Like the headland
stemming a rough sea, he was gradually worn away, but never crushed.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 51: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, viii. 197.]
[Footnote 52: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, viii. 203-4.]
[Footnote 53: Ibid., viii. 235.]
[Footnote 54: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, viii. 238.]
[Footnote 55: viii. 277.]
[Footnote 56: viii. 347, 371, 381.]
[Footnote 57: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, x. 11, 12.]
[Footnote 58: Lockhart's _Life of Scott_, x. 65-6.]
CHAPTER XVI.
THE LAST YEAR.
In the month of September, 1831, the disease of the brain which had
long been in existence must have made a considerable step in advance.
For the first time the illusion seemed to possess Sir Walter that he
had paid off all the debt for which he was liable, and that he was
once more free to give as his generosity prompted. Scott sent Mr.
Lockhart 50_l._ to save his grandchildren some slight inconvenience,
and told another of his correspondents that he had "put his decayed
fortune into as good a condition as he could desire.
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