st find you a handsome
husband among the clansmen one of these days.'

Cathleen laughed, blushed, and sheltered herself behind her companion.

In the progress of their return to the castle, the Chieftain warmly
pressed Waverley to remain for a week or two, in order to see a grand
hunting party, in which he and some other Highland gentlemen proposed
to join. The charms of melody and beauty were too strongly impressed in
Edward's breast to permit his declining an invitation so pleasing.
It was agreed, therefore, that he should write a note to the Baron
of Bradwardine, expressing his intention to stay a fortnight at
Glennaquoich, and requesting him to forward by the bearer (a GILLY of
the Chieftain's) any letters which might have arrived for him.

This turned the discourse upon the Baron, whom Fergus highly extolled
as a gentleman and soldier. His character was touched with yet more
discrimination by Flora, who observed that he was the very model of the
old Scottish cavalier, with all his excellences and peculiarities. 'It
is a character, Captain Waverley, which is fast disappearing; for its
best point was a self-respect, which was never lost sight of till now.
But, in the present time, the gentlemen whose principles do not permit
them to pay court to the existing government are neglected and degraded,
and many conduct themselves accordingly; and, like some of the persons
you have seen at Tully-Veolan, adopt habits and companions inconsistent
with their birth and breeding. The ruthless proscription of party seems
to degrade the victims whom it brands, however unjustly. But let us hope
that a brighter day is approaching, when a Scottish country-gentleman
may be a scholar without the pedantry of our friend the Baron; a
sportsman, without the low habits of Mr. Falconer; and a judicious
improver of his property, without becoming a boorish two-legged steer
like Killancureit.'

Thus did Flora prophesy a revolution, which time indeed has produced,
but in a manner very different from what she had in her mind.

The amiable Rose was next mentioned, with the warmest encomium on
her person, manners, and mind, 'That man,' said Flora, 'will find an
inestimable treasure in the affections of Rose Bradwardine, who shall be
so fortunate as to become their object. Her very soul is in home, and
in the discharge of all those quiet virtues of which home is the centre.
Her husband will be to her what her father now is--the object of all
her