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.

548 WAVERLEY NOVELS.
many precious souls that are of our true, though suffering persuasion. And
sic part of the kye or stock as I judge it fit to keep, may be driven thither
without incommodity -say about Wooler, or that gate, keeping aye a
shouther to the hills, — and the rest may be sauld to gude profit and advantage, if we had grace weel to use and guide these gifts of the warld. The
Laird has been a true friend on our unhappy occasion, and I have paid him
back the siller for Effie's misfortune, whereof Mr. Nichil Novit returned
him no balance, as the Laird and I did expect he wad hae done. But law
licks up a', as the common folk say. I have had the siller to borrow out of
sax purses. Mr. Saddletree advised to give the Laird of Lounsbeck a charge
on his band for a thousand merks. But I hae nae broo' of charges, since
that awfu' morning that a tout of a horn, at the Cross of Edinburgh, blew
half the faithfu' ministers of Scotland out of their pulpits. However, I
sall raise an adjudication, whilk Mr. Saddletree says comes instead of the
auld apprisings, and will not lose weel-won gear with the like of him, if it
may be helped. As for the Queen, and the credit that she hath done to a
poor man's daughter, and the mercy and the grace ye found with her, I
can only pray for her weel-being here and hereafter, for the establishment
of her house now and for ever, upon the throne of these kingdoms. I
doubt not but what you told her Majesty, that I was the same David Deans
of whom there was a sport at the Revolutioni, when I noited thegither the
heads of twa false prophets, these ungracious Graces the prelates, as they
stood on the Hie Street, after being expelled from the Convention-parliament. The Duke of Argyle is a noble and true-hearted nobleman, who
pleads the cause of the poor, and those who have none to help them; verily
his reward shall not be lacking unto him. - I have been writing of many
things, but not of that whilk lies nearest mine heart. I have seen the misguided thing; she will be at freedom the morn, on enacted caution that she
shall leave Scotland in four weeks. Her mind is in an evil frame,-casting
her eye backward on Egypt, I doubt, as if the bitter waters of the wilderness were harder to endure than the brick furnaces, by the side of which
there were savoury flesh-pots. I need not bid you make haste down, for
you are, excepting always my Great Master, my only comfort in these
straits. I charge you to withdraw your feet from the delusion of that
Vanity-fair in whilk ye are a sojourner, and not to go to their worship,
whilk is an ill-mumbled mass, as it was weel termed by James the Sext,
though he afterwards, with his unhappy son, strove to bring it ower back
and belly into his native kingdom, wherethrough their race have been cut
off as fohm upon the water, and shall be as wanderers among the nationssee the prophecies of Hosea, ninth and seventeenth, and the same, tenth
and seventh. But us and our house, let us say with the same prophet,'Let us return to the Lord, for he hath torn, and he will heal us-He hath
smitten, and he will bind us up."'
He proceeded to say, that he approved of her proposed mode of returning
by Glasgow, and entered into sundry minute particulars not necessary to
be quoted. A single line in the letter, but not the least frequently read by.
the party to whom it was addressed, intimated that " Reuben Butler had
been as a son to him in his sorrows." As David Deans scarce ever mentioned Butler before, without some gibe, more or less direct, either at his
carnal gifts and learning, or at his grandfather's heresy, Jeanie drew a good
omen from no such qualifying clause being added to this sentence respecting
him.
i A lover's hope resembles the bean in the nursery tale, - let it once take
root, and it will grow so rapidly, that in the course of a few hours the giant
Imagination builds a castle on the top, and by and by comes Disappointment
with bt e "curtal axe," and hews down both the plant and the superstructure. Weanie's fancy, though not the most powerful of her faculties, was'
lively enough to transport her to a wild farm in Northumberland, well