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.

PEVERIL OF THE PEA-K. 467'.
beoples in the island, they say she is a wechsel-balg-what you call a fairyelf changeling. My faith, they do not never have seen ein wechsel-balg;
for I saw one myself at Cologne, and it was twice as big as yonder girl, and
did break the poor people, with eating them up, like de great big cuckoo in
the sparrow's nest; but this Venella eat no more than other girls - it was
no wechsel-balg in the world."
By a different train of reasoning, Julian had arrived at the same conclusion; in which, therefore, he heartily acquiesced. During the seaman's
prosing, he was reflecting within himself, how much of the singular flexibility of her limbs and movements the unfortunate girl must have derived
from the discipline and instructions of Adrian Brackel; and also how far
the germs of her wilful and capricious passions might have been sown
during her wandering and adventurous childhood. Aristocratic, also, as
his education had been, these anecdotes respecting Fenella's original situation and education, rather increased his pleasure at having shaken off her
company; and yet he still felt desirous to know any farther particulars
which the seaman could comnlunicate on the same subject. But he had
already told all he knew. Of her parents he knew nothing, except that
" her father must have been a damned hundsfoot and a schelm, for selling
his own flesh and blood to Adrian Brackel;" for by such a transaction had
the mountebank become possessed of his pupil.
This conversation tended to remove any passing doubts which might have
crept on Peveril's mind concerning the fidelity of the master of the vessel,
who appeared from thence to have been a former acquaintance of the
Countess, and to have enjoyed some share of her confidence. The threatening motion used by Fenella, he no longer considered as worthy of any
notice, excepting as a new mark of the irritability of her temper.
He amused himself with walking the deck, and musing on his past and
future prospects, until his attention was forcibly arrested by the wind,
which began to rise in gusts from the north-west, in a manner so unfavourable to the course they intended to hold, that the master, after many efforts
to beat against it, declared his bark, which was by no means an excellent
sea-boat, was unequal to making Whitehaven; and that he was compelled
to make a fair wind of it, and run for Liverpool. To this course Peveril
did not object. It saved him some land journey, in case l'e visited his
father's castle; and the Countess's commission would b( discharged as
effectually the one way as the other.
The vessel was put, accordingly, before the wind, and ran with great
steadiness and velocity. The captain, notwithstanding, pleading some nautical hazards, chose to lie off, and did not attempt the mouth of the Mersey
until morning, when Peveril had at length the satisfaction of being landed
upon the quay of Liverpool, which even then showed symptoms of, the commercial prosperity that has since been carried to such a height.
The master, who was well acquainted with the port, pointed out to Julian
a decent place of entertainment, chiefly frequented by sea-faring people;
fbr, although he had been in the town formerly, he did not think it proper
to go any where at present where he might have been unnecessarily recognizedcl. Here he took leave of the seaman, after pressing upon him with difficulty a small present for his crew. As for his passage, the captain declined
any recompense whatever; and they parted upon the most civil terms.
The inn to which he was recommended was full of strangers, seamen, and
mercantile people, all intent upon their own affairs, and discussing them
with noise and eagerness, peculiar to the business of a thriving seaport.
But although the general clamour of the public room, in which the guests
mixed with each other, related chiefly to their own commercial dealings,
there was a general theme mingling with them, which was alike common
and interesting to all; so that, amidst disputes about freight, tonnage, demurrage, and such like, were heard the emphatic sounds of "Deep, dam