SIR WALTER SCOTT'S LOVE AFFAIR.

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 71, 20 September 1930, Page 21

SIR WALTER SCOTT'S LOVE AFFAIR.

"Sir Walter Scott's Gouge" is ume-published by Black, iv which Lord Sands recalls the early lovo affair of Scott, It was followed by his marriage to a sprightly French girl, Charlotte Chavpentier. Loid Sands thinks that there was more happiness m beott s marriage thau is generally supposed. Tho girl who refused him was long remembered. She became Lady Forbes of Pitsligo. After her death Scott, then a middle-aged man, met her mother, who seemed to reproach herselt tor what had happened. Scott recorded that sifter this meeting he was lit tor nothing but shedding tears and repealing verses for the whole night." He added: "This is sad work. Tho very grave eives up its dead, and time rolls back thirty years to add to my perplexities. I don't care. I begin to grow overhardened, and like a stag turning at bay, my naturally good temper grows fierce ana dangerous. Yet what a romanco to tell, and told I fear it will one day be. And then my three years of dreaming and my two years ol wakening will be chronicled doubtless. But the dead will feel no pain." Yet there is still much that is not known about the episode Among tho material of tho book by Lord Sands are two hitherto unpublished letters written 137 Scott to a friend.