With her and Sister Theresa, the priest proposed next day to leave Carlisle, for the nearest seaport from which they could embark for France.

Waverley forced on this good man a ring of some value, and a sum of money to be employed (as he thought might gratify Flora) in the services of the Catholic Church, for the memory of his friend.

'FUNGARQUE INANI MUNERE,' he repeated, as the ecclesiastic retired.

'Yet why not class these acts of remembrance with other honours, with which affection, in all sects, pursues the memory of the dead ?' The next morning, ere daylight, he took leave of the town of Carlisle, promising to himself never again to enter its walls.

He dared hardly look back towards the Gothic battlements of the fortified gate under which he passed (for the place is surrounded with an old wall).