I hope they will set it on the Scotch gate though, that I may look, even after death, to the blue hills of my own country, which I love so dearly.

The Baron would have added, MORITUR, ET MORIENS DULCES REMINISCITUR ARGOS.' A bustle, and the sound of wheels and horses' feet, was now heard in the courtyard of the Castle.

'As I have told you why you must not follow me, and these sounds admonish me that my time flies fast, tell me how you found poor Flora ?' Waverley, with a voice interrupted by suffocating sensations, gave some account of the state of her mind.
'Poor Flora!' answered the Chief, 'she could have borne her own sentence of death, but not mine.

You, Waverley, will soon know the happiness of mutual affection in the married state--long, long may Rose and you enjoy it!--but you can never know the purity of feeling which combines two orphans, like Flora and me, left alone as it were in the world, and being all in all to each other from our very infancy.

But her strong sense of duty, and predominant feeling of loyalty, will give new nerve to her mind after the immediate and acute sensation of this parting has passed away.