+suffered less than other tribes who had been engaged in the
+affair; for, having in a great measure dispersed and returned home
+after the captivity of their Chieftain, according to the universal
+custom of the Highlanders, they were not in arms when the
+insurrection was finally suppressed, and consequently were treated
+with less rigour. This Fergus heard with great satisfaction.
+
+'You are rich,' he said, 'Waverley, and you are generous. When you
+hear of these poor Mac-Ivors being distressed about their
+miserable possessions by some harsh overseer or agent of
+government, remember you have worn their tartan and are an adopted
+son of their race, The Baron, who knows our manners and lives near
+our country, will apprise you of the time and means to be their
+protector. Will you promise this to the last Vich Ian Vohr?'
+
+Edward, as may well be believed, pledged his word; which he
+afterwards so amply redeemed that his memory still lives in these
+glens by the name of the Friend of the Sons of Ivor.
+
+'Would to God,' continued the Chieftain, 'I could bequeath to you
+my rights to the love and obedience of this primitive and brave
+race; or at least, as I have striven to do, persuade poor Evan to
+accept of his life upon their terms, and be to you what he has
+been to me, the kindest, the bravest, the most devoted--'
+
+The tears which his own fate could not draw forth fell fast for
+that of his foster-brother.
+
+'But,' said he, drying them,'that cannot be. You cannot be to them
+Vich Ian Vohr; and these three magic words,' said he, half
+smiling, 'are the only Open Sesame to their feelings and
+sympathies, and poor Evan must attend his foster-brother in death,
+as he has done through his whole life.'
+
+'And I am sure,' said Maccombich, raising himself from the floor,
+on which, for fear of interrupting their conversation, he had lain
+so still that, in the obscurity of the apartment, Edward was not
+aware of his presence--'I am sure Evan never desired or deserved a
+better end than just to die with his Chieftain.'
+
+'And now,' said Fergus, 'while we are upon the subject of
+clanship--what think you now of the prediction of the Bodach
+Glas?' Then, before Edward could answer, 'I saw him again last
+night: he stood in the slip of moonshine which fell from that high
+and narrow window towards my bed. "Why should I fear him?" I
+thought; "to-morrow, long ere this time, I shall be as immaterial
+as he." "False spirit," I said, "art thou come to close thy walks
+on earth and to enjoy thy triumph in the fall of the last
+descendant of thine enemy?" The spectre seemed to beckon and to
+smile as he faded from my sight. What do you think of it? I asked
+the same question of the priest, who is a good and sensible man;
+he admitted that the church allowed that such apparitions were
+possible, but urged me not to permit my mind to dwell upon it, as
+imagination plays us such strange tricks. What do you think of
+it?'
+
+'Much as your confessor,' said Waverley, willing to avoid dispute
+upon such a point at such a moment. A tap at the door now
+announced that good man, and Edward retired while he administered
+to both prisoners the last rites of religion, in the mode which
+the Church of Rome prescribes.
+
+In about an hour he was re-admitted; soon after, a file of
+soldiers entered with a blacksmith, who struck the fetters from
+the legs of the prisoners.
+
+'You see the compliment they pay to our Highland strength and
+courage; we have lain chained here like wild beasts, till our legs
+are cramped into palsy, and when they free us they send six
+soldiers with loaded muskets to prevent our taking the castle by
+storm!'
+
+Edward afterwards learned that these severe precautions had been
+taken in consequence of a desperate attempt of the prisoners to
+escape, in which they had very nearly succeeded.
+
+Shortly afterwards the drums of the garrison beat to arms. 'This
+is the last turn-out,' said Fergus, 'that I shall hear and obey.
+And now, my dear, dear Edward, ere we part let us speak of Flora--
+a subject which awakes the tenderest feeling that yet thrills
+within me'
+
+'We part not here!' said Waverley.
+
+'O yes, we do; you must come no farther. Not that I fear what is
+to follow for myself,' he said proudly. 'Nature has her tortures
+as well as art, and how happy should we think the man who escapes
+from the throes of a mortal and painful disorder in the space of a
+short half hour? And this matter, spin it out as they will, cannot
+last longer. But what a dying man can suffer firmly may kill a
+living friend to look upon. This same law of high treason,' he
+continued, with astonishing firmness and composure, 'is one of the
+blessings, Edward, with which your free country has accommodated
+poor old Scotland; her own jurisprudence, as I have heard, was
+much milder. But I suppose one day or other--when there are no
+longer any wild Highlanders to benefit by its tender mercies--they
+will blot it from their records as levelling them with a nation of
+cannibals. The mummery, too, of exposing the senseless head--they
+have not the wit to grace mine with a paper coronet; there would
+be some satire in that, Edward. I hope they will set it on the
+Scotch gate though, that I may look, even after death, to the blue
+hills of my own country, which I love so dearly. The Baron would
+have added,
+
+    Moritur, et moriens dukes reminiscitur Argos.'
+
+A bustle, and the sound of wheels and horses' feet, was now heard
+in the court-yard of the Castle. 'As I have told you why you must
+not follow me, and these sounds admonish me that my time flies
+fast, tell me how you found poor Flora.'
+
+Waverley, with a voice interrupted by suffocating sensations, gave
+some account of the state of her mind.
+
+'Poor Flora!' answered the Chief, 'she could have borne her own
+sentence of death, but not mine. You, Waverley, will soon know the
+happiness of mutual affection in the married state--long, long may
+Rose and you enjoy it!--but you can never know the purity of
+feeling which combines two orphans like Flora and me, left alone
+as it were in the world, and being all in all to each other from
+our very infancy. But her strong sense of duty and predominant
+feeling of loyalty will give new nerve to her mind after the
+immediate and acute sensation of this parting has passed away. She
+will then think of Fergus as of the heroes of our race, upon whose
+deeds she loved to dwell.'
+
+'Shall she not see you then?' asked Waverley. 'She seemed to
+expect it.'
+
+'A necessary deceit will spare her the last dreadful parting. I
+could not part with her without tears, and I cannot bear that
+these men should think they have power to extort them. She was
+made to believe she would see me at a later hour, and this letter,
+which my confessor will deliver, will apprise her that all is
+over.'
+
+An officer now appeared and intimated that the High Sheriff and
+his attendants waited before the gate of the Castle to claim the
+bodies of Fergus Mac-Ivor and Evan Maccombich. 'I come,' said
+Fergus. Accordingly, supporting Edward by the arm and followed by
+Evan Dhu and the priest, he moved down the stairs of the tower,
+the soldiers bringing up the rear. The court was occupied by a
+squadron of dragoons and a battalion of infantry, drawn up in
+hollow square. Within their ranks was the sledge or hurdle on
+which the prisoners were to be drawn to the place of execution,
+about a mile distant from Carlisle. It was painted black, and
+drawn by a white horse. At one end of the vehicle sat the
+executioner, a horrid-looking fellow, as beseemed his trade, with
+the broad axe in his hand; at the other end, next the horse, was
+an empty seat for two persons. Through the deep and dark Gothic
+archway that opened on the drawbridge were seen on horseback the
+High Sheriff and his attendants, whom the etiquette betwixt the
+civil and military powers did not permit to come farther. 'This is
+well GOT UP for a closing scene,' said Fergus, smiling
+disdainfully as he gazed around upon the apparatus of terror. Evan
+Dhu exclaimed with some eagerness, after looking at the dragoons,'
+These are the very chields that galloped off at Gladsmuir, before
+we could kill a dozen o' them. They look bold enough now,
+however.' The priest entreated him to be silent.
+
+The sledge now approached, and Fergus, turning round, embraced
+Waverley, kissed him on each side of the face, and stepped nimbly
+into his place. Evan sat down by his side. The priest was to
+follow in a carriage belonging to his patron, the Catholic
+gentleman at whose house Flora resided. As Fergus waved his hand
+to Edward the ranks closed around the sledge, and the whole
+procession began to move forward. There was a momentary stop at
+the gateway, while the governor of the Castle and the High Sheriff
+went through a short ceremony, the military officer there
+delivering over the persons of the criminals to the civil power.
+'God save King George!' said the High Sheriff. When the formality
+concluded, Fergus stood erect in the sledge, and, with a firm and
+steady voice, replied,' God save King JAMES!' These were the last
+words which Waverley heard him speak.
+
+The procession resumed its march, and the sledge vanished from
+beneath the portal, under which it had stopped for an instant. The
+dead march was then heard, and its melancholy sounds were mingled
+with those of a muffled peal tolled from the neighbouring
+cathedral. The sound of military music died away as the procession
+moved on; the sullen clang of the bells was soon heard to sound
+alone.
+
+The last of the soldiers had now disappeared from under the
+vaulted archway through which they had been filing for several
+minutes; the court-yard was now totally empty, but Waverley still
+stood there as if stupefied, his eyes fixed upon the dark pass
+where he had so lately seen the last glimpse of his friend. At
+length a female servant of the governor's, struck with compassion,
+at the stupefied misery which his countenance expressed, asked him
+if he would not walk into her master's house and sit down? She was
+obliged to repeat her question twice ere he comprehended her, but
+at length it recalled him to himself. Declining the courtesy by a
+hasty gesture, he pulled his hat over his eyes, and, leaving the
+Castle, walked as swiftly as he could through the empty streets
+till he regained his inn, then rushed into an apartment and bolted
+the door.
+
+In about an hour and a half, which seemed an age of unutterable
+suspense, the sound of the drums and fifes performing a lively
+air, and the confused murmur of the crowd which now filled the
+streets, so lately deserted, apprised him that all was finished,
+and that the military and populace were returning from the
+dreadful scene. I will not attempt to describe his sensations.
+
+In the evening the priest made him a visit, and informed him that
+he did so by directions of his deceased friend, to assure him that
+Fergus Mac-Ivor had died as he lived, and remembered his
+friendship to the last. He added, he had also seen Flora, whose
+state of mind seemed more composed since all was over. With her
+and sister Theresa the priest proposed next day to leave Carlisle
+for the nearest seaport from which they could embark for France.
+Waverley forced on this good man a ring of some value and a sum of
+money to be employed (as he thought might gratify Flora) in the
+services of the Catholic church for the memory of his friend.
+'Fun-garque inani munere,' he repeated, as the ecclesiastic
+retired. 'Yet why not class these acts of remembrance with other
+honours, with which affection in all sects pursues the memory of
+the dead?'
+
+The next morning ere daylight he took leave of the town of
+Carlisle, promising to himself never again to enter its walls. He
+dared hardly look back towards the Gothic battlements of the
+fortified gate under which he passed, for the place is surrounded
+with an old wall. 'They're no there,' said Alick Polwarth, who
+guessed the cause of the dubious look which Waverley cast
+backward, and who, with the vulgar appetite for the horrible, was
+master of each detail of the butchery--'the heads are ower the
+Scotch yate, as they ca' it. It's a great pity of Evan Dhu, who
+was a very weel-meaning, good-natured man, to be a Hielandman;
+and indeed so was the Laird o' Glennaquoich too, for that matter,
+when he wasna in ane o' his tirrivies.'
