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'M o TALI T Y. 585
"I saw him\!" she repeated-"I saw Henry Morton stand at that window,
and look into the apartment at the moment I was on the point of abjuring
him for ever. His-face was darker, thinner, and paler than it was wont to
be; his dress was a horseman's cloak, and hat looped down over his face;
his expression was like that he wore on that dreadful morning when he
was examined by Claverhouse at Tillietudlem. Ask your sister, ask Lady
Emily, if she did not see him as well as I. —I know what has called him up
— he came to upbraid me, that, while my heart was with him in the deep
and dead sea, I was about to give my hand to another. My lord, it is ended
between you and me-be the consequences what they will, she cannot marry,
whose union disturbs the repose of the dead."'*
" Good heaven 1" said Evandale, as he paced the room, half mad himself
with surprise and vexation-" her fine understanding must be totally overthrown, and that by the effort which she has made to comply with my illtimed, thosugh well-meant request. Without rest and attention her health
is ruined for ever."
At this moment the door opened, and Halliday, who had been Lord Evandale's principal personal attendant since they both left the Guards on the
Revolution, stumbled into the room with a countenance as pale and ghastly
as terror could paint it.
* This incident is taken from a story in the Ilistorv of Apparitions written by Daniel Defoe, under the assumned name of Morton. To.abridge the narrative we are under the necessity of onlitting mariy of those particular circumstances which give the fictions of this smost ingenious author suchi a lively air of truth.
-A gentleman married a lady of fanfily and fortune, and had one son by ler, after which the lady died. The
widower afterwards unitetl himself in a second marriage; and his wife'proved such a very stepmother to the
heir of the first marriage, that, discontented with his situation, lie left his father's house, and set out on distalt travels. His father heard from himl occasionally, and the young man fJr some timte drew regularly for
certain allowances which were settled ulpon him. At'lengthl, owing to the instigation of his nmother-in-law,
one of his draughts was refuse(l, and the hill returned dislonoured.
After receiving this affront, the youth drew no bills, and wrote no mnore letters, nor did his father know in
what part of the world he was.'lThe steplnotiher seized the opportunity to represent the young man as deceased, and to urge her hushand to settle his estate anew upon her children, of wlhom she hatd several. The
father for a length of time positively refused to disinherit his son, convinced as ihe was, in his own mind, that
lie was still alive.
At lengt:h, worn out by his wife's importunities, ihe agreed to execute thle new deeds, if his son did not return witin a year.
During the intervtl, there were many violent disputes between the husband and wife, upon the sublject of
the family settlements. In the midst of one of these altercations, tile lady was startled by seeing a hand at a
casement of the window; but as the iron hasps, according to the ancient fashion, fastened in the inside, the
hanld seemed to essay the fastenings, and heing unable to undo them, was immediately withdrawn. The
lady, forigetting the quaarrel witll her husband, exclaimed that there was some one in the garden. T'he husbald rushed out, but could find no trace of an intruder, while the walls of the garden seemed to render it
imapossible for any such to lhave made his escape. I-Te therefore taxed his wife with havingt flncied that
wvhich she supposed she saw. She maintained the accuracy of her sight; on which her husband observed,
that it must have been the devil, who was apl to haunt those who had evil consciences. This tart rematrk
br ought back the matrimonial dialogue to its original current. " It was no devil," said the lady, " but the
ghest of your son come to tell you he is (lead, and that yoii may give your estate to your tbastards, since you
will not settle it on the lawful heirs." —" It was nly son," said he, " come to tell me that he is alive, and ask
you how you can be such a devil as to urge me to disinherit him;" twith that he started up and exclaimed,
"' Alexander, Alexander! if you are alive, show yourself, and do not let me be insulted every day with being
told you are dead."
At these words, the casement which the hand had been seen at opened of itself, and his son Alexander
lookled in witll a full face, and, staring directly on the mother with an angry countenance, cried, "H-lere!"
anid then vanished in a moment.
T'he lady, though much frightened at the apparition, had wit enolgh to make it serve her own purpose;
for, as the spectre appeared at her husband's summons, she made affidavit that he I1had a farmiliar spirit who
appeared when he called it. To escape fromt this discreditable charge, the poor husband agreed to make the
new settlement-of the estate itl t1he terms demanded by the unreasonable lady.
A rmeeting of friends was held for that purpose, the new deed was executed, and the wife was about to
cancel the former settlement by tearing the seal, wihen on a sudden they heard a rushing noise in the parllour
in which they sat, as if something had come in at the door of the room wahich opened from tile hall, and then
had gone throughs the room towards the garden-door, which was shut; they wsere all surprised at it, for the
sound was very distinct, but they saw nothing.'his rather interrupted the business of the meetitng, but the perseverinc lady brought them back to it. " I
am not frightened," said she, " niot I. —Corne," said she to her hlusband, haughtily, "I'll cancel the old writings if forty devils were in the room;" svithl that she tookl up one of the (leeds, and was about to t:ealr off the
seal. But the double-ganger, or Eideoloe, of Alexander, was as pertinacious in guarding the rights of Ihis prillcipal, as his stepmother in invad:tag them.
The sanme moment she raised the paper to destroy it, the casement flew open, though it was fast in thle
ilnside just as it was before, and the shaldow of a body was seen as standing in the garden without, the ftlce
lookintg into the room, and staring directly at the womnan with a stern mand angry cuntenance.'" Hold!"
said the spectre, as if speaking to the lady, and immediately closed the window and vanished. After this
secondl interruption, the new settlenment was cancelled by the consent of all concerned, and Alexaniler, itr
about four or five months after, arrived from the East Inadies, to which he had gone four years before from
London in a Portuguese ship. I-Ie coull give no explanation of what had happenel, excepting thllat lie dreamed
his father hlad written him an angry letter, threatening to disinherit hin. - Thle History asd Rcality of A:apuritions, chap. viii.