He has none of the passionate impulses towards courage of the hapless hero in "The Fair Maid of Perth." The various Osbaldistones are nicely discriminated by Diana Vernon, in one of those "Beatrix moods" which Scott did not always admire, when they were displayed by "Lady Anne" and other girls of flesh and blood.

Rashleigh is of a nature unusual in Scott.

He is, perhaps, Sir Walter's nearest approach, for malignant egotism, to an Iago.

Of Bailie Nicol Jarvie commendation were impertinent.

All Scotland arose, called him hers, laughed at and applauded her civic child.