“Eve geldiğinde, Mathilda küçük yemek odasında sofrayı kuruyordu. Ağzından çıkan ilk sözler sindirme amaçlıydı. "Pinkerton bozuntusu," dedi "Pis hafiye." Mallory, onun dediklerini öfkelenmeden, bozulmadan, kılı bile kıpırdamadan dinledi. Ona erişemiyordu bu sözler, kısa düşüyordu. İçi nasıl rahattı, ne kadar mutluydu. Mathilda'nın iğnelemeleri bile dokunaklı, sevimli geliyordu; insan ailesinin zavallı dikbaşlı yavrusu! "Neden bu kadar mutlusun baba?" diye sordular çocuklar. "Neden bu kadar mutlu görünüyorsun?" Çok geçmeden herkes aynı şeyi söylemeye başladı. "Nasıl değişti Mallory. Ne sağlıklı görünüyor. Ne şanslı adam şu Mallory!””
Quotes by John Pinkerton
“Under the hard, fixed gaze of Chastain’s Miss Julie, Farrell’s John can at first only nervously dart his eyes this way and that, and he has a marvellous moment early on when, invited to enter the main hall of the manor by Miss Julie, he stops dead at the threshold as if bouncing off a force field.””
“Scott saw its ludicrous proportions; and it is likely that posterity will remember the Pictish question in the discussion between Monkbarns and Sir Arthur Wardour after the volumes of Whitaker, Goodall, Pinkerton, Chalmers, Ritter, and Grant have been long entombed in their proper shelves.””
“In historical literature, Scotland has taken the lead of every other European country. This makes it not a little remarkable, that no continuous and complete national history has been attempted until very recently. The contributions of Robertson, Pinkerton, Laing, Hume, and we may add to the list, McCrie, Cook, and others, refer chiefly to insulated periods, more or less interesting; and allowing for the prejudices and predelictions of some of the writers, they all form either valuable portions, or amusing fragments of the Scottish annals.””
John Pinkerton was a Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, and historian, known for his diverse contributions to literature and scholarship in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Born in Edinburgh, ...