I know, indeed, that I am innocent, but I hardly see how I can hope to prove myself so.' 'It is for that very reason, Mr.Waverley,' said the clergyman, 'that I venture to solicit your confidence.

My knowledge of individuals in this country is pretty general, and can upon occasion be extended.
Your situation will, I fear, preclude you taking those active steps for recovering intelligence, or tracing imposture, which I would willingly undertake in your behalf; and if you are not benefited by my exertions, at least they cannot be prejudicial to you.' Waverley, after a few minutes' reflection, was convinced that his reposing confidence in Mr.Morton, so far as he himself was concerned, could hurt neither Mr.Bradwardine nor Fergus Mac-Ivor, both of whom had openly assumed arms against the Government, and that it might possibly, if the professions of his new friend corresponded in sincerity with the earnestness of his expression, be of some service to himself.

He therefore ran briefly over most of the events with which the reader is already acquainted, suppressing his attachment to Flora, and indeed neither mentioning her nor Rose Bradwardine in the course of his narrative.
Mr.Morton seemed particularly struck with the account of Waverley's visit to Donald Bean Lean.

'I am glad,' he said, 'you did not mention this circumstance to the Major.

It is capable of great misconstruction on the part; of those who do not consider the power of curiosity and the influence of romance as motives of youthful conduct.