His letter is of great length, and extends to nine quarto pages.

He concludes: "There cannot be a doubt as to the splendid merit of the work.

It would never have done to have hesitated and higgled about seeing more volumes.
In the note which accompanied the sheets, Ballantyne says, 'each volume contains a Tale,' so there will be four in all.

[Footnote: This, the original intention, was departed from.] The next relates to the period of the Covenanters.

I have now neither doubts nor fears with regard to the whole being good, and I anxiously hope that you will have as little.
I am so happy at the fortunate termination of all my pains and anxieties, that I cannot be in bad humour with you for not writing me two lines in answer to my last letters.