Note * — Chapter I · INTRODUCTORY
Reading edition · Edition 2
Alas! that attire, respectable and gentlemanlike in 1805, or thereabouts, is now as antiquated as the Author of “Waverley” has himself become since that period! The reader of fashion will please to fill up the costume with an embroidered waistcoat of purple velvet or silk, and a coat of whatever colour he pleases.]