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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Saint George's Inn, at the little borough. -Good luck to thee -Be but
cautious how thou bearest thyself."
The Colonel remained in deep meditation.-" I think," he said, " I have
not pledged myself too far to the General. A breach between him and
the Parliament seems inevitable, and would throw England back into civil
war, of which all men are wearied. He may dislike my messenger -yet
that I do not greatly fear. He knows I would choose such as I can myself
depend on, and hath dealt enough with the stricter sort to be aware that
there are among them, as well as elsewhere, men who can hide two faces
ander one hood."
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For there in lofty air was seen to stand
The stern Protector of the conquer'd land;
Draw in that look with which he wept and swore,
Turn'd out the members and made fast the door,
Ridding the house of every knave and drone,
Forced- though it grieved his soul — to rule alone.
THE FRANK COURTSHIP.-CRABBE.
LEAVING Colonel Everard to his meditations, we follow the jolly cavalier,
his companion, who, before mounting at the George, did not fail to treat
himself to his morning-draught of eggs and muscadine, to enable him to
face the harvest wind.
Although he had suffered himself to be sunk in the extravagant license
which was practised by the cavaliers, as if to oppose their conduct in every
point to the preciseness of their enemies, yet Wildrake, well-born and welleducated, and endowed with good natural parts, and a heart which even
debauchery, and the wild life of a roaring cavalier, had not been able entirely
to corrupt, moved on his present embassy with a strange mixture of feelings,
such as perhaps he had never in his life before experienced.
His feelings as a loyalist led him to detest Cromwell, whom in other
circumstances he would scarce have wished to see, except in a field of battle,
where he could have had the pleasure to exchange pistol-shots with him.
But with this hatred there was mixed a certain degree of fear. Always
victorious wherever he fought, the remarkable person whom Wildrake was
now approaching had acquired that influence over the minds of his enemies,
which constant success is so apt to inspire - they dreaded while they hated
him - and joined to these feelings, was a restless meddling curiosity, which
made a particular feature in Wildrake's character, who, having long had
little business of his own, and caring nothing about that which he had, was
easily attracted by the desire of seeing whatever was curious or interesting
around him.
" I should like to see the old rascal after all," he said, " were it but to say
that I had seen him."
lHe reached Windsor in the afternoon, and felt on his arrival the strongest
inclinction to take upihis residence at sonie of his old haunts, when he had
occasiotnally frequented that fair town in gayer days. But resisting all
temptatiolns of this kind, he went courageously to the principal inn, from
which its ancient emblem, the Garter, had long disappeared. The master,
too. whom Wildrake, experienced in his knowledge of landlords and hostelries, had remembered a dashing Mine Host of Queen Bess's school, had
now sobered down to the temper of the times, shook his head when he spoke
of the Parliament, wielded his spigot with the gravity of a priest conduct.