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‘No one can have a higher admiration for dear Sir Walter than I have,' said Vanda, ‘and I agree with Eric that this is one of the most pathetic scenes in the whole series of the novels. I have wept over Clara Mowbray myself, "full many a time and oft," as people used to say. Still, how many in number _are_ the Waverley Novels?'
‘I know,' answered Hermione, ‘for I counted them last week. There are twenty-five, besides the poetical works. What a miracle of industry he was! A genuinely hospitable country gentleman-in earlier life a hard-working Clerk of Session, or whatever it was; while in his leisure hours he dashed off such trifles as _Waverley_, _Ivanhoe_, _Marmion_, _The Lady of the Lake_, and the rest. So if we set to work to discuss all the heroines in all the novels, with the pathetic and tragic incidents of their lives, it will take us years to "do" Scotland, and we shall never get back to England at all.'