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CLASSICS
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THE HEART OF
MIDLOTHIAN
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By SIR WALTER SCOTT
Condensation by j
T. L. Hood of Harvard University
Walter Scott was j
born in Edinburg! j
on Aug. 15, 1771
His lather was £
lawyer, the firsij
of.the Scott lin« |
to leave the oper
country for tht
town.
^! Nicol Muschat’s Cairn, beneath Saint
J! Anthony’s chapel.”
j | After attempting in vain to indnce
" Jeanie to explain the message, he re-
turned to visit Effie again, in the Tol-
booth, only to be compelled, on his ar-
rival there, to tell the whole story,
lest he be convicted of guilt in the
Porteous affair. And then he was sent
home, under bail not to leave Libber-
ton, nor to communicate with any
member of the family of Effie Deans.
But if his experiences were to him
incomprehensible they were by no
means so to the authorities. By piec-
ing together his testimony with those
of others, they rightly determined that
the stranger in the Iling’s park, the
leader of the Porteous mob, and the
father of Effie’s child were one and
the same person; namely, Geordie
Robertson, comrade of Wilson the
smuggler, and but lately escaped from
the viery prison in which Effie Deans
was now confined. Accordingly, they
planned to capture him that night at
For a man whc j Muschat’s Cairn. But before they
wrote such a pro-1 coul(1 reaCh that place, Robertson had
digious amount , _ f , . . ,
Scott was surpris- j time to beg Jeanie to save her sister
irigiy late in get- at the trial by testifying that Effie had
ting started. He j diSCi0Sed to her her condition. Then
when his firsi ^e escaped.
original- work ap-j Merely that slight falsehood would
peared, “The Laj have removed the case of Effie Deans
from under the letter of the cruel
Scotch statute. But Jeanie, steadfast-
ly, devoutly truthful, was utterly un-
able to placate her conscience in heap-
ing false witness. Nor could the dis-
appointment of Effie herself, whom she
was at last permitted to visit in the
strong-room of the prison, alter her
resolution. “He wanted that I suld
be mansworn,” she said. “I told him
that I daurna swear to an untruth.”
At the trial, when Jeanie was
brought in to testify, Effie, in human
weakness, cried, “O Jeanie, Jeanie,
save me!” But when the solemn oath,
—“the truth to tell, and no truth to
conceal, as far as she knew or \yas
asked,” was administered “in the name
of God, and as the witness should an-
swer to God at the great day of .judg-
ment,” Jeanie, educated in deep rever-
ence for the name of the deity, was
elevated above all considerations save
those which she could, with a clear
Nigel.” “The | conscience, call Him to witness. And
‘,”Uand ”imSed others"havfail ‘S2 j when the advocate came at length to
as favorites among the in- j the point of asking her, “what your
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of The Last Min-
strel.” From tiial
momeift until his
’death, on Sept. 21
1832, he was, with
the possible exception of Byron, the
most popular writer in English.
When the public seemed to be tiring
of his long romances in verse, he
turned to novel writing, and in 1814
when he was 43, he came into his
career of greatness with “Waverley.’
For 18 years novel after novel fol-
lowed In rapid succession, stirring ro-
mances of history or colorful tales oi
Scottish life. They were all - published
anonymously until the financial dis-
aster of 1825 made It seem wfse tc
reveal the author's name.
Fully a dozen of the Waverley
Novels, if not more, might be included
in any list of 100 novels and many
loyal lovers of Scott would even then
think that one or two more might be
added. Fie was, as Stevenson re-
marked, “the king of the romantics.”
“Waverley,” “Ivanhoe,” “The Heart
of Midlothian,” and “Kenilworth” are
representative of Scott at his best.
But "Old Mortality,” “Quentin Dur-
ward,” "The Talisman,” “Guy Manner-
ing,” “The Fortunes of
Anti
Roy:
ranked
numerable admirers of the romances
written by “the Wizard of the North.’
r ■ NHE Heart of Midlothian, bj
I many called the finest of the
**■ Waverley Novels, was pub-
lished anonymously in 1818. It takes
its name from the Tolbooth, or old city
jail, in Edinburg (pulled down in
.1815), the “stony heart” of Midlothian,
which reared its ancient front in the
very middle of the High street of the
city.
On the afternoon of September 8,
1736, Reuben Butler, assistant-mastei
of the school at Libberton, and licensed
minister of the gospel, found himseli
in unexpected trouble. First of all.
he had become entailed with the
crowd of good citizens of Edinburg
in the Grassmarket, murmuring at the
postponement of the execution of Cap-
tain John Porteous of the City Guard.
They were still in the heat of anger
from the events of the preceding day.
when Porteous had ordered his men
t<* fire, and had fired himself, upon
the crowd, some of whom were at-
tempting to cut down the body ot
“Scotch*’ Wilson, the famous smuggler.
Several innocent citizens had been
killed. Now that the chief offender
seemed likely to escape, there was no
knowing what the mob might do. The
quiet young pedagogue would gladly
have returned to Libberton. Then, to
his consternation, he learned that Effie
Deans, the younger and more charming
sister of his sweetheart Jeanie Deans,
was imprisoned in the Tolbooth.
