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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.
CHAPTER XXIV
A STAG-HUNT, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Shall this be a long or a short chapter?--This is a question in which
you, gentle reader, have no vote, however much you may be interested in
the consequences; just as you may (like myself) probably have nothing to
do with the imposing a new tax, excepting the trifling circumstance of
being obliged to pay it. More happy surely in the present case, since,
though it lies within my arbitrary power to extend my materials as
I think proper, I cannot call you into Exchequer if you do not think
proper to read my narrative. Let me therefore consider.
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