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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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+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.
+
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+
+
+
+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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