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'Fergus! said Waverley, with a reproachful look. 'Nay, I cannot tell what to make of you, answered the Chief of Mac-Ivor, 'you are blown about with every wind of doctrine.
'Truly, said Fergus Mac-Ivor, 'I think it can only be the inspiration of the tartans; for, though Waverley be always a young fellow of sense and honour, I have hitherto often found him a very absent and inattentive companion. 'We are the more obliged to him, said the Prince, 'for having reserved for this evening qualities which even such intimate friends had not discovered.
In the meanwhile, I hope for your permission to serve as a volunteer under my friend Fergus Mac-Ivor.
I should like now to meet that youth where my hands were not tied: I would tame his pride, or he should tame mine. 'For shame, Colonel Talbot! you swell at sight of tartan as the bull is said to do at scarlet. You and Mac-Ivor have some points not much unlike, so far as national prejudice is concerned. The latter part of this discourse took place in the street.
While they remained in this position, a messenger arrived in haste to desire Mac-Ivor to come to the Prince, adding, that their advanced post had had a skirmish with some of the enemy's cavalry, and that the Baron of Bradwardine had sent in a few prisoners.
Bailie Macwheeble was again tempted to put in his oar; for where cash was concerned he did not willingly remain silent. 'Perhaps he had better carry the gowd to Miss Mac-Ivor, in case of mortality or accidents of war. It might tak the form of a mortis causa donation in the young leddie's favour, and wad cost but the scrape of a pen to mak it out.
With the other hand he pulled off his bonnet, and the Baron, who well knew their customs, and the proper mode of addressing them, immediately said, with an air of dignity, but without rising, and much, as Edward thought, in the manner of a prince receiving an embassy, 'Welcome, Evan Dhu Maccombich; what news from Fergus Mac-Ivor Vich lan Vohr?
He avoided any private interview with Fergus, as he did not find himself able either to encounter his raillery, or reply to his solicitations. The wild revelry of the feast, for Mac-Ivor kept open table for his clan, served in some degree to stun reflection.
'That will be easily done by most of us, said Mac-Ivor, laughing. 'Craving your pardon, Colonel Mac-Ivor, not quite so easily as ye seem to opine. I grant most of your folk left the Highlands expedited as it were, and free from the incumbrance of baggage; but it is unspeakable the quantity of useless sprechery which they have collected on their march.
On perceiving Edward approaching, he put his horse in motion towards him. 'Colonel Mac-Ivor, said Waverley, without any farther salutation, 'I have to inform you that one of your people has this instant fired at me from a lurking-place.
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