no sooner stood rectus in curia, than he posted down to pay his Woe, woe, for Scotland, not a whit for me! The laird was only rejoiced that his worthy friend, Sir Everard ale, pheasants, and venison, and the Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh. All which were meant, sent, and received, as pledges of constant friendship and amity between two important houses. It followed as a matter of course, that the heir-apparent of Wa verley-Honour could not with propriety visit Scotland without being furnished with credentials to the Baron of Bradwardine. When this matter was explained and settled, Mr. Pembroke expressed his wish to take a private and particular leave of his dear pupil. The good man's exhortations to Edward to preserve an unblemished life and morals, to hold fast the principles of the Christian religion, and to eschew the profane company of scoffers and latitudinarians, too much abounding in the army, were not unmingled with his political prejudices. It had pleased Heaven, he said, to place Scotland (doubtless for the sins of their ancestors in 1642) in a more deplorable state of darkness than even this unhappy kingdom of England. Here, at least, although the candlestick of the Church of England had been in some degree removed from its place, it yet afforded a glimmering light; there was a hierarchy, though schismatical, and fallen from the principles maintained by those great fathers of the Church, Sancroft and his brethren; there was a liturgy, though wofully perverted in some of the principal petitions. But in Scotland it was in utter darkness, and excepting a sorrowful, scattered, and persecuted remnant, the pulpits were abandoned to presbyterians, and he feared, to sectaries of every description. It should be his duty to fortify his dear pupil to resist such unhallowed and pernicious doctrines in church and state, as must necessarily be forced at times upon his unwilling ears. Here he produced two immense folded packets, which appeared each to contain a whole ream of closely-written manuscript. They had been the labor of the worthy man's whole life; and never were labor and zeal more absurdly wasted. He had at one time gone to London, with the intention of giving them to the world, by the medium of a bookseller in Little Britain, well known to deal in such commodities, and to whom he was instructed to address himself in a particular phrase, and with a certain sign, which, it seems, passed at that time current among the initiated jacobites. The moment Mr Pembroke nad uttered the Shibboleth, with the appropriate gesture, the bibliopolist greeted him, notwithstanding every disclamation. by the title of Doctor, and conveying him into his back shop, after inspecting every possible and impossible place of concealment, he commenced: "Eh, Doctor!-Well-all under the rose-snug-I keep no holes here even for a Hanoverian rat to hide in. And, what--eh! any good news from our friends over the water? and how does the worthy King of France ?Or perhaps you are more lately from Rome? it must be Rome will do it at last-the Church must light its candle at the old lamp.-Eh-what, cautious? I like you the better; but no fear." Here Mr. Pembroke with some difficulty stopped a torrent of interrogations, eked out with signs, nods, and winks; and, having at length convinced the bookseller that he did him too much honor in supposing him an emissary of exiled royalty, he explained his actual business. The man of books with a much more composed air, proceeded to examine the manuscripts. The title of the first was, "A Dissent from Dissenters, or the Comprehension confuted; showing the impossibility of any composition between the Church and Puritans, Presbyterians, or Sectaries of any description; illustrated from the Scriptures, the Fathers of the Church, and the soundest controversial Divines." To this work the bookseller positively demurred. "Well meant," he said," and learned, doubtless: but the time had gone by. Printed in small pica it would run to eight hundred pages, and could never pay. Begged therefore to be excused-Loved and honored the true church from his soul, and, had it been a sermon on the martyrdom, or any twelve-penny touch-why I would venture something for the honor of the cloth-But come, let's see the other. "Right hereditary righted!"