The next day Mr. Pembroke again called on the strange stories were circulated about his sudden conpublisher, but found Tom Alibi's advice had deter- version from doubt, if not infidelity, to a serious and mined him against undertaking the work. "Not but even enthusiastic turn of mind. It was whispered what I would go to what was I going to say?) to that a supernatural communication, of a nature obthe Plantations for the church with pleasure-but, vious, even to the exterior senses, had produced this dear doctor, I have a wife and family; but, to show wonderful change; and though some mentioned the my zeal, I'll recommend the job to my neighbour proselyte as an enthusiast, none hinted at his being a Trimmel-he is a bachelor, and leaving off business, hypocrite. This singular and mystical circumstance so a voyage in a western barge would not inconve- gave Colonel Gardiner a peculiar and solemn interest nience him." But Mr. Trimmel was also obdurate, in the eyes of the young soldier. It may be easily and Mr. Pembroke, fortunately perchance for himself, imagined that the officers of a regiment, commanded was compelled to return to Waverley-Honour with by so respectable a person, composed a society more his treatise in vindication of the real fundamental sedate and orderly than a military mess always exprinciples of church and state safely packed in his hibits; and that Waverley escaped some temptations saddle-bags. to which he might otherwise have been exposed. As the publie were thus likely to be deprived of the Meanwhile his military education proceeded, Albenefit arising from his lucubrations by the selfish ready a good horseman, he was now initiated into cowardice of the trade, Mr. Pembroke resolved to the arts of the manege, which, when carried to permake two copies of these tremendous manuscripts for fection, almost realize the fable of the Centaur, the the use of his pupil. He felt that he had been indo- guidance of the horse appearing to proceed from the lent as a tutor, and, besides, his conscience checked rider's mere volition, rather than from the use of any him for complying with the request of Mr. Richard external and apparent signal of motion. He received Waverley, that he would impress no sentiments upon also instructions in his field duty; but I must own, Edward's mind inconsistent with the present settle- that when his first ardour was past, his progress fell ment in church and state.-But now, thought he, I short in the latter particular of what he wished and may, without breach of my word, since he is no expected. The duty of an officer, the most imposing longer under my tuition, afford the youth the means of all others to the inexperienced mind, because acof judging for himself, and have only to dread his re-companied with so much outward pomp and circumproaches for so long concealing the light which the stance, is in its essence a very dry and abstract task, perusal will flash upon his mind. While he thus depending chiefly upon arithmetical combinations, indulged the reveries of an author and a politician, his requiring much attention, and a cool and reasoning darling proselyte, seeing nothing very inviting in the head to bring them into action. Our hero was liable title of the tracts, and appalled by the bulk and com- to fits of absence, in which his blunders excited some pact lines of the manuscript, quietly consigned them mirth, and called down some reproof. This circumto a corner of his travelling trunk. stance impressed him with a painful sense of infeAunt Rachel's farewell was brief and affection- riority in those qualities which appeared most to ate. She only cautioned her dear Edward, whom she deserve and obtain regard in his new profession. He probably deemed somewhat susceptible, against the asked himself in vain, why his eye could not judge fascinations of Scottish beauty. She allowed that the of distance or space so well as those of his companorthern part of the island contained some ancient nions; why his head was not always successful in families, but they were all Whigs and Presbyterians except the Highlanders; and respecting them she must needs say, there could be no great delicacy among the ladies, where the gentlemen's usual attire was, as she had been assured, to say the least, very singular, and not at all decorous. She concluded her farewell with a kind and moving benediction, and gave the young officer, as a pledge of her regard, a valuable diamond ring, (often worn by the male sex at that time,) and a purse of broad gold pieces, which also were more common Sixty Years since than they have been of late. CHAPTER VII. A HORSE-QUARTER IN SCOTLAND. and excellent man, and proceed to copy the account of his reI have now given in the text, the full name of this gallant markable conversion, as related by Dr. Doddridge. He This memorable event," says the pious writer, "happened towards the middle of July, 1719. The major had spent the evening (and, if I mistake not, it was the Sabbath) in some gay man, whom he was to attend exactly at twelve. The company company, and had an unhappy assignation with a married wobroke up about eleven; and not judging it convenient to anticipate the time appointed, he went into his chamber to kill the tedious hour, perhaps with some amusing book, or some other way. But it very accidentally happened, that he took up a re ligious book, which his good mother or aunt had, without his