-' I x-< J THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY: AN ALPHABETICAL ARRANGEMENT OF ALL THE CHARACTERS IN SIR WALTER SCOTT'S WAVERLEY NOVELS, A DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF EACH CHARACTER, AND ILLUSTRATIVE SELECTIONS FROM THE TEXT. BY /MAY ROGERS. SECOND EDITION. CHICAGO: S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY. 1885. COPYRIGHT. 1878, BY S. C. GRIGGS AND COMPANY. INTRODUCTION. " T T P to the era of Sir Walter Scott living people had some vague general, indistinct notions about dead people mouldering away to nothing, centuries ago, in regular kirk-yards and chance burial-places, "Mang muirs and mosses many, 0,' somewhere or other in that difficultly distinguished and very debatable district called the Borders. All at once he touched their tombs with a divin- ing rod, and the turf streamed out ghosts, some in woodmen's dresses, most in warrior's mail; queer archers leaped forth, with yew bows and quivers, and giants stalked, shaking spears! The gray chronicler smiled, and, taking up his pen, wrote in lines of light the annals of the chivalrous and heroic days of auld feudal Scotland. The nation then, for the first time, knew the character of its ancestors; for these were not spectres not they, indeed nor phantoms of the brain, but gaunt flesh and blood, or glad and glorious; base-born cottage churls of the olden times, because Scottish, became familiar to the love of the nation's heart, and so to its pride did the high-born lineage of palace kings. We know now the character of our own people as it showed itself in war and peace in palace, castle, hall, hut, hovel and shieling- through cen- turies of advancing civilization, from the time when Edinburgh was ycleped Auld Reekie down to the period when the bright idea first occurred to her inhabitants to call her the Modern Athens." Prof. John Wilson: Recreations of Christopher North. CONTENTS. CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OP THE WAVERLEY NOVELS - 7 ORDER OF PUBLICATION OP THE WAVERLEY NOVELS - 8 WAVERLEY - 9 GUY MANNERING - 26 THE ANTIQUARY - - 39 * THE BLACK DWARF) ( ... 49 ^ First Series ] *OLD MORTALITY ) ( - - 55 *THE HEART OP MIDLOTHIAN Second Series - 71 * THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR / ( - 86 - Third Series ] *A LEGEND OF MONTROSE ) ( - 98 * COUNT ROBERT OP PARIS ) ( - - 107 > Fourth Series 4 * CASTLE DANGEROUS ) ( 116 ROB ROY - - 121 IVANHOE 136 THE MONASTERY - - 153 THE ABBOTT - 166 KENILWORTH - 179 THE PIRATE - 195 THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL - 204 PEVERIL OF THE PEAK 217 * Tales of My Landlord. 6 CONTENTS. QUENTIN DURWARD ST. RON AN 's WELL - 244 REDGAUNTLET - - - 255 *THE BETROTHED ... 269 *THE TALISMAN 276 WOODSTOCK ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN fTHE HIGHLAND WIDOW \ 298 t THE Two DROVERS V First Series -f 301 tTnE SURGEON'S DAUGHTER ) 303 tTHE FAIR MAID OF PERTH Second Series - 310 JMy AUNT MARGARET'S MIRROR - | THE TAPESTRIED CHAMBER | DEATH OF THE LAIRD'S JOCK INDEX 325 * Tales of the Crusaders. t Chronicles of the Canongate. t Minor Tales. CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS. COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS THE BETROTHED - THE TALISMAN IVANHOE .... CASTLE DANGEROUS THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH - QUENTIN DURWARD ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN - THE MONASTERY - THE ABBOT - ... KENILAVORTH - THE LAIRD'S JOCK THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL A LEGEND OF MONTROSE WOODSTOCK - PEVERIL OF THE PEAK 1090 1187 1193 1194 1306-7 1402 1470 1474-7 WILLIAM RupUa. HENRY II. RICHARD I. RICHARD I. EDWARD I. HENRY IV. EDWARD IV. EDWARD IV. 1559 etc. ELIZABETH. 1568 etc. ELIZABETH. 1575 1600 1620 1645-6 1652 ELIZABETH. ELIZABETH. JAMES I. CHARLES I. COMMONWEALTH. 1660 etc. CHARLES II. OLD MORTALITY - 1679-90 (CHARLES II and WILLIAM THE PIRATE MY AUNT MARGARET'S MIRROR 1700 THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR - 1700 AND MARY. about 1700 WILLIAM III or ANNE. WILLIAM III. WILLIAM III. THE BLACK DWARF - - 1708 ROB ROY 1715 THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN WAVERLEY - THE HIGHLAND WIDOW THE SURGEON'S DAUGHTER GUYMANNERING - THE Two DROVERS - - - 1765 REDGAUNTLET - - - 1770 THE TAPESTRIED CHAMBER - 1780 THE ANTIQUARY - - - 1798 ST. RONAN'S WELL - - - 1800 ANNE. GEORGE I. 1736-51 GEORGE II. ' 1745 GEORGE II. 1755 GEORGE II. 1750-70 GEORGE II and GEORGE III. 1750-70 GEORGE II and GEORGE III. GEORGE III. GEORGE III. GEORGE III. GEORGE III. GEORGE III. AppMon's Edition. 1869. THE WAVERLEY NOVELS IN THE ORDER OF THEIR PUBLICATION. WAVERLEY - - 1814 GUY MANNERING - 1815 THE ANTIQUARY - - 1816 THE BLACK DWARF - 1816 OLD MORTALITY - 1816 ROB ROY - 1818 THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN - 1818 THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR - 1819 A LEGEND OF MONTROSE - - 1819 IVANHOE - 1820 THE MONASTERY - 1820 THE ABBOT 1820 KENILWORTH - 1821 THE PIRATE 1822 THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL - - 1822 PEVERIL OF THE PEAK - 1823 QUENTIN DURWARD - - 1823 ST. RONAN'S WELL 1824 REDGAUNTLET - 1824 THE BETROTHED - 1825 THE TALISMAN - 1825 WOODSTOCK 1826 THE Two DROVERS - - 1827 THE HIGHLAND WIDOW - 1827 THE SURGEON'S DAUGHTER - - 1827 THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH 1828 ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN - 1829 COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS - 1831 CASTLE DANGEROUS - - 1831 MINOR TALES. MY AUNT MARGARET'S MIRROR 1828 THE TAPESTRIED CHAMBER - - 1828 DEATH OF THE LAIRD'S JOCK - ... 1828 WAYERLEY; OR, 'TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE. "Under which king, Beuzoiiian? speak, or die!" HENRY IV. Part 11. ARGUMENT. WAVERLEY was Scott's first novel. It was published in 1814. It relates to the insurrection in the Stuart interest, led by Charles Edward, in 1745. In "A Postscript which should have been a Preface," Scott says: " It was my accidental lot. though not horn a Highlander ... to reside during my childhood and youth among persons' of the above description: and now. for the purpose of preserving some idea of the ancient manners of which 1 have witnessed the almost total extinction. 1 have embodied in imaginary scenes, and ascribed to fictitious characters, a part of the incidents which I then received from those who were actors in them. Indeed, the most romantic parts of this narrative are precisely those which have a foundation in fact. . . . The Lowland Scottish gentlemen and the subordinate characters are not given as individual portraits, but are drawn from the general habits of the period. ... It has been my object to describe these persons, not by a caricatured and exaggerated use of the national dialect, but by their habits, manners and feelings." Ballenkeiroch. Fergus Maclvor's lieutenant. He was an enemy to Bradwardine, who had killed his son in an affray. Ch. xx, xxiv, xlv, xlviii. See BRADWARDINE ; MAC!VOR. Balmawhapple (Mr. Falconer, Laird of). A "proud but low-bred sportsman," very fond of brandy and disreputable company. The Baron described him as " gaudet equis et canibus." He was an ad- miring neighbor of Rose Bradwardine. While intoxicated he in- sulted Waverley, and for this offense to his guest the Baron chal- lenged and wounded him. The Laird of Balmawhapple cherished henceforth a resentment against the cause of his discomfiture. Sub- sequently Waverley was for a brief time in his power, which gave him 10 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. A wished- for opport unity to display the insolence of authority, and the sulky spite of a temper naturally dogged, and rendered more so by habits of low in- dulgence and the incense of servile adulation. Ch. xxxix. He was a Jacobite, and died at Preston. Balmawhapple, . . . mounted on a horse as headstrong and stiffnecked as his rider, pursued the flight of the dragoons above four miles from the field of battle, when some dozen of the fugitives took heart of grace, turned round, and. cleaving his skull with their broadswords, satisfied the world that the unfortu- nate gentleman had actually brains, the end of his life thus giving proof of a fact greatly doubted during its progress. Ch. xlvii. Oh. x, xi, xii, xiv, xxiii, xxxix, xli, xliv, xlvii. See BRADWARDINE (BARON find ROSE); EDWARD WAVERLEY. Ban nnd Buscar. Bradwardine's deer-hounds. Ch. xii, xiii, Ixiii. Ixiv. Ixvii, Ixxi. Bean, Alice. Donald Bean Lean's daughter, and Maccombich's sweetheart. She befriended Waverley, and afterward became a maid to Rose Bradwardine. Her finery was very simple. A short russet-coloured jacket, and a petticoat of scanty longitude, was her whole dress; but these were clean, and neatly ar- ranged. A piece of scarlet embroidered cloth, called the snood, confined her hair, which fell over it in a profusion of rich dark curls. The scarlet plaid, which formed part of her dress, was laid aside, that it might not impede her activity in attending the stranger. I should forget Alice's proudest ornament, were I to omit mentioning a pair of gold ear-rings and a golden rosary which her father had brought from France, the plunder, probably of some battle or storm. Her form, though rather large for her years, was very well proportioned, and her demeanour had a natural and rustic grace, with nothing of the sheepishness of an ordinary peasant. Ch. xviii. Ch. xvii. xviii. xxxvii, Ixv, Ixvii. Sec BEAN LEAN; MACCOMBICH. Bean Lean, Donald. A Highland robber and Jacobite. He pur- loined and tampered with Waverley 's seals, and caused his troops to mutiny. He expected thus to force Waverley into Jacobitism, and to be largely rewarded for his services. Being detected in cattle- stealing, he finished his career of rapine and treachery on the gal- lows. The interior of the cave, which here rose very high, was illuminated by torches made of pine-tree, which emitted a bright and bickering light, attended by a strong, though not unpleasant odonr. Their light was assisted by the red glare of a large charcoal fire, round which were seated five or six armed High- landers, while others were indistinctly seen couched on their plaids, in the more remote recesses of the cavern. In one large aperture, which the robber face- tiously called his t]iense (or pantry), there hung by the heels the carcasses of a sheep, or ewe. and two cows lately slaughtered. . . . From such accompani- ments. Waverley prepared himself to meet a stern, gigantic, ferocious figure, such as Salvator would have chosen to be the central object of a group of ban- ditti. Donald Bean Lean was the very reverse of all these. He was thin in person and low in stature, with light sandy-coloured hair and small pale features. WAVERLEY. 11 from which he derived his agnomen of Bean, or white; and although his form was light, well proportioned, and active, he appeared, on the whole, rather a diminutive and insignificant figure. He had served in some inferior capacity in the French army, and in order to receive his English visitor in great form, and probably meaning, in his way, to pay him a compliment, he had laid aside the Highland dress fur a time, to put on an old blue and red uniform, and a feath- ered hat, in which he was far from showing to advantage, and indeed looked so incongruous, compared with all around him. that Waveriey would have been tempted to laugh, had laughter been either civil or safe. Ch. xvii. Oh. xvi, xvii. xviii. xxxvi, xli. xlv, lix, Ixii, Ixv. See EDWARD WAVERLEY. Beaujeu, Comte de. "A very handsome French cavalry officer " in attendance upon Charles Edward Stuart. Ch. Iviii. Beg, Callum. Fergus Maclvor's shrewd and handsome page, though treacherous to others, he would endure the severest treat- ment from his Chief, and risk everything in his behalf. He was killed during the rebellion of 1745. He had no scruples about the taking of human life, and regarded the matter in a nonchalant fashion. Being Waverley's guide, he observed that the English- man was annoyed by the curiosity of their host. "If his honour thought ta auld deevil Whig carle was a bit dangerous, she could easily provide for him, and teil ane ta wiser." " How, and in what manner?" " Her ain sell." replied Callum. " could wait for him a wee bit frae the toun, and kittle his quarters wi' her skene-occl? ." " Skene-octle ! What's that? " Callum unbuttoned his coat, raised his left arm. and with an emphatic nod pointed to the hilt of a small dirk, snugly deposited under it, in the lining of his jacket. Waveriey thought he had understood his meaning; he gaxed in his face and discovered in C'allum's very handsome, though embrowned features, just the degree of roguish malice with which a lad of the same age in England would have brought forward a plan for robbing an orchard. " Good God, Callum, would you take the man's life? '' "Indeed," answered the young desperado, "and I think he has had just a lang enough lease o't when he's for betraying honest folk, that come to spend siller at his public. . . . Ta Duinht'-wassel might please himsell ; ta auld rudas loon had never done Callum nae ill." Ch. xxix. Ch. xviii. xxiv, xxviii, xxix, xli, xlii, xliv, xlv, xlvi, xlix, li, liii, Iviii, lix, Ix. See MAC!VOR. Betty, Lady. A young Jacobite " lady of quality." Ch. liv. Bradwardine, Cosmo Comyne, Baron. Proprietor of Tully Veo- lan, in Perthshire, North Britain. He was bound by ties of grati- tude and friendship to Sir Everard Waveriey, and consequently was much interested in young Waveriey. The Baron was a Jacobite, and respected old rites and ceremonies. Being a strict observer of etiquette, he was formal and pedantic, but brave and hospitable. 12 THE WAVERLET DICTIONARY. Bradwardine . . . had been in arms for the exiled family of Stuarts in the year 1715, and was made prisoner at Preston in Lancashire. He was of a very ancient family, and somewhat embarrassed fortune i a scholar, according to the scholarship of Scotchmen ; that is, his learning was more diffuse than accurate, and he was rather a reader than a grammarian. Of his zeal for the classic authors he is said to have given an uncommon instance. On the road between Preston and London he made his escape from his guards: but being afterward found loitering near the place where they had lodged the former night, he was recognized and again arrested. His companions and even his escort were sur- prised at his infatuation, and could not help inquiring why. being once at liberty, he had not made the best of his way to a place of safety ; to which he replied, that he had intended to do so. but. in good faith, he had returned to seek his Titus Livius. Ch. vi. A lawyer was so much impressed with " the simplicity of this an- ecdote," that through his influence the Baron was saved the danger of a trial for high treason. In the Baron's manner there was "the pedantry of the lawyer, superinduced upon the military pride of the soldier." He had been bred to the bar, and subsequently served in foreign campaigns. He was a tall, thin, athletic figure, old. indeed, and gray haired, but with every muscle rendered tough as whip-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 had caught the costume, but not the ease or manner of its inhabitants. ... To this must be added the prejudices of ancient birth and Jacobite politics, greatly strengthened by habits of solitary and secluded au- thority, which, though exercised only within the bounds of his half-cultivated estate, were indisputable and undisputed. Ch. x. He did not see his daughter's danger in her companionship with Waverley. The daughters of the house of Bradwardine were, in his opinion, like those of the house of Bourbon, or Austria, placed high above the clouds of passion ; . . . they moved in another sphere, and were governed by other feelings . . . than those of idle and fantastic affection. Ch. xiv. After the rebellion of 1745, he concealed himself in a cave until the intercession of friends procured his pardon. Ch. vi, x, xi, xii, xiii, xiv. xv, xvi. xxiii, xli, xlii, xliii, xliv. xlv. xlvi, xlvii, xlviii. 1, Hi. liii, liv, Ivii, Iviii, Ixiii, Ixiv, Ixv, Ixvi, Ixvii. Ixx, Ixxi. Bradwardine, Malcolm. The Baron's unworthy and grasping kinsman. Ch. Ixiv. Bradwardine, Rose. " Rose of Tully Veolan." Daughter of Baron Bradwardine, and afterward Edward Waverley 's wife. She was indeed a very pretty girl of the Scotch cast of beauty. that is. with a pro- fusion of hair of paley gold, and a skin like the snow o'f her own mountains in whiteness. Yet she had not a pallid or pensive cast of countenance ; her features, as well as her temper, had a lively expression : her complexion, though not florid, WAVERLEY. 13 was so pure as to seem transparent, and the slightest emotion sent her whole blood at once to her face and neck. Her form, though 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 man- ner that hovered between bashfulness and courtesy. Ch. x. Her friend, Flora Maclvor, said of her: Her very soul is in home and in the discharge of all the quiet virtues of which home is the centre. Her husband will be to her what her father now is, the object of all her care, solicitude and affection. She will see nothing, and con- nect herself with nothing, but by and through him. If he is a man of sense and virtue, she will sympathise in his sorrow, divert his fatigne, and share his pleasures. If she becomes the property of a churlish or negligent husband, she will suit his tastes also, for she will not long survive his unkindness." Ch. xxiii. She became attached to Waverley during a visit he made to Tully Veolan, while her childlike manner and frank nature appealed only to his brotherly regard. Rose and Waverley again met, during the rebellion of 1745, at Edinburgh. Hose Bradwardine gradually rose in Waverley's opinion. He had several opportunities of remarking, that, as her extreme timidity wore off, her manners assumed a higher character; that the agitating circumstances of the stormy time seemed to call forth a certain dignity of feeling and expression which he had not formerly observed, and that she omitted no opportunity ... to extend her knowledge. . . . But to Waverley, Rose Bradwardine possessed an attrac- tion which few men can resist, from the marked interest which she took in everything that affected him. She was too young and inexperienced to estimate the full force of the constant attention which she paid him. Ch. Hi. She saved Waverley's life, and they were married under auspicious circumstances. Ch. x, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, xxviii, xxxvii, xliii, lii, liii, liv, Ixv, Ixvii, Ixx, Ixxi. See BARON BRADWARDINE; FLORA MAC!VOR; EDWARD WAVERLEY. Bridoon. A drunken corporal in the English army. Ch. Ixi. Cathleen. Flora Maclvor's Highland maid. Ch. xxii, xxiii. Clippurse. Sir Everard Waverley's lawyer. Ch. ii, Ixx. Cope, Sir John. The English commander at Preston. Ch. xlvi. Cruickshanks, Ebenezer. A canting Cameronian. The curious, covetous and treacherous host of the Seven-branched Golden Can- dlestick. He had a "tall, thin, puritanical figure." There was, once, considerable commotion among the villagers of Cairnvreckan. "There is some news," said mine host of the Candlestick, pushing his lan- tern-jawed visage and bare-boned nag rudely forward into the crowd " there is some news; and if it please my Creator, I will forewith obtain speerings there- of." Ch. xxx. Ch. xxix, xxx, xxxi. Cruickshanks, Mrs. Ebenezer Cruickshanks' wife. A civil, quiet, laborious drudge. Ch. xxix. Ch. xxix. 14 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. Culbertfield, Jonas. Son of Sir Everard Waverley's steward. Ch. v. Cumberland, Duke of. The English commander-in-chief. Ch. lix, Ixvii. Dermid. Fergus Maclvor's horse. Ch. xxviii, xxix. Duchran, Lady and Laird. Rose Bradwardine's friends, from whose house she was married. Ch. Ixvii, Ixx. See ROSE BHAD- WARDINE. Duroch, Duncan. Donald Bean Lean's lieutenant. Ch. xvii, xxxviii. See BEAN LEAN. Falconer, Cornet. Balmawhapple's brother, and serving under him in the Jacobite army. Ch. xxxix. Falconer, Mr. See BALMAWUAPPLE. Flockhart, Mrs. " Fergus Maclvor's buxom landlady." Ch. xli, xlii, xliv, liii, Ixiii. Foster, Captain. An English officer stationed at Tully Veolan. Ch. Ixvi. Gardiner, Colonel. Commander of Waverley's regiment. He died at Preston. Colonel Gardiner . . . was himself a study for a romantic, and at the same time inquisitive, youth. In person he was tall, handsome and active, though 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 communica- tion, of a nature obvious even to the exterior senses, had produced this wonder- ful change; and though some mentioned the proselyte as an enthusiast, none hinted at his being a hypocrite. ... 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 exhibits. Ch. vii. Ch. vii, xxv, xlvi, xlvii, li. Gellatley, David. A simpleton in charge of Bradwardine's hounds. Having saved Rose's life, he gained the affectionate protection of herself and father. Sometimes this mister wight held his hands over his head like an Indian Jogue in the attitude of penance: sometimes he swung them perpendicularly, like a pendulum, on each side : and anon he slapped them swiftly and repeatedly across his breast. . . . His gait was as singular as his gestures, for at times he hopped with great perseverance on the right foot, then exchanged that sup- porter to advance on the left, and then putting his feet close together lie hopped upon both at once. His attire was also antiquated and extravagant. It con- sisted in a sort of grey jerkin, with scarlet cuffs and slashed sleeves, showing a scarlet lining: the other parts of the dress corresponded in colour, not forgetting a pair of scarlet stockings, and a scarlet bonnet, proudly surmounted with a tur- key's feather. ... It was apparently neither idiocy nor insanity which gave that WAVERLEY. 15 wild, unsettled, irregular expression to a face which naturally was rather hand- some, but something which resembled a compound of both, where the simplicity of the fool was mixed with the extravagance of a crazed imagination. Ch. ix. David Gellatley . . . was incapable of any constant and steady exertion. He had just so much solidity as kept on the windy side of insanity; so much wild wit as saved him from the imputation of idiocy; some dexterity in field sports (in which we have known as great fools to excel), great kindness and humanity in the treatment of animals entrusted to him. warm affections, a prodigious memory, and an ear for music. Ch. xii. Ch. ix, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xxviii, Ixiii, Ixv, Ixvi, Ixvii. Gellatley, Janet. Davie Gellatley's mother. She was devoted to the Bradwardines, and nursed Waverley when wounded. Rose told Waverley that Janet Gellatley was suspected to be a witch, on the infallible grounds that she was very old, very ugly, very poor, and had two sons, one of whom was a poet, and the other a fool. . . . And she was imprisoned for a week in the steeple of the parish church, and sparely supplied with food, and not permitted to sleep, until she herself became as much persuaded of being a witch as her accusers; and in this lucid and happy state was brought forth ... to make open confession of her sorceries. . . . And while the witch was confessing that the Enemy appeared and made his addresses to her . . . and while the auditors listened with astonished ears, and the clerk recorded with a trembling hand, she. all of a sudden, changed the low mumbling tone with which she spoke into a shrill yell, and exclaimed: " Look to yourselves! look to yourselves: I see the Evil One sitting in the midst of ye." The surprise was general, and terror and flight its immediate consequence. . . . "R'niu solvuntur tabulae." said the Baron. " when they recovered their panic trepidation they were too ashamed to bring any wakening of the process against Janet Gellatley." Ch. xiii. Ch. xiii, xxxvii, Ixiii, Ixiv, Ixv, Ixvii. See BRADWARDINE (BAHON MEL- VILLE. Muckle wrath, John. "The Vulcan of Cairnvreckan." Ch. xxx. Mucklewrath, Mrs. A Jacobite virago, who lived in continual dis- cord with her Whig husband. A stronsr, large honed, hard-featured woman, ahout forty, dressed as if her clothes had been Huns: on with a pitchfork, her cheeks flushed with a scarlet red where they were not smutted with soot and lampblack, jostled through the crowd, and brandishing high a child of two years old. which she danced in her arms, without regard to its screams of terror, sang forth with all her might " Charlie is my darling, my darling, my darling, Charlie is my darling, Ch. XXX. The young Chevalier." Ch. xxx. Nosebag, Mrs. A talkative and officious gossip. Mrs. Nosebag, the lady of Lieutenant Nosebag, adjutant and riding-master of the dragoons, a jolly woman of about fifty, wearing a blue habit, faced with scarlet, and grasping a silver-mounted horsewhip. This lady was one of those active members of society who take upon them faire le frais de conversation. Ch. Ixi. Ch. Ixi. Ixii. Pembroke, Mr. Waverley's old and indulgent tutor. An Oxonian, who had lost his fellowship for declining to take oath? at the ac- cession of George I. was not only an excellent classical scholar, but reasonably skilled in the sciences, and master of most modern languages. Ch. iii. He presented Waverley with his two unpublished manuscripts when his pupil entered the army. One was a church document, "A Dissent from Dissenters," and the other of a political nature, " Right Hereditary Righted." These documents being found among Wa- verley's effects occasioned him much annoyance. Ch. iii, v, vi. xxv, xxxi, Ixx. See EDWARD WAVERLEY. Polwarth, Alick. Edward Waverley's servant. Ch. li, Ixvii, Ixviii, Ixix, Ixx. Kubrick, Misses. Four daughters of the Rev. Rubrick. Ch. Ixvii. See REV. RUBRICK. WAVERLEY. 21 Kubrick, Rev. Bradwardine's chaplain, and a kinsman to the Laird of Duchran. He joined the hands of Edward Waverley and Rose Bradwardine. A clergyman of the true, though suffering, episcopal church of Scotland. Ch. x. The nonjuring clergyman was* a pensive and interesting old man, with much the air of a sufferer for conscience sake. He was one of those " Who unde- prived, their benefice forsook"; . . . though at heart a keen partisan of the exiled family, he had kept pretty fair with the different turns of state in his time; so that Davie Oellatley once described him as a particular good man, who had a very quiet and peaceful conscience that never did him any harm. Ch. xi. Ch. x, Ixvii, Ixx. Ixxi. See DAVIE GELLATLEY. Saunderson, Alexander, or Saunders. Bradwardine's butler, and " major domo and minister of the interior." The Baron called him "Alexander ab Alexandro." Ch. ix, xii, xiv, xv, xvi, Ixxi. Scriever, Jock. Macwheeble's apprentice. Ch. Ixvi. Spontoon. Colonel Talbot's servant. Ch. Ixii. Stanley, Frank. Colonel Talbot's nephew ; a Cambridge student and Waverley 's "bridesman." Ch. xlii, xlvii. Stuart, Charles Edward. The young Chevalier, whose brilliant attempt, in 1745, to seat his father upon the throne of England was defeated at Culloden. A young man, wearing his own hair, distinguished by the dignity of his mien and noble expression of his well formed and regular features. ... In his easy and graceful manners, Waverley afterward thought he could have discovered his high birth and rank, although the star on his breast, and the garter at his knee, had not appeared as its indications. Ch. xl. Ch. xl, xli, xliii, xliv, xlvi, xlvii, 1, liii, Ivii, Iviii, lix, Ixv. See CHARLES EDWARD STUART, in "Redga nutlet." Stuart, Donald. A lieutenant-colonel in the Jacobite army, and governor of Doune Castle. Ch. xxxviii, xxxix. Stubbs, Cecilia. "A presumptuous damsel," who, failing to charm Waverley, married Jonas Culbertfield. Ch. v. See JONAS CUL- BERTFIELD. Stubbs, Squire. Cecilia's father. Ch. v. Talbot, Lady Emily. Colonel Talbot's wife ; a very lovely woman ; the object of Sir Evi-rard Waverley's early and hopeless affections. Ch. ii, 1, Hi, Ixvii, Ixx. See SIR EVERARD WAVERLEY. Talbot, Lucy. Colonel Talbot's sister and correspondent. Ch. Iv. Talbot, Philip, Colonel. A distinguished English officer. He was interested in young Waverley, and indebted to Sir Everard for his happy marriage and successful life; so, at personal risk, he under- takes and obtains Edward Waverley's pardon for treason. Colonel Talbot was in every point an English soldier; his whole soul was 22 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. devoted to his king and country, without feeling any pride in knowing the theory of his art, . . . or in applying hi* science to his own particular plans of ambition. . . . Added to this, he was a man of extended knowledge and cultivated tastes. although strongly tinged . . . with those prejudices which are peculiarly Knir- lish. . . . Now much of this was mere spleen and prejudice in the excellent Colonel, with whom the white cockade on the breast, the white rose in the hair. and the Mac at the beginning of a name, would have made a devil out of an angel; and indeed he himself jocularly allowed that he could not have endured Venus herself, if she had been announced in a drawing-room by the name of Miss MacJnpiter. Ch. Hi. Ch. xlvii, xlix, 1, li, Hi, Iv, Ivi, Ixii, Ixv, Ixvii, Ixx, Ixxi. See WAVER- LEY (EDWARD and SIR EVERARD). The Judge. See EVAN DHU MACCOMBICH. Theresa, Sister. Flora Maclvor's friend. Ch. Ixviii. The Solicitor. A lawyer employed by Waverley to defend Maclvor. Ch. Ixviii. Tims. Waverley's corporal. Ch. xlv, Hi. Trimmel. A London publisher. Ch. vii. Twigtythe, Rev. The minister who married Edward Williams to Cicely Jopson. Ch. Ixi. Una. Flora Maclvor 's Highland maid. Ch. xxii. Waverley, Edward. The hero of the novel; son of Richard, and heir to Sir Everard Waverley. He appears in every chapter, and is brave, generous and chivalrous. His father allows him at an early age to become the inmate of his uncle's home. He soon displayed " a powerful imagination and love of literature." Being impatient of discipline, and fascinated by the romantic legends of his ancestry, his father obtained him a commission in Gardiner's regiment. Dur- ing a visit to Tully Veolan, the young captain unconsciously makes an indelible impression on the heart of the shy and gentle Rose Bradwardine. Prompted by curiosity, Edward journeys into the Highlands, and becomes enamored with the arch Jacobite, Flora Maclvor. Edward was in a fair way of creating a goddess out of a high-spirited, accom- plished, beautiful young woman. Ch. xxix. Waverley's letters were treacherously detained, and his soldiers betrayed into mutiny. These misfortunes, together with his long sojourn among the Jacobites, resulted in Waverley's dismissal from the service. His arrest for treason followed, but he was rescued, on his way to prison, by disguised Highlanders, and was nursed, while sick from a wound, by a fair unknown. When able to travel, he was hurried on to the camp of Charles Edward, where a hearty welcome awaited him. His treatment by the government, family WAVERLEY. 23 politics, friendly persuasion and young love, all enlisted to make Waverley assume the white cockade. Flora Maclvor, to whom he again paid his addresses, adroitly endeavored to transfer his allegi- ance to her friend, Rose Bradwardine. The real disposition of Waverley, . . . notwithstanding his dreams of tented fields and military honour!*, seemed exclusively domestic. . . . All this pointed him out as a person formed to make happy a spirit like that of Rose, which cor- responded with his own. Ch. lii. After the skirmish at Clifton, Waverley had to fly for safety, and had many narrow escapes. A pardon was obtained for him, in consideration of his youth and the complex circumstances which had determined his conduct. Waverley learned that Rose had bribed Donald Bean Lean, with her family jewels, to rescue him, and that she had nursed him during his illness. To Rose Bradwardine, then, he owed his life, which he now thought he could willingly have laid down to serve her! A little reflection convinced him, how- ever, that to live for her sake was more convenient and agreeable. Ch. Ixv. See DONALD BEAN LEAN; ROSE BRADWARDINE; MAC!VOR (FER- GUS and FLORA). Waverley, Sir Everard. Proprietor of Waverley Honour. Sir Everard had inherited from his sires a whole train of Tory or High-church predilections and prejudices, which had distinguished the house of Waverley since the Great Civil War. Ch. ii. Sir Everard, in his younger days, accidentally learned that the lady of his choice had placed her affections elsewhere, and that her parents were about to sacrifice her to his wealth. With a grace and delicacy worthy the hero of a romance, Sir Everard with- drew his claim to the hand of Lady Emily. He had even, before leaving Blan- deville 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 persua- sion; but the young officer, immediately after this transaction, rose in the army with a rapidity far surpassing the usual pace of unpatronized merit, though to outward appearance that was all he had to depend upon. . . . The memory of his unsuccessful amour was with Sir Everard, as with many more of his temper, at once shy. proud, sensitive and indolent, a beacon against exposing himself to similar mortification, pain and fruitless exertion for the time to come. He con- tinued to live at Waverley Honour in the style of an old English gentleman, of an ancient descent and opulent fortunes. Ch. ii. When his nephew was leaving for the army, he said to him: "... I have made such arrangements as will enable you to take the field as the descendant and probable heir of the house of Waverley; and, sir, in the field of battle you will remember what name you bear. And, Edward, my dear boy, . . . as Jar as duty and honour will permit, avoid danger I mean unnecessary danger and keep no company with rakes, gamblers, and Whigs; . . . but you will remember your duty to God, the Church of England, and the [this breach 24 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. ought to have been supplied, according to the rubric, with the word king; but as, unfortunately, that word conveyed a double and embarrassing sense, one meaning de facto and the other de jure, the knight tilled up the blank otherwise J the Church of England and all constituted authorities." Ch. vi. Ch. ii, iii, iv, v, vi, xxv, Ixx. See TALBOT (LADY EMILY and COLONEL PHILIP); WAVERLEY (EDWARD and RACHEL). Waverley, Rachel. Sir Everard Waverley's sister. Miss Rachel Waverley presided at his table, and they became, by degrees, an old bachelor and an ancient maiden lady, the gentlest and the kindest votaries of celibacy. Ch. ii. She was a devoted aunt to Edward Waverley. 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 Highlanders; and respecting them, she must needs say there could be no great delicacy among the ladies where the gentle- men's attire was, as she had been assured, to say the least, very singular, and not at all decorous. Ch. vi. Ch. ii, iii, iv, v, vi, xxv, Ixx. See WAVERLEY (EDWARD and SIR EVERARD). Waverley, Richard. Edward Waverley's selfish and scheming father, who was alienated from his brother, Sir Everard, on account of political differences. Richard . . . saw no practical road to independence save that of relying upon his own exertions and adopting a political creed more consonant, both to reason and his own interests, than the hereditary faith of Sir Edward, in High-church, and the house of Stuart. He, therefore, read his recantation at the beginning of his career, and entered life as an avowed Whig and friend of the Hanover suc- cession. The ministry of George I were prudently anxious to diminish the phal- anx of opposition. . . . Richard Waverley met with a share of ministerial favour more than proportionate to his talents or political importance. Ch. ii. He was finally compelled to resign on account of his ungrateful and unscrupulous intrigues. Ch. ii, v, xxv, Ixi. See WAVERLEY (EDWARD and SIR EVERARD). Williams, Edward. Son of Farmer Williams. He marries Cicely Jopson. Ch. lx, Ixi. See CICELY JOPSON. Williams, Farmer. He lived at Fastwait farm, and sheltered Ed- ward Waverley after the defeat of Charles Edward. Ch. lx, Ixi. SYNOPSIS. I. Introductory. Reasons for naming the novel Waverley. II. Waverley Hon- our A retrospect of family history Young Edward. III. Education Its desul- tory character Power of imagination and love of literature. IV. Castle building. V. The army chosen as Edward's profession Aunt Rachel's solicitude Captain Waverley. VI. The adieus of Waverley. VII. A horse-quarters in Scotland Col. Gardiner. VIII. Waverley at Tully Veolan. IX. More of the manor house and WAVERLEY. 25 its environs Davie Gellatley. X. Rose Bradwardine and her father. XI. The Baron's banquet The Blessed Bear Balmawhapplc's insult. XII. Repentance and reconciliation. XIII. A more rational day than the last. XIV. Waverley be- comes- domesticated at Tully Veolan. XV. A creagh and its consequences. XVI. An unexpected ally appears. XVII. The hold of a Highland robber. XVIII. Evan and Edward proceed on their journey Fergus Maclvor. XIX. The chief in his mansion. XX. A Highland feast. XXI. Flora Maclvor. XXII. Waverley is fas- cinated. XXIII. Waverley continues at Glennaquoich. XXIV. A stag hunt and its consequences. XXV. News from England. XXVI. A declaration of love. XXVII. Upon the same subject. XXVIII. A letter from Tully Veolan. XXIX. Waverley's reception in the Lowlands. XXX. Waverley's arrest. XXXI. Exam- ination on a charge of treason. XXXII. Conference between Major Melville and Mr. Morton. XXXIII. Waverley finds a friend and confidant in Mr. Morton. XXXIV. Things mend a little. XXXV. The Covenanter Gilfillan. XXXVI. Wa- verley rescued, but wounded XXXVII. Still in distress. XXXVIII. A nocturnal adventure Castle Doune. XXXIX. The journey continued. XL. Waverley's reception at Charles Edward's court The white cockade. XLI. The mystery be- gins to clear. XLII. The soldiers' dinner. XLIII. The ball Flora and Rose. XLIV. The march. XLV. An Incident gives rise to unavailing reflection. XLVI. Eve of battle. XLVII. The conflict at Preston. XLVIII. The Caligae. XLIX. Col. Talbot brings news from home. L. Talbot and Waverley. LI. Intrigues of love and politics. LII. Intrigues of society and love. LIII. Fergus a suitor. LIV. To one thing constant never. LV. A brave man in sorrow. LVI. Talbot's release. LVII. Fergus and Waverley converse concerning Flora. LVII1. The confusion in Agramont's camp A quarrel. LIX. A skirmish The Bodach Glas The defeat at Clifton. LX. A chapter of accidents. LXI. Journey to London Mrs. Nose- bag. LXII. What's to be done next? LX1II. Desolation. LXIV. Comparing of notes. LXV. More explanation. LXVI. Tully Veolan and the Bailie Waverley and the Baron pardoned. LXVII. Edward wooes and wins Rose. LXVI1I. Trial and sentence of Fergus Maclvor and Evan Dhu Maccombich Flora's farewell. LXIX. Waverley's last interview with Maclvor. LXX. Dulce Domum The Wed- ding. LXXI. Reunion at Tully Veolan The united houses of Waverley Honour and Bradwardine. LXXII. A postscript which should have been a preface. 2 GUY OR, THE ASTROLOGER. "Dark shall be light. And wrong done to right, When Bertram's right and Bertram's might Shall meet on Ellangovvan's height." ARGUMENT. f MHE introduction to "Guy Mannertng " states that the principal in- -*- cidents of the story are founded on facts. The interest of the romance centers in the character of the gypsy, Meg Merriles. Allan, Mrs. Mannering's efficient housekeeper. Ch. xlvii, 1, Iv. Andrew. Ellangowan's gardener. Ch. ix. Baillie, Giles. A stern and sullen gypsy. Ch. viii. Barnes. Mannering's valet. Ch. xxxvi, xlvii, xlix, 1, Hi. Bearcliff, Deacon. A gossipy frequenter of the Gordon Arms. "A man of great importance in the village." Ch. xi, xxxii. Bertram, Allan, Dennis and Donohoe. Godfrey Bertram's an- cestors. Ch. ii. See GODFREY BERTRAM. Bertram, Godfrey. Laird of Ellangowan. Godfrey Bertram, of Ellangowan, succeeded to a long pedigree and a short rent-roll. ... A good-humoured listlessness of countenance formed the only remarkable expression of his features, although they were rather handsome than otherwise. . . . He kept neither hunters, nor hounds, nor any other southern preliminaries, to ruin; but, as has been observed of his countrymen, he kept a man of business, who answered the purpose equally well. . . . Meanwhile his neighbours predicted his final ruin. Those of the higher rank . . . accounted him already a degraded brother. The lower classes, seeing nothing enviable in his situation, marked his embarrassments with more com- passion. He was even a kind of favourite with them, and upon division of a common, or the holding of a black-fining, or poaching-court, or any similar occasion when they conceived themselves oppressed by the gentry, they were in the habit of saying to each other, "Ah. if Ellangowan, honest man, had his ain 86 GUY MANNEIUNG. 27 that his forebears had afore him, he wadna see the pnir folk trodden down this gait." Meanwhile this general good opinion never prevented their taking advan- tage of him at all possible occasions turning their cattle into his parks, stealing his wood, shooting his game, etc. . . . Pedlars, gipsies, tinkers, vagrants of all descriptions, roosted about his outhouses, or harboured about his kitchen. And the Laird, . . . like most weak men, found recompence for his hospitality in the pleasure of questioning them on the news of the countryside. Ch. ii. " The summit of Mr. Bertram's ambition " was to be a justice of the peace. Mr. Bertram was no sooner possessed of the judicial authority . . . than he began to exercise it with more severity than mercy, and totally belied all opin- ions which had hitherto been formed of his inert good nature. . . . He detected poachers, black fishers, orchard breakers, and pigeon-shooters; had the applause of the bench for his reward, and the public credit of an active magis- trate. Ch. vi. The excitement occasioned by the loss of his property, and a chance meeting with his treacherous agent, occasioned his death. Ch. i, ii, iii, v, vi, viii, ix, xiii. See BERTRAM (MRS. GODFREY and HENRY); GLOSSIN. Bertram, Godfrey, Mrs. Mother of Henry and Lucy Bertram. A circumstance arrested Ellangowan's progress on the high road to ruin. This was his marriage with a lady who had a portion of about four thousand pounds. Nobody in the neighbourhood could see why she married him, and endowed him with her wealth, unless because he had a tall, handsome figure, a good set of features, and a genteel address, and the most perfect good humour. It might be some additional consideration, that she was herself at the reflecting age of twenty-eight, and had no near relations to control her actions or choice. Ch. ii. She was a superstitious and low-spirited invalid. Henry's disap- pearance occasioned Lucy Bertram's premature birth and her moth- er's death. Ch. ii, vi, viii, ix. See BERTRAM (GODFREY, HENRY and LUCY.) Bertram, Henry. (Captain Vanbest Brown.) Son and heir of God- frey Bertram. When five years of age he witnessed Kennedy's murder, and the smugglers, fearing he might betray them, kidnapped him, and Glossin, from interested motives, bribed them to take the child from Scotland. He was named after the captain of the smug- glers, Vanbest Brown. Bertram said: " I recollect myself first an ill-used and half-starved cabin-boy aboard a sloop, and then a school-boy in Holland, under the protection of an old mer- chant, who had taken some fancy to me. I was given to understand that my father was concerned in the smuggling trade . . . and was killed in a skirmish with the revenue officers. ... As I grew older there was much of this story that seemed inconsistent with my own recollections. ... I went out to India to be a clerk in a Dutch house; their affairs fell into confusion; I betook myself to the military profession, and, I trust as yet I have not disgraced it." Ch. 1. 