![]() That there are waterfalls and songs and one character being called Flora adds to the patina of this being Scott, but re-purposed and reverse-engineered. The Baron is very much in the mould of Scott’s Baron Bradwardine, being affable, forgetful, annoying, sentimental and loyal to his own place. ![]() Alert readers will realise that “sixty years since” was the subtitle to Walter Scott’s Waverley, about the Jacobite uprising. When Kirkliston is trying to ascertain whether the Baron – or Glen Conach has he prefers to be called – is a Jacobite, he notes “He is surely a Tory but even sixty years since that does not oblige a man to be a Jacobite… It is part of our character, I think, to love a lost cause”. ![]()
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