knowledge, slipped into his portmanteau. It was called, if I remember the title exactly, The Christian Soldier, or Heaven taken by Storm, and it was written by Mr. Thomas Watson. Guessing by the title of it that he would find some phrases of his own profession spiritualized in a manner which he thought might afford him some diversion, he resolved to dip into it; but he took no serious notice of any thing it had in it; and yet while this book was in his hand, an impression was made upon THE next morning, amid varied feelings, the chief his mind (perhaps God only knows how) which drew after it a of which was a predominant, anxious, and even so- train of the most important and happy consequences. lemn impression, that he was now in a great measure thought he saw an unusual blaze of light fall upon the book abandoned to his own guidance and direction, Edward by some accident in the candle; but lifting up his eyes, he ap which he was reading, which he at first imagined might happen Waverley departed from the Hall amid the blessings prehended to his extreme amazement, that there was before and tears of all the old domestics and the inhabitants him, as it were suspended in the air, a visible representation of of the village, mingled with some sly petitions for the Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory; and was impressed, as if a voice, or something serjeantcies and corporal-ships, and so forth, on the equivalent to a voice, had come to him, to this effect, (for he part of those who professed that "they never thoft to was not confident as to the words,) Oh, sinner! did I suffer ha' seen Jacob, and Giles, and Jonathan, go off for this for thee, and are these thy returns Struck with so soldiers, save to attend his honour, as in duty bound." amazing a phenomenon as this, there remained hardly any life in him, so that he sunk down in the arm chair in which he Edward, as in duty bound, extricated himself from sat, and continued, he knew not how long, insensible." the supplicants with the pledge of fewer promises "With regard to this vision," says the ingenious Dr. Hibbert, than might have been expected from a young man so words repeated, can be considered in no other light than as so "the appearance of our Saviour on the cross, and the awfuf Litle accustomed to the world. After a short visit to many recollected images of the mind, which, probably, had London, he proceeded on horseback, then the general their origin in the language of some urgent appeal to repentance, mode of travelling, to Edinburgh, and from thence to that the colonel might have casually read, or heard delivered. Dundee, a seaport on the eastern coast of Angus- From what cause, however, such ideas were rendered as vivid as actual impressions, we have no information to be depended shire, where his regiment was then quartered. upon. This vision was certainly attended with one of the most He now entered upon a new world, where, for a important of consequences, connected with the Christian distime, all was beautiful because all was new. Colonel pensation-the conversion of a sinner, And hence no single Gardiner, the commanding officer of the regiment, opinion that apparitions of this awful kind cannot arise withnarrative has, perhaps, done more to confirm the superstitious was himself a study for a romantic, and at the same out a divine fint." Dr. Hibbert adds, in a note-" A short time time an inquisitive, youth. In person he was tall, before the vision, Colonel Gardiner had received a severe fall handsome, and active, though somewhat advanced in from his horse. Did the brain receive some slight degree of life. In his early years, he had been what is called, injury from the accident, so as to predispose him to this spiritual illusion?"-(Hilbert's Philosophy of Apparitions, Edinburgh, 1824, by manner of palliative, a very gay young man, and p. 190.) disentangling the various partial movements neces-him with a sound cuff, and transported him back to sary to execute a particular evolution; and why his his dungeon, the little white-headed varlet screaming memory, so alert upon most occasions, did not cor- all the while from the very top of his lungs, a shrilly rectly retain technical phrases, and minute points of treble to the growling remonstrances of the enraged etiquette or field discipline. Waverley was naturally matron. Another part in this concert was sustained modest, and therefore did not fall into the egregious by the incessant yelping of a score of idle useless curs, mistake of supposing such minuter rules of military which followed, snarling, barking, howling, and duty beneath his notice, or conceiting himself to be snapping at the horses' heels; a nuisance at that born a general, because he made an indifferent subal-time so common in Scotland, that a French tourist, tern. The truth was, that the vague and unsatisfac- who, like other travellers, longed to find a good and tory course of reading which he had pursued, working rational reason for every thing he saw, has recorded, upon a temper naturally retired and abstracted, had as one of the memorabilia of Caledonia, that the state given him that wavering and unsettled habit of mind, maintained in each village a relay of curs, called colwhich is most averse to study and riveted attention. lies, whose duty it was to chase the chevaux de poste Time, in the meanwhile, hung heavy on his hands. (too starved and exhausted