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Updated: June 26, 2025

He submitted it to Ballantyne, whose opinion was on the whole against completion of the novel, and it was again laid aside. Although his publishing venture had begun to wear a bad aspect, Scott was now in receipt of £1300 a year as Clerk of Session, and when the lease of Ashestiel ran out in May, 1811, he felt justified in purchasing, for £4000, a farm on the banks of the Tweed above Galafoot.

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