28 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. Colonel Mannering imagined that Bertram's attentions to his daughter, Julia, were intended for his wife, and wounded Bertram in a duel. Bertram disguised himself under the names of Dawson and Dudley, and followed Julia to England. A romantic love affair developed between them, and he had to encounter many dangers and difficulties. His form was tall, manly and active, and his features corresponded with his person ; for although far from regular, they had an expression of intelligence and good humour, and when he spoke or was particularly animated, might be decidedly pronounced interesting. Ch. xxi. He wrote to a friend: "Although Julia's beauty and playful tenderness have made an impression on my heart never to be erased, I must be satisfied that she perfectly under- stands the advantages she foregoes before she sacrifices them for my sake." Ch. xxi. Through the efforts of Meg Merriles it was discovered that Brown was Henry Bertram, Laird of Ellangowan. A reconciliation was effected with Colonel Mannering, and Julia was betrothed to Ber- tram. Julia Mannering writes to a friend: " His good humour, lively conversation and open gallantry suit my plan of life, as well as his athletic form, handsome features, and high spirit, would accord with a character of chivalry." Ch. xxix. Ch. iii, iv, vi, viii, ix, x, xii, xvi, xvii, xviii, xxi, xxii, xxiii, xxiv, xxv, xxvi, xxvii, xxviii, xxix, xxxi, xxxiv, xxxviii, xl, xli, xliii, xliv, xlv, xlvi, xlvii, 1, Hi, liii, liv, Iv, Ivi, Ivii, Iviii. See BERTRAM (GODFREY and MARGARET); MANNERING ( JULIA and GUY); MEG MERRILES. Bertram, Lewis. Godfrey Bertram's prudent father. Ch. ii. See GODFREY BERTRAM. Bertram, Lucy. Daughter of Godfrey Bertram. A sylph-like form a young woman of about seventeen. Ch. xiii. She was a dutiful daughter to her unfortunate father, and a con- siderate friend to her eccentric tutor, Dominie Sampson. After her father's death she accepted of Colonel Mannering's hospitality. Julia thus describes her: " She has really a great fund of information, and I assure you I am daily sur- prised at the power which she seems to possess of amusing herself, by recalling and arranging the subject of her former reading. . . . She is. to be sure, a very pretty, a very sensible, a very affectionate girl, and I think there are few persons to whose consolatory friendship I could have recourse more freely in what are called the real evils of life. . . . Were I sick of a fever, she would sit up night after night to nurse me with the most unrepining patience; but with the fever of the heart . . . she has no ... sympathy. . . . And yet what provokes me is. that the demure monkey actually has a lover of her own. . . . She was once, you must know, a great heiress, but was ruined by the prodigality of her father, and the villany of a horrid man in whom he confided. GUY MANNERING. 29 And one of the handsomest young gentlemen in the country is attached to her; but as he is heir to a mvat estate, she discourages his addresses, on account of the disproportion of their fortunes. But, with this moderation, and self-denial, and modesty, and so forth, Lucy is a sly girl, I am sure she loves young Hazzlewood." Ch. xxix. Alter her brother made a suitable provision for her, she was mar- ried to Charles Hazzlewood. Ch. ix, xiii, xiv, xv, xix, xx, xxix, xxx, xxxi, xxxv, xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix, xlvi, xlvii, xlix, 1, li, liii, Iv, Iviii. See BERTRAM (GODFREY oor, modest, humble scholar, who had won his way through the classics, but fallen to the leeward in the voyage of life.no uncommon personage in a country where a certain portion of learning is easily attained by those who arc willing to suffer hunger and thirst in exchange for acquiring Greek and Latin. Int. 18S). A tall, gaunt, awkward, bony figure, attired in a thread-bare suit of black, with a coloured handkerchief, not over clean, about his sinewy, scraggy neck, and his nether person arranged in grey breeches, dark blue stockings, and clouted shoes and small copper buckles. Ch. ii. Lucy Bertram said : "Whenever my poor father thought any part of the Dominie's dress wanted renewal, a servant was directed to enter his room by night, for he sleeps as fast as a dormouse, carry off the old vestment, and leave the new one; nor could any one observe that the Dominie exhibited the least consciousness of the change put upon him on such occasions." Ch. xix. Julia Mannering thus wrote of him: ' He pronounces a grace that sounds like the scream of a man in the square that used to cry mackerel flings his meat down his throat by shovelfuls like the dustman loading his cart, and apparently without the most distant percep- tion of what he is swallowing then bleats forih another unnatural set of tones, by way of returning thanks, stalks out of the room and immerses himself among a parcel of huge worm-eaten folios, that are as uncouth as himself." Ch. xxix. Pleydell . . . compared his mind to the magazine of a pawnbroker, stowed with goods of every description, but so cumbrously piled together, and in such total disorganization, that the owner can never lay his hands upon any one ar- ticle at the moment he has occasion for it. Ch. xxix. His exclamation of astonishment was Pro-di-gious! pronounced syllabic-ally, but without moving a muscle of his countenance. Ch. iii. GUY MANNERING. 37 Ch. ii, iii, vi, vii, ix, xiii, xiv, xv, xix, xx, xxix, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxix, xlvi, xlvii, xlix, 1, li, Iv, Ivii. See LUCY BERTRAM; GUY MAN- NERING. Scrow. Glossin's clerk. Ch. xxxiii. Silverquill, Sam. An inmate of Portan ferry jail. An idle apprentice, who was imprisoned under a charge of forgery. Ch. xliv. Ch. xliv. Skreigh, Mr. Clerk and precentor of Kippletringan. A gossip and lover of the marvelous. Ch. xi, xxxii. Soles. A shoemaker. Ch. Ivi. Spur'em, Dick. Jailor MacGuffog's assistant. Ch. xxxiii. The Astrologer. See GUY HANKERING. Tom. Charles Hazzlewood's servant. Ch. xiii. Wasp. Henry Bertram's faithful little dog. "A rough terrier." Ch. xxii, xxiii, xxiv, xxvi, xlv, xlviii. Wellwood, Sophie. Guy Mannering's wife and Julia Mannering's mother. She died in India. She alienated Julia from her father, and made his life unhappy with her deceit. She delighted in petty mystery, and intrigue, and secrets, and yet trembled at the indignation which these paltry manoeuvres excited in her husband's mind. Thus she frequently became involved in meshes of her own weaving, and was forced to carry on, for fear of discovery, machinations which she had at first resorted to in mere wantonness. Ch. xviii. Ch. iv, xii, xviii, Iii. See MANNERING (GuY and JULIA). Wilson, John. Godfrey Bertram's groom. Ch. viii, ix. SYNOPSIS. Introductory (1829). I. Mannering's journey to North Britain. II. The Laird of Ellangowan and his family history Dominie Sampson. III. Meg Merriles Astrology. IV. The heir's horoscope Midnight musings Dirk Hatteraick. V. The Laird's grievances Mannering's parting injunction. VI. Godfrey Bertram as Justice of the Peace Sampson given charge of Harry. VII. The Justice and the gypsies. VIII. Meg's love for the heir Departure of the gypsies, Meg's farewell. IX. Kennedy and the smugglers Kennedy's murder and Harry's dis- appearance The Laird is father of a female child, and a widower. X. Fruitless investigation Meg's banishment. XI. Seventeen years afterward Gossip at the Gordon Arms. XII. Mannering's inquiries concerning the Bertrams Man- nering reviews his life in a letter to Mervyn. XIII. The sale at Ellangowan Glossin and Mannering The old Laird's death. XIV. Lucy and the MacMorlans Glossin buys Ellangowan. XV. The Dominie's affection for Lucy Charles Hazzlewood's classic studies. XVI. Mervyn's letter to Mannering concerning Julia's serenader. XVII. Julia's account of the serenade. XVIII. Julia writes to her friend about Brown. XIX. Preparations at Woodbourne Renovations in the Dominie's wardrobe. XX. Arrival of Col. Mannering and daughter First im- pressions The Bishop's library Pro-di-gi-ous. XXI. Brown His letter about 38 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. Julia. XXII. Dinmont Meg's warning. XXIII. Meg's questions The attack and rescue. XXIV. Dinmont's household. XXV. The fox-hunt . The huntsman. XXVI. Salmon-hunting Gabriel Brown's adieus. XXVII. Perilous adven- ture Meg's protection. XXVIII. The smuggler's burial Meg's gift. XXIX. Julia's thoughts about her new acquaintances and Brown. XXX. The smuggler's attack upon Woodbourne. XXXI. Julia's unexpected meeting with Brown Hazzlewood's wound. XXXII. Glossin endeavors to discover the person who wounded Hazzlewood. XXXIII. Hatteraick and Glossin. XXXIV. The plot. XXXV. Glossin visits Woodbourne in Lucy's behalf. XXXVI. Mannering goes to Edinburgh Plydell Dinmont again. XXXVII. Conviviality Erskine's ser- mon Mrs. Bertram's funeral. XXXVIII. The will Harry Bertram the heir. XXXIX. Correspondence between Brown and Julia. XL. Brown meets Glossin at Ellangow..n The arrest. XLI. Glossin and Sir Robert Hazzlewood. XLII. Brown's examination. XLIII. Incarceration. XLIV. The MacGuffogs. XLV. Dinmont's visit. XLVI. Meg Merriles and Dominie Sampson Witch's browth. XLVII. The Dominie's confession Results of Meg's interview with young Hazzlewood. XLVIII. Brown's escape. XLIX. Plydell at Woodbourne Meg's message. L. Arrival of Dinmout and Brown. LI. Brother and sister Father and daughter. LII. Visit to the ruins Meg's command. LIII. Early recollec- tions The cave. LIV. Because the Hour's come, and the Man. LV. Henry Bertram, of Ellangowan Meg's death. LVI. The mystery clears. LVII. Last interview between Hatteraick and Glossin Murder and suicide. LVIII. To sum the whole The close of all. THE AJSTTIQUAEY. A ROMANCE. ' I knew Anselmo. He was shrewd and prudent, Wisdom and cunning had their shares of him; But he was shrewish as a wayward child, And pleased again by toys which childhood please As books of fables, graced with print of wood, Or else the jingling of a rusty medal. Or the rare melody of some old ditty. That first was sung to please King Pepin's cradle." ARGUMENT. IN the advertisement (1829) to " The Antiquanj" Scott says: " The present work completes a series of fictitious narratives intended to illus- trate the manners of Scotland at three different periods. 'Wai-erley' embraced the age of our fathers; 'Guy Mannering ' that of our youth, and 'Tfie Antiquary ' refers to the last ten years of the eighteenth century." Aikwood, Ringan. The Catholic Knockwinnock poinder. Ch. xxv. Blattergowl, Rev. A portly gentleman, "equipped in a buzz wig, upon the top of which was an equilateral cocked hat." Though a dreadful proser ... he ... was, nevertheless, a good man, in the old Scottish Presbyterian phase, Godward and manward. No divine was more attentive in visiting the sick and afflicted, in catechising the youth, in instruct- ing the ignorant, and in reproving the erring. . . . The Antiquary looked with great regard and respect on the said Blattergowl, though ... he could seldom be hounded out, as he called it, to hear him preach. Ch. xxxi. Ch. xvii, xxxi, xxxv. Blattergowl, Rebecca. Reverend Blattergowl's sister. Ch. xvii. Breck, Alison. An old fishwoman. Ch. xxxi-xl. Calvert. Groom at Glenallan House. Ch. xxxvi. Caxton, Jacob. A gossipy old-fashioned barber, Who dressed the only three wigs in the parish. . . . and who, for that pur- pose, divided his time among the three employers whom fashion had yet left him. Ch. v. 40 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. The Antiquary remarked that these wigs differed like the degrees of comparison : Sir Arthur's ramilies being the positive, his own bob-wig the comparative, and the overwhelming grizzle of the worthy clergyman figuring as the superla- tive. Ch. xvii. Ch. v, viii, x, xvi, xxii, xxx, xxxvi, xliii, xliv, xlv. Caxton, Jenny. The barber's beautiful, modest daughter be- tmthed to Lieutenant Taffril. Ch.xv. See LIEUTENANT TAFFRIL. Crabtree, Mr. A nursery and seedsman. Ch. xvi. D' Acunha, Teresa. A Spanish maid and accomplice of the Countess of Glenallan. Ch. xxxiii, xxxiv, xxxv, xlv. See COUNTESS OP GLEN- ALLAN. Dibble, Davie. The Antiquary's bachelor gardener. Ch. vi. Dousterswivel, Herman. Sir Arthur Wardour's German agent, who brought his patron to the brink of ruin. He assumed to be an adept in the Black Arts, and was malicious, ungrateful and super- stitious. He was at length outwitted, and so roughly handled by Ochiltree that he had to leave the country. A tall, beetle-browed, awkward built man. Ch. xiii. Ch. xvii, xviii, xxi, xxiii, xxiv, xxv, xxxvii, xli. See OCHILTREE; SIR ARTHUR WARDOUR. Elspeth of the Craigburnfoot. Aged mother of the fisherman, Saunders Mucklebackit. A being in whom the light of existence was already obscured by the encroach- ing shadows of death. Ch. xxxi. She had a vacant expression of countenance, and was lost to the external world through "the apathy of age and deafness." She had formerly been the favorite attendant of the Countess Joscelind, and had assisted her mistress in crime. Though largely rewarded, she never thrived afterward. She Long struggled with an internal sense of concealed guilt, joined to all the dis- tresses of age and poverty. Ch. xl. She obstinately guarded her secret until the Countess' death, and then made a full confession, dying shortly afterward. She said: " I wad not hac spared the blood of my body, or the guilt of my soul, to serve the house of Glenallan. . . . The cause was between God and her conscience the manner between God and mine. 1 " Ch. xxxiii. Ch. xxvi, xxvii, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii, xl. See EARL OP GLENALLAN. Geraldin, Lord, and Lady. See LOVEL and ISABELLA WARDOUR. Gladsmore, Mr. Almoner at Glenallan House. "A scholar and a man of the world." Ch. xxvii-xxxvi. Glenallan, Joscelind, Countess of. Glenallan's selfish, impe- rious and cruel mother. According to a family custom, her funeral THE ANTIQUARY. 41 was at midnight. Ch. xxv, xxvii, xxxiii, xxxiv. See EARL OP GLEN- ALLAN. Glenallan, William, Earl of. Level's father. A gloomy Cath- olic nobleman, who lived in retirement and practiced severe religious austerities. His youth had been marked by accomplishments and promise, but his mother's crimes against him had ruined his life. She was partial to her second son, and knew, according to a family compact, that her interests would suffer by the birth of an heir to the Earl. To these circumstances was added a dislike for the wife he had secretly married. So the Countess was induced to utter the blighting falsehood that he had married his illegitimate sister. His wife's death followed this terrible disclosure, and the child, of whose existence he was unaware, was kidnapped and adopted by his brother. For twenty years he lived with remorse and despair his constant companions. The Earl of Glenallan was a man not past the prime of life, yet so broken down with disease and mental misery, so gaunt and ghostly, that he appeared but the wreck of manhood. . . . The sunken eye, pallid cheek and tottering form of the nobleman . . . showed how little wealth and power, and even the advantages of youth, have to do with that which gives repose to the mind and firmness to the frame. Ch. xxviii. Through the confession of his mother's accomplice he is relieved of the weight of unnatural sin, and finds his son in the person of Lovel. Ch. xxviii, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxiv, xxxv, xxxvi, xlv. See LOVEL. Goldiebirds, Messrs. Sir Arthur Wardour's creditors. Ch. xli, xliii. Greenhorn and Grinderson. Attorneys for Messrs. Goldiebirds. Ch. xli, xliii. Hadoway, Mrs. Level's considerate and kindly landlady, who had many wealthy patrons. She was about forty-five, and was neat and benevolent. The death of her husband, a Scotch clergyman, re- duced her to straightened circumstances. She had An oval face and dark eyes, with a clear brown complexion. Ch. xvi. Ch. xvi-xlv. Heukbane, Mrs. The butcher's wife, who manifested unlawful in- terest in the contents of the village mail. Ch. xv. See MRS. MAIL- SETTER. John. A diligence driver. Ch. i. Juno. M'Intyre's thievish and toast-loving spaniel. Ch. xxii, xxx, xxxiv. Lesley, Mr. M'Intyre's second in his duel with Lovel. Ch. xx. Littlejohn, Mr. A bailie. The worshipful Bailie Littlejohn, who, contrary to what his name expressed, a* 42 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. was a tall, portly magistrate, on whom corporation crusts had not been conferred in vain. He was a zealous loyalist for that zealous time, somewhat rigorous and peremptory in the execution of his duty, and a good deal inflated with the sense of his own power and importance ; otherwise an honest, well-meaning and use- ful citizen. Ch. xxxvii. Ch. xxxvii, xxxviii, xlv. Lovel, Mr. A generous and handsome young man, remarkable for his fine breeding, cultivated tastes and modest bearing. Having met Miss Wardour in England, he followed her home to Fairport to urge his suit for her hand. Mr. Oldbuck became interested in the melancholy lover, who was a silent and respectful listener to his antiquarian discourses. Lovel was the heir and supposed natural son of Mr. Neville (brother to the Earl of Glenallan). Doubting his right to the name of Neville, he assumed that of Lovel. He was forced into a duel with M'Intyre, and, as he wounded him, he left Fairport to become distinguished in the army as Major Neville. He secretly relieved the impending financial ruin of Sir Arthur War- dour. It is unexpectedly discovered that he is Hon. William Ger- aldin, son and heir of the Earl of Glenallan. In a month afterward Lord Geraldin was married to Miss Wardour. Ch. xlv. Ch. i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, xx, xxi, xlv. See EARL OP GLENALLAN ; M'INTYRE: ISA- BELLE WARDOUR. Mackitchinsoii, Mr. "The fat, gouty, pursy landlord" of the Hawes. Ch. ii. Macleuchar, Mrs. An old cellar shopkeeper, who sold diligence tickets. Ch. i. Macraw, Francis. Porter at Glenallan House, and formerly a soldier. Distinguished by his long staff headed with silver, and by his black gown tufted with lace of the same colour, which he had assumed upon the general mourning in the family. Ch. xxvii. Ch. xxvii, xxix. Mailsetter, Davie. Son of the postmaster. A boy of ten years of age, who, under difficulties, delivered an important message. Ch. xv. Mailsetter, Mr. The postmaster. Ch. xliii. Mailsetter, Mrs. Wife of the postmaster at Fairport. Herself and friends interested themselves so much in the contents of the village mail, that it was rumored Mrs. Mailsetter is to lose her office for looking after other folks' business and neglecting her own. Ch. xliv. Ch. xv, xliv. THE ANTIQUARY. 43 M'Intyre, Hector, Captain. The Antiquary's nephew. A high- spirited young officer. He had the manner and appearance of a soldier, and was sensitive of his honor and proud of his Highland pedigree. The caustic humor of Mr. Oldbuck exasperated the hot- brained Captain, and all their tastes were at variance. Hector's guns, dogs and military pursuits were as obnoxious to Mr. Oldbuck as his own antiquarian instructions were wearying to his nephew. Notwithstanding these differences, the uncle and nephew had a sin- cere affection for each other. Through jealousy, Hector forced Lovel into a duel with him. He had long cherished a silent affection for Miss Wardour. When he learned that her affections were engaged elsewhere, he bore himself so heroically that he achieved his uncle's lasting respect. Henceforth he devoted himself to his profession, in which he rose rapidly. Ch. xvi, xix, xx, xxx, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix, xl, xlii, xliii, xlv. M'Intyre, Mary. Mr. Oldbuck's niece. She was the envoy of reconciliation in the manj 7 disputes which occurred between her uncle and brother, Captain M'Intyre. A pretty young woman, genteelly dressed according to the fashion of the day, with an air of esjrieglerie, which became her very well, and which was perhaps derived from the caustic humour peculiar to her uncle's family, though softened by transmission. Ch. vi. Ch. iii, vi, xvii, xix, xxii, xxx-xxxiv, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxix, xlv. Monkbarns, Laird of. See JONATHAN OLDBUCK. Mucklebackit, Elspeth. See ELSPETH OP THE CRAIGBURNFOOT. Mucklebackit, Jenny. A little daughter of Saunders and Maggie Mucklebackit. A nondescript animal, which might have passed for a mermaid, as it was pad- dling in a pool among the rocks. Ch. x. Ch. x. Mucklebackit, Maggie. Saunders Mucklebackit's wife. A slov- enly virago, who was a " skinflint" in fish bargains. A middle-aged woman, with a face that had defied a thousand storms. A handkerchief close about her head, and a coat which had formerly been that of a man, gave her a masculine air, which was increased by her strength, uncom- mon stature and harsh voice. Ch. xi. There was about . . . Luckie Mucklebackit and her family an appearance of ease, plenty and comfort, . . . with customary improvidence. Ch. xxvi. Ch. xi, xxvi, xxxi, xxxii. Mucklebackit, Patie. Saunders Mucklebackit's "youngest and favorite child." Ch. xxxi. Mucklebackit, Saunders. An old fisherman and smuggler. "A man of hardened manners and robust frame," who displayed 44 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. despairing grief at his son's death. Ch. viii, xxxi, xxxii. See STEENIE MUCKLEBACKIT. Mucklebackit, Steenie. Son of Saunders and Maggie Muckle- backit. A young fisherman, who met an untimely death by drown- ing. Ch. xxv, xxvi, xxix, xxxi. Neville, Edward Geraldin. Favorite son and accomplice of the Countess of Glenallan. Ch. xxv, xxviii, xxxii, xxxiv, xlv. See GLEN ALLAN; LOVEL. Neville, Eveline. Glenallan's persecuted wife; Level's mother, and the object of Oldbuck's early and hopeless attachment. Ch. xxv, xxviii, xxxii, xxxiv, xlv. See GLENALLAN. Neville, Major. See LOVEL. Ochiltree, Edie. A mendicant, who had formerly been a soldier. He played an important part in bringing to a happy issue the love aft'air of Lovel and Miss Wardour, and in his old age became a member of their household. Scott, in the advertisement to'Tfo Antiquriry,'"' says: ' These Bedesmen are an order of paupers to whom the kings of Scotland were in the custom of distributing alms, . . . and who were expected, in return, to pray for the royal welfare, and that of the state. This order is still kept up (1829). . . . One blue gown additional is put on the roll for every returning royal birth- day. On the same auspicious era each Bedesman receives a new cloak, or gown of coarse cloth, the colour light blue, with a pewter badge, which confers on them the general privilege of asking alms through all Scotland." The hale cheek, firm step, erect stature, and undaunted presence and bearing of the old mendicant indicated patience and content in the extremity of age. and in the lowest condition to which humanity can sink. Ch. xxviii. The Antiquary said of him : ' To beg from the public he considers as independence, in comparison to drawing his whole support from the bounty of an individual. He is so far a true philosopher as to be a contemner of all ordinary rules, of hours and times. When he is hungry, he eats ; when thirsty, he drinks ; when weary, he sleeps ; and with such indifference with respect to the means and appliances about which we make a fuss, that I suppose he was never ill-dined or ill-lodged in his life. Then he is. to a certain extent, the oracle of the district through which he travels their genealogist, their newsman, their master of revels, their doctor, at a pinch, or their divine." Ch. xxxvi. Ch. iv, vii, viii, xii, xv, xxi, xxiii, xxiv, xxv, xxvi, xxvii, xxviii, xxix, xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix. xl. xli, xlii, xliii, xliv, xlv. Oldbuck, Miss Griselda. The Antiquary's maiden sister and housekeeper. The fishers said she had an uncommon tight grip on money, and they dreaded bargaining with her. She had great respect for the Rev. Blattergowl, and delighted in gratifying his gastronomical tastes. THE ANTIQUARY. 45 The elderly lady rustled in silks and sat ins, and bore upon her head a structure resembling the fashion in the ladies' 1 memorandum-book for the year 1770 a su- perb piece of architecture, not much less than a modern Gothic castle, of which the curls might represent the turrets, the black pins the chevaux de frise, and the lappets the banners. The face, which, like that of the ancient statues of Vesta, was thus crowned with towers, was large and long, and peaked at nose and chin, and bore, in other respects ... a ludicrous resemblance to the physi- ognomy of Mr. Jonathan Oldbuck. . . . An antique flowered gown graced the extraordinary person to whom belonged this unparalleled tete. . . . Two long and bony arms were terminated at the elbows by triple blond rulllcs, and being folded saltire-ways in front of her person, and decorated with long gloves of bright vermilion colour, presented no bad resemblance to a pair of gigantic lob- sters. High-heeled shoes, and a short silk cloak, thrown in easy negligence over her shoulders, completed the exterior of Miss Griselda Oldbuck. Ch. vi. Ch. vi, ix, xi, xxx-xxxiv, xxxv, xxxvi, xlv See BLATTERGOWL; OLDBUCK. Oldbuck, Jonathan. Laird of Monkbarns; the Antiquary. A whimsical virtuoso . . . devoted to the study and accumulation of old coins and medals, and indeed of every kind of Roman relics, and is sarcastic, irritable, and, from early disappointment in love, a misogynist, but humorous, kind- hearted, and faithful to his friends. Wheeler's Dictionary of Noted Names of Fiction. He was a descendant of a German printer, who had sought refuge in Scotland from the persecutions of the Reformation. He was much interested in a prospective work entitled "The Caledoniad, or Invasion Repelled," which he never commenced. He was a good-looking man. of the age of sixty perhaps older; but his hale complexion and firm step announced that years had not impaired his strength or health. His countenance was of the true Scottish cast, strongly marked, and rather harsh in features, with a shrewd and penetrating eye and a countenance in which habitual gravity was enlivened by a cast of ironical humour. His dress was uniform and of a colour becoming his age and gravity; a wig well dressed and powdered, surmounted by a slouched hat, had something of a professional air. Ch. i. His wishes were very moderate, and as the rent of his small property rose with the improvement of the country, it soon greatly exceeded his wants and expenditures; and, though too indolent to make money, he was by no means in- sensible to the pleasure of beholding it accumulate. . . . He had . . . his own pursuits and pleasures, being in correspondence with most of the virtuosi of his time. who. like himself, measured decayed intrenchments, made plans ofTuined castles, read illegible inscriptions and wrote essays on medals in the proportion of twelve pages to each letter of the legend. . . . His maiden sister and his orphan niece ... he had trained to consider him the greatest man upon earth, and whom he used to boast of as the only women he had ever seen who were well broke in and bitted to obedience. . . . Mr. Oldbuck was habitually parsi- monious, but in no respect mean. Ch. ii. Ch. i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, viii, ix, x, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, xxii, xxiii, xxiv, xxx, xxxi, xxxiv, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix, xl, xlii, xliv, xlv. See SIR AUTHUR WARDOUR. 46 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. Ormston, Jock. f Aged constables. Ch. xxxvii. Orrock, Puggy. Bintherout, Jenny. Steenie Mucklebackit's coquettish sweetheart. She was a servant at Monkbarns, and Miss Oldbuck's " prime min- ister." She was docile and faithful, and moved With safe and noiseless step, shod or unshod. Ch. vi. Ch. iii, vi, x, xxii, xxvi, xxxiv, xxxv, xlv. See STEENIE MUCKLE- BACKIT. Robert. Sir Arthur Wardour's devoted servant. Ch. xli, xlii. Shortcake, Mrs. The baker's wife. "A little squat personage," very curious about the village mail. Ch. xv. See MRS. MAIL- SETTER. Sweepclean, Saunders. A bailiff. Ch. xlii, xliii. Taffril, Lieutenant. A naval officer, who was Lovel's second in his duel with M'Intyre. Ch. xv, xx, xxi, xlv. The Antiquary. See JONATHAN OLDBUCK. Wardour, Sir Arthur. An aristocratic antiquary and companion of Mr. Oldbuck. He hated illegitimacy, for family reasons, and was very credulous. He was duped to such an extent that he jeopar- dized his property and narrowly escaped the debtors' prison. A baronet of ancient descent and of large but embarrassed fortunes. ... In his more advanced years, as he became too lazy or unwieldy for field sports, he supplied them by now and then reading Scottish history; and having gradually acquired a taste for antiquities, though neither very deep nor very correct, he became a crony of his neighbour. Mr. Oldbuck. of Monkbarns. and a joint labourer with him in his antiquarian pursuits. There were . . points of difference be- tween these two humourists which sometimes occasioned discord. The faith of Sir Arthur as an antiquary was boundless, and Mr. Oldbuck . . . was much more scrupulous in receiving legends as current and authentic coin. Sir Arthur would have deemed himself guilty of the crime of leze majesty had he doubted the existence of any single individual of that formidable bead-roll of one hundred kings of Scotland, received by Bocthius. and rendered classical by Buchanan, in virtue of whom James VI claimed to rule his ancient kingdom, and whose por- traits still frown grimly upon the walls of gallery of Holyrood. Now, Mr. Old- buck, a shrewd and suspicious man, and no respecter of divine hereditary right, was apt to cavil at this sacred list, and to affirm that the procession of the pos- terity of Fergus through the pages of Scottish history was as vain and unsub- stantial as the gleamy pageant of the descendants of Banqtio through the cavern of Hecate. Another tender topic was the good fame of Queen Mary, of which the knight was a most chivalrous asserter. while the esquire impugned it, in spite both of her beauty and misfortunes. When, unhappily, their conversation turned on yet later times, motives of discord occurred in almost every page of history. Oldbuck was. upon principle, a staunch Presbyterian, a ruling elder of the kirk, and a friend to revolution principles and Protestant succession, while Sir Arthur was the very reverse of all this. ... It would sometimes occur to the Baronet that the descendant of a German printer . . . forgot himself, and THE ANTIQUARY. 47 took an unlicensed freedom of debate, considering the rank and ancient descent of his antagonist. . . . As Mr. Oldbuck thought his worthy friend and compeer was in some respects little better than a fool, he was apt to come more near communicating to him that unfavourable opinion than the rules of modern polite- ness warrant. In such cases they often parted in deep dudgeon, and with some- thing like a resolution to forbear each other's company in future. " But with the morning calm reflection came," and as each was sensible that the society of the other had become, through habit, essential to his comfort, the breach was speedily made up between them. On such occasions Oldbuck, considering that the Baronet's pettishness resembled that of a child, usually showed his superior sense by compassionately making the first advances to reconciliation. ... Sir Arthur always wished to borrow ; Mr. Oldbnck was not always willing to lend. Mr. Oldbuck, per contra, always wished to be repaid with regularity ; Sir Arthur was not always, nor, indeed, often, prepared to gratify this reasonable desire; and in accomplishing an agreement between tendencies so opposite, little miffs would occasionally take place. Still there was a spirit of mutual accommodation, upon the whole, and they dragged on like dogs in couples, but with some diffi- culty and occasional snarling, but without absolutely coming to a standstill or throttling each other. Ch. v. Ch. v, vi, vii, viii, xiii, xvii, xviii, xxi, xxiii, xxiv, xli, xlji, xlv. War dour, Isabella. Sir Arthur Wardour 's beautiful and devoted daughter. "The tall and beautiful figure" of Miss Wardour was generally seen at the side of the old knight. When her father and Mr. Oldbuck engaged in angry disputes she acted as mediator, and with delicate tact pacified them. Mr. Oldbuck called her his " fair enemy," because she always sided with her father. Her lover, Lovel, was supposed to be illegitimate, and Isabella, knowing her father's prejudices on this subject, discouraged his addresses. She said to him : "It is for yourself I plead that yon would consider the calls which your country has upon your talents that you will not waste, in an idle and fanciful indulgence of an ill-placed predilection, time which, well redeemed by active ex- ertion, should lay the foundation of future distinction." Ch. xiii. Lovel is instrumental in saving the lives of herself and father, and Isabella's heart became rebellious. Fortunately, Lovel is found to be the Earl of Glenallan's son, and Isabella is soon made the happy Lady Geraldin. Ch. v, vi, vii, viii, xii, xiii, xvii, xviii, xix, xxii, xli, xiii, xlv. See LOVEL; SIR ARTHUR WARDOUR. Wardour, Reginald, Captain. Sir Arthur Wardour 's son. It was rumored he was interested in Mary M'Intyre. Ch. xliii, xlv. See MARY M'!NTYRE. 48 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. SYNOPSIS. Introduction (1829). I Oldbuck's pettishness at the tardiness of Mrs. Mal- cuchar's coach. II. Mackitchmson and his inn Jonathan Oldbuck, of Monkbarns His financial consideration of his interesting fellow-traveler. III. Lovel's call at Monkbarns The sanctum sanctorum. IV. Edie Ochiltree dispels one of the Antiquary's delusions. V. Lovel disappoints Mr. Oldbuck's theatrical suspicions concerning him Lovel meets Sir Arthur and his daughter at Monkbarns Nature of the intimacy between Mr. Oldbuck and Sir Arthur. VI. The dinner Antiqua- rian controversy The Baronet's angry departure ' The tide ! The tide!" VII. Ochiltree and Lovel come to the assistance of the Wardours. VIII. After the res- cue, Oldbuck forces his hospitality on Lovel. IX. Miss Grizzle's dilemma Old- buck's narrative concerning the haunted chamber. X. Lovel's experience in the haunted apartment. XI. The printer's motto Lovel dodges the Ossianic contro- versy Oldbuck and the fishwoman. XII. Ochiltrec's interpretation of Miss War- dour's reflections. XIII. Lovel and Oldbuck at Knockwinnock castle Lovel and Miss Wardour Oldbuck deplores Dousterswivel's ruinous influence over Sir Ar- thur The Phoenicians and the copper mines. XIV. Lovel and the printer's motto The Caledoniad Miss Grizzle's idea of a fair bargain. XV. Curiosity at the post-office concerning the village mail Lovel's letter. XVI. Oldbuck's solicitude about his excellent listener Lovel in mourning. XVII. Excursion to the ruins of St. Ruth's priory. XVIII. The fortunes of Martin Waldeck. XIX. Arrival of Captain Hector M'Intyre Monastic architecture Hector's rudeness The ap- pointment. XX. The Duel. XXI. Dousterswivel dupes Sir Arthur Lovel's departure. XXII. Oldbuck and Hector Sir Arthur seeks advice. XXIII. Old- buck questions the adept The ruins again The treasure. XXIV. Ochiltree un- masks the adept The proposition. XXV. Dousterswivel's discomfiture The funeral of Joscelind, Countess of Glenallan. XXVI. Mucklebackit's cottage and its inmates Joscelind, Lady Glenallan is dead and buried this night. XXVII. Elspeth sends Ochiltree with a message to the Earl of Glenallan. XXVIII. The Earl and the message Steenie's death Ochiltrce's arrest. XXX. Differences between the uncle and nephew The Phoca. XXXI. Oldbuck in the house of mourning. XXXII. Elspeth and Glenallan. XXXIII. Elspeth's startling commu- nication. XXXI V. The Earl seeks Oldbnck's advice Painful memories. XXXV. The Earl at Monkbarns The Antiquary's discourse. XXXVI. Ochiltrec's impris- onment. XXXVII. Ochiltree's friends interest themselves in his behalf. XXXVIII. Ochiltree and Oldbuck Ochiltree at liberty. XXXIX. "Full of wise saws and modern instances " Hector's persecution. XL. Oklbnck visits Elspeth Her death Summons to Knockwinnock. XLI. Trouble at the castle Ochiltree prom- ises help. XLII. Sir Arthur in danger of the debtors' prison. XLIII. Help at last. XLIV. Poor Hector Ochiltree explains The public news. XLV. The French Arrival of Captain Wardour and Major Neville But who isiie? Neville's history Lovel develops into Lord Geraldin Wedding bells Ochiltree Rumors Fate of the Caledoniad. THE BLACK DWABF.* A ROMANCE. ARGUMENT. A WEALTHY farmer, his shepherd, Auld Bauldie and friend -* Christie Wilson, had a conversation at the Wallace Inn, with Peter Pattieson, J. Cleisbotham and the landlord, concerning the Black Dwarf, from which resulted the story bearing that name, the circumstances of which occurred on the Scottish border during Queen Anne's reign. Annaple. Hobbie Elliot's faithful old nurse. Ch. vii-x. Armstrong 1 , Grace. A distant connection of the Elliots, and a cherished and useful member of their household. The robber, West- burnflat, at feud with her betrothed, Hobbie Elliot, kidnapped her, but she was soon restored to her lover, and they were happily mar- ried. Ch. iii, vii, x, xviii. See HOBBIE ELLIOT; WESTBURNFLAT. Broken-girth-flow, Laird. A Jacobite who believed that the Union had ruined Scottish agriculture. He was proprietor of A territory which, since the days of Adam, had borne nothing but ling and whortleberries. Ch. xiii. Ch. xiii. Davie of Stenhouse. Hobbie Elliot's friend. Ch. viii. Dickie of the Dingle. A cautious old Borderer. Ch. viii, ix. Dixon. Mr. Vere's stupid servant. Ch. xi. * Scott represents THE TALES OF MY LANDLORD as being the production of an imaginary schoolmaster. Peter Pattieson, and edited to defray his funeral ex- penses, by his mythical friend and patron, Jedediah Cleisbotham, Schoolmaster and Parish Clerk of Gandercleugh. The Wallace Inn was Mr. Pattieson's head- quarters. The landlord was penurious and inclined to evade game and liquor laws, but loquacious and versed in the traditions of the surrounding country. THE TALES OF MY LANDLORD are in four series, viz: First Series, The Black Dwarf, Old Mortality. Second Series, The Heart of Midlothian. Third Series, The Bride of Lammennoor, A Legend of Montrose. Fourth Series, Count Kobert of Paris, Castle Dangerous. 8 49 50 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. Earnscliff, Patrick. A Border Laird, and Isabella Vere's lover. He was brave, generous and reserved. His superior education and cool judgment won him the respect of his ruder neighbors. Mr. Vere could not forget a feud which had existed between himself and Earnscliff 's father, and the young people's love affair was far from smooth. Ch. ii, iii, iv, vii, viii, ix, xii, xiv, xviii. See ELSHENDER; ISABELLA VERB. Elliot, Annot. Hobbie Elliot's sister. Ch. iii, viii, x. Elliot, Halbert. Hobbie of the Heugh-foot. A substantial farmer, who boasted his descent from old Martin of the Preakin- tower, noted in border story and song. Ch. ii. He was blunt, courageous and shrewd, and delighted in the dan- gers and fatigues of deer-hunting. Loyal to the government and affectionate with his family, he gained the friendship of the cynical Dwarf by his grateful and delicate conduct. Elshender restored his kidnapped betrothed to him, and lavished his gold upon them. Elliot and Earnscliff were helping friends. Elliot and the family at Heugh-foot were, and continued to be, as fortunate and happy as his undaunted honesty, tenderness and gallantry so well merited. Ch. xviii. Ch. ii, iii, iv, vii, viii, ix, x, xvii, xviii. See GRACE ARMSTRONG; ELSHENDER. Elliot, Harry, Jean, John and Lilias. Hobbie Elliot's brothers and sisters. Ch. iii, viii, x. Elliot, Mrs. The beloved grandmother of the Elliot children. She was kindly and pious, with a taint of superstition. The venerable dame, . . . dressed in her coif and pinners, her close and decent gown of homespun wool, but with a large gold necklace and ear-rings, looked what she really was, the lady, as well as the farmer's wife. Ch. iii, Ch. iii, viii, x. Ellieslaw, Laird of. See RICHARD VERB. Elshender, the Recluse. The Black Dwarf. He was suspected of being in league with Satan. His own name was Sir Edward Mauley, and he was Isabella Vere's near but unknown kinsman. He was cultivated, wealthy and naturally noble. He had been betrayed in love and friendship, and he bitterly concluded that his deformity had dissevered him from humanity. In his youth he had been devoted to Vere, and taking his part in a quarrel, killed Earns- cliff 's father. His morbid nature suffered from paroxysms of re- morse, and before the expiration of his year's imprisonment for manslaughter, Mr. Vere and his betrothed were married. After a temporary retreat to an insane asylum, he became a hermit upon THE BLACK DWARF. 51 Mucklestane Moor. He allowed himself only the barest necessities. He was taciturn of speech and misanthropical in his language, and with his knowledge of drugs and command of gold, performed many kind acts, and had a powerful influence in the neighborhood. He had herculean strength, and was regarded by his neighbors with timid and superstitious veneration. His popular epithet was Canny Elshie, or the Wight of Mucklestane Moor. His head was of uncommon size, covered with a fell of shaggy hair, partly grizzled with age ; his eyebrows, shaggy and prominent, overhung a pair of small, dark, piercing eyes, set far back in their sockets, that rolled with a por- tentous insanity. The rest of his features were cf the coarse, rough-hewn stamp, with which a painter would equip a giant in romance ; to which was added the wild, irregular and peculiar expression so often seen in the counte- nances of those whose persons are deformed. His body, thick and square, like that of a man of middle size, was mounted upon two large feet; but nature seemed to have forgotten the legs and the thighs, or they were so very short as to be hidden by the dress which he wore. His arms were long and brawny, fur- nished with two muscular hands, . . . shagged with coarse, black hair. It seemed as if nature had originally intended the separate parts of his body to be the members of a giant, but had afterwards capriciously assigned them to the person of a dwarf, so ill did the length of his arms and the iron strength of his frame correspond with the shortness of his stature. His clothing was a sort of coarse brown tunic, like a monk's frock, girt around him with a belt of sealskin. On his head he had a cap made of badger's skin, or some other rough fur, which added considerable to the grotesque effect of his whole appearance and over- shadowed features, whose habitual expression seemed that of sullen misan- thropy. Ch. iv. He saved Isabella Vere from being sacrificed to Sir Frederick Langley, and, upon her marriage with Earnscliff, settled a hand- some fortune on them. He disappeared from Mucklestane Moor, and the time of his death or place of his burial was never known. Many believed . . . that he only disappeared for a season, and continues to be seen from time to time among the hills. And retaining, according to custom, a more vivid recollection of his wild and desperate language, than of the benevo- lent tendency of most of his actions, he is usually identified with the malignant demon called the Man of the Moors, . . . and ... is generally represented as bewitching sheep, causing the ewes to keb, that is, to cast their lambs, or seen loosening the impending wreath of snow to precipitate its weight on such as take shelter, during the storm, beneath the bank of a torrent, or under the shelter of a deep glen. In short, the evils most dreaded and deprecated by the inhabitant* of that pastoral country are ascribed to the agency of the Black Dwarf. Ch. xviii. Ch. iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, x, xv, xvi, xvii, xviii. See VERE (ISABELLA and RICHARD). Graeme, Mrs. An old hag ; the mother and accomplice of the robber, Westburnflat. Ch. ix. Graeme, Willie. See WESTBTJRXFLAT. 