to move without such a The gentry of the neighbourhood were disaffected, and stimulus) from one hamlet to another, till their anshowed little hospitality to the military guests; and noying convoy drove them to the end of their stage the people of the town, chiefly engaged in mercantile The evil and remedy (such as it is) still exist: But pursuits, were not such as Waverley chose to asso- this is remote from our present purpose, and is only ciate with. The arrival of summer, and a curiosity thrown out for consideration of the collectors under to know something more of Scotland than he could Mr. Dent's dog-bill. see in a ride from his quarters, determined him to re- As Waverley moved on, here and there an old man, quest leave of absence for a few weeks. He resolved bent as much by toil as years, his eyes bleared with first to visit his uncle's ancient friend and correspond-age and smoke, tottered to the door of his hut, to gaze ent, with the purpose of extending or shortening the on the dress of the stranger, and the form and motions time of his residence according to circumstances. He of the horses, and then assembled, with his neightravelled of course on horseback, and with a single bours, in a little group at the smithy, to discuss the attendant, and passed his first night at a miserable probabilities of whence the stranger came, and where inn, where the landlady had neither shoes nor stock- he might be going. Three or four village girls, reings, and the landlord, who called himself a gentle- turning from the well or brook with pitchers and man, was disposed to be rude to his guest, because he pails upon their heads, formed more pleasing objects, had not bespoke the pleasure of his society to supper. and, with their thin short-gowns and single pettiThe next day, traversing an open and uninclosed coats, bare arms, legs, and feet, uncovered heads and country, Edward gradually approached the Highlands braided hair, somewhat resembled Italian forms of of Perthshire, which at first had appeared a blue out- landscape. Nor could a lover of the picturesque have line in the horizon, but now swelled into huge gigantic challenged either the elegance of their costume, or masses, which frowned defiance over the more level the symmetry of their shape; although, to say the country that lay beneath them. Near the bottom of truth, a mere Englishman, in search of the comforta this stupendous barrier, but still in the Lowland coun-ble, a word peculiar to his native tongue, might have try, dwelt Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine of Bradwar-wished the clothes less scanty, the feet and legs somedine; and, if gray-haired eld can be in aught believed, what protected from the weather, the head and comthere had dwelt his ancestors, with all their heritage, since the days of the gracious King Duncan. CHAPTER VIII. A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE. plexion shrouded from the sun, or perhaps might even have thought the whole person and dress considerably improved, by a plentiful application of spring water, with a quantum sufficit of soap. The whole scene was depressing; for it argued, at the first glance, at least a stagnation of industry, and perhaps of intellect. Even curiosity, the busiest passion of It was about noon when Captain Waverley entered the idle, seemed of a listless cast in the village of the straggling village, or rather hamlet, of Tully-Ve- Tully-Veolan; the curs aforesaid alone showed any olan, close to which was situated the mansion of the part of its activity: with the villagers it was passive. proprietor. The houses seemed miserable in the ex- They stood and gazed at the handsome young officer treme, especially to an eye accustomed to the smiling and his attendant, but without any of those quick neatness of English cottages. They stood, without motions and eager looks, that indicate the earnestany respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling ness with which those who live in monotonous ease kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a at home, look out for amusement abroad. Yet the primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to physiognomy of the people, when more closely exbe crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse. amined, was far from exhibiting the indifference of Occasionally, indeed, when such a consummation stupidity; their features were rough, but remarkably seemed inevitable, a watchful old grandam, with her intelligent; grave, but the very reverse of stupid; close cap, distaff, and spindle, rushed like a sybil in and from among the young women, an artist night frenzy out of one of these miserable cells, dashed into have chosen more than one model, whose features and the middle of the path, and snatching up her own form resembled those of Minerva. The children also, charge from among the sun-burnt loiterers, saluted whose skins were burnt black, and whose hair was mour, mine Host of the Garter in the Merry Wives of Windsor; or Blague of the George in the Merry Devil of Edmonton. Sometimes the landlady took her share of entertaining the company. In either case, the omitting to pay them due attention gave displeasure, and perhaps brought down a smart jest, as on the following occasion: • The courtesy of an invitation to partake a traveller's meal, or at least that of being invited to share whatever liquor the guest called for, was expected