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 HEA.RT OF MID-LOTHIAN. 573
night to consider on what he had said with such kind intentions, and return
him an answer the next morning. The feelings of the father mastered
)avid on this occasion. He pressed Butler to spend the evening with him.
He produced, most unusual at his meals, one, nay, two bottles of aged strong
ale; he spoke of his daughter-of her merits-her housewifery-her thrift
-her affection. He led Butler so decidedly up to a declaration of his feelings towards Jeanie, that, before nightfall, it was distinctly understood she
was to be the bride of Reuben Butler; and if they thought it indelicate to
abridge the period of deliberation which Reuben had stipulated, it seemed
to be sufficiently understood betwixt them, that there was a strong probability of his becoming minister of Knocktarlitie, providing the congregation
were as willing to accept of him, as the Duke to grant him the presentation.
The matter of the oaths, they agreed, it was time enough to dispute about,
whenever the shibboleth should be tendered.
Many arrangements were adopted that evening, which were afterwards
ripened by correspondence with the Duke of Argyle's man of business, who
intrusted Deans and Butler with the benevolent wish of his principal, that
they should all meet with Jeanie, on her return. from England, at the Duke's
hunting-lodge in Roseneath.
This retrospect, so far as the placid loves of Jeanie Deans and Reuben
Butler are concerned, forms a full explanation of the preceding narrative
up to their meeting on the island as already mentioned.
6"I come," he said, "my love, my life,
And-nature's dearest name - my wife:
Thy father's house and friends resign,
My home, my friends, my sire, are thine."
LOGAN.
THE meeting of Jeanie and Butler, under circumstances promising to
crown an affection so long delayed, was rather affecting from its simple
sincerity than from its uncommon vehemence of feeling. David Deans,
whose practice was sometimes a little different from his theory, appalled
them at first, by giving them the opinion of sundry of the suffering preachers
and champions of his younger days, that marriage, though honourable by
the laws of Scripture, was yet a state over-rashly coveted by professors,
and specially by young ministers, whose desire, he said, was at whiles too
inordinate for kirks, stipends, and wives, which had frequently occasioned
over-ready compliance with the general defections of the times. He endeavoured to make them aware, also, that hasty wedlock had been the bane of
many a savoury professor-that the unbelieving wife had too often reversed
the text, and perverted the believing husband-that when the famous Donald
Cargill, being then hiding in Lee-Wood, in Lanarkshire, it being killingtime, did, upon importunity, marry Robert Marshall of Starry Shaw, he
had thus expressed himself: "What hath induced Robert to marry this
woman? her ill will overcome his good — he will not keep the way long -
his thriving days are done." To the sad accomplishment of which prophecy
David said he himself was a living witness, for Robert Marshal, having fallen
into foul compliances with the enemy, went home, and heard the curates,
declined into other steps of defection, and became lightly esteemed. Indeed, he observed that the great upholders of the standard, Cargill, Peden,
Cameron, and Renwick, had less delight in tying the-bonds of matrimony