He invited Waverley to go with him, a proposal in which he acquiesced, providing the interest of Colonel Talbot should fail in procuring his pardon.

Tacitly he hoped the Baron would sanction his addresses to Rose, and give him a right to assist him in his exile; but he forbore to speak on this subject until his own fate should be decided.

They then talked of Glennaquoich, for whom the Baron expressed great anxiety, although, he observed, he was 'the very Achilles of Horatius Flaccus,-- Impiger, iracundus, inexorabilis, acer.
Which,' he continued, 'has been thus rendered (vernacularly) by Struan Robertson: A fiery etter-cap, a fractious chiel, As het as ginger, and as stieve as steel.' Flora had a large and unqualified share of the good old man's sympathy.
It was now wearing late.

Old Janet got into some kind of kennel behind the hallan.

Davie had been long asleep and snoring between Ban and Buscar.