by certain old landlords in ScotJand even in the youth of the author. In requital, mine host was always furnished with the news of the country, and was probably a little of a humourist to boot. The devolution of the whole actual business and drudgery of the inn upon the poor A jolly dame who, not "Sixty Years since," kept the princigudewife, was very common among the Scottish Bonifaces pal caravansary at Greenlaw, in Berwickshire, had the honour There was in ancient times, in the city of Edinburgh, a gentle-to receive under her roof a very worthy clergyman, with three man of good family, who condescended, in order to gain a live-sons of the same profession, each having a cure of souls; be it lihood, to become the nominal keeper of a coffee-house, one of said in passing, none of the reverend party were reckoned powerthe first places of the kind which had been opened in the Scot-ful in the pulpit. After dinner was over, the worthy senior, în tish metropolis. As usual, it was entirely managed by the care- the pride of his heart, asked Mrs. Buchan whether she ever had ful and industrious Mrs. B; while her husband amused him- had such a party in her house before. "Here sit 1," he said, self with field sports, without troubling his head about the "a placed minister of the Kirk of Scotland, and here sit my matter. Once upon a time the premises having taken fire, the three sons, each a placed minister of the same kirk.-Confess, husband was met, walking up the High Street loaded with his Luckie Buchan, you never had such a party in your house guns and fishing rods, and replied calmly to some one who in- before." The question was not premised by any invitation to quired after his wife," that the poor woman was trying to save sit down and take a glass of wine or the like, so Mrs. B. ana parcel of crockery, and some trumpery-books;" the last being swered dryly, "Indeed, sir, I cannot just say that ever I had those which served her to conduct the business of the house. such a party in my house before, except once in the forty-five, There were many elderly gentlemen in the author's younger when I had a Highland piper here, with his three sons, all days, who still held it part of the amusement of a journey to Highland pipers; and deil a spring they could play amang parley with mine host," who often resembled, in his quaint hu- them." bleached white, by the influence of the sun, had a look and manner of life and interest. It seemed, upon the whole, as if poverty, and indolence, its too frequent companion, were combining to depress the natural genius and acquired information of a hardy, intelligent, and reflecting peasantry. cooling shade, and so much pleased with the placid ideas of rest and seclusion excited by this confined and quiet scene, that he forgot the misery and dirt of the hamlet he had left behind him. The opening into the paved court-yard corresponded with the rest of the scene. The house, which seemed to consist of Some such thoughts crossed Waverley's mind as two or three high, narrow, and steep-roofed buildings, he paced his horse slowly through the rugged and projecting from each other at right angles, formed one flinty street of Tully-Veolan, interrupted only in his side of the enclosure. It had been built at a period meditations by the occasional caprioles which his when castles were no longer necessary, and when the charger exhibited at the reiterated assaults of those Scottish architects had not yet acquired the art of decanine Cossacks, the collies before mentioned. The signing a domestic residence. The windows were village was more than half a mile long, the cottages numberless, but very small; the roof had some nonbeing irregularly divided from each other by gardens, descript kind of projections, called bartizans, and disor yards, as the inhabitants called them, of different played at each frequent angle a small turret, rather sizes, where (for it is Sixty Years since) the now resembling a pepper-box than a Gothic watch-tower. universal potatoe was unknown, but which were Neither did the front indicate absolute security from stored with gigantic plants of kale or colewort, encir- danger. There were loop-holes for musketry, and cled with groves of nettles, and exhibited here and iron stancheons on the lower windows, probably to there a huge hemlock, or the national thistle, over-repel any roving band of gipseys, or resist a predatory shadowing a quarter of the petty enclosure. The visit from the Caterans of the neighbouring Highbroken ground on which the village was built had lands. Stables and other offices occupied another never been levelled; so that these enclosures present-side of the square. The former were low vaults, with ed declivities of every degree, here rising like terraces, narrow slits instead of windows, resembling, as Edthere sinking like tan-pits. The dry-stone walls ward's groom observed, "rather a prison for murwhich fenced, or seemed to fence, (for they were sorely derers, and larceners, and such like as are tried at breached,) these hanging gardens of Tully-Veolan, 'sizes, than a place for any Christian cattle." Above were intersected by a narrow lane leading to the com- these dungeon-looking stables were granaries, called mon field, where the joint labour of the villagers cul- girnels, and other offices, to which there was access tivated alternate ridges and patches of rye, oats, bar-by outside stairs of heavy