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.

OLD MORTALITY. 535
or rather in the huts or cabins which served in the place of tents. Violence in language often led to open quarrels and blows, and the divisions
into which the army of sufferers was rent, served as too plain a presage of
their future state.
(11apttr it t i ttr,
The curse of growing factions and divisions
Still vex your councils.
VENIcE PRESERVED,
Tune prudence of Morton found sufficient occupation in stemming the
furious current of these contending parties, when, two days after his return
to Hamilton, he was visited by his friend and colleague, the Reverend
AMr. Poundtext, flying, as he presently found, from the face of John Balfour of Burley, whom he left not a little incensed at the share he had taken
in the liberation of Lord Evandale. When the worthy divine had somewhat recruited his spirits, after the hurry and fatigue of his journey, he
proceeded to give Morton an account of what had passed in the vicinity of
Tillietudlem after the memorable morning of his departure.
The night march of Morton had been accomplished with such dexterity,
and the men were so faithful to their trust, that Burley received no intelligence of what had happened until the morning was far advanced. His first
inquiry was, whether Macbriar and Kettledrummle had arrived, agreeably
to the summons which he had dispatched at midnight. Macbriar had come,
and Kettledrummle, though a heavy traveller, might, he was informed, be
instantly expected. Burley then despatched a nmessenger to Morton's quarters to summon him to an immediate council. The messenger returned
with news that he had left the place. Poundtext was next summoned; but
he thinking, as he said himself, that it was ill dealing with fractious folk,
had withdrawn to his own quiet manse, preferring a dark ride, though he
had been on horseback the whole preceding day, to a renewal in the morning of a controversy with Burley, whose ferocity overawed him when unsupported by the firmness of Morton. Burley's next inquiries were directed
after Lord Evandale; and great was his rage when he learned that he had
been conveyed away over night by a party of the marksmen of Milnwood,
under the immediate command of Henry Morton himself.
"The villain!" exclaimed Burley, addressing himself to Macbriar;"the base, mean-spirited traitor, to curry favour for himself with the Government, hath set at liberty the prisoner taken by my own right hand, through
means of whom, I have little doubt, the possession of the place of strength
which hath wrought us such trouble, might now have been in our hands 1"
"But is it not in our hands?" said Macbriar, looking up towards the Keep
of the Castle; "and are not these the colours of the Covenant that float
over its walls?"
"A sitratagem-a mere trick," said Burley —" an insult over our disappointment, intended to aggravate and embitter our spirits."
lie was interrupted by the arrival of one of Morton's followers, sent to
report to him the evacuation of the place, and its occupation by the insurgent forces. Burley was rather driven to fury than reconciled by the news
of this success.
" I have watched," he said -" I have fought - I have plotted - I have
striven for the reduction of this place — I have forborne to seek to heoad