an
expeditious journey, and directed to get on board the ship by means of bribing a
fishing-boat, which, as they afterwards learned, he easily effected.
    Tired of the attendance of Callum Beg, who, he thought, had some disposition
to act as a spy on his motions, Waverley hired as a servant, a simple Edinburgh
swain, who had mounted the white cockade in a fit of spleen and jealousy,
because Jenny Jop had danced a whole night with Corporal Bullock of the
Fusileers.
 

                             Chapter Fifty-Second.

                         Intrigues of Society and Love.

Colonel Talbot became more kindly in his demeanour towards Waverley after the
confidence he had reposed in him; and as they were necessarily much together,
the character of the Colonel rose in Waverley's estimation. There seemed at
first something harsh in his strong expressions of dislike and censure, although
no one was in the general case more open to conviction. The habit of authority
had also given his manners some peremptory hardness, notwithstanding the polish
which they had received from his intimate acquaintance with the higher circles.
As a specimen of the military character, he differed from all whom Waverley had
as yet seen. The soldiership of the Baron of Bradwardine was marked by pedantry;
that of Major Melville by a sort of martinet attention to the minutiæ and
technicalities of discipline, rather suitable to one who was to manoeuvre a
battalion, than to him who was to command an army; the military spirit of Fergus
was so much warped and blended with his plans and political views, that it was
less that of a soldier than of a petty sovereign. But Colonel Talbot was in
every point the English soldier. His whole soul was devoted to the service of
his king and country, without feeling any pride in knowing the theory of his
art, with the Baron, or its practical minutiæ with the Major, or in applying his
science to his own particular plans of ambition, like the Chieftain of
Glennaquoich. Added to this, he was a man of extended knowledge and cultivated
taste, although strongly tinged, as we have already observed, with those
prejudices which are peculiarly English.
    The character of Colonel Talbot dawned upon Edward by degrees; for the delay
of the Highlanders in the fruitless siege of Edinburgh Castle occupied several
weeks, during which Waverley had little to do, excepting to seek such amusement
as society afforded. He would willingly have persuaded his new friend to become
acquainted with some of his former intimates. But the Colonel, after one or two
visits, shook his head, and declined farther experiment. Indeed he went farther,
and characterised the Baron as the