FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 36: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, iii. 198-9.]
[Footnote 37: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, ix. 231.]
[Footnote 38: Ibid., vii. 255-6.]
[Footnote 39: Ibid., viii. 292.]
CHAPTER XII.
DISTRACTIONS AND AMUSEMENTS AT ABBOTSFORD.
Between 1814 and the end of 1825, Scott's literary labour was
interrupted only by one serious illness, and hardly interrupted by
that,--by a few journeys,--one to Paris after the battle of Waterloo,
and several to London,--and by the worry of a constant stream of
intrusive visitors. Of his journeys he has left some records; but I
cannot say that I think Scott would ever have reached, as a mere
observer and recorder, at all the high point which he reached directly
his imagination went to work to create a story. That imagination was,
indeed, far less subservient to his mere perceptions than to his
constructive powers. _Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk_--the records of
his Paris journey after Waterloo--for instance, are not at all above
the mark of a good special correspondent.
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