[221] About this time Miss Anne Scott wrote to Mrs. Lockhart:  “Early in the morning, before we started, papa took me with him to the Cathedral.  This he had done often before; but he said he must stand once more on the spot where he married poor mamma.  After that we went to the Castle, where a new showman went through the old trick of pointing out Fergus MacIvor’s very dungeon.  Peveril said, ’Indeed, are you quite sure, sir?’ And on being told there could be no doubt, was troubled with a fit of coughing, which ended in a laugh.  The man seemed exceeding indignant; so, when papa moved on, I whispered who it was.  I wish you had seen the man’s start, and how he stared and bowed as he parted from us; and then rammed his keys into his pocket and went off at a hand-gallop to warn the rest of the garrison.  But the carriage was ready, and we escaped a row.”—­Life, vol. ix. pp. 256-7.

[222] See The Doom of Devorgoil:  A Melo-Drama.  Auchendrane:  or the Ayrshire Tragedy.  Published by Cadell in 8vo. 1830.

[223] Referring to the uniform edition of the Waverley Novels in 48 vols., which began to be issued in June 1829.  The great cost of the publication naturally caused the Trustees much anxiety at this period.

[224] Ante, p. 120, February 2d.

[225] Natali Corri, born in Italy, but settled in Edinburgh, where, among other schemes, he tried to set up an Italian opera.  In conjunction with a brother he published several musical works.  He died at Trieste in 1823.

[226] See Act II.  Sc. 2.  The Italian family’s morning call.

[227]

“And thou, gentle Dame, who must bear to thy grief For thy clan and thy country the cares of a Chief, Whom brief rolling moons, in six changes have left Of thy husband, and father, and brethren bereft; To thine ear of affection how sad is the hail That salutes thee, the heir of the line of Kintail.” Poetical Works, vol. viii. p. 394.

Mary, daughter of Francis, Lord Seaforth, was born in Ross-shire in 1784, married, at Barbadoes in 1804, Sir Samuel Hood, and left a widow in 1814.  She married again, in 1817, Mr. J.A.  Stewart, who assumed the name of Mackenzie.  Mrs. Stewart Mackenzie died at Brahan Castle in 1862; her funeral was one of the largest ever witnessed in the North.

[228] Patrick James Stevenson was licensed in 1825, and ordained in 1828.—­Scott’s Fasti, vol. vi. p. 746.

[229] Ramsay’s Tea-table Miscellany (1795), vol. i. p. 125.

JULY.

    “Up in the morning’s no for me."[230]

Yet here I am up at five—­no horses come from the North Ferry yet.

    “O Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Mitchell,
    Your promises and time keep stitch ill.”