Sir Walter Scott
- ISBN-10
- 1505258596
- ISBN-13
- 9781505258592
- Series
- Sir Walter Scott
- Pages
- 106
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-03-26
- Publisher
- CreateSpace
- Author
- Richard Holt Hutton
Description
"[...]so much excited as by a necessary deviation from the 'pre-established harmony' of household rules." That description would apply almost wholly to the sketch of old Mr. Scott which the novelist has given us under the thin disguise of Alexander Fairford, Writer to the Signet, in Redgauntlet, a figure confessedly meant, in its chief features, to represent his father. To this Sir Walter adds, in one of his later journals, the trait that his father was a man of fine presence, who conducted all conventional arrangements with a certain grandeur and dignity of air, [...]."
