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.

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an important piece of business to Paris. We are unable to trace his fate
farther, but believe it was prosperous, and that he entered into an advantageous partnership with his fellow-apprentice, upon old Davy Ramsay
retiring from business, in consequence of his daughter's marriage. That
eminent antiquary, Dr. Dryasdust, is possessed of an antique watch, with a
silver dial-plate, the mainspring being a piece of catgut instead of a chain,
which bears the names of Vincent and Tunstall, Memory-Monitors.
Master Lowestoffe failed not to vindicate his character as a man of gaiety,
by inquiring after John Christie and Dame Nelly; but greatly to his surprise, (indeed to his loss, for he had wagered ten pieces that he would
domesticate himself in the family,) he found the good-will, as it was called,
of the shop, was sold, the stock auctioned, and the late proprietor and his
wife gone, no one knew whither. The prevailing belief was, that they had
emigrated to one of the new settlements in America.
Lady Dalgarno received the news of her unworthy husband's death with
a variety of emotions, among which, horror that he should have been cut
off in the middle career of his profligacy, was the most prominent. The
incident greatly deepened her melancholy, and injured her health, already
shaken by previous circumstances. Repossessed of her own fortune by her
husband's death, she was anxious to do justice to Lord Glenvarloch, by
treating for the recovery of the mortgage. But the scrivener, having taken
fright at the late events, had left the city and absconded, so that it was impossible to discover into whose hands the papers had now passed. Richard
MIoniplies was silent, for his own reasons: the Templars, who had witnessed the transaction, kept the secret at his request, and it was universally believed that the scrivener had carried off the writings along with
him. We may here observe, that fears similar to those of the scrivener
freed London for ever from the presence of Dame Suddlechop, who ended
her career in the Rasp-haus, (viz. Bridewell,) of Amsterdam.
The stout old Lord EHuntinglen, with a haughty carriage and unmoistened
eye, accompanied the funeral procession of his only son to its last abode;
and perhaps the single tear which fell at length upon the coffin, was given
less to the fate of the individual, than to the extinction of the last male of
his ancient race.
Jacques. There is, sure, another flood toward, and these couples are coming to the ark!Here comes a pair of very strange beasts.
As You LIKE IT.
THE fashion of such narratives as the present, changes like other earthly
things. Time was that the tale-teller was obliged to wind up his story by
a circumstantial description of the wedding, bedding, and throwing the
stocking, as the grand catastrophe to which, through so many circumstances of doubt and difficulty, he had at length happily conducted his hero
and heroine. Not a circumstance was then omitted, from the manly ardour
of the bridegroom, and the modest blushes of the bride, to the parson's
new surplice, and the silk tabinet mantua of the bridesmaid. But such
descriptions are now discarded, for the same reason, I suppose, that public
marriages are no longer fashionable, and that, instead of calling together
their friends to a feast and a dance, the happy couple elope in a solitary
post-chaise, as secretly as if they meant to go to Gretna-Green, or to do
worse. I am not ungrateful for a change which saves an author the trouble
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