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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widow Butler looked up to him with reverence, listened to his advice, and
compounded for an occasional fling at the doctrines of her deceased husband,
to which, as we have seen, she was by no means warmly attached, in consideration of the valuable counsels which the presbyterian afforded her for
the management of her little farm. These usually concluded with, "They
may do otherwise in England, neighbour Butler, for aught I ken;" or, "it
may be different in foreign parts;" or, " they wha think differently on the
great foundation of our covenanted reformation, overturning and mishguggling the government and discipline of the kirk, and breaking down the
carved work of our Zion, might be for sawing the craft wi' aits; but I say
peace, peace." And as his advice was shrewd and sensible, though conceitedly given, it was received with gratitude, and followed with respect.
The intercourse which took place betwixt the families at Beersheba and
Woodend, became strict and intimate, at a very early period, betwixt Reuben Butler, with whom the reader is already in some degree acquainted,
and Jeanie Deans, the only child of Douce Davie Deans by his first wife,
"that singular Christian woman," as he was wont to express himself,
"whose name was savoury to all that knew her for a desirable professor,
Christian Menzies in Hochinagirdle." The manner of which intimacy, and
the consequences thereof, we now proceed to relate.
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Reuben and Rachel, though as fond as doves,
Were yet discreet and cautious in their loves,
Nor would attend to Cupid's wild commands,
Till cool reflection bade them join their hands.
When both were poor, they thought it argued ill
Of hasty love to make them poorer still.
CRABBE'Sa Parish Register.
WHILE widow Butler and widower Deans struggled with poverty, and the.
hard and sterile soil of those " parts and portions" of the lands of Dumbiedikes which it was their lot to occupy, it became gradually apparent that
Deans was to gain the strife, and his ally in the conflict was to lose it. The
former was a man, and not much past the prime of life — Mrps. Butler a
woman, and declined into the vale of years. This, indeed, ought in time to
have been balanced by the circumstance, that Reuben was growing up to
assist his grandmother's labours, and that Jeanie Deans, as a girl, could be
only supposed to add to her father's burdens. But Douce Davie Deans
knew better things, and so schooled and trained the young minion, as he
called her, that from the time she could walk, upwards, she was daily employed in some task or other suitable to her age and capacity; a circumstance which, added to her father's daily instructions and lectures, tended
to give her mind, even when a child, a grave, serious, firm, and reflecting
cast. An uncommonly strong and healthy temperament, free from all
nervous affection and every other irregularity, which, attacking the body in
its more noble functions, so often influences the mind, tended greatly to
establish this fortitude, simplicity, and decision of character.
On the other hand, Reuben was weak in constitution, and, though not
timid in temper, might be safely pronounced anxious, doubtful, and apprehensive. He partook of the temperament of his mother, who had died of
a consumption in early age. He was a pale, thin, feeble, sickly boy, and
somewhat lame, from an accident in early youth. He was, besides, the