It was I who taught him to concentrate them, and to gage all on this dreadful and desperate cast.

Oh that I could recollect that I had but once said to him, "He that striketh with the sword shall die by the sword"; that I had but once said, Remain at home; reserve yourself, your vassals, your life, for enterprises within the reach of man.

But oh, Mr.Waverley, I spurred his fiery temper, and half of his ruin at least lies with his sister.' The horrid idea which she had intimated, Edward endeavoured to combat by every incoherent argument that occurred to him.

He recalled to her the principles on which both thought it their duty to act, and in which they had been educated.
'Do not think I have forgotten them,' she said, looking up, with eager quickness; 'I do not regret his attempt, because it was wrong--oh no! on that point I am armed--but because it was impossible it could end otherwise than thus.' 'Yet it did not always seem so desperate and hazardous as it was; and it would have been chosen by the bold spirit of Fergus, whether you had approved it or no; your counsels only served to give unity and consistence to his conduct; to dignify, but not to precipitate his resolution.' Flora had soon ceased to listen to Edward, and was again intent upon her needlework.
'Do you remember,' she said, looking up with a ghastly smile, 'you once found me making Fergus's bride-favours, and now I am sewing his bridal-garment.

Our friends here,' she continued, with suppressed emotion, 'are to give hallowed earth in their chapel to the bloody relies of the last Vich Ian Vohr.