52 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. Hobbler, Dr. A convivial Jacobite. The pimple-nosed pastor of the Episcopal meeting-house at Kirkwhistle. Ch. xiii. Ch. xiii-xvii. Horsington. Mr. Vere's old groom. Ch. v. Hugh. The blacksmith of Eingleburn. Hobbie Elliot's friend. Ch. viii, ix. Ilderton, Lucy. Isabella Vere's friend and cousin. A brilliant and romantic young beauty, who intrigued in favor of Eamscliff 's suit for Isabella's hand, much to the discomfiture of Mr. Vere and Sir Frederick Langley. She afterward became the wife of Ralph Mareschal. Ch. v, xi, xviii. See MARESCHAL; ISABELLA VERB. Ilderton, Nancy. Lucy Ilderton's younger and timid sister. Ch. v. Langley, Sir Frederick. Isabella Vere's suitor. A proud, dark, ambitious man, . . . infamous for his avarice and severity. Ch. v. Believing that Miss Vere was an heiress, he embarked in her father's Jacobite schemes, with the understanding that Isabella should be his wife. Weary of delays, and knowing her repug- nance, he threatened to betray the conspirators unless an imme- diate marriage should take place. The Dwarf convinced Sir Frederick that Isabella would be a portionless bride, and he fled from a pending arrest for treason, and he was afterward executed for complicity in the rebellion of 1715. Ch. v, xi, xii, xiii, xvii, xviii. See ISABELLA VERE. Mareschal, Ralph. Vere's kinsman. A Jacobite, noble, gay and fearless. Mareschal hunted, shot, and drank claret tired of the country, served three campaigns, came home and married Lucy Ilderton. Ch. xviii. Ch. xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xvii, xviii. See LUCY ILDERTON. Mauley, Sir Edward. See ELSHENDER. Ratcliffe, Hugh. Sir Edward Mauley's honorable friend and agent. Ch. xi, xii, xiii, xv, xvi, xvii, xviii. See ELSHENDER. Rewcastle, John. A Jedburgh smuggler and Jacobite, who al- leged that the Union had destroyed commerce. Ch. xiii. Simon of Hackburn. A spirited young borderer. A friend to Hobbie Elliot. Ch. vii, viii, ix, xii. The Black Dwarf. See ELSHENDER. Vere, Isabella. Richard Vere's lovely and dutiful daughter. Her heart was given to Eamscliff, but she was persecuted by her father to marry Sir Frederick Langley. She was placed in a temporary captivity, from which Eamscliff rescued her, but the hour for the THE BLACK DWARF. 53 marriage was appointed. She sought the advice and assistance of the Dwarf, and the beautiful attributes of her nature secured his interest and successful interference. Earnscliff and Isabella were shortly afterward united. Years tied over the heads of Earnscliff and his wife, and found and left them contented and happy. Ch. xviii. Ch. v, ix, xi, xii, xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, xviii. See EARNSCLIFF; EL- SHENDEH; LANGLEY; VERB. Vere, Richard. Laird of Ellieslaw. Isabella Vere's father. In early youth, Mr. Vere of Ellieslaw had been remarkable for a career of dissipation, which, in advanced life, he had exchanged for the no less destruc- tive career of dark and turbulent ambition. In both cases, he had gratified the predominant passion, without respect to the diminution of his private fortune ; although, where such inducements were wanting, he was deemed close, avari- cious and grasping. Ch. xi. He was haughty, selfish and dissimulating. After cruelly wrong- ing his friend, Sir Edward Mauley, he lived upon his bounty. He engaged in Jacobite intrigues, and was willing to sacrifice his daughter's happiness to his political aspirations. He left Scotland after the exposure of his schemes. Mr. Vere. supplied by his daughter with an ample income, continued to reside abroad, engaged deeply in the affair of Law's bank during the regency of the Duke of Orleans; and was at one time supposed to be immensely rich; but, on the bursting of that famous bubble, he was so much chagrined at being again reduced to a moderate annuity . . . that vexation of mind brought on a para- lytic stroke, of which he died after lingering under its effects a few weeks. Ch. xviii. Ch. viii, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xvi, xvii, xviii. See ELSHENDER ; LANG- LEY; ISABELLA VERE. Westburnflat, Red Reiver of. Willie Graeme. A border rob- ber and a Cool-blooded, hardened, unrelenting ruffian. Ch. vi. He was Mr. Vere's Jacobite emissary, and objected to the Union because it subjected him to the rigor of English laws. He was tall, thin and muscular. His face, sharp-featured, sun-burnt and freckled, had a sinister expression of violence, impudence and cunning, each of which seemed to predominate over the others. Sandy-coloured hair, and reddish eyebrows, from under which looked forth his sharp grey eyes, completed the unauspicious outline of the horseman's physiognomy. He had pistols in his hostlers, and another peeped from his belt. . . . He wore a rusted steel head-piece; a buff jacket of rather an antique cast; gloves of which that for the right hand was covered with small scales of iron, like an ancient gauntlet ; and a long broadsword completed his equipage. Ch. vi. Elshender had cured him of a sickness, and had a restraining influence over him through the robber's gratitude, superstition, and 54 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. the effect of an occasional bribe. Westburnflat destroyed Hobbie Elliot's home, and fled from the wrath to come. He joined the army under Marlborough; obtained a commission, to which he was recommended by his services in collecting cattle for the commissariat ; returned home after many years, with some money (how come by Heaven only knows) . . . drank brandy with the neighbours, whom in his younger days he had plundered died in his bed, and is recorded upon his tombstone ... as having played all the parts of a brave soldier, a discreet neighbour, and a sincere Christian. Ch. xviii. Ch. vi, vii, viii, ix, xiii, xviii. See ELSHENDEU. Willieson, William. A Scotch Jacobite. Half-owner and sole skipper of a brig that made four voyages annually between Cockpool and Whitehaven. Ch. xiii. He considered the piracies committed on the East India trade as a sufficient reason for his opposition to the government. Ch. xiii. SYNOPSIS. Introduction (1829). I. Preliminary. II. Historical period Hobbie Elliot and Earnscliff journey to Mucklestanc Moor. III. The young men and the Dwarf Earnscliff at Hobble's happy home. IV. Hobbie and Earnscliff's visit to the misanthropic Dwarf His herculean powers and superstitious reputation. V. Lucy Ilderton's fortune The Dwarf and Isabella Vere Confidential conversa- tion between the cousins. VI. The Dwarf and the freebooter Elshie's reflec- tions. VII. The sullen night Elshie and the Red Reiver make a bargain Desolation Hobbie in pursuit of his missing betrothed. VIII. Hobbie begs the Dwarf's assistance The bag of gold " In the West." IX. Tower of Westburn- flat Parley and surrender of Miss Vere " Where is Grace? " X. Grace's return and adventures The Dwarf's gift. XI. A retrospect The kidnapping of Isa- bella, and feigned search Jacobite agitations. XII. Earnscliff delivers Isabella to her insulting father Ratcliffe remonstrates with Mareschal. XIII. Jacobite gathering at Ellieslaw Castle Ratcliffe's dismissal Discouraging intelligence Sir Frederick Langley demands that Isabella shall that evening become his bride. XIV. The dissimulating Vere and his unhappy daughter. XV. Ratcliffe advises a visit to Mucklestane Moor The Dwarf's history. XVI. Isabella in the hut of the Dwarf The return. XVII. The chapel in Ellieslaw Castle Mrs. Vere's tomb The bridal party Sir Edward Mauley prevents the ceremony Hobbie Elliot commands the castle. XVIII. Vere's explanatory letter to his daughter Mar- riage of Earnscliff and Miss Vere The Dwarf's generosity Subsequent his- tories Traditions concerning the Black Dwarf. OLD MOKTAL1TY/ A ROMANCE. " Why seeks he with unwearied toil Through death's dim walks to urge his way, Reclaim his long-asserted spoil And lead oblivion into day?' 1 LANOHOKNE. ARGUMENT. T30BERT PATERSON was a real personage, and received the -L t> name of Old Mortality from having devoted his life to the renovation of the gravestones of the martyrs of the Covenant. His old white pony fed among the tombs while his master was engaged in his labors. Old Mortality was dressed plainly as a peasant, and was frugal in all his habits. He ceased to provide for his family and repaid the hospitality of the Presbyterians by repairing their family monuments. He was cheerful and inoffensive in his enthusiasm and died in his eighty-sixth year. About the beginning of this century he closed his mortal toils, being found on the highway near Lockerby. in Dumfriesshire, exhausted and just expiring. The old white pony, the companion of all his wanderings, was standing by the side of his dying master. There was found about his person a sum of money sufficient for his decent interment, which seems to show that his death was in no way hastened by violence or want. Int. (1829), ch. i. Mr. Pattieson* became interested in Old Mortality and his narratives of the Whig saints. The romance which resulted from their acquaint- ance he called " Old Mortality. " It relates to the Covenanters' insur- rection during Charles the Second's reign. Allan, Major. An experienced cavalry officer in the Life Guards. Ch. xv, xvi, xx, xxxv. Andrews. A dragoon in the Life Guards. Ch. viii. Balfour, John. See BURLEY. * See foot-note on page 49. 55 56 THE WAVEBLEY DICTIONARY. Bellenden, Edith. Lady Margaret Bellenden's granddaughter, and the heiress of Tillietudlem. Her black Spanish jennet, which she managed with much grace, her gay riding-dress and laced side-saddle, had been anxiously prepared to set her forth to the best advantage. But the clustering profusion of ringlets, which, escaping from under her cap, were only confined by a green ribbon from wantoning over her shoulders, her cast of features, soft and feminine, yet not without a certain expression of playful archness, which redeemed their sweetness from the charge of insipidity sometimes brought against blondes and blue-eyed beauties, these attracted more admiration from the western youth than the splendour of her equipments or the figure of her palfrey. Ch. ii. Edith's manners were both bewitching and stately. She was indifferent to the homage her beauty commanded, for she had met and learned to love the Whig rebel, Henry Morton. " If he had been unfortunate," she said, " I never would have deserted him. ... If he had died, I would have mourned him, if he had been unfaithful, I would have forgiven him; but a rebel to his king a traitor to his country the associate and colleague of cut-throats and common slabbers the persecutor of all that is noble the professed and blasphemous enemy of all that is sacred, I will tear him from my heart if my life-blood should ebb in the effort ! " Ch. xxiv. This she found impossible to achieve. Crowding misfortunes came upon herself and grandmother, and they found a noble pro- tector in her faithful lover, Lord Evandale. Well authenticated reports of Morton's death reached Edith, and she at length promised to marry Evandale, but she confessed the all-absorbing nature of Morton's memory, and indefinitely postponed the ceremony. Mor- ton appeared at the window, and she thought she saw his rebuking ghost. Evandale ceased from further importunities. After a season of mourning for Evandale's untimely death, Edith Bellenden and Henry Morton were wedded. Ch. ii, iii, x, xi, xiii, xix, xx, xxiv, xxviii, xxix, xxxvii, xxxviii, xliv. See LADY MARGARET BELLENDEN; LORD EVANDALE; HENRY MORTON. Bellenden, Lady Margaret. Life rentrix of the barony of Tillie- tudlem. She was zealous, for the Stuarts and Protestant Episcopacy, and very prejudiced against those of opposite views. Lady Marga- ret was especially jealous of her seignorial rights. The erect and primitive form of Lady Margaret, . . . decked in those widow's weeds which the good lady had never laid aside since the execution of her hus- band for his adherence to Montrose. . . . She had lost her husband and two promising sons in the civil wars of that unhappy period, but she had received her reward, for, on his route through the west of Scotland to meet Cromwell in the unfortunate field of Worcester, Charles the Second had actually breakfasted at the Tower of Tillietudlem, an incident which formed, from that moment, an important era in the life of Lady Margaret, who seldom afterwards partook of OLD MORTALITY. 57 that meal, either at home or abroad, without detailing the whole circumstances of the royal visit, not forgetting the salutation which His Majesty conferred on each side of her face, though she sometimes omitted to notice that he bestowed the same favour on two buxom serving-wenches. . . . These instances of royal favor were decisive, and if Lady Margaret had not been a confirmed royalist already, from sense of high birth, influence of education, and hatred to the oppo- site party, through whom she had suffered such domestic calamity, the having given a breakfast to Majesty, and received the royal salute in return, were hon- ours enough of themselves to unite her exclusively to the fortunes of the Stuarts. These were now, in all appearances, triumphant; but Lady Margaret's zeal had adhered to them through the worst of times, and was ready to sustain the same severities of fortune should their scale once more kick the beam. Ch. ii. Tillietudlera was besieged by the Whig insurgents, and after a brave defense was forced by famine to surrender. After the siege a document was purloined which had given Lady Margaret possession of the barony. Her kinsman, Olifant, usurped her rights, and she became a recipient of the charity of others. But Tillietudlem was at length restored to Lady Margaret, as the heir of her unworthy cousin, Basil Olifant, who died without a will. Ch. ii, iii, vii, ix, xi, xii, xiii, xix, xx, xxiv, xxv, xxviii, xxix, xxxvii, xliv, con. Bellenden, Miles, Major. Major Bellenden was a frank and kind- hearted veteran of Montrose's campaigns. At his residence (Charn- wood) Morton and Edith Bellenden met often, and it grieved the old Major that his young friend should be a Whig rebel. The Major bravely and skillfully defended Tillietudlem against the insur- gents as long as possible. He was the devoted protector of Lady Margaret Bellenden and his niece, Edith. His old age was made sad by the troubles of his kinswomen, the putting away of the Stu- art line and the financial embarrassments which his generosity had brought upon him, and which resulted in his being deprived of his estate in his last days. Ch. xi, xii, xiii, xix, xx, xxiv, xxv, xxviii, xxix, xxxviii. See BEL- LEXDEN (EDITH and MARGARET); HENRY MORTON. Blane, Jenny. Niel Blane's daughter. The dexterous barmaid at the Howff. Ch. iv, xx, xii. See NIEL BLANE. Blane, Niel. Town piper and landlord of the Howff. Niel, a clean, tight, well-timbered, long-winded fellow, had gained the official situation of town piper by his merit, with all the emoluments thereof. . . . Xiel's personal, or professional, accomplishments won the heart of a jolly widow, who then kept the principal change-house in the borough. . . . The character of the new landlord, indeed, was of that accommodating kind which enabled him, by close attention to the helm, to keep his little vessel pretty steady amid the contending tides of faction. ... He was a good-humoured, shrewd, selfish sort of fellow, indifferent alike to the disputes about church and 58 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. state, and only anxious to secure the good-will of customers of every description. Ch. iv. Ch. iv, xx, xli, con. Bothwell, Sergeant. Francis Stuart, an illegitimate descendant of James VI of Scotland, and a non-commissioned officer in the Life Guards. Great personal strength and dexterity in the use of his arms, as well as the remarkable circumstances of his descent, had recommended this man to the at- tention of his officers. But he partook, in a great degree, of the licentiousness and oppressive disposition which the habit of acting as agent for government in levying fines, exacting free quarters, and otherwise oppressing the Presbyterian recusants, had rendered too general among these soldiers. Ch. iv. Lady Margaret Bellenden was much interested in Bothwell. Sergeant Bothwell saluted the grave and reverend lady of the manor with an assurance which had something of the light and careless address of the dissi- pated men of fashion in Charles the Second's time, and did not at all savour of the awkward or rude manners of a non-commissioned officer of dragoons. His language, as well as his manners, seemed also to be refined, for the time and oc- casion; though the truth was, that, in the fluctuation of an adventurous and profligate life, Bothwell had sometimes kept company much better suited to his ancestry than to his present situation of life. . . . Bothwell had long ceased to be very scrupulous in point of society, which he regulated more by his conveni- ence and station in life than by his ancestry. Ch. ix. Bothwell was haughty and impatient of discipline, and very ar- bitrary in his relations with the rebels. He had A tall, powerful person, and a set of hardy, weather-beaten features, to which pride and dissipation had given an air, where discontent mingled with the reck- less gayety of desperation. Ch. x. He was killed at Drumclog by Burley. He died with the words "fearing nothing " on his lips. His pocket-book came into Mor- ton's possession. Among its contents were found papers substanti- ating the genealogy and forfeited possessions of the Earls of Both- well; together with these were a number of faded love letters in a feminine hand, and some verses of Bothwell, ending with the lines: " Yes, God and man might now approve me. If thou hadst lived, and lived to love me ! " Morton could not forbear reflecting with compassion on the fate of this singu- lar and most unhappy being, who, it appeared, while in the lowest state of de- gradation, and almost contempt, had his recollections continually fixed on the high station to which his birth seemed to entitle him; and, while plunged in gross licentiousness, was, in secret, looking back with bitter remorse to the pe- riod of his youth during which he had nourished a virtuous, though unfortunate, attachment. Ch. xxiii. Ch. iv, viii, ix, x, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, xxiii. Burley, John. Leader of the insurgent Covenanters, and murderer of Archbishop Sharp. He was a crafty, stern and malignant fanatic, OLD MORTALITY. 59 and was swayed as much by ambition and revenge as religious zeal. He gave a scriptural justification for all his crimes; nevertheless he was tortured by imaginary conflicts with Satan and remorseful frenzies that bordered on insanity. He had an aquiline nose, red hair and a muscular frame. His features, austere even to ferocity, with a cast of the eye which, without being actually oblique, approached nearly to a squint, . . . gave a very sinister expression to his countenance. Ch. iv. After his defeat at Both well Bridge he fled to Holland, but re- turned to Scotland, and was killed in a struggle with a dragoon who attempted his arrest. Scott, in a note on Old Mortality, says: " The return of John Balfourof Kinlock, called Burley, to Scotland, as well as his violent death in the manner described, is ... fictitious. ... He ... es- caped to Holland, where he found refuge, with other fugitives of that disturbed period." Ch. iv, v, vi, xvi, xvii, xviii, xxi, xxii, xxiii, xxv, xxvii, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxvi, xxxvii, xliii, xliv. Buskbody, Martha. A milliner, to whom Mr. Patterson relates the Conclusion. Con. See ARGUMENT. Claverh.ou.se, James Grahame of. Colonel of the Royal Life Guards, and member of the Privy Council of Scotland. The perse- cuted Presbyterians believed he bore a charmed life a.nd fired at him with silver bullets. Grahame of Claverhouse was in the prime of life, rather low of stature, and slightly though elegantly formed; his gestures, language and manners were those of one whose life had been spent among the noble and the gay. His feat- ures exhibited even feminine regularity. An oval face, a straight and well- formed nose, dark hazel eyes, a complexion just sufficiently tinged with brown to save it from the charge of effeminacy, a short upper lip, curved upward like that of a Grecian statue, and slightly shaded by small mustachios of light- brown, joined to a profusion of long curled locks of the same colour, which fell down on each side of his face, contributed to form such a countenance as lim- ners love to paint and ladies to look upon. The severity of his character, as well as the higher attributes of undaunted and enterprising valour which even his en- emies were compelled to admit lay concealed under an exterior which seemed adapted to the court or the saloon rather than the field. The same gentleness and gayety of expression which reigned in his features seemed to inspire his ac- tions and gestures; and, on the whole, he was generally esteemed, at first sight, rather qualified to be the votary of pleasure than of ambition. But under this soft exterior was hidden a spirit unbounded in daring and in aspiring, yet cau- tious and prudent as that of Machiavel himself. Profound in politics, and im- bued, of course, with that disregard of individual rights which its intrigues usu- ally generate, this leader was cool and collected in danger, fierce and ardent in pursuing success, careless of facing death himself, and ruthless in inflicting it upon others. Ch. xii. He did not allow his private affections to interfere with his public 60 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. duty, and he bore his own afflictions with silent fortitude. He had enthusiastic respect for martial courage and generous honor, to- gether with an aristocratic contempt for the people. Under an aspect of imperturbable civility, he could be terribly sarcastic. After the Revolution, as the Viscount Dundee, he headed a Jacobite insur- rection, and fell at the victorious battle of Killiecrankie, in the High- lands. His death was in accordance with his wishes, for he had said: " It is not the expiring pang that is worth thinking of in an event that must happen one day, and may befall ns on any given moment it is the memory the soldier leaves behind him, like the long train of light that follows the sunken snn, . . . which distinguishes the death of the brave or the ignoble. When I think of death ... as a thing worth thinking of, it is in the hope of pressing one day some well-fought and hard-won field of battle, and dying with the shout of victory in my ear that would be worth dying for, and more, it would be worth having lived for ! " Ch. xxxiv. Ch. xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, xx, xxvi, xxix, xxx, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxiv, xxxvi, xxxvii. Dalzell, Thomas, General. Member of the Privy Council of Scot- land, and Monmouth's Lieutenant-General. General Thomas Dalzell, who, having practised the art of war in the then bar- barous country of Russia, was as much feared for his cruelty and indifference to human life and human sufferings, as respected for his steady loyalty and un- daunted valour. Ch. xxix. His dress was of the antique fashion of Charles the First's time, and com- posed of shamoy leather, curiously slashed, and covered with antique lace and garniture. His boots and spurs might be referred to the same distant period. He wore a breastplate, over which descended a grey beard of venerable length, which he cherished as a mark of mourning for Charles the First, having never shaved since that monarch was brought to the scaffold. His head was uncov- ered, and almost perfectly bald. His high and wrinkled forehead, piercing grey eyes, and marked features, evinced age unbroken by infirmity, and stern resolu- tion unsoftened by humanity. Such is the outline, however feebly expressed, of the celebrated General Thomas Dalzell, a man more feared and h'ated by the Whigs than even Claverhonse himself, and who executed the same violences against them out of detestation of their persons, or perhaps an innate severity of temper, which Grahame only resorted to on political accounts, as the best means of intimidating the followers of presbytery, and of destroying that sect entirely. Ch. xxx. Ch. xxix, xxx, xxxii, xxxvi. See CLAVERHOUSE. Dennison, Jenny. Edith Bellenden's shrewd and handsome maid. She was interested in her mistress' love affairs, and delighted to torment Edith's lovers with alternate hopes and fears. She was a coquette, and had a gallant in both armies, but finally married Headrigg, and their own interest became her ruling motive. Ch. iii, x, xiii, xix, xxiv, xxxviii, xxxix, xliv, con. See CUDDIE HEAD- RIGG. OLD MORTALITY. 61 Ding-wall. Barley's aide-de-camp, xxvii. Dundee, Viscount of. See CLAVERHOUSE. Elphin. Morton's sagacious dog, who recognized him after a long absence. Ch. xxxix. Evandale, Lord (William Maxwell). A handsome and intrepid officer in the Life Guards. He was humane and modest as a soldier, and unselfish, honorable and delicate in all his conduct. He cher- ished a hopeless and reverential passion for Edith Bellenden, but was the warm champion and helping friend of his rival, Henry Morton. Evandale was a devoted protector of Edith and her grandmother, but sadly realized that her grateful friendship would never blossom into love. At the commencement of the Revolution he left the Guards, but ho did not live to fulfill his intention of taking the field for James II. His unflinching integrity to duty and principle had made him enemies, and he was mortally wounded in a dastardly assault. The dying Evandale joined the hands of Edith and Morton. Ch. iii, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, xxiv, xxv, xxviii, xxix, xxxvii, xxxviii, xlii, xliv. See EDITH BELLENDEN; HENRY MORTON. Gibbie, Goose. A servant at Tillietudlem, who was compelled, on one occasion, to appear as a martial retainer. He conducted him- self so awkwardly as to bring upon himself Lady Margaret Bellen- den's unrelenting resentment. A half-witted lad, of very small stature, who had a kind of charge of the poultry under the old hen-wife. . . . The urchin . . . was hastily muffled in the buff coat, and girded rather to than with, the sword of a full-grown man, his little legs plunged into jack-boots, and a steel cap put on his head, which seemed from its size as if it had been intended to extinguish him. Ch. ii. Ch. ii, iii, vii, x, xix, xliv, con. Gilbertscleugh. A relative to Lady Margaret Bellenden. Ch. iii. Grahame, John, General. See CLAVERHOUSE. Grahame, Richard. A cornet in the Life Guards, and Claver- house's nephew and heir. He was handsome, gallant, and high- spirited, and carried a flag of truce to the insurgents at Drumclog. He went to oifer pardon to all rebels upon the laying down of their arms, except Burley. Notwithstanding Burley's threats, he at- tempted to make the declaration, and was killed by Burley. Young Grahame had an avenger in Claverhouse. The rebels knew a mer- ciless sword was unsheathed when they heard Claverhouse say : "Kill! kill! no quarter! think on Richard Grahame !" Ch. xxxii. Ch. iv. xi, xv, xvi, xx, xxxii. See BURLEY and CLAVERHOUSE. 62 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. Gudyill, John. The convivial old butler at Tillietudlem. He had served in Montrose's campaigns, and his knowledge of artillery was of service during the siege of the Tower. Ch. ii, iii, ix, xi, xix, xxiv, xxv, xxviii, xxxviii, xliv, con. See HEADRIGG. Halliday, Tom. A dragoon in the Life Guards, and a victim to Jenny Dennison's coquetry. At the commencement of the Revolu- tion he became Lord Evandale's servant. Ch. iv, x, xiv, xvi, xxviii, xxxiv, xxxvii, xxxviii, xliv. See JENNY DENNISON. Hamilton, Lady Emily. Lord Evandale's spirited sister. Ch. xxxviii, xliv. Harrison, Hugh. The faithful old steward at Tillietudlem. Ch. ii, iii, xix, xxviii. Headrigg, Cuddie or Cuthbert. Lady Margaret Bellenden's stout and stupid-looking ploughman. He was the messenger be- tween Henry Morton and Edith Bellenden, and beneath an appear- ance of clownish dullness was concealed a shrewd and faithful char- acter. With filial patience he bore with his mother's whiggery, which was the bane of his existence. He drifted into the Presbyte- rian army as Morton's servant; but as he was not ambitious of martyrdom, he was readily pardoned. After an aggravating court- ship, he was married to Jenny Dennison, and blessed with a prolific family. He thus reflected: ' I hae aye had some carline or quean or another, to gar me gang their gate instead o' my ain. There was first my mither, . . . then there was Leddy Mar- garet didna let me ca' my soul my ain ; then my mither and her quarrelled, and pu'ed me twa ways at anes, as if ilk ane had an end o' me. like Punch and the Deevil rugging about the Baker at the fair ; and now I hae gotten a wife, . . . and she's like to tak the guiding o' me a' thegither." Ch. xxxviii. Cuddie, in an affray, killed Lady Margaret's usurping relative, Basil Olifant. But with the shrewd caution of his character, he was never heard to boast of having fired the lucky shot which repossessed his lady and himself in their original habitations. ... He ... ingeniously enough countenanced a report that old Gudyill had done the deed, which was worth many a gill of brandy to him from the old butler, who. far different in disposition from Cuddie. was much more inclined to exaggerate than suppress his exploits of manhood. Con. Ch. ii, iii, vii, viii, xiv, xvii, xxiii, xxv, xxvii, xxviii, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxviii, xliv, con. See LADY MARGARET BEL- LENDEN; JENNY DENNISON; MAUSE HEADRIGG. Headrigg, Cuddie cntrf Jenny. Children of Cuddie and Jennie Headrigg. Ch. xxxvii. Headrigg, Jenny, Mrs. See JENNY DENNISON. OLB MORTALITY. 63 Headrigg, Mause. Cuddie Headrigg's Presbyterian mother, who was considered a "precious woman" by those of her fanaticism. She was distracted between a desire to make Cuddie a Whig saint and her maternal solicitude for his bodily safety. She was so zeal- ous in giving her testimony for the Covenant that herself and son were dismissed from Lady Margaret's service, and they were both placed under arrest. Her language to the dragoons was most viru- lent and vituperative. Mause saw the Whig victory at Drumclog, and thus rejoiced at the flight of the Life Guards : " They flee ! they flee ! " exclaimed Mause, in ecstasy. " Oh, the truculent tyrants ! they are riding now as they never rode before. Oh, the false Egyptians the proud Assyrians the Philistines the Moabites the Edomites the Ish- maelites ! The Lord has brought sharp swords upon them, to make them food for the fowls of heaven and beasts of the field. See how the clouds roll, and the fire flashes ahint them, and goes forth before the chosen of the Covenant, e'en like the pillar o' flame that led the people of Israel out o' the land of Egypt. This is indeed a day of deliverance to the righteous, a day of pouring out of wrath to the persecutors and the ungodly." Ch. xvii. She recovered her liberty after the defeat of her captors. Ch. ii, vii, viii, xiv, xv, xvii, xxxv. See CUDDIE HEADRIGG. Hunter. Lord Evandale's servant. Ch. xliv. Inglis, Frank. Corporal in the Life Guards. Black Frank Inglis was hated by the Covenanters for his persecuting spirit. He never forgave Lord Evandale for punishing him for mutiny, and was killed while engaged in a murderous attack against him. Ch. xiv, xvii, xx, xxviii, xliii, xliv. See EVANDALE. Kettledrummle, Gabriel, Rev. A Cameronian minister and member of the insurgents' council. He was a quarrelsome and contumacious thunderer in the pulpit, but beheld with terror an actual battle. For two hours he addressed the Covenanters after their victory at Drumclog. He professed in perfection a sort of rude and familiar eloquence peculiar to the preachers of that period, which, though it would have been fastidiously rejected by an audience which possessed any portion of taste, was a cake of the right leaven for the palates of those whom he now addressed. . . . The rever- ent Gabriel was advanced in years, somewhat corpulent, with a loud voice, a square face, and a set of stupid and inanimate features, in which the body seemed more to predominate over the spirit than was seemly in a sound divine. Ch. xviii. Ch. xiv, xv, xvii, xviii, xxii, xxiii, xxx, xxxi. Langcale, Laird of. A member of the Covenanters' council. He was vacillating, and possessed with a contemptuous spiritual pride. Ch. xxiii-xxv. 64 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. Lauderdale, Duke of. The coarse and brutal president of the Scottish Privy Council. Ch. xxxvi. Lumley, Captain. An officer in the Duke of Monmouth's army. Ch. xxx. Macbriar, Ephraim, Rev. A fanatical member of the insur- gents' council, who was only prevented from murdering the conser- vative Morton by an arrest for treason. He refused to give the Privy Council information concerning Hurley's whereabouts, and endured torture and death with heroic fortitude. He was grateful for the opportunity of suffering and testifying for his faith. His appearance and address to the insurgents after their victory at Drumclog is thus described: Ephraim Macbriar . . . was hardly twenty years old ; yet his thin features already indicated that a constitution, naturally hectic, was worn out by vigils, by fasts, by the rigour of imprisonment, and the fatigues incident to a fugitive life. Young as he was, he had been twice imprisoned for several months, and suffered many severities, which gave him great influence with those of his own sect. He threw his faded eyes over the multitude and over the scene of battle ; and a light of triumph arose in his glance. . . . When he spoke, his faint and broken voice seemed at first inadequate to express his conceptions. But the deep silence of the assembly, the eagerness with which the ear gathered every word, as the famished Israelites collected the heavenly manna, had a corresponding effect upon the preacher himself. His words became more distinct, his manner more earnest and energetic; it seemed as if religious zeal was triumphing over bodily weakness and infirmity. His natural eloquence was not altogether un- tainted with the coarseness of his sect; and yet by the influence of a good natural taste, it was freed from the grosser and more ludicrous errors of his contemporaries; and the language of Scripture, which, in their mouths, was sometimes degraded by misapplication, gave in Macbriar's exhortation a rich and solemn effect, like that which is produced by the beams of the sun stream- ing through the storied representations of saints and martyrs on the Gothic window of some ancient cathedral. He painted the desolation of the church, dur- ing the late period of her distresses, in the most affecting colours. He described her, like Hagar watching the waning of her infant amid the fountainless desert. . . . But he chiefly ro;e into rough sublimity when addressing the men yet reeking from buttle. He called on them to remember the great things which God had done for them, and to persevere in the career which their victory had opened. . . . The Wounded forgot their pain, the faint and hungry their fatigues and privations, as they listened to doctrines which elevated them alike above the wants and calamities of the world, and identified their cause with that of the Deity. Ch. xviii. Ch. xviii, xxi, xxx, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxv, xxxvi. Maclure, Bessie or Elizabeth. A poor, blind and high-minded widow, who kept a dilapidated inn. She was a zealous Covenanter, and much trusted by Burley. Her sons died for their faith. Speak- of her blindness and their death, she said : OLD MOETALITY. 65 ' The tanc fell wi' sword in hand, fighting for a broken national Covenant ; the tother oh, they took him and shot him dead on the green before his mother's face ! My auld een dazzled when the shots were looten off, and, to my thought, they waxed weaker and weaker ever since that weary day and sorrow and heart-break, and tears that would not be dried, might help on the disorder." Ch. xlii. Notwithstanding her religious prejudices, she nursed the wounded Evandale, and was his devoted friend, although she was denounced by those of her faith. Her old age was made comfortable by kind and protecting friends. Ch. iv, xxiv, xli, xlii, xliii. See EVANDALE. Milnwood, Laird of. Ralph Morton, Henry Morton's miserly uncle. The old gentleman had been remarkably tall in his earlier days, an advantage which he now lost by stooping to such a degree that, at a meeting, where there was some dispute concerning the sort of arch which should be thrown over a considerable brook, a facetious neighbour proposed to offer Milnwood a handsome sum for his curved backbone, alleging that he would sell anything that belonged to him. Spley-feet of unusual size, long thin hands, garnished with nails which seldom felt the steel, a wrinkled and puckered visage, the length of which cor- responded with that of his person, together with a pair of little bargain-making grey eyes, that seemed eternally looking out for their advantage, completed the highly unpromising exterior of Mr. Morton of Milnwood. As it would have been very injudicious to have lodged a liberal or benevolent disposition in such an unworthy cabinet, nature had suited his person with a mind exactly in con- formity with it, that is to say, mean, selfish and covetous. Ch. vi. Ch. vi, viii, xxxix. Monmouth., Duke of. Commander of the army of Scotland, and natural son of Charles II and the Duchess of Portsmouth. He was gentle in disposition, as well as brave and skillful in battle. He gained a decisive victory over the Covenanters at Bothwell Bridge. It was impossible for any one to look upon the Duke of Monmouth without being captivated by his personal graces and accomplishments. . . . Yet to a strict observer, the manly beauty of Monmouth's face was occasionally rendered less striking by an air of vacillation and uncertainty which seemed to imply hesitation and doubt at moments when decisive resolution was most necessary. Ch. xxx. Ch. xxvi, xxx, xxxii. Morton, Henry. Nephew of the Laird of Milnwood. His life was made unhappy by the penuriousness of his uncle and the uncertain- ties of the success of his suit for Edith Bellenden, who was his superior in birth and fortune. He had for a rival the gallant, wealthy and ac- complished Lord Evandale. He improved his limited opportunities of education to the uttermost, and was very skillful in the use of arms. Burley, the murderer of Archbishop Sharp, had been a friend to Morton's father, and, ignorant of his crime, Morton sheltered him, 3* 66 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. and was sentenced by Claverhouse to death. Edith begged Evan- dale to intercede for him, which he did effectually, though Morton's bearing was most defiant. Claverhouse said: " This is a lad of fire, zeal, and education and these knaves want but such a leader to direct their blind enthusiastic hardiness. . . . You see him, ... he is tottering on the very verge between time and eternity, a situation more ap- palling than the most hideous certainty ; yet his is the only cheek unblenched, the only eye that is calm, the only heart that keeps its usual time, the only nerves that are not quivering." Ch. xiii. Thus Morton unexpectedly found himself identified with the Cove- nanters and opposed to those dearest to him, but honor and a desire for religious freedom left him no alternative. He was horrified at the cruel fanaticism of the insurgents, and as a member of their council excited a restraining influence. Upon two occasions he saved Evandale's life, much to the displeasure of his confederates. He fought bravely for his faith, and worked diligently for an honor- able peace. He achieved the respect of his foes, but narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Covenanters. He was taken as a prisoner before the Privy Council of Scotland, and, through the mediation of Evandale and Claverhouse, his sentence was limited to exile. He rose rapidly in the service of the Prince of Orange, and attained to the rank of major-general, and, after the Revolution, returned to his native land under the name of Melville. He secretly learned that Edith, believing him no more, had engaged herself to Lord Evandale, although her affections were irretrievably settled on Morton. He generously resolved not to interfere with Evandale's happiness. Realizing that Evandale was in precarious danger, Morton hastened to his assistance, but arrived only in time to see him die, and he again saw Edith Bellenden. Unconscious . . . of the presence of Morton, she hung over the dying man; nor was she aware that fate, who was removing one faithful lover, had restored another, as if from the grave, until Lord Evandale, taking their hands in his, pressed them both affectionately, united them together, raised his face as if to pray for a blessing on them, and sank back and expired in the next moment. Ch. xliv. Ch. iii, iv, v, vi, viii, ix, x, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvii, xxi, xxii, xxiii, xxv, xxvi, xxvii, xxviii, xxix, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxiv, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxviii, xxxix, xl, xli, xiii, xliii, xliv, con. Morton, Ralph. See LAIRD OF MILNWOOD. Muckle wrath, Habukkuk. An insane and bloodthirsty Came- ronian minister, whose judgment had been overthrown by fanaticism and long captivity, but many of the insurgents regarded him as an inspired prophet. Instead of honorable warfare, he preached mer- OLD MORTALITY. 