-Ay ! there's some sense in this. Hum-hum-hum-pages so many, paper so much, letter-press-Ah! I'll tell you, though, doctor, you must knock out some of the Latin and Greek; heavy, doctor, damn'd heavy-(beg your pardon) and if you throw in a few grains more pepper-I am he that never peached my AuthorI have published for Drake and Charlwood Lawton, and poor Amhurst. Ah, Caleb! Caleb! Well, it was a shame to let poor Caleb starve, and so many fat rectors and squires among us. I gave him a dinner once a-week; but, Lord love you, what's once a week, when a man does not know where to go the other six days? Well, but I must show the manuscript to little Tom Alibi the solicitor, who manages all my law affairsmust keep on the windy side-the mob were very uncivil the last time I mounted in Old Palace Yard-all whigs and roundheads every man of them, Williamites and Hanover rats." The next day Mr. Pembroke again called on the publisher, but found Tom Alibi's advice had determined him against undertaking the work. "Not but what I would go to-(What was I going to say?) to the Plantations for the church with pleasure -but, dear doctor, I have a wife and family; but, to show my zeal, I'll recommend the job to my neighbor Trimmel-he is a bachelor, and leaving off business, so a voyage in a western barge would not inconvenience him." But Mr. Trimmel was also obdurate, and Mr. Pembroke, fortunately perchance for himself, was compelled to return to Waverley-Honour with his treatise in vindication of the real fundamental principles of church and state safely packed in his saddle-bags. As the public were thus likely to be deprived of the benefit arising from his lucubrations by the selfish cowardice of the trade, Mr. Pembroke resolved to make two copies of these tremendous manuscripts for the use of his pupil. He felt that he had been indolent as a tutor, and besides, his conscience checked him for complying with the request of Mr. Richard Waverley, that he would impress no sentiments upon Edward's mind inconsistent with the present settlement in church and state. "But now," thought he, " I may without breach of my word, since he is no longer under my tuition, afford the youth the means of judging for himself, and have only to dread his reproaches for so long concealing the light which the perusal wili flash upon his mind." While he thus indulged the reveries of an author and a politician his darling proselyte, seeing nothing very inviting in the title of the tracts, and appalled by the bulk and compact lines of the manuscript, quietly consigned them to a corner of his travelling trunk. Aunt Rachel's farewell was brief and affectionate. She only cautioned her dear Edward, whom she probably deemed somewhat susceptible, against the fascination of Scottish beauty. She allowed that the northern part of the island contained some ancient families, but they were all whigs and presbyterians except the Highlanders; and respecting them she must needs. says, there could be no great delicacy among the ladies, where the gentleman'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. 33 CHAPTER SEVENTH. A HORSE-QUARTER IN SCOTLAND. THE next morning, amid varied feelings, the chief of which was a predominant, anxious, and even solemn impression, that he was now in a great measure abandoned to his own guidance and direction, Edward Waverley departed from the Hall amid the blessings and tears of all the old domestics and the inhabitants of the village, mingled with some sly petitions for sergeantcies and corporalships, and so forth, on the part of those who professed that they never "thoft to ha' seen Jacob, and Giles, and Jonathan, go off for soldiers, save to attend his honor, as in duty bound." Edward, as in duty bound, extricated himself from the supplicants with the pledge of fewer promises than might have been expected from a young man so little ac customed to the world. After a short visit to London, he proceeded on horseback, then the general mode of traveling, to Edinburgh,and from thence to Dundee, a seaport on the eastern coast of Angusshire, where his regiment was then quartered. He now entered upon a new world, where, for a time. a was beautiful because all was new. Colonel Gardiner, the commanding officer of the regiment, was himself a study for a romantic, and at the same time an inquisitive, youth. In person he was tall, handsome, and active, thought somewhat advanced in life. In his early years, he had been what is called, by manner of palliative, a very gay young man, and strange stories were circulated about his sudden conversion from doubt, if not infidelity, to a serious and even enthusiastic turn of mind. It was whispered that a supernatural communication, of a nature obvious even to the exterior senses, had produced this won derful change; and though some mentioned the proselyte as an enthusiast, none hinted at his being a hypocrite. This singular and mystical circumstance gave Colonel Gardiner a peculiar and solemn interest in the eyes of the young soldiers. It may be easily imagined that the officers of a regiment, commanded by so respectable a person, composed a society more sedate and orderly than a military mess always exhibit; and that Waverley escaped some temptations to which he might otherwise have been exposed. Meanwhile his military education proceeded. Already a good horseman, he was now initiated into the arts of the manége, which, when carried to perfection, almost realize the fable |