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXX
+
+DULCE DOMUM
+
+
+The impression of horror with which Waverley left Carlisle
+softened by degrees into melancholy, a gradation which was
+accelerated by the painful yet soothing task of writing to Rose;
+and, while he could not suppress his own feelings of the calamity,
+he endeavoured to place it in a light which might grieve her
+without shocking her imagination. The picture which he drew for
+her benefit he gradually familiarised to his own mind, and his
+next letters were more cheerful, and referred to the prospects of
+peace and happiness which lay before them. Yet, though his first
+horrible sensations had sunk into melancholy, Edward had reached
+his native country before he could, as usual on former occasions,
+look round for enjoyment upon the face of nature.
+
+He then, for the first time since leaving Edinburgh, began to
+experience that pleasure which almost all feel who return to a
+verdant, populous, and highly cultivated country from scenes of
+waste desolation or of solitary and melancholy grandeur. But how
+were those feelings enhanced when he entered on the domain so long
+possessed by his forefathers; recognised the old oaks of Waverley-
+Chace; thought with what delight he should introduce Rose to all
+his favourite haunts; beheld at length the towers of the venerable
+hall arise above the woods which embowered it, and finally threw
+himself into the arms of the venerable relations to whom he owed
+so much duty and affection!
+
+The happiness of their meeting was not tarnished by a single word
+of reproach. On the contrary, whatever pain Sir Everard and Mrs.
+Rachel had felt during Waverley's perilous engagement with the
+young Chevalier, it assorted too well with the principles in which
+they had been brought up to incur reprobation, or even censure.
+Colonel Talbot also had smoothed the way with great address for
+Edward's favourable reception by dwelling upon his gallant
+behaviour in the military character, particularly his bravery and
+generosity at Preston; until, warmed at the idea of their nephew's
+engaging in single combat, making prisoner, and saving from
+slaughter so distinguished an officer as the Colonel himself, the
+imagination of the Baronet and his sister ranked the exploits of
+Edward with those of Wilibert, Hildebrand, and Nigel, the vaunted
+heroes of their line.
+
+The appearance of Waverley, embrowned by exercise and dignified by
+the habits of military discipline, had acquired an athletic and
+hardy character, which not only verified the Colonel's narration,
+but surprised and delighted all the inhabitants of Waverley-
+Honour. They crowded to see, to hear him, and to sing his praises.
+Mr. Pembroke, who secretly extolled his spirit and courage in
+embracing the genuine cause of the Church of England, censured his
+pupil gently, nevertheless, for being so careless of his
+manuscripts, which indeed, he said, had occasioned him some
+personal inconvenience, as, upon the Baronet's being arrested by a
+king's messenger, he had deemed it prudent to retire to a
+concealment called 'The Priest's Hole,' from the use it had been
+put to in former days; where, he assured our hero, the butler had
+thought it safe to venture with food only once in the day, so that
+he had been repeatedly compelled to dine upon victuals either
+absolutely cold or, what was worse, only half warm, not to mention
+that sometimes his bed had not been arranged for two days
+together. Waverley's mind involuntarily turned to the Patmos of
+the Baron of Bradwardine, who was well pleased with Janet's fare
+and a few bunches of straw stowed in a cleft in the front of a
+sand-cliff; but he made no remarks upon a contrast which could
+only mortify his worthy tutor.
+
+All was now in a bustle to prepare for the nuptials of Edward, an
+event to which the good old Baronet and Mrs. Rachel looked forward
+as if to the renewal of their own youth. The match, as Colonel
+Talbot had intimated, had seemed to them in the highest degree
+eligible, having every recommendation but wealth, of which they
+themselves had more than enough. Mr. Clippurse was therefore
+summoned to Waverley-Honour, under better auspices than at the
+commencement of our story. But Mr. Clippurse came not alone; for,
+being now stricken in years, he had associated with him a nephew,
+a younger vulture (as our English Juvenal, who tells the tale of
+Swallow the attorney, might have called him), and they now carried
+on business as Messrs. Clippurse and Hookem. These worthy
+gentlemen had directions to make the necessary settlements on the
+most splendid scale of liberality, as if Edward were to wed a
+peeress in her own right, with her paternal estate tacked to the
+fringe of her ermine.
+
+But before entering upon a subject of proverbial delay, I must
+remind my reader of the progress of a stone rolled downhill by an
+idle truant boy (a pastime at which I was myself expert in my more
+juvenile years), it moves at first slowly, avoiding by inflection
+every obstacle of the least importance; but when it has attained
+its full impulse, and draws near the conclusion of its career, it
+smokes and thunders down, taking a rood at every spring, clearing
+hedge and ditch like a Yorkshire huntsman, and becoming most
+furiously rapid in its course when it is nearest to being
+consigned to rest for ever. Even such is the course of a narrative
+like that which you are perusing. The earlier events are
+studiously dwelt upon, that you, kind reader, may be introduced to
+the character rather by narrative than by the duller medium of
+direct description; but when the story draws near its close, we
+hurry over the circumstances, however important, which your
+imagination must have forestalled, and leave you to suppose those
+things which it would be abusing your patience to relate at
+length.
+
+We are, therefore, so far from attempting to trace the dull
+progress of Messrs. Clippurse and Hookem, or that of their worthy
+official brethren who had the charge of suing out the pardons of
+Edward Waverley and his intended father-in-law, that we can but
+touch upon matters more attractive. The mutual epistles, for
+example, which were exchanged between Sir Everard and the Baron
+upon this occasion, though matchless specimens of eloquence in
+their way, must be consigned to merciless oblivion. Nor can I tell
+you at length how worthy Aunt Rachel, not without a delicate and
+affectionate allusion to the circumstances which had transferred
+Rose's maternal diamonds to the hands of Donald Bean Lean, stocked
+her casket with a set of jewels that a duchess might have envied.
+Moreover, the reader will have the goodness to imagine that Job
+Houghton and his dame were suitably provided for, although they
+could never be persuaded that their son fell otherwise than
+fighting by the young squire's side; so that Alick, who, as a
+lover of truth, had made many needless attempts to expound the
+real circumstances to them, was finally ordered to say not a word
+more upon the subject. He indemnified himself, however, by the
+liberal allowance of desperate battles, grisly executions, and
+raw-head and bloody-bone stories with which he astonished the
+servants' hall.
+
+But although these important matters may be briefly told in
+narrative, like a newspaper report of a Chancery suit, yet, with
+all the urgency which Waverley could use, the real time which the
+law proceedings occupied, joined to the delay occasioned by the
+mode of travelling at that period, rendered it considerably more
+than two months ere Waverley, having left England, alighted once
+more at the mansion of the Laird of Duchran to claim the hand of
+his plighted bride.
+
+The day of his marriage was fixed for the sixth after his arrival.
+The Baron of Bradwardine, with whom bridals, christenings, and
+funerals were festivals of high and solemn import, felt a little
+hurt that, including the family of the Duchran and all the
+immediate vicinity who had title to be present on such an
+occasion, there could not be above thirty persons collected. 'When
+he was married,' he observed,'three hundred horse of gentlemen
+born, besides servants, and some score or two of Highland lairds,
+who never got on horseback, were present on the occasion.'
+
+But his pride found some consolation in reflecting that, he and
+his son-in-law having been so lately in arms against government,
+it might give matter of reasonable fear and offence to the ruling
+powers if they were to collect together the kith, kin, and allies
+of their houses, arrayed in effeir of war, as was the ancient
+custom of Scotland on these occasions--'And, without dubitation,'
+he concluded with a sigh, 'many of those who would have rejoiced
+most freely upon these joyful espousals are either gone to a
+better place or are now exiles from their native land.'
+
+The marriage took place on the appointed day. The Reverend Mr.
+Rubrick, kinsman to the proprietor of the hospitable mansion where
+it was solemnised, and chaplain to the Baron of Bradwardine, had
+the satisfaction to unite their hands; and Frank Stanley acted as
+bridesman, having joined Edward with that view soon after his
+arrival. Lady Emily and Colonel Talbot had proposed being present;
+but Lady Emily's health, when the day approached, was found
+inadequate to the journey. In amends it was arranged that Edward
+Waverley and his lady, who, with the Baron, proposed an immediate
+journey to Waverley-Honour, should in their way spend a few days
+at an estate which Colonel Talbot had been tempted to purchase in
+Scotland as a very great bargain, and at which he proposed to
+reside for some time.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXXI
+
+    This is no mine ain house, I ken by the bigging o't
+
+    Old Song.
+
+
+The nuptial party travelled in great style. There was a coach and
+six after the newest pattern, which Sir Everard had presented to
+his nephew, that dazzled with its splendour the eyes of one half
+of Scotland; there was the family coach of Mr. Rubrick;--both
+these were crowded with ladies,--and there were gentlemen on
+horseback, with their servants, to the number of a round score.
+Nevertheless, without having the fear of famine before his eyes,
+Bailie Macwheeble met them in the road to entreat that they would
+pass by his house at Little Veolan. The Baron stared, and said his
+son and he would certainly ride by Little Veolan and pay their
+compliments to the Bailie, but could not think of bringing with
+them the 'haill comitatus nuptialis, or matrimonial procession.'
+He added, 'that, as he understood that the barony had been sold by
+its unworthy possessor, he was glad to see his old friend Duncan
+had regained his situation under the new Dominus, or proprietor.'
+The Bailie ducked, bowed, and fidgeted, and then again insisted
+upon his invitation; until the Baron, though rather piqued at the
+pertinacity of his instances, could not nevertheless refuse to
+consent without making evident sensations which he was anxious to
+conceal.
+
+He fell into a deep study as they approached the top of the
+avenue, and was only startled from it by observing that the
+battlements were replaced, the ruins cleared away, and (most
+wonderful of all) that the two great stone bears, those mutilated
+Dagons of his idolatry, had resumed their posts over the gateway.
+'Now this new proprietor,' said he to Edward, 'has shown mair
+gusto, as the Italians call it, in the short time he has had this
+domain, than that hound Malcolm, though I bred him here mysell,
+has acquired vita adhuc durante. And now I talk of hounds, is not
+yon Ban and Buscar who come scouping up the avenue with Davie
+Gellatley?'
+
+'I vote we should go to meet them, sir,' said Waverley, 'for I
+believe the present master of the house is Colonel Talbot, who
+will expect to see us. We hesitated to mention to you at first
+that he had purchased your ancient patrimonial property, and even
+yet, if you do not incline to visit him, we can pass on to the
+Bailie's.'
+
+The Baron had occasion for all his magnanimity. However, he drew a
+long breath, took a long snuff, and observed, since they had
+brought him so far, he could not pass the Colonel's gate, and he
+would be happy to see the new master of his old tenants. He
+alighted accordingly, as did the other gentlemen and ladies; he
+gave his arm to his daughter, and as they descended the avenue
+pointed out to her how speedily the 'Diva Pecunia of the Southron
+--their tutelary deity, he might call her--had removed the marks of
+spoliation.'
