She was precisely the character to fascinate a youth of romantic imagination.

Her manners, her language, her talents for poetry and music, gave additional and varied influence to her eminent personal charms.

Even in her hours of gaiety, she was in his fancy exalted above the ordinary daughters of Eve, and seemed only to stoop for an instant to those topics of amusement and gallantry which others appear to live for.

In the neighbourhood of this enchantress, while sport consumed the morning, and music and the dance led on the hours of evening, Waverley became daily more delighted with his hospitable landlord, and more enamoured of his bewitching sister.
At length, the period fixed for the grand hunting arrived, and Waverley and the Chieftain departed for the place of rendezvous, which was a day's journey to the northward of Glennaquoich.

Fergus was attended on this occasion by about three hundred of his clan, well armed, and accoutred in their best fashion.