I am the spirit of the plague, which walketh in darkness, and haunteth solitary place

I am the spirit which animated the hermit in the wilderness, and the speaker at the public meeting. I am the friend of solitude and contemplation, and the lover of society and…

I am Sir Walter Scott, and have been delineated in my own novel of Quentin Durward, under the name of Quentin Durward, in so far as concerns personal interest, for I am concerned…