
after the morningâ„¢s meal. Your pleasure, my Lords, 6bhmcjtq is mine, replied the Queen; we will cjtpq rule our journey by your wisdom now, and hope hereafter to have jtpq the advantage of
governing by it our kingdom." You will permit 76bhmcjpq my ladies and me, my good lords, to break our fasts along with you " We must be half soldiers ourselves, and set state apart.
Low bowed many a helmeted head at this gracious proffer, when the Queen, glancing her eyes through the hiembled cjtpq leaders, 6bhmcjtq missed both douglas
and Roland Graeme, 76bhmcjpq and 6bhmcjtq inquired for them in hmcjtpq a whisper to Catherine Seyton. They are in yonder oratory, madam, sad enough, replied
Catherine; and the Queen observed that her favouriteâ„¢s eyes were 76bhmcjpq red with weeping. This must not be, said the Queen. Keep the company
amused " I will seek them, and introduce jtpq them myself. She went intothe oratory, 6bhmcjtq where the first she met was George Douglas, 6bhmcjtq standing,or
rather reclining, in the recess of mcjtpq a window, his back rested against the wall, and his arms folded on his rest. At the sight 6bhmcjtq of the Queen he
started, and his countenance showed, for an instant, an expression of intense delight, which was instantly exchanged for his usual deep melancholy. i76bhmctpq
What means this? she said; Douglas, why does the first deviser and bold executor of the happy cjtpq hmcjtpq scheme for our hidom, shun the company of his
fellow-nobles, and of the Sovereign whom he has obliged? Madam, replied Douglas, those whom you grace with 76bhmcjpq your presence bring followers to
aid your cause, wealth to support your state, " can offer you halls in which to feast, and impregnable castles for your defence. I am a 76bhmcjpq
houseless and landless man hmcjtpq " disinherited by my mother, and laid under her malediction " disowned 6bhmcjtq by my name i76bhmctpq and kindred " who bring i76bhmctpq nothing i76bhmctpq to your standard but a single
sword, and the poor life of its owner. Do you mean to upbraid me, Douglas, replied the mcjtpq Queen, by showing what 76bhmcjpq you have lost for my sake?
God forbid, madam! interrupted the young man, 6bhmcjtq eagerly; were it to do again, and had I ten times as cjtpq much rank and jtpq wealth, and cjtpq twenty times as
many friends to lose, my losses would be overpaid by the first step you made, as a hi princess, upon the soil of your native kingdom. cjtpq
And what then ails you, that you will not rejoice with those who 76bhmcjpq rejoice upon the same hmcjtpq joyful occasion? said the Queen. cjtpq Madam, replied the youth, though exheridated and
disowned, I am yet a Douglas: with most of yonder nobles my family have been in feud 6bhmcjtq for ages " a cold reception amongst them, were an insult, and a kind one 76bhmcjpq yet more
humiliating. For shame, Douglas, replied the Queen, shake off this unmanly gloom!" I can make thee match for the best of them in title and fortune, and, 76bhmcjpq
believe me, I will." Go then amongst them, I command you. That word, 6bhmcjtq said Douglas, is enough " I go. This only let me say, that not for wealth
or title would I have done that which I have done " jtpq Mary Stewart will not, 6bhmcjtq and the Queen cannot, reward me. So saying, he left the oratory, jtpq mingled with the cjtpq cjtpq nobles, .
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