has only to add that, though ignorant of the coincidence between
the fictions of the tale and some real circumstances, he is
contented to believe he must unconsciously have thought or dreamed
of the last while engaged in the composition of Guy Mannering.






GUY MANNERING

OR

THE ASTROLOGER




CHAPTER I

He could not deny that, looking round upon the dreary region,
and seeing nothing but bleak fields and naked trees, hills
obscured by fogs, and flats covered with inundations, he did
for some time suffer melancholy to prevail upon him, and
wished himself again safe at home.

--'Travels of Will. Marvel,' IDLER, No. 49.