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CHAPTER ELEVENTH.
CHAPTER TWELFTH.
CHAPTER THIRTEENTH.
CHAPTER FOURTEENTH.
CHAPTER FIFTEENTH.
CHAPTER SIXTEENTH.
CHAPTER SEVENTEENTH.
CHAPTER EIGHTEENTH.
CHAPTER NINETEENTH.
CHAPTER TWENTIETH.
CHAPTER TWENTY
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Bookcover
Spines
Titlepage
Frontispiece
The Antiquary and Lovel--the Sanctum
Sir Arthur and Miss Wardour
The Rescue of Sir Arthur and Miss Wardour
Eddie Ochiltree Visits Miss Wardour
Mrs. Heukbane and Mrs. Shortcake
St. Ruth (arbroath Abbey)
The Ruins of St. Ruth
VOLUME ONE
I knew Anselmo. He was shrewd and prudent, Wisdom and cunning had their shares of him; But he was shrewish as a wayward child, And pleased again by toys which childhood please; As--book of fables, graced with print of wood, Or else the jingling of a rusty medal, Or the rare melody of some old ditty, That first was sung to please King Pepin's cradle
INTRODUCTION
The present work completes a series of fictitious narratives, intended to illustrate the manners of Scotland at three different periods. Waverley embraced the age of our fathers, Guy Mannering that of our own youth, and the Antiquary refers to the last ten years of the eighteenth century. I have, in the two last narratives especially, s