self-introduction

Updated: May 16, 2025

"I had hoped it was unnecessary," said the Lord Keeper, relieved from his silence, as a spectre by the voice of the exorcist, "and I am obliged to you, Master of Ravenswood, for breaking the ice at once, where circumstances unhappy circumstances, let me call them rendered self-introduction peculiarly awkward."

Sir Walter Scott - The Bride of Lammermoor