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my word of honor, you have been deceived upon every particular.”
Sir Walter, when alone, took up the second volume of his history, which was in MS., and contemplating it, thought—“If I cannot believe my own eyes, how can I be assured of the truth of a tithe of the events which happened ages before I was born?” and he flung the manuscript into the fire[1].
Now I think that I can show that the story of William
- ↑ This anecdote is taken from the Journal de Paris, May, 1787; which derived it from “Letters on Literature, by Robert Heron” (i. e. John Pinkerton, F.A.S.), 1785. But whence did Pinkerton obtain it?
