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.

THE ANTIQUARY. 93
quary, —" A ronument of a knight-templar on each side of a Grecian porch,
and a Madonna on the top of it! —O crimini!-Well, tell the provost I wish
to have the stones, and we'll not differ about the water-course. It's lucky
I happened to come this way to-day."
They parted mutually satisfied; but the wily clerk had most reason to
exult in the dexterity he had displayed, since the whole proposal of an exchange between the monuments (which the council had determined to
remove as a nuisance, because they encroached three feet upon the public
road), and the privilege of conveying the water to the burgh through the
estate of Slonkbarns, was an idea which had originated with himself upon
the pressure of the moment.
Through these various entanglements, Monkbarns (to use the phrase by
which he was distinguished in the country) made his way at length to Mrs.
Hadoway's. This good woman was the.widow of a late clergyman at Fairport, who had been reduced by her husband's untimely death, to that state
of straitened and embarrassed circumstances in which the widows of the
Scotch clergy are too often found. The tenement which she occupied, and
the furniture of which she was possessed, gave her the means of letting a
part of her house; and as Level had been a quiet, regular, and profitable
lodger, and had qualified the necessary intercourse which they had together
with a great deal of gentleness and courtesy, Mrs. Hadoway, not, perhaps,
much used to such kindly treatment, had become greatly attached to her
lodger, and was profuse in every sort of personal attention which circumstances permitted her to render him. To cook a dish somewhat better than
ordinary for "the poor young gentleman's dinner;" to exert her interest
with those who remembered her husband, or loved her for her own sake
and his, in order to procure scarce vegetables, or something which her simplicity supposed might tempt her lodger's appetite, was a labour in which
she delighted, although she anxiously concealed it from the person who was
its object. She did not adopt this secrecy df benevolence to avoid the laugh
of those who might suppose that an oval face and dark eyes, with a clear
brown complexion, though belonging to a woman of five-ancd-forty, and enclosed within a widow's close-drawn pinners, might possibly. still aim at
making conquests; for, to say truth, such a ridiculous suspicion having
never entered into her own head, she could not anticipate its having birth
in that of any one else. But she concealed her attentions solely out of delicacy to her guest, whose power of repaying them she doubted as much as
she believed in his inclination to do so, and in his being likely to feel extreme pain at leaving any of her civilities unrequited. She now opened the
door to Mr. Oldbuck, and her surprise at seeing him brought tears into her
eyes, which she could hardly restrain.
"I am glad to see you, sir-I am very glad to see you. fMy poor gentleman is, I am afraid, very unwell; and O Mr. Oldbuck, he'll see neither
doctor, nor minister, nor writer! And think what it would be, if, as my
poor Mr. Itadoway used to say, a man was to die without advice of the three
learned faculties!"
" Greatly better than with them," grumbled the cynical Antiquary. " I
tell you, Mrs. Hadoway, the clergy live by our sins, the medical faculty by
our diseases, and the law gentry by our misfortunes."
"0 fie, Monkbarns!-to hear the like o' that frae you! —But ye'll walk
up and see the poor young lad? —Iegh sirs! sae young and weel-favoured
— and day by day he has eat less and less, and now he hardly touches onything, only just pits a bit on the plate to make fashion, —andc his poor cheek
has turned every day thinner and paler, sae that he now really looks as
auld as me, that might be his mother-no that I might be just that neither,
but something very near it."
" Why does he not take some exercise?" said Oldbuck.
" I think we have persuaded him to do that, for he has bought a horse