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.

9C6 WAVERLEY NOVELS.
The scrivener did look up accordingly, with the action of an automaton
which suddenly obeys the impulse of a pressed spring. But, strange to
tell, not even the haste he had made to attend his patron's mandate, a busi
ness, as Master ieriot's message expressed, of weight and importance --
nay, not even the state of depression in which, out of sheer humility doubt
less, he had his head stooped to the earth, from the moment he had trod the
demesnes of the Earl of Huntinglen, had called any colour into his countenance. The drops stood on his brow from haste and toil, but his cheek was
still pale and tallow-coloured as before; nay, what seemed stranger, his
very hair, when he raised his head, hung down on either cheek as straight
and sleek and undisturbed as it was when we first introduced him to our
readers, seated at his quiet and humble desk.
Lord Dalgarno could not forbear a stifled laugh at the ridiculous and
puritanical figure which presented itself like a starved anatomy to the company, and whispered at the same time into Lord Glenvarloch's ear —
"The devil damn thee black, thllo cream-faced loon,
Where got'st thou that goose-look?'
Nigel was too little acquainted with the English stage, to understand a
quotation which had already grown matter of common allusion in London.
Lord Dalgarno saw that he was not understood, and continued," That fellow, by his visage, should either be a saint, or a most hypocritical rogueand such is my excellent opinion'of human nature, that I always suspect
the worst. But they seem deep in business. Will you take a turn with me
in the garden, my lord, or will you remain a member of the serious
conclave?"
"With you, my lord, most willingly," said Nigel; and they were turning
away accordingly, when George IIeriot, with the formality belonging to his
station, observed, that, "as their business concerned Lord Glenvarloch, he
had better remain, to make himself master of it, and witness to it."
" My presence is utterly needless, my good lord;-and, my best friend,
Master Heriot," said the young nobleman, " I shall understand nothing the
better for cumbering you with my ignorance in these matters; and can
only say at the end, as I now say at the beginning, that I dare not take the
helm out of the hand of the kind pilots who have already guided my course
within sight of a fair and unhoped-for haven. Whatever you recommend
to me as fitting, I shall sign and seal; and the import of the deeds I shall
better learn by a brief explanation from Master IIeriot, if he will bestow so
much trouble in my behalf, than by a thousand learned words and law terms
from this person of skill."
"He is right," said Lord Huntinglen; "our young friend is right, in
confiding these matters to you and me, Master George Hleriot —e has not
misplaced his confidence."
Master George Heriot cast a long look after the two young noblemen,
who had now walked down the alley arm-in-arm, and at length said, " He
hath not, indeed, misplaced his confidence, as your lordship well and truly
says-but nevertheless he is not in the right path; for it behoves every man
to become acquainted with his own affairs, so soon as h'e hath any that are
worth attending to."
When he had made this observation, they applied themselves, with the
scrivener, to look into various papers, and to direct in what manner writings
should be drawn, which might at once afford sufficient security to those who
were to advance the money, and at the same time preserve the right of the
young nobleman to redeem the family estate, provided he should obtain the
means of doing so, by the expected reimbursement from the Scottish Exchequer, or otherwise. It is needless to enter into those details. But it is
not unimportant to mention, as an illustration of character, that Heriot
went into the most minute legal details with a precision which showed that
experience had made him master even of the intricacies of Scottish convey