The Waverley novels, by Sir Walter Scott, complete in 12 vol., printed from the latest English ed., embracing the author's last corrections, prefaces & notes.

20 WAVERLEY NOVELS.
a young gentleman, being his first appearance on any stage. If this should
be thee, Lovel! —Lovel? yes, Lovel or Belville are just the names which
youngsters are apt to assume on such occasions — On my life, I am sorry
for the lad."
Mr. Oldbuck was habitually parsimonious, but in no respects mean: his
first thought was to save his fellow-traveller any part of the expense of the
entertainment, which he supposed must be in his situation more or less inconvenient. He therefore took an opportunity of settling privately with
Mr. Mackitchinson. The young traveller remonstrated against his liberality, and only acquiesced in deference to his years and respectability.
The mutual satisfaction which they found in each other's society induced
Mr. Oldbuck to propose, and Lovel willingly to accept, a scheme for travelling together to the end of their journey. Mr. Oldbuck intimated a wish to
pay two-thirds of the hire of a post-chaise, saying, that a proportional
quantity of room was necessary to his accommodation; but this Mr. Lovel
resolutely declined. Their expense then was mutual, unless when Lovel
occasionally slipt a shilling into the hand of a growling postilion; for Oldbuck, tenacious of ancient customs, never extended his guerdon beyond
eighteen-pence a-stage. In this manner they travelled, until they arrived
at Fairport about two o'clock on the following day.
Lovel probably expected that his travelling companion would have invited
him to dinner on his arrival: but his consciousness of a want of ready preparation for unexpected guests, and perhaps some other reasons, prevented
Oldbuck from paying him that attention. He only begged to see him as
early as he could make it convenient to call in a forenoon, recommended
him to a widow who had apartments to let, and to a person who kept a
decent ordinary; cautioning both. of them apart, that he only knew Mr.
Lovel as a pleasant companion in a post-chaise; and did not mean to guarantee any bills which he might contract while residing at Fairport. The
young gentleman's figure and manners, not to mention a well-furnished
trunk, which soon arrived by sea, to his address at Fairport, probably went
as far in his favour as the limited recommendation of his fellow-traveller.
HIe had a routh o' auld nick-nackets,
Rusty airn caps, and jinglin-jackets,
Would held the Loudons three in tackets,
A towmnond gude;
And parritch-pats, and auld saut-backets,
Afore the flude.
BURNts.
AFTER he had settled himself in his new apartments at Fairport, Mr.
Lovel bethought him of paying the requested visit to his fellow-traveller.
IHe did not make it earlier, because, with all the old gentleman's goodhumour and information, there had sometimes glanced forth in his language and manner towards him an air of superiority, which his companion
considered as being fully beyond what the difference of age warranted.
Ile therefore waited the arrival of his baggage from Edinburgh, that he
might arrange his dress according to the fashion of the day, and make his
exterior corresponding to the rank in society which he supposed or felt him-,
self entitled to hold.
It was the fifth day after his arrival, that, having made the necessary
inquiries concerning the road, he went forth to pay his respects at Monk