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Updated: June 10, 2025
When she was gone, "I think I know the gipsy woman," said the lawyer. "I was just going to say the same," replied Mannering. "And her name " said Pleydell. "Is Meg Merrilies," answered the Colonel. "Are you avised of that?" said the counsellor, looking at his military friend with a comic expression of surprise.
They instantly communicated the new cause of alarm. 'Meg Merrilies again! said the Colonel. 'She certainly is a most mysterious and unaccountable personage; but I think she must have something to impart to Bertram to which she does not mean we should be privy.
John Brown and Thomas Carlyle, Lady Nairne and Drummond of Hawthornden, Allan Ramsay and Sir Walter; and is it not a proof of the Wizard's magic art, that side by side with the wraiths of these real people walked, or seemed to walk, the Fair Maid of Perth, Jeanie Deans, Meg Merrilies, Guy Mannering, Ellen, Marmion, and a host of others so sweetly familiar and so humanly dear that the very street-laddies could have named and greeted them as they passed by?
But among those who read and re-read the novels of Scott, by far the greater number believe that "The Wizard of the North" was true to nature, that Jeanie Deans and Rob Roy and Meg Merrilies were not impossible characters.
He then examined the clergyman and surgeon respecting the dying declaration of Meg Merrilies.
They were the first words which Mannering had heard him speak; and as he had been watching with some curiosity, when this eating, drinking, moving, and smoking automaton would perform the part of speaking, he was a good deal diverted with the harsh timber tones which issued from him. But at this moment the door opened, and Meg Merrilies entered. Her appearance made Mannering start.
As he was about to turn his horse's head to pursue his journey, Meg Merrilies, who had lagged behind the troop, unexpectedly presented herself.
Have you seen Glossin? 'No, replied Meg Merrilies; 'you've missed your blow, ye blood- spiller! and ye have nothing to expect from the tempter. 'Hagel! exclaimed the ruffian, 'if I had him but by the throat! And what am I to do then? 'Do? answered the gipsy; 'die like a man, or be hanged like a dog! 'Hanged, ye hag of Satan! The hemp's not sown that shall hang me.
The reader may recollect the description of this ruin in the twenty-seventh chapter, as the vault in which young Bertram, under the auspices of Meg Merrilies, witnessed the death of Hatteraick's lieutenant.
They were the first words which Mannering had heard him speak; and as he had been watching with some curiosity when this eating, drinking, moving, and smoking automaton would perform the part of speaking, he was a good deal diverted with the harsh timber tones which issued from him. But at this moment the door opened, and Meg Merrilies entered. Her appearance made Mannering start.
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