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Waverley will always find in his own bosom, when he will give its small still voice leisure to be heard. 'No, Miss Mac-Ivor, I dare not hope it; a thousand circumstances of fatal self-indulgence have made me the creature rather of imagination than reason.
The ladies of the party did not escape his censure. He allowed that Flora Mac-Ivor was a fine woman, and Rose Bradwardine a pretty girl. But he alleged that the former destroyed the effect of her beauty by an affectation of the grand airs which she had probably seen practised at the mock court of St. Germains.
And they would have fought; but Fergus Mac-Ivor said, very gallantly, he would never raise his hand against a grey head that was so much respected as my father's. O I wish, I wish they had continued friends! 'And did you ever see this Mr. Mac-Ivor, if that be his name, Miss Bradwardine?
The officers who use these last arguments, among whom is your friend Fergus Mac-Ivor, maintain that, if the Highlanders are strangers to the usual military discipline of Europe, the soldiers whom they are to encounter are no less strangers to their peculiar and formidable mode of attack; that the attachment and courage of the chiefs and gentlemen are not to be doubted; and that, as they will be in the midst of the enemy, their clansmen will as surely follow them; in fine, that having drawn the sword we should throw away the scabbard, and trust our cause to battle and to the God of battles.
I thought it better she should come here, as since our success a good many ladies of rank attend our military court; and I assure you that there is a sort of consequence annexed to the near relative of such a person as Flora Mac-Ivor, and where there is such a justling of claims and requests, a man must use every fair means to enhance his importance.
Gladly at this moment would Mac-Ivor have put their quarrel to a personal arbitrament; his eye flashed fire, and he measured Edward as if to choose where he might best plant a mortal wound.
'And is this sort of Highland Jonathan Wild admitted into society, and called a gentleman? 'So much so, said Rose, 'that the quarrel between my father and Fergus Mac-Ivor began at a county meeting, where he wanted to take precedence of all the Lowland gentlemen then present, only my father would not suffer it.
And they would have fought; but Fergus Mac-Ivor said, very gallantly, he would never raise his hand against a grey head that was so much respected as my father's. Oh, I wish, I wish they had continued friends! 'And did you ever see this Mr. Mac-Ivor, if that be his name, Miss Bradwardine?
Flora Mac-Ivor called Rose her pupil, and was attentive to assist her in her studies, and to fashion both her taste and understanding. It might have been remarked by a very close observer that in the presence of Waverley she was much more desirous to exhibit her friend's excellences than her own.
Here Callum Beg received them with a smile of recognition. This was the hereditary tailor of Vich Ian Vohr. 'Shemus, Mr. You know the measure of a well-made man: two double nails to the small of the leg' 'Get a plaid of Mac-Ivor tartan, and sash, continued the Chieftain, 'and a blue bonnet of the Prince's pattern, at Mr. Mouat's in the Crames.
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