The duties of the tea-table seem to be concluded, and, as the evening is delightful, Una will show you the way to one of my favourite haunts, and Cathleen and I will join you there.' Una, having received instructions in her native language, conducted Waverley out by a passage different from that through which he had entered the apartment.

At a distance he heard the hall of the chief still resounding with the clang of bagpipes and the high applause of his guests.

Having gained the open air by a postern door, they walked a little way up the wild, bleak, and narrow valley in which the house was situated, following the course of the stream that winded through it.
In a spot, about a quarter of a mile from the castle, two brooks, which formed the little river, had their junction.

The larger of the two came down the long bare valley, which extended, apparently without any change or elevation of character, as far as the hills which formed its boundary permitted the eye to reach.

But the other stream, which had its source among the mountains on the left hand of the strath, seemed to issue from a very narrow and dark opening betwixt two large rocks.