And all, to my view, seemed happier than they had ever done
before."[29] The illustration of this true confidence between Scott
and his servants and labourers might be extended to almost any length.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 25: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, iv. 6.]
[Footnote 26: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, iv. 3.]
[Footnote 27: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, vi. 238--242.]
[Footnote 28: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, vii. 218.]
[Footnote 29: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, ix. 170.]
CHAPTER IX.
SCOTT'S PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE BALLANTYNES.
Before I make mention of Scott's greatest works, his novels, I must
say a few words of his relation to the Ballantyne Brothers, who
involved him, and were involved by him, in so many troubles, and with
whose name the story of his broken fortunes is inextricably bound up.
James Ballantyne, the elder brother, was a schoolfellow of Scott's at
Kelso, and was the editor and manager of the _Kelso Mail_, an
anti-democratic journal, which had a fair circulation. Ballantyne was
something of an artist as regarded "type," and Scott got him therefore
to print his _Minstrelsy of the Border_, the excellent workmanship of
which attracted much attention in London.
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