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.

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with strong compression, as if the severe constraint which she put upon her
internal feelings extended even to her muscular organization. Then raising
her head, and drawing in her breath strongly ere she spoke, she said with
firmness, -" Father, I consent to the marriage."
" You shall not-you shall not, —ly child-my dear child-you shall not
embrace certain nisery to free me from uncertain danger!"
So exclaimed Ellieslaw; and, strange and inconsistent beings that we
are! he expressed the real though momentary feelings of his heart.
" Father," repeated Isabella, "I will consent to this marriage."
" No, my child, no-not now at least-we will humble ourselves to obtain
delay from him; and yet, Isabella, could you overcome a dislike which has
no real foundation, think, in other respects, what a match — wealth-rank
- importance."
"Father," reiterated Isabella, "I have consented."
It seemed as if she had lost the power of saying anything else, or even
of varying the phrase which, with such effort, she had compelled herself to
utter.
" Heaven bless thee, my child! - Heaven bless thee! - and it will bless
thee with riches, with pleasure, with power."
Miss Yere faintly entreated to be left by herself for the rest of the
evening.
"But will you not receive Sir Frederick?" said her father anxiously.
"I will meet him," she replied, "I will meet him —when I must, and
where I must; but spare me now."
" Be it so, my dearest; you shall know no restraint that I can save you
from. Do not think too hardly of Sir Frederick for this,- it is an excess
of passion."
Isabella waved her hand impatiently.
"Forgive me, my child-I go- Heaven bless thee. At eleven-if you
call me not before -at eleven I come to seek you."
When he left Isabella she dropt upon her knees - "Heaven aid me to
support the resolution I have taken-Heaven only can-O, poor Earnscliff!
who shall comfort him? and with what contempt will he pronounce her:name, who listened to him to-day and. gave herself to another at night!
But let him despise me - better so than that he should know the truth -
Let him despise me; if it will but lessen his grief, I should feel comfort in
the loss of his esteem."
She wept bitterly; attempting in vain, from time to time, to commence
the prayer for which she had sunk on her knees, but unable to calm her
spirits sufficiently for the exercise of devotion. As she remained in this
agony of mind, the door of her apartment was slowly opened.
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The darksome cave they enter, where they found
The woful man, low sitting on the ground,
Musing full sadly in his sullen mind.
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T,, intruder on Miss Vere's sorrows was Ratcliffe. Ellieslaw had, in the
agitation of his mind, forgotten to countermand the order he had given to
call him thither, so that he opened the door with the words, "You sent for
me, Mr. Vere." Then looking around-" Miss Vere, alone I on the ground!
and in tears I"