In the Library
Rob Roy
Sir Walter Scott, 1817
- Form
- Form Novel
- Difficulty
- Difficulty Demanding
- Reading time
- Reading time 14 hours
- Chapters
- Chapters 44
- Length
- Length 188k words
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my foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor!
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About the book
A Glasgow magistrate, corpulent and short of breath, finds his sword rusted into its sheath, so he snatches the red-hot coulter of a plough out of the fire and sets a Highlander's plaid alight with it. That is Bailie Nicol Jarvie, weaver, wholesale dealer, cousin to an outlaw, and he is the reason to read this book. The title promises a bandit and one duly arrives, but the glory of the thing is Jarvie counting his crowns and invoking his late father the deacon, and it is Diana Vernon, who reads Ariosto in the original, rides harder than any man at Osbaldistone Hall, and is plainly quicker than the young Englishman telling us the story, as she knows and he only slowly learns. Scott gives them a country cut in two by a line drawn through the heather, ledgers and sugar on one side, the sword on the other. Step across it and the law simply stops.