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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a one else!" exclaimed a third set, with more oaths and d-n me's, than, in
the present more correct age, it is necessary to commit to paper.
The old soldier, pricking up his ears like an ancient hunter at the cry of
the hounds, would gladly have scoured the Strand, with the charitable purpose, now he saw himself so well supported, of knocking the London knaves,
who had insulted him, into twiggen bottles; but he was withheld by the
prudence of Julian, who, though himself extremely irritated by the unprovoked ill usage which they had received, saw himself in a situation in which
it was necessary to exercise more caution than vengeance. He prayed and
pressed his father to seek some temporary place of retreat from the fury of
the populace, while that prudent measure was yet in their power. The
subaltern officer who commanded the party of the Life-Guards, exhorted
the old Cavalier eagerly to the same sage counsel, using, as a spice of compulsion, the name of the King; while Julian strongly urged that of his
mother. The old Knight looked at his blade, crimsoned with cross-cuts and
slashes which he had given to the most forward of the assailants, with the
eye of one not half sufficed.
" I would I had pinked one of the knaves at least - but I know not how
it was, when I looked on their broad round English faces, I shunned to use
my point, and only sliced the rogues a little."
" But the King's pleasure," said the officer, "is, that no tumult be prosecuted."
" My mother," said Julian, "will die with fright, if the rumour of this
scuffle reaches her ere we see her."
" Ay, ay," said the Knight, "the King's Majesty, and my good damewell, their pleasure be done, that's all I can say-Kings and ladies must be
obeyed. But' which way to retreat, since retreat we needs must?"
Julian would have been at some loss to advise what course to take, for
every body in the vicinity had shut up their shops, and chained their doors,
upon observing the confusion become so formidable. The poor cutler, however, with whose goods they made so free, offered them an asylum on the
part of his landlord, whose house served as a rest for his shop, and only intimated gently, he hoped the gentlemen would consider him for the use of
his weapons.
Julian was hastily revolving whether they ought, in prudence, to accepi
this man's invitation, aware, by experience, how many trepans, as they were
then termed, were used betwixt two contending factions, each too inveterate
to be very scrupulous of the character of fair play to an enemy, when the
dwarf, exerting his cracked voice to the uttermost, and shrieking like an
exhausted herald, from the exalted station which he still occupied on the
bulk-head, exhorted them to accept the offer of the worthy man of the mansion. "He himself," he said, as he reposed himself after the glorious conquest in which he had some share, "had been favoured with a beatific
vision, too splendid to be described to common and mere mortal ears, but
which had commanded him, in a voice to which his heart had bounded as
to a trumpet sound, to take refuge with the worthy person of the house, and
cause his friends to do so."
"Vision!" said the Knight of the Peak, - " sound of a trumpet! - the
little man is stark mlad."
But the cutler, in great haste, intimated to them that their little friend
had received an intimation from a gentlewoman of his acquaintance, who
spoke to him from the window, while he stood on the bulk-head, that they
would find a safe retreat in his landlord's; and desiring them to attend to
two or three deep though distant huzzas, made them aware that the rabble
were up still, and would soon be upon them with renewed violence, and increased numbers.
The father and son, therefore, hastily thanked the officer and his party,
as well as the other gentlemen who had volunteered in their assistance,