67 ciless massacre. Morton's efforts for peace were received by Muckle- wrath with malignant hatred, and he was foremost among those who determined upon Morton's death. The rags of a dress which had once been black, added to the tattered frag- ments of a shepherd's plaid, composed a covering scarce fit for the purposes of decency, much less for those of warmth or comfort. A long beard, as white as snow, hung down on his breast, and mingled with bushy, uncombed, grizzled hair, which hung in eld locks around his wild and staring visage. The features seemed to be extenuated by penury and famine, until they hardly retained the likeness of a human aspect. The eyes, gray, wild and wandering, evidently betokened a bewildered imagination. He held in his hand a rusty sword, clotted with blood, as were his long lean hands, which were garnished at the extremity with nails like eagles' claws. . . . Mucklewrath . . . cried in a voice that made the very beams of the roof quiver, " Slay, slay, . . . slay utterly, . . . old and young, the maiden, the child, and the woman whose head is grey." Oh. xxii. Morton was sentenced to be murdered when the twelfth hour should announce that the Sabbath was over. The fanatics feared that the enemy might overtake them before their vengeance could be accomplished: " I take up my song against him ! " exclaimed the maniac. "As the sun went back on the dial ten degrees for intimating the recovery of holy Hezekiah, so shall it now go forward, that the- wicked may be taken away from among the people and the Covenant established in its purity." Ch. xxxiii. The arrival of the Life Guards prevented the crime, and Muckle- wrath was mortally wounded in an affray that followed. He died foretelling Claverhouse's violent death and the downfall of the Stu- arts. His last words were a frantic appeal to the Lord to avenge the blood of his saints. Ch. xxii, xxxi, xxxiii, xxxiv. See HENRY MORTON. Mysie. Lady Bellenden's principal attendant. Ch. xi. Olifant, Basil. One of Edith Bellenden's suitors, and Lady Mar- garet's unscrupulous and usurping kinsman. He was killed while engaged in a plot of revenge and murder. Ch. xxxv, xxxviii, xlii, xliii, xliv. See BELLENDEN (EDITH and MARGARET). I*eggy. Bessie Maclure's servant; an innocent and fearless child. Ch. xli, xlii, xliii, con. See BESSIE MACLURE. Pike, Gideon. Major Bellenden's ancient valet. He had served in Montrose's campaigns. He assisted in defense of Tillietudlem, both as a soldier and surgeon. Ch. xi, xix, xxiv, xxv. See MILES BEL- LENDEN. Poundtext, Peter, Rev. An Indulged minister and a conservative member of the insurgents' council. One of those numerous clergymen who, complying with certain regulations, were licensed to preach. This indulgence, as it was called, made a great schism 68 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. among the Presbyterians, and those who accepted of it were severely censured by the more rigid sectaries who refused the proffered terms. Ch. v. Kettledrummle and Poundtext engaged in a bitter dogmatic dis- pute, and it was finally arranged that these zealots should preach at different times a day, and they were forbidden to distract and divide the camp with their controversies: But, although Kettledrummle and Poundtext were thus for a time silenced, they continued to eye each other like two dogs, who. having been separated by the authority of their masters while fighting, have retreated, each beneath the chair of his owner, still watching each other's motions, and indicating, by occa- sional growls, by erected bristles of the back and ears, and by the red glance of the eye, that their discord is unappeased, and that they only wait the first oppor- tunity afforded by any general movement or commotion in the company to fly once more at each other's throats. Ch. xxii. Poundtext fled from the anger of Burley, whose violent measures he opposed. Warfare had little charms for the aged pastor in com- parison with a theological treatise, a pipe and a jug of ale, " which he called his studies." Ch. xxii, xxiii, xxvi, xxvii, xxx, xxxi. See KETTLEDRUMMLE. Boss, Lord. A Royalist commander, associated with Claverhouse in the defense of Glasgow. Ch. xxvi. Stuart, Francis. See BOTHWELL. The Doomster. The public executioner. Ch. xxxvi. Wilson, Alison, Mrs. The housekeeper at Milnwood, to whom the old Laird left a life interest in the estate. She was versed in economical management, and "jealous of disrespect." She was ill- tempered and tyrannized over her old and young master, though she devotedly loved them both. Once a year, and not oftener, Mr. and Mrs. Melville Morton dined in the great wainscotted chamber in solemn state, the hangings being all displayed, the carpet laid down, and the huge brass candlesticks set on the table, stuck round with leaves of laurel. The preparing the room for this yearly festival employed her mind for six months before it came about, and putting matters to rights occupied old Alison the other six; so that a single day of rejoicing found her business for all the year round. Con. Ch. v, vi, viii, xxvii, xxxix, xl, con. See MILNWOOD; MORTON. Wittenbold, Captain. The Dutch commandant at Glasgow, who smoked continually. An old man with grey hair and short black moustaches speaks seldom. Ch. *li. Ch. xli, xliv. OLD MORTALITY. 69 SYNOPSIS. Introduction (1829). I. Preliminary Mr. Patticson and Old Mortality Reflec- tions. II. Historical period The Wappen-schaw Preparations at Tillietiullem Lady Margaret Bellenden and the royal favor. III. The competitors Henry Morton, captain of the Popinjay The blushing Edith Guse Gibbie. IV. Niel Blane's sage advice to his daughter Bothwell's rudeness to the stranger The toast Departure of Morton and the stranger The pursuit. V. Morton and the Covenanter journey together The warning Morton shelters Burley Henry Mor- ton and Mrs. Wilson. VI. The dragoons Conversation between Burley and Mor- tonHenry's miserly uncle. VII. The indignant Lady Margaret and Presbyterian Manse Cuddle and his mother. VIII. Cuddle enters into the service of the Laird of Milnwood Cuddle's appetite Bothwell and the Life Guards at Milnwood Henry's arrest for sheltering the Archbishop Sharp's murderer Old Manse's fa- naticism. IX. Bothwell's consideration of Henry Lady Margaret's interest In a descendant of the Scottish Stuarts A carousal. X. Edith Bellenden's distress upon learning that Henry Morton is a prisoner at Tillietudlem Jenny Dennison's coquetry enables Edith to have an interview with Morton Edith's letter to Major Bellenden. XI. The Major hastens to Tillietudlem Situation of the Tower Ar- rival of Claverhoiise. XII. Lady Margaret's breakfast - Grahame of Claverhouse Bothwell's haughtiness His sacred Majesty's dejettne Major Bellenden pleads in vain with Claverhouse for Morton Edith's request of the devoted Evandale and Morton's mistaken jealousy. XIII. Morton's defiant bearing The sentence Lady Margaret's supplication Morton's life granted at Evandale's request .De- parture of prisoner and soldiers from Tillietudlem. XIV. The prisoners Testi- mony of the zealous Kettledminmle and Mause Headrigg. XV. Extensive wastes The insurgents Claverhouse does not allow his private affections to interfere with his public duty. XVI. Cornet Richard Grahame goes to the Covenanters with a flag of truce His murder by Burley The battle Encounter between Bothwell and Burley The sergeant dies fearless Claverhouse's prowess, coolness and daring Flight of the Life Guards. XVII. The prisoners viewing the skirmish Morton saves Evandale's life The Covenanters' reception of the prisoners. XVIII. Condition of the insurgent army Sermons by Kettledrummle and Ephraim Mac- briar The Covenanters' courage and bigotry. XIX. Anxiety at Tillietudlem Lady Margaret and the Major decide to sustain a siege. XX. Claverhouse's return to Tillietudlem His fortitude Preparations for a defense. XXI. Morton nomi- nated a leader among the Covenanters Factions Differences between Morton and the wily Burley. XXII. Confusion and dissension Morton's horror at the blood-thirsty Habukkuk Mucklewrath. XXIII. Cuddle attaches himself to Morton Contents of Bothwell's pocket-book Morton's embarrassment at the Council's decision to storm Tillietudlem. XXIV. The wounded Evandale at Tillietudlem Effect of Morton's conduct upon the inmates. XXV. Ready for a siege Summons to surrender Cuddle Headrigg's adventure Major Bellenden's heavy heart. XXVI. Morton intercedes for his friends at Tillietudlem The fanatics distrust Morton Political situation The Duke of Monmouth appointed to the command of the army of Scotland. XXVII. A pause in military movements The change in Morton Morton's efforts to save Evandale from hanging The memorial Hopes for peace. XXVIII. Jenny Dennison in the camp of the insurgents Lord Evan- dale's release Evacuation and surrender of Tillietudlem. XXIX. Edith and Morton Evandale's friendship Morton's exertions for peace. XXX. Morton 70 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. before the Dnke of Monmouth Gen. Thomas Dalzell Claverhousc and Morton. XXXI. Morton denounced Commencement of the battle. XXXII. Defeat of the insurgents at Bothwell bridge Cnddie recommends flight. XXXIII. Morton con- demned to death by the fanatics Ctiddie brings Claverhouse to the rescue. XXXIV. Morton a prisoner to the friendly -disposed Claverhouse Summary exe- cution Claverhouse's views of death Mucklewrath's prophecy. XXXV. Con- versation between Morton and Claverhouse A dismal spectacle Untimely visit of Mause. XXXVI. The Privy Council of Scotland Cuddle's pardon Morton's exile Ephraim MacBriar's torture and sentence Burley's letter. XXXVII. Sev- eral years afterward. XXXVIII. Morton recognized by the troubled Jennie Cuddie's thralldom Evandale's reasons for urging Edith to an immediate mar- riage Effect of Morton's supposed apparition upon Edith Evandale's generosity. XXXIX. Morton's reflections Morton seeks Milnwood Elphin's sagacity and Mrs. Wilson's joy. XL. Explanations. XLI. Morton at Niel Blane's inn Bessie Maclure. XLI I. Bessie Maclure's story. XLIII. Peggy leads Morton to Burley A stormy interview Morton's solicitude at Evandale's danger. XLIV. Affairs at Cuddie's cottage Edith and Evandale -The attack Morton's arrival with the dragoons Fate of Inglis, Olifant and Burley The dying Evandale joins the hands of Edith and Morton Conclusion. THE HEAET OF MIDLOTHIAN.* A ROMANCE. ARGUMENT. rpHE breaking down of a coach brought as guests to Wallace Inn -L two young and gay Edinburgh lawyers, Halkit and Hardie, and Mr. Dunover, a blameless but unfortunate gentleman, who had suf- fered imprisonment for debt. Mr. Pattieson and the travelers con- versed about the traditions of the Edinburgh Tolbooth, which was called The Heart of Midlothian. After that evening's talk Mr. Pattieson wrote a romance entitled, "The Heart of Midlothian." The story is laid at the time of the Porteous Riot in Edinburgh, during George the Second's reign, and relates to the heroism of Jeanie Deans, who had a real prototype in the person of Helen Walker. This tale will not be told in vain, if it shall be found to illustrate the great truth that guilt, though it may attain temporal splendour, can never confer real happiness; that the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commis- sion, and. like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the male- factor; and that the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace. Ch. lii. Archibald, John. Argyle's groom and confidential agent. He was consequential, reserved and efficient. Ch. xxxv, xxxvi, xxxviii, xl, xli, xliv, xlv, xlvi. Argyle, Archibald, Duke of. Brother and successor to John Duke of Argyle and Greenwich. Ch. xlix, 1. Argyle, Duchess of. The kind and courteous wife of John Duke of Argyle. Ch. xl. xlv. See JOHN DUKE OP ARGYLE. Argyle, John, Duke of. A Scottish nobleman, and a friend to Jeanie Deans. He was alike free from the ordinary vices of statesmen, falsehood, namely, and dissimulation: and those of warriors, inordinate and violent thirst after self-aggrandizement. . . . Soaring above the petty distinction of faction, his voice was raised, whether in office or opposition, for those measures which were at once just and lenient. Ch. xxxv. * See foot-note on page 49. 71 72 THE WAYERLEY DICTIONARY. He was the champion of his country, and his powerful influence in Scotland was a subject of jealousy. So this honorable statesman and able general was never a favorite at court. Queen Caroline had taken care not to break entirely with the Duke of Argyle. His high birth, his great talent?, the estimation in which he was held in his own country, the great services which he had rendered the house of Brunswick in 1715, placed him high in that rank of persons who were not to be rashly neglected. Ch. xxxvii. Ch. vii, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix, xl, xlii, xlviii, xlix. See QUEEN CAROLINE; JEANIE DEANS. Bailzou, Annaple. The fortune-telling beggar who bought The Whistler, and afterward sold him to an outlaw. Ch. 1, li, lii. See THE WHISTLER. Balchristie, Janet. The Laird of Dumbiedike's housekeeper. The favourite sultana of the last Laird. ... A fat, red-faced old dame of seventy, or thereabouts, fond of her place, and jealous of her authority. Ch. xxvi. Ch. viii, xxvi, xliii. See DUMBIEDIKES, LAIRDS OF. Bickerton, Mrs. Lady of the ascendant of the Seven Stars in the Castlegate of York. A prejudiced Scotchwoman, afflicted with the gout, who befriended Jeanie Deans. Ch. xxviii, xlvii. See JEANIE DEANS. Broadfoot, Saunders. An honest clown, who dealt in buttermilk. Ch. xxvii. Butler, Benjamin. Son of Stephen and Judith Butler. A sober and grim man, who was oppressively taxed by Dumbiedikes. A man of few words and few ideas, but attached to Beersheba with a feeling like that which a vegetable entertains for the spot in which it chances to be planted, he neither remonstrated with the Laird, nor endeavoured to escape from him, but, toiling night and day to accomplish the terms of his taskmaster, fell into a burning fever and died. Ch. viii. Ch. viii. See OLD LAIRD OP DUMBIEDIKES. Butler, David. The eldest son of Rev. Reuben Butler and Jeanie Deans. Lady Staunton procured him a commission in the army, and he was rapidly promoted. Ch. xlvii, 1, li, lii. See. DEANS (EPFIE and JEANIE). Butler, Euphemia or Femie. The beautiful and only daughter of Rev. Reuben Butler and Jeanie Deans. She was the object of her aunt Lady Staunton's generous bounty, and married a Highland Laird. Ch. xlvii, 1, lii. See DEANS (EFFIE and JEANIE). Butler, Judith. Reuben Butler's grandmother. She faithfully and patiently struggled under the weight of age and poverty, that her beloved grandson might be educated for the ministry. Ch. viii, ix. See REV. REUBEN BUTLER. THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN. 73 Butler, Reuben. Younger son of Rev. Reuben Butler and his wife, Jeanie Deans. He successfully followed the law. Ch. xlvii, 1, li, Hi. Butler, Reuben, Rev. Benjamin Butler's son. He inherited poverty and a weak constitution, and was a little lame. He early became an orphan, and was reserved, sensitive and scholarly. He studied at the University of St. Andrews for the Presbyterian min- istry, and received his license after much labor and many priva- tions. As he had no preferment, he became an assistant teacher in a parochial school, and the engagement between Jeanie Deans and himself was indefinitely postponed for prudential reasons. Butler was forced, by the rioters, to officiate as a clergyman to the doomed Porteous, and he was accordingly compelled to suffer a brief but humiliating imprisonment. Argyle, considering himself under obli- gations to the Butler family, placed Reuben in the kirk of Knock- tarlitie, and Butler and Jeanie Deans were happily and prosperously married. He was somewhat pedantic and vain of his learning, and became prominent in the church. He was a plain character, in which worth and good sense and simplicity were the principal ingredients. Ch. xliii. Ch. iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xvi, xix, xxv, xxvii, xli, xlii, xliii, xliv, xlv, xlvi, xlvii, xlviii, xlix, li, lii. See BENJAMIN BUTLER; JEANIE DEANS; PORTEOUS. Butler, Stephen. Reuben Butler's grandfather. A fanatical Inde- pendent, and trooper in Monk's army. He was called, from his habit of expounding holy writ, Bible Butler and Scripture Stephen. He was alert on plunder, and after the Restoration bought the property which he named Beersheba. While a soldier he had saved the life of Argyle's grandfather, which circumstance afterward re- dounded to the advantage of his grandson, Rev. Reuben Butler. Ch. viii. See REV. REUBEN BUTLER. Campbell, Ladies Caroline and Mary. John Duke of Argyle's sprightly and kindly daughters. Ch. xl, xlv. Caroline, Queen. Consort of George IT, King of England. Since Margaret of Anjou, no queen-consort had exercised such weight in the political affairs of England. . . . Her husband, whose most shining quality was courage in the field of battle, and who endured the office of King of England, without ever being able to acquire English habits, or any familiarity with English dispositions, found the utmost assistance from the address of his partner, and while he jealously affected to do everything according to his own will and pleasure, was in secret prudent enough to take and follow the advice of his more adroit consort. . . . With all the winning address of an elegant, and. according to the times, an accomplished woman. Queen Caroline possessed the masculine soul of the other sex. She was proud by nature, and even policy could not always 4 74 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. temper her expressions of displeasure. . . . She loved the real possession of power rather than the show of it. ... The lady, who seemed the principal per- son, had remarkably good features, though somewhat injured by small-pox. . . . The lady's eyes were brilliant, her teeth good, and her countenance formed to express at will either majesty or courtesy. Her form, though rather embonjntint. was nevertheless graceful ; and the elasticity and firmness of her step gave no room to suspect, what was actually the case, that she suffered occasionally from a disorder the most unfavourable to pedestrian exercise. Her dress was rather rich than gay, and her manner commanding and noble. Ch. xxxvii. Ch. vii, xxxv, xxxvii. See JOHN DUKE OF AKGYLE; MRS. DABBY; LADY SUFFOLK. Dabby, Mrs. Wife of Deputy Dabby. Jeanie Deans thus drew a parallel between Mrs. Dabby and the Queen : " Mrs. Dabby was dressed twice as grand, and was twice as big. and spoke twice as loud, and twice as muckle as the Queen did. but she hadna the same goss-hawk glance that makes the skin creep, and the knee bend ; and though she had very kindly gifted her with a loaf of sugar and twa punds of tea, yet she hadna a 1 thegither the sweet look that the Queen had when she put the needle- book into her hand.'' Ch. xxxix. Ch. xxxix. See QUEEN CAROLINE; JEANIE DEANS. Dalton, Mrs. Rev. Staunton's housekeeper. Ch. xxxiv. Damaboy, Grizel. A prim, acid and ancient Edinburgh seam- stress. Ch. iv-xxiv. Deans, David. The Cameronian cow-feeder at St. Leonard's Crags. Notwithstanding oppression, Douce David Deans prospered in the world. He was shrewd in money matters, and had a deep religious fervor and rigid morality, together with the peculiarities, severities and prejudices of the Scotch Covenanters. Deans was unlettered, but intractable in religious disputes, and, delighting in expounding what he considered the truth, he was jealous of contradiction. Deans was an undemonstrative but fond husband and father. Upon his wife's death and his daughter's ruin, he displayed A remarkable struggle betwixt the force of natural affection and the religious stoicism which the sufferer thought it was incumbent upon him to maintain under each earthly dispensation, whether of weal or woe. Ch. ix. Ch. viii, ix, x, xii, xiv, xviii, xix, xxi, xxiii, xxiv, xxv, xxxix, xlii, xliii, xliv, xlv, xlvi, xlvii, xlix. See DEANS (EFFIE, JEANIE and REBECCA). Deans, Effie or Eupbemia. The Lily of St. Leonard's; daughter of David and Rebecca Deans, and half sister of Jeanie. Effie was early motherless, and became willful under the indulgence of father and sister. She was exquisitely beautiful, with her slender form, brown ringlets and Grecian-shaped head. Effie became a shop- woman in a store of a relative, and was seduced by Staunton, under THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN. 75 promise of marriage. When she recovered from her confinement, she found her child missing, and after vain inquiries, she returned to her father's house in an alarming condition of health, and the victim of despair. Effie was tried for child murder, and refused to name her lover or make any confession that would lead to the apprehension of Staunton, who was then hiding from the law. No clew to the child's whereabouts could be found, and Effie was found guilty, but recommended to the mercy of the crown. Before the day appointed for her execution, she was pardoned, through her sister's efforts, but banished from Scotland for fourteen years. Effie fled from her censorious father, and Staunton married her. He educated her abroad, and she went to court as Lady Staunton. She was flattered by the attention she received, and sustained her part with great self-possession, but she was haunted by the dread of dis- covery, the misery she had brought upon her father and sister, the uncertain fate of her offspring, and the memory of the death she had so narrowly escaped. The Duke of Argyle said of her: " She has been the ruling belle, the blazing star, the universal toast of the winter, . . . and is really the most beautiful creature that was seen at court upon the birthday. . . . Amidst her noble and elegant manners, there is now and then a little touch of bashfulness and conventual rusticity, if I may call it so, that makes her quite enchanting." Ch. xlviii. She was generous to her sister's family, and after a long separa- tion, visited her as Lady Staunton. The lady was rather above the middle size, beautifully made, though some- thing embonpoint, with a hand and arm exquisitely formed. Her manner was easy, dignified and commanding, and seemed to evince high birth and the habits of elevated society. . . . Jeanie . . . was lost in amazement at the wonderful difference betwixt the helpless and despairing girl, whom she had seen stretched on a flock-bed in a dungeon, expecting a violent and disgraceful death, and last as a forlorn exile upon the midnight beach, with the elegant, well-bred, beautiful woman before her. The features . . . did not appear so extremely different as the whole manner, expression, look and bearing. In outside show. Lady Staun- ton seemed completely a creature too soft and fair for sorrow to have touched ; and so much accustomed to have all her whims complied with by those around her, that she seemed to expect she should even be saved the trouble of forming them ; and so totally unacquainted with contradiction, that she did not even use the tone of self-will, since to breathe a wish was to have it fulfilled. Ch. 1. Effie remained with her sister during a period of excessive grief for her husband, who was killed by their illegitimate child. Effie . . . was never formed for a quiet, low content: . . . she required the dissipation of society to divert her sorrow. . . . After blaxing nearly ten years in the fashionable world, and hiding, like many of her compeers, an aching heart with a gay demeanour, after declining repeated offers of a most respectable kind for a second matrimonial engagement, Lady Stauntou betrayed the inward 76 THE WAVERLEY DICTIOXABY. wound, by retiring to the Continent and taking np her abode in the convent where she had received her education. She never took the veil, but lived and died in severe seclusion, and in the practice of the Roman Catholic religion, in all its formal observances, vigils and austerities. Ch. lii. Ch. ix, x, xvii, xviii, xix, xx, xxi, xxii, xxiii, xxiv. xxv, xliv, xlvi, xlviii, xlix, 1, li, lii. See DEANS (DAVID and JEAME); Sm GEOKGE STAUNTON; THE WHISTLER. Deans, Jeanie. David Deans' daughter. She is a perfect model of sober heroism ; of the union of good sense with strong affections, firm principles, and perfect disinterestedness ; and of calm supe- riority to misfortune, danger and difficulty, which such a union must create. Senior. Deans was a cow-feeder, and Jeanie was his thrifty assistant, and delighted in the superintendence of the dairy. Jeanie was a con- sistent, but not fanatical, Presbyterian, and was fervidly devotional and searchingly conscientious. Douce Davie Deans ... so schooled and trained . . . her, that from the time she could walk, upwards, she was daily employed in some task or other suitable to her age and capacity; a circumstance which, added to her father's daily in- structions and lectures, tended to give her mind, even when a child, a grave, serious, firm and reflecting cast. An uncommonly strong and health}' tempera- ment, free from all nervous affection and every other irregularity which, attack- ing the body in its more noble functions, so often influences the mind, tended greatly to establish this fortitude, simplicity and decision of character. . . . She was short, and rather too stoutly made for her size, had grey eyes, light-coloured hair, a round, good-humoured face, much tanned with the sun, and her only pe- culiar charm was an air of inexpressible serenity, which a good conscience, kind feelings, contented temper, and the regular discharge of all her duties, spread over her features. Ch. ix. The interest of the story is concentrated upon The affectionate exertions which Jeanie had made in behalf of a sister, for whose sake she was willing to sacrifice all but truth and conscience. Ch. xxxvii. Her young sister, Effie Deans, was under arrest for child-murder, and Jeanie knew that she could save her life by testifying that Effie had made her the confidant of her pregnancy. She would not per- jure herself, so Effie was sentenced to be hanged, but recommended to royal clemency. Ignorant of the difficulties before her, Jeanie started for London to beg her sister's pardon of the King and Queen. She made most of her pilgrimage afoot, and after a perilous and anxious journey reached London. She interested John Duke of Argyle in her petition, and he procured her an audience with Queen Caroline. The Queen was moved by her sisterly love and uncon- scious eloquence, and pardoned Effie. Argyle sent her safely home, and was henceforth her protecting friend. Between Jeanie Deans and Rev. Reuben Butler there had existed a long, calm and devoted THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN. 77 love, and after Butler received his tardy preferment they were mar- ried. Happy in each other, in the prosperity of their family, and the love and honour of all who knew them, this simple pair lived beloved and died lamented. Ch. lii. Jennie Deans is Interesting by mere dignity of mind and rectitude, assisted by unpretending good sense and temper, without any of the beauty, grace, talent, accomplish- ment and wit to which a heroine of romance is supposed to have a prescriptive right. Int. (1827) to "Chronicles of the Canongate." Ch. viii, ix, x, xii, xiv, xv, xvii, xviii, xix, xx, xxi, xxii, xxiii, xxiv, xxv, xxvi, xxvii, xxviii, xxix, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxiv, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix, xl, xli, xlii, xliii, xliv, xlv, xlvi, xlvii, xlviii, xlix, 1, li, lii. See ARGYLE; DEANS (DAVID and EFFIE); REV. REUBEN BUTLEU. Deans, Rebecca. David Deans' beloved second wife, and Effie's match-making mother. Ch. ix. See DEANS (DAVID and EFFIE). Dick. An ostler and ex-highwayman. A queer, knowing, shambling animal, with a hatchet-face, a squint, a game- arm and a limp. Ch. xxviii. Ch. xxxviii, xxxix. Ditton, Thomas. Rev. Staunton's forward footman. Ch. xxxii, xxxiii. Donacha dhu na Dunaigh. Black Duncan the Mischievous. A Highland robber and kidnapper for the slave trade. He was killed while engaged in a murderous assault. Ch. xlv, xlix, 1, li, lii. Donald. Argyle's gamekeeper at Roseneath. Ch. 1. Dumbiedikes, Old Laird of. A profligate and extortionate propri- etor. His death- bed was a struggle between avarice and remorse. He acquired the name of Damn-me-dikes. Ch. viii. Dumbiedikes, Young Laird of. Son of the Old Laird of Dum- biedikes. He was taciturn, tall and awkward. He was free from his father's dissipation, and although selfish and penurious he lacked his parent's grasping activity. He was slow of speech and heavy in intellect, and daily frequented David Deans' cottage, and while listening to his conversation on agricultural and other sub- jects, stared constantly at Jeanie Deans. In his frequent struggles between inherited avarice and his kindlier impulses, his better na- ture generally triumphed. The bashful Dumbiedikes at length proposed to Jeanie, and enumerated to her all his worldly effects. Notwithstanding his long courtship and the surprise to his apathetic nature of Jeanie Deans' rejection, he consoled himself with a speedy marriage. Ch. viii, ix, x, xii, xiii, xxi, xxiii, xxvi, xliii. See JEANIE DEANS; .OLD LAIKD OF DUMBIEDIKES. 78 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. Duncan of Knockdunder. Argyle's rigorous, high-tempered and usquebaugh-loving lieutenant at Knocktarlitie. He resided in a family tower, which he asserted had been a royal castle. He was bluff and consequential, and offended David Deans by smoking at kirk. He oddly combined the Lowland and Highland costume in his dress. He wore a black wig and cocked hat, and the rest of his attire was that of a Highlander. He was familiarly called Duncan Knock. Ch. xliv, xlv, xlvi, xlvii, xlviii, xlix, 1, li, lii. See DAVID DEANS. Dustiefoot. Jeanie Deans' little dog. Ch. ix. Button, Dolly. An envious and self-willed dairy-maid at Inve- rara. Although she was much shocked at the Highland costume, she afterward became Mrs. MacCorkindale. Ch. xl, xli, xlv, xlvi, 1. Ellis. Lady Staunton's maid. Ch. 1. See LADY STAUNTON. Fairbrother, Mr. Counsel for the prisoner in Effie Deans' trial. Ch. xxii, xxiii, xxiv. See EFFIE DEANS. Fairscrieve, Mr. The shrewd Edinburgh town-clerk. Ch. xiii, xvi, xviii. Fleming, Archdeacon. The gentleman to whom Meg Murdock- son made her dying confession. Ch. 1, li. See MEG MURDOCKSON. Glass, Mrs. A gossipy London dealer in tobacco and snuff. Jeame Deans' kinswoman and kind hostess. Ch. xxxiv, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxviii, xxxix, xl, xlvii. Grizzie. Mrs. Saddletree's servant. Ch. xxv. Hettly, May. A faithful old servant to the Deans family. Ch. xxv, xlv, xlix, 1. Hinchop, Dame. A sensible Cumbrian peasant, who was thought to be a witch. Ch. xl. Howden, Mrs. A gossipy Edinburgh saleswoman. Ch. iv, xxiv. Janet Balchristie's Niece. A slovenly black-eyed girl, who as- pired to be the Young Laird of Dumbiedikes' mistress. Ch. xxvi, xliii. See JANET BALCIIRISTIE; YOUNG LAIRD OF DUMBIEDIKES. Kirk, Esq., John. Foreman of the jury in Effie Deans' trial. Ch. xxiv Laurence, Tom. A short, stout highwayman, called " Tom Tuck " and "Tyburn Tom." He was brutal and sulky, and turned state's evidence against his associates. Ch. xxix, 1. Levitt, Frank. A tall, thin and dissolute outlaw, who exerted a restraining influence over his companions, Tom Laurence and Meg Murdockson. Ch. xxix, xxx, 1. THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN". 79 Lindsay, Mr. A member of parliament, who evinced prompt cour- age in the Porteous riot. " Ch. vi. Meiklehose, Isaac. A shrewd and reverential elder of the kirk of Knocktarlitie. Ch. xlv, xlvi. Middleburgh, James. An Edinburgh magistrate. Something he was of a humourist, and rather deficient in general education; but acute, patient and upright, possessed of a fortune acquired by honest indus- try, which made him perfectly independent; and, in short, very happily quali- fied to support the respectability of the office which he held. Ch. xviii. Ch. xiii, xvi, xviii, xix. Moore, Thomas. Clerk of the jury in Effie Deans' trial. Ch. xxiv. See EFFIK DEANS. Moyle, Colonel. An officer who would not risk interfering with the Porteous riot. Ch. vi. See POKTEOUS. Murdockson, Meg 1 . Madge Wildfire's mother; an old hag, who led a wandering life in company with outlaws, by whom she was called " Mother Blood " and " Mother Damnable." She had been Staunton's nurse, and assisted him in his desperate life. She was still fond of him, although his seduction of her daughter had brought misfortune upon them. She was cruel to Effie Deans, who was con- fined at her hut, and gave her to understand that her infant was dead. She feared Staunton would marry Effie instead of her daugh- ter, who had suffered the same wrong, so she waylaid and detained Jeanie Deans, who was journeying to London to obtain Effie's par- don for alleged child-murder. The features of the old woman had a hideous cast of hardened and inveterate malice and ill-humour. Ch. xxx. She was executed for murder and robbery, and made a dying con- fession of her crimes. She Died game, . . . that is, sullen, reckless and impenitent, neither fearing God nor regarding man. Ch. xl. Ch. xviii, xx, xxix, xxx, xl, 1, li. See DEANS (EFFIE and JEANIE); GEORGE STAUNTON; MADGE WILDFIRE. Novit, Nich.il. Lawyer to the Old Laird of Dumbiedikes. Ch. viii. Novit, Jr., Nichil. The Young Laird of Dumbiedikes' shrewd business manager. He was bustlingly important in Effie Deans' trial. Ch. xiii, xx, xxi. See EFFIE DEANS. Plumdamas, Peter. A neighborly and gossipy Edinburgh grocer. Ch. iv, xxiv, li. Poinder, Georg'e. An Edinburgh police officer. Ch. xvi, xvii, xviii. Porteous, John. The alert, efficient, but brutal, Captain of the Ed- inburgh City Guard, and the victim of the Portions Riot. The mob 80 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. were turbulent at the execution of the smuggler, Wilson, and cut the body down. Porteous, in rage, fired upon the people, and was tried and sentenced to be hanged. The Queen respited him for six weeks, and it was generally believed he would be finally pardoned. The angry mob took Porteous from prison (where he had been re- joicing with his friends in expectation of a speedy reprieve) and hung him. He stubbornly endured their violence, and this auda- cious riot made the Queen and the Council of Regency very indig- nant. Ch. ii, iii, iv, vii. See GEORGE STAUNTON; ANDREW WILSON. Porteous, Mrs. Captain Porteous 1 elderly, impoverished and sor- rowing widow. Ch. li. See JOHN PORTEOUS. Rasper, James. Mrs. Glass' shopboy. Ch. xxxvi. See MRS. GLASS. Ratcliffe, James. A condemned freebooter. He was sly, cun- ning and knowing -looking. He remained in prison, when he might have escaped, on the night of the Porteous riot. He expressed a desire to reform, and asked for a place in the prison service. He was pardoned and appointed turnkey, and performed his duties so satisfactorily that he became the captain of the Tol booth. He was naturally kind-hearted in the exercise of his office, and gave Jeanie Deans a pass which was of service to her when she fell among thieves. Ch. vii, xiii, xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, xx, xxv, xxix, li, Hi. See JEANIE DEANS. Robertson, George or Geordie. See GEORGE STAUNTON. Rory Bean. The young Laird of Dumbiedikes' willful Highland pony. Ch. ix, xiii, xxvi. Saddletree, Bartoline. An Edinburgh saddler and would-be law- yer. He left his business to his wife's management while he fre- quented the courts of law. He imposed upon his associates what he considered eloquent legal disquisitions. He was too obtuse to per- ceive that he was often avoided as a conceited and pedantic bore. Ch. iv, v, x, xii, xix, xxi, xxii, xxiii, xxiv, xxvii, xxxv, li. See MRS. SADDLETREE. Saddletree, Mrs. Bartoline Saddletree's wife. This good lady was in the habit of letting her husband take his way. and go on improving his stock of legal knowledge without interruption ; but. as if in requital, she insisted upon having her own will in domestic and commercial de- partments. Ch. iv. She was much interested in the fate of her kinswoman and former shop-girl, Effie Deans. Mrs. Saddletree was a woman of kindness nay, of feeling but not of deli- cacy. Ch. xxv. Ch. iv, v, x, xix, xxiii, xxiv, xxv, li. See EFFIE DEANS; B. SADDLE- TREE. THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN. 81 Sharpitlaw, Gideon. The Edinburgh procurator-fiscal. A saga- cious and acute police officer. Ch. xvi, xvii, xviii, xix. Staunton, George. The heir of Willingham. He was dissolute and loved adventure, and led the life of a gay and bold desperado under the name of Robertson. When disowned by his family he became desperate, and was soon sentenced to death for smuggling. His imprisonment prevented his marrying Effie Deans, whom he had seduced. His companion, Wilson, assisted his escape. Staunton cut Wilson's body down from the scaffold, and was a leader of the Porteous riot to avenge that officer's treatment of Wilson, and especially to liberate Effie from the Tol booth, where she was con- fined for child-murder. He gave Jeanie Deans permission to inform against him, if by so doing Effie could be saved. He after- ward married her and succeeded to the family estates as Sir George Staunton. After a long residence abroad he returned with his wife to England. He was haughty, reserved and remorseful, and secretly practiced the austerities of the Catholic religion. He was now as jealous of his family honor as he had been once indifferent of it, and lived in dread of being recognixed as the outlaw, " Robertson." His appearance when an outlaw is thus described: The fiery eye, the abrupt demeanour, the occasionally harsh yet studiously subdued tone of voice, the features handsome, but now clouded with pride, now disturbed by suspicion, now intlamed with passion those dark hazel eyes, which he sometimes shaded with his cap, as if he were averse to having them seen while they were occupied with keenly observing the motions and bearing of others tho.-e eyes that were now turbid with melancholy, now gleaming with scorn, and now sparkling with fury, . . . the whole partook of the mien, language and port of the ruined archangel. Ch. xi. He was attacked by banditti and killed by the son he had long sought. Ch. ii, vi, vii, xi, xvii, xx, xxiii, xxxiii, xxxiv, xlvi, xlviii, xlix, li, Hi. >'<( EKKIE DEANS; THE WIIISTLEH; MADGE WILUFIKE; WILSON. Staunton, Lady. Sec EFFIE DEANS. Staunton, Rev. George Staunton's father; the frank and kindly rector of Willingham. He had become melancholy under the double blow of his wife's death and his son's dissipation. He assisted Jeanie Deans' journey to London. Ch. xxxi, xxxii, xxxiv. See JEANIE DEANS; GEORGE STAUNTON. Stubbs. The beadle at Willingham. Ch. xxxii. Suffolk, Lady. George the Second's mistress. It was not the least instance of the Queen's address that she had contrived that one of her principal attendants. Lady Suffolk, should unite in her own per- son the two apparently inconsistent characters of her husband's mistress and 82 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. her own obsequious and complaisant confidant. By this dexterous manage- ment the Queen secured her jxnver against the danger which might most have threatened it the thwarting influence of an ambitious rival, . . . and was. lie- sides, at liberty, now and then, to bestow a few civil insults upon " her good Howard," whom, however, in general, she treated with great decorum. Lady Suffolk lay under strong obligations to the Duke of Argyle, . . . and through her means the Duke had some occasional correspondence with Queen Caroline. Ch. xxxvii. She was of small stature : With light brown hair and expressive blue eyes. Her features, without bcinir absolutely regular, were, perhaps, more pleasing than if they had been critically handsome. A melancholy, or at least a pensive expression, for which her lot gave too much cause, predominated when she was silent, but gave way to a pleasing and good-humoured smile when she spoke to any one. Ch. xxxvii. Ch. xxxvii. See ARGYLE; QUEEN CAROLINE. The Doomster. A detested and haggard official. Ch. xxiv. The Judge. A kind and dignified man. Ch. xxi, xxii, xxiii, xxiv. See EFFIE DEANS. The Whistler. The illegitimate son of George Staunton and Effie Deans. Madge Wildfire sold him, when an infant, to a Highland robber. His savage and lawless nature soon developed, and he be- came a daring and malicious robber. In one of his raids he killed his unknown father, and was captured. Amid features sunburnt, tawny, grimed with dirt and obscured by his shaggy hair, of rusted black colour, Jeanie tried in vain to trace the likeness of either of his very handsome parents. Ch. Hi. The youth was found to be irreclaimable, and afterward joined a tribe of American Indians. Ch. 1, li, Hi. See EFFIE DEANS; GEORGE STAUNTON; MADGE WILDFIRE. Tramp, Gaffer. A witch-hating Cumbrian peasant. Ch. xl. Whackbairn. An ancient pedagogue in a parochial school near Edinburgh. Ch. xxvii. Wildfire, Madge. Meg Murdockson's insane daughter. She had been seduced by George Staunton. Her mother destroyed their child in order to hide Madge's shame and to promote her marriage with a wealthy but repugnant old man. That the consequence should be the total derangement of a mind which was constitutionally unsettled by giddiness and vanity was extremely natural ; and such was, in fact, the history of Madge Wildfire's insanity. Ch. xxx. She was very loquacious, and her talk was lively, but disjointed. " Pilgrim's Progress " was the favorite subject of her conversation. She shrewdly guarded whatever she wished to keep secret especially her disposition of Effie Deans' child, her own private history and George Stauuton's affairs. The potency of her sup- THE HEAKT OF MIDLOTHIAN. 83 posed charms was one of her idiosyncrasies. Jeanie Deans was intrusted to Madge's custody, and found it impossible to escape her vigilance. Although she knew that her baby was dead, she believed that at times she held it in her arms, and was unusually crazed and melancholy when she spoke of her " bairn." She was danger- ous if cross-examined too closely. She generally entered a room with a hop, skip and jump, and her appearance is thus described : A tall, strapping wench of eighteen or twenty, dressed fantastically in a sort of blue riding jacket, with tarnished lace, her hair clubbed, like that of a man, a Highland bonnet and a bunch of broken feathers, a riding skirt (or petticoat) of scarlet camlet, embroidered with tarnished flowers. Her features were coarse and masculine, yet at a little distance, by dint of very bright, wild-looking black eyes, an aquiline nose and a commanding profile, appeared rather handsome. She nourished the switch she held in her hand, dropped a curtsey as low as a lady at a birthnight introduction, recovered herself seemingly according to Touchstone's directions to Audrey. Ch. xvi. She sang a number of weird ballads, such as: ' In the bonny cells of Bedlam Ere I was ane and twenty, I had hempen bracelets strong And merry whips, ding-dong. And prayer and fasting plenty." Ch. xxix. My banes are buried in yon kirkyard Sac far ayont the sea, And it is but my blithesome ghaist That's speaking now to thee." Ch. xxix. She received her name of Madge Wildfire from the frequency of her singing the following song, which was composed for her by Staunton : " I glance like the wildfire through country and town, I am seen on the causeway I'm seen on the down; The lightning that Hashes so bright and so free. Is scarcely so blithe or so bonny as me." Ch. xvi. Madge was much distressed at her mother's execution, and the Cumbrian peasants, believing her to be a witch, gave her so severe a ducking that she died from its effects. Ch. xvi, xvii, xviii, xxix, xxx, xxxi. xxxii, xl, 1. See JEANIE DEANS; MEG MUKDOCKSON; GEORGE STAUNTON; THE WHISTLER. Willie. An orphan apprentice, kindly treated by Mrs. Saddletree. Ch. v. Willie. A prisoner who escaped on the night of the Portcous riot. Ch. vii. Wilson, Andrew. A smuggler. A remarkable man in his station of life; quiet, composed and resolute, firm in mind and uncommonly strong in person, gifted with a sort of rough eloquence which raised him above his companions. Ch. xxxiii. 