+
+In truth, not only had the felled trees been removed, but, their
+stumps being grubbed up and the earth round them levelled and sown
+with grass, every mark of devastation, unless to an eye intimately
+acquainted with the spot, was already totally obliterated. There
+was a similar reformation in the outward man of Davie Gellatley,
+who met them, every now and then stopping to admire the new suit
+which graced his person, in the same colours as formerly, but
+bedizened fine enough to have served Touchstone himself. He danced
+up with his usual ungainly frolics, first to the Baron and then to
+Rose, passing his hands over his clothes, crying, 'Bra', bra'
+Davie,' and scarce able to sing a bar to an end of his thousand-
+and-one songs for the breathless extravagance of his joy. The dogs
+also acknowledged their old master with a thousand gambols. 'Upon
+my conscience, Rose,' ejaculated the Baron, 'the gratitude o' thae
+dumb brutes and of that puir innocent brings the tears into my
+auld een, while that schellum Malcolm--but I'm obliged to Colonel
+Talbot for putting my hounds into such good condition, and
+likewise for puir Davie. But, Rose, my dear, we must not permit
+them to be a life-rent burden upon the estate.'
+
+As he spoke, Lady Emily, leaning upon the arm of her husband, met
+the party at the lower gate with a thousand welcomes. After the
+ceremony of introduction had been gone through, much abridged by
+the ease and excellent breeding of Lady Emily, she apologised for
+having used a little art to wile them back to a place which might
+awaken some painful reflections--'But as it was to change masters,
+we were very desirous that the Baron--'
+
+'Mr. Bradwardine, madam, if you please,' said the old gentleman.
+
+'--Mr. Bradwardine, then, and Mr. Waverley should see what we have
+done towards restoring the mansion of your fathers to its former
+state.'
+
+The Baron answered with a low bow. Indeed, when he entered the
+court, excepting that the heavy stables, which had been burnt
+down, were replaced by buildings of a lighter and more picturesque
+appearance, all seemed as much as possible restored to the state
+in which he had left it when he assumed arms some months before.
+The pigeon-house was replenished; the fountain played with its
+usual activity, and not only the bear who predominated over its
+basin, but all the other bears whatsoever, were replaced on their
+several stations, and renewed or repaired with so much care that
+they bore no tokens of the violence which had so lately descended
+upon them. While these minutiae had been so needfully attended to,
+it is scarce necessary to add that the house itself had been
+thoroughly repaired, as well as the gardens, with the strictest
+attention to maintain the original character of both, and to
+remove as far as possible all appearance of the ravage they had
+sustained. The Baron gazed in silent wonder; at length he
+addressed Colonel Talbot--
+
+'While I acknowledge my obligation to you, sir, for the
+restoration of the badge of our family, I cannot but marvel that
+you have nowhere established your own crest, whilk is, I believe,
+a mastiff, anciently called a talbot; as the poet has it,
+
+    A talbot strong, a sturdy tyke.
+
+At least such a dog is the crest of the martial and renowned Earls
+of Shrewsbury, to whom your family are probably blood-relations.'
+
+'I believe,' said the Colonel, smiling, 'our dogs are whelps of
+the same litter; for my part, if crests were to dispute
+precedence, I should be apt to let them, as the proverb says,
+"fight dog, fight bear."'
+
+As he made this speech, at which the Baron took another long pinch
+of snuff, they had entered the house, that is, the Baron, Rose,
+and Lady Emily, with young Stanley and the Bailie, for Edward and
+the rest of the party remained on the terrace to examine a new
+greenhouse stocked with the finest plants. The Baron resumed his
+favourite topic--'However it may please you to derogate from the
+honour of your burgonet, Colonel Talbot, which is doubtless your
+humour, as I have seen in other gentlemen of birth and honour in
+your country, I must again repeat it as a most ancient and
+distinguished bearing, as well as that of my young friend Francis
+Stanley, which is the eagle and child.'
+
+'The bird and bantling they call it in Derbyshire, sir,' said
+Stanley.
+
+'Ye're a daft callant, sir,' said the Baron, who had a great
+liking to this young man, perhaps because he sometimes teased him
+--'Ye're a daft callant, and I must correct you some of these
+days,' shaking his great brown fist at him. 'But what I meant to
+say, Colonel Talbot, is, that yours is an ancient prosapia, or
+descent, and since you have lawfully and justly acquired the
+estate for you and yours which I have lost for me and mine, I wish
+it may remain in your name as many centuries as it has done in
+that of the late proprietor's.'
+
+'That,' answered the Colonel, 'is very handsome, Mr. Bradwardine,
+indeed.'
+
+'And yet, sir, I cannot but marvel that you, Colonel, whom I noted
+to have so much of the amor patritz when we met in Edinburgh as
+even to vilipend other countries, should have chosen to establish
+your Lares, or household gods, procul a patrice finibus, and in a
+manner to expatriate yourself.'
+
+'Why really, Baron, I do not see why, to keep the secret of these
+foolish boys, Waverley and Stanley, and of my wife, who is no
+wiser, one old soldier should continue to impose upon another. You
+must know, then, that I have so much of that same prejudice in
+favour of my native country, that the sum of money which I
+advanced to the seller of this extensive barony has only purchased
+for me a box in----shire, called Brere-wood Lodge, with about
+two hundred and fifty acres of land, the chief merit of which is,
+that it is within a very few miles of Waverley-Honour.'
+
+'And who, then, in the name of Heaven, has bought this property?'
+
+'That,' said the Colonel, 'it is this gentleman's profession to
+explain.'
+
+The Bailie, whom this reference regarded, and who had all this
+while shifted from one foot to another with great impatience,
+'like a hen,' as he afterwards said, 'upon a het girdle'; and
+chuckling, he might have added, like the said hen in all the glory
+of laying an egg, now pushed forward. 'That I can, that I can,
+your honour,' drawing from his pocket a budget of papers, and
+untying the red tape with a hand trembling with eagerness. 'Here
+is the disposition and assignation by Malcolm Bradwardine of Inch-
+Grabbit, regularly signed and tested in terms of the statute,
+whereby, for a certain sum of sterling money presently contented
+and paid to him, he has disponed, alienated, and conveyed the
+whole estate and barony of Bradwardine, Tully-Veolan, and others,
+with the fortalice and manor-place--'
+
+'For God's sake, to the point, sir; I have all that by heart,'
+said the Colonel.
+
+'--To Cosmo Comyne Bradwardme, Esq.,' pursued the Bailie, 'his
+heirs and assignees, simply and irredeemably, to be held either a
+me vel de me--'
+
+'Pray read short, sir.'
+
+'On the conscience of an honest man, Colonel, I read as short as
+is consistent with style--under the burden and reservation always--'
+
+'Mr. Macwheeble, this would outlast a Russian winter; give me
+leave. In short, Mr. Bradwardine, your family estate is your own
+once more in full property, and at your absolute disposal, but
+only burdened with the sum advanced to re-purchase it, which I
+understand is utterly disproportioned to its value.'
+
+'An auld sang--an auld sang, if it please your honours,' cried the
+Bailie, rubbing his hands; 'look at the rental book.'
+
+'--Which sum being advanced, by Mr. Edward Waverley, chiefly from
+the price of his father's property which I bought from him, is
+secured to his lady your daughter and her family by this
+marriage.'
+
+'It is a catholic security,' shouted the Bailie,' to Rose Comyne
+Bradwardine, alias Wauverley, in life-rent, and the children of
+the said marriage in fee; and I made up a wee bit minute of an
+antenuptial contract, intuitu matrimonij, so it cannot be subject
+to reduction hereafter, as a donation inter virum et uxorem.'
+
+It is difficult to say whether the worthy Baron was most delighted
+with the restitution of his family property or with the delicacy
+and generosity that left him unfettered to pursue his purpose in
+disposing of it after his death, and which avoided as much as
+possible even the appearance of laying him under pecuniary
+obligation. When his first pause of joy and astonishment was over,
+his thoughts turned to the unworthy heir-male, who, he pronounced,
+had sold his birthright, like Esau, for a mess o' pottage.
+
+'But wha cookit the parritch for him?' exclaimed the Bailie; 'I
+wad like to ken that;--wha but your honour's to command, Duncan
+Macwheeble? His honour, young Mr. Wauverley, put it a' into my
+hand frae the beginning--frae the first calling o' the summons, as
+I may say. I circumvented them--I played at bogle about the bush
+wi' them--I cajolled them; and if I havena gien Inch-Grabbit and
+Jamie Howie a bonnie begunk, they ken themselves. Him a writer! I
+didna gae slapdash to them wi' our young bra' bridegroom, to gar
+them baud up the market. Na, na; I scared them wi' our wild
+tenantry, and the Mac-Ivors, that are but ill settled yet, till
+they durstna on ony errand whatsoever gang ower the doorstane
+after gloaming, for fear John Heatherblutter, or some siccan dare-
+the-deil, should tak a baff at them; then, on the other hand, I
+beflummed them wi' Colonel Talbot; wad they offer to keep up the
+price again' the Duke's friend? did they na ken wha was master?
+had they na seen eneugh, by the sad example of mony a puir
+misguided unhappy body--'
+
+'Who went to Derby, for example, Mr. Macwheeble?' said the Colonel
+to him aside.
+
+'O whisht, Colonel, for the love o' God! let that flee stick i'
+the wa'. There were mony good folk at Derby; and it's ill speaking
+of halters'--with a sly cast of his eye toward the Baron, who was
+in a deep reverie.
+
+Starting out of it at once, he took Macwheeble by the button and
+led him into one of the deep window recesses, whence only
+fragments of their conversation reached the rest of the party. It
+certainly related to stamp-paper and parchment; for no other
+subject, even from the mouth of his patron, and he once more an
+efficient one, could have arrested so deeply the Bailie's reverent
+and absorbed attention.
+
+'I understand your honour perfectly; it can be dune as easy as
+taking out a decreet in absence.'
+
+'To her and him, after my demise, and to their heirs-male, but
+preferring the second son, if God shall bless them with two, who
+is to carry the name and arms of Bradwardine of that ilk, without
+any other name or armorial bearings whatsoever.'
+
+'Tut, your honour!' whispered the Bailie, 'I'll mak a slight
+jotting the morn; it will cost but a charter of resignation in
+favorem; and I'll hae it ready for the next term in Exchequer.'
+
+Their private conversation ended, the Baron was now summoned to do
+the honours of Tully-Veolan to new guests. These were Major
+Melville of Cairnvreckan and the Reverend Mr. Morton, followed by
+two or three others of the Baron's acquaintances, who had been
+made privy to his having again acquired the estate of his fathers.
+The shouts of the villagers were also heard beneath in the court-
+yard; for Saunders Saunderson, who had kept the secret for several
+days with laudable prudence, had unloosed his tongue upon
+beholding the arrival of the carriages.