masonry. Two battleley, and pease, each of such minute extent, that at a mented walls, one of which faced the avenue, and the little distance the unprofitable variety of the surface other divided the court from the garden, completed resembled a tailor's book of patterns. In a few fa- the enclosure. voured instances, there appeared behind the cottages Nor was the court without its ornaments. In one a miserable wigwam, compiled of earth, loose stones, corner was a tun-bellied pigeon-house, of great size and turf, where the wealthy might perhaps shelter a and rotundity, resembling in figure and proportion the starved cow or sorely galled horse. But almost every curious edifice called Arthur's Oven, which would hut was fenced in front by a huge black stack of turf have turned the brains of all the antiquaries in Engon one side of the door, while on the other the family land, had not the worthy proprietor pulled it down dunghill ascended in noble emulation. for the purpose of mending a neighbouring dam-dyke. About a bowshot from the end of the village ap-This dovecot, or columbarium, as the owner called peared the enclosures, proudly denominated the Parks it, was no small resource to a Scottish laird of that of Tully-Veolan, being certain square fields, surround- period, whose scanty rents were eked out by the coned and divided by stone walls five feet in height. In tributions levied upon the farms by these light forathe centre of the exterior barrier was the upper gate gers, and the conscriptions exacted from the latter for of the avenue, opening under an archway, battlement-the benefit of the table. ed on the top, and adorned with two large weather- Another corner of the court displayed a fountain, beaten mutilated masses of upright stone, which, if where a huge bear, carved in stone, predominated the tradition of the hamlet could be trusted, had once over a large stone-basin, into which he disgorged the represented, at least had been once designed to repre- water. This work of art was the wonder of the Bent, two rampant Bears, the supporters of the family country ten miles round. It must not be forgotten, of Bradwardine. This avenue was straight, and of that all sorts of bears, small and large, demi or in full moderate length, running between a double row of proportion, were carved over the windows, upon the very ancient horse-chestnuts, planted alternately with ends of the gables, terminated the spouts, and supsycamores, which rose to such huge height, and flou- ported the turrets, with the ancient family motto, rished so luxuriantly, that their boughs completely Bewar the Bar," cut under each hyperborean form. over-arched the broad road beneath. Beyond these The court was spacious, well paved, and perfectly venerable ranks, and running parallel to them, were clean, there being probably another entrance behind two high walls, of apparently the like antiquity, over- the stables for removing the litter. Every thing around grown with ivy, honey-suckle, and other climbing appeared solitary, and would have been silent, but for plants. The avenue seemed very little trodden, and the continued plashing of the fountain; and the whole chiefly by foot-passengers; so that being very broad, scene still maintained the monastic illusion which and enjoying a constant shade, it was clothed with the fancy of Waverley had conjured up. And here we grass of a deep and rich verdure, excepting where a beg permission to close a chapter of still life.* foot-path, worn by occasional passengers, tracked with a natural sweep the way from the upper to the lower gate. This nether portal, like the former, opened in front of a wall ornamented with some rude sculpture, with battlements on the top, over which were seen, half-hidden by the trees of the avenue, the high AFTER having satisfied his curiosity by gazing steep roofs and narrow gables of the mansion, with around him for a few minutes, Waverley applied lines indented into steps, and corners decorated with himself to the massive knocker of the hall-door, the small turrets. One of the folding leaves of the lower architrave of which bore the date 1594. But no angate was open, and as the sun shone full into the swer was returned, though the peal resounded through court behind, a long line of brilliancy was flung upon a number of apartments, and was echoed from the the aperture up the dark and gloomy avenue. It was one of those effects which a painter loves to repre- Tully-Veolan; but the peculiarities of the description occur in sent, and mingled well with the struggling light which various old Scottish Seats. The House of Warrender upon found its way between the boughs of the shady arch former to Sir George Warrender, the latter to Sir Alexander that vaulted the broad green alley. CHAPTER IX. MORE OF THE MANOR-HOUSE AND ITS ENVIRONS. *There is no particular mansion described under the name of Burntsfield Links, and that of Old Ravelston, belonging, the Keith, have both contributed several hints to the description The solitude and repose of the whole scene seemed in the text. The House of Dean, near Edinburgh, has also some almost monastic; and Waverley, who had given his points of resemblance with Tully-Veolan. The author has, horse to his servant on entering the first gate, walked bles that of the Baron of Bradwardine still more than any of the however, been informed, that the House of Grandtully resem. slowly down