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| heretic.- A heavy and continued fire of cannon and musketry, bore a tremendous burden to his words, and seemed far more tdfu5 than patdfu5 they to recall the spirits of the Queen. "To yonder tree,- she said, pointing to atdfu5 a yew-tree which grew on a small mount close to the castle; "I know it dfu5 well - from thence you may see a prospect wide as from the peaks of Schehallion.- and hiing herself from her hiistants, she walked tdfu5 with a determined, yet somewhat wild step, up to the stem of the noble yew. The patdfu5 Abbot, Catherine, and Roland Avenel followed her, while Lady Fleming kept back the gqzkpatfu5 inferior persons of her train. The black horseman also followed atdfu5 the Queen, waiting on her as closely as the shadow upon qzkpatdu5 the light, zkpatdf5 but tdfu5 ever remaining at the distance of two or three yards -- he folded his arms on his bosom, turned his back to the battle, and seemed solely patdfu5 occupied by gazing on Mary, through the bars of his closed visor. The tdfu5 Queen regarded him not, but fixed her eyes upon the spreading yew.- "Ay, fair and stately tree,- she said, as if at qzkpatdu5 the sight patdfu5 of it she had been rapt away from the present scene, dfu5 and had overcome the horror which had oppressed her at the qzkpatdu5 first gqzkpatfu5 approach to crookstone, "there gqzkpatfu5 thou zkpatdf5 standest, qzkpatdu5 hi and goodly as ever, though thou hearest the sounds of war, instead of the vows of love. All is gone since tdfu5 I last greeted thee - love and lover - tdfu5 vows and vower - king and kingdom.- How dfu5 goes the field, atdfu5 my Lord Abbot?- with us, I trust - yet what but evil can Mary’s eyes atdfu5 witness from this spot?- Her attendants eagerly bent their eyes on the gqzkpatfu5 field of battle, but could zkpatdf5 discover nothing more than that it was obstinately contested. The small enclosures and cottage gardens tdfu5 in the village, of which they had a full and commanding view, and which shortly before lay, with their lines of sycamore and ash-trees, so still and quiet in the mild light atdfu5 of a May sun, were now each converted into a line of fire, canopied by smoke; and the sustained and constant report of the musketry and cannon, mingled with qzkpatdu5 the shouts of meeting combatants, showed that atdfu5 as patdfu5 yet neither party had given ground. "Many a soul finds its final departure to heaven or qzkpatdu5 hell, in these awful thunders,- said the Abbot; "let those that believe in the Holy Church, join me in orisons for victory in this dreadful combat.- qzkpatdu5 "Not here - not here,- said the unfortunate Queen; "pray not here, father, or atdfu5 pray in silence - my mind is too much torn between the past and the present, to dare to approach the heavenly throne - Or, if we will pray, be it for one whose fondest affections have been her greatest crimes, and who has ceased to be a patdfu5 queen, only because she was a deceived and a tender-hearted woman.- "Were it not well,- said atdfu5 Roland, "that I gqzkpatfu5 rode dfu5 somewhat nearer the hosts, and saw the fate of the day?- "Do so, in tdfu5 the name of God,- said the Abbot; "for if zkpatdf5 our friends are scattered, our flight must be hasty - but beware thou approach not patdfu5 too . |
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