+
+But, while Edward received Major Melville with politeness and the
+clergyman with the most affectionate and grateful kindness, his
+father-in-law looked a little awkward, as uncertain how he should
+answer the necessary claims of hospitality to his guests, and
+forward the festivity of his tenants. Lady Emily relieved him by
+intimating that, though she must be an indifferent representative
+of Mrs. Edward Waverley in many respects, she hoped the Baron
+would approve of the entertainment she had ordered in expectation
+of so many guests; and that they would find such other
+accommodations provided as might in some degree support the
+ancient hospitality of Tully-Veolan. It is impossible to describe
+the pleasure which this assurance gave the Baron, who, with an air
+of gallantry half appertaining to the stiff Scottish laird and
+half to the officer in the French service, offered his arm to the
+fair speaker, and led the way, in something between a stride and a
+minuet step, into the large dining parlour, followed by all the
+rest of the good company.
+
+By dint of Saunderson's directions and exertions, all here, as
+well as in the other apartments, had been disposed as much as
+possible according to the old arrangement; and where new movables
+had been necessary, they had been selected in the same character
+with the old furniture. There was one addition to this fine old
+apartment, however, which drew tears into the Baron's eyes. It was
+a large and spirited painting, representing Fergus Mac-Ivor and
+Waverley in their Highland dress, the scene a wild, rocky, and
+mountainous pass, down which the clan were descending in the
+background. It was taken from a spirited sketch, drawn while they
+were in Edinburgh by a young man of high genius, and had been
+painted on a full-length scale by an eminent London artist.
+Raeburn himself (whose 'Highland Chiefs' do all but walk out of
+the canvas) could not have done more justice to the subject; and
+the ardent, fiery, and impetuous character of the unfortunate
+Chief of Glennaquoich was finely contrasted with the
+contemplative, fanciful, and enthusiastic expression of his
+happier friend. Beside this painting hung the arms which Waverley
+had borne in the unfortunate civil war. The whole piece was beheld
+with admiration and deeper feelings.
+
+Men must, however, eat, in spite both of sentiment and vertu; and
+the Baron, while he assumed the lower end of the table, insisted
+that Lady Emily should do the honours of the head, that they
+might, he said, set a meet example to the YOUNG FOLK. After a
+pause of deliberation, employed in adjusting in his own brain the
+precedence between the Presbyterian kirk and Episcopal church of
+Scotland, he requested Mr. Morton, as the stranger, would crave a
+blessing, observing that Mr. Rubrick, who was at HOME, would
+return thanks for the distinguished mercies it had been his lot to
+experience. The dinner was excellent. Saunderson attended in full
+costume, with all the former domestics, who had been collected,
+excepting one or two, that had not been heard of since the affair
+of Culloden. The cellars were stocked with wine which was
+pronounced to be superb, and it had been contrived that the Bear
+of the Fountain, in the courtyard, should (for that night only)
+play excellent brandy punch for the benefit of the lower orders.
+
+When the dinner was over the Baron, about to propose a toast, cast
+a somewhat sorrowful look upon the sideboard, which, however,
+exhibited much of his plate, that had either been secreted or
+purchased by neighbouring gentlemen from the soldiery, and by them
+gladly restored to the original owner.
+
+"In the late times," he said, "those must be thankful who have
+saved life and land; yet when I am about to pronounce this toast,
+I cannot but regret an old heirloom, Lady Emily, a POCULUM
+POTATORIUM, Colonel Talbot--"
+
+Here the Baron's elbow was gently touched by his major-domo, and,
+turning round, he beheld in the hands of Alexander ab Alexandro
+the celebrated cup of Saint Duthac, the Blessed Bear of
+Bradwardine! I question if the recovery of his estate afforded him
+more rapture. "By my honour," he said, "one might almost believe
+in brownies and fairies, Lady Emily, when your ladyship is in
+presence!"
+
+"I am truly happy," said Colonel Talbot, "that, by the recovery of
+this piece of family antiquity, it has fallen within my power to
+give you some token of my deep interest in all that concerns my
+young friend Edward. But that you may not suspect Lady Emily for a
+sorceress, or me for a conjuror, which is no joke in Scotland, I
+must tell you that Frank Stanley, your friend, who has been seized
+with a tartan fever ever since he heard Edward's tales of old
+Scottish manners, happened to describe to us at second-hand this
+remarkable cup. My servant, Spontoon, who, like a true old
+soldier, observes everything and says little, gave me afterwards
+to understand that he thought he had seen the piece of plate Mr.
+Stanley mentioned in the possession of a certain Mrs. Nosebag,
+who, having been originally the helpmate of a pawnbroker, had
+found opportunity during the late unpleasant scenes in Scotland to
+trade a little in her old line, and so became the depositary of
+the more valuable part of the spoil of half the army. You may
+believe the cup was speedily recovered; and it will give me very
+great pleasure if you allow me to suppose that its value is not
+diminished by having been restored through my means."
+
+A tear mingled with the wine which the Baron filled, as he
+proposed a cup of gratitude to Colonel Talbot, and 'The Prosperity
+of the united Houses of Waverley-Honour and Bradwardine!'
+
+It only remains for me to say that, as no wish was ever uttered
+with more affectionate sincerity, there are few which, allowing
+for the necessary mutability of human events, have been upon the
+whole more happily fulfilled.
+
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXXII
+
+A POSTSCRIPT WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN A PREFACE
+
+
+Our journey is now finished, gentle reader; and if your patience
+has accompanied me through these sheets, the contract is, on your
+part, strictly fulfilled. Yet, like the driver who has received
+his full hire, I still linger near you, and make, with becoming
+diffidence, a trifling additional claim upon your bounty and good
+nature. You are as free, however, to shut the volume of the one
+petitioner as to close your door in the face of the other.
+
+This should have been a prefatory chapter, but for two reasons:
+First, that most novel readers, as my own conscience reminds me,
+are apt to be guilty of the sin of omission respecting that same
+matter of prefaces; Secondly, that it is a general custom with
+that class of students to begin with the last chapter of a work;
+so that, after all, these remarks, being introduced last in order,
+have still the best chance to be read in their proper place.
+
+There is no European nation which, within the course of half a
+century or little more, has undergone so complete a change as this
+kingdom of Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of 1745,--the
+destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs,--the
+abolition of the heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility
+and barons,--the total eradication of the Jacobite party, which,
+averse to intermingle with the English, or adopt their customs,
+long continued to pride themselves upon maintaining ancient
+Scottish manners and customs,--commenced this innovation. The
+gradual influx of wealth and extension of commerce have since
+united to render the present people of Scotland a class of beings
+as different from their grandfathers as the existing English are
+from those of Queen Elizabeth's time.
+
+The political and economical effects of these changes have been
+traced by Lord Selkirk with great precision and accuracy. But the
+change, though steadily and rapidly progressive, has nevertheless
+been gradual; and, like those who drift down the stream of a deep
+and smooth river, we are not aware of the progress we have made
+until we fix our eye on the now distant point from which we have
+been drifted. Such of the present generation as can recollect the
+last twenty or twenty-five years of the eighteenth century will be
+fully sensible of the truth of this statement; especially if their
+acquaintance and connexions lay among those who in my younger time
+were facetiously called 'folks of the old leaven,' who still
+cherished a lingering, though hopeless, attachment to the house of
+Stuart.
+
+This race has now almost entirely vanished from the land, and with
+it, doubtless, much absurd political prejudice; but also many
+living examples of singular and disinterested attachment to the
+principles of loyalty which they received from their fathers, and
+of old Scottish faith, hospitality, worth, and honour.
+
+It was my accidental lot, though not born a Highlander (which may
+be an apology for much bad Gaelic), to reside during my childhood
+and youth among persons of the above description; and now, for the
+purpose of preserving some idea of the ancient manners of which I
+have witnessed the almost total extinction, I have embodied in
+imaginary scenes, and ascribed to fictitious characters, a part of
+the incidents which I then received from those who were actors in
+them. Indeed, the most romantic parts of this narrative are
+precisely those which have a foundation in fact.
+
+The exchange of mutual protection between a Highland gentleman and
+an officer of rank in the king's service, together with the
+spirited manner in which the latter asserted his right to return
+the favour he had received, is literally true. The accident by a
+musket shot, and the heroic reply imputed to Flora, relate to a
+lady of rank not long deceased. And scarce a gentleman who was 'in
+hiding' after the battle of Culloden but could tell a tale of
+strange concealments and of wild and hair'sbreadth'scapes as
+extraordinary as any which I have ascribed to my heroes. Of this,
+the escape of Charles Edward himself, as the most prominent, is
+the most striking example. The accounts of the battle of Preston
+and skirmish at Clifton are taken from the narrative of
+intelligent eye-witnesses, and corrected from the 'History of the
+Rebellion' by the late venerable author of 'Douglas.' The Lowland
+Scottish gentlemen and the subordinate characters are not given as
+individual portraits, but are drawn from the general habits of the
+period, of which I have witnessed some remnants in my younger
+days, and partly gathered from tradition.
+
+It has been my object to describe these persons, not by a
+caricatured and exaggerated use of the national dialect, but by
+their habits, manners, and feelings, so as in some distant degree
+to emulate the admirable Irish portraits drawn by Miss Edgeworth,
+so different from the 'Teagues' and 'dear joys' who so long, with
+the most perfect family resemblance to each other, occupied the
+drama and the novel.
+
+I feel no confidence, however, in the manner in which I have
+executed my purpose. Indeed, so little was I satisfied with my
+production, that I laid it aside in an unfinished state, and only
+found it again by mere accident among other waste papers in an old
+cabinet, the drawers of which I was rummaging in order to
+accommodate a friend with some fishing-tackle, after it had been
+mislaid for several years.
+
+Two works upon similar subjects, by female authors whose genius is
+highly creditable to their country, have appeared in the interval;
+I mean Mrs. Hamilton's 'Glenburnie' and the late account of
+'Highland Superstitions.' But the first is confined to the rural
+habits of Scotland, of which it has given a picture with striking
+and impressive fidelity; and the traditional records of the
+respectable and ingenious Mrs. Grant of Laggan are of a nature
+distinct from the fictitious narrative which I have here
+attempted.
+
+I would willingly persuade myself that the preceding work will not
+be found altogether uninteresting. To elder persons it will recall
+scenes and characters familiar to their youth; and to the rising
+generation the tale may present some idea of the manners of their
+forefathers.
+
+Yet I heartily wish that the task of tracing the evanescent
+manners of his own country had employed the pen of the only man in
+Scotland who could have done it justice--of him so eminently
+distinguished in elegant literature, and whose sketches of Colonel
+Caustic and Umphraville are perfectly blended with the finer
+traits of national character. I should in that case have had more
+pleasure as a reader than I shall ever feel in the pride of a
+successful author, should these sheets confer upon me that envied
+distinction. And, as I have inverted the usual arrangement,
+placing these remarks at the end of the work to which they refer,
+I will venture on a second violation of form, by closing the whole
+with a Dedication--
+
+THESE VOLUMES BEING RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED TO OUR SCOTTISH
+ADDISON, HENRY MACKENZIE, BY AN UNKNOWN ADMIRER OF HIS GENIUS.
