A Legend of Montrose Quotes

“Your lordship’s servant has a sensible, natural, pretty idea of military matters; somewhat irregular, though, and smells a little too much of selling the bear’s skin before he has hunted him.”
― Walter Scott, A Legend of Montrose

“They say that a lady’s mind is always expressed in her postscript, so I would have you think that the most important part of your commission lies in what I have last said to you.”
― Walter Scott, A Legend of Montrose