84 THE WAVEKLEY DICTIONARY. George Staunton and himself were sentenced to death for a daring robbery. Wilson knew that he had had a baneful fascina- tion over his young accomplice, and he resolved to save him. When returning from church on the Sunday previous to the ap- pointed clay for their execution, Wilson overpowered the guard and enabled Staunton to escape. The populace were wild with admira- tion for Wilson. Porteous compelled him to wear cruelly small handcuffs, and such rigid measures were taken at his execution to prevent his rescue that the Porteous riot resulted. Ch. ii, iii, xxxiii. See POKTEOUS; GEOKGE STAUNTON. SYNOPSIS. Introduction (1829). Postscript Jedediah Clclsbotham's Preface. I. Intro- ductory. II. The Edinburgh grass-market, or place of public execution The condemned smugglers Wilson effects Robertson's escape. III. The obnoxious Capt. John Porteous and his City Guard Porteous 1 cruelty to Wilson Upon the attempt to cut down Wilson's body Porteous fires upon the citizens Trial and sentence of Porteous. IV. The ominous mutterings at Porteous' reprieve Butler corrects the Latin of the would-be lawyer Saddletree. V. Saddletree's wife reprovingly reports the progress of trade during his absence Conversation about Eftie Deans. VI. Butler, in vain, seeks admission to the imprisoned Eflie Butler is forced along with the rioters The prison door yields to fire. VII. Porteous seized by the rioters " Flee, Eflie, flee!" Butler is commanded to prepare Porteous for death Dispersion of the rioters after the execution Queen Caro- line's threat and the Duke of Argyle's reply. VIII. The morning after Porteous' murder History and intimacy of the families of Deans and Butler. IX. Early friendship and subsequent engagement between Rev. Uetibcn Butler and Jennie Deans The young Laird of Dumbiedikes' silent and staring admiration of Jennie. X. Eflie Deans, the Lily of St. Leonard's Eflie as Mrs. Saddletree's shopwoman Eftie's return to St. Leonard's, and her refusal to name her seducer Eftie's arrest for child-murder. XI. A desperate young man intrusts Butler with a message for Jcanie Deans. XII. Butler at the cottage of the afflicted family Conversation respecting an attorney for Eflie Jeanie's tearful eyes. XIII. Evidences of the recent riot Butler under arrest The magistrates and the cunning Hatclille Butler's examination. XIV. The letter David Deans' stoicism Jeanie pro- ceeds to the appointed tryst. XV. Jeanio's interview with her sister's seducer. XVI. Rate! iff c entraps Madge Wildfire into revealing that Robertson was disguised in her clothes the night of the riot. XVII. Sharpitlaw, in vain, questions Ertie Ratcliffe contrives that Madge Wildfire shall give Robertson timely warning. XVIII. Jeanie's escape from Ratcliffe Robertson's letter to Bailie Middleburgh Meg Mnrdockson obtains the liberty of her crazed daughter, Madge Wildfire Middleburgh visits Deans in the interests of Eflie. XIX. "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor " Ratcliffe's reward. XX. Interview between Jeanie and her sister. Eflie. XXI. Jeanie and her father go to the court-room Jeanie a cited witness Entrance of the prisoner, Eflie Deans. XXII. The trial commenced ' Not guilty of my poor bairn's death " Mr. Fairbrothcr's defense. XXIII. Effle's declaration Jeanie's agony in being truthfully compelled to state THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN. 85 that Effic never confessed her situation to her Deans' swoon Address of the King's counsel The judge's charge to the jury. XXIV. Eftie sentenced to be hung, but recommended to the mercy of the crown Gossip after the trial. XXV. Deans and liis daughter seek refuge at Mrs. Saddletree's house Jeanie promises EfHc to obtain her pardon Ratcliffe's pass. XXVI. Jeanie at Dunibiedikes' She obtains money from the avaricious Laird for her journey, but refuses his offer of marriage. XXVII. Jennie's visit to the agitated Butler Butler acquaints David Deans with his daughter's journey southward. XXVIII. Jeanie on her pil- grimage Her letters to Butler and her father -She finds a friend and country- woman in Mrs. Bickerton. XXIX. Jeanie stopped by outlaws Meg Murdockson intrusts Jennie to the vigilant Madge. XXX. A dreadful moment The loquacious Madge takes Jeanie out for a walk "Pilgrim's Progress" History of Madge's insanity. XXXI. Madge's toilet for church The monument Madge and Jeanie at church. XXXII. Madge leaves Jeanie upon learning that her mother is in the stocks Jeanie at the rectory of Willingham. XXXIII. Jeanie's conversation with her sister's seducer, George Stannton, heir of Willingham. XXXIV. Rev. Staunton assists Jeanie's journey to London George's letter The Willingham family Jeanie is hospitably received in London by Mrs. Glass. XXXV. John Duke of Argyle and Greenwich Jeanie implores the Duke's influence in Eftie's behalf, and shows him his grandfather's injunction to assist the Butler family. XXXVI. Mrs. Glass' curiosity Jeanie and the Duke ride to Richmond Park. XXXVII. Queen Caroline Conversation between Argyle and the Queen Jean- ie's unintentional home-thrusts Jeanie's eloquent and effective appeal to the Queen. XXXVIII. The Queen's gift A friendly and agricultural conversation. XXXIX. Jeanie writes several letters Argyle informs Mrs. Glass that Eftie's pardon has been dispatched to Edinburgh, on condition of fourteen years' banish- ment from Scotland Jeanie's happy visions. XL. Jeanie at Argyle House Jeanie starts homeward, under the charge of Argyle's servant, Archibald The hanging of Meg Murdockson Madge's ducking and death. XLI. The fatigued Jeanie proceeds to Roseneath The timid dairymaid. XLII. Jeanie in her father's arms David Deans as the superintendent of Argyle's store-farm at Roseneath. XLIII. Argyle provides for Reuben Butler in the kirk of Knocktarlitie Deans liquidates Jeanie's debt to Dumbiedikes, and finds him preparing for his wedding Deans consents to the union of Jeanie and Butler. XLIV. Meeting of Jeanie and Butler Eftie's flight and letter Duncan of Knockdunder Butler's blessing. XLV. Jeanie's remembrances from Argyle and his family Butler's ordination The irreverent Duncan Knock. XLVI. The banquet Jeanie's meeting with Eftie and her husband, George Staunton. XLVII. Happy marriage of Butler and Jeanie. XLVIII. Eftie's letter Argyle notices a resemblance between Mrs. Butler and Lady Staunton. the ruling beauty and court belle. XLIX. Correspondence between the sisters The troublesome outlaw David Deans' death Eftie's generosity to her sister. L. Jeanie sends Eftie Meg Murdockson's dying confession Lady Stauntoii as Mrs. Butler's guest A perilous adventure. LI. Sir George goes to Kdinburgh to pursue investigations concerning his child The brothers-ill -law travel together Captain Duncan informs the waiting sisters of his intention to arrest the outlaw. LII. The affray Sir George is slain by The Whistler Lady Staunton's grief The irreclaimable desperado proven to be the illegitimate son of Sir George and Lady Staunton After career of The Whistler Eftie's life at court, and kindness to Jeanie's family Eflie's retirement to a convent Domestic happiness of the Butlers Concluding remarks L'Envoy by Jedediah Cleis- botham. THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR. A ROMANCE. "When the last Laird of Raveiiawood to Ravenewood shall ride. And woo a dead maiden to he his hride. He shall stable his steed in the Kelpie's flow. And his name shall be lost forevenuoe." ARGUMENT. T^vICK TINTO, an unfortunate, but light-hearted, itinerant artist *- ' made a sketch of a scene in the Bride of Lanniiermoor's life, and relates her story to Peter Pattieson. This tragedy is laid in Scotland during William and Mary's reign. Scott, in his Introduction (1829), gives the sources from which he ob- tained the incidents, and publishes also an explanatory letter from a relative of the original, of " The Bride of La miner moor." A , Marquis of. A member of the Scottish Privy Council. A wily and successful statesman, and a kinsman to Edgar Ravens- wood, in whose behalf he greatly interested himself. A tall, well-made man, with a thoughtful and intelligent countenance, and an eye in which the fire of ambition had for some years replaced the vivacity of youth; a bold, proud expression of countenance, yet chastened by habitual cau- tion, and the desire which, as the head of a party, he necessarily entertained of acquiring popularity. Oh. xxii. Ch. v, xv, xxii, xxiii, xxiv, xxv, xxvi, xxvii, xxx, xxxv. See ASHTON (LADY, LUCY ami SIR WILLIAM). Ashton, Henry. Youngest child of Sir William and Lady Ashton; a lad of fifteen, who afterward succeeded to his father's estates, and was the last of the Ashtons. Ch. xviii, xix, xx, xxix, xxxiv, xxxv. Ashton, Lady. Margaret Douglas; wife of Sir William Ashton, and mother of the Bride of Lammermoor. She had been beautiful, and was stately and majestic in her appearance. En- dowed by nature with strong powers and violent passions, experience had taught * See foot-note on p. 49. 86 THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR. 87 her to employ the one, and to conceal, if not to moderate, the other. She was a severe and strict observer of the external forms, at least, of devotion ; her hospi- tality was splendid even to ostentation, her address and manners . . . were grave, dignified and severely regulated by the rules of etiquette. Her character had always been beyond the breath of slander. And yet. with all these qualities to excite respect, Lady Ashton was seldom mentioned in terms of love or affec- tion. Interest, the interest of her family, if not her own, seemed too ob- viously the motive of her actions, . . . and hence something of doubt and sus- picion qualified the feeling with which her equals received her attentions. With her inferiors these feelings were mingled with fear; an impression useful to her purpose, so far as it enforced ready compliance with her requests and implicit obedience to her commands. . . . Even her husband, it is said, upon whose for- tunes her talents and address had produced such emphatic influence, regarded her with respectful awe rather than confiding attachment; and report said there were times when he considered his grandeur as dearly purchased at the expense of domestic thraldom. Of this, however, much might be suspected, but little could be accurately known. . . . It seemed evident that, in the haughtiness of a firmer character, higher birth and more decided views of aggrandizement, the lady looked with some contempt on the husband, and that he regarded her with jealous fear rather than with love or admiration. Still, however, the leading and favourite interests of Sir William and his lady were the same, and they failed not to work in concert, although without cordiality, and to testify in all external cir- cumstances that respect for each other which they were aware was necessary to secure that of the public. Ch. ii. Lady Ashton was a wily politician, and a favorite of the Duchess of Marlborough. While absent at court, intriguing against Ravens- wood's kinsman, the Marquis of A , her daughter Lucy had given her heart to Ravenswood, whose fortunes Lady Ashton had been interested in ruining, and against whom she was prejudiced. Lady Ashton insultingly dismissed Ravenswood, and mercilessly de- voted herself to accomplishing Lucy's marriage with Bucklaw, in- spired by both hatred and interest. In retaliation, the Marquis of A openly declared his enmity against the Ashtons, which re- sulted in Sir William's downfall. Lady Ashton . . . bent the whole efforts of her powerful mind to break her daughter's contract with Ravenswood, and to place a perpetual bar between the lovers by effecting Lucy's union with Bucklaw. . . . She was aware that in this way she might strike a blow of deep and decisive vengeance upon one whom she esteemed as her mortal enemy; nor did she hesitate, . . . although she knew that the wound must be deatt through the bosom of her daughter. . . . Lucy's . . . health . . . began to be shaken, and her hectic cheek and wandering eye gave symptoms of ... a fever upon the spirits. . . . Lady Ashton, compact and firm of purpose, saw these waverings of health and intellect with no greater sympathy than that with which the hostile engineer regards the towers of a be- leaguered city as they reel under the discharge of his artillery. Ch. xxx. Lady Ashton's machinations against her daughter's happiness terminated in Lucy's insanity and tragic death. Lady Ashton lived to the verge of extreme old age, the only survivor of the 88 TFIK \VAVKRLi:V I >H'TIOX ARY. group of unhappy persons whose misfortunes were owing to her implacability. Tliat she might internally fuel compunction, . . . we will not. and dure not, deny, but to those around her she did not evince the slightest symptoms either of repentance or remorse. In all external appearance, she lx>re the same bold, haughty, unbending character which she had displayed before these unhappy events. A splendid marble monument records her name, titles and virtues, while her victims remain undistinguished by tomb or epitaph. Ch. xxxv. Ch. ii, iii, xxi, xxii, xxvii, xxix, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxiv, xxxv. See ASHTON (Lucy, SIIOLTO and SIR WILMAM); EDGAR RAVENS- WOOD. Ashton, Lucy. The Bride, of Lannncnnoor. Daughter of Sir William and Luly Ashton. Lucy Ashton's exquisitely beautiful, yet somewhat girlish, features were formed to express peace of mind, serenity and indifference to the tinsel of worldly pleasure. Her locks, which were of shadowy gold, divided on a brow of exquisite whiteness, like a gleam of broken and pallid Minshine on a hill of snow. The expression of her countenance was in the last degree gentle, soft, timid and feminine. . . . Something there was of a Madonna cast, perhaps the result of delicate health, and of residence in a family where the dispositions of the inmates were fiercer, more active and energetic, than her own. Yet her pas- siveness of disposition was by no means owing to an indifferent or unfeeling mind. Left to the impulse of her own taste and feeling, Lucy Ashton was pecu- liarly accessible to those; of a romantic cast. Her secret delight was in the old legendary talcs of ardent devotion and unalterable affection, chequered as they so often are with stnvnge adventures and supernatural horrors. . . . But in her exterior relations to things of this world, Lucy willingly received the ruling im- pulse from those around her. The alternative was. in general, tot) indifferent to her to render resistance desirable. . . . Her mother alone did not feel that dis- tinguished and predominating affection with which the rest of the family cher- ished Lucy. . . . She said: " Poor Lucy is unfit for courts or crowded halls. Some country laird must be her husband, rich enough to supply her with every comfort, ... so that she may have nothing to shed a tear for but the tender ap- prehension lest he may break his neck in a fox-chase. . . . The hour will be a happy one which disposes her hand in marriage to some one whose energy is greater than her own. or whose ambition is of as low an order." . . . But, like many a parent of hot and impatient character, she was mistaken in estimating the feelings of her daughter, who. under a semblance; of extreme indifference, nourished the germ of those passions which sometimes spring up in one night . . . and astonish the observer by their unexpected ardour and intensity. In fact. Lucy's sentiments, seemed chill, because nothing had occurred to interest or awaken them. Her life had hitherto flowed in an uniform and gentle tenor, and happy for her had not its present smoothness of current resembled that of a stream as it glides downwards to the waterfall ! Ch. iii. Edgar Ravenswood saved Lucy's life, when in danger from the attack of a wild bull. She dwelt gratefully on the incident. There had been a long quarrel between Ravenswood and her father, but a reconciliation was effected, and the young people soon became indif- ferent to the former feud. They broke a gold piece between them, THE BRIDE OF LAMMERXIOOR. 89 and plighted their troths. Her mother, Lady Ashton, interfered between the lovers, and prevented their communication or corre- spondence, and she urged Bucklaw's suit for Lucy's hand. Ravens- wood received the following message from her: " I am sore beset, but I will be true to my word while my reason is vouchsafed to me." Ch. xxvii. To increase her difficulties, Ravenswood's kinsman was instru- mental in bringing on her father some perplexities which the Ashtons considered Ravenswood to have instigated. As a natural consequence of the alleged injustice meditated towards her father, every means was resorted to, and every argument was urged, to induce Miss Ashtou to break off her engagement with Ravenswood. as being scandalous, shameful, and sinful, formed with the mortal enemy of her family, and calcu- lated to add bitterness to the distress of her parents. Lucy's spirit, however, was high; and although unaided and alone, she could have bonie much, she could have endured the repinings of her father, his murmurs against what he called the tyrannical usage of the ruling party, his ceaseless charges of ingratitude against Ravenswood. . . . She might have borne, also, in patience, or repelled with scorn, the bitter taunts and occasional violence of her In-other, Colonel Douglas Ashton, and the impertinent and intrusive inter- ference of other friends and relatives. But it was beyond her power effectually to withstand or elude the constant and unceasing persecution of Lady Ashton. . . . She sounded every deep and shallow of her daughter's soul, assumed alter- nately every disguise- of manner which could serve her object, and prepared at leisure every species of dire machinery by which the human mind could be wrenched from its settled determination. Ch. xxx. At length Lucy's health and resolution yielded under the pressure to which she was subjected. With apathy, she signed her betrothal with Bucklaw, and restored the broken gold piece to Ravenswood. Lucy's bloodless lips could only falter out the words, " It was my mother." Ch. xxxiii. Lucy was forced to the altar shortly afterward, but took no part in the festivities that followed. Bucklaw followed her to the bridal chamber. A cry was heard so shrill and piercing, as at once to arrest the dance and the music. . . . The body of the bridegroom was found on the floor of the bridal chamber, and all around was flooded with blood. ... In the . . . great old- fashioned chimney of the apartment . . . they found the unfortunate girl, seated, or rather couched like a hare upon its form her head-gear dishevelled, her night-clothes torn and dabbled with blood, and her features convulsed into a wild paroxysm of insanity. . . . Convulsion followed convulsion, till they closed in death, without her being able to utter one word explanatory of the fatal scene. . . . There occurred nothing to explain the general hypothesis, that the bride, in a sudden tit of insanity, had stabbed the bridegroom at the threshold of the apartment. Ch. xxxiv. The funeral of the unfortunate Lucy Ashton . . . was performed in the misty dawn of ah autumnal morning, with such moderate attendance and ceremony as 4* 90 THE -WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. could not possibly be dispensed with. A very few of the nearest relations at- tended her body to the same ehurch to which she had lately been led as a bride, with as little free will, perhaps, as could be now testified by her lifeless ;inoverty, but the light of whose coun- tenance shone forth upon me when the sun of my prosperity began to arise. . . . She is, a close confederate of Duchess Sarah; . . . through the Duchess of Marl- borough, has this Northumbrian cousin of mine become a crony of Lady Ashton. . . . Now ... as it has been the use and wont of these ladies to consider their husbands as of no importance in . . . their own families, it has been their present pleasure ... to put on the tapis a matrimonial alliance, to be concluded be- tween Lucy Ashton and my right honourable self. Lady Ashton acting a self- constituted plenipotentiary on the part of her daughter and husband, and Mother Blenkensop, equally unaccredited, doing me the honour to be my representa- tive.'" Ch. xxi. Ch. xxi. See LADY ASHTON; BUCKLAW. Bucklaw, Frank Hayston, Laird of. Lucy Ashton's suitor. Short, stout, ruddy-faced and red-haired, with an open, resolute and cheerful eye, to which careless and fearless freedom, and inward daring, gave tire and expression, notwithstanding its light-grey colour. Ch. vi. He was a recklrss and dissipated sportsman, and said of himself: " I am a fool who has gambled away my land. . . . My grand-aunt. Lady Girnington, has taen a new tack on life, . . . and this is what I have by wine, women and dice, cocks, dogs and horses." Ch. vii. Bucklaw was saved from ruin by a timely legacy. His match- making kinswoman, Lady Blenkensop, with Lady Ashton, arranged a marriage between Lucy Ashton and Bucklaw. Lucy was engaged to Kavenswood, with whom Bucklaw had had a quarrel. As Lucy was adverse to him, Bucklaw left the wooing to her mother. THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR. 93 It was not . . . surprising, such being the manners of the age, that Mr. llay- stou of Bucklaw, whom dissipated habits had detached in some decree from the best society, should not attend particularly to those feelings in his elected bride, to which many men of more sentiment, experience and reflection would, in all probability, have been equally indifferent. He knew what all accounted the principal point, that her parents and friends, namely, were decidedly in his favour, and there existed most powerful reasons for their predilection. Ch. xxx. Bucklaw was married to the unwilling Miss Ashton, and that night was found severely wounded in the bridal chamber, his bride dying shortly afterward in convulsions. On his recovery, he an- nounced that he would cease speaking to any lady who should in- quire of him concerning these occurrences, and if a man should question him, a duel would result. A declaration so decisive admitted no commentary; and it was soon after seen that Itucklaw had arisen from the bed of sickness a sadder and a wiser man than he had hitherto shown himself. . . . Bucklaw afterward went abroad and never returned to Scotland; nor was he known ever to hint at the circum- stances attending his fatal marriage. Ch. xxxiv. Ch. v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x, xvi, xxi, xxii, xxviii, xxix, xxx, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxiv. See ASHTON (LADY and LUCY). Craigeng-elt, Captain. A shrewd and sinister-looking man, thin and dark. He pretended to be accredited from Versailles, in the Jacobite interest, and was a low and vindictive swindler and ad- venturer. He attached himself to the Laird of Bucklaw as his squire and toady. Craigcngelt . . . reaped many advantages from his friend's good fortunes. Bucklaw, who had never been at all scrupulous in choosing his companions, was accustomed to, and entertained by, a fellow whom he could either laugh with or laugh at, as he had a mind; . . . understood all sports, whether within or without doors, and, when the laird had a mind for a bottle of wine, . . . was al- ways ready to save him from the scandal of getting drunk by himself. I'pon these terms. Craigengelt was the frequent, almost the constant, inmate of the house of Girnington. Ch. xxi. After his fatal marriage Bucklaw . . . dismissed Craigengelt from his society, but not without such a provision, as if well employed, might secure him against indigence and against temptation. Ch. xxxiv. Ch. v, vi, xvi, xxi, xxvii, xxix, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxiv. See BUCKLAW. Ding-wall, Davie. Sir William Ash ton's agent. A sly, dry, hard-listed, shrewd country attorney, who had acted . . . against the family of Ravenswood. Ch. xii. Ch. xii, xv, xxv. See. Sin WILLIAM ASHTON. Giles. Guilbert Girder's apprentice. Ch. xii, xiii. See GIRDER. Girder, Guilbert. Cooper to the Queen's stores. A Stubborn, opiniouative, yet sensible, artisan. Ch. xxvi. 94 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. He was vain of his considerable wealth. Ch. xii, xiii, xv, xxv, xxvi. Girder, Mrs. Guilbert Girder's wife and Luckie Lightbody's daugh- ter. Ch. xii, xiii, xxv, xxvi. Set; LUCKIE LIGHTBODY. Gourlay, Ailsie. A hideous old sibyl of eighty years. She was employed by Lady Ashton to nurse Lucy, and to assist in acKulling the engagement between Lucy and Ravenswood. Dame Gourlay perceived that Lucy shuddered at her external appearance. . . . She commenced her operations by endeavouring to efface or overcome those pre- judices . . . by a show of kindness and interest, . . . and under pretence of di- verting the solitude of a sick room, she soon led her attention captive by the legends in which she was &o well skilled. . . . The old Sycorax saw her advan- tage, and gradually narrowed her magic circle around the devoted victim on whose spirit she practised. Her legends began relating to the fortunes of the Ravens- wood family. . . . Stories were told by her attendant so closely resembling her own in their circumstances that she was gradually led to converse upon such tragic and mystical subjects with the bedlam. . . . She directed Lucy's thoughts to the means of inquiring into futurity, the surest mode, perhaps, of shaking the understanding and destroying the spirits. ... It is some comfort to know that the old hag was tried, condemned, and burned on top of North Berwick Law by sentence of a commission from the Privy Council. . . . Meanwhile, this mys- terious visionary traffic had its usual effect, in unsettling Miss Ashton's mind. . . . Lucy Ashton announced . . . "that she was conscious heaven, earth and hell had set themselves against her union with Ravenswood.'' Ch. xxxi. Ch. xxxi, xxxiii, xxxiv, xxxv. See ASHTON (L.\DY and LUCY). Grey, Alice. The last retainer of the house of Ravenswood. Her thoughts, conversation and affections related chiefly to the deposed family, under whom she had lived so long. Lucy Ashton said to her father: " Old Alice ... is the very empress of old women, and queen of gossips so far as legendary lore is concerned. She is blind, poor old soul ; but when she speaks to you you would think she had some way of looking into your very heart. I am sure I often cover my face, or turn it away, for it seems as if she saw one change colour, though she has been blind these twenty years. She is worth visiting, if it were only to say you had seen a blind and paralytic old wo- man have so much acuteness of perception and dignity of manners. I assure you she might be a countess from her language and her behaviour. . . . She has nothing mercenary about her, and would not accept a penny in charity, if it were to save her from being starved." Ch. iii. Her apparition appeared to Ravenswood to warn him of the dan- gers -that attended upon his love for Lucy Ashton. Ch. iii, iv, xix, xxiii. See LUCY ASHTON; EDGAR RAVENSWOOD. Lightbody, Luckie. Mrs. Girder's mother and a friend to Caleb Balderson. She placed herself between Mrs. Girder and her hus- band when the latter threatened to strike her daughter: "Am I no to chastise my aiu wife? '' exclaimed the cooper, indignantly. THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR. 95 Yc may chastise your ain wife, if you like." answered Dame Lightbody, " but you shall never lay a finger on my daughter." Ch. xiii. Ch. xii, xiii, xxv, xxvi. Lockard. Sir William Ashton's confidential servant. Ch. xi, xii, xiv, xxvii, xxxiii. Moonshine, Saunders. A pious smuggler. A zealous elder of the church when on shore, and. when on board his brig, as bold a smuggler as ever ran out a sliding bow-sprit to the winds that blow be- twixt Campvere and the east coast of Scotland. Ch. xxxi. Ch. xxxi. Mortsheugh, Johnnie. A fiddler and grave-digger. Ch. xxiii, xxiv. Mysie. Ravenswood's faithful old servant. Ch. vii-xi. Norman. Forester or park-keeper at Ravenswood Castle. Ch. iii. Patullo, Mrs. Lady Ashton's maid. Ch. xxii. Ravenswood, Allan, Lord. Edgar Ravenswood's father. Ch. ii. See EDGAK RAVENSWOOD. Ravenswood, Edgar, Master of. The young Master of Ravens- wood was handsome, dark and moody-looking. His father had been involved in legal toils by Sir William Ashton, and deprived of all his property, except the old Tower of Wolf's Crag. This he bequeathed to his son, together with his curses against their enemy, and Edgar resolved to submit his cause to the House of Lords. He accidentally saved Lucy Ashton's life. Her crafty father appealed to Ravenswood's generous honor by his professions of friendship, and the Master forgave their differences : The noble form and fine features of Ravenswood. fired with the pride of birth and sense of internal dignity, the mellow and expressive tones of his voice, the desolate state of his fortunes and the indifference with which he seemed to en- dure and to dare the worst that might befall, rendered him a dangerous object of contemplation for a maiden already too much disposed to dwell upon recollections connected with him. Ch. xvi. Lucy Ashton and Ravenswood became happy lovers, but upon Lady Ashton's return he was forbidden the Castle. Overwhelmed with mortification and sorrow, he went abroad, and achieved honor and emolument. He returned upon the day when the persecuted Lucy had signed a betrothal with Bucklaw. He said to her: ''lam still that Edgar Ravenswood, who, for your affection. . . . forgave nay, clasped hands in friendship with the oppressor and pillager of his house, traducer and murderer of his father. . . . The honour of an ancient family, the urgent advice of my best friends, have been in vain used to sway my resolution. . . . The very dead have arisen to warn me. and their warning has been despised. Arc you prepared to pierce my heart with the very weapon which my rash confi- dence entrusted to your grasp?" Ch. xxxiii. 96 THE WAVEHLEY DICTIONARY. To all his questions Lucy Ashton truthfully answered that Lady Ashton was responsible for their misery. At Lucy's funeral Havens- wood accepted of her brother's challenge. After a night of restless agony, despairing and desperate, he hastened to his doom. The prophecy at once rushed on Balderson's mind that the Lord of Ravcns- \vood should perish on the Kelpie's flow. . . . He saw him, accordingly, reach the fatal spot, hut he never saw him pass farther. Colonel AMiton. frantic for revenge, was already in the field. . . . The sun had now arisen, and showed his broad disk above the eastern sea. so that he could easily discern the horseman that rode toward him with speed which argued impatience equal to his own. At once the figure became invisible, as if it had melted into the air. . . . No trace whatever of horse or rider could be discerned; it only appeared that the late winds and high tides had greatly extended the usual bounds of the quicksands, and that the unfortunate horseman, as appeared from the hoof -tracks, in his pre- cipitated haste, had not attended to keep on the firm sands on the foot of the rock, but had taken the shortest and most dangerous course. C'li. xxxv. Thus was fulfilled the ancient prophecy: " When the last Laird of Kavenswood to Kavenswood shall ride, And woo a dead maiden to be his'bride, He shall stable his steed in the Kelpie's flow. And his name shall be lost forevermoe." Ch. ii, iv, v, vi, vii. viii, ix, x, xi, xiv, xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, xx, xxi. xxii, xxtii, xxiv, xxv, xxvi, xxvii, xxxiii, xxxv. See ASHTON (L.\i>Y, LUCY, SHOLTO and Siu WILLIAM); ALICE GHEY. The Paralytic Sibyl. Alsie Gourlay's crony. Ch. xxiii, xxxiv, xxxv. See AILSIE GOUULAY. Turntippet, Lord. Member of the Scottish Privy Council. An old grey-headed statesman, who had contrived, by shifting and trimming, to maintain his post at the steerage through all the changes of course which the vessel had held for thirty years. Ch. v. Ch. V, xxvii. Westerho, Captain. Craigengelt's associate, and an unscrupulous adventurer, in Lady Ashton's pay. Ch. xxviii, xxx. See LADY ASHTON; CKAIGENGELT. Will. The cooper's foreman. Ch. xiii. Wilson, Bob. Henry Ashton's groom and companion. Ch. xviii. Winnie, Annie. A lame old bedlam; Ailsie Gourlay's associate. Ch. xxiii, xxxiv, xxxv. See AILSIE GOUULAY. SYNOPSIS. Introduction (1820). I. Dick Tinto His criticisms and sketch. II. Feud be- tween the Ravenswoods and Ashtons Lady Ashton Lord Allan's funeral. III. The morning after the funeral The Lord Keeper's meditations Lucy Ashton. IV. Lucy and her father visit Blind Alice.' V. The wild cattle Lucy and her deliverer Ravenswood The Lord Keeper changes his memorandum Scene in THE BRIDE OF LAMMEHMOOR. 97 the Privy Council. VI. Craigcngelt, Bucklaw and the Master of Ravenswood. VII. Raveusxvood shelters Bucklaw at Wolfs Crag Caleb Baklerson. VIII. Con- versa! ion between the Master and Bucklaw The Marquis of A 's letter. IX. The Chase The Ashtons seek protection from the storm atWoirgCrag Bal- dcrson's subterfuges. X. Bueklaw, in rage at Balderson's manoeuvre, seeks Craigengclt Ravenswood and his guests. XI. Caleb and the thunderbolt. XII. Caleb on a foraging expedition. XIII. Mrs. Light body's explanation The Coop- er's policy and Caleb's surprise. XIV. Caleb entertains Lockard concerning the ancient grandeur of Wolf s Crag The wily Lord Keeper's overtures to Havens- wood The Master dreams of Lucy Ashton. XV. Marquis of A 's diplomacy, and its effect upon the Lord Keeper " What will my wife say?" XVI. The Lord Keeper and the Master discuss Ravenswood's alleged grievances The statesman's selfish plans concerning the Master's attachment to Lucy Bucklaw's message and messenger. XVII. The Lord Keeper is emotional for a brief pel iod. XVIII. The Master accepts an invitation to Ravcnswood Castle Caleb repeats the propli- fcy Ravcnswood at his ancestral home. XIX. Blind Alice and Ravenswood. XX. Henry thwart's Ravenswood's plans The lovers plight their troths The Lord Keeper's designs. XXI. Differences and explanation* The new Laird of (iirnington and his faithful squire and bottleholder The Ladies Ashton and UlenUensop arrange a matrimonial alliance between Lucy and Bucklaw. XXII. Craigengclt's mission The double arrival Ravenswood's humiliation and the Marquis of A 's remonstrance. XXIII. Ravenswood's indignation The ap- parition The Master watches by Alice's corpse - The three old women. XXIV. Mortsheugh and the Master The Marquis and his kinsman. XXV. New pros- pects The tire at Wolfs Crag. XXVI. Caleb and the tire The cooper's hos- pitality. XX VII The political crisis Letters from the Ashtons. XXVIII. Criiuengelt and his patron discuss Bucklaw's prospective alliance. XXIX. Buck- law seeks an interview with Lucy A delay granted until St. Jude's day. XXX. The .Marquis' misjudging friendship for Ravenswood Lucy's despair and Lady Ashton's implacability. XXXI. Luckie Gourlay as Lucy's nurse Lucy and Bide- the-Bent. XXXII. The betrothal upon St. Jude's day " He is come, he is come." XXXIII. Ravenswood demands an explanation " It was my mother " Ravens- wood's farewell The challenges. XXXI V. The wedding The wounded bride- groom The tragedy Bucklaw's silence. XXXV. Lucy Ashton's funeral Colonel Ashton and Ravenswood Ravenswood's misery Balderson pleads, in vain, with his master- The prophecy fulfilled Caleb's grief- The Ashtons. A LEGEND OF MONTEOSE. 1 A ROMANCE. " Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun. Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery, And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks." BCTLER. ARGUMENT. HIS story is laid at the time of Montrose's "brief and glorious career" as commander of the Royalist troops in the Highlands, During the period of that great and bloody Civil War which agitated Britain dur- ing the seventeenth century. Ch. i. The veteran Sergeant More M'Alpine joins his faithful sister, Janet, as a resident of Gandercleugh. The Sergeant's ancestors had fought under Montrose, and he gave Mr. Pattieson the incidents related in "A Legend of Montrose." Anderson. A name assumed by Montrose while incognito. Ch. ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii. Ardenvohr, Knight of. See Sin DUNCAN CAMPBELL. Argyle, Marquis of. M'Callum More, Lord Justice General of Scotland. Though cowardly, Argyle was the strength and leader of the Presbyterians. Montrose and Argyle were inveterate feudal enemies. The Marquis himself was dressed in the fashion of the i has so often painted; but his habit was sober and nniforn rich than gay. His dark complexion, furrowed forehead a him the appearance of one frequently engaged in the cons affairs, and who has acquired, by long habit, an air of grav he cannot shake off. when there is nothing to be conceale eriod. which Vandyke in colour, and rather id downcast look gave deration of important ty and mystery which 1. The cast with his eyes, which had procured him in the Highland* the nickname of Gillespic Grum- * See foot-note on page 49. 98 A LEGEND OF MONTROSE. 99 ach (on the grim), was less perceptible when he looked downward, which, per- haps, was one of the causes of his having adopted that habit. In person, he was tall and thin, but not without that dignity of deportment and r came his high rank. Something there was cold in his address, look, although he spoke and behaved with the usual grace of a ity. He was adored by his own clan, whose advancement he hi although he was in proportion disliked by the Highlanders of aimers which be- md sinister in his nan of such qual- d greatly studied, >thcr septs, some of whom he had already stripped of their possessions, while others conceived themselves in danger from his future schemes, and all dreaded the height to which he was elevated. Ch. xii. Ch. vii, xii, xiii, xv, xvii, xviii, xix, xxiii. Auchenbreck, Knight of. Sir Duncan Campbell. Argyle . . . conferred the principal command upon Sir Duncan Campbell, of Auchenbreck, . . . an experienced and veteran soldier, whom he had recalled from the wars in Ireland for this purpose. Ch. xvii. He fell in battle while endeavoring to restore his panic-stricken soldiers to order. Ch. xvii, xviii, xix. Baillie, General. A Presbyterian officer "of skill and fidelity." Ch. xvii. Burleigh, Lord. A commander of the Covenanters, who was de- feated under the walls of Aberdeen. Ch. xv. Campbell, Sir Duncan. Knight of Ardenvohr. A commander in the army of his kinsman, the Marquis of Argyle. A stately old man, who was made a prisoner during the war, and died from the effects of a wound received in battle. He had been a life-mourner for his lost child, Annot Lyle, who was restored to him during his last days. Ch. viii, ix, x, xi, xvii, xviii, xix, xxi, xxii, xxiii. See ANNOT LYL.E. Campbell, Sir Duncan. See KNIGHT OP AUCHENBKECK. Campbell, Lady. Wife to the Knight of Ardenvohr, and Annot Lyle's sorrowing mother. A tall, faded, melancholy lady, dressed in deep mourning. Ch. xi. Ch. xi. See ANNOT LYLE. Campbell, Murdoch. A name assumed by Argyle when he visited Dalgetty's cell. Ch. xiii. See DALGETTY. Colkitto. See ALISTER M'DONNELL. Dalgetty, Dugald. A major under Montrose; formerly a ritt- master in the army of Gustavus Adolphus. A soldier of fortune, who had fought in many wars and under whatever banner suited his interest or pleasure. His views of life, conduct and honor were entirely from a military standpoint. It was his peculiarity to orate incessantly of his adventures, of Mareschal College, where he had 100 THE WAVEULEY DICTIONARY. been a divinity student in his youth, and of "Gustavus Adolphus, the Lion of the North and the bulwark of the Protestant faith." Among his many exploits was the escape from Argyle's Castle, where he had been retained as a prisoner. The Marquis visited him in disguise, to bribe him into revealing Montrose's plans, and made overtures to Dalgetty to desert into the Presbyterian service. I >al- getty recognized the Marquis, and so throttled him that he gave the password, and Dalgetty escaped, carrying valuable papers to Montrose. He was knighted for his services. Menteith says of him: "Eager on his sordid spoil as a vulture that stoops upon carrion. Yet this man the world calls a soldier. . . . lie may be punctilious concerning his repu- tation, and brave ill the execution of his duty, but it is only because without these qualities he cannot rise in the service." Ch. xx. At the battle of Philiphaugh he was made a prisoner, and promised his life only on conditions of entering the Covenanters' army. He was in the utmost danger of falling a martyr, not to this or that political principle, but merely to his own strict ideas of military enlistment. Fortunately. his friends discovered . . . that there remained but a fortnight to elapse of the engagement he had formed, and to which, though certain it was never to be renewed, no power on earth could make him false. With some difficulty th'jy procured a reprieve for this shoTt space, after which they found him perfectly willing to come under any engagement they chose to dictate. Ch. xxiii. The " Edinburgh Review," No. 55, says: " There is too much, perhaps, of Dalgetty.- -or. rather, he engrosses too great a proportion of the work. for in himself we think he is uniformly entertaining; and the author has nowhere shown more aflinity to that matchless spirit who could bring out his Falstaffs and his Pistols in act after act and play after play. and exercise them every time with scenes of unbounded loquacity, without either exhausting their humour or varying a note from its characteristic tune. than in his large and reiterated specimens of the eloquence of the redoubted Kitt-master. . . . The ludicrous combination of the soldado with the divinity student of Mareschal College is entirely original; and the mixture of talent. selfishness, courage, coarseness and conceit was never so happily exemplified." Ch. ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, x, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, xx, xxi, xxii, xxiii. Dhu, Evan. Lochiel, an able Highland chieftain. There was a dispute among his colleagues as to who should command them. Evan Dhu said: It is not by looking back to our own pretensions that we shall serve Scotland or King Charles. My voice shall be for the general whom the King shall name. . . . High-born he must be. or we shall lose our rank in obeying him wise and skilful, or we shall endanger the safety of our people bravest among the brave, or we shall peril our own honour temperate, tinn and manly, to keep us united. Such is the man that must command us." Ch. vii. Ch. vi, vii, xviii, xix. Donald. Servant to the M'Aulays. Ch. iv, v. A LEGEND OF MONTROSE. 101 Elcho, Lord. A commander of the Covenanters, beaten at Tipper- inuir. Ch. xv. Glengarry, Chief of. A Highlander in Montrose's army. Ch. vi, xviii, xix. Graneangowl, Rev. Chaplain to Argyle. A prosy but vain Cove- nanter. Ch. xi, xiv. Gustavus. Dalgetty's handsome and intelligent horse. "A dark gray gelding. Ch. ii, viii, xii, xiv, xvi, xix, xx. Hall, Sir Christopher. An Englishman in Montrose's army. Ch. iv. v, vi, vii. Hay, Colonel. Montrose's gallant friend. Ch. xix. Huntley, Marquis of. Chief of the Gordons. Ch. xv. John of Moidart. Captain of Clan Roland, in Montrose's army. Ch. xv. Kenneth. Randal MacEagh's savage young grandson. A guide to Montrose's army. Ch. xvi, xvii, xxii, xxiii. See RANDAL MAC- EAGII. Keppoch. A Highland chief in Montrose's army. Ch. xviii. Lochiel, Evan Dhu of. See EVAN Dnu. Lorimier. Anlenvohr's servant. Ch. xi. Loyalty's Reward. A horse given Dalgetty by Montrose. Ch. xx. Lyle, Annot. Daughter of the Knight of Ardenvohr. She had been kidnapped by Randal MacEagh while an infant, during the sacking of her father's castle. Through the circumstances of war, she afterward became Allan M'Aulay's captive. Her powerful but stricken parents sought her in vain. She was accomplished in music, and grew into beautiful girlhood. Allan M'Aulay and Menteith both loved her. For the madman Allan she felt mingled gratitude and fear, while between Menteith and herself there was an unconfessed love. She remembered nothing of her birth or par- entage. Her appearance at Darlinvarach Castle is thus described: Annot Lyle . . . glided into the room, not ill described by Lord Menteith as being the lightest and most fairy figure that ever trod the turf by moonlight. Her stature, considerably less than the ordinary size of women, gave her the appearance of extreme youth, insomuch that although she was near eighteen. she might have passed for four years younger. Her figure, hands and feet were formed upon a model of exquisite symmetry with the size and lightness of her person, so that Titania herself c sentative. Her hair was a dark shad clustering ringlets suited admiral)! playful, yet simple, expression of h that Annot. in her orphan state, seei >uld scarce have found a more fitting repre- ' of the colour usually termed flaxen, whose with her fair complexion, and with the r features. When we add to these charms, led the gayest and happiest of maidens, the reader must allow us to claim for her the interest of almost all who looked on 102 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. her. . . . And she often came among the rude inhabitants of the castle, as Allan himself . . . expressed it, " like a sunbeam on a sullen sea." 1 communicating to all others the cheerfulness that filled her own mind. Ch. vi. Her dress partook of the antique. . . . Yet Annot's garments were not only becoming, but even rich. Her open jacket, with a high collar, was composed of blue cloth, richly embroidered, and had silver clasps to fasten when it please the wearer. Its sleeves, which were wide, came no lower than the elbow, and ter- minated in a golden fringe ; under the upper coat . . . she wore an under-dress of blue satin, also richly embroidered, but which was several shades lighter in colour than the upper garment. The petticoat was formed of tartan silk, in the set or pattern of which the blue greatly predominated, so as to remove the tawdry effect too frequently produced in tartan by the mixture and strange opposition of colours. An antique silver chain hung around her neck, and sup- ported the wrenl. or key, with which she tuned her instrument. A small ruff rose above her collar, and was secured by a brooch of some value, an old keep- sake of Lord Mentcith. Ch. ix. After it is known that Ardenvohr is her father, she returns to his protection, and is married to the Earl of Menteith. Ch. v, vi, ix, xx, xxi, xxii, xxiii. See ALLAN M'AULAY; RANDAL MAG-EACH; MENTEITH. M'Aulay, Allan. Brother of the Chief of Darnlinvarach, and in Montrose's army. His mother had been cruelly treated by the "Children of the Mist," and bequeathed to him hatred of her persecutors and a taint of insanity. His natural acuteness of intel- lect was occasionally contrasted with an aberration of mind. At such times he saw visions, and spoke as a seer. He had a strong influence over his tribe, and was powerful in frame and brave in action. Annot Lyle had become his captive, in a contest with his feudal enemies, when a little child. He gave her a brother's care and affection. Her beauty and skill in music calmed his disturbed fancies in his hours of darkness. He was oppressed for years with a foreboding that he should kill his friend, the Earl of Menteith. There came a time when Allan realized that he loved Annot, and that her heart was given to Menteith. He uttered wild threats of vengeance against them both, and Montrose, discreetly, sent him on a distant mission. Whatever was in other respects the nobleness of his disposition, he had never been known to resist the wilfulness of passion. He walked in the house and in the country of his fathers like a tamed lion, whom no one dared to contradict, lest they should awaken his natural vehemence of passion. So many years had elapsed since he had experienced contradiction, or even expostulation, that probably nothing but the strong good sense which on all points, his mysticism excepted. formed the ground of his character, prevented his proving an annoy- ance and terror to the whole neighbourhood. Ch. xxi. He returned to the camp on the appointed wedding day, and stabbed Menteith, saying: A LEGEND OF MONTROSE. 