Five quotes from Sir Walter Scott's Waverley

[cimorene]

1. “He’s a pratty man, a very pratty man,” said Evan Dhu (now Ensign Maccombich) to Fergus’s buxom landlady.
   
   “He’s vera weel,” said the Widow Flockhart, “but no naething sae weel-far’d as your colonel, ensign.”
   
   “I was na comparing them,” quoth Evan, “nor was I speaking about his being weel-favoured; but only that Mr. Waverley looks clean-made and deliver, and like a proper lad o’ his quarters, that will not cry barley in a brulzie. And, indeed, he’s gleg aneuch at the broadsword and target. I hae played wi’ him mysell at Glennaquoich, and sae has Vich Ian Vohr, often of a Sunday afternoon."



2. The friends now parted and retired to rest, each filled with the most anxious reflections on the state of the country.



3. dressed as if her clothes had been flung on with a pitchfork,



4. The master smith, benempt, as his sign intimated, John Mucklewrath,



5. “No; he that steals a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cotter, is a thief; he that lifts a drove from a Sassenach laird is a gentleman-drover. And, besides, to take a tree from the forest, a salmon from the river, a deer from the hill, or a cow from a Lowland strath, is what no Highlander need ever think shame upon.”