When he had last seen Effie, more
than a year before, she had been a
beautiful and blooming girl, the lily
of Saint Leonard’s. Many a traveler
past her father’s cottage had stopped
his horse on the eve of entering Edin-
burg, to gaze at her as she tripped by
him, with her milk-pail, poised on her
head, bearing herself so erect, and
stepping so light and free under hex
burden that it seemed rather an orna-
ment than an encumbrance. Now the
poor girl, scarce eighteen years of age.
lay in the Tolbooth, charged with child-
murder.
The facts were that after working
for a time in a shop in Edinburg, the
unhappy prisoner had disappeared for
the space of a week, and then made
her appearance before her sister at
Saint Leonard’s in a state that had
rendered Jeanie only too certain of
her misfortune. But to all questions
she had remained mute as the grave,
sister said ailed her when you in-
quired?” Jeanie could only answer,
“nothing.” When the sentence was
pronounced by the doomsman, Effie’s
own eyes were the only dry ones in
the court. “God forgive ye, my lords,”
she said, “and dinna be angry wi’ me
for wishin’ it—we a’ need forgiveness.”
The next morning found Jeanie
Deans traveling alone and afoot- on
the long road to London “to see the
Queen’s face that gives grace,” and
beg for her sister’s pardon. Her tar-
tan, screen served all the purposes of
a riding habit, and of an umbrella; a
small bundle contained such changes
of linen as were absolutely necessary.
She had a few guineas, and a letter
from Reuben Butler to the Duke of
Argyle, whose grandfather had been
under obligations of the deepest to
the famous Bible Butler, grandfather
of the poor assistant-schoolmaster, now
sick at Libberton.
She passed luckily, on the whole,
through so weary and dangerous a
journey, and at length, through the
intercession of the duke, secured the
pardon w’hich she sought.
Before she reached Scotland again,
Effie had eloped with her lover, who
was in reality George Staunton, son
of an English nobleman. The sisters,
who had last met when Effie was sit-
ting on the bench of the condemned,
did not meet again for many years,
though Lady Staunton wrote some-
times to Jeanie—now Mrs. Butler,
wife of Mr. Reuben Butler, pastor of
Knocktarlitie.
Finally, by chance, Sir George
learned that Meg Murdockson, who had
attended Effie in her illness, had not
murdered the child, as they had al-
ways supposed. He traced the boy to
a certain troop of vagabonds, of which
Black Donald was the chief. In an
affray with Black Donald’s men, Sir
George was shot by a young lad called
“the Whistler,” who pi*oved to be the
lost son. The lad disappeared, and
escaped to America. Lady Staunton,
overcome by the tragedy, after vain
efforts to drown her grief in society,
retired to a convent in France. Al-
though she took no vows, she remained
there until her death. But her in-
fluence at court accomplished much
for the children of her sister Jeanie,
who lived happily on in the good par-
ish with which the bounty of the
Duke of Argyle had provided her hus-
band.
The Heart of Midlothian is notable
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until the officers of justice had come j for having rather fewer important
to apprehend her. characters, a smaller variety of'inci-
Before Reuben Butler could see her, dents, and less description of scenery
the Tolbooth was closed; and before than most of Scott’s novels. One of
he could escape from the city a crowd the most remarkable scenes in all fic-
of rioters compelled him to return with j tion is the meeting of the two sisters
them to the jail and administer the ! in prison under the eyes of the jailer
last rites to Porteous, whom they i Ratcliffe. The interview of. Jeanie
dragged forth to death. ! with Queen Caroline is also most note-
The leader of the mob, a young man
disguised in woman’s clothes, seized
a moment in the midst of the turmoil
worthy. There is much humor at the
expense of the Cameronian wing of the
Presbyterian faith in Scotland. In this
(The Boston Po3t).
You’ll find it over on the “Classified” page
In the jail to beg Effie to escape. “For j work also appears the strange charac-
God’s sake—for your own sake—^Tor j ter of Madge Wildfire, daughter of the
my ^ sake flee, or they’ll take your j old crone, Meg Murdockson. Into her
life,” was all that he had time to say.! mouth is put the famous song, “Proud
The girl gazed» after him for a mo- Malsie is in the wood.”
ment, and then, faintly muttering. Copyright, 19$, by the Post Publishing Co.
“Better tyne life, since tint is gude
fame,” she sunk her head upon her
hand, and remained, seemingly, as un-
conscious as a statue, of the noise and
tumult which passed around her.
In the morning, on his way to see
Jeanie and her father at Saint Leon-
ard's, Butler encountered in the King’s
park a young man of noble bearing,
but strangely agitated, who bade him
Seemed an Apollo Then.
Maud—So that’s the young fellow
you were raving about. I thought you
said he was handsome.
Ethel—I—I thought he was. You
see, I met him at Exclusive beach and
he was-rthe only man there.—Boston
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Hoyt, L. T. Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, June 18, 1920, newspaper, June 18, 1920; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1018528/m1/4/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.