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.

100 WAVERLEY NOVELS.
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The bloody bear, an independent beast,
Unlick'd to forms, in groans his hate express'dNext him the buffoon ape, as atheists use,
Mimick'd all sects, and had his own to choose.
HIND AND PANTHER.
THE strong light in the parlour which we have described, served to enable
Everard easily to recognise his acquaintances, Desborough, Harrison, and
Bletson, who had assembled round an oak table of large dimensions, placed
near the blazing chimney, on which were arranged wine, and ale, and
materials for smoking, then the general indulgence of the time. There was
a species of movable cupboard set betwixt the table and the door, calculated originally for a display of plate upon grand occasions, but at present only used as a screen; which purpose it served so effectually, that, ere
he had coasted around it, Everard heard the following fragment of what
Desborough was saying, in his strong coarse voice: —" Sent him to share
with us, I'se warrant ye —It was always his Excellency my brother-inlaw's way -if he made a treat for five friends, he would invite more than
the table could hold-I have known him ask three men to eat two eggs."
" Hush, hush," said Bletson; and the servants, making their appearance
from behind the tall cupboard, announced Colonel Everard. It may not be
uninteresting to the reader to have a description, of the party into which
he now entered.
Desborough was a stout, bull-necked man, of middle-size, with heavy
vulgar features, grizzled bushy eyebrows, and walleyes. The flourish of his
powerful relative's fortunes had burst forth in the finery of his dress, which
was much more ornamented than was usual among the roundheads. There
was embroidery on his cloak, and lace upon his band; his hat displayed a
feather with a golden clasp, and all his habiliments were those of a cavalier,
or follower of the court, rather than the plain dress of a parliamentarian
officer. But, Heaven knows, there was little of courtlike grace or dignity
in the person or demeanour of the individual, who became his fine suit au
the hog on the sign-post does his gilded armour. It was not that he was
positively deformed, or misshaped, for, taken in detail, the figure was well
enough. But. his limbs seemed to act upon different and contradictory
principles. They were not, as the play says, in a concatenation accordingly;- the right hand moved as if it were upon bad terms with the left,
and the legs showed an inclination to foot it in different and opposite directions. In short, to use an extravagant comparison, the members of Colonel
Desborough seemed rather to resemble the disputatious representatives of a
federative congress, than the well-ordered union of the orders of the state,
in a firm and well-compacted monarchy, where each holds his own place,
and all obey the dictates of a common head.
General Harrison, the second of the Commissioners, was a tall, thin,
middle-aged man, who had risen into his high situation in the army, and
his intimacy with Cromwell, by his dauntless courage in the field, and the
popularity he had acquired by his exalted enthusiasm amongst the military
saints, sectaries, and Independents, who composed the strength of the existing army. Harrison was of mean extraction, and bred up to his father's
employment of a butcher. Nevertheless, his appearance, though coarse,
was not vulgar, like that of Desborough, who had so much the advantage
of him in birth and education. He had a masculine height and strength
of figure, was well made and in his manner announced a rough military