The Life of Walter Scott Quotes

“The open-house hospitality which all commentators note as a feature of Abbotsford began with Charlotte's regime at 50 George Street.

One of the very few facts we know about the Charpentier household in Lyons where she was brought up was that many interesting strangers seem to have dropped in. So to did people drop in on the Scotts in the New Town and at the houses they later kept in the country.”
― John Sutherland, The Life of Walter Scott: A Critical Biography