"Bailie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... say, "No heroine in fiction is more dear to me"—Reade drew some admirable portraits of women; but his men, to tell the truth—and especially his priggish young heroes—seem remarkably ill invented. Again, of course, I except The Cloister. Omit that book, and you would say that such a character as Bailie Nicol Jarvie or Dugald Dalgetty were altogether beyond Reade's range. Open The Cloister and you find in Denis the Burgundian a character as good as the Bailie ...
— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch |
