Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since — Volume 1
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Вальтер Скотт. Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since — Volume 1
INTRODUCTION
PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
THE AUTHOR'S ADDRESS TO ALL IN GENERAL
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II. WAVERLEY-HONOUR — A RETROSPECT
CHAPTER III. EDUCATION
CHAPTER IV. CASTLE-BUILDING
CHAPTER V. CHOICE OF A PROFESSION
CHAPTER VI. THE ADIEUS OF WAVERLEY
CHAPTER VII. A HORSE-QUARTER IN SCOTLAND
CHAPTER VIII. A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE
CHAPTER IX. MORE OF THE MANOR-HOUSE AND ITS ENVIRONS
CHAPTER X. ROSE BRADWARDINE AND HER FATHER
CHAPTER XI. THE BANQUET
CHAPTER XII. REPENTANCE AND A RECONCILIATION
CHAPTER XIII. A MORE RATIONAL DAY THAN THE LAST
CHAPTER XIV. A DISCOVERY — WAVERLEY BECOMES DOMESTICATED AT TULLY-VEOLAN
CHAPTER XV. A CREAGH, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
CHAPTER XVI. AN UNEXPECTED ALLY APPEARS
CHAPTER XVII. THE HOLD OF A HIGHLAND ROBBER
CHAPTER XVIII. WAVERLEY PROCEEDS ON HIS JOURNEY
CHAPTER XIX. THE CHIEF AND HIS MANSION
CHAPTER XX. A HIGHLAND FEAST
CHAPTER XXI. THE CHIEFTAIN'S SISTER
CHAPTER XXII. HIGHLAND MINSTRELSY
CHAPTER XXIII. WAVEELEY CONTINUES AT GLENNAQUOICH
CHAPTER XXIV. A STAG-HUNT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
CHAPTER XXV. NEWS FROM ENGLAND
CHAPTER XXVI. AN ECLAIRCISSEMENT
CHAPTER XXVII. UPON THE SAME SUBJECT
CHAPTER XXVIII. A LETTER FROM TULLY-VEOLAN
CHAPTER XXIX. WAVERLEY'S RECEPTION IN THE LOWLANDS AFTER HIS HIGHLAND TOUR
CHAPTER XXX. SHOWS THAT THE LOSS OF A HORSE'S SHOE MAY BE A SERIOUS INCONVENIENCE
CHAPTER XXXI. AN EXAMINATION
CHAPTER XXXII. A CONFERENCE AND THE CONSEQUENCE
CHAPTER XXXIII. A CONFIDANT
CHAPTER XXXIV. THINGS MEND A LITTLE
CHAPTER XXXV. A VOLUNTEER SIXTY YEARS SINCE
APPENDICES TO THE GENERAL PREFACE
NO. I
NO. II
NO. III
NOTES
GLOSSARY
END OF VOLUME I
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To this slight attempt at a sketch of ancient Scottish manners the public have been more favourable than the Author durst have hoped or expected. He has heard, with a mixture of satisfaction and humility, his work ascribed to more than one respectable name. Considerations, which seem weighty in his particular situation, prevent his releasing those gentlemen from suspicion by placing his own name in the title-page; so that, for the present at least, it must remain uncertain whether Waverley be the work of a poet or a critic, a lawyer or a clergyman, or whether the writer, to use Mrs. Malaprop's phrase, be, 'like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once.' The Author, as he is unconscious of anything in the work itself (except perhaps its frivolity) which prevents its finding an acknowledged father, leaves it to the candour of the public to choose among the many circumstances peculiar to different situations in life such as may induce him to suppress his name on the present occasion. He may be a writer new to publication, and unwilling to avow a character to which he is unaccustomed; or he may be a hackneyed author, who is ashamed of too frequent appearance, and employs this mystery, as the heroine of the old comedy used her mask, to attract the attention of those to whom her face had become too familiar. He may be a man of a grave profession, to whom the reputation of being a novel-writer might be prejudicial; or he may be a man of fashion, to whom writing of any kind might appear pedantic. He may be too young to assume the character of an author, or so old as to make it advisable to lay it aside.
The Author of Waverley has heard it objected to this novel, that, in the character of Callum Beg and in the account given by the Baron of Bradwardine of the petty trespasses of the Highlanders upon trifling articles of property, he has borne hard, and unjustly so, upon their national character. Nothing could be farther from his wish or intention. The character of Callum Beg is that of a spirit naturally turned to daring evil, and determined, by the circumstances of his situation, to a particular species of mischief. Those who have perused the curious Letters from the Highlands, published about 1726, will find instances of such atrocious characters which fell under the writer's own observation, though it would be most unjust to consider such villains as representatives of the Highlanders of that period, any more than the murderers of Marr and Williamson can be supposed to represent the English of the present day. As for the plunder supposed to have been picked up by some of the insurgents in 1745, it must be remembered that, although the way of that unfortunate little army was neither marked by devastation nor bloodshed, but, on the contrary, was orderly and quiet in a most wonderful degree, yet no army marches through a country in a hostile manner without committing some depredations; and several, to the extent and of the nature jocularly imputed to them by the Baron, were really laid to the charge of the Highland insurgents; for which many traditions, and particularly one respecting the Knight of the Mirror, may be quoted as good evidence. [Footnote: A homely metrical narrative of the events of the period, which contains some striking particulars, and is still a great favourite with the lower classes, gives a very correct statement of the behaviour of the mountaineers respecting this same military license; and, as the verses are little known, and contain some good sense, we venture to insert them.]
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The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse at the Hall occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world to which Waverley-Honour formed the centre. But the more judicious politicians of this microcosm augured yet worse consequences to Richard Waverley from a movement which shortly followed his apostasy. This was no less than an excursion of the Baronet in his coach-and-six, with four attendants in rich liveries, to make a visit of some duration to a noble peer on the confines of the shire, of untainted descent, steady Tory principles, and the happy father of six unmarried and accomplished daughters.
Sir Everard's reception in this family was, as it may be easily conceived, sufficiently favourable; but of the six young ladies, his taste unfortunately determined him in favour of Lady Emily, the youngest, who received his attentions with an embarrassment which showed at once that she durst not decline them, and that they afforded her anything but pleasure.
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