+
+
+
+
+
+THE END
+
+
+
+
+
+NOTES
+
+
+NOTE I, p. 19
+
+The clan of Mac-Farlane, occupying the fastnesses of the western
+side of Loch Lomond, were great depredators on the Low Country,
+and as their excursions were made usually by night, the moon was
+proverbially called their lantern. Their celebrated pibroch of
+Hoggil nam Bo, which is the name of their gathering tune,
+intimates similar practices, the sense being:--
+
+     We are bound to drive the bullocks,
+     All by hollows, hirsts, and hillocks,
+     Through the sleet, and through the rain.
+     When the moon is beaming low
+     On frozen lake and hills of snow,
+     Bold and heartily we go;
+     And all for little gain.
+
+NOTE 2, p. 22
+
+This noble ruin is dear to my recollection, from associations
+which have been long and painfully broken. It holds a commanding
+station on the banks of the river Teith, and has been one of the
+largest castles in Scotland. Murdoch, Duke of Albany, the founder
+of this stately pile, was beheaded on the Castle-hill of Stirling,
+from which he might see the towers of Doune, the monument of his
+fallen greatness.
+
+In 1745-46, as stated in the text, a garrison on the part of the
+Chevalier was put into the castle, then less ruinous than at
+present. It was commanded by Mr. Stewart of Balloch, as governor
+for Prince Charles; he was a man of property near Callander. This
+castle became at that time the actual scene of a romantic escape
+made by John Home, the author of Douglas, and some other
+prisoners, who, having been taken at the battle of Falkirk, were
+confined there by the insurgents. The poet, who had in his own
+mind a large stock of that romantic and enthusiastic spirit of
+adventure which he has described as animating the youthful hero of
+his drama, devised and undertook the perilous enterprise of
+escaping from his prison. He inspired his companions with his
+sentiments, and when every attempt at open force was deemed
+hopeless, they resolved to twist their bed-clothes into ropes and
+thus to descend. Four persons, with Home himself, reached the
+ground in safety. But the rope broke with the fifth, who was a
+tall, lusty man. The sixth was Thomas Barrow, a brave young
+Englishman, a particular friend of Home's. Determined to take the
+risk, even in such unfavourable circumstances, Barrow committed
+himself to the broken rope, slid down on it as far as it could
+assist him, and then let himself drop. His friends beneath
+succeeded in breaking his fall. Nevertheless, he dislocated his
+ankle and had several of his ribs broken. His companions, however,
+were able to bear him off in safety.
+
+The Highlanders next morning sought for their prisoners with great
+activity. An old gentleman told the author he remembered seeing
+the commandant Stewart
+
+    Bloody with spurring, fiery red with haste,
+
+riding furiously through the country in quest of the fugitives.
+
+NOTE 3, p. 28
+
+To go out, or to have been out, in Scotland was a conventional
+phrase similar to that of the Irish respecting a man having been
+up, both having reference to an individual who had been engaged in
+insurrection. It was accounted ill-breeding in Scotland about
+forty years since to use the phrase rebellion or rebel, which
+might be interpreted by some of the parties present as a personal
+insult. It was also esteemed more polite, even for stanch Whigs,
+to denominate Charles Edward the Chevalier than to speak of him as
+the Pretender; and this kind of accommodating courtesy was usually
+observed in society where individuals of each party mixed on
+friendly terms.
+
+NOTE 4, p. 38
+
+The Jacobite sentiments were general among the western counties
+and in Wales. But although the great families of the Wynnes, the
+Wyndhams, and others had come under an actual obligation to join
+Prince Charles if he should land, they had done so under the
+express stipulation that he should be assisted by an auxiliary
+army of French, without which they foresaw the enterprise would be
+desperate. Wishing well to his cause, therefore, and watching an
+opportunity to join him, they did not, nevertheless, think
+themselves bound in honour to do so, as he was only supported by a
+body of wild mountaineers, speaking an uncouth dialect, and
+wearing a singular dress. The race up to Derby struck them with
+more dread than admiration. But it is difficult to say what the
+effect might have been had either the battle of Preston or Falkirk
+been fought and won during the advance into England.
+
+NOTE 5, p. 43
+
+Divisions early showed themselves in the Chevalier's little army,
+not only amongst the independent chieftains, who were far too
+proud to brook subjection to each other, but betwixt the Scotch
+and Charles's governor O'Sullivan, an Irishman by birth, who, with
+some of his countrymen bred in the Irish Brigade in the service of
+the King of France, had an influence with the Adventurer much
+resented by the Highlanders, who were sensible that their own
+clans made the chief or rather the only strength of his
+enterprise. There was a feud, also, between Lord George Murray and
+John Murray of Broughton, the Prince's secretary, whose disunion
+greatly embarrassed the affairs of the Adventurer. In general, a
+thousand different pretensions divided their little army, and
+finally contributed in no small degree to its overthrow.
+
+NOTE 6, p. 78
+
+This circumstance, which is historical, as well as the description
+that precedes it, will remind the reader of the war of La Vendee,
+in which the royalists, consisting chiefly of insurgent peasantry,
+attached a prodigious and even superstitious interest to the
+possession of a piece of brass ordnance, which they called Marie
+Jeanne.
+
+The Highlanders of an early period were afraid of cannon, with the
+noise and effect of which they were totally unacquainted. It was
+by means of three or four small pieces of artillery that the Earls
+of Huntly and Errol, in James VI's time, gained a great victory at
+Glenlivat, over a numerous Highland army, commanded by the Earl of
+Argyle. At the battle of the Bridge of Dee, General Middleton
+obtained by his artillery a similar success, the Highlanders not
+being able to stand the discharge of Musket's Mother, which was
+the name they bestowed on great guns. In an old ballad on the
+battle of the Bridge of Dee these verses occur:--
+
+       The Highlandmen are pretty men
+         For handling sword and shield,
+       But yet they are but simple men
+         To stand a stricken field.
+
+        The Highlandmen are pretty men
+          For target and claymore,
+        But yet they are but naked men
+          To face the cannon's roar.
+
+        For the cannons roar on a summer night
+          Like thunder in the air;
+        Was never man in Highland garb
+          Would face the cannon fair
+
+But the Highlanders of 1745 had got far beyond the simplicity of
+their forefathers, and showed throughout the whole war how little
+they dreaded artillery, although the common people still attached
+some consequence to the possession of the field-piece which led to
+this disquisition.
+
+NOTE 7, p. 93
+
+The faithful friend who pointed out the pass by which the
+Highlanders moved from Tranent to Seaton was Robert Anderson,
+junior, of Whitburgh, a gentleman of property in East Lothian. He
+had been interrogated by the Lord George Murray concerning the
+possibility of crossing the uncouth and marshy piece of ground
+which divided the armies, and which he described as impracticable.
+When dismissed, he recollected that there was a circuitous path
+leading eastward through the marsh into the plain, by which the
+Highlanders might turn the flank of Sir John Cope's position
+without being exposed to the enemy's fire. Having mentioned his
+opinion to Mr. Hepburn of Keith, who instantly saw its importance,
+he was encouraged by that gentleman to awake Lord George Murray
+and communicate the idea to him. Lord George received the
+information with grateful thanks, and instantly awakened Prince
+Charles, who was sleeping in the field with a bunch of pease under
+his head. The Adventurer received with alacrity the news that
+there was a possibility of bringing an excellently provided army
+to a decisive battle with his own irregular forces. His joy on the
+occasion was not very consistent with the charge of cowardice
+brought against him by Chevalier Johnstone, a discontented
+follower, whose Memoirs possess at least as much of a romantic as
+a historical character. Even by the account of the Chevalier
+himself, the Prince was at the head of the second line of the
+Highland army during the battle, of which he says, 'It was gained
+with such rapidity that in the second line, where I was still by
+the side of the Prince, we saw no other enemy than those who were
+lying on the ground killed and wounded, though we were not more
+than fifty paces behind our first line, running always as fast as
+we could to overtake them.'
+
+This passage in the Chevalier's Memoirs places the Prince within
+fifty paces of the heat of the battle, a position which would
+never have been the choice of one unwilling to take a share of its
+dangers. Indeed, unless the chiefs had complied with the young
+Adventurer's proposal to lead the van in person, it does not
+appear that he could have been deeper in the action.
+
+NOTE 8, p. 100
+
+The death of this good Christian and gallant man is thus given by
+his affectionate biographer, Doctor Doddridge, from the evidence
+of eye-witnesses:--
+
+'He continued all night under arms, wrapped up in his cloak, and
+generally sheltered under a rick of barley which happened to be in
+the field. About three in the morning he called his domestic
+servants to him, of which there were four in waiting. He dismissed
+three of them with most affectionate Christian advice, and such
+solemn charges relating to the performance of their duty, and the
+care of their souls, as seemed plainly to intimate that he
+apprehended it was at least very probable he was taking his last
+farewell of them. There is great reason to believe that he spent
+the little remainder of the time, which could not be much above an
+hour, in those devout exercises of soul which had been so long
+habitual to him, and to which so many circumstances did then
+concur to call him. The army was alarmed by break of day by the
+noise of the rebels' approach, and the attack was made before
+sunrise, yet when it was light enough to discern what passed. As
+soon as the enemy came within gun-shot they made a furious fire;
+and it is said that the dragoons which constituted the left wing
+immediately fled. The Colonel at the beginning of the onset, which
+in the whole lasted but a few minutes, received a wound by a
+bullet in his left breast, which made him give a sudden spring in
+his saddle; upon which his servant, who led the horse, would have
+persuaded him to retreat, but he said it was only a wound in the
+flesh, and fought on, though he presently after received a shot in
+his right thigh. In the mean time, it was discerned that some of
+the enemy fell by him, and particularly one man who had made him a
+treacherous visit but a few days before, with great professions of
+zeal for the present establishment.
