...horror which she had heard in the servants' hall ? Again, had my title borne, 'Waverley, a Romance from the German,' what head so obtuse as not to image...association of Rosycrucians and Illuminati, with all then* properties of black cowls, caverns, daggers, 10 electrical machines, trap-doors, and dark-lanterns?...

...and the cricket cried in my very title-page? [...] Again, had my title borne, 'Waverley, a Romance from the German,' what head so obtuse as not to image...daggers, electrical machines, trap-doors, and dark lanterns?" 1 This is how the narrator in Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, mocking tendencies of contemporary...

...subtitling Waverley 'A Romance from the German', speaks for itself. With such a title, Scott asks, 'what head so obtuse as not to image forth a profligate abbot, an oppresive duke, a secret and mysterious association of Rosycrucians and Illuminati, with all their...

...Aunt Agatha in the Jeeves and Wooster i43 stories. As Walter Scott wrote in Waverley, no author was "so obtuse as not to image forth a profligate abbot,...their properties of black cowls, caverns, daggers, electric machines, trap-doors and dark lanterns." Sherlock Holmes used to remind Dr. Watson that when...

...anticipated a castle scarce less than that of Udolpho . . . ? Again, had my title borne, 'Waverley, a Romance from the German,' what head so obtuse as not to image forth a profligate abbot, an oppressive duke . . . ? Or if I had rather chosen to call my work a 'Sentimental Tale,' would it not have been a sufficient...

...and horror which she had heard in the servants' hall? Again, had my title borne 'Waverley, a Romance from the German,' what head so obtuse as not to image...caverns, daggers, electrical machines, trap-doors, and darklanterns? Or if I had rather chosen to call my work a 'Sentimental Tale,' would it not have been...

...had heard in the servants' hall? Again, had my title borne 'Waverley, a Romance from the German, 1 what head so obtuse as not to image forth a profligate...caverns, daggers, electrical machines, trap-doors, and dark-lanterns? Or if I had rather chosen to call my work a 'Sentimental Tale,' would it not have been...

...Again, had my title borne 'Waverley, a Romance from the German' what head so obtuse as not to imagine forth a profligate abbot, an oppressive duke, a secret and mysterious association of Rosycrucians and llluminati, with all their properties of black cowls, caverns, daggers, electrical machines, trap-doors,...

...uninhabited, and the keys . . . lost"? Whose brain would not, encountering the second, instantly image forth "a secret and mysterious association of Rosycrucians...their properties of black cowls, caverns, daggers, . . . and dark-lanterns"?4 This is, of course, satire. Scott establishes his own originality as he...

...horror which she had heard in the servants hall ? Again, had my title borne, " Waverley, a Romance from the German," what head so obtuse as not to image...oppressive duke, a secret and mysterious association of Rosicrusians and Illuminati, with all their properties of black cowls, caverns, daggers, electrical...