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A young English gentleman visits the Scottish Highlands and becomes drawn into its social life, customs, and local loyalties. He forms attachments and encounters a gentle courtship while political and military unrest sweeps the region, forcing divided allegiances and testing personal honour. The narrative alternates domestic scenes, clan hospitality, marches and skirmishes, imprisonment, and reconciliations, offering descriptive set-pieces and conversations that illuminate changing social order. Through episodic adventures and reflective authorial notes, the work examines identity, loyalty, and the tensions between tradition and emerging modern comforts.

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Title: Waverley; or, 'Tis sixty years since

Author: Walter Scott

Editor: Andrew Lang

Release date: August 19, 2004 [eBook #5998]
Most recently updated: August 23, 2025

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Waverley

OR

’TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE

by Sir Walter Scott, BART.

With Introductory Essay and Notes

By ANDREW LANG

With Illustrations

1893

THIS NEW EDITION OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS
IS DEDICATED TO THE HON. MRS. MAXWELL SCOTT OF
ABBOTSFORD AND HER CHILDREN,

Walter, Mary, Michael, Alice, Malcolm,
Margaret and Herbert

GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER AND GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN
OF THE AUTHOR,

BY THE PUBLISHERS

TO
THE KING’S MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY.

SIRE,

The Author of this collection of Works of Fiction would not have presumed to solicit for them your Majesty’s august patronage, were it not that the perusal has been supposed in some instances to have succeeded in amusing hours of relaxation, or relieving those of languor, pain, or anxiety, and therefore must have so far aided the warmest wish of your Majesty’s heart, by contributing in however small a degree to the happiness of your people.

They are therefore humbly dedicated to your Majesty, agreeably to your gracious permission, by

Your Majesty’s Dutiful Subject,

WALTER SCOTT.

ABBOTSFORD, 1st January, 1829.

Contents

EDITOR’S NOTE

GENERAL PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF WAVERLEY

No. I. Fragment of a Romance which was to have been entitled Thomas the Rhymer. Chapter I.

No. II. Conclusion of Mr. Strutt’s Romance of Queen-Hoo Hall.

Chapter IV.

Chapter V.

No. III. Anecdote of School Days

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION TO WAVERLEY

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION

VOLUME I.

I. INTRODUCTORY

II. WAVERLEY HONOUR—A RETROSPECT

IV. CASTLE-BUILDING

V. CHOICE OF A PROFESSION

VI. THE ADIEUS OF WAVERLEY

VII. A HORSE-QUARTER IN SCOTLAND

VIII. A SCOTTISH MANOR-HOUSE SIXTY YEARS SINCE

IX. MORE OF THE MANOR-HOUSE AND ITS ENVIRONS

X. ROSE BRADWARDINE AND HER FATHER

XI. THE BANQUET

XII. REPENTANCE AND A RECONCILIATION

XIII. A MORE RATIONAL DAY THAN THE LAST

XIV. WAVERLEY BECOMES DOMESTICATED AT TULLY-VEOLAN

XV. A CREAGH, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

XVI. AN UNEXPECTED ALLY APPEARS

XVII. THE HOLD OF A HIGHLAND ROBBER

XVIII. WAVERLEY PROCEEDS ON HIS JOURNEY

XIX. THE CHIEF AND HIS MANSION

XX. A HIGHLAND FEAST

XXI. THE CHIEFTAIN’S SISTER

XXII. HIGHLAND MINSTRELSY

XXIII. WAVERLEY CONTINUES AT GLENNAQUOICH

XXIV. STAG-HUNT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

XXV. NEWS FROM ENGLAND

XXVI. AN ECLAIRCISSEMENT

XXVII. UPON THE SAME SUBJECT

XXVIII. A LETTER FROM TULLY-VEOLAN

XXIX. WAVERLEY’S RECEPTION IN THE LOWLANDS AFTER HIS HIGHLAND TOUR

AUTHOR’S NOTES—Volume I.

GLOSSARY—Volume I.

VOLUME II.

I. LOSS OF A HORSE’S SHOE MAY BE A SERIOUS INCONVENIENCE

II. AN EXAMINATION

III. A CONFERENCE, AND THE CONSEQUENCE

IV. A CONFIDANT

V. THINGS MEND A LITTLE

VI. A VOLUNTEER SIXTY YEARS SINCE

VII. AN INCIDENT

VIII. WAVERLEY IS STILL IN DISTRESS

IX. A NOCTURNAL ADVENTURE

X. THE JOURNEY IS CONTINUED

XI. AN OLD AND A NEW ACQUAINTANCE

XII. THE MYSTERY BEGINS TO BE CLEARED

XIII. A SOLDIER’S DINNER

XVI. AN INCIDENT GIVES RISE TO UNAVAILING REFLECTIONS

XVII. THE EVE OF BATTLE

XVIII. THE CONFLICT

XIX. AN UNEXPECTED EMBARRASSMENT

XX. THE ENGLISH PRISONER

XXI. RATHER UNIMPORTANT

XXII. INTRIGUES OF LOVE AND POLITICS

XXIII. INTRIGUES OF SOCIETY AND LOVE

XXIV. FERGUS A SUITOR

XXV. “TO ONE THING CONSTANT NEVER”

XXVI. A BRAVE MAN IN SORROW

XXVII. EXERTION

XXVIII. THE MARCH

XXIX. THE CONFUSION OF KING AGRAMANT’S CAMP

XXX. A SKIRMISH

XXXI. CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS

XXXII. A JOURNEY TO LONDON

XXXIII. WHAT’S TO BE DONE NEXT?

XXXIV. DESOLATION

XXXV. COMPARING OF NOTES

XXXVI. MORE EXPLANATION

XLI. DULCE DOMUM

XLIII. A POSTSCRIPT WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN A PREFACE

AUTHOR’S NOTES—Volume II.

GLOSSARY—Volume II.

List of Illustrations

VOLUME I.

PORTRAIT OF SIR WALTER SCOTT—Painted by Raeburn, Etched by Batley

ABBOTSFORD (FROM THE TWEED)—Etched by D. Y. Cameron

TULLY-VEOLAN—Painted by W. J. Leitch, Etched by H. W. Batley

“EH, SIRS!”—Original Etching by George Cruickshank

WAVERLEY AND ROSE BRADWARDINE—Etched by Ben. Damman

THE HOLD OF A HIGHLAND ROBBER—Original Etching by R. W. Macbeth

FLORA MAC-IVOR AT THE WATERFALL—Original Etching by R. W. Macbeth

VOLUME II.

PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD IN SHELTER—Etched by H. M. Raeburn

STIRLING CASTLE—Etched by John Andrew and Son

BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE—Painted by Pettie, Etched by Raeburn

COLONEL GARDINER—Original Etching by H. Macbeth Raeburn

DISBANDED—Painted by John Pettie, Etched by F. Huth

BAILIE MACWHEEBLE—Painted by J. Lauder, Etched by H. Lefort

“LADY WAUVERLEY! TEN THOUSAND A YEAR!”—Etching by Cruickshank

WAVERLEY’S LAST VISIT TO FLORA MAC-IVOR—Painted by Herdman

DOUNE CASTLE (FROM THE TEITH)—Etched by John Andrew and Son