+
+'Events of this kind pass in less time than the description of
+them can be written, or than it can be read. The Colonel was for a
+few moments supported by his men, and particularly by that worthy
+person Lieutenant-Colonel Whitney, who was shot through the arm
+here, and a few months after fell nobly at the battle of Falkirk,
+and by Lieutenant West, a man of distinguished bravery, as also by
+about fifteen dragoons, who stood by him to the last. But after a
+faint fire, the regiment in general was seized with a panic; and
+though their Colonel and some other gallant officers did what they
+could to rally them once or twice, they at last took a precipitate
+flight. And just in the moment when Colonel Gardiner seemed to be
+making a pause to deliberate what duty required him to do in such
+circumstances, an accident happened, which must, I think, in the
+judgment of every worthy and generous man, be allowed a sufficient
+apology for exposing his life to so great hazard, when his
+regiment had left him. He saw a party of the foot, who were then
+bravely fighting near him, and whom he was ordered to support, had
+no officer to head them; upon which he said eagerly, in the
+hearing of the person from whom I had this account, "These brave
+fellows will be cut to pieces for want of a commander," or words
+to that effect; which while he was speaking he rode up to them and
+cried out, "Fire on, my lads, and fear nothing." But just as the
+words were out of his mouth, a Highlander advanced towards him
+with a scythe fastened to a long pole, with which he gave him so
+dreadful a wound on his right arm, that his sword dropped out of
+his hand; and at the same time several others coming about him
+while he was thus dreadfully entangled with that cruel weapon, he
+was dragged off from his horse. The moment he fell, another
+Highlander, who, if the king's evidence at Carlisle may be
+credited (as I know not why they should not, though the unhappy
+creature died denying it), was one Mac-Naught, who was executed
+about a year after, gave him a stroke either with a broadsword or
+a Lochaber-axe (for my informant could not exactly distinguish) on
+the hinder part of his head, which was the mortal blow. All that
+his faithful attendant saw farther at this time was that, as his
+hat was fallen off, he took it in his left hand and waved it as a
+signal to him to retreat, and added, what were the last words he
+ever heard him speak, "Take care of yourself"; upon which the
+servant retired.'--Some Remarkable Passages in the Life of Colonel
+James Gardiner. By P. Doddridge, D.D. London, 1747, P.187.
+
+I may remark on this extract, that it confirms the account given
+in the text of the resistance offered by some of the English
+infantry. Surprised by a force of a peculiar and unusual
+description, their opposition could not be long or formidable,
+especially as they were deserted by the cavalry, and those who
+undertook to manage the artillery. But, although the affair was
+soon decided, I have always understood that many of the infantry
+showed an inclination to do their duty.
+
+NOTE 9, p. 101
+
+It is scarcely necessary to say that the character of this brutal
+young Laird is entirely imaginary. A gentleman, however, who
+resembled Balmawhapple in the article of courage only, fell at
+Preston in the manner described. A Perthshire gentleman of high
+honour and respectability, one of the handful of cavalry who
+followed the fortunes of Charles Edward, pursued the fugitive
+dragoons almost alone till near Saint Clement's Wells, where the
+efforts of some of the officers had prevailed on a few of them to
+make a momentary stand. Perceiving at this moment that they were
+pursued by only one man and a couple of servants, they turned upon
+him and cut him down with their swords. I remember when a child,
+sitting on his grave, where the grass long grew rank and green,
+distinguishing it from the rest of the field. A female of the
+family then residing at Saint Clement's Wells used to tell me the
+tragedy, of which she had been an eye-witness, and showed me in
+evidence one of the silver clasps of the unfortunate gentleman's
+waistcoat.
+
+NOTE 10, p. 118
+
+The name of Andrea de Ferrara is inscribed on all the Scottish
+broadswords which are accounted of peculiar excellence. Who this
+artist was, what were his fortunes, and when he flourished, have
+hitherto defied the research of antiquaries; only it is in general
+believed that Andrea de Ferrara was a Spanish or Italian
+artificer, brought over by James IV or V to instruct the Scots in
+the manufacture of sword blades. Most barbarous nations excel in
+the fabrication of arms; and the Scots had attained great
+proficiency in forging swords so early as the field of Pinkie; at
+which period the historian Patten describes them as 'all notably
+broad and thin, universally made to slice, and of such exceeding
+good temper that, as I never saw any so good, so I think it hard
+to devise better.'--Account of Somerset's Expedition.
+
+It may be observed that the best and most genuine Andrea Ferraras
+have a crown marked on the blade.
+
+NOTE 11, p. 124
+
+The incident here said to have happened to Flora Mac-Ivor actually
+befell Miss Nairne, a lady with whom the author had the pleasure
+of being acquainted. As the Highland army rushed into Edinburgh,
+Miss Nairne, like other ladies who approved of their cause, stood
+waving her handkerchief from a balcony, when a ball from a
+Highlander's musket, which was discharged by accident, grazed her
+forehead. 'Thank God,' said she, the instant she recovered,'that
+the accident happened to me, whose principles are known. Had it
+befallen a Whig, they would have said it was done on purpose.'
+
+NOTE 12, p. 185
+
+The Author of Waverley has been charged with painting the young
+Adventurer in colours more amiable than his character deserved.
+But having known many individuals who were near his person, he has
+been described according to the light in which those eye-witnesses
+saw his temper and qualifications. Something must be allowed, no
+doubt, to the natural exaggerations of those who remembered him as
+the bold and adventurous Prince in whose cause they had braved
+death and ruin; but is their evidence to give place entirely to
+that of a single malcontent?
+
+I have already noticed the imputations thrown by the Chevalier
+Johnstone on the Prince's courage. But some part at least of that
+gentleman's tale is purely romantic. It would not, for instance,
+be supposed that at the time he is favouring us with the highly
+wrought account of his amour with the adorable Peggie, the
+Chevalier Johnstone was a married man, whose grandchild is now
+alive; or that the whole circumstantial story concerning the
+outrageous vengeance taken by Gordon of Abbachie on a Presbyterian
+clergyman is entirely apocryphal. At the same time it may be
+admitted that the Prince, like others of his family, did not
+esteem the services done him by his adherents so highly as he
+ought. Educated in high ideas of his hereditary right, he has been
+supposed to have held every exertion and sacrifice made in his
+cause as too much the duty of the person making it to merit
+extravagant gratitude on his part. Dr. King's evidence (which his
+leaving the Jacobite interest renders somewhat doubtful) goes to
+strengthen this opinion.
+
+The ingenious editor of Johnstone's Memoirs has quoted a story
+said to be told by Helvetius, stating that Prince Charles Edward,
+far from voluntarily embarking on his daring expedition, was,
+literally bound hand and foot, and to which he seems disposed to
+yield credit. Now, it being a fact as well known as any in his
+history, and, so far as I know, entirely undisputed, that the
+Prince's personal entreaties and urgency positively forced
+Boisdale and Lochiel into insurrection, when they were earnestly
+desirous that he would put off his attempt until he could obtain a
+sufficient force from France, it will be very difficult to
+reconcile his alleged reluctance to undertake the expedition with
+his desperately insisting upon carrying the rising into effect
+against the advice and entreaty of his most powerful and most sage
+partizans. Surely a man who had been carried bound on board the
+vessel which brought him to so desperate an enterprise would have
+taken the opportunity afforded by the reluctance of his partizans
+to return to France in safety.
+
+It is averred in Johnstone's Memoirs that Charles Edward left the
+field of Culloden without doing the utmost to dispute the victory;
+and, to give the evidence on both sides, there is in existence the
+more trustworthy testimony of Lord Elcho, who states that he
+himself earnestly exhorted the Prince to charge at the head of the
+left wing, which was entire, and retrieve the day or die with
+honour. And on his counsel being declined, Lord Elcho took leave
+of him with a bitter execration, swearing he would never look on
+his face again, and kept his word.
+
+On the other hand, it seems to have been the opinion of almost all
+the other officers that the day was irretrievably lost, one wing
+of the Highlanders being entirely routed, the rest of the army
+outnumbered, outflanked, and in a condition totally hopeless. In
+this situation of things the Irish officers who surrounded
+Charles's person interfered to force him off the field. A cornet
+who was close to the Prince left a strong attestation that he had
+seen Sir Thomas Sheridan seize the bridle of his horse and turn
+him round. There is some discrepancy of evidence; but the opinion
+of Lord Elcho, a man of fiery temper and desperate at the ruin
+which he beheld impending, cannot fairly be taken in prejudice of
+a character for courage which is intimated by the nature of the
+enterprise itself, by the Prince's eagerness to fight on all
+occasions, by his determination to advance from Derby to London,
+and by the presence of mind which he manifested during the
+romantic perils of his escape. The author is far from claiming for
+this unfortunate person the praise due to splendid talents; but he
+continues to be of opinion that at the period of his enterprise he
+had a mind capable of facing danger and aspiring to fame.
+
+That Charles Edward had the advantages of a graceful presence,
+courtesy, and an address and manner becoming his station, the
+author never heard disputed by any who approached his person, nor
+does he conceive that these qualities are overcharged in the
+present attempt to sketch his portrait.
+
+The following extracts corroborative of the general opinion
+respecting the Prince's amiable disposition are taken from a
+manuscript account of his romantic expedition, by James Maxwell of
+Kirkconnell, of which I possess a copy, by the friendship of J.
+Menzies, Esq., of Pitfoddells. The author, though partial to the
+Prince, whom he faithfully followed, seems to have been a fair and
+candid man, and well acquainted with the intrigues among the
+adventurer's council:--
+
+'Everybody was mightily taken with the Prince's figure and
+personal behaviour. There was but one voice about them. Those whom
+interest or prejudice made a runaway to his cause could not help
+acknowledging that they wished him well in all other respects, and
+could hardly blame him for his present undertaking. Sundry things
+had concurred to raise his character to the highest pitch, besides
+the greatness of the enterprise and the conduct that had hitherto
+appeared in the execution of it.
+
+'There were several instances of good nature and humanity that had
+made a great impression on people's minds. I shall confine myself
+to two or three.
+
+'Immediately after the battle, as the Prince was riding along the
+ground that Cope's army had occupied a few minutes before, one of
+the officers came up to congratulate him, and said, pointing to
+the killed, "Sir, there are your enemies at your feet." The
+Prince, far from exulting, expressed a great deal of compassion
+for his father's deluded subjects, whom he declared he was
+heartily sorry to see in that posture.
+
+'Next day, while the Prince was at Pinkie House, a citizen of
+Edinburgh came to make some representation to Secretary Murray
+about the tents that city was ordered to furnish against a certain
+day. Murray happened to be out of the way, which the Prince
+hearing of called to have the gentleman brought to him, saying, he
+would rather despatch the business, whatever it was, himself than
+have the gentleman wait, which he did, by granting everything that
+was asked. So much affability in a young prince flushed with
+victory drew encomiums even from his enemies.
+
+'But what gave the people the highest idea of him was the negative
+he gave to a thing that very nearly concerned his interest, and
+upon which the success of his enterprise perhaps depended. It was
+proposed to send one of the prisoners to London to demand of that
+court a cartel for the exchange of prisoners taken, and to be
+taken, during this war, and to intimate that a refusal would be
+looked upon as a resolution on their part to give no quarter. It
+was visible a cartel would be of great advantage to the Prince's
+affairs; his friends would be more ready to declare for him if
+they had nothing to fear but the chance of war in the field; and
+if the court of London refused to settle a cartel, the Prince was
+authorised to treat his prisoners in the same manner the Elector
+of Hanover was determined to treat such of the Prince's friends as
+might fall into his hands; it was urged that a few examples would
+compel the court of London to comply. It was to be presumed that
+the officers of the English army would make a point of it. They
+had never engaged in the service but upon such terms as are in use
+among all civilised nations, and it could be no stain upon their
+honour to lay down their commissions if these terms were not
+observed, and that owing to the obstinacy of their own Prince.
