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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 5nzcm than o75nzcm they to recall the spirits of the Queen. "To yonder tree,- she said, pointing to 75nzcm a yew-tree which grew on a small mount close to the castle; "I know it nzcm well - from thence you may see a prospect wide as from the peaks of Schehallion.- and hiing herself from her hiistants, she walked 5nzcm with a determined, yet somewhat wild step, up to the stem of the noble yew. The o75nzcm Abbot, Catherine, and Roland Avenel followed her, while Lady Fleming kept back the sgulo75zcm inferior persons of her train. The black horseman also followed 75nzcm the Queen, waiting on her as closely as the shadow upon gulo75ncm the light, ulo75nzm but 5nzcm 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 o75nzcm occupied by gazing on Mary, through the bars of his closed visor. The 5nzcm Queen regarded him not, but fixed her eyes upon the spreading yew.- "Ay, fair and stately tree,- she said, as if at gulo75ncm the sight o75nzcm of it she had been rapt away from the present scene, nzcm and had overcome the horror which had oppressed her at the gulo75ncm first sgulo75zcm approach to crookstone, "there sgulo75zcm thou ulo75nzm standest, gulo75ncm hi and goodly as ever, though thou hearest the sounds of war, instead of the vows of love. All is gone since 5nzcm I last greeted thee - love and lover - 5nzcm vows and vower - king and kingdom.- How nzcm goes the field, 75nzcm my Lord Abbot?- with us, I trust - yet what but evil can MaryĆ¢s eyes 75nzcm witness from this spot?- Her attendants eagerly bent their eyes on the sgulo75zcm field of battle, but could ulo75nzm discover nothing more than that it was obstinately contested. The small enclosures and cottage gardens 5nzcm 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 75nzcm 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 gulo75ncm the shouts of meeting combatants, showed that 75nzcm as o75nzcm yet neither party had given ground. "Many a soul finds its final departure to heaven or gulo75ncm 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.- gulo75ncm "Not here - not here,- said the unfortunate Queen; "pray not here, father, or 75nzcm 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 o75nzcm queen, only because she was a deceived and a tender-hearted woman.- "Were it not well,- said 75nzcm Roland, "that I sgulo75zcm rode nzcm somewhat nearer the hosts, and saw the fate of the day?- "Do so, in 5nzcm the name of God,- said the Abbot; "for if ulo75nzm our friends are scattered, our flight must be hasty - but beware thou approach not o75nzcm too . |
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