103 "Be the vision accomplished. 1 ' He escaped pursuit, and his after fate was a mystery. It was supposed he fell a victim to the " Children of the Mist." It was also conjectured that he became a Carthusian monk. Int. (1830). Ch. iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, xvii, xix, xx, xxiii. See ANNOT LYLE; MEN- TKITH; RANDAL MACEAGH. M'Aulay, Angus. Chief of Darnlinvarach, in Montrose's army. A bold -hearted, rattling Highlander. Ch. iv, v, vi, vii, viii, x, xvii, xxiii. M'Callum More. See ARGYLE. M'Donnell, Alister or Alexander. Colkitto; a chief in Mont- rose's army. He was brave to intrepidity and almost to insensibility; very strong and active in person, completely master of his weapons, and always ready to show the example in the extremity of danger. To counterbalance these good quali- ties, it must be recorded that he was inexperienced in military tactics, and of a jealous and presumptuous disposition, which often lost to Mont rose the fruits of Colkitto' s gallantry. . . . The feats of strength and courage shown by this champion seem to have made a stronger impression upon the minds of the Highlanders than the military skill and chivalrous spirit of the great Marquis of Montrose. Ch. xv. Ch. v, xv, xvii. xix. M'Dougal of Lome. See GLENGARRY. MacEagh, Randal. Chief of a Highland band of outlaws called " Children of the Mist." Their atrocities brought upon them the vengeance of Menteith, the Campbells (sons of Diarmid), and the M'Aulays (race of Darlinvarach). For a short time he was a guide to Montrose's army. While dying from a wound received from Allan M'Aulay, he sends for his grandson, Kenneth. ' ; Kenneth," said the old outlaw. il hear the last words of the sire of thy father. A Saxon soldier, and Allan of the Red-hand, left this camp within these few hours, to travel to the country of the Caberfae. Pursue them as the blood- hound pursues the hurt deer swim the lake climb the mountain thread the forest tarry not until you join them. . . . They will ask the news from the camp say to them that An not Lyle of the Harp is discovered to be the daugh- ter of Duncan of Ardenvohr ; that the Thane of Menteith is towed her before the priest; and that you are sent to bid guests to the bridal. Tarry not for their answer, but vanish like the lightning when the black cloud swallows it. ... Kenneth, son of Eracht, keep thou unsoiled the freedom which I leave thee as a birthright. Barter it, not, neither for the rich garment, nor for the stone roof. nor for the covered board, nor for the couch of down. . . . Own no lord re- ceive no law take no hire give no stipend build no hut enclose no pas- ture sow no grain; let the deer of the mountain be thy flocks and herds if these fail thee, prey upon the goods of our oppressors. . . . Remember those' who have done kindness to our race, and pay their services with thy blood. Should the hour require it. . . . The sons of Diarmid the race of Darlinvarach 104 THE WAVE11LEY DICTIONARY. the riders of Mcnteith my curse on thy head. Child of the Mist, if thou spare one of those names when the time shall offer for cutting them off. . . . Farewell, beloved! and mayst thon die like thy fathers, ere infirmity, disease <>i- age shall break thy spirit. . . . Saxon, . . . speak to me no more of thy priest. I die contented. Ihulst thou ever any enemy against whom weapons were of no avail? . . . To this man I have now bequeathed agony of mind, jealousy, despair, and sudden death itself. Such shall be the lot of Allan of the Red- hand, when he learns that Annot weds Menteitli: and I ask no more than the certainty that it is so. to sweeten my own bloody end by his hand." Ch. x.xii. Cli. xiii, xiv, xvi, xvii, xix, xxi, xxii. See ALLAN M'Ai LAV. M'llduy. Chief of the Camerons, and guide to Montrose. Cli. xviii. M'Lean, Sir Hector. A Highland chief in Montrose's army. Ch. vi, vii. M'Vourigh. A Highland chief in Montrose's army. Ch. xviii. Menteith, Earl of. Montrose's gallant young kinsman. He was accomplished, chivalrous and efficient in camp and council. Mont- I'ose, speaking of Annot Lyle, says to him: " You cannot think of injuring her you cannot think of marrying her.' 1 "My lord," replied Menteith. . . . "Annot Lyle is of unknown birth a captive the daughter, probably, of some obscure outlaw; a dependant upon the hospitality of the M'Aulays. ... It is utterly remote from my character to entertain dishonourable views concerning this unprotected female. ... If Annot Lyle were born a lady, she should share my name and rank." t'h. xx. Subsequent developments discovered Annot as the daughter of the Knight of Ardenvohr, and Menteith made her his wife. A woud received from M'Aulay prevented his returning to the army. He occupied a situation in the land befitting his rank, . . . happy alike in public regard and in domestic affection. Ch. xxiii. Ch. ii, iii, v, vi, vii, ix, xix, xx, xxi, xxii, xxiii. See ANNOT LYLE; ALLAN M'AULAY. Montrose, Marquis of. James Graham, commander of the Royalist forces in the Highlands. Montrose possessed that sort of form and face in which the beholder, at first glance, sees nothing extraordinary, but of which the interest becomes more impressive the longer we gaze upon them. His stature was very little above the middle size, but in person he was uncommonly well built, and capable of ex- erting great force, and enduring much fatigue. In fact, he enjoyed a constitution of iron, without which he could not have sustained the trials of his extraordinary campaigns, through all of which he subjected himself to the hardships of the meanest soldier. He was perfect in all exercises, whether peaceful or martial, and possessed, of course, that graceful ease of deportment proper to those to whom habit had rendered all postures easy. His long brown hair, according to the custom of men of quality among the Royalists, was parted on the top of his head, and trained to hang down on each side in curled locks. . . . The features which these tresses enclosed, were of the kind which derive their interest from the character of the man, rather than the regularity of their form. But a high A LEGEND OF MONTROSE. 105 nose, a full, decided, well opened, quick grey eye, and a sanguine complexion, made amends for some coarseness and irregularity in the subordinate parts of the face; so that, altogether, Montrose might be termed rather a handsome, than a hard-featured man. But those who saw'him when his soul looked through those eyes with all the energy and fire of genius those who heard him speak with the authority of talent, and the eloquence of nature, were im- pressed with an opinion, even of his external form, more enthusiastically favour- able than the portraits which still survive would entitle us to ascribe to it. Ch. viii. Ch. ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, xv, xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, xx, xxii, xxiii. Musgrave, Sir Giles. An Englishman in Montrose's army. Ch. iv, v, vi, vii, viii, xvii. Neal. A gentleman in attendance upon Argyle. Ch. xii. Seaforth, Earl of. A general in the Covenanter's service. Ch. xvii, xix. Sibbald. Lord Menteith's attendant. Ch. ii, iii, iv, v, vi. Strachan, Hannah. Dalgetty's wife ; a Covenanter's elderly widow, through marriage with whom Dalgetty regains his paternal estate of Drumthwacket. Ch. xxiii. See DAUJETTY. Urrie, Sir John. An officer in the Covenanter's army. A soldier of fortune . . . who had changed sides twice during the Civil War, and was destined to turn a third time before it was ended. Ch. xvii. Ch. xvii, xviii. Vich Alister More. A Highland Chief in Montrose's army, and representative of the Lord of the Isles. Ch. vi, vii. Wisheart, Dr. Montrose's military chaplain. Ch. xx. See INTRO- DUCTION (1830). SYNOPSIS. Introduction (1830). I. Political situation of Scotland. II. Dalgetty relates his advent HITS to Menteith. III. Dalgetty upon the political complications. IV Darn- linvaraeh Castle Dalgetty and Anderson change places Allan's settlement of his brother's wager. V. Overtures to the Kittmaster Allan M'Aulay's history. VI. Coining events cast their shadows before Annot Lyle Allan's prophecy about Menteith's death. VII. The muster Menteith's speech " Who shall com- mand?'' Montrose's commission. VIII. James Graham. Marquis of Montrose Dalgetty appointed plenipotentiary to Argyle Sir Duncan Campbell Solicitude for (tiistavus. IX. Sir Duncan laments the situation Annot's song. X. Angus' message to Sir Duncan The knight and Dalgetty proceed on their journey Ar- denvohr Castle. XI. Dalgetty resumes his journey. XII. Inverary Dalgetty in an official capacity before the Marquis of Argyle The arrest. XIII. Dalgetty and his fellow captive, Randal MaeEagh Murdock Campbell The escape. XIV. Dnl- gctty and Graneangowl The " Children of the Mist" The pursuit Dalgetty wounded. XV. Military movements. XVI. Feud between Montrose and Argyle Montrose holds privy council with Dalgetty. XVII. Randal and Allan The 106 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. active and enterprising genius of the great Marquis. XVIII. Preparations for battle. XIX. Montrose's victory " Dare not to come between the tiger and his prey "Sir Dugald Allan's mission Argyle sails down the lake after his Lrrcat disaster. XX. Loyalty's reward Social education of a horse Montrose con- verses with his kinsman about Annot Lyle Allan's declaration and warning. XXI. Randal confesses that Annot is the daughter of the wounded knight of Ar- denvohr. XXII. Randal's dying commands to Kenneth Betrothal of the Earl (if Menteith and Annot Lyle. XXIII. The wedding-day " Then be the vision accom- plished "The wounded bridegroom Allan M'Aulay's fate The lovers united Subsequent history of Sir Dugald Dalgetty. COUNT EGBERT OF PARIS.* A ROMANCE. ARGUMENT. ROBERT OF PARIS relates to the period when the ^-^ Crusaders, under Godfrey of Bouillon, were before Constanti- nople, during the reign of Alexius Comnenus, Emperor of Greece. In the two last novels written by this mighty creator, " Count, Robert of Paris,"' and " Castle Dangerous" we see, with pity and respect, the last runnings of this bright and abundant fountain, soon to be choked up forever. The scenes and de- scriptions have the air of being painfully worked up from books, the characters are conventional and without individuality, the dialogues are long and pointless, and nothing remains of the great master's manner but that free, honest and noble spirit of thought and feeling which never desert him. Shaw's English Literature. Mr. Cleisbotham found Mr. Pattieson's last novels, "Count Robert of Paris'" and "Castle Dangerous,'" in an imperfect condition, and allowed the author's seedy and swaggering brother, Paul, to assist him in his school, and to revise the manuscripts. His wife, in vain, warned him against Paul, and Mr. Cleisbotham found, to his chagrin, that Paul had had the inaccurate manuscripts published to his own advantage. Agatha. See BERTHA. Agelastes, Michael. An influential courtier and wily conspirator. He assumed to be a sage philosopher and court- wit, and while seem- ing to favor the pretensions of others, he secretly and subtly plotted to be Emperor and the husband of Anna Comnena. One goodly old man, named Michael Agelastes, big, burly, and dressed like an ancient Cynic philosopher, was distinguished by assuming, in a great meas- ure, the ragged garb and mad bearing of that sect, and by his inflexible practice of the strictest ceremonies exigible by the imperial family. He was known by an affectation of cynical principle and language, and of republican philosophy, strangely contradicted by his practical deference to the great. It was wonder- ful how long this man, now sixty years old and upwards, disdained to avail him- self of the accustomed privilege of leaning or supporting his limbs, and with what regularity he maintained either the standing posture or that of absolute * See foot-note on page 49. 107 108 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. kneeling; but the first was go much his usual attitude that he acquired among his court friends the name of Elephas. or the Elephant, because the ancients had an idea that the half-reasoning animal, as it is called, has joints incapable of kneeling down. Ch. iii. Agelastes was privately a scoffer and voluptuary, and in his Cyth- erean Gardens pandered to the vices of his friends. The Emperor's vengeance was anticipated by Agelastes' singular death. He acci- dentally struck the wounded paw of the Ourang Outang, Sylvanus, who, in return, strangled the philosopher to death. Ch. iii, iv, v, vi, viii, ix, x, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xvii, xviii, xxiv, xxv, xxxiii. See ANNA COMNENA; SYLVANUS. Alexius Comnenus. Emperor of Greece. Alexius Comnenus was in the condition of a monarch who rather derives con- sequence from the wealth and importance of his predecessors, and the L'rrat extent of their original dominions, than from what remnants of fortune had de- scended to the present generation. ... If, therefore. Alexius Comnenus u.i>. during his anxious seat upon the throne of the east, reduced to use a base and truckling course of policy if he was sometimes reluctant to fight when he had a conscious doubt of the valour of his troops if he commonly employed cun- ning and dissimulation instead of wisdom, and perfidy instead of courage, his expedients were the disgrace of his age, rather than his own. . . . That t In- Greek court was encumbered with unmeaning ceremonies, in order to make amends for the want of that veneration which ought to have been called forth by real worth and the presence of actual power, was not the particular fault of that prince, but belonged to the system of the government of Constantinople for ages : . . . and . . . had he not been called on to fill the station of a monarch, who was under the necessity of making himself dreaded, as one who was ex- posed to all manner of conspiracies, both in and out of his own family, he might, in all probability, have been regarded as. an honest and humane prince. . . . Alexius had his full share of the superstition of the age, which he covered with a species of hypocrisy. ... He took also a deep interest in all matters affecting the Church, . . . and the duty of defending religion against schismatics was, in his opinion. . . . peremptorily demanded from him. Ch. i. Ch. i, iii, iv, v, vii, ix, xiii, xiv, xxi, xxiv, xxvi, xxvii, xxviii, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxiv. See AGELASTES; BUIENNIUS; ACHILLES TAT i us. Anna Comnena. The Emperor's fair daughter, who wrote his his- tory, the AlexitnL She was admired by her parents, but somewhat neglected by her beloved husband, Nicephorus Briennius. Though gentle and generous, she was jealous of her dignity as a princess and authoress. Princess Anna Comnena. known to our times by the literary talents, which recorded the history of her father's reiirn. She was seated, the queen and sov- ereign of a literary circle, such as an imperial princess. ]n>r \thyrogtnita. or born in the sacred purple chamber itself, could assemble in those days. . . . The lit- erary Princess herself had the bright eyes, straight features, and comely and COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS. 109 pleading manners, which all would have allowed to the Emperor's daughter, even if she could not have been, with severe truth, said to have possessed them. . . . A table before her was loaded with books, plants, herbs and drawings. She sat on a slight elevation, and those who enjoyed the intimacy of the Princess, or to whom she wished to speak in particular, were allowed, during such sublime col- loquy, to rest their knees on the little dais, or elevated place, where her chair found its station, in a posture half standing, half kneeling. Ch. iii. Ch. iii, iv, v, xiii, xiv, xxi, xxvi, xxvii, xxxi, xxxiv. See ALEXIUS COM NUN us; BHIENNIUS; IKEM<:. Aspramonte, Knight and Lady of. The Countess of Brenhilda's doating, but bigoted, parents. Ch. x, xx. See BEUTIIA; BREN- II ILL) A. Astarte. A white-robed slave to Anna Comnena, and companion to Violante. Female slaves, in a word, who reposed themselves on their knees on cush- ions, when their assistance was not wanted as a species of living book-desks, to support and extend the parchment rolls, on which the Princess recorded her own wisdom, or from which she quoted that of others. . . . Astarte was . . . distinguished as a caligrapher, or beautiful writer of various alphabets and lan- guages. Ch. iii. Ch. iii, xxvi. See ANNA COMNENA. Baldwin, Count. A Crusader and brother to Godfrey of Bouillon. Ch. ix. Bertha. Hereward's handsome betrothed, and the Countess Bren- hilda's efficient squire and trusted friend. During the Norman Conquest, the Saxon Bertha and her mother, Ulric, became the prisoners of the Knight of Aspramonte, and inmates of his Nor- mandy castle. His lady believed the Saxons were not Christians, and insisted that they should be rebaptized and assume other names. Ulric consented to this, and was baptized Martha. Bren- hilda sided with Bertha, who was thus enabled to retain her own name, but who consented to be called Agatha while with her Nor- man protectress. In Constantinople she met Hereward again. She followed Brenhilda to Jerusalem, and after the Crusade was married to Hereward. Ch. xiii, xv, xviii, xx, xxiii, xxv, xxxiii, xxxiv. See BUEMIILDA; HEKEVVAKD. Bohemond. Prince and Count of Tarentum. A Crusader and wily Norman-Italian. He was an able soldier, but ambitious and ava- ricious. Through large bribes the Emperor made an ally of him. Ch, v, vii, ix, xiv, xxiii. See AUVEHTISEMENT (1833). Brenhilda, Countess. The indulged daughter of the Knight and Lady of Aspramonte, and the Amazonian, but loving, wife of Count Robert of Paris. She early followed the pursuit of arms, and was 110 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. vanquished in the lists by Robert of Paris, to whom she was soon happily married. She joined the Crusade with her husband, and mounted the walls of Jerusalem. She was a large and handsome woman, and while at Constantinople was persecuted and endan- gered by the suit of the enamored Caesar. Her toilet at an imperial reception is thus described: The upper part of her dress consisted of more than one tunic, sitting close to the body, while a skirt, descending from the girdle, and reaching to the ankles, embroidered elegantly but richly, completed an attire which a lady might have worn in much more modern times. Her tresses were covered with a light steel head-piece, though some of them, escaping, played around her face, and gave relief to those handsome features which might otherwise have seemed too formal, if closed entirely in the verge of steel. Over these under-garments was- dung a rich velvet cloak of a deep-green colour, descending from the head, where a species of hood was loosely adjusted over the helmet, deeply laced upon its verges and seams, and so long as to sweep the ground behind. A dagger of rich materials ornamented a girdle of curious goldsmith's work, and was the only offensive weapon which . . . she bore upon this occasion. Ch. xiv. Ch. ix, x, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xviii, xx, xxv, xxxiii, xxxiv. See BRI- ENNIUS; ROBERT OF PARIS. Briennius, Nicephorus. Anna Coinnena's handsome, but indif- ferent, husband. He was the Caesar, or officer second in rank to the Emperor. He was haughty and ambitious, and conspired to make himself Emperor. Being confident of his powers of fascina- tion, he tarried on the eve of revolution to woo the Countess Bren- hilda. Athough unfaithful as a subject and husband, he had the address to obtain the intercession of his wife and the Empress, so Alexius pardoned him while Nicephorus was on his way to execu- tion. Ch. iii, iv, v, xiii, xiv, xvii, xviii, xx, xxvi, xxxi, xxxiii, xxxiv. See ADVERTISEMENT (1833); ANNA COMNENA; BRENHILDA. Cantacuzene, Michael. The grand sewer. Ch. xiv. Castor, Stephanos. A celebrated wrestler. He had a magnificent form, but clownish features, and was a jealous and surly conspira- tor. Ch. ii, xxii, xxix, xxxiii. Corydon. A shoemaker of Constantinople. Ch. xxxiii. Demetrius. A gossipy politician of Constantinople. Ch. ii, xxii, xxix. Diogenes. Agelastes' negro slave, and the trusted agent of his master's nefarious schemes. He learned from Agelastes many " af- fected quirks of philosophy." Ch. vii, xii, xiii, xiv, xvii. See AGKLASTES. Douban. An aged royal slave and skillful physician. Ch. xxvi, xxvii, xxviii. COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS. Ill Edric. Hereward's attendant. Ch. xx. Engelbrecht. A sentinel at the Varangian barracks. Ch. xxii. Ernest of Otranto. Prince Tancred's handsome and courteous Italian page. Ch. xxiii, xxix. Godfrey. Duke of Bouillon and Lower Lorraine. The honorable, respected and efficient leader of the first Crusade; afterward King of Jerusalem. Ch. v, ix, xxiii. Grand Domestic. The Emperor's prime minister. Ch. vii. Harpax. A conspiring and thievish Centurion of the Immortals. Ch. ii, xxix, xxxiii. Hereward. A member of the Varangian Guard. He had left Eng- land after the Norman Conquest, and was a handsome, brave and incorruptible soldier. Hereward the Saxon was trusted by his com- mander and the Emperor, cherished by his comrades and admired by Anna Comnena. He was blunt and frank, but self-controlled, thoughtful and alert. He fought with his friend, Robert of Paris, for affronting the Emperor, but neither of the combatants would acknowledge a victory over the other. Hereward refused all the Emperor's offers of preferment, and followed Count Robert to Pal- estine. Through the Count's influence a portion of his English property was restored to Hereward and his bride, Bertha. Ch. i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, xiii, xvi, xviii, xix, xx, xxi, xxii, xxiii, xxvi, xxvii, xxxiii, xxxiv. See ANNA COMNENA; BERTHA; ROBERT OF PARIS. Irene, Empress. The aged and stately wife of Alexius Comnenus. She exerted a powerful influence over her husband, although she secretly hated his hypocrisy. She worshiped her accomplished daughter, Anna Comnena, and said to her in respect to the treason and unfaithfulness of her husband: ' These men, Anna, would tear asunder without scruple the tcnderest tics of affection, the whole structure of domestic felicity, in which lies a woman's cares, her joy, her pain, her love and her despair. . . . The conduct of thy hus- band has been wrong, most cruelly wrong; but, Anna, he is a man, and in call- ing him such, I lay to his charge as natural frailties, thoughtless treachery, wanton infidelity, and every species of folly and inconsistency to which his race is subject. You ought not, therefore, to think of his faults, unless it be to for- give them. Ch. xxvi." Ch. iii, iv, v, xiii, xiv, xxi, xxvi, xxvii, xxxi, xxxiv. See Advertise- ment (1833); ALEXIUS COMNENUS; ANNA COMNENA; NICEPIIORUS BRIENNIUS. Ismail the Infidel. A Moslem soldier, and robber of the Immortal Guard. Ch. ii. 112 THE WAVEKLEY DICTIONARY. Lascaris. A citizen of Constantinople. Ch. ii, xxix. Lysimachus. A conspirator and obsequious designer. Ch. ii, xxii, xxix. Marcian. Armorer to Robert of Paris. Ch. xiii, xv. Martha. Bertha's mother. Ch. xx. See BKUTHA. Narse. A royal slave. Ch. viii. Nicanor. The Protospathaire; the First Swordsman, or General-in- Chief of the imperial army. He was at variance with Achilles Tatius. Ch. ii, iii, vii, xxx, xxxii. See ACHILLES TATIUS. Osmund. A trusty and veteran soldier. Ch. xxiii, xxiv. Peter the Hermit. An influential but fanatical Crusader. Ch. v, xxiii. Phraortes. A Grecian admiral, who died amidst the flames of his squadron, through the mismanagement of Greek fire. Ch. xxix, xxx. Polydore. A Crusader. Ch. xxiii. Raymond of Toulouse. A Crusader, and a venerable French nobleman and distinguished soldier. Ch. ix, xiii, xxiii. Robert of Paris, Count. A French Crusader of the blood of Char- lemagne. He was the favorite of the army, and one of the most reckless and famous knight-errants of his time. He wore very rich armor, and was haughty, handsome and generous, but governed by an enthusiasm for chivalry and adventure. So passionate a Rodomont is Count Robert that he would rather risk the suc- cess of the whole expedition, than omit an opportunity of meeting an antagonist en champ-dos, or lose, as he terms it, a chance of worshipping Our Lady of the Broken Lances', Ch. ix. While Alexius Comnenus was receiving the Crusaders' vows of fealty, Robert of Paris boldly seated himself on the Emperor's throne. Alexius did not forget this affront, and the stay of the Count and Countess of Paris in Constantinople was very perilous. The Count was treacherously separated from his wife, and confined in a dun- geon with a tiger, whom he slew, and in the face of danger gained his liberty and recovered his wife. There is very little doubt that the Count Robert of Paris, whose audacity in seating himself on the throne of the Emperor, gives a peculiar interest to his character, was in fact a person of the highest rank; being no other, as has been conjectured by the learned Du Change, than an ancestor of the house of Dour- bon, which has so long given kings to France. He was a successor, it has been conceived, of the Counts of Paris, by whom the city was valiantly defended against the Normans, and an ancestor of Hugh Capet. Ch. xxxiv. See ADVERTISEMENT (1833). Ch. ix, x, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, xviii, xix, xx, xxii, xxiii, xxxiii, xxxiv. See BKEN HILDA. COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS. 113 Sebastes of Mitylene. A robber and assassin of the Immortal (iuard, killed by the Count of Paris in the latter 's escape from prison. Ch. ii, xvi. See ROBERT OF PARIS. Sylvanus. A large and powerful Ourang-Outang belonging to the imperial menagerie. He was trained by the soldiers to act as warder of the Blacquernal dungeons. Ch. xvi, xix, xxv, xxxiii. See AGELASTES. Tancred. Prince of Otranto. A noble young Crusader, remarkable for his personal beauty. Ch. xxiii, xxiv, xxix, xxx, xxxii, xxxiii. Tatius, Achilles. Commander of the Varangians. The Acolyte or Follower, whose duty required his constant attendance upon the Emperor. He was a cowardly and conceited Greek, who considered himself an adept in politics, and conspired for the imperial crown. The Emperor, for state reasons, spared his life and retained his services. Ch. ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x, xvii, xviii, xix, xxii, xxx, xxxii, xxxiii. The Logothe. Chancellor of The Empire. Ch. vii. The Sebastocrator or Protosebastos. An official next in rank to the Emperor. See ADVERTISEMENT (1833). Ch. v, ix. Toxartis. A Scythian soldier and marauder, who was killed by the Countess of Brenhilda, whom he had insulted. Ch. xi-xiii. See COUNTESS BRENHILDA. Ursel, Zedekias. An able and popular rival, whom Alexius im- prisoned for three years. He was led to believe he had lost his eye- sight, but performed prodigious labor in cutting through the grooves which held the iron bolts of his dungeon. He was restored to lib- erty and health on conditions of assisting the Emperor through a political crisis. In return for his services he obtained permission to retire to a monastery. Ursel said : " Let me find my way to the grave unnoticed, unconstrained, at liberty, in possession of my dim and disused organs of sight, and above all, at peace." Ch. xxviii. Ch. xv, xxi, xxiv, xxvi, xxvii, xxviii, xxxii. See ALEXIUS COMNENUS. Vermandois, Hugh the Great, Count of. A Crusader, and brother to the King of France. Ch. v, ix, xxiii. Vexhelia. Brenhilda's attendant and Osmund's wife. Ch. xxv. Violante. A slave to Anna Comnena, and an accomplished vocal and instrumental musician. She was called the Muse. Ch. iii-xxvi. See ASTARTE. Zosimus. The aged and bigoted Patriarch of the Greek Church. He extorted large advantages from Alexius, in consideration of the 5* 114 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. Church's support of the staggering throne, and the Patriarch's absolution of the imperial sinner. He especially denunciated That irregular and most damnable error which prolongs*, in western churches, the nether limb of that most holy emblem. Ch. vii. Ch. iii, iv, v, vii, ix, xxiv, xxxi. See ALEXIUS COMNENUS. SYNOPSIS. Advertisement (1833). Introductory address by Jedediah Cleisbotham. I. Con- stantinople The Emperor Alexius Comnenus. II. The sleeping Varangian at the Golden Gate The Varangian Guard Hereward thwarts a murderous assault Achilles Tatius, chief of the Varangians, explains to the Saxon the medies of Grecian policy. III. Achilles and Hereward at the palace of the Blacquernal The Emperor's daughter, Anna Comnena, and her literary circle The Emperor and the Varangian Hereward is requested to attend the reading of the account of the affray before Laodicea, and to give the authoress any desired information. IV. The Princess reads her description of The Retreat before Laodicea Effect of the narrative on Hereward Arrival of Anna Comnena's husband, the Caesar Xiceph- orus Briennius. V. The Caesar informs the Emperor of the approach of the Crusaders. VI. Achilles Tatius desires the acute Hereward to observe the philos- opher. Agelastes. VII. The Emperor announces to his Council his policy in respect to the approaching Crusaders The weary Hereward is conducted to Agelastes by the negro, Diogenes. VIII. Agelastes fails to influence Hereward through flattery or superstition Agelastes and Achilles Tatius Hereward's opinion of the philosopher. IX. The Counts of the Crusade acknowledge the wily Emperor as their Suzerain Robert of Paris seats himself on the Emperor's throne Alexius and the haughty Frank Raymond of Toulouse and Godfrey of Bouillon discuss Count Robert of Paris and his Amazonian wife, Brenhilda. X. The martial but loving couple are entertained by Agelastes with the story of the enchanted Princess of Zulichium. XI. The Countess Brenhilda slays the insulting Scythian Agelastes' summer residence. XII. The wondering Franks in Age- lastes 1 luxurious apartments Preparations for the banquet. XIII. Agelastes receives his royal guests Condescension of the Imperial family toward the Count and his Lady The banquet Hereward, resenting the Count's affront to the Emperor, challenges him Agelastes promises to tame the Franks. XIV. Alexius and the would-be Emperor Agelastes distrust each other Count Robert and Lady prepare for the Imperial audience The Count disables the wooden lion Count Robert, heedless of Bohemond's warning, drinks the drugged wine The munifi- cent Emperor. XV. Count Robert and the tiger Count Robert visits Ursel's dungeon. XVI. The Count and the grateful Ourang-Outang Hereward and the escaped Count start in quest of Brenhilda. XVII. The Conspirators Agelastes admits the Caesar to the Cytherean Garden-house, where Brenhilda has been decoyed. XVIII. Hereward acquaints the Count with the conspiracy, and con- ducts him to the Cytherean Gardens, where they assure themselves of Brenhilda's danger from the suit of the enamored Caesar The Lady's challenge. XIX. Here- ward leaves his anxious and hungry companion at the Varangian barracks A female shriek. XX. Reunion of the long separated lovers. Hereward and Bertha They advise together Hereward relieves the Count's hunger Consultation. XXI. Alexius announces to his wife and daughter the Ciesar's unfaithfulness as a subject and a husband Th Emperor confides in Hereward. XXII. Announce- COUNT ROBERT OF PARIS. 115 inent of an approaching combat between the C;csar and Count Robert. XXIII. At Hcreward's request. Bertha seeks the Crusaders' camp in Count Robert's behalf The Crusaders' method of evading the oath, "never to turn back on the sacred journey." XXIV. Anxiety of the (Jreeks concerning the return of the Crusaders The Emperor and Agelastes exchange mutual warnings The conscience-stricken Alexius seeks the Patriarch as a father confessor, and negotiates for the favor and forgiveness of the Church. XXV. The subtle Agelastcs converses with Bren- hilda Agelastes strangled to death by the Ourang-Outang The pious Countess. XXVI. " I will live and die an Emperor " Alexius informs hi* daughter that the Ciesar is doomed, and that she must marry Ursel. to whose dungeon he conducts her Anna Coinnena and Hereward The Empress induces her daughter to inter- cede for the Ciesar The Princess and her husband. XXVII. The Emperor and the physician endeavor to revive Ursel. XXVIII. The view from the palace roof I'rsel agrees to support the Emperor in the anticipated crisis, and asks, in return, to be allowed to retire to a monastery. XXIX. The multitude throng to the lists The discharge of Greek tire, and its disastrous effects to the admiral's vessel. XXX. Tancred's undisturbed lauding Achilles Tatius realizes that the conspir- acy has been thwarted. XXXI. Intercessions for the Ciesar The Emperor par- dons Hriennius in the hall of judgment Anna Comnena's moody reflections. XXXII. The Emperor's precautions Reconciling effect of Ursel's presence and speech. XXXIII. Friendly termination of the encounter between Hereward and Count Robert Hereward refuses the Emperor's favors, and decides to follow the Count to Palestine The Oiirang-Ontang again The events of the day discussed fount Robert's prudence at the Emperor's banquet. XXXIV. Marriage of Bertha and Hereward after the Crusade Anna Comnena's account of the fate of the Emperor Alexius Coinneuus Count Robert's distinguished ancestors and descend- ants The Countess Brenhilda mounts the walls of Jerusalem Return of the wounded and renowned Count Robert of Paris to France William Rufus' grant to Hereward. CASTLE DANGEROUS.* A ROMANCE. "Host* have been known at that dread sound to yield. And, Douglas dead, his name hath won the. Held." 1 JOHN HOME. ARGUMENT. r pHlS romance is laid in the fourteenth century, during the wars -*- between Edward I, of England, and Bruce, of Scotland. It relates to the Black Douglas and his Castle : A place so often won back by its ancient lords, and with such circumstances of valour and cruelty, that it bears in England the name of " The Dangerous Castle." Ch. iii. Anthony. A rough English archer. Ch. ii, vii. Augustine. .SVr LADY AUGUSTA DE BEUKELY. Bend-the-Bow. A civil English archer. Ch. ii, vii. Berkely, Lady Augusta de. A beautiful English heiress, who promised to marry her lover, Sir John De Walton, if he should hold Castle Douglas for a year and a day. She became alarmed for his safety, and came in the vicinity of the Castle, in masculine disguise, under the name of Augustine, and represented herself as the son of her companion, the old minstrel. Bertram. She says to a friend: " I determined to take such measures in respect to shortening the term of his trial, or otherwise, as a sight of Douglas Castle, and why should I deny it? of Sir John De Walton, might suggest." Ch. xi. Her presence at the Convent of St. Bride excited suspicion, and she was compelled to fly to prevent discovery. She became Douglas' prisoner, and he refused to deliver her to De Walton unless the Cas- tle was surrendered. Lady Augusta witnessed the deadly combat between her lover and the Douglas, and after De Walton was forced to yield the Castle, she gave him her " envied hand." Ch. i, ii, viii, ix, x, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, xix, xx. See DE WALTON. * See foot -note on page 49. 116 CASTLE DANGEROUS. 117 Bertram. Lady Augusta de Berkely's old and faithful minstrel and attendant. He was an enthusiast in his profession, and obtained permission to study the old lays in the library of Douglas Castle. Neither imprisonment nor threats of torture could influence him to divulge his mistress' secrets. Ch. i, ii, iii, iv, v, viii, ix, xiii, xviii, xix. See LADY AUOUSTA DE BEHKELY. De Valence, Sir Aymer. Nephew to the Earl of Pembroke, and Deputy Governor of Douglas Castle. Sir Aymer was under twenty- one, valiant and courteous, but jealous of his dignity. He had a long misunderstanding with his Governor, whose discipline gave offense to the haughty youth. Ch. ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x, xii, xiii, xiv, xx. See DE WALTON. De Walton, Sir John. Governor of Douglas Castle; a poor but famous knight, who had engaged to keep the Castle a year and a day in consideration of the hand of Lady Augusta de Berkely. He was handsome, tall, and about thirty. He was naturally noble and generous, but his perilous duty made him severe and suspicious, and he unconsciously persecuted Lady Augusta, who was in disguise at Douglas Dale, and she fell into Douglas' power, who demanded Castle Dangerous as her ransom. This De Walton's loyalty for- bade, and he engaged in a personal combat with his enemy. The conflict was ended by a command from his defeated ally, the Earl of Pembroke, to surrender the Castle. De Walton and Lady Au- gusta were soon married. Kins; Edward was greatly enraged at Sir John De Walton for having surren- dered the Castle of Douglas. . . . The knights to whom he referred the matter as a subject of inquiry, gave it, nevertheless, as their opinion that De Walton was void of all censure, having discharged his duty in its fullest extent, till the commands of his superior officer obliged him to surrender Dangerous Castle. Ch. xx. <'h. v, vi, vii, viii, ix, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xvii, xix, xx. See LADY BERKEI.Y; DOVOLAS. Dickson, Charles. Thomas Dickson's son. A brave and handsome adherent of Douglas, who was killed by De Walton. Ch. ii-xx. See DsW ALTON; DICKSON; DOUGLAS. Dickson, Thomas. A stern and faithful follower of Douglas. Although he hated the English, he was compelled to entertain a portion of their garrison. See Appendix, Ch. i, ii, ix, xii, xx. See DOCGLAS. Douglas, Sir James. The Black Douglas, who devoted himself to winning back his Castle Dangerous. He sometimes adopted the disguise of a Knight of the Tomb, and wore an armor so painted 118 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. as to resemble a skeleton. He could be generous and courteous as well as subtle and redoubted. Among all the associate's of Robert the Bruce, in his great enterprise of res- cuing Scotland from the power of Edward, the first place is universally conceded to James, the eighth Lord of Douglas, to this day venerated by his conn try men as the "Good Sir .lames.'' ... In every narrative of the Scottish war of inde- pendence, a considerable space is devoted to those years of perilous adventure and suffering which were spent by* the illustrious friend of Bruce, in harassing the English detachments successively occupying his paternal territory, and in repeated and successful attempts to wrest the formidable fortress of Douglas Castle itself from their possession. Int. (1832). Sir James Douglas died In Spain. 20th August. 1330, where he fell, assisting the King of Arragon in an expedition against the Moors, when on his way back to Scotland from Jerusa- lem, to which he had conveyed the heart of Bruce. Int. (1832). Int. (1832), ch. iv, v, xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, xx. See DE WALTON. Fleming, Sir Malcolm. A distinguished and handsome follower of Bruce and a friend to Douglas. He was faithless to his betrothed, Lady Margaret de Hautlieu, after she had suffered a disfigurement. Subsequently, when he was in peril, she struck down the sword of his antagonist and saved his life, and Sir Malcolm and Lady Mar- garet were soon afterward united. Ch. xi, xx. See LADY MARGA- RET. DE HAUTLIEU. Glasgow, Bishop of. A good and peaceful prelate, who performed the services ol Palm Sunday in the kirk of Douglas. Ch. xix, xx. Greenleaf, Gilbert. A veteran and wine-loving archer at Dougl as Castle. He was a grave military formalist, who had become im- bittered by the slowness of his advancement. Ch. v, vii, viii, xviii, xix, xx. Harbothel, Fabian. Sir Aymer De Valence's squire and confidant. He was a high-tempered, hasty-judging stripling, much hated by the crabbed veteran Greenleaf. Ch. iii, v, ix. See DE VALENCE; (iREENLEAF. Hautlieu, Lady Margaret de. Ursula, a disfigured but heroic novice at the Abbey of Saint Bride. She had been a beautiful heiress, but was the victim of paternal cruelty, and while attempt- ing to escape to her lover, Sir Malcolm Fleming, she received a fall which sadly marred her countenance. She left the convent only to find that, in losing her beauty, she had also lost her lover. She was a friend to Lady Augusta de Berkely. The Lady of Hautlieu was not only a daring follower of the chase, but it was said that she was even not daunted in the battle-field. . . . The Fleming . . . made an attempt to state his apology to the Lady de Hautlieu herself, who returned the letter unopened. Ch. xx. CASTLE DANGEROUS. 