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.

502 WAVERLEY NOVELS.
" Ay, ay, Tummas; please to say I ha' brought up the young woman as
came to service to-day with mad Madge Murdockson — she seems to be a
decentish koind o' body; but I ha' asked her never a question. Only I can
tell his Reverence that she is a Scotchwoman, I judge, and as flat as the
fens of Holland."
Tummas honoured Jeanie Deang with such a stare, as the pampered domestics of the rich, whether spiritual or temporal, usually esteem it part of
their privilege to bestow upon the poor, and then desired Mr. Stubbs and
his charge to step in till lie informed his master of their presence. The
room into which he showed them was a sort of steward's parlour, hung with
a county map or two, and three or four prints of eminent persons connected with the county, as Sir William Monson, James York the blacksmith
of Lincoln, and the famous Peregrine, Lord Willoughby, in complete armour, looking as when he said, in the words of the legend below the
engraving,"Stand to it,'noble pikemen,
And face ye well about;
And shoot ye sharp, bold bowmen,
And we will keep them out.
Ye musquet and calliver-men,
Do you prove true to me,
I'll be the foremost man in fight;
Said brave Lord Willoughbee.'
When they had entered this apartment, Tummas as a matter of course
offered, and as a matter of course Mr. Stubbs accepted, a "summat" to eat
and drink, being the respectable relics of a gammon of bacon, and a whole
whiskin, or black pot of sufficient double ale.. To these eatables Mr. Beadle
seriously inclined himself,, and (for we must do him justice) not without an
invitation to Jeanie, in which Tummas joined, that his prisoner or charge
would follow his good example. But although she might have stood in need
of refreshment, considering she had tasted no food that day, the anxiety of
the moment, her own sparing and abstemious habits, and bashful aversion
to eat in company of the two strangers, induced her to decline their courtesy. So she sate in a chair apart, while Mr. Stubbs and Mr. Tummas,
who had chosen to join his friend in consideration that dinner was to be
put back till after the afternoon service, made a hearty luncheon, which
lasted for half an hour, and might not then have concluded, had not his
Reverence rung his bell, so that Tummas was obliged to attend his master.
Then, and no sooner, to save himself the labour of a second journey to the
other end of the house, he announced to his master the arrival of Mr. Stubbs,
with the other madwoman, as he chose to designate Jeanie, as an event
which had just taken place. He returned with an order that Mr. Stubbs
and the young woman should be instantly ushered up to the library..
The beadle bolted in haste his last mouthful of fat bacon, washed down
the greasy morsel with the last rinsings of the pot of ale, and immediately
marshalled Jeanie through one or two intricate passages which led from the
ancient to the more modern buildings, into a handsome little hall, or anteroom, adjoining to the library, and out of which a glass door opened to the
lawn.
"Stay here," said Stubbs, "till I tell his Reverence you are come."
So saying, he opened a door and entered the library.
Without wishing to hear their conversation, Jeanie, as she was, circumstanced, could not avoid it; for as Stubbs stood by the door, and his Reverence was at the upper end of a large room., their conversation was necessarily
audible in the anteroom.
"So you have brought the young woman here at last, Mr. Stubbs. I
expected you some time since. You know I do not wish such persons to
remain in custody a moment without some inquiry into their situation."
"Very true, your Reverence," replied the beadle; "but the young woman