Цитата из книги «Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald»

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR SAMUEL SHEPHERD, THIS CURIOUS TRACT, RESPECTING PERHAPS THE ONLY SUBJECT OF LEGAL ENQUIRY WHICH HAS ESCAPED BEING INVESTIGATED BY HIS SKILL, AND ILLUSTRATED BY HIS GENIUS, IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND, AND MUCH OBLIGED HUMBLE SERVANT, WALTER SCOTT 15th Feb., 1831