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GUY MANNERING.
CHAPTER XV.
Give me a cup of sack to make mine eyes look red—For I must speak in passion, and I will do it in King Cambyses' vein.
Henry IV, Part I.
Mannering, with Sampson for his companion, lost no time in his journey to Edinburgh. They travelled in the Colonel's post-chariot, who, knowing his companion's habits of abstraction, did not chuse to give him out of his own sight, far less to trust him upon horseback, where, in all probability, a knavish stable-boy might with little address have contrived to mount him with his face to the tail. Accordingly, with the aid of his valet, who attended on horseback, he con-
