This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAP. XLV. An Incident glvas Eise to Unavailing Reflections. IL'VfAji] HEN Waverley reached that part of the column ffaW which was filled by the clan of Mac-Ivor, they HyBfii halted, formed, and received him with a triumphant flourish upon the bagpipes, and a loud shout of the men, most of whom knew him personally, and were delighted to see him in the dress of their country and of their sept. "You shout," said a Highlander of a neighbouring clan to Evan Dhu, "as if the Chieftain were just come to your head." "Mar e Bi-an is e a Irathair, If it be not Bran, it is Bran's brother," was the proverbial reply of Maccombich. "O, then, it is the handsome Sassenach Duinhewassel, that is to be married to Lady Flora?" ' That may be, or it may not be; and it is neither your matter nor mine, . Gregor,,", Fergus advanced to embrace the volunteer, and afford him a warm and hearty welcome; but he thought it necessary to apologise for the diminished numbers of his battalion (which did not exceed three hundred men), by observing, he had sent a good many out upon parties. The real fact, however, was, that the defection of Donald Bean Lean had deprived him of at least thirty hardy fellows, whose services he had fully reckoned upon, and that many of his occasional adherents had been recalled by their several chiefs to the standards to which they most properly owed their allegiance. The rival chief of the great northern branch also of his own clan had mustered his people, although he had not yet declared either for the Government or for the Chevalier, and by his intrigues had in some degree diminished the force with which Fergus took the field. To make amends for these disappointments, it was universally admitted that the followers of Vich Ian...