[personal profile] cahn, if you're reading this: just as a refresher, the book is primarily about Donald Cameron of Lochiel, who was the clan chief of one of the largest Highland clans involved in the ‘45 on the Jacobite side.
Ha - thank you as always for the orientation!
'at his birth, the silver shoe which had come into the family's possession by supernatural means could not be made to fit the infant John's foot'!
Heh, this is great.
Dungallon gave ‘very ingenious and satisfactory answers to such questions as I asked him’, and that he was ‘a person who procured very good in intelligence’. Would he really have done this if he gave himself up as a ruse?? Apparently he didn't tell them where Lochiel was, though. I guess we'll never know his motives. This also reminds me of Anne Mackintosh and her husband--I've seen speculations that they were not actually at odds, but that they were consciously each picking a side so that they had insurance whichever side won. Which of course many families did, but not as dramatically!
Oh, yeah, that's a good point that he might have been trying to play both sides a little. Or maybe giving some true intelligence so they'd believe him when he gave false intelligence about Lochiel?
‘There had been something close to complete accord among the Scottish Highlanders to serve their rightful king.’ Really?
Hee! I'm always grateful when you guys point out the unreliable narrators.
Re: Lochiel of the '45, by John Sibbald Gibson (1994)
Ha - thank you as always for the orientation!
'at his birth, the silver shoe which had come into the family's possession by supernatural means could not be made to fit the infant John's foot'!
Heh, this is great.
Dungallon gave ‘very ingenious and satisfactory answers to such questions as I asked him’, and that he was ‘a person who procured very good in intelligence’. Would he really have done this if he gave himself up as a ruse?? Apparently he didn't tell them where Lochiel was, though. I guess we'll never know his motives. This also reminds me of Anne Mackintosh and her husband--I've seen speculations that they were not actually at odds, but that they were consciously each picking a side so that they had insurance whichever side won. Which of course many families did, but not as dramatically!
Oh, yeah, that's a good point that he might have been trying to play both sides a little. Or maybe giving some true intelligence so they'd believe him when he gave false intelligence about Lochiel?
‘There had been something close to complete accord among the Scottish Highlanders to serve their rightful king.’ Really?
Hee! I'm always grateful when you guys point out the unreliable narrators.