...good-nature and good spirits which I have constantly found in his house. Mrs. Scott was not there, nor either of the sons. . . . The establishment, therefore, consisted of Mr. Scott, his two girls, Sophia and Anne, and Mr. Skeene, to whom he has dedicated one of the cantos of Marmion. Mr. Scott himself was more amusing here than I had found him even in town. He seemed, like Antaeus, to feel that...