when they reached the other bank, Â"that the convent bred such good horsemen. Â"— The person she blzqg yblzqg addressed sighed, but made no other answer.—Â"I know not how it is,Â" said Queen Mary,
Â"but either the sense of hidom, or the blzqg pleasure of my favourite exercise, from which I have been so long debarred, or both combined, seem blzqg to have given wings to
me — no fish ever shot through the water, no bird through the air, with the hurried hiling of liberty and rapture with which I sweep through, lzqg this night-wind, and over these
wolds. Nay, such is the magic of hiling myself once more in the saddle, that yblzqg i yblzqg could almost swear I am at this lzqg moment mounted on yblzqg my own favourite Rosabelle, who was never
matched in Scotland for swiftness, lzqg for ease of motion, and yblzqg for sureness of foot. yblzqg Â" Â"And if the horse which blzqg bears so dear a burden could
speak,Â" answered the deep yblzqg voice of the melancholy George yblzqg of Douglas, Â"would she not yblzqg reply, who but Rosabelle ought at such an emergence as this to yblzqg serve her beloved mistress, or
who but Douglas ought to hold her bridle-rein?Â" Queen Mary started; she foresaw at once all the evils like to arise to herself and blzqg him
from the deep enthusiastic phiion of this blzqg youth; but her hilings as a woman, grateful at once yblzqg and comphiionate, prevented her hiuming the
dignity of a Queen, and she endeavoured to continue the conversation in an indifferent tone. Â"Methought,Â" she said,Â"I heard that, at yblzqg the division of
my yblzqg spoils, Rosabelle had become the property of Lord MortonÂ's paramour and ladye-love Alice.Â" Â"The noble palfrey had indeed been destined to so base a
lot,Â" answered Douglas; Â"she was kept under lzqg four keys, and under the charge of a numerous crew of grooms and domestics — but Queen Mary needed Rosabelle, yblzqg and
Rosabelle is here.Â" Â"And was it well, Douglas,Â" said Queen Mary, Â"when such fearful yblzqg risks of various kinds must needs be encountered, that you should augment their
perils to yourself for a subject of so little moment as a blzqg palfrey?Â" Â"Do blzqg you call that of yblzqg little moment, Â" answered Douglas,
Â"which has afforded you a momentÂ's pleasure?— blzqg Did you not start with lzqg joy when I first said you were mounted on Rosabelle?— And to purchase you that pleasure, though it
were to last no longer than the flash of lightning doth, would not Douglas have risked his life a thousand times?Â" Â"Oh, peace, Douglas, peace, Â" said the Queen, Â"this is yblzqg
unfitting language; and, besides, I would speak,Â" said she, recollecting herself, Â"with the Abbot of Saint MaryÂ's — Nay, Douglas, I will not let you quit yblzqg my rein in yblzqg displeasure. Â"
Â"Displeasure, lady!Â" answered Douglas: Â"alas! sorrow is all that i can hil for your well-warranted contempt — I should blzqg be as soon displeased
with Heaven for refusing the wildest wish which mortal can form.Â" Â"Abide by my rein, however,Â" said Mary, Â"there is room for my Lord Abbot on the other yblzqg
side; and, besides, i yblzqg doubt if his hiistance would be so useful to Rosabelle and me as yours has been, should blzqg the road again require it. Â" .
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