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.

478 WAVERLEY NOVELS.
play the men -the worst that can befall us is but a brief and bloody pas.
sage to heaven."
Balfour, and the other leaders, had not lost the time which was employed
in these spiritual exercises.'Watch-fires were lighted, sentinels were posted,
and arrangements were made to refresh the army with such provisions as
had been hastily collected from the nearest farm-houses and villages. —The
present necessity thus provided for, they turned their thoughts to the future.
They had dispatched parties to spread the news of their victory, and to
obtain, either by force or favour, supplies of what they stood most in need
of. In this they had succeeded beyond their hopes, having at one village
seized a small magazine of provisions, forage, and ammunition, which had
been provided for the royal forces. This success not only gave them relief
at the time, but such hopes for the future, that whereas formerly some of
their number had begun to slacken in their zeal, they now unanimously
resolved to abide together in arms, and commit themselves and their cause
to the event of war.
And whatever may be thought of the extravagance or narrow-minded
bigotry of many of their tenets, it is impossible to deny the praise of devoted courage to a few hundred peasants, who, without leaders, without
money, without magazines, without any fixed plan of action, and almost
without arms, borne out only by their innate zeal, and a detestation of the
oppression of their rulers, ventured to declare open war against an established Government, supported by a regular army and the whole force of
three kingdoms.
— altrr tirt gilrttrt ttlta
Why, then, say an old man can do somewhat.
IENRY IV. Part IL
WE must now return to the tower of Tillietudlem, which the march of
the Life-Guards, on the morning of this eventful day, had left to silence
and anxiety. The assurances of Lord Evandale had not succeeded in
quelling the apprehensions of Edith. She knew him generous, and faithful
to his word; but it seemed too plain that he suspected the object of her intercession to be a successful rival; and was it not expecting from hifi an
effort above human nature, to suppose that he was to watch over Morton's
safety, and rescue him froml all the dangers to which his state of imprisonment, and the suspicions which he had incurred, must repeatedly, expose
him? She therefore resigned herself to the most heart-rending apprehensions, without admitting, and indeed almost without listening to, the multifarious grounds of consolation which Jenny Dennison brought forward, one
after another, like a skilful general who charges with the several divisions
of his troops in regular succession.
First, Jenny was morally positive that young Milnwood would come to
no harm-then, if he did, there was consolation in the reflection, that Lord.
Evandale was the better and more appropriate match of the two — then,
there was every chance of a battle, in which the said Lord Evandale might
be killed, and there wad be nae mair fash about that job-then, if the
whigs gat the better, Milnwood and Cuddie might come to the Castle, and
carry off the beloved of their hearts by the strong hand.
"For I forgot to tell ye, madam," continued the damsel, putting her
handkerchief to her eyes, " that puir Cuddie's in the hands of the lPhilistines