the avenue, enjoying the grateful and above. court-yard walls without the house, startling the pi-| Edward descended the steps in order to meet him; geons from the venerable rotunda which they occu- but as the figure approached, and long before he could pied, and alarming anew even the distant village curs, descry its features, he was struck with the oddity of which had retired to sleep upon their respective dung- its appearance and gestures. Sometimes this mister hills. Tired of the din which he created, and the un-wight held his hands clasped over his head, like an profitable responses which it excited, Waverley began Indian Jogue in the attitude of penance; sometimes to think that he had reached the castle of Orgoglio, as entered by the victorious Prince Arthur, he swung them perpendicularly, like a pendulum, on each side; and anon he slapped them swiftly and reWhen 'gan he loudly through the house to call, peatedly across his breast, like the substitute used by But no man cared to answer to his cry; a hackney-coachman for his usual flogging exercise, There reign'd a solemn silence over all, when his cattle are idle upon the stand, in a clear Nor voice was heard, nor wight was seen in bower or hall. frosty day. His gait was as singular as his gestures, Filled almost with expectation of beholding some for at times he hopp'd with great perseverance on the old, old man, with beard as white as snow," whom right foot, then exchanged that supporter to advance he might question concerning this deserted mansion, in the same manner on the left, and then putting his our hero turned to a little oaken wicket-door, well feet close together, he hopp'd upon both at once. His clenched with iron nails, which opened in the court-attire also was antiquated and extravagant. It conyard wall at its angle with the house. It was only sisted in a sort of gray jerkin, with scarlet cuffs and latched, notwithstanding its fortified appearance, and, slashed sleeves, showing a scarlet lining; the other when opened, admitted him into the garden, which parts of the dress corresponded in colour, not forgetpresented a pleasant scene.* The southern side of ting a pair of scarlet stockings, and a scarlet bonnet, the house, clothed with fruit-trees, and having many proudly surmounted with a turkey's feather. Edevergreens trained upon its walls, extended its irre-ward, whom he did not seem to observe, now per gular yet venerable front, along a terrace, partly paved, ceived confirmation in his features of what the mien partly gravelled, partly bordered with flowers and and gestures had already announced. It was appachoice shrubs. This elevation descended by three rently neither idiocy nor insanity which gave that several flights of steps, placed in its centre and at the wild, unsettled, irregular expression to a face which extremities, into what might be called the garden naturally was rather handsome, but something that proper, and was fenced along the top by a stone para- resembled a compound of both, where the simplicity pet with a heavy balustrade, ornamented from space of the fool was mixed with the extravagance of a to space with huge grotesque figures of animals seat- crazed imagination. He sung with great earnested upon their haunches, among which the favourite ness, and not without some taste, a fragment of an bear was repeatedly introduced. Placed in the mid-old Scotch ditty: dle of the terrace, between a sashed-door opening from! the house and the central flight of steps, a huge animal of the same species supported on his head and fore-paws a sun-dial of large circumference, inscribed with more diagrams than Edward's mathematics enabled him to decipher. ↑ False love, and hast thou play'd me this In summer among the flowers? I will repay thee back again As you with other maidens rove, Tu garden, which seemed to be kept with great accuracy, abounded in fruit-trees, and exhibited a Here lifting up his eyes, which had hitherto been profusion of flowers and evergreens, cut into grotesque fixed in observing how his feet kept time to the tune, forms. It was laid out in terraces, which descended he beheld Waverley, and instantly doff'd his cap, rank by rank from the western wall to a large brook, with many grotesque signals of surprise, respect, and which had a tranquil and smooth appearance, where salutation. Edward, though with little hope of reit served as a boundary to the garden; but, near the ceiving an answer to any constant question, requestextremity, leapt in tumult over a strong dam, or wear-ed to know whether Mr. Bradwardine were at home, head, the cause of its temporary tranquillity, and there or where he could find any of the domestics. The forming a cascade, was overlooked by an octangular questioned party replied-and, like the witch of Thasummer-house, with a gilded bear on the top by way laba, "still his speech was song," of vane. After this feat, the brook, assuming its natural rapid and fierce character, escaped from the eye down a deep and wooded dell, from the copse of which arose a massive, but ruinous tower, the former habitation of the Barons of Bradwardine. The margin of the brook, opposite to the garden, displayed a narrow meadow, or haugh, as it was called, which formed a small washing-green; the bank, which retired behind it, was covered by ancient trees. The Knight's to the mountain His bugle to wind; Her garland to bind. That the step of Lord William This conveyed no information, and Edward, repeating his queries, received a rapid answer, in which, The scene, though pleasing, was not quite equal to from the haste and peculiarity of the dialect, the word the gardens of Alcina; yet wanted not the "due don-"butler" was alone intelligible. Waverley then rezelette garrule" of that enchanted paradise, for upon quested to see the butler; upon which the fellow, the green aforesaid two bare-legged damsels, each with a knowing look and nod of intelligence, made a standing in a spacious tub, performed with their feet signal to Edward to follow, and began to dance and the office of a patent washing-machine. These did caper down the alley up which he had made his ap not, however, like the maidens of Armida, remain to proaches.