You know it is one of their wise sayings, that a kinsman is part of a man's body, but a foster-brother is a piece of his heart.' 'Well, Fergus, there is no disputing with you; but I would all this may end well.' 'Devoutly prayed, my dear and prophetic sister, and the best way in the world to close a dubious argument .-- But hear ye not the pipes, Captain Waverley?
Perhaps you will like better to dance to them in the hall, than to be deafened with their harmony without taking part in the exercise they invite us to.' Waverley took Flora's hand.

The dance, song, and merry-making proceeded, and closed the day's entertainment at the castle of Vich Ian Vohr.
Edward at length retired, his mind agitated by a variety of new and conflicting feelings, which detained him from rest for some time, in that not unpleasing state of mind in which fancy takes the helm, and the soul rather drifts passively along with the rapid and confused tide of reflections, than exerts itself to encounter, systematize, or examine them.

At a late hour he fell asleep, and dreamed of Flora Mac-Ivor..