+Though this scheme was plausible, and represented as very
+important, the Prince could never be brought into it, it was below
+him, he said, to make empty threats, and he would never put such
+as those into execution; he would never in cold blood take away
+lives which he had saved in heat of action at the peril of his
+own. These were not the only proofs of good nature the Prince gave
+about this time. Every day produced something new of this kind.
+These things softened the rigour of a military government which
+was only imputed to the necessity of his affairs, and which he
+endeavoured to make as gentle and easy as possible.'
+
+It has been said that the Prince sometimes exacted more state and
+ceremonial than seemed to suit his condition; but, on the other
+hand, some strictness of etiquette was altogether indispensable
+where he must otherwise have been exposed to general intrusion. He
+could also endure, with a good grace, the retorts which his
+affectation of ceremony sometimes exposed him to. It is said, for
+example, that Grant of Glenmoriston having made a hasty march to
+join Charles, at the head of his clan, rushed into the Prince's
+presence at Holyrood with unceremonious haste, without having
+attended to the duties of the toilet. The Prince received him
+kindly, but not without a hint that a previous interview with the
+barber might not have been wholly unnecessary. 'It is not
+beardless boys,' answered the displeased Chief, 'who are to do
+your Royal Highness's turn.' The Chevalier took the rebuke in good
+part.
+
+On the whole, if Prince Charles had concluded his life soon after
+his miraculous escape, his character in history must have stood
+very high. As it was, his station is amongst those a certain
+brilliant portion of whose life forms a remarkable contrast to all
+which precedes and all which follows it.
+
+NOTE 13, p. 195
+
+The following account of the skirmish at Clifton is extracted from
+the manuscript Memoirs of Evan Macpherson of Cluny, Chief of the
+clan Macpherson, who had the merit of supporting the principal
+brunt of that spirited affair. The Memoirs appear to have been
+composed about 1755, only ten years after the action had taken
+place. They were written in France, where that gallant chief
+resided in exile, which accounts for some Gallicisms which occur
+in the narrative.
+
+'In the Prince's return from Derby back towards Scotland, my Lord
+George Murray, Lieutenant-General, cheerfully charg'd himself with
+the command of the rear, a post which, altho' honourable, was
+attended with great danger, many difficulties, and no small
+fatigue; for the Prince, being apprehensive that his retreat to
+Scotland might be cut off by Marischall Wade, who lay to the
+northward of him with an armie much supperior to what H.R.H. had,
+while the Duke of Comberland with his whole cavalrie followed hard
+in the rear, was obliged to hasten his marches. It was not,
+therefore, possible for the artilirie to march so fast as the
+Prince's army, in the depth of winter, extremely bad weather, and
+the worst roads in England; so Lord George Murray was obliged
+often to continue his marches long after it was dark almost every
+night, while at the same time he had frequent allarms and
+disturbances from the Duke of Comberland's advanc'd parties.
+
+'Towards the evening of the twentie-eight December 1745 the Prince
+entered the town of Penrith, in the Province of Comberland. But as
+Lord George Murray could not bring up the artilirie so fast as he
+wou'd have wish'd, he was oblig'd to pass the night six miles
+short of that town, together with the regiment of MacDonel of
+Glengarrie, which that day happened to have the arrear guard. The
+Prince, in order to refresh his armie, and to give My Lord George
+and the artilirie time to come up, resolved to sejour the 29th at
+Penrith; so ordered his little army to appear in the morning under
+arms, in order to be reviewed, and to know in what manner the
+numbers stood from his haveing entered England. It did not at that
+time amount to 5000 foot in all, with about 400 cavalrie, compos'd
+of the noblesse who serv'd as volunteers, part of whom form'd a
+first troop of guards for the Prince, under the command of My Lord
+Elchoe, now Comte de Weems, who, being proscribed, is presently in
+France. Another part formed a second troup of guards under the
+command of My Lord Balmirino, who was beheaded at the Tower of
+London. A third part serv'd under My Lord le Comte de Kilmarnock,
+who was likewise beheaded at the Tower. A fourth part serv'd under
+My Lord Pitsligow, who is also proscribed; which cavalrie, tho'
+very few in numbers, being all noblesse, were very brave, and of
+infinite advantage to the foot, not only in the day of battle, but
+in serving as advanced guards on the several marches, and in
+patroling dureing the night on the different roads which led
+towards the towns where the army happened to quarter.
+
+'While this small army was out in a body on the 2Qth December,
+upon a riseing ground to the northward of Penrith, passing review,
+Mons. de Cluny, with his tribe, was ordered to the Bridge of
+Clifton, about a mile to southward of Penrith, after having pass'd
+in review before Mons. Pattullo, who was charged with the
+inspection of the troops, and was likeways Quarter-Master-General
+of the army, and is now in France. They remained under arms at the
+bridge, waiting the arrival of My Lord George Murray with the
+artilirie, whom Mons. de Cluny had orders to cover in passing the
+bridge. They arrived about sunsett closly pursued by the Duke of
+Comberland with the whole body of his cavalrie, reckoned upwards
+of 3000 strong, about a thousand of whom, as near as might be
+computed, dismounted, in order to cut off the passage of the
+artilirie towards the bridge, while the Duke and the others
+remained on horseback in order to attack the rear.
+
+'My Lord George Murray advanced, and although he found Mons. de
+Cluny and his tribe in good spirits under arms, yet the
+circumstance appear'd extremely delicate. The numbers were vastly
+unequall, and the attack seem'd very dangerous; so My Lord George
+declin'd giving orders to such time as he ask'd Mons. de Cluny's
+oppinion. "I will attack them with all my heart," says Mons. de
+Cluny, "if you order me." "I do order it then," answered My Lord
+George, and immediately went on himself along with Mons. de Cluny,
+and fought sword in hand on foot at the head of the single tribe
+of Macphersons. They in a moment made their way through a strong
+hedge of thorns, under the cover whereof the cavalrie had taken
+their station, in the strugle of passing which hedge My Lord
+George Murray, being dressed en montagnard, as all the army were,
+lost his bonet and wig; so continued to fight bare-headed during
+the action. They at first made a brisk discharge of their firearms
+on the enemy, then attacked them with their sabres, and made a
+great slaughter a considerable time, which obliged Comberland and
+his cavalrie to fly with precipitation and in great confusion; in
+so much that, if the Prince had been provided in a sufficient
+number of cavalrie to have taken advantage of the disorder, it is
+beyond question that the Duke of Comberland and the bulk of his
+cavalrie had been taken prisoners.
+
+'By this time it was so dark that it was not possible to view or
+number the slain who filled all the ditches which happened to be
+on the ground where they stood. But it was computed that, besides
+those who went off wounded, upwards of a hundred at least were
+left on the spot, among whom was Colonel Honywood, who commanded
+the dismounted cavalrie, whose sabre of considerable value Mons.
+de Cluny brought off and still preserves; and his tribe lykeways
+brought off many arms;--the Colonel was afterwards taken up, and,
+his wounds being dress'd, with great difficultie recovered. Mons.
+de Cluny lost only in the action twelve men, of whom some haveing
+been only wounded, fell afterwards into the hands of the enemy,
+and were sent as slaves to America, whence several of them
+returned, and one of them is now in France, a sergeant in the
+Regiment of Royal Scots. How soon the accounts of the enemies
+approach had reached the Prince, H.R.H. had immediately ordered
+Mi-Lord le Comte de Nairne, Brigadier, who, being proscribed, is
+now in France, with the three batalions of the Duke of Athol, the
+batalion of the Duke of Perth, and some other troups under his
+command, in order to support Cluny, and to bring off the
+artilirie. But the action was entirely over before the Comte de
+Nairne, with his command, cou'd reach nigh to the place. They
+therefore return'd all to Penrith, and the artilirie marched up in
+good order.
+
+'Nor did the Duke of Comberland ever afterwards dare to come
+within a day's march of the Prince and his army dureing the course
+of all that retreat, which was conducted with great prudence and
+safety when in some manner surrounded by enemies.'
+
+NOTE 14, p. 215
+
+As the heathen deities contracted an indelible obligation if they
+swore by Styx, the Scottish Highlanders had usually some peculiar
+solemnity attached to an oath which they intended should be
+binding on them. Very frequently it consisted in laying their
+hand, as they swore, on their own drawn dirk; which dagger,
+becoming a party to the transaction, was invoked to punish any
+breach of faith. But by whatever ritual the oath was sanctioned,
+the party was extremely desirous to keep secret what the especial
+oath was which he considered as irrevocable. This was a matter of
+great convenience, as he felt no scruple in breaking his
+asseveration when made in any other form than that which he
+accounted as peculiarly solemn; and therefore readily granted any
+engagement which bound him no longer than he inclined. Whereas, if
+the oath which he accounted inviolable was once publicly known, no
+party with whom he might have occasion to contract would have
+rested satisfied with any other.
+
+Louis XI of France practised the same sophistry, for he also had a
+peculiar species of oath, the only one which he was ever known to
+respect, and which, therefore, he was very unwilling to pledge.
+The only engagement which that wily tyrant accounted binding upon
+him was an oath by the Holy Cross of Saint Lo d'Angers, which
+contained a portion of the True Cross. If he prevaricated after
+taking this oath Louis believed he should die within the year. The
+Constable Saint Paul, being invited to a personal conference with
+Louis, refused to meet the king unless he would agree to ensure
+him safe conduct under sanction of this oath. But, says Comines,
+the king replied, he would never again pledge that engagement to
+mortal man, though he was willing to take any other oath which
+could be devised. The treaty broke oft, therefore, after much
+chaffering concerning the nature of the vow which Louis was to
+take. Such is the difference between the dictates of superstition
+and those of conscience.
+
+
+
+
+
+GLOSSARY
+
+
+A', all.
+
+ABOON, abune, above.
+
+AE, one.
+
+AFF, off.
+
+AFORE, before.
+
+AHINT, behind.
+
+AIN, own.
+
+AITS, oats.
+
+AMAIST, almost.
+
+AMBRY, a cupboard, a pantry.
+
+AN, if.
+
+ANE, one.
+
+ANEUCH, enough.
+
+ARRAY, annoy, trouble.
+
+ASSOILZIED, absolved, acquitted.
+
+ASSYTHMENT, satisfaction,
+
+AULD, old.
+
+BAFF, a blow.
+
+BAGGANET, a bayonet.
+
+BAILIE, a city magistrate in Scotland.
+
+BAIRN, a child.
+
+BAITH, both.
+
+BANES, bones.
+
+BANG-UP, get up quickly, bounce.
+
+BARLEY, a parley, a truce.
+
+BAULD, bold.
+
+BAULDER, bolder.
+
+BAWBEE, a halfpenny.
+
+BAWTY, sly, cunning.
+
+BEES, in the, bewildered, stupefied.
+
+BEFLUMM'D, flattered, cajoled.