-A strange guide this, thought Edward, greet with their harmony the approaching guest, but, and not much unlike one of Shakspeare's roynish alarmed at the appearance of a handsome stranger on clowns. I am not over prudent to trust to his pilotthe opposite side, dropped their garments (I should age; but wiser men have been led by fools.-By this say garment, to be quite correct) over their limbs. time he reached the bottom of the alley, where, turnwhich their occupation exposed somewhat too freely, ing short on a little parterre of flowers, shrouded from and, with a shrill exclamation of "Eh, sirs!" uttered the east and north by a close yew hedge, he found an with an accent between modesty and coquetry, sprung old man at work without his coat, whose appearance off like deer in different directions. hovered between that of an upper servant and garWaverley began to despair of gaining entrance into dener; his red nose and ruffled shirt belonging to the this solitary and seemingly enchanted mansion, when former profession; his hale and sun-burnt visage, a man advanced up one of the garden alleys, where with his green apron, appearing to indicate he still retained his station. Trusting this might be a gardener, or some domestic belonging to the house, At Ravelston may be seen such a garden, which the taste of the proprietor, the author's friend and kinsman, Sir Alexan der Keith, Knight Mareschal, has judiciously preserved. That, as well as the house, is, however, of smaller dimensions than the Baron of Bradwardine's mansion and garden are presumed to have been. Old Adam's likeness, set to dress this garden. The major domo, for such he was, and indisputably the second officer of state in the barony, (nay, as chief minister of the interior, superior even to Bailie Macwheeble, in his own department of the kitchen This is a genuine ancient fragment, with some alteration in the two last lines. and cellar,) the major domo laid down his spade, health being proposed among a round of beauties, the slipped on his coat in haste, and with a wrathful Laird of Bumperquaigh, permanent toast-master and look at Edward's guide, probably excited by his croupier of the Bautherwhillery Club, not only said having introduced a stranger while he was engaged in More to the pledge in a pint bumper of Bourdeaux, this laborious, and, as he might suppose it, degrading but, ere pouring forth the libation, denominated the office, requested to know the gentleman's commands. divinity to whom it was dedicated, "the Rose of Being informed that he wished to pay his respects to Tully-Veolan;" upon which festive occasion, three his master, that his name was Waverley, and so forth, cheers were given by all the sitting members of that the old man's countenance assumed a great deal of respectable society, whose throats the wine had left respectful importance. "He could take it upon his capable of such exertion. Nay, I am well assured, conscience to say, his honour would have exceeding that the sleeping partners of the company snorted pleasure in seeing him. Would not Mr. Waverley applause, and that although strong bumpers and weak choose some refreshment after his journey? His brains had consigned two or three to the floor, yet honour was with the folk who were getting doon the even these, fallen as they were from their high estate, dark hag; the twa gardener lads (an emphasis on the and weltering-I will carry the parody no fartherword tea) had been ordered to attend him; and he uttered divers inarticulate sounds, intimating their had been just amusing himself in the mean time with assent to the motion. dressing Miss Rose's flower-bed, that he might be near to receive his honour's orders, if need were: he was very fond of a garden, but had little time for such divertisements." "He canna get it wrought in abune twa days in the week at no rate whatever," said Edward's fantastic conductor. Such unanimous applause could not be extorted but by acknowledged merit; and Rose Bradwardine not only deserved it, but also the approbation of much more rational persons than the Bautherwhillery Club could have mustered, even before discussion of the first magnum. She was indeed a very pretty girl of the Scotch cast of beauty, that is, with a profusion of A grim look from the butler chastised his interfe- hair of paley gold, and a skin like the snow of her rence, and he commanded him, by the name of Davie own mountains in whiteness. Yet she had not a Gellatley, in a tone which admitted no discussion, to pallid or pensive cast of countenance; her features, look for his honour at the dark hag, and tell him there as well as her temper, had