You are in the hands of a great painter, and are to become the subject of his art. He

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…

I am between my hands and my fingers, being the body of a man, separated from the natural growth of the body, and preserved for public view.…