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.

THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL. 141
attendant, "and see what they are doing in Alsatia. -That bastard of a
boy," he continued, as the lad, accustomed to the precipitate haste of his
master, tumbled rather than ran out of the apartment, and so down stairs,
"is worth gold in this quarter - he serves six masters - four of them in
distinct Numbers, and you would think him present like a fairy at the mere
wish of him that for the time most needs his attendance. No scout in.
Oxford, no gip in Cambridge, ever matched him in speed and intelligence.
lle knows the step of a dun from that of a client, when it reaches the very
bottom of the staircase; can tell the trip of a pretty wench from the step
of a bencher, when at the upper end of the court; and is, take him all in
all - But I see your lordship is anxious - May I press another cup of lmy
kind grandmother's cordial, or will you allow me to show you my wardrobe,
and act as your valet or groom of the chamber?"
Lord Glenvarloch hesitated not to acknowledge that he wits painfully
sensible of his present situation, and anxious to do what needs must be
done for his extrication.
The good-natured and thoughtless young Templar readily acquiesced, and
led the way into his little bed-room, where, from bandboxes, portmanteaus,
mail-trunks, not forgetting an old walnut-tree wardrobe, he began to select
the articles which he thought more suited effectually to disguise his guest
in venturing into the lawless and turbulent society of Alsatia.
Oq1Eftr the fep'tentunlt.
Come hither, young, one — Marlk me! Thou art now
Molungst men o'. the sword, that live by reputation
fMore than by constaut income -Single-suited
They are, I grant you; yet each single suit
Maintains, on the rough guess, a thousand followersAnd they be men, who, hazarding their all,
Needful apparel, necessary income,
And human body, and immortal soul,
Do in the very deed but hazard nothingSo strictly is that all bound in reversion;
Clothes to the broker, income to thle usurerAnd body to disease, and soul to the foul fiend;
Who laughs to see Soldadoes and Fooladoes,
Play better than himself his game on earth.
THE MoIeocKs.
"YouR lordship," said Reginald Lowestoffe, " must be content to exchange
your decent and court-beseeming rapier, which I will retain in safe-keeping,
for this broadsword, with an hundred-weight of rusty iron about the hilt,
and to wear these huge-paned slops, instead of vour civil and moderate hose.
We allow no cloak, for your ruffian always walks in clleipo; and the tarnished doublet of bald velvet, with its discoloured embroidery, and-I grieve
to speak it-a few stains from the blood of the grape, will best suit the garb
of a roaring boy. I will leave you to change your suit for an instant, till I
can help to truss you."
Lowestoffe retired, while slowly, and with hesitation, Nigel obeyed his
instructions. Tie felt displeasure and disgust at the scoundrelly disguise
which he was under the necessity of assuming; but, when he considered
the bloody consequences which law attached to this rash act of violence, the
easy and indifferent temper of James, the prejudices of his son, the overbearing influence of the Duke of Buckingham, which was sure to be thrown
into the scale against him; and, above all, when he reflected that he must