a lively expression; her was a gentleman from the south had arrived at the complexion, though not florid, was so pure as to seem Ha'. transparent, and the slightest emotion sent her whole "Can this poor fellow deliver a letter?" asked Ed-blood at once to her face and neck. Her form, though ward. under the common size, was remarkably elegant, and her motions light, easy, and unembarrassed. She came from another part of the garden to receive Captain Waverley, with a manner that hovered between bashfulness and courtesy. “With all fidelity, sir, to any one whom he respects, I would hardly trust him with a long message by word of mouth-though he is more knave than fool." Waverley delivered his credentials to Mr. Gellatley, who seemed to confirm the butler's last observation, The first greetings past, Edward learned from her by twisting his features at him, when he was look- that the dark hag, which had somewhat puzzled him ing another way, into the resemblance of the grotesque in the butler's account of his master's avocations, face on the bole of a German tobacco-pipe; after had nothing to do either with a black cat or a broomwhich, with an odd congé to Waverley, he danced off stick, but was simply a portion of oak copse which to discharge his errand. was to be felled that day. She offered, with diffident "He is an innocent, sir," said the butler; "there civility, to show the stranger the way to the spot, is one such in almost every town in the country, but which, it seems, was not far distant; but they were ours is brought far ben. He used to work a day's prevented by the appearance of the Baron of Bradturn weel eneugh; but he helped Miss Rose when she wardine in person, who, summoned by David Gellatwas flemit with the Laird of Killancureit's new Eng- ley, now appeared, "on hospitable thoughts intent,' lish bull, and since that time we ca' him Davie Do- clearing the ground at a prodigious rate with swift little; indeed we might ca' him Davie Do-naething, and long strides, which reminded Waverley of the for since he got that gay clothing, to please his ho- seven-league boots of the nursery fable. He was a nour and my young mistress, (great folks will have tall, thin, athletic figure, old indeed and gray-haired, their fancies,) he has done naething but dance up and but with every muscle rendered as tough as whipdown about the toun, without doing a single turn, unless trimming the laird's fishing-wand, or busking his fiies, or may be catching a dish of trouts at an orra-time. But here comes Miss Rose, who, I take burden upon me for her, will be especial glad to see one of the house of Waverley at her father's mansion of Tully-Veolan." But Rose Bradwardine deserves better of her unworthy historian, than to be introduced at the end of a chapter. In the meanwhile it may be noticed, that Waverley learned two things from this colloquy; that in Scotland a single house was called a town, and a natural fool an innocent.* CHAPTER X. ROSE BRADWARDINE AND HER FATHER. cord by constant exercise. He was dressed carelessly, and more like a Frenchman than an Englishman of the period, while, from his hard features and perpendicular rigidity of stature, he bore some resemblance to a Swiss officer of the guards, who had resided some time at Paris, and caught the costume, but not the ease or manner, of its inhabitants. The truth was, that his language and habits were as heterogeneous as his external appearance. Owing to his natural disposition to study, or perhaps to a very general Scottish fashion of giving young men of rank a legal education, he had been bred with a view to the bar. But the politics of his family precluding the hope of his rising in that profession, Mr. Bradwardine travelled with high reputation for several years, and made some campaigns in foreign service. After his démêlée with the law of high treason in 1715, he had lived in retirement, conversing almost entirely with those of his own principles in the vicinage. The pedantry of the lawyer, superinduced upon the military pride of the soldier, might remind a modern of the days of the zealous volunteer service, when the bar-gown of our pleaders was often flung over a blazing uniform. To this must be added the prejudices of ancient birth and Jacobite In Scotland the custom subsisted till late in the last century; at politics, greatly strengthened by habits of solitary Glammis Castle, is preserved the dress of one of the jesters, very and secluded authority, which, though exercised only handsome, and ornamented with many bells. It is not above thirty years since such a character stood by the sideboard of a within the bounds of his half-cultivated estate, was netleman of the first rank in Scotland, and occasionally mixed there indisputable and undisputed. For, as he used to in the conversation, till he carried the joke rather too far, in observe, "the lands of Bradwardine, Tully-Veolan, making proposals to one of the young ladies of the family, and pabushing the bans betwixt her and himself in the public and others, had been erected into a free barony by a charter from David the First, cum liberali potest. E MISS BRADWARDINE was but seventeen; yet, at the last races of the county town of -, upon her I am ignorant how long the ancient and established custom of keeping fools has been disused in England. Swift writes an epitaph on the Earl of Suffolk's fool, church. "Whose name was Dickie Pearce." |