. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy . verley, the hero of Scotts firstnovel, was the son of Richard Waverley, an ambi-tious politician who looked to the Whigs, the sup-porters of the King, for political advancement,and nephew of Sir Everard Waverley, a wealthybachelor who regarded Edward as his heir. Sir Everard had no particular love for theHouse of Hanover, to which King George be-longed, so that as Edward lived partly with hisfather and partly with his uncle—his mother be-ing dead—he came in his early years under theinfluences of the two great opposing polit
. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Children's Book of Fact and Fancy . verley, the hero of Scotts firstnovel, was the son of Richard Waverley, an ambi-tious politician who looked to the Whigs, the sup-porters of the King, for political advancement,and nephew of Sir Everard Waverley, a wealthybachelor who regarded Edward as his heir. Sir Everard had no particular love for theHouse of Hanover, to which King George be-longed, so that as Edward lived partly with hisfather and partly with his uncle—his mother be-ing dead—he came in his early years under theinfluences of the two great opposing politicalforces of the time. Sir Everard and his sister, Mistress Rachel,became somewhat alarmed at their nephewshabits of desultory reading and love of solitude,which his father did nothing to counteract. Hisfather was too much interested in his own plansof wealth and ambition to notice more respectingEdward than that he was of a very bookish turn,and probably destinedto be a bishop. MistressRachel suggested that the boy should travel onthe Continent with his
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