119 She was at length reconciled with her lover, and they consum- mated their early vows. Ch. x, xi, xiv, xx. See LADY DE BEKKKLY; SIR MALCOLM FLEMING. Jerome. Abbot of the Convent of Saint Bride, and an ally of the English. He was a venerable, consequential, ease-loving and money- prizing priest. Ch. ii, ix, x, xii. Knight of the Tomb. See SIR JAMES DOUGLAS. Meredith, Sir. Pembroke's messenger to De Walton. A Welsh knight, known as such by the diminutive size of his steed, his naked limbs and his bloody spear. Ch. xx. Ch. xx. Montenay, Sir Philip de. The old seneschal of Douglas Castle. Ch. viii, xiii. Pembroke, Earl of. A stern old warrior, the patron of De Walton and uncle to DC Valence. He was defeated at Loudon Hill by Bruce. Ch. viii-xx. .See DE VALENCE; DE WALTON. Powheid, Lazarus. The venerable, emaciated, but self-respecting sexton of the kirk of Douglas. He could tell all the traditions relat- ing to the Douglas family, which he faithfully loved and served. Ch. ix. Turnbull, Michael. The Douglas' dark huntsman. A tall, thin and daring outlaw, who attempted to assassinate De Walton and recover Douglas Castle. He was afterward slain by De Walton. Ch. vii, xvi, xvii, xx. See DEWALTON; DOUGLAS. Ursula, Sister. See LADY MARGARET DE HAUTLIEU. SYNOPSIS. Introduction (1831). Appendix. I. Douglas Dale Bertram, the minstrel, and Lady Augusta do Bcrke-ly, disguised as his son, Augustine, approach Dickson's house. II. Dickson's complaints of the English garrison Dispute between Dick- son and his son Charles Bertram is questioned by Sir Aymer De Valence The sick Augustine consents to stay at the convent. III. Sir Aymer and the minstrel travel together toward Douglas Castle Bertram desires to see the famed old lays in the Castle library. IV. The minstrel and Sir Aymer converse about the Douglas family and the war between England and Scotland ' ; The Douglas Larder." V. Bertram relates to Sir Aymer a tale about Thomas the Rhymer's appearance to the minstrel Hugonet. and his prophecy concerning the Castle Arrival at the Dan- gerous Castle of Douglas Dispute between the archer and the squire Sir John De Walton's annoyance at Bertram's admission to the Castle Coolness between the Governor and his Deputy, Sir Aymer. VI. The Knights fail of understanding each other Sir John appoints a hunt in Douglas Dale. VII. The hunt Michael Turnbull. Douglas' huntsman, threatens Sir John, and escapes the soldiers. VIII. Confusion occasioned by Turnbtill's presence The Earl of Pembroke's reproving letter to his aggrieved nephew Sir Aymer and Sir John differ in respect to the 120 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. minstrel Bertram'.* faithful silence. IX. Bertram"? letter Sir John tries in vain to see Augustine Sir Aymer pursues a Douglas' retainer and arrests the sexton. X. Father Jerome gives an account of Augustine's good behavior Sir Aynier and Augustine The escape. XI. A retrospect Lady Augusta relates to Sister Ursula her love and solicitude for Sir John l)e Walton The disfigured novice. I'rsnla (Lady Margaret de Hautlieu), tells of her romance with Sir Malcolm Flem- ingFlight of the ladies. XII. Augustine's note Sir Aymer penetrates the mys- tery and also suspects a conspiracy against the English garrison. XIII. Bertram reveals the truth Reconciliation Sir Aymer as adviser and consoler. XIV. The pursuit The fugitives Lady Augusta and the Knight of the Tomb. XV. Lady Augusta a captive. XVI. The Douglas' rendezvous. XVII. The blindfolded Lady Augusta carried in the arms of Douglas Turnbiill refuses to deliver the lady to her lover unless he surrenders the Castle The wounded Turnbull Combat between Sir John De Walton and Sir James of Douglas A truce agreed to in order to attend the services of Palm Sunday. XVIII. Bertram finds a listener in Gilbert Greenleaf. XIX. The minstrel and the archer are alarmed at the evi- dences of a recent conflict at Bloody Sykes, and hasten to the kirk of Douglas The lady and her minstrel again united The Bishop of Glasgow officiates The dying Turnbull A gage of battle. XX. A crisis Death of young Dickson, and his father's stoicism Lady Margaret assists her faithless lover, Fleming Des- perate conflict between Sir John and the Douglas Pembroke's defeat and De Walton's orders to surrender Lady Augusta and the generous Douglas Sur- render of Douglas Castle and marriage of Lady Augusta and De Walton Sir Malcolm and Lady Margaret The author's fareweD. ROB ROY. A ROMANCK. " For why? Because the good old rule Sutficeth thi'in; the simple plan. That they should take who have the power. And they should keep who can." Rob Roy's Grave. WOHDSWOKTII R ARGUMENT. OB ROY is Francis Osbaldistone's autobiography, and it is laid at the period of the rebellion of 1715. The singular character whose name is given to the title-page. . . . through good report and bad report, has maintained a wonderful degree of importance in popular recollection. This cannot be ascribed to the distinction of his birth, which, though that of a gentleman, had in it nothing of high destination, and gave him little right to command in his clan. Neither, though he lived a busy, restless and enterpris- ing life, were his feats equal to those of other freebooters, who have been less dis- tinguished. He owed his fame in a great measure to his residing on the very verge of the Highlands, and playing such pranks in the beginning of the eighteenth cen- tury as are usually ascribed to Robin Hood in the middle ages. and that within forty miles of Glasgow, a great commercial city, the seat of a learned university. Thus a character like his. blending the wild virtues, the subtle policy and unre- strained license of an American Indian, was flourishing in Scotland during the Augustan age of Queen Anne and George I. Int. (1829). Alaster. Rob Roy's minstrel. Ch. xxxi. Allan. One of Rob Roy's clan. Ch. xxxi. Breck, Angus. A member of Rob Roy's clan. Ch. xxxi-xxxix. Brown, Jonathan. The ruddy-faced host of the Black Bear. Ch. iv. Campbell, Helen anil Bob Boy. On account of the outlawry of the MacGregors, Rob Roy and wife adopted the name of Campbell. See MACGREGOR (HELEN and ROB ROY.) Cramp, Corporal. Captain Thornton's subordinate. Ch. xxx, xxxi. o 121 122 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. Dougal. Rob Roy's devoted emissary. Under an appearance of hopeless and brutal stupidity he concealed great kindness, fidelity and cunning. Threatened with death, he consented to take Cap- tain Thornton to Rob Roy's place of concealment, and he design- edly led the soldiers into an ambush, where captivity and death awaited them. He assisted in extricating Francis Osbaldistone and Bailie Jarvie from a situation of peril. "The Dougal Creature" was much moved at meeting Rob Roy after a long separation. He was a wild, shock-headed looking animal, whose profusion of red hair covered and obscured his features, which were otherwise only characterized by the extravagant joy that affected him at the sight of my guide. In my experi- ence I have met nothing so absolutely resembling my idea of a very uncouth, wild and ugly savage, adoring the idol of his tribe. He grinned, he shivered, he laughed, he was near crying, if he did not actually cry. He had a " Where shall I go? What can I do for you ?" expression of face ; the complete, surrendered an;l anxious subservience and devotion of which it is difficult to describe. Ch. xxii. Ch. xxi, xxii, xxiii, xxviii, xxx, xxxi, xxxvi. See ROB ROY MAO GKEGOH. Dubourg, Clement. Osbaldistone and Tresham's efficient clerk. Ch. ii. See M. DUBOUIIG. Dubourg, M. Osbaldistone and Tresham's agent at Bordeaux; Clement's father. Ch. i, ii. See WILLIAM OSBALDISTONE. Ewan of Brigglands. A powerful Highlander, who was given charge of Rob Roy. On his way to prison, Rob Roy so prevailed on Ewan that he gave him his freedom. The commanding officer Fired a pistol at his head, whether fatally I know not. Ch. xxiii. Int. (1829), ch. xxiii. See ROB ROY. Fairservice, Andrew. Gardener to Sir Hildebrand for over twen- ty years. He afterward engaged as a servant to Francis Osbaldi- stone. He was averse tq hard labor, and anticipated larger wages in Frank's service. He was a Scotch Presbyterian, very much preju- diced against the Union and Romanism. Notwithstanding his canting piety, he had been a smuggler in his youth, and his ideas of honesty were distorted. He was humorous and shrewd, but ob- durate, cowardly and officious. He did not scruple both to dispute and advise his master. So Frank discharged the "greedy, tire- some, meddling coxcomb," but Andrew was satisfied with his quar- ters, and would not go. Fairservice was gifted with The art, which he possessed in no inconsiderable degree, of affecting an ex- treme attachment to his master; which theoretical attachment he made com- patible in practice with playing all manner of tricks without scruple, providing only against his master being cheated by any one but himself. Ch. xxxvii. Ch. vi, xiv, xv, xvii, xviii, xix, xx, xxi, xxiii, xxiv, xxvi, xxvh, xxviii, ROB ROY. 123 xxix, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix. See FitAxris ( )SI;ALDISTONE. Flyter, Mrs. Hostess of a Glasgow inn. "The Ostelere of old father Chaucer." ('h. xix, xxi, xxiv, xxxvi. Galbraith, Duncan, Major. An officer in the Lennox Militia, and Laird of Garschattachin. He was Bailie Jarvie's debtor, and was convivial and bellicose, with Jacobite tendencies. Ch. xxviii, xxix, xxx, xxxii, xxxiii. Hammorgaw, Mr. Fairservice's friend; a grave Glasgow pre- centor. Ch. xxi, xxiii, xxiv. Inglewood, Squire. A Northumbrian justice, and whitewashed Jacobite. Francis Osbaldistone went before him when charged by Morris with robbery. The Squire was a kind old bachelor, and had a paternal regard for Diana Vernon, who thus describes him: " Squire Inglewood, . . . retaining a sort of instinctive attachment to the opinions which lie professed openly until he relaxed his political creed, with the patriotic view of enforcing the law against unauthorized destroyers of black game, grouse, partridges and hares, is peculiarly embarrassed when the zeal of his assistant involves him in judicial proceedings connected with his earlier faith ; and. instead of seconding his zeal, he seldom fails to oppose to it a double dose of indolence and lack of exertion. And this inactivity does not by any means arise from actual stupidity. On the contrary, for one whose principal delight is in eating and drinking, he is an alert, joyous and lively old soul, which makes his assumed dnlness the more diverting. . . . This same car of justice. ... go hard to put in motion on some occasions, can on others run fast enough down hill of its own accord, . . . when- anything can be done of service to Squire Inglewood's quondam friends." Ch. vii. Ch. vii, viii, ix, xxxvii. See JOBSON; DIANA VERNON. Inverashalloch. Iverach's companion, and Rob Roy's enemy. A little, dark-complexioned man, with a lively, quick and irritable expression of features, wore the trews, or close pantaloons, woven out of a chequered stock- ing stuff. Ch. xxviii. Ch. xxviii, xxix. Iverach, Allan. One of Rob Roy's enemies. A very tall, strong man, with a quantity of reddish hair, freckled face, high cheek-bones, and a long chin a sort of caricature of the national features of Scotland. Ch. xxviii. Ch. xxviii, xxix. Jarvie, Nicol. A Glasgow bailie and merchant; Rob Roy's kins- man and friend. He was bob-wigged, corpulent, short and bus- tling. He was an alert magistrate, and honorable business man. He was an agent for Osbaldistone and Tresham, and, with Francis Osbaldistone, he undertook a perilous journey in the Highlands in their behalf. 124 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. Nothing can promise less originality and interest than the portrait of a con- ceited, petulant, purse-proud tradesman, full of his own and his father' * lo< ;ii dignity and importance, and of mercantile and Presbyterian formalities, and to- tally without tact or discretion, who does nothing iu the story but <:ive hail, take a journey and marry his maid. But the courage, the generosity, and the frank naivete and warm-heartedness, which are united to these unpromising ingredi- ents, and. alx>ve all perhaps, the " Hieland hlude of him that warms at thae daft tales of venturesome deeds and escapes, tho" they are all sinfu' vanities," and makes him affirm before the council that Rob Roy. "set apart what he had dune again the law o' the county, and the heirship o' the Lennox (i. e. the hiving waste and plundering a whole county), and the misfortunes o' some folk losing life by him. was an honester man than stude on any o' their hanks,'' make him original and interesting. Senior. Ch. xxii, xxiii, xxiv, xxvi, xxvii, xxviii, xxix, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiv, xxxv, xxxvi. Jobson, Joseph. Squire Tnglewood's clerk. A sharp Newcastle attorney, called Jobson, who . . . finds it a good thing enough to retail justice at the sign of Squire Inglewood, and as his own emolu- ments depend on the quantity of business which he transacts, he hooks in his principal for a great deal more employment in the justice line than the honest Squire had ever bargained for; so that no apple-wife, within the circuit of ten miles, can settle her account with a eostermonger without an audience of the reluctant Justice and his alert clerk. . . . Mr. Joseph Jobson ... is a pro- digious zealot for the Protestant religion, and a great friend to the present es- tablishment in church and state. Ch. vii. Some of his disreputable and illegal proceeding's were at length discovered. The rascal's name was struck off the list of attorneys, and he was reduced to poverty and contempt. Ch. xxxix. Ch. vii, viii, ix, xxxvii, xxxix. See. INGLEWOOD. Latin-ruin, Mr. A short barber; a Jacobite frequenter of the Black Bear. Oh. iv. MacAlpine, Jeanie. Hostess at Clanchan Aberfpil, with Wild and anxious features, . . . pale, thin and rather above the usual size, whose soiled and ragged dress, though aided by a plaid of tartan screen, barely served the puri>oses of decency, and certainly not those of comfort. Ch. xxviii. Ch. xxviii, xxix, xxx, xxxiv, xxxv. MacAnaleister, Eachin. Rob Roy's powerful lieutenant. Ch. xxxiv. MacFin, Mr. A member of the firm of MacVittie, MacFin and Co. Ch. xx, xxii, xxxvi. MacGregor, Hamish or James. Rob Roy's eldest son. A hand- some youth. Int. (1839), ch. xxxi, xxxii, xxxv. MacGregor, Helen. Rob Roy's wife. A commanding-looking woman, between forty and fifty years, and dressed in the Highland costume. She was devoted to her husband and family, and the per- ROB ROY. 125 secutions inflicted on the MacGregors and her deep private wrongs made her very bitter against the English. She executed summary vengeance upon a party of soldiers that had been sent to arrest Rob Roy. I do not know if Helen MacGregor had personally mingled in the fray, and indeed I was afterwards given to understand the contrary; but the specks of blood on her brow, her hands and naked arms, as well as on the blade of her suord. . . . her (lushed countenance, and the disordered state of her raven locks, which escaped from under the red bonnet and plume that formed her head-dress, seemed all to intimate that she had taken an immediate share in the conflict. Her keen black eyes and features expressed an imagination inflamed by the pride of gratified revenge and the triumph of victory, . . . Nevertheless, the enthusiasm by which she was agitated gave her countenance and deport- ment, wildly dignified in themselves, an air which made her approach nearly to the ideas of those wonderful artists who gave to the eye the heroines of Script- ure history. Ch. xxxi. Helen MacGregor greeted her kinsman, Bailie Jarvie, with an embrace that terrified him, and she received Francis Osbaldistone also in a friendly manner. "You came." she added, "to our unhappy country when our bloods were chafed and our hands were red. Excuse the rudeness that gave you a rough wel- come, and lay it upon the evil times, and not upon us." All this was said with the manners of a princess, and in the tone and style of a court. . . . There was a strong provincial accentuation, but otherwise the language rendered by Helen MacGregor, out of the native and poetical Gaelic, into English, which she had acquired as we do learned tongues, but had probably never heard applied to the moan purposes of ordinary life, was graceful, flowing and declamatory. Ch. xxxv. Int. (1829), ch. xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxv. See BAILIE JARVIE; ROB ROY MAC-GREOOH; MOKRIS. MacGregor, Robert. A younger son of Rob Roy; a dark and athletic youth. Int. (1829), ch. xxxi, xxxii, xxxv. MacGregor, Bob Boy. Robert the Red. The adored chieftain of the MacGregors. The name of MacGregor being proscribed, he adopted that of Campbell, and was under the protection of the Duke of Argyle. He is the hero of renowned deeds of daring, and of outlawry and adventure, marked by acumen and address. He is represented in the novel as in the prime of life, and as a Jacobite interested in the insurrection of 1715. His political sympathies placed him under the influence of Diana Vernon and her father. In accordance with their wishes, he comes to Francis Osbaldistone 's assistance in many moments of need. He is so important a person in the young gentleman's career that Frank's autobiography is called "Rob Hoy." This Robin Hood of Scotland could be very crafty, but he was kind to the poor, and never cruel. He had been 126 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. a drover in early life. The wrongs of his clan, poverty, and prob- ably natural inclination, led him to another vocation. His depre- dations involved him in many feuds. At the head of his band, he sought vengeance, committed robberies and levied blackmail. He himself appears to have been singularly adapted for the profession which he proposed to exercise. His stature was not of the tallest, but his person was uncommonly strong and compact. The greatest peculiarities of his frame were the breadth of his shoulders, and the great and almost disproportionate lenirth of his arms; so remarkable, indeed, that it was said he could, without stooping. tie the garters of his Highland hose, which are placed two inches below the knee. His countenance was open, manly, stern at periods of danger. b;it frank and cheerful in his hours of festivity. His hair was dark red, thick, and fri/zlcd and curled short around the face. His fashion of dress showed, of course, the knees and upper part of the leg. . . . resembling that of a Highland bull, hir- sute with red hair, and evincing muscular strength similar to that animal. To these personal qualifications must be added a masterly use of the Highland sword, in which his length of arm gave him great advantage. and a perfect and intimate knowledge of all the recesses of the wild country in which IK' har- boured, and the character of the various individuals, whether friendly or hostile, with whom he might come in contact. Int. (1829). He thus resented being called Mr. Campbell when in the High- lands: "Do not Maister or Campbell me my foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor! " Ch. xxxv. Int. (1829), ch. iv, ix, xiv, xx, xxi, xxii, xxiii, xxiv, xxvi, xxix, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxiv, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxix. See HELEN MACGREGOR; FRAN- CIS OSBALDISTONE; VfiRNON (DlANA (Old SlR FREDERICK). Macready, Pate. A peddler, and distant relative to Fairservice. A tough, sagacious, long-headed Scotchman, and a collector of news, both from choice and profession. Ch. xiv. Ch. xiv. MacVittie, Mr. Principal member of the firm of MacVittie, Mac- Fin and Co. They were the obsequious Glasgow agents for Osbaldi- stone and Tresham ; but when trouble came to the English house, they acted in a dishonorable and unfriendly manner. They were never able to reinstate themselves in favor again. Mr. MacVittie was a tall, thin, elderly man. with hard features, thick grey eyebrows, light eyes, and. as 1 imagined, a sinister expression of countenance, from which my heart recoiled. Ch. xx. Ch. xx, xxii, xxv, xxxvi. See WILLIAM OSBALDISTONE. Martha. The old and superstitious housekeeper at Osbaldistone Hall, who found great comfort in a tankard. Ch. xiv-xvii. Mattie. Bailie Jarvie's young and good-looking serving-woman, who afterward made him an excellent wife. Ch. xxii, xxiii, xxiv, xxvii, xxxvi. See BAILIE JARVIE. ROB ROY. 127 Mixit, Dr. A Jacobite apothecary and frequenter of the Black Hear. Ch. iv. Montrose, Duke of. A descendant of James Grahame, the great Marquis of Montrose. He held a high commission under the gov- ernment, and arrested Rob Roy, but the outlaw adroitly escaped from Montrose's sentence of death. He wore a cuirass of polished steel, over which were drawn the insignia of the ancient Order of the Thistle. Ch. xxxii. Int. (1829), ch. xxxii, xxxiii. Morris, Mr. A timid revenue officer, and Rashleigh Osbaldistone's tool. He unjustly accused Francis Osbaldistone of robbery, and was instrumental in Rob Roy's arrest. He was sent to Helen Mac- Gregor as a hostage for her husband's safety, with the message that Rob Roy and the gauger had better both be hung. He fell prostrate before the female Chief, with an effort to clasp her knees, from which she drew back, as if his touch had been pollution, so that all he could do in token of the extremity of his humiliation, was to kiss the hem of her plaid. I never heard entreaties for life poured forth with such agony of spirit. The ecstasy of fear was such, that instead of paralysing his tongue, as on ordi- nary occasions, it even rendered him eloquent: and. with cheeks pale as ashes. hands compressed in agony, eyes that seemed to be taking their last look of all mortal objects, he protested, with the deepest oaths, his total ignorance of any design on the person of Rob Roy, whom he swore he loved and honoured as his own soul. In the inconsistency of his terror, he said he was but the agent of others. ... He prayed but for life for life he would give all he had in the world: it was but life he asked life, if it were to be prolonged under tortures and privations; he asked only breath, though it should be drawn in the damps of the lowest caverns of their hills. It is impossible to describe the scorn, the loathing and contempt, with which the wife of MacGregor regarded this wretched petitioner for the poor boon of existence. " I could have bid ye live," she said, " had life been to you the same weary and wasting burden that it is to me, . . . that it is to every noble and generous mind. But you wretch '. you could creep through the world unaffected by its various disgraces, its ineffable miseries, its constantly accumulating masses of crime and sorrow; you could live and enjoy yourself, while the noble-minded are betrayed while nameless and birthless villains tread on the neck of the brave and the long descended; you could enjoy yourself like a butcher's dog in the shambles, fattening on garbage, while the slaughter of the oldest and best went on around you! This enjoyment you shall not live to partake of! You shall die. base dog." Ch. xxxi. True to her word, Helen MacGregor had Morris thrown over a precipice, into a lake. Ch. iii, iv, viii, ix, xiv, xxv, xxvi, xxxi. Sec HELEN MACGREGOR; RASHLEIGH OSBALDISTONE. Neilson, Christopher. A lively but elderly Glasgow surgeon. Ch. xxv. 128 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. Osbaldistone, Dickon or Richard. Son of Sir Hildebrand Os- balclistone. A sportsman, "horseman" and gambler. Dickon broke his neck near Warringtoii Bridge, in an attempt to show off a foundered blood-mare, which he wished to palm upon a Manchester merchant, who had joined the insurgents. He pushed the animal at a five-barred gate; she fell in the leap, and the unfortunate jockey lost his life. Ch. xxxvii. Ch. v, vi, vii. xxxvii. Osbaldistone, Francis. William Osbaklistone's son. At the re- quest of his friend, Will Tresham, Frank writes his autobiography, entitled "Rob Roy." The story of the romance, experiences and adventures of his eventful life is told in an engaging and thrilling style. Francis was a young man of refined nature, high spirit anil cultivated tastes. His education and inclinations made him adverse to mercantile life, and this repugnance to business led to an estrange- ment between himself and father. Frank was banished to Osbaldi- stone Hall to woo the muses at his leisure, and his cousin Rashleigh was taken into the counting-house in his place. At the Hall he met Diana-Vernon, a Catholic Jacobite, and he became her companion, instructor and lover. The knowledge that her father had destined her for a convent, did not diminish the ardor of his suit. In pain and remorse he hears of his father's financial troubles, and resolves to extricate him from his difficulties. Diana was his helping ally, but Frank was tortured by jealousy and doubts. He had continually to combat Rashleigh's intrigues and malice. Through filial affec- tion, Frank endured harassing perplexities and appalling dangers, and saved "Osbaldistone and Tresham " from ruin. A reconcilia- tion between father and son resulted. He engaged in suppressing the rebellion of 1715, and succeeded to the title and estate of his uncle, Sir Hildebrand Osbaldistone, and was, at length, married to Diana Vernon. See OSBALDISTONE (HILDEBRAND, RASHLEIGH and WILLIAM); ROB ROY; DIANA VERNON. Osbaldistone, Sir Hildebrand. A Northumbrian Jacobite. He had been knighted by James II, and had lived ever since in retire- ment, on account of his politics. He was a blunt sportsman, but convivial, kind-hearted and hospitable. He had six sons. A man aged about sixty, in a hunting suit . . . which had been tarnished by many a November and December storm. . . . Notwithstanding his rusticity, however. Sir Hildebrand retained much of the exterior of a gentleman, and ap- peared among his sons as the remains of a Corinthian pillar, defaced and over- grown with moss and lichen, might have looked if contrasted with the rough unhewn masses of upright stones in Stonhengc, or any other Druidical temple. Ch. vi. He was complicated in the rebellion of 1715, and friendly influ- ROB ROY. 129 ence saved him from a trial for high treason. This rash enterprise, together with the reckless debauchery of his sons, nearly impover- ished him. He was left childless in his old age, with the exception of Rashleigh, whom he disinherited on account of his political treachery. Five of his sons were dissolute, and the youngest was villainous. His nephew, Francis, was his heir. He seemed to me completely worn out and broken down by fatigues of body and distress of mind, and rather seemed to cease to exist than to die of any posi- tive struggle. Ch. xxxvii. Ch v, vi, vii, xi, xii, xiv, xxxvii. See the OSBALDISTONES. Osbaldistone, John. Sir Hildebrand's son; given to licentious- ness, wrestling and gamekeeping. The giant John . . . had kept the ring at Hexham for a year. Ch. xii. He died of wounds received in the rebellion of 1715. Ch. v, vi, xii, xxxvii. Osbaldistone, Percival. Sir Hildebrand's eldest son; a drunken sportsman, who died during the rebellion of 1715, from the effects of fulfilling an enormous drinking wager. Ch. v, vi, xii, xxxvii. See SlR HlLDEBRAND OSBALDISTONE. Osbaldistone, Bashleig-h. Sir Hildebrand Osbaldistone's young- est son. He was a wily Jacobite conspirator, and had been edu- cated for the Catholic priesthood. While acting as instructor to his kinswoman, Diana Vernon, he attempted her seduction. Through his fear of her virtuous resentment, Diana was able to control and thwart many of his villainous schemes. His character was in direct contrast to that of his sport-loving father and brothers. Diana Vernon said: " lie's a mighty hunter, but it's after the fashion of Nimrod, and his game is man." Ch. vii, He was sensual, grasping and malicious, but was brilliant in con- versation, and fascinating in his manners. Upon his uncle's offer of a clerkship in the counting-house of "Osbaldistone and Tresh- am," he yielded his dreams of ecclesiastical advancement for the more tangible realities of commerce. He fled with the valuable assets of the firm, which he was compelled to restore, and was dis- inherited by his father because he had betrayed the Jacobite inter- ests. His appearance was not in itself prepossessing. He was of low stature. . . . Rashleigh. though strong in person, was bull-necked, and cross-made, and from some injury in his youth had an Imperfection in his gait, so much resembling an absolute halt, that many alleged that it formed the obstacle to his taking or- ders-; the Church of Rome, as is well known, admitting none to the clerical pro- fession who labour under any personal deformity. Others, however, ascribed 130 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. this unsightly defect to a mere awkward habit, and contended that it did not amount to a personal disqualification from holy orders. The features of Ha>h- leigh were such, as having looked upon, we in vain wish to banish from memory, to which they recur as objects of painful curiosity, although we d\\ upon them with a feeling of dislike and even of disgust. It was not the act plainness of his face, taken separately from the meaning, which made t strong impression. His features were, indeed, irregular, but they were by means vulgar; and his keen dark eyes and shaggy eyebrows redeemed his face from the charge of common-place ugliness. But there was in these eyes an ex- pression of art and design, and, on provocation, a ferocity tempered by caution, which nature had made obvious to the most ordinary physiognomist, perhaps with the same intention that she has given the rattle to the poisonous snake. As if to compensate him for these disadvantages of exterior. Rashleigh Osbaldi- stone was jx>ssessed of a voice the most soft, mellow and rich in its tones that I ever heard, and was at no loss for language of every sort suited to so fine an organ. . . . My . . . kinsman would make an instant conquest of a mistress whose ears alone were to judge his cause. Ch. vi. Rashleigh hated his cousin, Francis, who had assisted at expos- ing his duplicity and crime, and he especially resented Diana Ver- non's preference for Francis. Rashleigh was killed in a treacherous attack which he made upon Francis and the Vernons. He said to Francis: " In love, in ambition, in the paths of interest, you have crossed and blighted me at every turn. . . . My very patrimony has become yours; . . . may the curse of a dying man cleave to it." Ch. xxxix. Ch. v, vi, viii, x, xi, xii, xiii, xvi, xvii, xxv, xxxvii, xxxix. See OS- BALDISTONE (FRANCIS, HIL.DEBRAKD cmd WILLIAM); DIANA VER- NON. Osbaldistone, Thorncliff. Sir Hildebrand's favorite son. Thornie is more of the bully than the sot, the gamekeeper, jockey or fool. C'h. vi. In accordance with a family compact, Thorncliff' was considered as the future husband of Diana Vernon. He was jealous of Francis Osbaldistone, and displayed toward him a sullen, suspicious and resentful bearing. He was killed in a quarrel with a fellow Jaco- bite during the rebellion of 1715. Ch. v, vi, vii, xii, xxxvii. See OSBALDISTONE (FRANCIS and HILDEBRAND); DIANA VERNON. Osbaldistone, Wilfred. Sir Hildebrand's son; an imbecile sports- man and Jacobite. He was slain at Proud Preston, in Lancashire, on the day General Carpenter attacked the barricades, lighting with great bravery, though I have lizard he was never able exactly to comprehend the cause of the quarrel, and did not uni- formly remember on which king's side he was engaged. Ch. xxxvii. <'h. v. vi, xii, xxxvii. See SIR HILDEBRAND OSBALDISTONE. Osbaldistone, William. Francis Osbaldistone's father; a wealthy and influential London merchant. In his youth he had been disin- ROB ROY. 131 herited in favor of his younger brother. Sir Hildebrand. Unaided, he had accumulated an immense fortune. There was a temporary estrangement between himself and son on account of the young man's disinclination to business. Mr. Osbaldistone was brought to grief and mortification by the machinations of his nephew, Rash- leigh, which for a short time imperiled the credit of Osbaldistone and Tresham. Mr. Osbaldistone was of efficient service to the gov- ernment in suppressing the rebellion of 1715. Francis said to Rashleigh: ' You will find in my father a man who ha* followed tin- paths of thriving mo iv for the exercise they afforded to his talents than for the love of the gold with which they are strewed. His active mind would have been happy in any situation which gave it a scope for exertion, though that exertion had been it:- sole reward. But his wealth has accumulated, because moderate and frugal in his habits, no new sources of expense have occurred to dispose of his increasing income. He is a man who hates dissimulation in others; never practises it him- self; and is peculiarly alert in discovering motives through the colouring of la guage. Himself silent by habit, he is readily disgusted by great talkers. ... II is severely strict in the duties of religion; but you have no reason to fear his i lerference with yours, for he regards tolerance as a sacred principle of politic; 1 economy. But if you have any Jacobitical partialities, . . . yon will do well t suppress them in his presence, as well as the least tendency to the high-flyin or Tory principles, for he holds both in utter detestation. For the rest, his word is hi* own bond, and must be the law of all who act under him. He will fail i his duty to no one. and will permit no one to fail towards him; to cultivate h favour, you must execute his commands, instead of echoing his sentiments. II greatest failings arise out of prejudices connected with his own profession. < rather his exclusive devotion toil, which makes him see little worthy of praise or attention, unless it be in some way connected with commerce." Ch. xi. Ch. i, ii, iv, xi, xvii, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxix. See OSBALDISTONE (FRANCIS and RASHLEIGH). Owen, Joseph. William Osbaldistone 's head clerk. During a tem- porary embarrassment of Osbaldistone and Tresham he was impris- oned for their debts, but was speedily bailed out by Bailie Jarvie. He was grave and formal, but very faithful in his duties, and affec- tionately attached to young Francis. Ch. i, ii, xv, xvii, xxii, xxiii, xxiv, xxvi, xxxvi. Sec BAILIE JAKVIE. Quit am, Mr. A frequenter of the Black Bear; an attorney, who, aspiring to some office, supported the government. Ch. iv. Rickets, Mabel. An old Northumbrian woman ; the nurse both to William Osbaldistone and his son. She entertained Frank's yout'> with the history and traditions of the Osbaldistones. Ch. iv. Bob Boy. Si'e ROB ROY MAC-GHEGOK. Butledge, Archie. A constable. Ch. xxxviii, xxxix. 132 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. Shafton, Ned. A condemned Jacobite prisoner at Newgate. Ch. xxxvii. Stanchells, Captain. The principal jailor of the Glasgow prison. Ch. xxii, xxiii. Standish, Squire. A zealous persecutor of the Jacobites. Ch. xxxvii. Syddall, Anthony. The faithful and secretive old butler at Osbal- distone Hall. Ch. xxxviii. xxxix. The Curate. A Jacobite frequenter of the Black Bear. Ch. iv. The Exciseman. A frequenter of the Black Bear. Ch. iv. Thornton, Captain. A generous and brave officer. Being under orders to arrest Rob Roy, he was betrayed into an ambuscade, and his troops were butchered and he was detained as a prisoner. Ch. xxix, xxx, xxxii. Touthope, Mr. A shrewd and dishonest justice's clerk. Ch. xix. Tresham, Mr. Father to Will Tresham, and " sleeping partner " in the firm of " Osbaldistone and Tresham." Ch. i. Tresham, Will. Francis Osbaldistone 's friend. Ch. i. See FRANCIS OSBALDISTONE. Trumbull, Bailie. Touthope's colleague. Ch. xix. See TOUTHOPE. Twineall, Mr. A young coxcomb in the employ of Osbaldistone and Tresham. Ch. ii. Vaughan, Father. See SIR FREDERICK VERNON. Vernon, Diana. Sir Frederick Vernon's daughter, who had inher- ited pride of birth and loyalty to the Catholic religion and Stuart family. She was a dependent on her uncle, Sir Hildebrand. Five of her cousins were illiterate and debauched, and the sixth, Rash- leigh, had plotted for her ruin. Her father was in concealment at Osbaldistone Hall, and she feared that Rashleigh would betray him, and was, therefore, compelled, in a measure, to restrain her indig- nation against him. She was possessed of bewildering beauty and a carefully cultivated intellect, together with a perfect self-posses- sion and presence of mind. She disdained falsehood and had a contempt for ceremony, and endured cheerfully and firmly the perplexities of her position. In her manner there was mingled a queenly dignity and a charming frankness. "A vision . . . paired me. . . . the loveliness of whose very striking features was enhanced by the animation of the chase and the glow of the exercise, mounted on a beautiful horse, jet black, unless where he was flecked by spots of the snow-white foam which embossed his bridle. She wore ... a riding habit. Her ".ong black hair streamed on the breeze, having, in the hurry of the chase, escaped from the ribbon which bound it." Ch. v. ROB ROY. * 133 When questioned by Frank concerning her studies, she said: "Science and history are my principal favourites, but I also study poetrj- and classics. . . . Rashleigh . . . taught me (ireck and Latin, as well as most of the language* of modern Europe. 1 assure yon there has been some pains taken in my education, although I can neither sew a tucker, nor work cross-stitch, nor make a pudding, nor, as the vicar's fat wife, with as much truth as elegance, good-will and politeness, was pleased to say in my behalf, do any other useful thing in the varsal world. . . . As I learned out of doors to ride a horse, and bri- dle and saddle him in case of necessity, and to clear a five-barred gate, and tire a gun without winking, and all other of those masculine accomplishments that my brute cousins run mad after, I wanted, like my rational cousin, to read Greek and Latin within doors." Oh. x. Boidcs the progress which Miss Vernon, whose powerful mind readily adopted every means of information offered to it, had made in more abstract science, I found her no contemptible linguist, and well acquainted both with ancient and modern literature. Were it not that strong talents will often go far- thest when they seem to have least assistance, it would be almost incredible to tell the rapidity of Miss Vernon's progress in knowledge; and it was still more extraordinary when her stock of mental acquisition from books was compared with her total ignorance of actual life. It seemed as if she saw and knew every- thing except what passed in the world around her, and I believe it was this very ignorance and simplicity of thinking upon ordinary subjects, so strikingly con- trasted with her fund of general knowledge and information, which rendered her conversation so irresistibly fascinating, and riveted the attention to whatever she said or did; since it was absolutely impossible to anticipate whether her next word or action was to display the most acute perception or the most pro- found simplicity. Ch. xiii. In accordance with a family arrangement, she was destined for the convent in case she refused to be the bride of one of Sir Hilde- brand Osbaldistone's sons. Rashleigh and Thorncliff were both her suitors. When Francis Osbaldistone declared his love for her she thus answered him: " I am, by solemn contract, the bride of heaven, unless I could prefer being wedded to villainy in the person of Rashleigh Osbaldistone, or brutality in that of his brother. I am, therefore, the bride of heaven betrothed to the convent from the cradle. To me. therefore, these raptures are misapplied." Ch. xvi. Diana accompanied her father during the perils and fatigues of the rebellion of 1715. In reward for her dutiful care, Sir Frederick left taking the veil optional with herself. At the close of his auto- biography Francis Osbaldistone says: " How I sped in my wooing, Will Tresham, I need not tell yon. Yon know, too, how long and happily I lived with Diana. You know how I lamented her; but you do not know you cannot know how she deserved her husband's sor- row." Ch. xxxix. Ch. v, vi, vii, vih, ix, x, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, xxxiii, xxxviii, xxxix. See OSBALDISTONE (FKANCIS, HILDEBRAND, RASHLEIGH and THORNCLIFF); SIR FREDERICK VERNON. 134 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. Vernon, Sir Frederick. Diana Vernon's father. He was a trusted agent of the Stuart faction, and lived in concealment at Osbaldi- stone Hall, under the name of Father Vaughan. He was a man of commanding presence and manner, and was brave, honorable and stern. After the perils of the rebellion of 1715 he escaped to France. Ch. v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, xxxiii, xxxviii, xxxix. See DIANA VERNON. Wardlaw, Mr. The honest and sensible land steward at Osbaldi- stone Hall. Oh. xxxviii. Wingfield, Ambrose. Lancie Wingfield's honest brother. Ch. xxxviii. Wingfield, Lancie. A dishonorable spy upon the Jacobites. Ch. xxxviii, xxxix. SYNOPSIS. Introduction (1829). Appendix to Introduction Advertisement to the first edi- tion (1817). I. Francis Osbaldistone writes bis autobiography, at Will Tresham's request Frank's objections to commerce Mr. Owen Dubourg's, favorable reports of Frank's sojourn in Bordeaux. II. Conversation between the merchant and his poetical son Frank's banishment to Osbaldistone Hall. III. The journey northward. IV. The Black Bear Morris requests Campbell's protection in his travels. V. Osbaldistone Hall Diana Vernon enlightens Frank concerning the inmates and customs of the Hall. VI. Sir Hildebrand and his sons Rashleigh to take Frank's place in the connting-room Andrew Fairservice. VII. Frank's re- flections The chase Morris charges Frank with robbery Diana insists upon accompanying Frank to Inglewood-Placc Her description of the squire and his clerk. Jobson. VIII. Diana demands Rashleigh's assistance Frank confronts his accuser Jobson's unwilling departure. IX. Campbell secures Frank's liberty Jobson and Miss Vernon Diana's 'grievances. X. The library at Osbaldistone Hall Diana's education Rashleigh's fascinations. XI. Sir Hildebrand's doubts of Frank's innocence Frank and the wily Rashleigh discuss Miss Vernon In- sinuations. XII. Frank's sullen humor Debauchery and remorse. XIII. Frank's explanation to Diana Rashleigh's thwarted villainy The contented Frank warns Owen against Rashleigh. XIV. Diana and Frank study together News from London. XV. Frank writes to his father about Morris Owen's letter Father Vaughan. XVI. Frank and Diana Frank's father in financial trouble Diana's puzzling reception of Frank's declaration of love. XVII. Diana resents Frank's jealous interrogations Rashleigh's machinations threaten ruin to Osbaldistone and Tresham Diana's packet The farewell. XVIII. Andrew enters Frank's service. XIX. Touthope and the gallant palfrey Glasgow and its cathedral. XX. Interior of the cathedral The unseen whisperer The midnight appointment MacVittie. XXI. Sinister Augury Fairservice's perverted description of his master The tryst The unknown leads Frank to the Glasgow jail. XXII. Don- gal's delight Owen's narrative Bailie Nicol Jarvie. XXIII. Campbell and Di- ana's packet Jarvie and Frank leave the jail Mattie. XXIV. Andrew. brought to terms The Bailie talks business. XXV. An ominous conjunction Duel ROH ROY. 135 between Rashleigh and Frank MacGregor separates the cousins. XXVI. Dinner at, Bailie Jarvie's The Bailie; willing to accompany Frank into the Highlands. XXVII. Tin; journey commenced Andrew cautioned. XXVIII. The journey The C'lachan Aberfoil and it* belligerent guests. XXIX. A letter from Rob Roy Jarvie and Frank detained as prisoners. XXX. Dougal leads the soldiers into an ambuscade A precarious situation. XXXI. Helen MacGregor Murder of the homage. Morris. XXXII. Helen sends Frank to the commanding officer The Un\e sentences Rob Roy. XXXIII. Rob's escape and Frank's danger Frank's brief meeting with Diana and her cavalier The restored packet. XXXIV. Frank fears Diana is married " My foot is on my native heath, and my name is Mac- Gregor! ''Jarvie's interest in Rob's sons. XXXV. Friendly regard for Rob Koy Business prospects Diana's parting token. XXXVI. Jarvie and Frank leave the Highlands The irrepressible Andrew Father and son Relief of the finan- cial embarrassments The Bailie's subsequent, history. XXXVII. Rebellion of 1715 Frank enters the army Death of Sir Hildebrand and his live sons Frank the heir of Osbaldistone Hall Rashleigh's treachery Inglewood's communica- tion. XXXVIII. The Hall again and Frank's sad reflections Sir Frederick Ver- noii and Diana seek Frank's protection Their vicissitudes. XXXIX. The curious Andrew Frank's dream The arrest Rob Roy to the rescue Rashleigh's death Escape of the Vernons Marriage of Diana Vernon and Francis Osbaldi- stone "The Robin Hood of Scotland " Postscript. 