+
+BEGUNK, a trick, a cheat.
+
+BEN, within, inside.
+
+BENEMPT, named.
+
+BICKER, a wooden dish.
+
+BIDE, stay, endure.
+
+BIELDY, affording shelter.
+
+BIGGING, building.
+
+BIRLIEMAN, a peace officer.
+
+BLACK-COCK, the black grouse.
+
+BLACK-FISHING, ashing by torchlight, poaching.
+
+BLUDE, bluid, blood.
+
+BODDLE, bodle, a copper coin, worth one third of an English penny.
+
+BOGLE ABOUT THE BUSH, beat about the bush, a children's game.
+
+BONNIE, beautiful, comely, fine,
+
+BOUNE, prepared.
+
+BRA', fine, handsome, showy.
+
+BRANDER, broil.
+
+BREEKS, breeches.
+
+BRENT, smooth, unwrinkled.
+
+BROGUES, Highland shoes.
+
+BROO, brew, broth.
+
+BRUCKLE, brittle, infirm.
+
+BRUIK, enjoy.
+
+BRULZIE, bruilzie, a broil, a fray.
+
+BUCKIE, a perverse or refractory person.
+
+BUTTOCK-MAIL, a fine for fornication.
+
+BYDAND, awaiting.
+
+CA', call.
+
+CADGER, a country carrier.
+
+CAILLIACHS, old women on whom devolved the duty of lamenting for
+the dead, which the Irish call keening.
+
+CALLANT, a stripling, a fine fellow.
+
+CANNILY, prudently.
+
+CANNY, cautious, lucky.
+
+CARLE, a churl, an old man.
+
+CATERAN, a freebooter.
+
+CHIEL, a young man.
+
+CLACHAN, a village, a hamlet.
+
+CLAMYHEWIT, a blow, a drubbing.
+
+CLASH, chatter, gossip.
+
+CLATTER, tattle, noisy talk.
+
+CLOSE, a narrow passage.
+
+CLOUR, a bump, a bruise.
+
+COCKY-LEEKY, a soup made of a cock, seasoned with leeks.
+
+COGHLING AND DROGHLING, wheezing and blowing.
+
+CORONACH, a dirge.
+
+CORRIE, a mountain hollow.
+
+COUP, fall.
+
+COW YER CRACKS, cut short your talk, hold your tongues.
+
+CRACK, boast.
+
+CRAIG, the neck, the throat.
+
+CRAMES, merchants' shops, booths.
+
+CUT-LUGGED, crop-eared.
+
+DAFT, foolish, mad, crazy.
+
+DAUR, dare.
+
+DEAVING, deafening.
+
+DECREET, an order of decree.
+
+DELIVER, light, agile.
+
+DERN, hidden, concealed, secret.
+
+DING, knock, beat, surpass.
+
+DINGLE, dinnle, tingle, vibrate with sound.
+
+DOER, an agent, a manager.
+
+DOG-HEAD, the hammer of a gun.
+
+DOILED, crazed, silly.
+
+DOITED, having the faculties impaired.
+
+DORLACH, a bundle.
+
+DOW, a dove.
+
+DOWF, dowff, dull, spiritless.
+
+DRAPPIE, a little drop, a small quantity of drink.
+
+EFFEIR, what is becoming.
+
+ENEUGH, enough.
+
+ETTER-CAP, a spider, an ill-natured person.
+
+EVITE, avoid, escape.
+
+EWEST, ewast, contiguous.
+
+FALLOW, a fellow.
+
+FAULD, fold.
+
+FEARED, afraid.
+
+FECK, a quantity.
+
+FLEYT, frightened, shy.
+
+FRAE, from.
+
+GAD, a goad, a rod.
+
+GANE, gone; gang, go.
+
+GAR, make.
+
+GATE, way.
+
+GAUN, going.
+
+GEAR, goods.
+
+GHAIST, a ghost.
+
+GIN, if.
+
+GITE, crazy, a noodle,
+
+GLED, a kite.
+
+GLEG, quick, clever.
+
+GLISK, a glimpse.
+
+GOWD, gold.
+
+GRANING, groaning.
+
+GRAT, wept.
+
+GREE, agree.
+
+GREYBEARD, a stone bottle or jug.
+
+GRICE, gryce, gris, a pig.
+
+GRIPPLE, griping, niggardly.
+
+GUDE, guid, good.
+
+GULPIN, a simpleton.
+
+HA', hall.
+
+HAG, a portion of copse marked off for cutting.
+
+HAGGIS, a pudding peculiar to Scotland, containing oatmeal, suet,
+minced sheep's liver, heart, etc., seasoned with onions, pepper,
+and salt, the whole mixture boiled in a sheep's stomach.
+
+HAIL, whole.
+
+HECK, a hay rack; at heck and manger, in plenty.
+
+HET, hot.
+
+HOG, a young sheep before its first shearing.
+
+HORSE-COUPER, horse-cowper, a horse-dealer.
+
+HURDLES, the buttocks.
+
+HURLEY-HOUSE, a large house fallen into disrepair.
+
+ ILK, same; of that ilk, of the same name or place,
+
+ILKA, every.
+
+INGLE, a fire burning upon the hearth.
+
+IN THE BEES, stupefied.
+
+KEEPIT, kept.
+
+KEMPLE, a Scotch measure of straw or hay.
+
+KEN, know.
+
+KIPPAGE, disorder, confusion.
+
+KIRK, church.
+
+KITTLE, tickle, ticklish.
+
+LAIRD, lord of the manor.
+
+LANDLOUPER, a wanderer, a vagabond.
+
+LEDDY, a lady.
+
+LIGHTLY, make light of, disparage.
+
+LIMMER, a hussy, a jade.
+
+LOON, a worthless fellow, a lout.
+
+LOUP, leap, start.
+
+LUG, an ear.
+
+LUNZIE, the loins, the waist.
+
+MAE, more.
+
+MAINS, the chief farm of an estate.
+
+MAIR, more.
+
+MAIST, most, almost. MART, beef salted down for winter.
+
+MASK, mash, infuse.
+
+MAUN, must.
+
+MERK, an old silver coin worth 13 1/3 pence, English.
+
+MICKLE, large, much.
+
+MORN, tomorrow.
+
+MOUSTED, powdered.
+
+MUCKLE, great, much.
+
+MUNT, mount.
+
+MUTCHKIN, a measure equal to about three quarters of an imperial
+pint.
+
+NA, nae, no, not.
+
+NAIGS, horses.
+
+NAIL, the sixteenth part of a yard.
+
+NATHELESS, nevertheless.
+
+NEB, nose, tip.
+
+NE'ER BE IN ME, devil be in me.
+
+OLD TO DO, great doings.
+
+OWER, over.
+
+PAITRICK, a partridge.
+
+PANGED, crammed.
+
+PARRITCH, oatmeal porridge.
+
+PAUNIE, a peacock.
+
+PECULIUM, private property.
+
+PINNERS, a headdress for women.
+
+PLACK, a copper coin worth one third of a penny.
+
+PLAIDY, an outer covering for the body.
+
+PLENISH, furnish.
+
+PLOY, an entertainment, a pastime.
+
+POTTINGER, an apothecary.
+
+POWNIE, a pony.
+
+POWTERING, poking, stirring.
+
+PRETTY MAN, a stout, warlike fellow.
+
+QUEAN, a young woman.
+
+REDD, part, separate.
+
+REISES, twigs, branches.
+
+RESILING, retracting, withdrawing.
+
+RIGGS, ridges, ploughed ground.
+
+RINTHEROUT, a roving person, a vagabond.
+
+ROW, roll.
+
+ROWED, rolled.
+
+ROWT, cried out, bellowed,
+
+ROYNISH, scurvy, coarse.
+
+SAE, so.
+
+ST. JOHNSTONE'S TIPPET, a rope or halter for hanging.
+
+SAIR, sore, very.
+
+SALL, shall.
+
+SARK, a shirt.
+
+SAUMON, a salmon.
+
+SAUT, salt.
+
+SCARTED, scratched, scribbled over.
+
+SCHELLUM, a rascal.
+
+SCROLL, engross, copy.
+
+SHANKS, legs.
+
+SHEERS, shears.
+
+SHOUTHER, the shoulder.
+
+SICCAN, sic, such.
+
+SILLER, money.
+
+SILLY, weak.
+
+SKIG, the least quantity of anything.
+
+SMA', small.
+
+SMOKY, suspicious.
+
+SNECK, cut.
+
+SORTED, put in proper order, adjusted.
+
+SOWENS, the seeds of oatmeal soured.
+
+SPEER, ask, investigate.
+
+SPENCE, the place where provisions are kept.
+
+SPRACK, lively.
+
+SPRECHERY, movables of an unimportant sort.
+
+SPUILZIE, spoil.
+
+SPUNG, pick one's pocket.
+
+STIEVE, firm.
+
+STOOR, rough, harsh.
+
+STRAE, straw.
+
+STREEKS, stretches, lies.
+
+SWAIR, swore.
+
+SYNE, before, now, ago.
+
+TAIGLIT, harassed, encumbered, loitered.
+
+TAULD, told.
+
+THAE, those.
+
+THIR, these.
+
+THOLE, bear, suffer.
+
+THRAW, twist, wrench.
+
+THREEPIT, maintained obstinately.
+
+THROSTLE, the thrush.
+
+TILL, to.
+
+TIRRIVIES, hasty fits of passion,
+
+TOCHERLESS, without dowry.
+
+TOUN, a town, a hamlet, a farm.
+
+TOY, an old-fashioned cap for women.
+
+TREWS, trousers.
+
+TRINDLING, rolling.
+
+TROW, believe.
+
+TUILZIE, a quarrel
+
+TUME, toom, empty.
+
+TURNSPIT DOGGIE, a kind of dog, long-bodied and short-legged,
+formerly used in turning a treadmill.
+
+TYKE, a dog, a rough fellow.
+
+UMQUHILE, formerly, late.
+
+UNCO, strange, very,
+
+UNSONSY, unlucky.
+
+USQUEBAUGH, whiskey.
+
+VENY, venue, a bout.
+
+VIVERS, victuals.
+
+WA', wall
+
+WAD, would.
+
+WADSET, a deed conveying property to a creditor
+
+WAIN, a wagon; to remove.
+
+WALISE, a portmanteau, saddlebags.
+
+WAN, won.
+
+WANCHANCY, unlucky.
+
+WARE, spend.
+
+WEEL-FARD, weel-faur'd, having a good appearance.
+
+WEISING, inclining, directing.
+
+WHA, who.
+
+WHAR, where,
+
+WHAT FOR, why.
+
+WHEEN, a few.
+
+WHILE SYNE, a while ago.
+
+WHILES, sometimes.
+
+WHILK, which.
+
+WHIN, a few.
+
+WHINGEING, whining.
+
+WINNA, will not.
+
+WISKE, whisk.
+
+YATE, gate.
+
+
+
+
+
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