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.

TEHE HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN. 459
kine and herds, and in two or three sums lent out at interest to neighbours
or relatives, who, far from being in, circumstances to pay any thing to
account of the principal sums, thought they did all that was incumbent on
them when, with considerable difficulty, they discharged the "annual rent."
To these debtors it would be in vain, therefore, to apply, even with her
father's concurrence; nor could she hope to obtain such concurrence, or
assistance, in any mode, without such a series of explanations and debates
as she felt might deprive her totally of the power of taking the step, which,'
however daring and hazardous, she felt was absolutely necessary for trying
the last chance in favour of her sister. Without departing from filial reverence, Jeanie had an inward conviction that the feelings of her father, however just and upright, and honourable, were too little in unison with the
spirit of the time to admit of his being a good judge of the measures to be
adopted in this crisis. Herself more flexible in manner, though no less
upright in principle, she felt that to ask his consent to her pilgrimage would
be to encounter the risk of drawing down his positive prohibition, and under
that she believed her journey could not be blessed in its progress and event.
Accordingly, she had determined upon the means by which she might
communicate to him her undertaking and its purpose, shortly after her
actual departure. But it was impossible to apply to him for money without
altering this arrangement, and discussing fully the propriety of her jourley; pecuniary assistance from that quarter, therefore, was laid out of the
question.
It now occurred to Jeanie that she should have consulted with Mrs. Saddletree on this subject. But, besides the time that must now necessarily be
lost in recurring to her assistance, Jeanie internally revolted from it. Her
heart acknowledged the goodness of Mrs. Saddletree's general character,
and the kind interest she took in their family misfortunes; but still she felt
that Mrs. Saddletree was a woman of an ordinary and worldly way of
thinking, incapable, from habit and temperament, of taking a keen or
enthusiastic view of such a resolution as she had formed; and to debate the
point with her, and to rely upon her conviction of its propriety, for the
means of carrying it into execution, would have been gall and wormwood.
Butler, whose assistance she might have been assured of, was greatly
poorer than herself. In these circumstances, she formed a singular resolution for the purpose of surmounting this difficulty, the execution of which
will form the subject of the next chapter.
isqphr tar 1Wr4t4- jtxt#'Tis the voice of the sluggard, I heard him complain,
You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again:"
As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed,
Turns his side, and his shoulders, and his heavy head.
DR. WATTS..TE mansion-house of Dumbiedikes, to which we are now to introduce
our readers, lay three or four miles-no matter for the exact topographyto the southward of St. Leonard's. It had once borne the appearance of
some little celebrity; for the " auld laird," whose humours and pranks were
often mentioned in the ale-houses for about a mile round it, wore a sword,
kept a good horse, and a brace of greyhounds; brawled, swore, and betted
at cock-fights and horse matches; followed Somerville of Drum's hawks,
and the Lord Ross's hounds, and called himself point devise a gentleman.