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Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since — Volume 2

Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since - Volume 2

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Chapter 1 WAVERLEY-HONOUR--A RETROSPECT

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regiment of dragoons in which he had lately obtained a commission. It was a melancholy day at Waverley-Honour when th

he contrary, who was ten years younger, beheld himself born to the fortune of a second brother, and anticipated neither dignity nor entertainment in sustaining the character of Will Wimble. He saw early, that, to succeed in the race of life, it was necessary he should carry as little weight as possible. Painters talk of the diffi

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d be distinguished as Sir Richard Waverley of Waverley-Honour, successor to a princely estate, and to extended political connexions as head of the county interest in the shire where it lay. But this was a consummation of things not to be expected at Richard's outset, when Sir Everard was in the prime of life, and certain to be an acceptable suitor in almost any family, whether wealth or beauty should be the object of his pursuit, and when, indeed, his speedy marriage was

here the Chevalier Saint George, or, as he was termed, the Old Pretender, held his exiled court, as his situation compelled him to shift his place of residence.] The accession of the near relation of one of those steady and inflexible opponents was considered as a means of bringing over more converts, and therefore Richard Waverley met with a share of ministerial favour more than proportioned to his talents or his political importance. It was however, discovered that he had respectable talents for public business, and the first admittance to the minister's levee being ne

ers. The politician by whom they were compiled picked up his intelligence at coffee-houses, and often pleaded for an additional gratuity, in consideration of the extra expense attached to frequenting such places of fashionable resort.] For it may be observed in passing, that instead of those mail-coaches, by means of which every mechanic at his sixpenny club may nightly learn from twenty contradictory channels the yesterday's news of the capital, a weekly post brought, in those days, to Waverley-Hono

is politics. The Baronet, although the mildest of human beings, was not without sensitive points in his character; his brother's conduct had wounded these deeply; the Waverley estate was fettered by no entail (for it had never entered into the head of any of its former possessors that one of thei

ts of Sir Hildebrand Waverley, failing those of his eldest son Wilfred, of whom Sir Everard and his brother were the only representatives, were, as this honoured register informed him (and, in

d manor of Waverley-Honour, with all its dependencies. But an hour of cool reflection is a great matter, when employed in weighing the comparative evil of two measures, to neither of which we are internally partial. Lawyer Clippurse found his patron involved in a deep study, which he was too respectful to disturb, otherwise than by producing his paper and leathern ink-case, as prepared to minute his honour's commands. Even this slight manoeuvre was embarrassing to Sir Everard, who felt it as a reproach to his indecision. He looked at the attorney with some desire to issue his fiat, when

Lawyer Clippurse to mend his pen. The pen was mended in vain. The attorney was

ugured yet worse consequences to Richard Waverley from a movement which shortly followed his apostasy. This was no less than an excursion of the Baronet in his coach-and-six, with four attendants in ric

ladies, his taste unfortunately determined him in favour of Lady Emily, the youngest, who received his attentions with

ice might have been completed, as doubtless has happened in many similar instances, had it not been for the courage of an elder sister, who revealed to the wealthy suitor that Lady Emily's affections were fixed upon a young soldier of fortune, a n

Castle, the address to extort from her father a consent to her union with the object of her choice. What arguments he used on this point cannot exactly be known, for Sir Everard was never supposed strong in the powers of persuasi

lt of the whole matter was his return to Waverley-Honour without any transfer of his affections, notwithstanding the sighs and languishments of the fair tell-tale, who had revealed, in mere sisterly affection, the secret of Lady Emily's attachment, and in despite of the nods, winks, and innuendoes of the officious lady mother, and the grave eulogiums which the Earl pronounced successively on the prudence, and good sense, and admirable dispositions, of his first, second, third, fourth, and fifth daughters. The memory of his unsu

maintain the coldness between them. Richard knew enough of the world, and of his brother's temper, to believe that by any ill-considered or precipitate advances on his part, he might turn passive dislike into a more active principle. It was accident, therefore, which at leng

ated a shield emblazoned with three ermines with the idea of personal property, but he no sooner beheld this family emblem, than he stoutly determined on vindicating his right to the splendid vehicle on which it was displayed. The Baronet arrived while the boy's maid was in vain endeavouring to make him desist from his determination to appropriate the gilded coach and six. The rencontre was at a happy moment for Edward, as his uncle had been just eyeing wistfully, with something of a feeling like envy, the chubby boys of the stout yeoman whose mansion was building by his direction. In the round-faced

n which his hereditary pride might found the anticipated pleasure of a continuation of his lineage, and where his kind and gentle affections could at the same time fully exercise themselves. For Richard Waverley, he beheld in the growing attachment between the u

ame intimate relation to both families, although their mutual intercourse was otherwise limited to formal messages, and more formal visits. The e

