The latter part of this discourse passed in the street. They passed the Chief, the Colonel punctiliously and he sternly greeting each other, like two duellists before they take their ground. It was evident the dislike was mutual. "I never see that surly fellow that dogs his heels," said the Colonel, after he had mounted his horse," but he reminds me of lines I have somewhere heard upon the stage, I think; 'Close behind him. Stalks sullen Bertram, like a sorcerer's fiend,... "I assure you that you judge too harshly of the Highlanders." "Not a whit, not a whit;, I cannot spare them a jot; I cannot bate them an ace. Let them stay in their own barren mountains, and puff and swell, and hang their bonnets on the horns of the moon if they have a mind; but what business have they to come where people wear breeches F and speak an intelligible language-I mean intelligible in comparison to their gibberish, for even the Lowlanders talk a kind of English little better than the Negroes in Jamaica. I could pity the Pre-I mean the Chevalier himself, for having so many desperadoes about him. And they learn their trade so early. There is a kind of subaltern imp, for example, a sort of sucking devil, whom your friend Glena-Glenamuck there, has sometimes in his train. To look at him, he is about fifteen years; but he is a century old in mischief and villainy. He was playing at quoits the other day in the court; a gentleman, a decent-looking person enough, came past, and as a quoit hit his shin, he lifted his cane: But my young bravo whips out his pistol, like Beau Clincher in the Trip to the Jubilee, and had not a scream of Gardez l'eau, from an upper window, set all parties a-scampering for fear of the inevitable consequences, the poor gentleman would have lost his life by the hands of that little cockatrice." "A fine character you'll give of Scotland upon your return, Colonel Talbot." "O, Justice Shallow shall save me the trouble-Barren, barren, beggars all, beg. gars all. Marry, good air, and that only when you are out of Edinburgh, and not yet come to Leith, as is our case at pre sent." : In a short time they arrived at the seaport: A "The boat rock'd at the pier of Leith, "Farewell, Colonel; may you find all as you would wish it. Perhaps we may meet sooner than you expect: they talk of an immediate route to England." "Tell me nothing of that," said Talbot; "I wish to carry no news of your mo tions." "Simply then, adieu. Say, with a thou sand kind greetings, all that is dutiful and affectionate to Sir Everard and Aunt Ra chael-Think of me as kindly as you canspeak of me as indulgently as your conscience will permit, and once more adieu." "And adieu, my dear Waverley; many, many thanks for your kindness. Unplaid yourself on the first opportunity. I shall ever think of you with gratitude, and the worst of my censure shall be, Que diable alloit il faire dans cette galere?" And thus they parted, Colonel Talbot going on board of the boat, and Waverley returning to Edinburgh. Ir is not our purpose to intrude upon the province of history. We shall therefore only remind our reader, that about the beginning of November the young Chevalier, at the head of about six thousand men at the utmost, resolved to peril his cause upon an attempt to penetrate into the centre of England, although aware of the mighty preparations which were made for his reception. They set forward on this crusade in weather which would have rendered any other troops incapable of marching, but which in reality. gave these active mountaineers advantages over a less hardy enemy. In defiance of a superior army lying upon the Borders |