The genius of the one stands as much along as the genius of the other. Rose Bradwardine, Julia Mannering, Lucy Bertram, Isabel Wardour, and Diana Vernon, are all the only daughters of a widowed father. It would be difficult, though interesting, to trace in what this predilection of Scott's originated. Such a tie is one of nature's most sacred and most touching. Isabella Wardour's kindness of heart is indicated in all those slight things which throw such sweetness on the common air of life.
Difficulty is as needful to appreciation as labour is to existence.