ST. CLYDE.

A NOVEL.

Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,

"This is my own, my native land!"
Whose heart has ne'er within him burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned,

From wandering on a foreign strand?

SCOTT.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR GALE AND FENNER,

PATERNOSTER-ROW,

By S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey.

1816.

249.

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ST. CLYDE.

CHAPTER I.

He will return, dear lady, trust,
With joy return, he will, he must.

SCOTT.

THOUGH the proposal of Villejuive was but tacitly acknowledged by the minister and the dominie, it was approved of by the fiscal and baillie Ilan Dou. Levingstone had been so long at Edinburgh and London, that Ellen had given him up; it was but natural that Louis Villejuive should so far succeed with Ellen, as at length to gain her consent to receive his hand. After the necessary arrangements had been made as to the title-deeds of the estate,