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 HEART OF MID-LOTHIAN. 46.7
In this resigned and Christian temper she pursued her journey, until she
was beyond this place of melancholy recollections, and not distant from the
village where Butler dwelt, which, with its old-fashioned church and steeple,
rises among a tuft of trees, occupying the ridge of an eminence to the south
of Edinburgh. At a quarter of a mile's distance is a clumsy square tower,
the residence of the Laird of Libberton, who, in former times, with the habits
of the predatory chivalry of Germany, is said frequently to have annoyed
the city of Edinburgh, by intercepting the supplies and merchandise which
came to the town from the southward.
This village, its tower, and its church, did not lie precisely in Jeanie's
road towards England; but they were not much aside from it, and the village was the abode of Butler. She had resolved to see him in the beginning
of her journey, because she conceived him the most proper person to write
to her father concerning her resolution and her hopes. There was probably
another reason latent in her affectionate bosom. She wished once more to
see the object of so early and so sincere an attachment, before commencing
a pilgrimage, the perils of which she did not disguise from herself, although
she did not allow them so to press upon her mind as to diminish the strength
and energy of her resolution. A visit to a lover from a young person in a
higher rank of life than Jeanie's, would have had something forward and
improper in its character. But the simplicity of her rural habits was unacquainted with these punctilious ideas of decorum, and no notion, therefore,
of impropriety crossed her imagination, as, setting out upon a long journey,
she went to bid adieu to an early friend.
There was still another motive that pressed upon her mind with additional
force as she approached the village. She had looked anxiously for Butler
in the court-house, and had expected that, certainly, in some part of that
eventful day, he would have appeared to bring such countenance and support as he could give to his old friend, and the protector of his youth, even
if her own claims were laid aside.
She knew, indeed, that he was under a certain degree of restraint; but
she still had hoped that he would have found means to emancipate himself
from it, at least for one day. In short, the wild and wayward thoughts
which Wordsworth has described as rising in an absent lover's imagination,
suggested, as the only explanation of his absence, that Butler must be very
ill. And so much had this wrought on her imagination, that when she
approached the cottage where her lover occupied a small apartment, and
which had been pointed out to her by a maiden with a milk-pail on her
head, she trembled at anticipating the answer she might receive on inquiring for him.
Her fears in this case had, indeed, only hit upon the truth. Butler,
whose constitution was naturally feeble, did not soon recover the fatigue of
body and distress of mind which he had suffered, in consequence of the
tragical events with which our narrative commenced. The painful idea
that his character was breathed on by suspicion, was an aggravation to his
distress.
But the most cruel addition was the absolute prohibition laid by the
magistrates on his holding, any communication with Deans or his family.
It had unfortunately appeared likely to them, that some intercourse might
be again attempted w;th that family by Robertson, through the medium of
Butler, and this they were anxious to intercept, or prevent if possible. The
measure was not meant as a harsh or injurious severity on the part of the
magistrates; but, in Butler's circumstances, it pressed cruelly hard. He
felt he must be suffering under the bad opinion of the person who was
dearest to him, from an imputation of unkind desertion, the most alien to
his nature.
This painful thought, pressing on a frame already injured, brought on a
succession of slow and lingering feverish attacks, which greatly impaired his