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.

246 WAVERLEY NOVELS.
" hat!" said the bold knight, "you think I am afraid of the trepan?
Why now, what if I should say that )algarno has more wit than honesty,the Duke more sail than ballast,-the Prince more pride than prudence, —
and that the King- -c 2" The Lady Mansel held up her finger in a warning
manneri- " that the King is my very good master, who has given me, for
forty years -and more, dog's wages, videlicet, bones and beating.-W- hy now,
a11 this is saiid, and Archie Armstrobng* says worse than this of the best of
tlhem every day."
" The more fool he," said George -I-eriot; "yet he is not so utterly wrong,
for folly'is his best wisdom. But do not you, Sir Mungo, set your wit.against a fool's, though he be a court fool."
"A fool, said you?" replied Sir Mungo, not having fully heard what
Master Heriot said, or not choosing to have it thought so,-" I have been a
fool indeed, to hang on at a close-fisted Court here, Avwhen men of understanding and men of action have been making fortunes in every other place
of Europe. But here a man comes indifferently off unless he gets a great
key to turn," (looking at Sir Edward,) " or can beat tattoo with a hammer
on a pewter plate. - Well, sirs, I must make as much haste back on mine
errand as if I were a fee'd messenger. - Sir Edward and my lady, I leave
my commendations with you —and my goodwill with you, Master Heriot'
and for this breaker of bounds, if you will act by my counsel, some maceraltion by fasting, and a gentle use of the rod, is the best cure for her giddy
fits."
" If you propose for Greenwich, Sir Mungo," said the Lieutenant, "I can
spare you the labour-the King comes immediately to Whitehall."
" And that must be the reason the council are summoned to meet in such
hurry," said Sir Mungo. "Well -I will, with your permission, go to the
poor lad Glenvarloch, and bestow some comfort on him."
The Lieutenant seemed to look up, and pause for a moment as if in
doubt.
"The lad will want a pleasant companion, who can tell him the nature
of the punishment which he is to suffer, and other matters of concernment.
I will not leave him until I show him how absolutely he hath ruined himself from feather to spur, how deplorable is his present state, and how small
his chance of mending it."
"Well, Sir iMungo," replied the Lieutenant, " if you really think all this
likely to be very consolatory to the party concerned, I will send a warder to
conduct you."
"And I,'" said George Heriot, "will humbly pray of Lady Mansel, that
she will lend some of her handmaiden's apparel to this giddy-brained girl;
for I shall forfeit my reputation if I walk up Tower-hill with her in that
mad guise-and yet the silly lassie looks not-so ill in it neither."
"'I will send my coach with you instantly," said the obliging Lady.
"Faith, madam, and if you will honour us with such courtesy, I will
gladly accept it at your hands," said the citizen, " for business presses hard
on me, and the forenoon is already lost, to little purpose."
The coach being ordered accordingly, transported the worthy citizen and
his charge to his mansion in Lombard Street. There he found his presence
was anxiously expected by the Lady Hermione, who had just received an
order to be. in readiness to attend upon the Royal Privy Council in the
course of an hour; and upon whom, in her inexperience of business, and
long retirement from society and the world, the intimation had made as
deep an impression as if it had not been the necessary consequence of the
petition which she had presented to the King by Ionna Paula. George
Heriot gently blamed her for taking any steps in an affair so important
antil his return- from France, especially as he had requested her to remain
*The celebrated Court Jester.