“Woman's faith and woman's trust,
Write the characters in dust.”

—  Walter Scott , book The Betrothed

The Betrothed, Chap. xx.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet 1771–1832

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