1VASTHOE. A ROMANCE. ARGUMENT. r MHE whole tale is a dazzling succession of feudal pictures; the out- -L law life of the greenwood, the Norman donjon, the lists, the tournament, tin- stake, pass before our eyes with a splendour and animation that are truly magical. Sluiw's Eng. Literature. The period of narrative adopted was the reign of Richard I, not only as abound- ing with characters whose very names were sure to attract general attention, bill as affording a striking contrast betwixt the Saxons, by whom the soil was culti- vated, and the Normans, who still reigned in it as conquerors. Int. (1830). Scott, in his Dedicatory Epistle, says: " I may have confused the manners of two or three centuries. . . . Those whose extensive researches have given them the means of judging my backslidings with more severity, will probably be lenient, in proportion to their knowledge of the difficulty of my task." In this Dedicatory Epistle to Doctor Dryasdust, Scott uses the twin de plume of Lawrence Templeton. The Rev. Doctor Dryasdust is an imaginary antiquarian, who introduces a number of the Waverley Novels with prefatory letters, and writes the conclusion to Redgaunt- let. He is prosy, literal and critical. Abdalla. Bois-Guilbert's Saracen attendant. Ch. ii. Allan-a-Dale. Robin Hood's minstrel. A brisk young fellow, dressed in a green cassock embroidered with gold, and having at his heels a stout lad bearing a harp upon his back, which betrayed his vocation. The minstrel seemed of no vulgar rank, for besides the splendour of his gayly-broidered doublet, he wore around his neck a silver chain, by which hung the wrest, or key, with which he tuned his harp. On his right arm was a silver plate, which, instead of bearing, as usuai, the cognizance or badge of the baron to whose family he belonged, had barely the word Sherwood engraved upon it. Ch. xliii. Ch. xliii. See ROIUN HOOD. Ambrose, Father. Prior Aymer's attendant. Ch. v, xxvii. Anwold. Cedric's torch-bearer. Ch. vi. See CEDKIC. 136 IVANHOE. 137 Athelstane. Cedric's kinsman. A descendant of Edward the Con- fessor, to whom the Saxons paid great homage. He lived a life of drunken debauchery, and was bulky in frame and sluggish in intel- lect. From the slowness of his resolution he was called Afhelstatie the Unrendy. Through the cupidity of priests he barely escaped burial alive. Ch. vii, viii, xii, xiv, xviii, xix, xxi, xxvi, xxvii, xxxi, xlii, xliv. See ROWENA. Aymer. Prior of Jorvaulx Abbey. An ecclesiastic of high rank; his dress was that of a Cistercian monk, but composed of materials much finer than the rules of that order admitted. . . . His countenance bore as little marks of self-denial as his liahit indicated con- tempt of worldly splendour. His features might have heen called good, had there not lurked under the pent-house of his eye that sly epicurean twinkle which indicates the cautions voluptuary. . . . His free and jovial temper, and the readiness with which he granted absolution from all ordinary delinquencies, rendered him a favourite among the nobility and principal gentry, to several of whom he was allied by birth, being of distinguished Norman family. . . , His knowledge of books, however superficial, was sufficient to impress upon their ignorance respect for his supposed learning; and the gravity of his deportment and language, with the high tone which he exerted in setting forth the authority of the church and priesthood, impressed them no less with an opinion of his sanctity. ... He was generous, and . . . relieved the distresses of the op- piv-sed. If Prior Aymer rode hard in the chase, and remained long at a ban- quet, if Prior Aymer was seen, at the early peep of dawn, to enter the postern of the Abbey, as he glided home from some rendezvous which had occupied the hours of darkness, men only shrugged their shoulders and reconciled themselves to his irregularities by recollecting that the same was practised by many of his brethren, who had no redeeming qualities whatsoever to atone for them. Ch. ii. Ch. ii, iv, v, vii, viii, ix, xii, xiii, xiv, xxxii, xxxiii. Balder. Cedric's grizzly old wolf-dog. Ch. iii. Bardon, Hugh. Prince John's Scout-master. Ch. xxxiv. Beaumanoir, Lucas. Grand Master of the Templars. He ac- cused Rebecca, the Jewess, of sorcery, and after her deliverance from death at the stake, King Richard banished Beaumanoir and his Templars for treasonable conspiracies. A man advanced in age, as was testified by his long grey beard and the shaggy grey eyebrows, overhanging eyes of which, however, years had been unable to quench the fire. A formidable warrior, his thin and severe features retained the soldier's fierceness of expression ; an ascetic bigot, they were no less marked by the emaciation of abstinence, and the spiritual pride of the self- satisfied devotee. Yet with these severer traits of physiognomy, there was mixed somewhat striking and noble, arising, doubtless, from the great part which his high office called upon him to act among monarchs and princes, and from the habitual exercise of supreme authority over the valiant and high-bom knights, who were united by the rules of the Order. . . . His white mantle was shaped with severe regularity, according to the rule of Saint Bernard himself, being composed of what was then called Burrel cloth, exactly fitted to the size 6* 138 THE WAVERLEY DICTIOKATIY. of the wearer, and bearing on the left shoulder the octangular cross peculiar to the Order, formed of red cloth. ... In respect to his age. tint (Jrand Master, as permitted by the rules, wore his doublet lined and trimmed with the softest lambskin, dressed with the wool outwards, which was the nearest approach he could regularly make to use of fur, then the greatest luxury of dress. In his hand he bore that singular ulxici/a. or staff of office, with which Templars are usually represented, having at the upper end a round plate, on which was en- graved the cross of the Order, inscribed within a circle, or orlc, as heralds term it. Ch. xxxv. (III. xxxv, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxviii, xliii, xliv. See REBECCA. Ben Israel, Nathan. A Jewish physician. Ch. xxxv, xxxviii. Bohun, Henry. Earl of Essex, Lord High Constable of England. Ch. xliv. Bois-Guilbert, Brian de. A Preceptor of the Order of Templars. He had been a celebrated Crusader, and was an adherent of Prince John. He was vanquished in the tournament at Ashbyby Ivanhoe. Early disappointed in love, he became a Templar, and led a life of license and ambition. So distinguished and powerful had lie become, that he was the most prominent aspirant for the Grand Mastership, in case of the aged Beaumanoir's death. Over his complete suit of armor he wore the scarlet mantle of his order. A man past forty, thin, strong, tall and muscular; an athletic figure, which long fatigue and constant exercise seemed to have left none of the softer part of the human form, having reduced the whole to brawn, bones, and sinews, which had sustained a thousand toils, and were ready to dare a thousand more. His head was covered with a scarlet cap faced with fur, of that kind the French call mortier, from its resemblance to the shape of an inverted mortar. His counte- nance . . . was calculated to impress a degree of awe, if not of fear, upon strangers. High features, naturally strong and powerfully expressive, had been burnt almost into negro blackness by constant exposure to the tropical sun, and . might, in their ordinary state, be said to slumber after the storm had passed away; but the projection of the veins of the forehead, the readiness with which the upper lip and its thick black mustaches quivered upon the slightest emotion, plainly intimated that the tempest might be again and easily awakened. His keen, piercing dark eyes, told in every glance a history of difficulties subdued, and dangers dared, and seemed to challenge opjxisition to his wishes, for the pleasure of sweeping it from his road by a determined exertion of courage and of will; a deep scar on his brow gave additional sternness to his countenance, and a sinister expression to one of his eyes, which had been slightly injured on the same occasion, and of which the vision, though perfect, was in a slight and partial degree distorted. Ch. ii. Disguised as an outlaw, he made a captive of the beautiful Jewess, Rebecca, and confined her in the Castle of Torquilstone. Her heroic virtue thwarted his villainy. He became possessed with but one object, and that was to persuade her to accept him as her lover. He fled with her to the Preceptory of Templestowe, and there she 1VANHOE. 139 was condemned to death at the stake for sorcery. He was commanded to appear in the lists as the Temple's champion. In horror and re- morse, he offered to abandon all his ambitious dreams and to become an outcast from his order, if Rebecca would fly with him. As she s:at surrounded by faggots, he said : " Mount thfe behind me on my steed, ... in one short hour is pursuit and enquiry far behind. A new world of pleasure opens to thee to me a new career of fame. Let them speak the doom, . . . and erase the name of Bois- Guilbert from their list of monastic slaves. I will washout with blood whatever blot they may dare to cast on my escutcheon." "Tempter," eald Rebecca, "begone I . . . surrounded as I am by foes. I hold thee as my worst and most deadly enemy." Ch. xliii. At the beginning of his combat with Rebecca's champion, Ivan- hoe, he fell dead in the lists. Unscathed by the lance of his enemy, he had died a victim to the violence of his own contending passions. Ch. xliii. Cii. ii, iv, v, vii, viii, xii, xiv, xxiv, xxv, xxvii, xxx, xxxi, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix, xliii. See REBECCA. Broad Thoresby. A soldier. Ch. xxxiv, xl. Cedric the Saxon. A wealthy Saxon, who hoped to see his race's ascendency again established. He even disinherited his son, whose love for Rowena interfered with these hopes. King Richard at length won Cedric's allegiance. Cedric lived in Saxon state at his mansion of Rotherwood. He was not above the middle stature, but broad-shouldered, long-armed and powerfully made, like one accustomed to endure the fatigue of war or of the chase: his face was broad, with large blue eyes, open and frank features, fine teeth, and a well-formed head, altogether expressive of that sort of good hu- mour which often lodges with a sudden and hasty temper. . . . His long yellow hair was equally divided upon the top of his head and upon his brow, and comheil down on each side to the length of his shoulders; it had but little ten- dency to grey, although Cedric was approaching to his sixtieth year. His dress was a tunic of forest green, furred at the throat and cuffs with what is called minever: a kind of fur . . . formed of the skin of the grey squirrel. This doublet hung unbuttoned over a close dress of scarlet, which sat lightly on his body: he had breeches of the same which did not reach below the lower part of the thigh, leaving the knee exposed. His feet had sandals . . . secured in front with golden clasps. He had bracelets of gold upon his arms, and a broad collar of the same precious metal around his neck. About his waist he wore a richly-studded belt, in which was stuck a short, straight, two-edged sword with a sharp point, so disposed as to hang almost perpendicularly by his side. C'h. iii. Ch. iii, iv, v, vii, viii, ix, xii, xiv, xviii, xix, xxi, xxvi, xxvii, xxxi, xxxii, xlii, xliv. See IVANHOK. Clement. One of Robin Hood's men. Ch. xxxii. Clement. One of Front de Boeuf 's retainers. Ch. xxvii, xxx. 140 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. Damian. A novitiate of the Order of Templars. A squire clothed in a threadbare vestment, for the aspirants for this holy or- der wore during their novitiate the cast-off garments of the knights. Ch. xxxv, Ch. XXXV. De Bigot. Prince John's seneschal. Ch. xiii. De Bracy, Maurice. The leader of a band of mercenaries. His long, luxuriant hair was trained to flow in quaint tresses down his richly- furred cloak. His beard was closely shaven, his doublet reached to the middle of his leg, and the girdle which secured it, and at the same time supported his ponderous sword, was embroidered and embossed with gold-work. We have already noticed the extravagant fashion of the shoes at this period, and the points of Maurice de Bracy's might have challenged the prize of extravagance with the gayest, being turned up and twisted like the horns of a ram. Such was the dress of a gallant of the period; and in the present instance that effect was aided by a handsome person and good demeanour of the wearer, whose manners partook alike of the grace of the courtier and frankness of the soldier. Ch. xxiii. He made a captive of the beautiful Saxon heiress, Rowena, and tried to force her to marry him by threats against the safety of her imprisoned betrothed. He thus soliloquized: " I feel myself ill-framed for the part I am playing. I cannot look on so fair a face while it is disturbed with agony, or on those eyes when they are drowned in tears." Ch. xxiii. Before he could test his resolution the captives were rescued. He had conspired against Richard, with the expectation of receiving the high marshalship from John. After Richard's return he escaped to France. Ch. vii, viii, ix, xiii, xiv, xv, xxi, xxiii, xxv, xxvii, xxviii, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiv, xliv. See JOHN; ROWENA. De Grantmesnil, Hugh. A baron vanquished in the tournament by Ivanhoe. Ch. vii, viii. De Martival, Stephen. A steward of the tournament at Ashby. Ch. vii, viii, ix, xii, xiii. Dennet, Father. A peasant. Ch. xliii. De Oyley, Baldwin. Bois-Guilbert's squire. Ch. x. De Vipont, Ralph. A knight of St. John of Jerusalem, vanquished in the tournament at Ashby by Ivanhoe. Ch. vii, viii. De Wyvil, William. Marshal of the field at the Ashby tourna- ment. Ch. vii, viii, ix, xii. Diggory, Father. An old monk, afflicted with the toothache. Ch. xl. Edith. Athelstane's widowed mother. A female of dignified mien, and whose countenance retained the marked re- mains of majestic beauty. Ch. xiii. Ch. xiii, xliv. See ATHELSTANE. 1VAXHOK. 141 Elgitha. Lady Rowena's maid. Ch. iii, vi, xliv. Engelred. Front de Boeuf s squire. Ch. x, xxv. Eustace. One of Front de Boeuf 's retainers. Ch. xxx. Fangs, (.iurth's faithful and intelligent dog. A ragged, wolfish-looking dog, a sort of lurcher, half mastiff, half greyhound. C'h. i. Ch. i, iv, xviii, xxxii. See GURTH. Fitzurse, Alicia. Waldemar Fitzurse 's daughter; a court beauty, and Prince John's favorite. Ch. ix, xl. Fitzurse, Waldemar. A proud and ambitious courtier. He was Prince John's wily adviser, and the chief plotter against King Rich- ard. The Prince promised him the Chancellorship if he should suc- ceed in usurping his brother's throne. While attempting to assas- sinate Richard he was made a prisoner. The King said : " Take thy life. . . . Leave England, and go to hide thine infamy in thine Nor- man castle. . . . Never mention the name of John of Anjou as connected with thy felony. If thou art found on English ground after the space I have allotted thee, thou diest or if thou breathest aught that can attaint the honour of my house, by St. George ! not the altar itself shall be a sanctuary." 1 Ch. xl. Ch. viii, ix, xiii, xiv, xv, xxxiv, xl, xliv. See PIUNCE JOHN; RICH- ARD I. Front de Boeuf, Reginald, Sir. A brutal baron, in league with Prince John. He was vanquished in the Ashby tournament by Ivanhoe and King Richard. While Ivanhoe was in Palestine he held his barony by Prince John's permission. A tall and strong man, whose life had been spent in public war or private feuds and broils, and who had hesitated at no means of extending his feudal power; had features corresponding to his character, and which strongly expressed the liercer and more malignant passions. This formidable baron was clad in a leathern doublet, fitted close to his body, which was frayed and soiled with the stains of his armour. He had no weapon excepting his poniard at his belt, which seemed to counterbalance the weight of the bunch of rusty keys that hung at his right side. Ch. xxxii. Ue Bracy and Bois-Guilbert brought their captives (Athelstane, Cedric, Isaac, Rebecca and Rowena) to his Castle of Torquilstone. Front de Boeuf claimed the Jew, Isaac, as his property., and said to him: " This dungeon is no place for trifling. Prisoners ten thousand times more distinguished than thou have died within these walls, and their fate hath never been known: . . . Seest thou, Isaac, . . . the range of ii ing charcoal? on that warm couch thou shall lie strii ed of thy clothes. . . . One of these slaves shall maintain the fire beneath tl anoint thy wretched limbs with oil, lest the roast she betwixt such a scorching bed and the payment of a tho . . . thou hast no option." Ch. xxii. 11 bars above that glow- ild burn. Now choose isand pounds of silver; 142 THE WAVEKLEY DICTIONARY. The siege and capture of the castle prevented the execution of this threat. He was mortally wounded, and perished amidst the flames of Torquilstone, haunted with the memory of his crimes and taunted by Ulrica, the victim of his family's sin. Ch. vii, viii, xii, xiv, xxii, xxv, xxvi, xxvii, xxviii, xxx. Sec ISAAC ; ULUICA. Giles. Front de Boeuf 's jailor. Ch. xxvii, xxx. Guilbert. One of Robin Hood's men. Ch. xxxii. Gurth. Cedric's swine-herd; faithful to his master, and affection- ately attached to Ivanhoe. He was impatient of thralldora, and was at length made a freeman. He Had a stern, savage and wild aspect. His garment was of the simplest form imaginable, being a close jacket with sleeves, composed of the tanned skin of some animal, on which hair had been originally left, but which had been worn off in several places. . . . This primeval vestment reached from the throat to the knees; . . . there was no wider opening at the collar than to admit the passage of the head. . . . Sandals bound with thongs, made of boar's hide, pro- tected the feet, and a roll of thin leather was, trained artificially around the leu's. and ascending above the calf, left the knees bare like that of a Scottish High- lander. To make the jacket set yet more close to the body, it was gathered at the middle by a broad belt, secured by a brass buckle, to one side of which was attached a sort of script, and to the other a rain's horn accoutred witli ;v mouthpiece for the purpose of blowing. In the same belt was, stuck one of those long, broad, sharp-pointed and two-edged knives, with a buck's horn handle, which were fabricated in the neighbourhood, and bore at this early pe- riod the name of Sheffield whittle. The man had no covering upon his head, which was only defended by his own thick hair, matted and twisted together, and scorched by the influence of the sun into a rusty, dark-red colour, forming a contrast with the overgrown beard on his cheeks, which was rather of a yellow or amber hue. One part of his dress ... is too remarkable to be suppressed : it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, soldered fast round his neck, so loose as to form no impediment to breathing, yet so tight as to be incapable of being removed excepting by the use of a file. On this singular gorget was engraved, in Saxon characters, an inscription of the following purport: "Gurth. the son of Beowulph, is the born thrall of Cedric of Rotherwood." His aspect was bent on the ground, with an appearance of deep dejection; . . . the fire which occasionally sparkled iu his red eye man- ifested that there slumbered, under the appearance of sullen despondency, a sense of oppression and a disposition to resistance. Ch. i. Ch. i, ii, iv, vi, x, xi, xviii, xix, xx. xxv, xxviii, xxxi, xxxii, xli, xliv. Hamet. Bois-Guilbert's Saracen slave. Ch. ii. Herman of Goodalricke. A Preceptor of the Order of Templars. Ch. xxxvii, xxxviii. Higg. The son of Snell. A grateful peasant, whom Rebecca cured of a dreadful malady. Ch. xxxvii, xxxviii. IVANHOE. 143 Hood, Robin. The gallant and generous "King of Outlaws and Prince of Good Fellows." Under the name of Loeksley he won the prize for archery in the tournament at Ashby. A stout, well-set yeoman, arrayed in Lincoln green, having twelve arrows stuck in his belt, with a baldrick and a badge of silver, and a bow of six feet in length in his hand. . . . His countenance . . . his constant exposure to the weather had rendered brown as the hazelnut. Ch. vii. He was instrumental in delivering the prisoners from Torquilstone Castle, and prevented King Richard's assassination: He ... extended his hand to Robin Hood, assured him of his full pardon and future favour, as well as his lirm resolution to restrain the tyrannical exer- cise of the forest rights. . . . But Richard's good intentions towards the bold outlaw were frustrated by the King's untimely death, and the Charter of the For- est was extorted from the unwilling hands of King John. Ch. xli. Ch. vii, xi, xiii, xix, xx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii, xl, xli. See KINO RiCH- AKD; FlUAR TUCK. Hubert. An expert archer, who contested with Robin Hood at Ashby. Ch. xiii. Hundebert. Cedric's major-domo. Ch. iii. Isaac of York. A wealthy old Jew ; Rebecca's father. The Jew's dress . . . was a plain russet cloak of many folds, covering a dark purple tunic. He had large boots, lined with fur. ... He wore a high, square yellow cap, of peculiar fashion, assigned to his nation to distinguish them from Christians. Ch. v. The Jew had a constant struggle with his avaricious nature, but had a devoted and redeeming love for his daughter, Rebecca. They were both imprisoned at Torquilstone. Notwithstanding threats of torture, he refused to pay any ransom unless Rebecca was delivered to him " in safety and honor." To save her he would have endured any agony. He afterward sought protection for himself and daugh- ter in a foreign land. Ch. v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x, xix, xxi, xxii, xxviii, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxv, xxxviii, xliv. See FRONT DE BOEUF; REBECCA. Ivanhoe. Cedric's son ; a handsome Saxon knight of twenty-five, who had been disinherited by his father on account of his love for the Lady Rowena. He was a favorite with King Richard, and won great renown in Palestine. He returned to England disguised as a Palmer, and afterward engaged in the tournament at Ashby. He . . . did not greatly exceed the middle size, and seemed rather slender than strongly made. His suit of armour was formed of steel, richly inlaid with gold, and the device on his shield was a young oak tree pulled up by the roots, with the Spanish word Dtfdichado, signifying Disinherited. . . . The dexterity with which he managed his steed, and something of youthful grace which he displayed in his manner, won him the favour of the multitude. Ch. viii. 144 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. He vanquished all the combatants, and was crowned the cham- pion. He was wounded in the tournament, and was detained as a prisoner at Torquilstone Castle. Wilfred of Ivanhoe was the flower of chivalry, courteous and generous, ever ready to relieve distress and to right wrong, loyal to his sovereign and his lady, dauntless in war and wise in council. King Richard reconciled Cedric to Ivan- hoe's marriage with Rowena. The nuptials of our hero, thus formally approved by hi* father, were cele- brated in the most august of temples, the noble Minster of York. The King himself attended. . . . The church gave her full solemnities, graced with all the splendour which she of Rome knows how to apply with such brilliant effect. . . . Ivanhoe distinguished himself in the service of Richard, and was graced with farther marks, of the royal favour. Ch. xliv. Ch. ii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x, xi, xii, xxviii, xxix, xxxi, xl, xli, xlii, xliii, xliv. See CEDRIC; REBECCA; ROWENA. John, Prince. King Richard's traitorous brother. Those who remarked in the physiognomy of the Prince a dissolute audacity, mingled with extreme haughtiness and indifference to the feelings of others, could not yet deny to his countenance that sort of comeliness which belongs to an open set of features, well formed by nature, modeled by art to the usual rules of courtesy. Ch. vii. One of his courtiers said of him : "A Prince unwise as he is profligate, and as likely to be an ungrateful master as he has already proved a rebellious son and an unnatural brother." Ch. xv. Richard punished John's accomplices, but forgave his brother. Ch. vii, viii, ix, xii, xiii, xiv, xxxiv, xliv. See KING RICIIAKD; also PRINCE JOHN, in " The Betrothed." Locksley. See ROBIN HOOD. Malkin. The Prior of St. Botolph's "gentle and smooth-faced" mare. Ch. xl, xli. Malvoisin, Albert. A conspirator against Richard. Bois-Guilbert's friend, and a dissolute, unprincipled and hypocritical Preceptor of the Order of Templars. Ch. xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix, xliii, xliv. See SIK PHILIP MALVOISIN. Malvoisin, Sir Philip. A conspirator against Richard, who was vanquished at the tournament by Ivanhoe. Himself and his brother Albert were executed for treason. No one, however, pitied the fate of the two Malvoisins. who only suffered the death which they both well deserved by many acts of falsehood, cruelty and op- pression. Ch. xliv. Ch. vii. viii, xiv, xliv. Montdidier. A haughty and impoverished Norman, who addressed Isaac as " Dog of an unbeliever! Whelp of a she- wolf ! " Ch. vii. IVANHOE. 145 Mont-Fitchet, Conrade. The Grand Master's confidant and a bigoted Preceptor of the Order of Templars. One of the four before whom Rebecca was tried. Ch. xxxv, xxxvi, xxxvii, xliii. See BEAUMANOIR. Oswald. Cedric's cup-bearer. Ch. Hi, iv, v, xviii. Rebecca. A Jewess; the daughter of Isaac of York. The figure of Rebecca might, indeed, have compared with the proudest beau- 1 it's of Kngland. . . . Her form was exquisitely symmetrical, and was shown to advantage by a sort of eastern dress, which she wore according to the fashion of tlif females of her nation. Her turban of yellow silk suited well with the dark- ni'.-s of her complexion. The brilliancy of her eyes, the superb arch of her eye- brows, her well formed aquiline nose, her teeth as white as pearl, and the profu- sion of her sable tresses, which, each arranged in its own little spiral of twisted curls, fell down upon as much of a lovely neck and bosom as a simarre of the richest Persian silk, exhibiting flowers in their natural colours embossed upon a purple ground, permitted to be visible. all these constituted a combination of loveliness which yielded not to the most beautiful of the maidens who surround- ed her. It is true that of the golden and pearl-studded clasps which closed her vest from the throat to the waist the three uppermost were left unfastened, on account of the heat, which something enlarged the prospect to which we allude. A diamond necklace. \\ith pendants of inestimable value, were by this means also made more conspicuous. The feather of an ostrich, fastened in her turban by an agraffe set with brilliants, was another distinction of the beautiful Jewess, scoffed and sneered at by the proud dames who sat above her, but secretly en- vied by those who affected to deride them. Ch. vii. Rebecca was as generous as her father was avaricious. The wounded Ivanhoe was nursed at Isaac's house after the tournament. Their traveling party were detained as prisoners at Torquilstone Castle, and she described to her fellow-captive, Ivanhoe, the siege from her dangerous position at the loop-hole. She devotedly loved the Knight, whom she so carefully nursed, but she well knew that her passion was hopeless, on account of the prejudice against those of her faith, and also Ivanhoe's attachment to the Lady Rowena. Rebecca offered to the Templar, Bois-Guilbert, any sum he should demand as her ransom, but he refused to liberate her: "What wouldst thoti have of me," said Rebecca, "if not my wealth? . . . You are a Christian I am a Jewess ; our union were contrary to the laws alike of the church and the synagogue." "It were so. indeed," replied the Templar, laughing. "Wed with a Jewess? . . . Not if she were the Queen of Sheba. . . . Marriage were an enduring crime on the part of a Templar; but what lesser folly I may practise I shall speedily be absolved from at the next preceptory of our order. . . . Thou art the captive of my bow and spear, . . . nor will I abate an inch of my right, or abstain from taking by violence what thou refnsest to entreaty or necessity. . . . Submit to thy fate, embrace our religion, and thou shall go forth in such state, that many a Norman lady shall yield as well in pomp as in licauty to the favourite of the best lance among the defenders of the Temple." 7 146 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. "Submit to my fate! " said Rebecca; ''and. sacred heaven, to what a fate! Embrace thy religion ! And what religion can it be that harbours such a villain? Tltou, the best lance of the Templars ! Craven knight '. Forsworn priest ! . . . I defy thee. The God of Abraham's promise hath opened an escape to his daughter, even from this abyss of infamy." As she spoke she threw open the latticed window which led to the bartizan, and in an instant after stood on the \ cry verge of the parapet, with not the slightest screen between her and the tremen- dous depth below. . . . "Remain where thou art, proud Templar . or. at thy choice, advance! One foot nearer and I plunge myself from the precipice; my body shall be crushed out of the very form of humanity upon the stones of that courtyard ere it become the victim of thy brutality ! " " Rebecca, she who could prefer death to dishonour must have a proud and powerful soul. Mine thou must be ! Nay, start not,'' he added. " It must be with thine own consent and on thine own terms.' 1 '' Ch. xxiv. From the flames of the Castle of Torquilstone the Templar carried Rebecca to the Preceptory of Templestowe, where he expected to prosecute his suit in safety. The bigoted Grand Master tried and convicted her of sorcery on the grounds of her religion, her medical skill and Bois-Guilbert's infatuation. She was condemned to death at the stake, but allowed a trial by combat. She chose Ivanhoe as her champion, and the Temple was to be represented by Bois-Guil- bert. In vain Bois-Guilbert prayed her to fly with him, promising to win her a brilliant future. Her rectitude of principle and loyalty to her religion and her own heart sustained her while surrounded by temptations and threatened by an awful death. Bois-Guilbert said : " Would to heaven we had never met, or that thou hadst been noble in birth and Christian in faith! ... I could even wish myself one of thy own degraded nation; my hand conversant with ingots and skekels. instead of spear and shield; my head bent down before each petty noble, and my look only terrible to the shivering and bankrupt debtor this could I wish. Rebecca, to be near to thee in life, and to escape the fearful share I must have in thy death." "Thou hast spoken the Jew," said Rebecca, "as the persecution of euch as thou has made him. . . . Know, proud knight, we number names among us to which your boasted northern nobility is as the gourd compared with the cedar names that ascend far back to those high times when the Divine Presence shook the mercy seat between the cherubim, and which derived their splendour from no earthly prince, but from the awful voice which bade their fathers be nearest of the congregation to the vision such were the princes of the house of Jacob." Rebecca's colour rose as she boasted the ancient glories of her race, but faded as she added, with a sigh. " Such were the princes of Judah. now such no more ! They are trampled down like the shorn grass, and mixed with mire of the ways. Yet there are those among them who shame not such high descent, and of such shall be the daughter of Isaac the son of Adonikam ! Farewell ! I envy not thy blood-won honours I envy not thy barbarous descent from northern hea- thens I envy not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth, but never in thy heart or in thy practice." Ch, xxxix. IVAtfHOE. 147 The fatal day came. The execution of her sentence was delayed, at Rebecca's request, several hours, to allow time for her champion to arrive. Cairn and trusting, she waited, and Ivanhoe, at length, came. Bois-Guilbert died from the excitement of the terrible occa- sion, and Rebecca was pronounced free and guiltless. Rebecca saw and heard nothing. She was locked in the anus of her aged father, giddy and almost senseless with- the rapid change of circumstances around her. But one word from Isaac at length recalled her scattered feelings. " Let us go,' 1 he said. " my dear daughter, my recovered treasure let us go to throw ourselves at the feet of the gd youth." "Not so," said Rebecca, "O no, no no. I must not at this moment dare to speak to him. Alas! I should say more than No, my father, let us instantly leave this evil place. . . . For the sake of thy beloved Rachel . . . grant me my request not now." C'h. xliv. Before Rebecca and her father left England, she called upon Ivan- hoe's bride, Rowena, and expressed to her the gratitude she felt for Ivanhoe's championship, and as a parting gift gave her a casket of magnificent diamonds, saying that she would never wear them again. Rowena was touched by her dignity and melancholy, and the remembrance of her kindness to Ivanhoe, so she urged her to remain with them, and become a Christian. Rebecca answered: " That may not be. I may not change the faith of my fathers like a garment unsuited for the climate in which 1 seek to dwell. . . . Since the time of Abra- ham downwards, have been women who have devoted their thoughts to heaven, and their actions to works of kindness. . . . Among these will Rebecca be numbered. Say this to thy lord, should he chance to enquire after the fate of her whose life he saved." There was an involuntary tremor on Rebecca's voice, and a tenderness of accent, which perhaps betrayed more than she would willingly have expressed. She hastened to bid Rowena adieu. . . . The fair Saxon related the singular conference to her husband, on whose mind it made a deep impression. . . . Yet it would be enquiring too curiously to ask whether the recollection of Rebecca's beauty and magnanimity did not recur to his mind more frequently than the fair descendant of Alfred might altogether have approved. Ch. xliv. Ch. vii, ix, x, xix, xxi, xxiv, xxvi, xxviii, xxix, xxxi, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix, xliii, xliv. .See INTRODUCTION (1830); also BEAU- MANOIK; BOIS-QUILBEBT; ISAAC; IVANHOE; RoWENA. Reuben. Isaac's servant. Ch. x-xxviii. Richard I. King of England. Cveur lie Lion. He returned to England, after a long absence in Palestine, at a time when his brother's conspiracy against him was the most formidable. Never- theless, he performed remarkable feats of valor at the Ash by tournament, disguised as The Black Sluggard and The Knight of the Fetterlock. As The Black Knight he wanders in Sherwood Forest and revels with Friar Tuck. He conducts the successful 148 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. siege against Torquil stone Castle, and lingers with Robin Hood and his outlaws, although he has barely escaped assassination. More happy, probably, in this chance mooting with Robin Hood and his foresters than ho would have been in again assuming his royal state, and pre- siding over a splendid circle of peers and nobles. Novelty in society and adven- ture were the zest of life to Richard Cceur de Lion, and it had its highest relish when enhanced by dangers encountered and surmounted. In the lion-hearted King, the brilliant but useless character of a knight of romance was in a great measure realized and revived, and the personal glory which he acquired by his own deeds of arms was far more dear to his excited imagination than that which a course of policy and wisdom would have spread around his government. Accordingly, his reign was like the course of a brilliant and rapid meteor, which shoots along the face of heaven, shedding around an unnecessary and porten- tous light, which is instantly swallowed up by universal darkness; his feats of chivalry furnishing themes for bards and minstrels, but affording none of those solid benefits to his country on which history loves to pause, and hold up as an example to posterity. But in his present company Richard showed to the greatest possible advantage. He was gay. good-humoured, and fond of man- hood in every rank of life. Ch. xli. Ch. xii, xvi, xvii, xx, xxv, xxix, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii, xl, xli, xlii, xliv. See ROBIN HOOD; PKINCE JOHN; also KING RICHAKD, in "The Talisman." Bowena, Lady. A beautiful Saxon heiress. She was Cedric's ward, and a descendant from Alfred. Cedric was anxious for her marriage with Athelstane, hoping in this way to unite the contend- ing factions, and to reestablish the Saxon monarchy. He banished his son Ivanhoe from his home, on account of the love between that knight and Rowena. Formed in the best proportions of her sex. Rowena was tall in stature, yet not so much so as to attract observation on account of superior height. Her complexion was exquisitely fair: but the noble cast of her head and features prevented the insipidity which sometimes attaches to fair beauties. Her clear blue eye, which sat enshrined beneath a graceful eyebrow of brown, sufficiently marked to give expression to the forehead, seemed capable to kindle as well as melt, to command as well as to beseech. If mildness were the more natural expression of such a combination of features, it was plain that, in the present instance, the exercise of habitual superiority, and the reception of general homage, had given to the Saxon lady a loftier character, which mingled with, and qualified, that bestowed by nature. Her profuse hair, of a colour betwixt brown and flaxen, was arranged in a fanciful and graceful manner in numerous ring- lets, to form which art had probably aided nature. These locks were braided with gems, and. being worn at full length, intimated the noble and free-born condition of the maiden. A golden chain, to which was attached a small reli- quary of the same metal, hung round her neck. She wore bracelets on her arms, which were bare. Her dress was an undergown and kirtle of pale sea- green silk, over which hung a long loose robe, which reached to the ground, having very wide sleeves, which came down, however, very little below the elbow. This robe was of crimson, and manufactured out of the very finest IVANHOE. 149 wool. A veil of silk, interwoven with gold, was attached to the upper part of it, which could be, at the wearer's pleasure, either drawn over the face and lio-oia after the Spanish fashion, or disposed as a sort of drapery round the shoulders. Ch. iv. At the tournament she was chosen the Queen of Love and Beauty, and when she crowned the victor she found him to be her long absent and wounded lover, Ivanhoe. On her return from the tournament she was captured and confined in the Castle of Tor- quilstone by the enamoured De Bracy; but a speedy rescue termi- nated her persecution. She had no belief or interest in the throne which Cedric had hoped for her, and she so detested Athelstane that she resolved to take the veil sooner than marry him. Ivanhoe and Rowena were, at length married. Ivanhoe . . . lived long and happily with Rowena, for they were attached to each other by the bonds of early affection, and they loved each other the more from the recollection of the obstacles which had impeded their union. Ch. xliv. Ch. iv, v, vi, vii, ix, xii, xiii, xviii, xix, xxi, xxiii, xxxi, xxxii, xlii, xliv. See ATHELSTANE; CEDRIC; IVANHOE. Saint Maur. One of Front de Bomf's retainers. Ch. xxx. Scathlock. One of Robin Hood's men. Ch. xli. Seth. Isaac the Jew's servant. Ch. x, xxviii. Stephen. One of Front de Bceuf 's retainers. Ch. xxx. The Black Knight. See KING RICHARD. The Disinherited Knight. See IVANHOE. The Knight of the Fetterlock. See KING RICHARD. The Miller. One of Kobin Hood's men. Ch. xi, xxxii, xli. The Prior of Saint Botolph. Old, " pursy and important." Ch. xl. Three Spears of Spyinghow. Three northern men-at-arms. Ch. xxxiv, xl. Tuck, Friar. The friar of Robin Hood's band; the clerk of Cop- immhurst. The hermit . . . threw back his cowl and showed a round bullet head, be- onging to a man in the prime of life. His close-shaven crown, surrounded by circle of stiff, curled, black hair, had something the appearance of a parish >infold begirt by its high hedge. The feat nsterity or ascetic privations; on the contn ith broad, black eyebrows, a well-turned f lillon as those of a trumpeter, from whic beard. Such a visage, joined to the brawny I of sirloins and haunches than of pease and p s expressed nothing of monastic , it was a bold, bluff countenance, head, and cheeks round and ver- lescended a long and curly black ame of the holy man, spoke rather Ise. Ch. xvi. King Richard, incognito as The Black Knight, having lost his way in Sherwood Forest, sought the friar's hospitality. With wine, feast- ing and song, they made the night merry. Their conviviality was 150 THE WAVERLEY DICTIONARY. interrupted by Robin Hood, who summoned them to the rescue of the travelers detained at Torquilstone Castle. " I am no longer a shaveling than while my frock is on my back. When T am cased in my green cassock. I will drink, swear, and woo a lass, with any blithe forester," said the transformed priest. Ch. xx. In the course of the intimacy between the King and the outlaw they even exchanged "cuffs." The abashed friar thus refused the King's offer to make him a yeoman of the royal guard: * v My liege," said the friar, "I humbly crave your pardon; and you would humbly grant my excuse, did you know how the sin of laziness has beset me. Saint Dunstan may he be gracious to us! stands quiet in his niche, though I should forget my orisons in killing a fat buck I stay out of my cell some- times a night, doing I wot not what Saint Dunstan never complains a quiet master he is. and a peaceful, as ever was made of wood. But to be a yeoman in attendance on my sovereign the King the honour is great, doubtless yet, if I were to step aside to comfort a widow in one corner, or to kill a deer in an- other, it would be ' Where is the dog priest? ' says one. . . . * The unfrocked villain destroys more venison than half the country besides.' says one keeper; 'And is hunting after every shy doe in the country '. ' quoth a second. ... I pray you leave me as you found me ; or if in aught you desire to extend your benevolence to me, that I may be considered as the poor clerk of Saint Dunstan's cell in Cop- manhurst, to whom any small donation will be most thankfully acceptable." Ch. xl. Ch. xvi, xvii, xx, xxv, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii, xl, xlii, xliii. See ROBIN HOOD; RICHARD. Ulrica. A venomous and remorseful old Saxon hag, who was neg- lected and despised by Front de Boeuf, whose mistress she had formerly been. She says to Rebecca: *' I was as young, and twice as fair, as thou. when Front de Boeuf. father of this Reginald, and his Normans stormed this castle. My father and his seven sons defended their inheritance from story to story, from chamber to chamber there was not a room, not a step of the stair that was not slippery with their bl