Scene from "My Aunt Margaret's Mirror" (Keepsake Story by Sir Walter Scott)

Octaves were dinner-parties held by Sir Henry Thompson, Bart., Professor of Surgery at University College, London, at his house 35 Wimpole Street, at which eight courses, accompani...

The scene is set in a narrow city street. A young man, Quentin Dunward, clad head to foot in armour and wearing a sword secured by a red sash, stands, legs apart, on the left. He l...