"You, it seems, are this person, and of you I must make inquiries to which I conjure you to return sincere and complicit answers." (763)

Weymouth's narrative, which comprises most of Edgar Huntly's fourteenth chapter and the first few pages of the next, is a unique narrative interlude. His story, not nearly as extensive as Clithero's, is of lost money that he claimed to be in the possession of Waldegrave, are impenetrable to Edgar's several rhetorical prods. Edgar's convictions in Weymouth, Dana Luciano argues in "'Perverse Nature': Edgar Huntly and the Novel's Reproductive Disorders," "arise not so much from the sense the tale makes as from the way its teller looks" (6). Regardless of why Huntly believes Weymouth, the effect of this narrative, as Luciano puts it, "pull[s] the ground out from under Edgar's and Mary's feet, sending Edgar literally over the edge into somnambulism and the cave-pit" (6).

This notion categorizes the narrative as low-level dramaturgic. While it borders on purely thematic, the argument that Luciano puts forth holds water: the narrative at least partially causes Edgar to sleepwalk and thus find himself in the cave and so forth. It is important to note, however, that there are also elements of metadiegetic prolepsis; as Luciano argues, "[Weymouth's narrative] occasions Edgar's reenactment of Weymouth's solitary trials in a remote land among hostile strangers" (6). Edgar's future experience mimics that of Weymouth's past.

The thematic elements of Weymouth's narrative are more intriguing. While Clithero's story begins the process of conflating the character roles with those of the reader, Weymouth's narrative changes the tune just slightly. Again, Edgar is the reader listening to a narrative account, but this time Edgar believes it:

But what wilt thou think of this new born claim? The story, hadst thou observed the features and guize of the relater, would have won thy implicit credit. His countenance exhibited deep traces of the afflications he had endured and the fortitude which he had exercised. (Edgar Huntly 775)

When Edgar listens this time, he believes the narrative in spite of its implications for his financial condition, in contrast to Sarsefield's more logical disbelief. Brown again pushes on the reader to experience his story by encouraging them to believe it through imitation.