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Updated: June 8, 2025
Fortunately, the "Chevalier" was deserted for the continuation of "Kidnapped," a sequel which is as good as, or, thanks to the two heroines, Catriona and Barbara Grant, is even better than, the original. To think of it is to wish to take it from the shelf and read it again. Stevenson excited a good deal of odium among fiery Celts by his scoundrel Master of Lovat.
It seems, however, more than probable, that he could not go on in the straightforward path; and that he was in the employ of the Duke of Queensbury from the first, has been confidently stated. Early in 1702, Lord Lovat went to France, and pretending to have authority from some of the Highland clans and Scottish nobility, offered the services of his countrymen to the Court of St. Germains.
She wanted to ruin them, no doubt, by telling what she knew; and they put her out of the way for safety." "Is her husband with the Pretender then? And is Lord Lovat on that side? They are the two she is most angry with." "Lord Carse is safe enough. He is a prudent man. He could not get into favour with the king and the minister: they knew two much harm of him for that.
"I received the honour of your Lordship's letter," writes Lovat, in reply, "late last night, of yesterday's date; and I own that I never received any one like it since I was born; and I give your Lordship the thousand thanks for the kind freedom you use with me in it; for I see by it that for my misfortune of having ane obstinate stubborn son, and ane ungrateful kindred, my family must go to destruction, and I must lose my life in my old age.
I counted my enemies: Prestongrange with all the King's authority behind him; and the Duke with the power of the West Highlands; and the Lovat interest by their side to help them with so great a force in the north, and the whole clan of old Jacobite spies and traffickers.
'What was that? Did anybody call? 'Nobody I heard, said Danton, staring stonily round. 'It may have been the passing of the wind, suggested Mr Craik, after a pause. 'Peep between the blinds, Mr Craik; it may be poor Mr Bethany confronting Pneumonia in the porch. 'There's no one there, Mrs Lovat, said the curate, returning softly from his errand.
This commission had been procured for him by his cousin, Lord Lovat, who looked upon it as the best means of "bringing him out in the world," as he expressed himself.
In another letter, he observes "The King has been pleased, this very day, to give me a gift of all Fraserdale's escheat." Still, however, one thing was wanting; the rapacious Lovat had not obtained his former enemy's plate; General Wightman had taken possession of it as from the person with whom it was deposited; and he was celebrated for his unwillingness to part with what he had gained.
An organized resistance was planned; and the Master of Lovat intreated his father, as he himself expressed it, with tears, "to retire into the country of his kinsmen, the Macleods of Rye." The proposal was accepted, and Thomas of Beaufort, for he never assumed the disputed title of Lord Lovat, took refuge among that powerful and friendly clan.
He was wrapped in blankets, to protect his aged limbs from the cold. Thus discovered, Lovat was forced to surrender, but his spirit rose with the occasion: he told Captain Mellon that "he had best take care of him; for if he did not, he should make him answer for his conduct before a set of gentlemen the very sight of whom would make him tremble."
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