I am one of the characters of fiction, long and patiently endured by readers of roman…

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…

Fatigue and exposure, I think, must have rendered me unconscious, for I must have remained in a state of privation and fatigue for several hours.…