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. 617
While the soul of this stern enthusiast flitted to its account, that of the
brave and generous Lord Evandale was also released. Morton had flung
himself from his horse upon perceiving his situation, to render his dying
friend all the aid in his power. I-e knew him, for he pressed his hand,
and, being unable to speak, intimated by signs his wish to be conveyed to
the house. This was done with all the care possible, and he was soon surrounded by his lamenting friends. But the clamorous grief of Lady Emily
was far exceeded in intensity by the silent agony of Edith. Unconscious
even of the presence of Morton, she hung over the dying man; nor was
she aware that Fate, who was removing one faithful lover, had restored
another as if from the grave, until Lord Evandale, taking their hands in his,
pressed them both affectionately, united them together, raised his face, as
if to pray for a blessing on them, and sunk back and expired in the next
moment.
CONCLUSION.
I HAD determined to waive the task of a concluding chapter, leaving to
the reader's imagination the arrangements which must necessarily take
place after Lord Evandale's death. But as I was aware that precedents
are wanting for a practice, which might be found convenient both to readers
and compilers, I confess myself to have been in a considerable dilemma,
when fortunately I was honoured with an invitation to drink tea with Miss
Martha Buskbody, a young lady who has carried on the profession of
mantua-making at Gandercleuch and in the neighbourhood, with great
success, for about forty years. Knowing her taste for narratives of this
description, I requested her to look over the loose sheets the morning before
I waited on her, and enlighten me by the experience which she must have
acquired in reading through the whole stock of three circulating libraries,
in Gandercleuch and the two next market-towns. When, with a palpitating
heart, I appeared before her in the evening, I found her much disposed to be
complimentary.
"I have not been more affected," said she, wiping the glasses of her
spectacles, "by any novel excepting the Tale of Jemmy and Jenny
Jessamy, which is indeed pathos itself; but your plan of omitting a formal
conclusion will never do. You may be as harrowing to our nerves as
Here lyes ane saint to prelates surly,
Being John Balfour, somnleime of Burley,
Who stirred up to vengeance take
For Solemn League and Cov'nant's sake,
Upon the BIagus-Moor in Fife,
Did tak James Sharpe the apostate's life;
By Dutchman's hands was hacked and shot,
T'hen drowned in Clyde near this saam spot.
The return of John Balfour of NIinlock, called Burley, to Scotland, as well as his violent death in the manner described, is entirely fictitious. He was wounded at Bothwell Bridge, when he uttered the execration
transelrred to the text, not much in unison with his religious pretensions. H-e afterwards escaped to Holland,
where he found refuge, withs other fugitives, of that distnurbed period. His biographer seems simple enough
to believe that he rose high in the Prince of Orange's favour, and observes, "That having still a desire to be
avenged upon those who persecuted the Lord's cause and people in Scotland, it is said he obtained liberty
from the lrince for that purpose, but died at sea before his arrival in Scotland: whereby that design was
never accomplished, and so thle land was never cleansed by the blood of them who had shed innocent blood,
according to the law of thle Lord, Gen. ix. 6, Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man sslol his blood be shed.'"-Scoltis. Worthies, p. 522.
It was reserved for this historian to discover that the moderation of King William, and his prudent anxiety
to prevent that perpetuating of factious quarrels, which is called in modern times Reaction, were only adopted
in consequence of the death of John Balfour, called Burley.
The late Mr. Wemyss of Wemnyss Hall, in Fifeshire, succeeded to Balfour's properlty in late times, and had
several accounts, papers, articles of dress, &c. which belonged to the old homicide.
His namle seems still to exist in Holland or Flanders; for in the Brussels papers of 28th Jutly, 1828, Lieutenant-Colonel Balfour de Burleigh, is named Commandant of the troops of the Iing of the Netherlands il
the West Indies
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