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1 Chapter 1 WAVERLEY-HONOUR--A RETROSPECT2 Chapter 2 CHOICE OF A PROFESSION3 Chapter 3 THE ADIEUS OF WAVERLEY4 Chapter 4 MORE OF THE MANOR-HOUSE AND ITS ENVIRONS5 Chapter 5 ROSE BRADWARDINE AND HER FATHER6 Chapter 6 THE BANQUET7 Chapter 7 REPENTANCE AND A RECONCILIATION8 Chapter 8 A MORE RATIONAL DAY THAN THE LAST9 Chapter 9 A DISCOVERY-WAVERLEY BECOMES DOMESTICATED AT TULLY-VEOLAN10 Chapter 10 No.1011 Chapter 11 AN UNEXPECTED ALLY APPEARS12 Chapter 12 THE HOLD OF A HIGHLAND ROBBER13 Chapter 13 WAVERLEY PROCEEDS ON HIS JOURNEY14 Chapter 14 THE CHIEF AND HIS MANSION15 Chapter 15 A HIGHLAND FEAST16 Chapter 16 THE CHIEFTAIN'S SISTER17 Chapter 17 HIGHLAND MINSTRELSY18 Chapter 18 WAVERLEY CONTINUES AT GLENNAQUOICH19 Chapter 19 A STAG-HUNT, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES20 Chapter 20 NEWS FROM ENGLAND21 Chapter 21 AN ECLAIRCISSEMENT22 Chapter 22 UPON THE SAME SUBJECT23 Chapter 23 A LETTER FROM TULLY-VEOLAN24 Chapter 24 WAVERLEY'S RECEPTION IN THE LOWLANDS AFTER HIS HIGHLAND TOUR25 Chapter 25 SHOWS THAT THE LOSS OF A HORSE'S SHOE MAY BE A SERIOUS INCONVENIENCE26 Chapter 26 AN EXAMINATION27 Chapter 27 A CONFERENCE, AND THE CONSEQUENCE28 Chapter 28 A CONFIDANT29 Chapter 29 A VOLUNTEER SIXTY YEARS SINCE30 Chapter 30 AN INCIDENT31 Chapter 31 WAVERLEY IS STILL IN DISTRESS32 Chapter 32 A NOCTURNAL ADVENTURE33 Chapter 33 THE JOURNEY IS CONTINUED34 Chapter 34 AN OLD AND A NEW ACQUAINTANCE35 Chapter 35 THE MYSTERY BEGINS TO BE CLEARED UP36 Chapter 36 A SOLDIER'S DINNER37 Chapter 37 THE BALL38 Chapter 38 THE MARCH39 Chapter 39 AN INCIDENT GIVES RISE TO UNAVAILING REFLECTIONS40 Chapter 40 THE EVE OF BATTLE41 Chapter 41 THE CONFLICT42 Chapter 42 AN UNEXPECTED EMBARRASSMENT43 Chapter 43 THE ENGLISH PRISONER44 Chapter 44 RATHER UNIMPORTANT45 Chapter 45 INTRIGUES OF LOVE AND POLITICS46 Chapter 46 INTRIGUES OF SOCIETY AND LOVE47 Chapter 47 FERGUS A SUITOR48 Chapter 48 'TO ONE THING CONSTANT NEVER'49 Chapter 49 A BRAVE MAN IN SORROW50 Chapter 50 EXERTION51 Chapter 51 THE MARCH No.5152 Chapter 52 THE CONFUSION OF KING AGRAMANT'S CAMP53 Chapter 53 A SKIRMISH54 Chapter 54 OF ACCIDENTS55 Chapter 55 A JOURNEY TO LONDON56 Chapter 56 WHAT'S TO BE DONE NEXT 57 Chapter 57 DESOLATION58 Chapter 58 COMPARING OF NOTES59 Chapter 59 MORE EXPLANATION60 Chapter 60 No.6061 Chapter 61 No.6162 Chapter 62 LXVIII 63 Chapter 63 No.6364 Chapter 64 DOLCE DOMUM65 Chapter 65 No.6566 Chapter 66 A POSTSCRIPT, WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN A PREFACE